Secretary of State Mike Pompeo canceled his final major holiday party of the year Wednesday after his exposure to a person who tested positive for the coronavirus forced him into quarantine https://t.co/8fvkG8S6RD
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 16, 2020
If anyone could be said to deserve this, it would be Mike ‘Don’t You Know Who I *Am*?’ Pompeo. Just yesterday…
Scoop: Hundreds of people skipped Mike Pompeo’s indoor holiday party today, in wake of health concerns, per two U.S. officials. 900+ invites went out, roughly 70 RSVP’d, fewer actually showed up, per sources. https://t.co/oichJK97Co
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) December 16, 2020
Pompeo was supposed to give a speech at the event but he cancelled. The State Department did not respond to questions about why he cancelled and whether it was due to his own health concerns about holding a large indoor event
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) December 16, 2020
… If it weren’t for all those State Department families, not to mention the hospitality and security workers, who didn’t have the choice not to show up — and who probably won’t, unlike Large Mike, have access to the best scarce limited treatments if they get sick…
… The decision caps a run of indoor holiday parties hosted by Pompeo, his wife, Susan, and his top aides that health experts and U.S. lawmakers warned could turn into superspreader events at a time when the novel coronavirus has killed more than 300,000 Americans.
The State Department has hosted hundreds of diplomats and dignitaries since last week for indoor gatherings with holiday music, drinks and photo lines that resulted in the type of close congregation and unmasking that facilitates the airborne transmission of the virus through respiratory droplets.
Pompeo, one of President Trump’s most loyal confidants, stood out among Cabinet officials for approving holiday events that disregarded Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines against large indoor gatherings, while other departments such as the Pentagon switched to hosting virtual holiday functions…
sdhays
The Republican Party has done more to destroy this country’s government than any foreign adversary since King George.
MattF
Pompeo was the one who promised a smooth transition into a second Trump term, so… HAHAHA.
Elizabelle
West Point’s finest. Not.
Benw
@sdhays: oceans rise, empires FALL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYr_BdXdpaI
comrade scotts agenda of rage
I was gonna say why don’t more of these people die? By “these people” I mean evil ones like Pompeo.
But noooooooooooo, access to that kind of health care…
Just another manifestation of IGMFY. As Betty C put it months ago, I’m no longer content voting these shit heads out of office. I want them to flee the country and have to undergo plastic surgery to help hide there whereabouts.
Or die of the plague, I’m not particular.
dmsilev
Pompeo is one of Trump’s worst Cabinet appointees. That’s an impressive feat in its own way.
Elizabelle
At least Santa’s wearing a mask. Don’t see any others on the guests. And who are the guests? Per the WaPost:
Why have only the diplomat at risk?
Mike in NC
Looking forward to the door hitting his fat ass on the way out…
Elizabelle
Pompeo: “
Bring on the rapture. Let’s hold the party.”Jeffro
@dmsilev: truth
there is a LOT of competition for ‘worst Cabinet official’ in this gang of goons, that’s for sure
Benw
Pompeo can step on a Lego
Mathguy
@dmsilev: I really don’t think there is any way to point to someone being one of the worst. With maybe two exceptions, they were all horrific.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Pod Save the World has an hour long interview with Obama about international policy. It was like listening to a philosopher king.
Leto
@Elizabelle:
Pretty much sums up the past four years. Nothing says I don’t give a shot about any of you like a super spreader event.
Leto
@Dorothy A. Winsor: thanks for the reminder!
debbie
@Elizabelle:
Santa needs longer sleeves.
germy
This photo…
Yutsano
If you have not seen our (hopefully) new Secretary of Transportation be slightly dorky in your life you really need to fix that.
Mary G
You know that photo was staged just right so that you can’t see the oceans of empty space for the no-shows. It still shows the kid ignoring Santa completely.
Mike is third behind Stephen Miller and Bill Barr in my Twitler’s Hall of Shame. For the “Swagger is Back” slogan designed to justify every foreigner that thinks all Americans are arrogant Ugly Americans and stupid. Then because his wife was allowed her own office to abuse employees. And all the Jim Jones “Christianity.” And refusing to lift sanctions so Iran could import medical supplies needed to fight Covid. And on and on. I just loathe him and hope the Covid overcomes the rare meds we are wasting on his fat ass.
