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| This marine's been walking around handcuffed to a briefcase containing a Speak & Spell duck-taped to an alarm clock for over a year and a half. |
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| "Collusion? Just trust us. Writing an op- ed for the Times? Bring on the polygraph!"
-Mike Pence's priorities
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And that's fine...the insistence of his own innocence. The farce, not so much, but we'll get to that. Pence is even doth protesting so much that he's saying he'd take a lie-detector test to prove how not anonymous he is. Yup. Not to prove that he has no knowledge of the campaign working with Russian agents to influence and ultimately steal an election every poll in America was positive they'd lose. To prove his loyalty to the hot-headed game show host he's hitched his political wagon to. I think that would be quite telling if this wasn't just empty posturing. Which it is. This is never going to happen.
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| "What? I'm a sexual preda-oh, you mean the op-ed thing. Yeah, wasn't me." |
"To have an individual who took that oath-literally say that they work everyday to frustrate the president advancing the agenda he was elected to advance-is undemocratic. It's not just deceitful, but it's really an assault on our democracy. And that person should to the honorable thing, step forward and resign."
-Mike Pence, the guy who can't have
dinner with a woman who is not his wife
because he'll try and have sex with her, and
who is also the Vice President of America
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| Sure, undemocratic and an assault on our democracy, sure, but wait, has...has Pence not actually met the President? |
To be clear, that's someone who willingly signed-on to run with Donald 'Where's the Birth Certificate' Trump, of all people, lecturing a whistle-blower on doing the right thing. But hey, here we are. And he's not wrong...technically. About this one, narrow point. The author and others in the administration really aren't supposed to be undermining the President if they think he doesn't know what they're doing. They're supposed to, as Elizabeth Warren has been screaming into the void for the last few days, invoke the 25th Amendment.
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| All fake Picard had to do was order a round of drinks for everyone at the bar for Riker to know something was up. |
According to Senator Warren, they actually don't have a choice here. The author of the op-ed makes a big deal about how he or she is part of an internal resistance who want the administration to succeed, and that's why they've been covering for him, but that's not their job. Like at all. Their job here is have him removed from office for being terrible and dangerous at his job. This happened all the time on Star Trek. The Captain would get possessed by an alien entity, or replaced by a duplicate or whatever and blamo, someone, usually Riker, steps in and relieves him. It's just smart to have a plan in place.
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| Pictured: a room full of people in a position to do something. Not pictured: the slightest incentive to do something. |
The problem is that no one seems willing to pull a Riker maneuver here. Nobody's stepping up and saying 'this is fucked, we need to fix this.' They're all just pretending everything's fine. And I suppose this shouldn't be surprising given that the people tasked with spotting such an issue are the President's cabinet. You remember, that parade of aggressively unqualified Trump loyalists the President surrounded himself with? Remember that time they all went around the room and took turns telling him how blessed they are to work for him? In many ways, this may be a flawed system...
Pence says the 25th amendment has never crossed his mind, which, of course it did, but I get that he can't be seen Richard III-ing his way around the White House, rubbing his hands together and trying out the Resolute Desk. And look, I really don't want President Pence any more than I want President Trump, but I think we're at a point now where the question is how much longer are they going to let this go on?
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| "The Twenty-Fifth Amendment? Perish the thought!"
-Mike Pence, working
on his innocent face
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