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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScariest 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
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I'll take it as a win. He asked someone who was not loved by Democrats and Quayle ...
marble falls
Sep 2021
#1
try to imagine what would have happened if Pence nullified the results of a presidential election
Skittles
Sep 2021
#3
marble falls
(57,014 posts)1. I'll take it as a win. He asked someone who was not loved by Democrats and Quayle ...
... waived him off. Better he asked Quayle than Michael Miller.
notinkansas
(1,096 posts)2. Right!
Go figure.
Skittles
(153,122 posts)3. try to imagine what would have happened if Pence nullified the results of a presidential election
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
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.
brush
(53,743 posts)5. Pence was actually trying to find a way to do it. Good thing...
Quayle is an apparent non-insurrectionist republican.
MiniMe
(21,709 posts)7. A stopped clock is right twice a day
I guess Quayle is a stopped clock
denbot
(9,898 posts)8. It was too hot of a potatoe to handle.
Rim-shot!
dchill
(38,453 posts)9. I know. That scared me, too.
Straw Man
(6,622 posts)10. Speaks to the devolution of the Republican party.
If even Dan Quayle knew it couldn't be done, how stupid is Pence?