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Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 06:00 PM Aug 2020

Trump really has no other options, it's time to kick Pence to the curb

and pull Nikki Haley from the clearance rack.

It's either her or Ghislaine Maxwell

Trump needs to create a freak show to feed his addiction of remaining in the headlines.



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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,674 posts)
2. He won't dump Pence. His base now consists only of fundies and racists
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 06:02 PM
Aug 2020

and neither group would tolerate a non-white woman on the ticket.

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
12. I agree
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 06:27 PM
Aug 2020

I also don't think Haley is dumb enough to run with him the way his numbers are dropping. She may want to be president one day, but she knows this isn't the way to get there.

haele

(12,647 posts)
10. I hope she's not expecting a corn-dog as part of the job interview...
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 06:09 PM
Aug 2020

Sorry, that was crude and childish.
But I will forever picture her at the state fare being folksy.

Haele

TlalocW

(15,380 posts)
13. I honestly don't know why politicians of all stripes keep getting corn dogs at fairs
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 06:52 PM
Aug 2020

Yes, you've got to go the fair to pretend to be folksy, but c'mon. Giant phallic symbol in your mouth? And you know that photographers just push and hold the button on their camera to take picture after picture as soon as the candidate has it in their hands so they don't miss anything. Get a caramel apple or a deep-fried Twinkie and eat it with a fork while making a joke about eating one as a kid and making a mess so you have an excuse to not put THAT phallic symbol near your mouth.

TlalocW

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
11. I'm so doubting this.
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 06:26 PM
Aug 2020

The obvious reason is that a huge portion of his base (Evangelicals and racists and misogynists) will pee blood if he does this.

Haley isn't stupid and won't take it. It won't help her. It will "help her" even less than it helped Paul Ryan to run with a loser like Romney.

Trump's inner circle will collapse into a circular firing squad, because half of them are devout political Christians who lionize Pence.

Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
16. It's either that or Dancing With The Stars
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 07:11 PM
Aug 2020

She can't even work the Right Wing Circle Jerk Cruise tour with Sarah Palin and Joe The Plumber because of the COVID-19 pandemic

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
18. No way in hell. For every suburban women she will he will lose 2 white southerners.
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 07:34 PM
Aug 2020

She’s a person of color. She is first generation Christianity. Most of all she took down the confederate flag from the SC capital. They hate her.

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