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TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts) Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:20 PM Sep 2021

Scariest thing I heard today- some guy wrote another book and...

said Pence asked Dan Quayle about stopping the Electoral College vote count.

Quayle said it can't be done, which is great except it means our republic was saved by Dan Quayle.
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Scariest thing I heard today- some guy wrote another book and... (Original Post) TreasonousBastard Sep 2021 OP

I'll take it as a win. He asked someone who was not loved by Democrats and Quayle ... marble falls Sep 2021 #1

Right! notinkansas Sep 2021 #2

try to imagine what would have happened if Pence nullified the results of a presidential election Skittles Sep 2021 #3

Pence has so little sense of right and wrong C_U_L8R Sep 2021 #4

Hard to tell right from wrong if your whole basis is The Book which contains equal amounts of both. rickyhall Sep 2021 #6

Pence was actually trying to find a way to do it. Good thing... brush Sep 2021 #5

A stopped clock is right twice a day MiniMe Sep 2021 #7

It was too hot of a potatoe to handle. denbot Sep 2021 #8

I know. That scared me, too. dchill Sep 2021 #9

Speaks to the devolution of the Republican party. Straw Man Sep 2021 #10

marble falls

(72,528 posts)

1. I'll take it as a win. He asked someone who was not loved by Democrats and Quayle ...

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:23 PM

Sep 2021

... waived him off. Better he asked Quayle than Michael Miller.

notinkansas

(1,325 posts)

2. Right!

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:24 PM

Sep 2021

Go figure.

Skittles

(172,833 posts)

3. try to imagine what would have happened if Pence nullified the results of a presidential election

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:24 PM

Sep 2021

seriously - I think over eighty million people would have something to say about that

C_U_L8R

(49,521 posts)

4. Pence has so little sense of right and wrong

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:31 PM

Sep 2021

that he has to ask Dan Fucking Quayle what to do???!!! How pathetic.

rickyhall

(5,510 posts)

6. Hard to tell right from wrong if your whole basis is The Book which contains equal amounts of both.

Reply to C_U_L8R (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:48 PM

Sep 2021

brush

(61,033 posts)

5. Pence was actually trying to find a way to do it. Good thing...

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:37 PM

Sep 2021

Quayle is an apparent non-insurrectionist republican.

MiniMe

(21,883 posts)

7. A stopped clock is right twice a day

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Tue Sep 21, 2021, 01:19 AM

Sep 2021

I guess Quayle is a stopped clock

denbot

(9,950 posts)

8. It was too hot of a potatoe to handle.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Tue Sep 21, 2021, 01:29 AM

Sep 2021

Rim-shot!

dchill

(42,660 posts)

9. I know. That scared me, too.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Tue Sep 21, 2021, 02:17 AM

Sep 2021

Straw Man

(6,955 posts)

10. Speaks to the devolution of the Republican party.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Tue Sep 21, 2021, 02:58 AM

Sep 2021

If even Dan Quayle knew it couldn't be done, how stupid is Pence?

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