cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32973475

His group spent nearly $1 million on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s health agencies. He’s delivering speeches urging the president to stand with longstanding foreign allies and lobbying members of Congress while aides write letters and opinion columns.

This weekend, he posted an article he penned more than a decade ago on the limits of presidential power after Trump claimed that, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

Mike Pence is emerging as one of the last Republicans in Washington willing to publicly criticize the new administration.

It’s an especially jarring role for the former vice president, whose refusal to break with Trump defined their time together in office until the two had a falling out over Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election and his efforts to remain in power.

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    had a falling out

    Boy that’s the most sanewashed way saying ‘whipped up a mob that wanted to hang him’ I think I’ve ever seen. Kudos, I guess?

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    The crowd was literally chanting “hang Mike Pence”. Kudos to him for not going along with Trumps plan of overthrowing the election.

    Yet still I can’t help but wonder whether he was secretly hoping for Trump to lose the 3rd election and the Republican party returning to its old ways somehow. Why? Because he’s been suspiciously silent ever since when he had the cachet and moral standing to be one of his greatest detractors (from the Republican side).

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    Oh fuck off. No more redemption stories. No one should fall for this shit. Especially from a low charisma shit head like Mike pence.

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    There is almost a zero chance Trump will run in 2028. He is old and that would be his third term. JD Vance is really the successor.