So what does a VP even do anyway?

So what does a VP even do anyway?

Hes Trumps insurance policy.

Get General Flynn fired to protect his pedo buddies.

This

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He gets to vote as a senator and does things the president delegates to him

this, like most political jobs

President gets to choose really.

Dick Cheney had incredible powr. Joe biden had none but was popular in the Senate and helped bills get through.

Pence seems to have a lot of power and personal favors with congress. Who knows how he's going to end up once the administration gets down to routine.

Once in a blue moon he casts the tie-breaker vote in the Senate. And he's next in line to take over if something happens to the president.

That's about it. But idle hands to the devil's work so often times that means they're up to their eyeballs in sketchy shit like orchestrating 9/11 or running drugs or whatever else. That's why we like Mike "500 volts higher" Pence

It seems like they are on the same page and each of them is assigned a task until the job is done, the only difference is that Trump speaks to the people. While Pence shocks the people behind the curtain.

Ha!
This is a fair point, if you believe he could predict how the msm was going to dehumanize pence. Every time a typical violent liberal would get the idea that they need to assassinate Trump, they would be faced with the reality that pence, someone the media has managed to convince the gullible people like this is in many ways worse, would take over from there.

If you buy into the "Trump knows exactly what he is doing" theory, this is some shrewd poloticing

Electrocutes gays and votes in Betsy "Fuck the Poor" DeVos

Pence spent a lot of time on his knee

its bound to happen

cute, trump looks like he made a new friend

Casts the tie-breaking vote in Senate, becomes President in the event of the President being unable to fulfill his duties.

The VP's only power is to cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate.

However, unlike the Cabinet, the president cannot fire him. He's been elected to a 4-year term independent of Trump.

Does that mean you voted for Trump and Pence separately on different ballots?

Not much. Some play bigger roles in the Administration, others just sit around and act as a Spokesman to the President.

>He gets to vote as a senator
Only in a handful of rare circumstances.

Yes and no. On our ballots, they were together, since their elections were bundled together. However, the Electors (i.e., the votes that actually matter) have two separate votes for President and Vice-President.

The Electoral College casts separate votes for president and vice president, but the electors are party loyalists so very few of them stray from what they're expected to do.

The states get to decide how they chose their electors, and all states have chosen a system where each party in the legislature nominates a list of people as elector candidates. Then whichever party's presidential candidate wins in a popular election, that party's slate of electors are chosen as the electors for the state.

As far as the election day ballot goes, I'm pretty sure all states currently have the presidential and vice presidential candidate listed together on one vote.

In the olden days, the custom was that the winner would be the president and then 2nd place would be the vice president. Kind of seems like a neat way to have more of a checks and balances type system to the government since they would be from opposing parties.

But eventually it turned out this was kind of disruptive, and there's already enough trouble with the VP being from some opposing faction within the same party as the president.

Actually, one correction. Two of the states, Maine and Nebraska, currently don't have winner-takes-all systems, but instead give two electors to the state-wide winner and one elector to the winner of each congressional district within the state.

He sits in a glass box with a sign on it that says "break in case of death of president"

>orchestrating 9/11

>retards to this day believe this.

If my assumption is wrong then let's have another 9/11 investigation that can come to a conclusion instead of giving up because the government won't offer the requested evidence.

Until then, I can't bring myself to be enough of a raging conspiracy theorist to believe a CIA asset trained 19 goatfuckers to hijack 2 or 3 or 4 planes with box cutters and stunt-fly them into some of our most important buildings, repeatedly, with absolutely no military response, and then to boot there was even an iconic building that collapsed demolition style without even having been hit by a plane. And then because bin Laden was hiding in Afghanistan and the entire military might of the US cuoldn't find him for like a decade, we instead launched a war against Iraq.

Call me a retard but something about that story does not compute.

Only serves as a backup if trump is impeached and ousted from presidency.

Depends on the VP. As far as legally he's just the tie breaker in the Senate and the backup president. Behind the scenes though is where the power comes in. Harry S. Truman's VP was the most powerful VP before Pence if I remember. That power comes from knowing people in Washington, suggesting appointments for positions, being the president's trusted advisor, and, in Pence's case, being able to translate the president's vision

He serves as President of the Senate, and casts the tie-breaking vote.

>casts the tie-breaker vote in the Senate
Pence has already done this.

Cast the tiebreaking vote in congress that doesn't actually matter for most shit because filibuster. Replace the president if he can no longer serve.

It's one of the least powerful positions in government and used to be used to contain problematic politicians by shoehorning them into a position where they couldn't accomplish anything.

In recent administrations vps acted as an intragovernmental negotiator for the president or as a major adviser to the president in a function similar but parallel to the cabinet.

If something happens to trump, who would be Pence's VP? Ryan?

He can appoint whoever the fuck he wants.

yes, iirc the Speaker of the House is next in line

That doesn't automatically make him VP. Everybody doesn't move up a rank. That's just succession rules.

If the VP becomes the P, there just is no VP until the new P appoints a VP.

Remember Gerald Ford?

his rabbit

It's kind of like a backup goalie in a hockey game

I know right? One thing is for sure, this is a pretty rad time for folks starting to take an interest in politics.