Pence Finally Called Harris To Offer Congratulations And Help With Transition

Better late than never?

Vice President Mike Pence called Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Thursday to offer his congratulations and assistance as Harris prepares to take over in less than a week, the New York Times reported Friday. Several other news organizations confirmed the call.


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Assistance you say??? No thank you, slime sucker.

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A day late and a dollar short if you ask me. Pence should have done this over a month ago. He’s just like Trumpy, still hoping to overturn the election.

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Q-Tip explained the delay by noting that he had placed several calls to Harrison, William H. which were never returned…

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Such a smooth transition. /eyeroll

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I dunno . . . just seems like, back on the 6th while they were sheltering in place, Pence could have found 5 seconds or so to look up Harris and say, ā€œOh, yeah, by the way–congrats!ā€ But he’d probably say by way of excuse that he was too busy, just then, running for his life and/or hiding from Trump.

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Pence Finally Called Harris To Offer Congratulations And Help With Transition

And he expected to be thanked?

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No, I don’t think so. He may be a stuck-up, repressed doo-dad of a fundamentalist, but he’s gradually doing something akin to the job he was originally voted in to do.

That isn’t to say he deserves acclaim or prestige, only a recognition that he’s doing something right for a change.

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ā€œā€¦ and here’s the chair outside the Oval where I would station myself every morning with a bag of hamberdersā€

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Much smoother than when Clinton’s folks removed all the Ws from keyboards.

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I’ve also seen that Pence is doing a bit of a farewell tour around military bases over the weekend. Basically trying to be ā€œPresidentialā€.

He reaaaaally wants everyone to forget the last four years.

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I guess Mother Pence wasn’t available to chaperone the call until now?

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They finally have enough military and law enforcement presence in D.C. for him to feel secure going against his boss’ wishes.

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Now that Trump is ā€œout to lunchā€ more than usual, I suppose it’s ā€˜safe’ to do the job you were hired to do.

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God, those debates seem like they were YEARS ago.

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Interesting. Likely a subtle reminder to folks that anyone thinking of anything is going to have a bad day at court-martial.

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Since Joe was VP for 8 years, I don’t think Pence could tell Harris anything she didn’t already know. But it’s a gesture, if empty and too late.

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In a world of alternative facts, there are also alternative congratulations.

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Four years of catching the Damn Fool’s farts and now he wants to be vice presidential. This way to history’s dust bin Mikey.

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ā€œYou see, the thing about this job is you’ve really got to be comfortable abjectly debasing yourself on a daily basis.ā€

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