That ' s my point though there really isn ' t one . There ' s a very high likelihood that Pence is going to have extremely substantial influence over Trump policymaking , but he won ' t have to suffer any of the consequences if he gets something wrong . It ' s a winwin for him . <| sep |> I helped raise money from donors for my private D 3 college when I was still a student . We built a brand new athletic facility off of our endowment and large scale donations from wealth alums . It ' s disingenuous to suggest pro sports teams can do the same . And yes , private colleges still receive federal funds , just not their entire budget . <| sep |> I feel like the US hasn ' t really experienced war like Europeans have in their history . WWI and WWII being the most obvious examples . They were involved in both , sure , but later in the day , after millions and millions had been already been slaughtered and the soldiers were already demoralised to fuck . They also got to go back across the ocean afterwards and weren ' t left living maybe just 50 miles from the border of a country whose people they had just spent the past four years trying to kill by any means possible .