६ ऑक्टोबर, २०२०

"If she wants it, she’s more than welcome to surround herself with plexiglass if that makes her feel more comfortable. It’s not needed."

Said Mike Pence's chief of staff Marc Short, quoted in "Pence, Harris teams at odds over plexiglass at debate" (WaPo).
Vice President Pence is requesting that no plexiglass dividers be placed on his side of the stage at Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate, after an announcement Monday by the Commission on Presidential Debates that dividers had been agreed to as a safety measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
UPDATE: Pence team agrees to having plexiglass on his side "after viewing the setup during a walk-through of the debate hall" (WaPo).

६९ टिप्पण्या:

Wince म्हणाले...

Pence should agree to debate Harris upside down in a plexiglass tank like Tony Curtis in Houdini.

n.n म्हणाले...

He's right: the placebo effect. She could wear a full body condom (don't forget the goggles), or encapsulate herself in a plexiglass cell, but be certain it is disinfected before closing the entry portal. The disparate outcomes are likely due to a mischaracterization of transmission modes.

Mikey NTH म्हणाले...

Cowering in fear is so...wimpish.

Achilles म्हणाले...

Stupid bubble people pedaling their fear.

People who support democrats are just stupid people.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

put her in a political penalty booth

Curious George म्हणाले...

Is she worried that the plexiglass is going to keep her from sucking a dick?

MayBee म्हणाले...

The funniest thing is watching Biden- with no mask- complaining at a town hall last night about Trump not wearing a mask.

I Have Misplaced My Pants म्हणाले...

Most women think that plexiglass is wise, just and prudent.

chickelit म्हणाले...

Bring back the "cone of silence" for Kamala. Win-win

jim म्हणाले...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Trump Flu.

Flat Tire म्हणाले...

She'll look ridiculous in a plastic box if Pence is just standing there. I might actually watch then.

The rule of Lemnity म्हणाले...

It's not needed if they don't let Antifa/BLM contingent in.

Gk1 म्हणाले...

It may backfire on Kamala as her hyena laugh may reverberate off her plastic screen every time she's asked a question she doesn't want to answer. Democratic party= the fearful and afraid.

Readering म्हणाले...

Husband of his communications chief has tested positive.

bagoh20 म्हणाले...

How about using puppets? They could pipe in the audio from hermetically sealed booths inside of giant ziplock bags floating in huge pots of boiling water.

Rory म्हणाले...

"upside down"

It is a bat flu.

madAsHell म्हणाले...

Wasn't this a Leslie Nielsen movie?

Seriously, wasn't it...."Naked Gun 2.5" with Elvis's wife Priscilla? They were both naked inside of full body condoms.

madAsHell म्हणाले...

It's not plexiglass!! It's a hologram projection booth!!

Her answers will depend upon instantaneous polling results from Facebook, and immediately fed to the hologram projector.

madAsHell म्हणाले...

Plexiglass? The Spanxs weren't enough??

Eleanor म्हणाले...

If Kamala Harris is enclosed in plexiglass, and Mike Pence is standing exposed, it would be fair for Pence to ask if someone that afraid of the virus is capable of being Commander-in-Chief of our military.

Gunner म्हणाले...

The guy Lindsey Graham is running against did this and libtard Twitter thought it was the most brilliant thing ever.

madAsHell म्हणाले...

To be sure.....the comment about the hologram projection booth was sarcasm.

Drago म्हणाले...

jim: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Trump Flu."

It's very important for all our lefties/LLR-lefties that no attention be given to the ChiComs and their culpability.

I assume its because any sustained investigation into the ChiComs inevitably leads back to the $1.5 Billion the communists gave to Hunter Biden and John Kerry's son in law to buy up US businesses so that technology could be transferred back to the commie mother country.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Plexiglass improved sometime after the 40s. The plexiglass windows in 40s aircraft were browned by the sun by the 60s, but newer stuff seems to remain clear, except sometimes for crazing at stress points.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

That will make a really good visual- so I encourage her to debate from a glass box.

I'm Not Sure म्हणाले...

From the linked article...

Other safety measures were also the subject of extended negotiation. Both campaigns agreed last week to extend the distance between Pence and Harris from about seven feet to 12 feet.

Science! says that it's necessary to stay six feet apart to be safe. Where did seven feet (nevermind 12) come from? Are they afraid the candidates will spit at each other, or what?

gspencer म्हणाले...

