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19 Jan, 16 tweets, 5 min read
Psycho Pompeo Exits With Nary A Scratch Of Media Criticism On Him

"This is because Mike Pompeo's depravity is the 'normal' kind. The kind we're all meant to be used to."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/psycho-pompe…
My news feed looks odd as the hours count down to the end of the Trump administration. Westerners are largely celebrating the exit of Trump himself, whereas with those I follow from areas targeted by US imperialism, the man they're happiest to see the back of is Mike Pompeo.
It looks very bizarre, as this part of our weird collective adventure comes to an end, how Pompeo's tenure first as CIA Director and then Secretary of State were almost entirely unmarred by criticism from the political/media class.
This is the man who has spearheaded all of this administration's most depraved initiatives, like its latest Yemen sanctions which a UN official says is "literally is going to be a death sentence to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of innocent people"
commondreams.org/news/2021/01/1…
its Venezuela regime change ops which have starved untold tens of thousands of civilians to death,
caityjohnstone.medium.com/trump-has-murd…
its murderous brinkmanship with Iran, and its world-threatening cold war escalations against Russia and China.
The man who openly boasted about lying, cheating and stealing in the CIA.
The man who privately said the US would intervene to prevent Jeremy Corbyn from becoming Prime Minister in the UK.
The man who admitted the US is slamming Iranians with starvation sanctions to force them to rise up against their government.
The man who designated WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service” as Julian Assange’s imprisonment was being orchestrated.
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/c…
This person is disgusting. You could hardly find a worse specimen of human life than Mike Pompeo. Yet amid all the mainstream news media's relentless histrionics about the Trump administration, criticism of Trump's own Secretary of State has remained a rare sight there,
This is because Mike Pompeo's depravity is the "normal" kind. The kind we're all meant to be used to. The psychotic, mass murdering American exceptionalist imperialism that the billionaire news media exists to protect and facilitate.
You don't bite the hand that feeds you, and you don't attack the man who serves the same empire as you. Gotta maintain that access journalism. This could be your next president, after all.
washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense…
Pompeo's exit provides a very short respite between the time he leaves for whatever lucrative neocon think tank gigs he winds up with and the time he re-emerges from the sea like Cthulhu to once again try to devour the world.
caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/04/22/mik…
He will be replaced as secretary of state in that interim by Tony Blinken, who is another psychopath because that is a job requirement.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/surprise-ame…
I wish humanity a pleasant sigh of relief on Pompeo's exit. Please enjoy it as much as possible until the Biden administration does whatever horrifying things it's going to do, and until the eldritch monster re-emerges from the sea.

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