Pence - The Lincoln Project

[ItsjustMe]

[DENVERPOPS]

1. There are a big bunch of F***ing Republicans

suddenly turning away, trying to pretend to their constituents that they didn't condone and weren't complicit in Trump's ravaging the U.S. citizens and Democracy DAILY for years and years.

They will all be shouting from the rooftops: It was Trump that was bad, not the Republican Party, we can be trusted completely now that Trump is gone..........

Doubt me?????? Just watch....................

[sandensea]

3. +1

The GOP jumped on - and then commandeered - this fascism train, in reaction to their (for them, shocking) loss in the '92 election.

Cheeto was merely the inevitable symptom - much like a boil on the ass of someone with an extremely toxic diet.

[alfredo]

6. Their stonewalling judicial picks is revenge for voting no on Bork

[sandensea]

10. Bork was the pretext; the Big Business interests behind them are the real reason.

For most CEOs and executives - with many notable exceptions - democracy is little more than a bothersome formality at best, and an superfluous cost and impediment at worst.

Theater writ large, which they fell they have to pay for.

Radicalizing white voters and packing the courts with extremists, for them, is just a good way to assure that even modest regulation and reforms become all but impossible. And the GOP is their vehicle for accomplishing that (who else!).

Having struck out on Cheetolini, they're now busy looking for a new pied piper.

Josh Hawley? Kristi Moan?

[alfredo]

13. I was pointing out that they cannot forget or forgive any action

that they perceive as a challenge to their power. They are still disassembling FDR’s legacy.

[sandensea]

14. That too - sure.

As a group, Repug politicians are just as egomaniacal as Needy Amin.

Most just know to dissemble a little better, that's all.

[alfredo]

17. They just don't want to govern, they'd rather rule.

[gypsonian]

2. I will never trust any Republican again...

...and neither should you.

[Harker]

4. Right.

I haven't trusted a republican't on anything since Sandy Hume (Boulder County, CO) asked a volunteer to work a little harder to answer my simple question in 1988.

[niyad]

11. I have not trusted a puke since nixon, never will.

[Mr.Bill]

5. Pence's major accomplishment

was occasionally filling in for Trump's wife by standing behind him with an adoring gaze and nodding at everything he said. He actuall did this better than any First Lady in history.

[CaptYossarian]

7. Now the homophobe has "lost that lovin' feeling".

Too bad. Their kids together would resemble candy corn.

[alfredo]

8. No, Nancy Reagan set the bar high for full frontal fawning.

The bar is so high, Pence would have to fellate trump on live TV to even come near The high standards set by Nancy.

[Hekate]

15. Oh no, Nancy Reagan wins that award hands down. In her case, I think she actually meant it. nt

[robbob]

9. Wait...what? "Preside over the Senate vote..."

Man, you guys have an f***** up political system. It seems there are dozens of roadblocks along the way between the people voting and a President actually being confirmed that anyone with a political agenda can jump in and muck up, including that lady from a couple weeks ago who no one has, or ever should have, heard about until she decided to delay some minor step along the path to certification. Not to mention governors who may or may not have the power to change the electors (?), not to mention the actual electoral college individuals who (apparently?) have the power to go against the will of the voters (the so-called “unfaithful electors”). Yeesh! Please explain to this confused Canuck why it is so easy to subvert the will of the voters?

Anyway, ok, so NOW you have a know partisan slime ball like Pense “presiding” over the certification process in a strong partisan Senate filled with Repukes who haven’t even acknowledged (and is some cases even flatly deny) that Biden is the outright winner of the election. So, not trying to be an alarmist, just trying to understand the process; what’s to stop the Senate from just ignoring the will of the voters, and the certification of the states and just declaring tRump the winner? I mean, this IS the same Senate that wouldn’t even call witnesses in the impeachment hearings.

[niyad]

12. Thank you, TLP!

[Hekate]

16. Lincoln Project nails it again.