John Revolta
@Benw: Now that’s just plain un-civil.
Aleta
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/texas-wedding-photographers-have-seen-some/
germy
I never imagined the leopard would eat Fox News’ face…
Kent
Bill Barr, Nancy DeVos, Louis DeJoy, David Bernhardt, Wilber Ross, Chad Wolf, Andrew Wheeler, Steve Mnuchin, Scott Pruit, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, and Elaine Chao would like a word with you.
debbie
@Aleta:
That last sentence! ?
Kent
Barr
Not even a close second.
MazeDancer
Big week for helping save the nation by electing two Dem Senators in GA.
Send PostCards.
Try 5 or 25.
It’s fun, easy, and will help give Mr. Biden the Senate he needs.
Get addresses: PostCardPatriots.com (or just click my nym)
Benw
@John Revolta: I’m in a mood ;)
geg6
@Mary G:
Come sit by me, six feet away, of course. And with a mask.
germy
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/16/politics/donald-trump-pardons-lame-duck/index.html
MomSense
@Aleta:
The lack of empathy is astounding.
My son’s ‘Rona test came back negative today. He still has to quarantine, but for now it is ok. One of his coworkers tested positive and had onset of symptoms today. This was all completely avoidable.
bluehill
@germy: I thought they’d be full by now.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@MomSense: Thank goodness for a negative test.
germy
Woman Not Ready for Post-Pandemic Life Where She Can’t Control the Lighting and Angle at Which People View Her
jeffreyw
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … STATNews:
It’s hard to believe, from the outside, that confusion like this exists. But it’s a huge human endeavor and that’s what always happens. Every step must be carefully documented. Donnie just telling General Whatshisname to take care of it was never going to be enough.
Cheers,
Scott.
Jay
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-wrongful-conviction-exoneration-police-misconduct-tremaine-hicks-20201216.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true
Calouste
@Aleta: Sounds like par for the course. I’ve some remote relative who gave up a $10K+ per gig wedding photographer business in SoCal because the customers could be such assholes. And that was in the Before Times.
I noticed when planning our wedding a number of years back that a wedding photographer in Europe charged about 1/3 of what they charged in the US, presumably because they actually like the job over there.
Mary G
@germy:
That sounds familiar somehow.
germy
@Mary G:
He’s been lashing out for four years.
Longer, really. Since childhood.
LuciaMia
I think that would be absolutely hilarious! Turn out the lights, cut off the heat.
Gravenstone
@germy: Oh, he’ll leave. Whether under his own power is really the only question.
Gravenstone
@Aleta: Ya know, Texas has this little “but they deserved shooting” thing going. Maybe this is one such case?
Leto
@Gravenstone: part of me wants to see that on live TV. The other part of me will def pay to see him hog tied and carried to Marine 1 to be flown… someplace else. Don’t really care where else, as long as it’s “away”.
Another Scott
@jeffreyw: Poor, poor Timmy.
Hehe.
Thanks!
Cheers,
Scott.
SiubhanDuinne
@Kent:
This is an incredibly small nit to pick, but Louis DeJoy is not a Trump appointee. He was selected by the USPS Board of Governors. (It is true that the Board is largely Republican.)
Mary G
@Leto: Gitmo. The whole Cabinet and senior WH staff. Plus Melania, Susan Pompeo, and Moscow Mitch.
@geg6: You are much better at expressing anger than I am, I would love that, plus you cook so divinely.
Frankensteinbeck
@germy:
So, Trump is acting exactly like everyone who knows toxic narcissists expected. He won’t admit he lost, period, and throws fits or hides when people try to talk about it. He’s depressed and completely ignoring the job. He’s lashing out at his ‘disloyal’ friends. The only things he’s paying any attention to are whining, further attempts to cheat even though it’s too late, and this one thing with the pardons that makes him feel powerful because people are crawling to him begging for his mercy.
One thing I seem to have been personally wrong about: Trump is so much in denial and I guess his cabinet are so fucking stupid that they’ve forgotten to destroy evidence.
geg6
@Mary G:
Why thank you. But know that some would say I’m a bit too much in person sometimes. Especially when I’m wound up. Or have too much wine. Or both. ?
