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TNNurse

(6,934 posts)
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 07:43 AM Jun 2018

I have had a fear of the dedication and perverted ideas of Pence

for quite awhile. Now, I ask myself, would he be worse?? Every day I hope Trump just collapses and goes away, but I have been terrified of Pence being President. Now I wounder if anyone could be worse than Trump.

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Docreed2003

(16,907 posts)
3. Don't forget...Pence was chosen by Manafort!
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 07:46 AM
Jun 2018

Pence would be the same as Trump, just as a smiling, aww shucks grandad who wants to turn the country into "Handmaids Tale"

JI7

(89,290 posts)
5. How Would Pence be Worse than Trump ? Trump is already doing all the trashy right wing Christian
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 07:56 AM
Jun 2018

hate Crap.

maybe with Pence we could actually get some attention on these things and the destroying of rights for women and minorites .

all this "pence would be worse" just minimizes the crap that trump is doing.

bearsfootball516

(6,378 posts)
7. The problem with Pence is he's every bit as crazy as Trump, but gives off the aperance of normal.
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 07:59 AM
Jun 2018

He could potentially get a lot more through Congress because they actually like him.

JI7

(89,290 posts)
9. the focus would be on the issues which is a good thing. he was not popular in Indiana when trump
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 08:00 AM
Jun 2018

picked him as vp. and indiana is a right wing state.

ProfessorGAC

(65,466 posts)
18. The Crazy Doesn't Matter To 40% Of The Populace
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 11:08 AM
Jun 2018

And no president ever was at 100% approval.

So, i don't get that concern. Overt crazy is ok now. Being crazy and hiding it can't be an advantage.

J_William_Ryan

(1,763 posts)
8. No,
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 08:00 AM
Jun 2018

it reaffirms the fact that voting Trump and Pence out of office is the only resolution to this disaster.

JI7

(89,290 posts)
12. of course both need to go . but as i say, Trump IS already doing
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 08:03 AM
Jun 2018

a lot of the fucked up shit that Pence would do but people just don't know about it and it doesn't get attention.

with Pence maybe we can focus on those issues which are NOT popular among most .

Pence was not very popular in Indiana which is a right wing state when trump picked him as vp.

Wounded Bear

(58,799 posts)
14. Good, he's dangerous...
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 08:09 AM
Jun 2018

He's an ideologue, and he has the backing of the American Taliban. We should fear the idea of him being President. In many ways, he would be worse than Trump. While he may not be the business grifter that Trump is, he still has an agenda to turn the US into a theocracy.

magicarpet

(14,227 posts)
15. Pence actually believes in the Christian Nazi crap....
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 09:41 AM
Jun 2018

.... and Christian Nazi preachers will coalesce around Pence to put the Old Testament Warped Christian Theocracy in practice and place and phase out our Democracy so the buy-bull becomes the rule rather than the US Constitution. Once handed control the Christian Nazis will make these changes to establish a Christian Theocracy - it will make your head spin.

trDump goes along with the Christian Nazi groups because he likes being fawned over, needs their votes, and must have the boost in the polls the insane Christian Right provides for him. They are blind followers, will make up a myriad of excuses to forgive trDump for his un-Christian acts, knowing he will transform the courts and more importantly the Supreme Court to their hyper conservative Nazi Christian design.

trDump could give two fucks about the buy-bull, Jesus, or the Christian Church and their political agendas. He plays along and bear hugs the Nazi Christian pastors and congregations because it is politically expedient towards more favorable political results for trDump.

trDump is merely an actor in the Christian Nazi Theater. Pence is a devout player and yearns for a Nazi Christian Theocracy and thinks that should have happened decades ago. If given the chance he will make that happen lickety split and without reservation and/or contemplation.

Onward Christian soldier marching off to war against - Secular American Democracy to be replaced by a Nazi Christian Theocracy - will be Pence's battle cry. And wacko extreme Christian Fundamentalists will come oozing out of the woodwork to make that reality so. That will be the final death nell to our form of Democratic Governance. Narrow mindedness will wash over America to astounding and incomprehensible levels like never witnessed before. A gigantic leap backwards for our society. Cultural and societal gains of the last 50 years dismissed and erased in a heartbeat and blamed for causing the ills of our un-Godliness.

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