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bigtree

(85,987 posts) Thu Aug 6, 2020, 01:09 PM Aug 2020

School Pence bragged was 'in the forefront' for reopening is quarantining due to positive Covid test

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...and Pence speaking in a closed classroom to the children without a mask.

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School Pence bragged was 'in the forefront' for reopening is quarantining due to positive Covid test (Original Post) bigtree Aug 2020 OP

D'oh! The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2020 #1

Another novelty cigar explodes in Pence's face gratuitous Aug 2020 #2

Mother's shameful little disappointment Blue Owl Aug 2020 #3

She had a part in this mess as well. Tanuki Aug 2020 #5

still no answer about whether she's teaching this year bigtree Aug 2020 #6

Ugh a private for profit school which Betsy DeVos wants all grade schools to become, except Fla Dem Aug 2020 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author bigtree Aug 2020 #7

ignorant or arrogant? bigtree Aug 2020 #8

trump and pence and the GOP pressuring schools back now duforsure Aug 2020 #9

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,681 posts)

1. D'oh!

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 01:11 PM

Aug 2020

They don't call him Mike Dense for nothing.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

2. Another novelty cigar explodes in Pence's face

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 01:16 PM

Aug 2020

When will they ever learn? Maybe someday when they have to pay a price for being so catastrophically, lethally wrong.

Blue Owl

(50,349 posts)

3. Mother's shameful little disappointment

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 01:19 PM

Aug 2020

n/t

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)

5. She had a part in this mess as well.

Reply to Blue Owl (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 01:23 PM

Aug 2020

https://www.salon.com/2020/07/09/mike-pence-the-best-expert-i-know-on-reopening-schools-amid-a-deadly-pandemic-is-my-wife-karen_partner/

"Mike Pence: "The best expert I know" on reopening schools amid a deadly pandemic is "my wife Karen". Karen has taught elementary school, such as a recent stint as a part-time art teacher, but has no medical training."... (more)

bigtree

(85,987 posts)

6. still no answer about whether she's teaching this year

Reply to Tanuki (Reply #5)

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 01:28 PM

Aug 2020

...in-person.

Fla Dem

(23,653 posts)

4. Ugh a private for profit school which Betsy DeVos wants all grade schools to become, except

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 01:21 PM

Aug 2020

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for inner city or other minority schools.

Because the school network is private, it doesn't have to adhere to North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper's school reopening guidelines.

Also Pence and DeVos without masks. Great example.

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bigtree

(85,987 posts)

8. ignorant or arrogant?

Reply to Fla Dem (Reply #4)

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 02:27 PM

Aug 2020

...or both?

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duforsure

(11,885 posts)

9. trump and pence and the GOP pressuring schools back now

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 02:43 PM

Aug 2020

Will cause a catastrophic spreading of this virus , and set us back even more, and cause many more to vote against trump and the GOP. It'll backfire badly for them, and permanently damage children from it. It'll also cause generations of children to vote for the Democrats forever for doing this to them.

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