Bill Arnold
@germy:
Pompeo’s unjustified arrogance is his most loathsome trait, IMO.
(I occasionally see arrogance justified by actual superiority; it’s unbecoming, but not loathsome.)
scav
Been away all day, but very much enjoying the thought of this — if only I had the cash!
Atlantic City to auction off chance to blow up Trump’s former casino
Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
@LuciaMia: Or just stop serving him food and beverages. He’ll be gone in a few hours to the nearest McDs.
Ksmiami
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: they deserve our ire for all of eternity
Aleta
@MomSense: Very glad to hear that. Bastards.
Frankensteinbeck
I just realized: Trump is going to throw the holy mother of all his shit fits when Pence confirms Biden won the vote. It will be an act of absolute personal betrayal, in his eyes. He takes it for granted, as undeniably obvious, that it is Pence’s duty to go up there and say Trump won. His anger towards Pence may eclipse anything we have seen until now.
dmsilev
@germy: There’s a large part of me that want to see him dragged, kicking and screaming, out of the White House. But the long-term damage it would do is pretty severe, so maybe not the optimal scenario.
It would be must-see-TV though.
dmsilev
@Frankensteinbeck: Will he try to fire Pence? That would be fun to watch.
mali muso
@Yutsano: Watched that earlier today and got a little chuckle over the reference to “infrastructure week”. Oh and Pete’s story of proposing to his husband in an airport. Lol
Sm*t Cl*de
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/16/trumps-twitter-account-was-hacked-dutch-ministry-affirms
JaySinWA
@Benw: I’ll be back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELgA3S996Ng
Elizabelle
@dmsilev: I wanna see Trump do a perp walk.
Sooner rather than later. For the good of the republic.
Cameron
@Frankensteinbeck: The pardons are a big deal, but I think he gets off on the executions, too.
Baud
I assume Trump will be forced to leave when they start fumigating the place.
dmsilev
@Elizabelle: Can he walk that far, or would it be more of a perp drag?
Mary G
Frankensteinbeck
@Cameron:
That seems to be Barr’s push. They’re all a bunch of vile, sadistic assholes. I would not be surprised to find out he liked to hear about the executions or approved when asked, but I haven’t seen anything to suggest he’s putting any effort into it.
Cameron
@Mary G: What more qualifications could one ask for?
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense:
It’s wonderful to live in a time when negative is positive. I’m glad for your son (and you)!
Dr. Glidwrith
@Another Scott: When manufacturing reagents, you never put in the exact amount because there is always loss from the process of putting stuff in and taking stuff out (adhesion to surfaces, microdroplets, etc). A good rule of thumb is 10% more than required, for small volumes like a vaccine, that needs to increase.
Imagine what would happen if the 5th dose of vaccine was actually short on volume!
Dr. Glidwrith
May I be freed from moderation for my ‘nym change?
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
I, for one, can’t wait to meet you, once this shit is over and done.
JaySinWA
@Another Scott: They now have permission to use the extra dose. The extra was to provide for spillage or errors. There is a discussion of the logistics with Andy Slavitt here that mentions that here:
https://youtu.be/f65-vHSUKWE?t=443
Baud
@Dr. Glidwrith:
I hope you’ve delivered a baby.
ETA: kiddo.
Punchy
States (Dept.) Rights!
Elie
@germy:
ohhhhh I just wish that he would have a melt down and refuse to leave! Oh please could I see him dragged out by the secret service!
Geminid
@Jeffro: trump’s cabinet members are all bad both generally and in their own way. Mike Pompeo stands out, though, because he is the one who intends to use his cabinet position as a springboard for a presidential run. He broke into politics as Congressman from Wichita, Kansas, the home of Koch Industries, so I expect he’ll have money behind him. It’s easy to say that Pompeo is too big an asshole to win the 2024 nomination. But when I look at the other republicans who could pull it off, there’s not one who is not an asshole. So some asshole has got to win. I’d like to believe that internal conflicts will hamstring the republicans nationally like they have in Virginia. But this past election leaves me thinking that we’ll have to fight like hell to win in 2024 no matter who is the Republican nominee. So Pompeo is no politician to underrate.
catclub
Bob Lee and jeff Davis would like a word.
