So are we watching the Veep debate tomorrow?
If your spirits are flagging, here’s a heart-warming story. I left the classroom for a minute today, and when I got back, I saw that a student was using the break to get several students to fill out voter registration cards. They are all 18-19, and it’s their first time to vote. And this is how our side got 5 new voters today.
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Count me out. I may follow your post tomorrow night, but probably won’t comment.
VP candidates never make a difference in U.S. elections, but at least in prior elections there were entertaining candidates, like Dan Quayle and Sarah Palin and a mocking Joe Biden making a fool out of himself by refusing to take the debate seriously.
This time around, Trump and Hillary couldn’t have picked more bland, invisible VP choices if their lives depended on it.
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I agree that this debate won’t matter for the election. But it’s still fun to watch.
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Blandest VP candidates ever!
I have trouble remembering their names and remembering which boring establishment figure goes with which candidate…. Normally I might try to find some mnemonic device to help me remember but I essentially don’t give a rat’s ass about either.
Except…… if Trump wins, I would expect him to be assassinated or incapacitated very early on and his establishment guy to take over….
And Clinton’s health also remains a concern.
So theoretically these are the two VP candidates with the biggest chances of ascending to the top rung of the ladder ever, but….. meh.
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Pence is hardly bland. Of course, next to nutso Trump even a raving lunatic looks mild and respectable, but Pence is very unhinged in his own right.
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“Pence is very unhinged in his own right.”
That sounds like feigned praise for an underachieving third grader …
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😊😊😊
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I’ll be watching! And I agree. Pence is unhinged: a crazed religious fanatic. He’s not quite as bad as Ted Cruz but he’s in that vein.
And Kaine is OK. I think he has a bit more personality than people give him credit for. I’m looking quite forward to the debate actually.
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Kaine is the human equivalent of saltines and oatmeal. Seems bland, but he’s very unlikely to give anyone indigestion or irritate them. If HRC has a turn, I’m not worried about what this guy will do or whether he’ll crumple under pressure.
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I was so looking forward to this, then it turned out I’m working 😥 I guess I’ll watch it on C-SPAN afterwards.
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I saw that a student was using the break to get several students to fill out voter registration cards. They are all 18-19, and it’s their first time to vote. And this is how our side got 5 new voters today.
How do you know that they’re voting for “our side”?
Anyways, college registration drives are great. That’s how I first registered to vote. I still have a picture of myself holding my voting registration card outside the polling place. That election broke my heart though.
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The students were all African American. 😄
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Was that the 2000 election? That one was horrible!
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Yes, it was the 2000 election.
Nobody seemed to get how egregious the whole fiasco was, and they still don’t acknowledge it. No prominent Democrats were braying about Bush’s illegitimacy, but several Republicans keep going on about how Obama’s authority is illegitimate and is only in office because of “voter fraud” and they’re already complaining about “voter fraud” now.
I sincerely wished that all the Bushes stayed the fuck away from the election or any endorsements. It doesn’t help.
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“Nobody seemed to get how egregious the whole fiasco was, and they still don’t acknowledge it.”
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I have a lot of work to do tonight, so I won’t be watching.
But also? I fucking loathe Mike Pence. Since I’m from Indiana, I feel very strongly about his particular brand of evil.
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He’s such a creepazoid. Bleh. A perfect running mate for Trump.
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