I’m now picturing Pence with this kind of looks… doubt he’d be able to dance even that much though, no matter how many opioids you pour into him.
All of this. The whole thing will be an amusing paragraph in a future version of a Tuchman’s The Guns of August, illustrating all of the above points.
Though how crazy would things get if it did turn out, per Novelty Bobble’s post, that Trump had something rapidly terminal?
Why TF not?
Less crazy than if he had something slowly terminal?
Also, the Russian submarine fire happened on Monday. If the VP needed to stay in Washington do…something…to deal with it, why would that decision not be made until noon on Tuesday?
Yeah, one would have to be of a certain age to get the reference, but since this is a message board, most of us are of a certain age…
Well, somebody important has to supervise unloading the tanks from the train cars.
We all have something slowly terminal. I meant something that’d likely kill him before the election. If you thought the election was a nuthouse before…
The job takes it out of people. Go look at Presidents before they took the job, compared to when they left office. It’s staggering how much they aged. I’d guesstimate 3-ish years for every year in the chair. Even with Trump, compare what he looked like, even on the Republican primary debate stage 3-4 years ago, to what he looked like walking the DMZ. He looks much older, to my eyes, and he was already 70 when he took the job. 73-74 year olds die all of the time, albeit they usually don’t get the medical care that Presidents and Supreme Court Justices do.
EDIT: Ain’t that the truth, RTFirefly. This sort of thing does filter out young people.
And this. The Russians, and the Soviets before them, lose submarines all of the time. Does the Kursk ring a bell? No reason why Pence’d be called away just for that. I mean, they haven’t even made funeral arrangements yet, nevermind holding the ceremony…
Assuming, of course, that what you heard is a truthful response. Now what are the chances of that?
This one was apparently a top-secret intelligence-gathering (and maybe counter-intelligence) sub, not an ordinary war vessel like the Kursk. We doubtless have our own in the area too. Control of the US reaction would better be in the hands of Pence than Trump.
I saw another thread (on Reddit) asking how we would describe this decade to our grandchildren. “On edge” might be the winner.
I think we’ve just laid the foundation for the next Airplane! movie sequel. I have not laughed this hard since seeing the original movie for the first time.
Which decade was that? 2016-2020?
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from years on the Internet, it’s that events just don’t happen, one after another, without there being some connection!
I think Pence fell asleep in the back of the plane somewhere and it took them forever to find him, so they cancelled. Then everyone was too embarrassed to reveal what happened, so they made it sound all dire and important.
All in all, we need a “Breaking News” subforum.
Yeah, good point. It’s more like “How will we describe this geological epoch (2016-2020) to our grandchildren?”
Help us Mike Pence, you’re our only hope.
Actually…
WH confirmed Pence was “requested” so that there would be at least one observer at the freakin’, big-ass Military Might parade.
Inquiring minds want to know: were there just tanks on trailers, or did some missiles sneak in there, too? And did the troops goose-step?
~VOW