J R in WV
@germy:
I guarantee Trump will leave the White House on Jan 20th… his choices are voluntarily with a dash of dignity, or forcefully removed by the Secret Service, who will as of 12:01 report to President Biden.
I am personally rooting for the less dignified route of in bondage strapped to a gurney. That would at least be amusing.
Dr. Glidwrith
@Baud: Why, yes – I’ve hatched two of them!
Barbara
@Another Scott: I don’t know the volumes involved, but vials typically have some extra because it can be hard to get the full amount out, and small amounts can be wasted in the drawing process. They err on the side of too much. Sophisticated pharmacies can extract every bit of it, but it’s not something anyone wants to encourage because it will be administered under such differential conditions.
@JaySinWA: This could be dangerous outside of sophisticated hospital pharmacy environments.
catclub
I have been amazed that Ross has survived 4 years, under the radar.
I certainly saw him as the most corrupt of the bunch.
WaterGirl
@Dr. Glidwrith: Yes you may!
Elie
What he really hates is that the media will be on 24 hour watch from 1/18 through the 21st to make sure that they will record his leaving for all posterity. Whether in dark of night from front or back, it will be the final loss and humiliation. Will he do anything damaging as he leaves?
WaterGirl
@Baud: Absolutely perfect.
Dr. Glidwrith
@WaterGirl: Thank you kindly, ma’am!
M31
@scav: hahahah I hope the actual blowing up happens at noon on January 20, there could be a simulcast
”against all enemies, foreign and domestic” BLAMMMMM
ok looked it up and the enemies part isnt in there but it should be
WaterGirl
@Elie: That’s why he will go home for Christmas, or leave to play golf, and then not return to the White House.
Roger Moore
@Frankensteinbeck:
I would not count on this. I expect the shredders are going full speed in the background. I would not be surprised, though, if they fail to destroy evidence effectively because they don’t know all the places their records are duplicated and the civil service staff aren’t going to help them.
WaterGirl
@Dr. Glidwrith: Were you just “glidwrith” before?
Elizabelle
@Elie:
Trump wishes. I think 2020 is going to look good to him, in the rear view mirror.
Jinchi
Covid has a roughly 1% mortality rate. So if a hundred Trump officials catch it, you’d only expect one death, even without unfettered access to the best doctors and medicine. Unless this person was well-known (like Herman Cain), you’d probably never know about it.
But people forget that death isn’t the only consequence of Corona. Trump’s security chief just had his leg amputated because of it. Absurdly, he’s had to set up a GoFundMe account to help pay the medical bills.
steppy
Drezner is already up to #2281, so far…
Jinchi
That’s not the lesson of Michael Cohen, Stefanie Wolcoff or Omarosa Marginault. Trump has been caught on tape by his own allies repeatedly. This crew was always ready to back-stab one another and they were always collecting evidence to use when they fell out of favor. Do you think the Trump aides anonymously describing him as a toddler having a tantrum are shredding all the evidence for him?
Mary G
Elder male Democrats are shocked:
Expect more of this.
Dr. Glidwrith
@WaterGirl: Yes. Like so many others, unless in a professional setting, I seldom point it out. That pig of a professor changed my mind for at least ‘nym purposes and I found I’ve got serious issues to be referred to as ‘Mrs’.
Kathleen
@Mary G: Poor Stephen Miller. He was really looking forward to the live Nativity scene so he could wrench the Baby Jesus out of the manger, lock him in a cage and deport Mary and Joseph. Sad.
moonbat
@Leto: Just spitballing here, but how about over a large expanse of open water?
Elie
@WaterGirl:
whenever he leaves he’ll have his tail tucked between his legs. No big exit.
Everyday he shrinks more and more. I have no idea why McCarthy and the others hang on. Don’t they feel it going away? By the 6th it’s gonna be so done. He can do his pardons but even those will have an aura of futility
Steeplejack (phone)
@Jinchi:
This I don’t understand. Don’t these people have primo government health insurance?
