Thread by @JeffRoushPoetry

So as @Mike_Pence pences about conservative stages, let’s break down his legacy as lead sycophant for what he grossly called the “most pro-life” administration ever:

1. Covid. Trump didn’t create Covid-19 (though he would have if he thought it would play well on Fox and if he were smart enough), but his obfuscations, underplayings, and outright lies made it much worse than it may have been.

businessinsider.com/analysis-trump…

2. Executions. Trump cranked up the state killings like no one in recent memory. Pence’s pro-life begins at conception, and ends when Bill Barr says it does. bbc.com/news/world-us-…

3. The environment. Freeing up companies to release more carcinogens into our air and water, with a cavalier “we’re not making you drink or breathe” is an interesting twist on pro-life. ewg.org/news-insights/…

While these approaches make it clear that the Trump/Pence regime didn’t value life in general, it still managed to make clear some races’ lives matter even less than others. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

And don’t get me started on whether that administration valued LGBTQ lives. Um, no. them.us/story/donald-t…

Do women’s lives matter, outside of conservative talking heads? Not by a long shot. FYI: attacking women’s health care also hurts those fetuses about which you pretend to care. americanprogress.org/issues/women/r…

But surely this gold-plated champion of the working class cared about the lives of the working class, right? Well, it seems they were more props for admin talking points, because you removed protections for them too. epi.org/blog/president…

In the end, Trump and Pence cared only about their own lives. And Pence isn’t even very good at that. 🤦‍♂️ foxnews.com/politics/secre…

So other than fetuses, babies, kids, women, minorities, and the working classes... all white male Republican donor class lives matter? The pie graph of which lives count in “pro-life” feels like a slim sliver indeed. Keep pencing, Mr. Mayonnaise.