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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLOL! Pence says he didn't wear a mask because he wanted to look people "in the eye & say thank you"
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
(31,528 posts)tblue37
(65,487 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)the VP doesn't understand how face masks work.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)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
(50,494 posts)monmouth4
(9,709 posts)blue neen
(12,328 posts)How will the country survive these idiots?
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)Doodley
(9,124 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)God Gilda was fabulous.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)applegrove
(118,778 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)ZZenith
(4,126 posts)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
(41,991 posts)ZZenith
(4,126 posts)But I see now I didnt post an attribution!
Whoops.
grumpyduck
(6,255 posts)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
(135,873 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)tanyev
(42,610 posts)Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)and there are people in this world who look at you and see you looking at them. Guess which one Halfa Pence is.
jrthin
(4,837 posts)Zorro
(15,749 posts)dweller
(23,661 posts)plastic pls ...
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0rganism
(23,970 posts)when ignorance and carelessness turns into direct damage
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)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
(28,272 posts)Chainfire
(17,636 posts)He was talking out of his ass.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)"The only person who can order me to wear a mask is Mother. And that's only on birthdays and anniversaries."
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Moran.
dem4decades
(11,304 posts)dweller
(23,661 posts)on this jackass ...
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cloudbase
(5,525 posts)it may have looked like this one.
You know, the kind "Mother" uses on him from time to time.
MurrayDelph
(5,301 posts)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.