Benw
@JaySinWA: lol that’s horrifying
Another Scott
@Barbara: Later on in the STATNews piece:
To be clear, my issue was with the confusion caused, and by the FDA and Pfizer taking a couple of days (or more) to address that confusion even after it came up earlier in the UK. The US protocols should have spelled out what to do if there was enough remaining for an additional dose (and why) and not left it to the thousands of people/institutions who are administering the shots to figure it out.
I’m glad that they’re addressing things relatively quickly after they come up, but it would be nice if things like these relatively simple questions didn’t come up in the first place.
Cheers,
Scott.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Steeplejack (phone): I believe someone said on MSNBC it’s not for medical bills, but for fitting out his house to be accessible
Elie
@Steeplejack (phone):
My thought exactly and the answer is Yes they do. And disability insurance also. Something smells. Yes I believe he is injured and recovering slowly but I do not believe his state of funding
Jinchi
Hope you’re right, but my guess is that Trump won’t surrender the trappings of power before he has to. He’ll continue flying Marine One between the White House and his golf course until at least Friday, January 15th and he’ll order the WH plumbing ripped out for renovations on the day he leaves for good.
Kathleen
@Frankensteinbeck: I’m surprised he didn’t put in on PPV as a fund raiser. I honestly thought that was the real motive behind the escalating executions.
Mike in NC
Just set up a catapult in the Rose Garden and fire him off in any direction. Followed by Melania.
Elie
@Jinchi:
They won’t be listening to him. I also guess that Biden will have some people around to make sure things are going right. I heard on CNN today that no one showed for his cabinet/staff meeting today
Dan B
@Aleta: OMG! Tere are too many people who can’t see the Darwin train hurtling down the tracks toward them. Dog forbid if Ebola ever visits our shores.
Fair Economist
@Jinchi: It looks like the antibody cocktail they get to use as members of the privileged class helps, so the death rate for White House might be lower than for the general population. Not certain, since the randomized trials have been disappointing, but possible.
There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)
@Leto: 70 RSVPs? Sounds like….Hope.
Aleta
@germy: A typical bully, so desperate to control others that he comes apart in panic when he can’t. He demanded compliance (let me win!) but was refused and exposed as weak . For that discomfort he always becomes vindictive and punishing (even if it’s to a state that said No.)
If someone stands up to him, he tells twitter they’re guilty of being bad, or he calls them a stupid name, cause he thinks he can recover control by mortifying them in public. (He prefers threats but can’t make them in the open, unless it’s to another country as an ultimatum in front of a crowd.) Escalating every conflict and keeping on with petty bickering is another way he protects himself from that powerless feeling. So afraid of weakness he’d prefer madness.
Raoul Paste
I’d like to see the demolition of the Trump casino incorporated into a movie
Remember when the Joker demolished that hospital? . Hollywood , where are you?
Mary G
@JaySinWA: That is hilarious! ???
Anya
@germy: He is so fucking pathetic. No other world leader obsesses over a cable news coverage or their ratings or anything to do with it, not even Boris. What must they think of us. We’ve elected this lunatic and then after we saw him in action, millions more voted for him.
Uncle Cosmo
@jeffreyw: A couple of years ago in the local ReStore facility I found the perfect holiday accessory: a red&white BAH HUMBUG mug. (And so reasonably priced!) Which I took out last week for its annual run of heavy use. It goes back on the back shelf after Twelfth Night, but for the nonce…
Uncle Cosmo
@Mary G: In fact they’re upset she didn’t use the full title: motherfuckers.
Dan B
@Dan B: Tere = There
I noticed the missing ‘h’, corrected it, autocorrect reverted to Tere. Aaaaargh!
TS (the original)
@Mary G: Trump is determined to fill each and any position he can during the lame duck period to create havoc for the next President.
I would assume this is another administration norm that he has shot into the nether world.
zhena gogolia
@MomSense:
Oh, I’m glad to hear that.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
just today I was listening to the part of Obama’s memoir that discusses BiBi’s efforts to paint Obama as anti-semitic
Ruckus
@sdhays:
They have been trying to do just that since Nixon they just found help, in the form of an often fatal disease, and a killer virus.
