I mean, what does it say about someone who goes into politics and goes through all this shit with their ambition topping out at VP Who would actually do that It's like the joke about going to flight school so you can be a copilot https://twitter.com/schwartzbCNBC/status/1288561956350300166 …
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If anything you look at the Dick Cheneys and the Mike Pences and you see that people who actively want to be VP may be worse Either you aspire to be a shadowy power behind the throne or a flunky hatchet man doing the dirty work Wanting power without responsibility
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And if it's really not that, if it's just fully accepting being a Dan Quayle "Your job was to balance the ticket and it ended with the election" type, that's pretty contemptible "I hope to be an empty suit someday Money for nothing and checks for free"
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I mean I personally would be 100% on board with being a well-paid figurehead, but I'm neither an aspiring politician nor any sort of role model.
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Nor is the VP particularly well paid.
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Eh, still probably enough to get six-figure payments for speaking gigs the rest of your life.
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Yeah it's the general Famous Person Pension that really sets you up
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More than speaking gigs it opens the door to all these fake jobs like sitting on the boards of things
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