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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPence is an anti-choice extremist.
Wants to block patients from accessing care at Planned Parenthood, ban abortion, punish women and doctors for abortion, roll back insurance coverage for birth control and other lifesaving care, allow businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ people, and worse.
He has a history of passing anti-choice legislation.
Every bit as bad as T-rump.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Never let any fucking asshole tell you both parties are the same, EVER.
Kath2
(3,089 posts)""
But not completely bat shit crazy. At this point, that's a big plus.
longship
(40,416 posts)And he's also totally against birth control, because Jesus, or something.
AND HE CALLS HIS WIFE "MOTHER!!!!!"
dhol82
(9,353 posts)He's a Dominionist. That's about as bat shit crazy as you can get.
Nay
(12,051 posts)RandySF
(59,697 posts)This one is about who gets the nuclear codes.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)radius777
(3,635 posts)a Koch puppet neo-con, far right fundamentalist, with the polish and smooth delivery of a televangelist.
He's obviously better in other ways, more of the conventional politician who will conform to governing norms, and is safe with the nuclear codes.
Trump is a full-blown fascist, who thrives on chaos and antagonism, and who will subvert the constitution to achieve his ends.
Pick your poison, I suppose.
I think I'd rather see Trump implode in office and easily defeated in 2020 while bringing down the GOP with him the whole way - rather than get impeached and Pence taking over - which has the risk of the public thinking of Pence as 'normal' by comparison, and thus retaining office.
MFM008
(19,834 posts)The fervor of his Nazi/KKK supporters. They show up to vote when WE democrats don't because emails .......
radius777
(3,635 posts)and fascism is perhaps the most dangerous ideology, along with communism, responsible for the deaths of tens of millions over the past century.
and now that the taboo of electing a fascist is broken, 'normal' whites that may've felt shame about voting for him (and who may've stayed home or even voted for Hillary) in 2016 may now feel more comfortable in 2020.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...run by someone at least semi-competent.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the civil rights of all citizens, not just women and LGBTQ -- the labor rights of all working people, equality under the law for all people, our rights to programs like Social Security and Medicare, and on and on. The Pences of this world do not believe in the Constitution as our founding fathers meant it to be understood, as America has for over 200 years, and they intend to fix it.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)now I insulted sharks (sorry, sharks). I can't think of an epithet nasty enough for this inhuman asshole.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)It's fucked up.
Choice is not negotiable.
Kath2
(3,089 posts)Fundamental human rights should never be negotiable.