Pompeo Argues Some Human Rights Aren’t ‘Worth Defending’

The number of human rights is getting excessive, according Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

As he was unveiling a report by his Commission on Unalienable Rights on Thursday, Pompeo stated that the U.S. is “forced to grapple with the tough choices about which rights to promote.”


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Hey Petty PompusAss if I’m gay I don’t need you or your religion to determine that I have human rights. I am a Human and therefore I have Human Rights.

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Well, when it comes to Republicans, most have forfeited their human rights by being so incredibly wrong on EVERYTHING!

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Wow, they’re just saying the quiet bits out loud…

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Commission on Unalienable Rights

Facist Trump through Pompeo will be stripping those “hard to defend rights” until there will be no unalienable rights in America!

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Secretary of Fatuous. And boy, does he put the fat in fatuous?!

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I defend Pompeo’s unalienable right to die as soon as possible.

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No, the quiet part (so far) is that there are human rights worth attacking liberally.

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Who’s going to stop them, short of full scale revolt?

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Yet another fascist Republican traitor. Sorry to be redundant.

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Let me see. Your rights have priorty over mine? That’s it.

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What utter twaddle.

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Well, I do still believe that a massive turnout in 108 days will upend the current framework and start us back from the brink. There’s definitely plenty of potential for some ratfuckery, but there’s way more of us than there are of them and despite the dire state of things, the East and West Coast population centers are not going to surrender to Trumpism this late in the game…

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We are. In November.

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Secretary Pompeo is injurious to our Republic, against which he stands.

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He’s a big fat piece of shit.

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“No one can enjoy the pursuit of happiness if you cannot own the fruits of your own labor, and no society can retain its legitimacy or a virtuous character without religious freedom,” the Trump official argued.

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That right there, “virtuous character without religious freedom” soooooo nauseating.

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What’s to say the next guy thinks his idea of which human rights are important and worth defending are different than yours, Mr. Pompeo? Either we all have human rights or none of us do. And it should not be dependent on who the current occupant of the White House is.

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If it was any other country (including the two that border us), it would be a cause for concern, but there’s an obvious reason why America’s human rights ranking continues to slip,

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