Before US Vice President Mike Pence took the podium to address the sailors of the USS Harry S. Truman Tuesday, the members of the armed forces were reportedly given particularly puzzling instruction on how to welcome the VP.
On Tuesday afternoon, Pence traveled to Norfolk Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia, to deliver a message from US President Donald Trump while also recognizing the 2,000-plus missions the USS Harry S. Truman and its 7,500 sailors have been a part of in the past year.
The vice president, via Twitter following his address, particularly applauded the the Truman Carrier Strike Group’s “essential part” in crippling Daesh.
Prior to Pence’s speech, however, it was an order regarding servicemembers’ applause that took Twitter by storm.
According to WTKR-TV reporter Brendan Ponton, US Navy sailors toward the rear of the address were given a particular set of instructions in clapping for the veep.
Sailors being instructed to “clap like we’re at a strip club” when VP arrives (not kidding) https://t.co/7NquC4wNxw pic.twitter.com/gUqYtOGiuc
— Brendan Ponton (@brendanponton) April 30, 2019
Clapping… in a strip club?
While the order may seem like machismo or a way to encourage fellow servicemembers, many netizens were quick to clap back at the comment and question what it actually meant.
https://twitter.com/Spuzzwick/status/1123262538362150912
For the record,.. I have never heard anyone clap at a stripclub
not ever
— WeThePeople America (@WTPAmerica) April 30, 2019
I've never been to a strip club, but clapping seems like an odd response if I were to go to one.
— Lawrence (@SBinF) April 30, 2019
Others clutched their pearls at the thought of Pence, or his wife Karen, referred to as “Mother,” catching wind of the orders.
Think how many times Pence will ahve to flagellate himself when he hears this…
— Carol Livingston ✍️ (@clivingsbkk) April 30, 2019
Mother is not amused!
— Elroy Hammons (@elueroy) April 30, 2019
I don’t think “mother” approves of strip joints
— Dan Shamrock (@daniel_gorm65) April 30, 2019
Read the rest here: https://sputniknews.com/us/201905011074598431-navy-sailor-strip-club-clap/
Well, if people don’t clap in a strip club I’ll assume the order meant don’t clap when the “god” Pence walks in.
By the way, Pence looks terribly goofy.
“US Navy Sailors Told To ‘ Crap’ like They’re At A Strip Club For Mike Pence”.
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I quit drinking. ..it’s been about two months now.
I figured I’d better stop since it felt like someone was stabbing me in the gut all the time.
Probably an ulcer.
It was a good run …
I still kind of miss drinking because I rather enjoyed it.
So now I just smoke pot all day and eat pills.
Thinking about all the things I should be doing , building and actually finding solutions to problems.
Then….hit a bowl and don’t do anything.
Maybe I should start writing more things down on paper.
The first thing on that list would be…
1.) Stop smoking weed.
The second would be…
2.) Kill myself.
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Keep smilen flee, it just gets better…you have to let it happen and it does.. new chapters in life, and all that kind of bullshit…Out with the old, in with the new… Forget about what you think others think, let flee do all the thinking man, fk everybody else..
Big changes bring big everything else….roll with it flee.
Build something special, show it to the world. Maybe on you tube.
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Welcome back, Flee. Wishing you strength and a good dose of joy, even in this effed up world. On we go.
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1.) Don’t give up the weed, grow your own.
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All I see is still shots and some pig happying him self….he is definitely not Navy look at his cloths. I call this BS unless I can hear the sound bites on a 2 second clip, telling them to go on script. Not saying it doesn’t happen for a photo op/sound bite…. just don’t see it here. IMO
I thought they were all going to have to get a shot of tetracycline, for the “clap-like-at-a-strip-club” suggestion.
obviously easily brain washed to “follow orders”, no matter how senseless they are or, treasonous ….doesn’t matter because they are told they are heroes
so Pence gets a strippers ovation?
lolol how appropriate as he helps strip this country of its rights and heritage
STRIPPERS DONT WANT CLAP(TRUST ME) THEY WANT THOSE LITTLE GREEN DEBT NOTES…………….