The often fatal disease is a combination of narcissism, ignorance, and an inheritance of over $5.00 given to an absolutely worse than totally fucking useless human being.
different-church-lady
Please bookmark for all future references to one G. Greenwald:
I wasn’t fooled by Greenwald in 2005. You should not be fooled by him in 2020.
Gin & Tonic
My dear wife got dose #1 of the Pfizer at 10:00 am. She was tired when she came home and took a nap, but otherwise feels fine. Dose #2 is scheduled for Jan 5, I think.
different-church-lady
@Gin & Tonic: Green with envy. I want seventeen doses of every flavor they come up with, and I want them yesterday.
Gin & Tonic
@different-church-lady: Get a job in a critical-care setting and you should be all set.
Patricia Kayden
Winning!!
Miss Bianca
@Mary G: More Democrats willing to call a f*cker a bloody f*cker, or more elderly males tut-tutting over the incivility of it all?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@moonbat:
Shrink-wrapped to a pallet and air-dropped from a C130 into the West Virginia wilderness with a pocketknife, an iPhone with a 15% charge, a box of matches and wearing his standard blue suit, white shirt and red tie, with lifts for footwear.
mrmoshpotato
Why do you hate WV wilderness like that?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
seeing it announced that Pence and Mother will be getting public vaccinations. Is the big dumb ape afraid he’ll look weak if he gets a shot on camera?
Steve in the ATL
@mrmoshpotato:
It’s too wild and woolly
/failed 1980’s marketing campaigns
satby
@Yutsano: That’s my (former) mayor. He’s such a good guy. And he’ll do great, because he listens.
Kayla Rudbek
I hope that he and all the rest of the Trumpsters wind up dead or long-haulers from this.
I just got the news tonight that my aunt’s ex-husband died of pneumonia after being on a ventilator with COVID-19. Apparently he was over the COVID enough that his son got to be with him as he went. Fuck Trump and Kushner and all their works.
And fuck Putin and Wakefield sideways with a rusty manure-caked pitchfork as well, and everyone who voted for Trump in 2016.
Brachiator
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Trump would probably say that he is already immune, from testing positive. But I would not be surprised if he had a fear of germs, disease, illness and needles.
rikyrah
@MomSense:
Praise be??????
For your son.
And, at least quarantined, he will be away from them
Steve in the ATL
@satby:
Ugh you sound like my wife!
rikyrah
@Kayla Rudbek:
??????
Brachiator
@Kayla Rudbek:
Very sorry to hear this. My condolences to your family.
Sm*t Cl*de
@Leto:
A.k.a. Air Argentina.
Brachiator
@Steeplejack (phone):
and
Crede Bailey, the director of White House security has been hospitalized since September. This is before Trump came down with the virus. Bailey apparently is a career federal employee, and also very loyal to Trump. As a federal employee, I doubt that Bailey has access to the same level of care as the plutocrats.
Trump could have seen to it that this guy got top-notch medical treatment. And since the amputation, Trump could have donated money to his care or at least rounded up some of his rich buddies to help this guy.
But right now it looks as though Bailey is another one of the little people that Trump uses and discards. Not much reward for being loyal to the Orange Beast.
trnc
If DT hasn’t died by then and does run, it’s hard to imagine any of his sycophants directly challenging him and winning. There’s only one cult leader.
Geminid
@trnc: If trump actually runs in 2024, he’ll be probably be tough to beat for the Republican nomination, and someone like Pompeo might not try. His decision will be a pragmatic one not grounded in loyalty. While trump’s cult may be blindly loyal to trump, I don’t count Pompeo, or Barr for that matter, as cult members. They’ve worked for trump because it furthers policy goals or personal ambitions that they had before trump popped up. trump is more their tool than they are trump’s. But trump will certainly at least tease a run, both to raise money and to maintain his power over the party. I don’t think he will actually be a candidate when 2024 rolls around. But I wouldn’t bet a lot of money on that or the opposite proposition.
J R in WV
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Now why would you want to punish West Virginians like that? What did we ever do to you? Shame on you!
I think we should drop him somewhere with no people he can abuse! Less populated than West Virginia… like the middle of the Australian outback — more dangerous critters, also, too!
Chris T.
@germy: That’s why I call him Mike Pompous.
(I’d call him Pamplemousse but that would be insulting to grapefruit.)