It not only was a literal example of someone who believes the rules don’t apply to them, it was also his own explanation. “The rules don’t apply to me because x,y,z.”
Bullshit.
Someone should have laid down the law.
Karen Pence claims VP didn’t know about the mask policy
Not only is she calling the Mayo Clinic a liar, but she’s also contradicting her husband. The excuse he gave was bad enough, but here she is compounding the badness by making him out to be some clueless schmuck who was somehow oblivious to all the people wearing masks–including his own team. I know she’s just standing by her man, but maybe she should sit her ass down somewhere and STFU. She’s not helping him at all.
He did. His name is Donald Trump. There is no other law but his.
Um…what country are you living in??
That’s right. The clown in the White House thinks “He who is gold makes the rules”. Of course he’s so stupid he doesn’t realize that gold is not orange.
I’m living in China. And I can’t believe I’m saying this. Thankfully, I’m living in China, not America, right now.
This is going on a tangent, but when I was overseas in Korea, in 1976, a general came to visit our post. General Clark. General* Mary* Clark. The commander of our unit was a Col. Black, I don’t remember his first name.
He didn’t like women in the service and made some excuse to be elsewhere, and have some other officer recieve her. He was too stupid to realize gender was not the issue, he was a colonel, and outranked by her. Couple of months later he was reassigned to some post at Ft. Hood. Not demoted, but his new position did not have near the prestige.
His excuse was pathetic. Pency is the head of the US coronovirus response, unless that’s boy wonder jared, and regardless both should be demonstrating best practices.
And if the veep office is so incompetent they can’t even do a Mayo visit and adhere to protocol, then they should just shut down the office.
That mask you see covering Pence’s face IS Trump’s ass.
Why are all you blue-necks complaining about Pence’s facial nakedness? Don’t you know it was just a sarcastic prank, to deliberately rile reporters?
Toadying minion was finally shamed into wearing one.
Yeah, that’s even worse. I mean, If I step into a room and everyone there’s wearing masks, my first thought will be that maybe I should be wearing a mask, too. Pence, though, is so disconnected from other human beings (or maybe just from “commoners”) that it supposedly never even occurred to him.
Shame on the Mayo Clinic. They know better.
Now let’s see if his boss can back up his words. Trump will be visiting Arizona next week and says he has “no problem” with wearing a face mask.
Well, dude does have a very special relationship with Jesus.
Gawd, I never thought I say this, but he is WORSE than Dan Quayle.
Ouch. I kinda understand now why he didn’t want to wear one.
To my eternal irritation, there have been a number of opportunities for institutions to send a clear and direct message to this administration about their lack of respect of norms and rules. None have so far.
The excuse is always that they do not wish to “politicize” X or Y. But you fucking well politicized it by inviting the official to your lab/institute/school/whatever. So fuck off with that excuse of not wanting to politicize. Mayo Clinic would have sent the clearest message of all about the importance of following scientific/medical guidelines and they fucking pissed it away.
And while I’ve got a head of steam, Fauci (whom I’ve met and worked for at NIAID) needs to stop saying so-and-so “…is a bit optimistic…”, or, “…it’s a bit too soon…”. Fucking say what you think, Tony. You won’t get fired and nobody will think any less of you if you did.
For fuck sake, somebody just show a fucking spine when it matters!
Just FUCK.
Was he wearing a face mask when he said that?
Kinda sorta backtracking now, in a “town hall” sort of interview today.
Better than nothing? Maybe. He did say it on Fox, so that’s something.
This is why Pence is incrementally better than Trump. He is not a complete moron.