Yeah, that Cone of Silence idea,

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHxAp14XsAAgG-N.jpg

bagoh20 म्हणाले...

Is the virus somehow much more dangerous in the studio than in a grocery store or Home Depot with hundreds of strangers who have not been tested where we go every goddamned day? It's fucking posing and nothing more, and it's embarrassing. If this is required, then she is incapable of doing the job, period.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Kamala hits the plexiglass ceiling.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

If I were Pence, I would bring with me one of those water dispensers you put in a hamster box, and hang it on the box.

Breezy म्हणाले...

Well played, Mr VP.

RNB म्हणाले...

You know who else appeared in a Glass Booth?

chickelit म्हणाले...

Have Misplaced My Pants said...Most women think that plexiglass is wise, just and prudent.

Most women are either unaware or resentful of how they appear to men. As Angie Dickinson said: I dress for other women.

Char Char Binks, Esq. म्हणाले...

He should insist she wear the mask Hannibal Lecter had to wear in The Silence of the Lambs, to keep her from sucking dick.

boatbuilder म्हणाले...

"...after an announcement Monday by the Commission on Presidential Debates that dividers had been agreed to as a safety measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus."

Agreed to by who? Not by Mike Pence, evidently.

ken in tx म्हणाले...

Lexan is more flexible than Plexiglas.

FullMoon म्हणाले...

All these positives. Anybody actually sick?

LilyBart म्हणाले...


I'm with Pence. Forget the plexiglass. Live your life. Neither of these two are high risk for dying.

Protect the vulnerable, but otherwise, lets start living again!

cubanbob म्हणाले...

Let her wear hazmat suit. It's all political theater anyway.

LilyBart म्हणाले...

I Have Misplaced My Pants said...
Most women think that plexiglass is wise, just and prudent.


I'm a woman, and I think plexiglass sounds stupid in this case. If your a store clerk and stand a foot away from people all day - I get it. If you're sitting across a room conducting business - seems like overkill - like something people will laugh at you for behind your back.

gspencer म्हणाले...

Put her in the isolation booth from the $64,000 Question. It's probably somewhere on the back lot of some studio,

https://alchetron.com/cdn/the-64000-question-2b88a511-dc26-404a-8ea5-92fd5704798-resize-750.jpeg

Francisco D म्हणाले...

It will be totally about personalities, not content.

Pence is a really boring guy. Kamala is an over the type lying histrionic.

Voters will decide.

stevew म्हणाले...

Oh for god's sake, these people, and readering, are pathetic, and embarrassingly obvious with what they are up to. Debate or not you pansy, just quit with the propaganda.

bagoh20 म्हणाले...

Will Harris's box have a glory hole?

bagoh20 म्हणाले...

I want Pence to say: "The power of Christ compels you!" over and over until the demon reveals itself and flies out of the box.

Left Bank of the Charles म्हणाले...

The plexiglass shield would also solve the Pence Rule problem.

Birkel म्हणाले...

I went to a retail store a while back that made me stand back from the counter so far that I could not show my ID or insert my credit card to pay without violating the distance rule.

And it's the fucking lawyers ruining life.
Nobody could imagine doing business with humans while never getting with six or even four feet of another human.

Rules for show in case the trial lawyers get geared up.
This is all bull shit on stilts.

CarolMR म्हणाले...

I think both Pence and Harris will be sitting down.

Readering म्हणाले...

See, when you are far enough ahead un the polls you can throw your weight around and the other guy has to cave on opposition to plexiglass.

Achilles म्हणाले...

Readering said...

Husband of his communications chief has tested positive.

If you don't want to debate issues just say so.

Biden can't openly say what his positions are.

Neither can Kamala.

Covid is more popular than the democrat platform.

Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...

Pence is pretty class. Can't see him hocking loogies across the room.

gadfly म्हणाले...

If Mike Pence had been following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, he would have began a 14 day quarantine immediately upon hearing about Trump's contracting COVID since the VP met with the president for about two hours in the Oval Office two days before the confirmation (2nd) test that Trump took.

Vice President Pence said he wouldn’t quarantine (despite the potential of his close contact with the boss) due to lack of symptoms and supposed negative tests - thus defying the CDC’s guidelines to quarantine or self-isolate regardless. Now Pence has been out on the campaign trail (hopefully spreading only BS approved by Donald) and the vice presidential debate is happening Wednesday evening.

