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You Can See Mike Pence Reach the Absolute Frontier Limits of His Intellect in This Exchange
The vice president strained with all his might to avoid admitting that CBS reporter Paula Reid was exactly right.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
JUN 26, 2020
The White House Task Force on the coronavirus pandemic re-emerged from its hyperbaric chamber and met the press again on Friday morning. If you watched the whole thing, you might have noticed that none of them were adhering to CDC guidelines, including wearing masks, and that HHS Secretary Alex Azar tried a little of the old okey-doke involving the Ebola outbreak in the Congo, and that Dr. Anthony Fauci now sounds like a man who has been hauling a barge through the Erie Canal. But all you really needed to see was the last question and the last answer.
Paula Reid of CBS asked this question of the Poser-in-Chief regarding the superspreader events in which his re-election campaign is now engaged.
You could see Pence visibly reach the absolute frontier limits of his intellect in trying to craft an answer that was not admitting that Reid was absolutely right, and that also would keep Pence from offending the angry toddler for whom he works. What emerged from that frontier was a rhetorical critter unfamiliar to most political taxonomists. Neither fish nor fowl, nor really English, either.
Note how quickly Pence, dancing as fast as he can, runs through his stock of conservative Republican cliches. He apparently is unaware that one can speak, laugh, cheer, chant Lock her up! and Build the wall! and USA!, and otherwise exercise ones First Amendment rights through a mask. You can talk through a mask. (Ask Batman.) Also, you can peaceably assemble while standing six feet apart. You can model behavior for your fellow citizens. You at least can say the word, mask. Pence asked us repeatedly to pray, but refused to ask us to wear masks when we do. God will not understand this at all.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a32984272/mike-pence-masks-social-distancing-trump-rallies/
Solly Mack
(90,780 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Solly Mack
(90,780 posts)mcar
(42,372 posts)But that's all he's got.
Solly Mack
(90,780 posts)japple
(9,838 posts)He def. looks like his neural transmissions have nearly ceased.
Solly Mack
(90,780 posts)rsdsharp
(9,196 posts)Once you learn to fake that, youve got it made.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)He's Mark Twain's hypocritical politician. A few choice quotes...
"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."
"Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can."
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
"An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere."
"All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity."
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals."
mcar
(42,372 posts)it's all he's got.
You are correct. He hasn't perfected it. He is a phony as hell.
calimary
(81,441 posts)in decades of watching politics and sleazy politicians.
George Will used the word oleaginous to describe him once. PERFECT! Because that's what he IS. Besides, being the whitest-looking white guy that the donald ever laid eyes on. I'm still convinced THAT is why he picked Pence to be his running made. I think THAT is what tipped the scale for trump and helped him decide to pick Pence.
Smarmy, sanctimonious, phony and oily and greasy. Oleaginous to the nth degree! It's a PERFECT word for Pence.
Solly Mack
(90,780 posts)onenote
(42,748 posts)I think someone needs to organize a political rally at which everyone shows up naked and smokes dope. And if the authorities try to break it up, cite VP Pence's view that people don't forfeit their constitutional right to peacefully assemble.
magicarpet
(14,164 posts)....70% water, 15% distilled water,... 15% chicken broth. With six table spoons of chicken fat to give it some flavor and as a thickening agent.
Traildogbob
(8,791 posts)In the Navy, after 3 weeks at sea and supplies running short we use to talk about the Duty Chicken. There was a chicken on duty for soup day and it had to be dipped in hot water, then put back away, for our next Chicken soup day. Had a few to rotate duty days to keep em fresh. Your post is our soup recipe, except for the live chicken to dip.
Srkdqltr
(6,315 posts)He sounded like a man who knew he was lying and was stumbling over the words.
mcar
(42,372 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)real or imagined. He is truly pathetic. He's soaked up Trump's word salad and makes no sense, whatsoever.
This week has shown that neither of them have much desire or enthusiasm to run for office, again. We can understand that thought process, as we've been experiencing the same dread. The last thing we need is another campaign by these two losers. Our only benefit will be watching them slide down the sewer to obscurity.
How have we survived nearly 4 years of these clowns?
SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)Lord, he is HORRIBLE.......
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)is that he is learning from Trump.
Mr.Bill
(24,317 posts)of Biden vs Pence.
spanone
(135,862 posts)the point one percent controls motor 'skills'
struggle4progress
(118,332 posts)a very stapled penis ... wait ... no ... whatever ... damn you auto-correct ...
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,033 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)MR. Vice President, other than your base of 38% who dont care if they get the virus and spread it to other, how do you expect the majority of Americans not to think of you and this Administration as nothing but a bunch of heartless idiots for refusing to wear masks and follow the medical advice in dealing with this horrible pandemic that the Administration allowed to happen?