LOL! Pence says he didn't wear a mask because he wanted to look people "in the eye & say thank you"

[kpete]

“As Vice President of the United States I'm tested for the coronavirus on a regular basis, and everyone who is around me is tested for the coronavirus," Pence said of not wearing a mask at Mayo Clinic. Said he wanted to look workers & researchers "in the eye and say thank you."

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[Arkansas Granny]

1. What an insufferable ignoramus.

[tblue37]

2. Masks don't cover their eyes. nt

[In_The_Wind]

3. Excellent point.

[qazplm135]

4. so we have confirmed

the VP doesn't understand how face masks work.

[Totally Tunsie]

12. Also confirmed that Pence is "tested for the coronavirus

on a regular basis, and everyone who is around me is tested for the coronavirus".

This rather contradicts what his boss had to say about being tested. Chump was always downplaying being tested until he finally admitted to being tested twice, a few weeks ago.

[Blue Owl]

5. Oh for the love of mother...

[monmouth4]

6. In my building we all understand each other speaking through the masks, he's full of it. n/t

[blue neen]

7. Dear God in Heaven.

How will the country survive these idiots?

[struggle4progress]

8. "When I spray my spittle at you, just think of it as a sprinkling of holy water"

[Doodley]

9. What an idiot.

[smirkymonkey]

10. Hence the moniker, Mike Dense.

[nolabear]

20. I thought Candace Bergman was going to die right there.

God Gilda was fabulous.

[smirkymonkey]

27. She was the best!

[applegrove]

11. I always thought there was something very Manchurian Candidate about Pence. nt

[rockfordfile]

13. hahahhaaha Benny Hill?

[ZZenith]

14. A Hollow Man

The Hollow Men

Mistah Kurtz-he dead
A penny for the Old Guy


I

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.


II

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer-

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom


III

This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.


IV

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.


V

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

- T.S. Eliot

[nolabear]

19. Eliot was a god. ❤️

[ZZenith]

25. Whereas Mike Pence is most definitely not.

But I see now I didn’t post an attribution!

Whoops.

[grumpyduck]

15. Well, I'm going to wild guess that POtuS told him not to wear one,

and that that was the only excuse he could think of.

Where do all these people come from? Where have they been all these years?

[spanone]

16. Winner of the dan quayle award

[CatWoman]

17. doesn't speak well for the Indiana quality of education

[nolabear]

18. My eyes are up here,Bub.

[tanyev]

21. ...and give them a little gift in return.

[Peacetrain]

22. What a SFB!

[nolabear]

23. There are people in this world who look at you and see you...

and there are people in this world who look at you and see you looking at them. Guess which one Halfa Pence is.

[jrthin]

24. Pence, plain and simple, is an effing moron.

[Zorro]

26. I'd like to see Pence wear a bag over his head

[dweller]

36. paper or plastic?

plastic pls ...
😵

✌🏼

[0rganism]

28. more like look them in the eye and infect them

when ignorance and carelessness turns into direct damage

[Jarqui]

29. We're avoiding dentists, doctors and clinics, etc unless we absolutely must

for the obvious reason: they're places potentially riddled with the virus or those infected with it

Testing of hospitals found it on computer mice, door handles, in the air, etc and on about 50% of medical staff's shoes.

Pence obviously isn't much brighter than those drinking disinfectant.

Maybe the one good deed he can do for his country is give it to Trump.

[Paladin]

30. Lame-ass excuse, even by Pence standards. (nt)

[Chainfire]

31. He needn't have worried looking them in the eye

He was talking out of his ass.

[muriel_volestrangler]

32. Maybe when he hears "mask", he thinks "gimp mask"

"The only person who can order me to wear a mask is Mother. And that's only on birthdays and anniversaries."

[SammyWinstonJack]

33. Asshole.

[TheCowsCameHome]

34. D'oh. That's why the Klan made eyeholes in his pointy hood.

Moran.

[dem4decades]

35. Am i wrong in thinking the Mayo Clinic shouldn't have let him in without a mask?

[dweller]

37. ok, they've wasted enough tests

on this jackass ...

✌🏼

[cloudbase]

38. Well, to be fair,

it may have looked like this one.




You know, the kind "Mother" uses on him from time to time.

[MurrayDelph]

39. There are only two reasons he didn't wear a mask

1. His boss refuses to wear a mask, and he doesn't want to show him up by doing something right.

2. He hopes one day to use this footage when he runs for President.

Mikey, there was only one way you were ever going to become President, and the Senate voted it down in February.

[sinkingfeeling]

40. It's a mask, not a gag.