So Trump's spineless lackey made a fuss over the Kamala Harris' request for plexiglass barriers at each podium to protect the mask-less debaters - because Trump wanted him to object. But the FEC is installing the plexiglass anyway. Rumor has it that Pence is humming "If I had a hammer."

Crazy World म्हणाले...

I have no doubt she has been exposed to far more toxins than the rona. Suck it up Kamala

Mr. Forward म्हणाले...

In case of 25th amendment break glass.

walter म्हणाले...

Give some dry erase markers...

Larry J म्हणाले...

The governor of California has now commanded that diners wear masks between bites while dining. There is no limit to the stupidity of hygiene theater.

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe!"
-- Attributed (probably falsely) to Albert Einstein

buwaya म्हणाले...

"I want Pence to say: "The power of Christ compels you!"

Unfortunately Pence is no longer Catholic.
I think its still only a Catholic superpower, that of driving out demons.

The Catholic Church, however, always bureaucratic spoilsports, have surrounded the process with all sorts of rules and procedures that make it difficult to exorcise things on the spot, in a timely manner.

Which is too bad, as there is a great and growing need for exorcisms.

RoseAnne म्हणाले...

After 3 months of working, in an office, with a plexiglass barrier, I would have said "no" as well because, while not soundproof, it does interfere with communication with others. I was maybe 8 feet from my nearest co-worker (also behind plexiglass) and we had to call each other to talk. We could also get up and walk over but standing on their side of the plexiglass defeated the purpose.

Blogger Yancey Ward said...
If I were Pence, I would bring with me one of those water dispensers you put in a hamster box, and hang it on the box.

10/6/20, 7:51 PM


Laughed out loud at that. Started my day with a smile.

MacMacConnell म्हणाले...

Pence changed his mind on plexiglass after watching a Harris interview from last spring while doing debate prep.

Interviewer: What's your take on this virulent disease?

Harris: My chlamydia infection is no one's business.

roesch/voltaire म्हणाले...

Plexiglass separation is common in stores and considering how reckless the White House has been in containing the spread of Covid in the West Wing,I think this is a reasonable request.

TrespassersW म्हणाले...

gadfly said...
If Mike Pence had been following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines,...

...he wouldn't be wearing a mask. Then he would be wearing a mask. He'd be social distancing at 6 feet. Then he'd be social distancing at more than 6 feet. He'd be getting a test if he'd been exposed to someone who has the 'rona. Then he would not be getting tested if he had been exposed. He would take precautions against airborne COVID transmission. Then he would stop taking precautions against airborne COVID transmission. Then he would resume taking precautions against airborne COVID transmission.

BECAUSE THE CDC KEEPS CHANGING THEIR GUIDELINES.

JAORE म्हणाले...

Look for a photo of the debate stage. The plexiglass shields scream virtue signalling.

RoseAnne म्हणाले...

Just saw pictures of the plexiglass for the VP debate.

I see why Pence changed his mind. Can't see it having any impact.

mikee म्हणाले...

I, for one, like my COVID virus demonstrably splattered on the plexiglas, which should be streaked and gritty, not shiny and new. Like the one at my local McDonald's drive-thru, which has somehow accumulated enough road grime to be only semi-translucent. Safety first!

Readering म्हणाले...

So publicity over plexiglass shields useful in further educating public on covid, including uselessness of the shields being employed at the debate.

Mark म्हणाले...

The idiotic Cone of Silence is always idiotic.

Unknown म्हणाले...

"if that lets her feel more comfortable"

When General Shoup (a Medal of Honor winner)took over as Commandant of the Marine Corps, he issued a directive that any Marine officer who needs a swagger stick may have one. They disappeared overnight.

madAsHell म्हणाले...

debate from a glass box

Those that debate from a glass box shouldn't throw stones.

walter म्हणाले...

roesch/voltaire said...Plexiglass separation is common in stores and considering how reckless the White House has been in containing the spread of Covid in the West Wing,I think this is a reasonable request.
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Yes, those are awesome. Typically there is no plexi where you ultimately use the card terminal and have your interaction with the cashier.
Regardless, the distance is a helluva lot closer than the debate and cashiers were never dropping like flies.
But you enjoy the theater of it.
I suggest Pence go up to it and level some choice Knock Knock jokes.