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NarrowBandFtw

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Yeah it's much better for them to stage obscenely expensive publicity stunts on the taxpayer's dollar.
It is actually. They want to be re-elected, they need to gauge popular opinion and act accordingly. Odds are the majority of voters looked favourably upon that "stunt" even if they take into account the cost of it.

A couple of hundred K is chump change in a country sitting with over 20 trillion dollars in debt anyway, wouldn't even pay the interest for a few days ...
 

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It is actually. They want to be re-elected, they need to gauge popular opinion and act accordingly. Odds are the majority of voters looked favourably upon that "stunt" even if they take into account the cost of it.

A couple of hundred K is chump change in a country sitting with over 20 trillion dollars in debt anyway, wouldn't even pay the interest for a few days ...

A cost incurred for him attending. His attendance was already paid, him leaving makes nothing of the money spent. But don't let fact ruin a good angle :D
 

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A cost incurred for him attending. His attendance was already paid, him leaving makes nothing of the money spent. But don't let fact ruin a good angle :D

Do you ever make arguments in good faith anymore? I don't know, it seems like you used to do that but then you abandoned pesky principles and sailed off into the balmy waters of right-wing trolling.

Pence's walkout was a publicity stunt - he paid for the ticket and flew into Indianapolis where he knew the 49ers would be playing, and there would be a kneeling protest. He then got up and left as soon as the thing he knew would happen did happen, and fired off a snowflake tweet about how "outraged" he was.
 

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Do you ever make arguments in good faith anymore? I don't know, it seems like you used to do that but then you abandoned pesky principles and sailed off into the balmy waters of right-wing trolling.

Pence's walkout was a publicity stunt - he paid for the ticket and flew into Indianapolis where he knew the 49ers would be playing, and there would be a kneeling protest. He then got up and left as soon as the thing he knew would happen did happen, and fired off a snowflake tweet about how "outraged" he was.

I never denied it being a publicity stunt, or a stand against the assault by professional players on Government and the country.

Saying the $300k expenditure was for his stunt is being dishonest and deceitful once again. He was attending protest or no protest. So the cost was incurred anyway. The fact that they protested which led to his walk-out has nothing to do with the costs incurred. If no protest he would still have attended and not walked out right?

You libtards must stop being so dishonest and deceitful
 

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He knew from the moment they arranged the trip that there would be a protest from the 49ers. That was the whole purpose of his going.
Neither of your links confirm that btw, the one merely speculates. His trip was long planned and surely he knew there was a strong likelihood that the libtards will libtard and he most likely knew what he will do when that happens.

That does not mean he never thought for a millisecond the kneeling might not happen and he wouldn't stay in that case. Regardless, the stunt was a massive success ...
 

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His trip was long planned and surely he knew there was a strong likelihood that the libtards will libtard and he most likely knew what he will do when that happens.

Yes, so a publicity stunt arranged weeks ahead then. Just as I said.
 

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So he is not allowed to attend an NFL game in his official capacity when there's a chance of protest? yeah, whatever

He's allowed to do whatever he wants, including staging pathetic and obvious publicity stunts which cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands.
 

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He's allowed to do whatever he wants, including staging pathetic and obvious publicity stunts which cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands.

JUSUS the irony!!!!

That's exactly what the player are doing and getting paid too :ROFL:
 

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Which is it?

Lol, your strategy is getting old and predictable.

But enlighten us... I guess you think he agreed with the protesters and decided to walk out anyway because Trump said so?
 
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