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Once can be a coincidence, but twice is all the proof I need. Presidents from this family actively seek out the most unpalatable veeps possible, people who are either so incompetent, or dangerous (or both) that even if Triumph the Insult Comic Dog used Cerebro to order every last homicidal maniac in the nation to whack the potus, they'd stop, put down the human thigh bones they'd been sucking the marrow out of, wipe their chins and say "and leave that asshole in charge? No fucking way. That's crazy."