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Ideally, our next President would be a centrist, and that's not Pence. But I'm at least pretty sure Pence could pass a 7th-grade civics class. So that would be an improvement.

 

He doesn't know anything about the country or the world. And he's a narcissist with the impulse control of a 3-year-old.

I don't know what is so complicated about this.

 

Yeah well there's a bigger faction that will get a stiffy over Fucko even as the mushroom clouds rise, because it will make the Libtards SOOOOOOO MAD!!

 

Only if Trump, Pence and Ryan go down.
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Maybe not a seventh grade science class, but still a step up.

 

In honor of Dick agreeing with Starman, a reminder that Modern American Liberalism is terrible.

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To that author's credit, I now know who the president pro tem of the Senate is. All those years of Thurmond kind of lulled me into a false sense of security.

 

This post perfectly underlines my point about why Trump's getting butchered and why him leaving the office - while wonderful in its own right - doesn't solve any real problems. They're still going to be sitting there for Bobblehead Pence.

It won't be better. It'll just be less embarrassing.

If Trump leaves, his narrative will be "the swamp is so dense I couldn't drain it. My own people were in on it."

And his voters will believe it.

And, to some degree, it'll be true.

 

It's the same fucking Fox "News" shtick other people are parroting that says the real problem is the libtards being mean to the people shitting all over our country.

 

I'm more than OK with that.

 

So he can push more despicable policies?

Remember: The thinktanks and "prestige" conservative media that happily ginned up rage and discontent for years were largely against Trump. They were against him precisely because they couldn't control his agenda; he wouldn't play ball. And Trump, if nothing else, couldn't be bought by the Kochs or anyone else; he didn't need them.

Once he leaves, they all rush back in. They're only the architects of all the things you may loathe, and you want those guys in charge? You want Ted Cruz back on your TV?

 

Pence will push policies that are far too conservative for most of the nation. He'll have a Republican Congress that might even pass some of those policies. But at some point the Democrats will be back in power and make changes.

That's the party system, it sucks and I've lost faith in it, but it's better than Trump as a wildcard. Pence will at least have some idea how the government is set up. He'll have some understanding that the President is simply the head of one of three branches. He'd understand that firing the FBI director doesn't put a stop to investigations. He'd have at least some idea how stupid that looks.

It would be a step in the right direction.