Pompeo Brushes Off Inspector General Resignation In Speedy Presser: ‘This Happens’ | Talking Points Memo

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo barely had a sentence to say Wednesday about the departure of his department’s top watchdog after just three months in the role.

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Mike Pompeo swallowing a live grenade: “This happens.”

Glad to see it Mike…from a distance.

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Uh, no. People don’t suddenly quit sensitive IG positions in corrupt administrations out of homesickness. Lie better, Pompeo. This just comes off as contemptuous. Put a little work into it, you lying SOB.

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Yeah, sure. “This happens [when we say it has to happen and make clear we’ll ruin the life of our target if compliance is not forthcoming].”

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Shit happens, people die by the hundreds of thousands - it is what it is.

That is apparently this administration’s new motto. Someone translate it into Latin for me.

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It happens a lot in the Trump Administration.

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If there is one demonstrably weak person in this administration who revels in being a bully even more than Trump it is Pompeo.

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I don’t have anything more to add to that.

Oh, I bet you don’t.

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yo soy cabron…well…it’s close

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I think he meant to say, “It is what it is.”

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Closest I could get is “garbage” happens

Purgamentum init accidit, a die centum milia hominum - id est quod est
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It is what it is.

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Est quod est.

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I really want to see the three fat fucks, Trump, Pompeo, and Barr go down in 2021. Jail time would be nice but some timely aneurysms would be nice.

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Or as Trump might say, “It is what it is, and it is.”

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Man, woman, TV, book, - wait, no - Man, woman, TV, this, happens -um, no - This, happens, on, TV, man.

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Just a variation on Mulvaney’s excuse for the Ukraine caper.

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I’ll be glad when gasbag Pompeo goes home for good. Can’t happen soon enough for me.

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A breezy sense of privilege, condescension, and airy dismissal, touched with anger if you have the audacity to question his bullshit, well, that’s just Fat MIke’s style.

Gah! He’s such a hideous excuse for a Secretary of State. I’m sure foreign leaders put him on a par with the lying shitbag he reports to. He’s a grotesque, shambling symbol of all that’s wrong with us on the world stage.

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My reply to Pompous-Ass:

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