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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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marble falls

(57,014 posts)
1. I'll take it as a win. He asked someone who was not loved by Democrats and Quayle ...
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:23 PM
Sep 2021

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

Skittles

(153,122 posts)
3. try to imagine what would have happened if Pence nullified the results of a presidential election
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

(44,992 posts)
4. Pence has so little sense of right and wrong
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:31 PM
Sep 2021

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

rickyhall

(4,889 posts)
6. Hard to tell right from wrong if your whole basis is The Book which contains equal amounts of both.
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:48 PM
Sep 2021

brush

(53,743 posts)
5. Pence was actually trying to find a way to do it. Good thing...
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:37 PM
Sep 2021

Quayle is an apparent non-insurrectionist republican.

Straw Man

(6,622 posts)
10. Speaks to the devolution of the Republican party.
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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