As obvious on day 1 as it is now.
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I agree that there was something with Cheatolini. Everything else sounds fabricated. If this hand shake thing is the best they can come up with, whatever it was, was a whopper…
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Frankly I’m unsure why the hell “It’s none of your damned business” shouldn’t stand as an excuse. Does the Executive have to explain the comings and goings of everyone in the branch, and reasons for the creation or cancellation of those comings and goings?
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The explanation for Vice President Mike Pence’s abruptly cancelled flight to New Hampshire may finally be coming clear — his team didn’t want him to shake hands with an alleged drug dealer.
Enough to almost make me wish I was a drug dealer.
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Yes (especially when it’s Trump)
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And the drug dealer was none other than the CEO of Purdue Pharma.
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It just seems like they’d have to justify the change because of Trump’s strident frugality and careful stewardship of public money.
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Mother won’t let him meet with women in private or drug dealers in public. Or is it the other way? Sheesh…this list is getting complicated.
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It is the response given to every attempt at congressional oversight, after all. Why (attempt) an explanation about this one thing when you’re stiff-arming everyone else
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SOP is right - he was slightly cowed by the person (I watched the clip and he was in insecure soft-spoken Trump-mode) he was with there (sorry - have not looked it up. Pakistan??)) so he goes into “one-man PR machine” mode and says that the PM of India asked him to help resolve a 70 year-old blood soaked conflict, in order to impress the person. The way he looks at the other person as he finishes saying it, his gestures, everything. Just - SOP.
(look at the clip where he says that parents of Korean War vets asked him to “bring home the remains” to see the identical body language /voice of a lie)
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@discobot went live June 30. There were problems the first couple of days before Pence’s trip was cancelled on 2 July.
No secret here, @discobot cancelled the flight plans.
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Yeah. Took 'em three weeks to cook up cover story.
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Yeah, getting Trump involved in any India/Pakistan negotiations would practically guarantee mushroom clouds. I mean, look at his wonderful take on diplomacy with Afghanistan:
Oh, and here’s another take on the Pence/NH story:
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Well, ain’t nobody going to be fighting over a patch of irradiated ground that’s uninhabitable for the next 30,000 years or so… It would solve that pesky problem of Kashmir.
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They were worried he might be photographed standing next to a drug dealer? After he slobbers over Trump at every photo-op?
A drug dealer is a step up.
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Yes, and the story doesn’t pass the smell test.
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It would solve that pesky problem of Kashmir.
I don’t know. It’s still played too much, and there are much better songs on “Physical Graffiti”.
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