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"Pence: The servile schemer who would be president"
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2017 Jul 7, 1:16pm 2,750 views 9 comments
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justme
2017 Jul 7, 3:27pm
Notice how Pence stayed home from G20 in Hamburg yesterday, and was giving smirk-y interviews while big-cat Trump was away doing the Putin dance in Germany. Yeah, puerile Pence just can't wait for Big Donny to get impeached.
>>When Donald Trump selected Indiana’s governor to run with him, local observers were dumbfounded. They knew Pence as a comically ambitious, rigid, and inept right-wing evangelical...his accession to the governorship, meant to position him as presidential timber, had foundered on the fundamentalist verities that define his mental cul-de-sac.
justme
2017 Jul 7, 4:06pm
VP Mike Pence also can break the internet without any help from the Russians. This would be great resume-filler for Donny Trump.
"I left VP Mike Pence unsupervised for a day, and he promptly broke the internet. Apologies to Al Gore, I know you worked really hard on creating it."
Worse things could have happened. At least Mike Pence did not start a nuclear war with North Korea -YET!!
Y
2017 Jul 7, 4:28pm
This is double jeopardy for libbies.
Fight tooth and nail to bring trump down only to have mr P waiting in the wings...
justme
2017 Jul 7, 4:32pm
Why-o-why did not Trump choose Bernie Sanders for veep? This could have been good.
Ceffer
2017 Jul 7, 5:15pm
Trump will be stabbed to death on the Senate floor by the Democratic senators and will turn to Pence holding the last knife, "Et tu, Pence?".
curious2
2017 Jul 7, 5:25pm
Why-o-why did not Trump choose Bernie Sanders for veep? This could have been good.
You answered your own question.
Although President Trump got the most votes in the Republican primaries and had the best chance of winning, the RNCe delegates loyal to Cruz threatened credibly to block the nomination. Donald Trump and Steve Bannon could then have gone on to build an online media empire, but Hillary Clinton would have been President and waging the wars that the MIC and their Saudi clients demanded. I read that the Trump sons wanted him to win the Presidency, and saw Mike Pence as their best chance. Alas, Donald Trump swallowed hard and chose Pence, and reportedly regretted almost immediately. Even then, some establishment Republicans endorsed the Democrats' ticket.
If candidate Trump didn't need to appease the RNCe and Cruz delegates at the convention, then Donald & Bernie could have been a great ticket. I suggested that on PatNet, but people thought it was a crazy idea. They could have been a real NYC odd couple, shouting at each other and saying mean things about each other but getting along well enough to accomplish good things.
curious2
2017 Jul 14, 2:59pm
“Many people will get their identity stolen, which will harm the economy,†wrote another.
“I respectfully request, as an American-born citizen legally eligible to vote for two decades, that you leave my voter data and history alone, do not publish it, and do nothing with it,†said another.
Unfortunately for these voters and others who wrote in, the Trump administration did not redact any of their personal information from the emails before releasing them to the public. In some cases, the emails contain not only names, but email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers and places of employment of people worried about such information being made available to the public.
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“DO NOT RELEASE ANY OF MY VOTER DATA PERIOD,†wrote one voter whose name and email address was published by the White House.
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“The request for private voter information is offensive,†wrote one voter whose name, home address and email address were published by the White House.
“I removed my name from voter rolls. And I'm a Republican!†wrote one voter whose name was published by the White House."
Regrettably, President Trump delegated staffing to VP Pence, who chose a guy on the board of a hate group to handle domestic policy staffing. The message was immediately clear, as confirmed by the results: bankers and religious fanatics only. Also, remember the current crop of bankers are the same people who proved so inept at running banks that they bankrupted the whole system and got bailed out. The Fed and Treasury programs (all those acronyms) and state level collusion (calling forgery and fraud "robo-signing") enabled ineptitude to continue, and Pence compounded it with his own ineptitude and insistence on hiring fellow religious fanatics. Pence is clearly worse than Trump and W, but TDS has driven some ppl to fantasize "love struck" about the chance of him taking over.
Tenpoundbass
2017 Jul 15, 8:24am
If anything happens to Trump it's going to suck to be anyone not a Patriot when the Revolt starts.
And we've still 59% of the French that would help us overthrow Eurotrash Imperialists. like they did the last time.
They need a good house cleaning as well.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07/15/poll-59-per-cent-french-approve-president-trump-visit/
Something to consider when Democrats demand replacing President Trump with the current VP:
"ON THE EVIDENCE of a lifetime, America’s vice president is not a complex man. Instead he is three extremely simple ones: an incompetent ideologue, an obsequious toady, and a self-serving schemer.
When Donald Trump selected Indiana’s governor to run with him, local observers were dumbfounded. They knew Pence as a comically ambitious, rigid, and inept right-wing evangelical...his accession to the governorship, meant to position him as presidential timber, had foundered on the fundamentalist verities that define his mental cul-de-sac.
Facing electoral doom, this ostentatious Christian...prostrated himself to become Trump’s running mate, the bridge between evangelicals and a blatant libertine. Trump, not Jesus, became Pence’s personal savior.... Even so, [Pence] swiftly elevated serial hypocrisy to unforeseen heights.
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Belatedly perceiving that Trump’s misogyny had provoked mass revulsion, [Pence] canceled a campaign appearance before vanishing altogether, after saying that he could not “condone [ Trump’s] remarksâ€...but that “we...look forward to the opportunities he has to show what is in his heart†in the debate the following night.
That Pence was angling to displace the gravely wounded Trump was painfully obvious — not least to Trump, who attacked “self-righteous hypocrites...more concerned with their political future.†When Trump survived the debate, Pence wallowed in renewed self-abasement. “Proud to stand with you,†Pence tweeted, and grabbed Trump’s coattails once again.
[Pence's] next oscillation came in the vice presidential debate. Resigned to second place, Pence began positioning himself for 2020...Pence contradicted Trump on Syria, Vladimir Putin, and how to deal with Russia — overtly courting the Republican right. Little wonder that Trump expressed private discontent with his underling’s performance, which exposed the calculus of a climber who expected Trump to lose.
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But the palace contriver ever searches for vacuums. Because Trump knew no one in Washington, Pence curried favor with the right by helping seed the cabinet with conservative ideologues. And as questions about Trump’s survival burgeoned anew, Pence launched his own political action committee while cultivating restive legislators.
Who is Mike Pence? Take your pick of three. But one thing is clear — none of his personae are fit to be president."