# What are we to do with these insects we refer to as Republicans?

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**Created:** [October 1, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076 "2019-10-01T04:34:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/330 "2019-10-04T14:58:44Z")

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I see Republicans here asking to be treated with respect. So let me ask, very respectfully, for your opinions on some of the recent events in the Trump Administration.

I recently pointed out that Mike Pence is either a criminal or is as stupid as a cockroach:

> [@The Hunter Biden Investigation {This thread started September 2019, bumped after 3 years dormant}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-this-thread-started-september-2019-bumped-after-3-years-dormant/840964/107):
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> I don’t see a thread on Pence’s complicity in the crime everyone’s talking about. And the only mention of Pence in this thread is a flippant joke. Yet Pence appears to be guilty of a felony in the same matter.
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> Think of it: _ **The Vice President of the United States is almost obviously guilty of a high crime or treason and that news is so ho-hum in today’s topsy-turvy White House it hardly attracts mention.** _
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> I say _almost_ obviously guilty. The Vice President’s defense, apparently [is that, when making a special trip as the envoy to follow-up a telephone call between two government chiefs](https://youtu.be/LP5NeI5gWzs?t=360) he was unaware of the contents of the call he was following up despite that he’d been briefed on it verbally, had presumably read a transcript of the call, and his top aide had listened in on the call in the first place!
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> That’s right! _ **Pence’s only defense against a charge of criminal corruption will be that he is stupider than a cockroach.** _

Will any of you fine Republicans comment on that?

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