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).
October 6, 2020
"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).
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Pence should agree to debate Harris upside down in a plexiglass tank like Tony Curtis in Houdini.
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.
Cowering in fear is so...wimpish.
Stupid bubble people pedaling their fear.
People who support democrats are just stupid people.
put her in a political penalty booth
Is she worried that the plexiglass is going to keep her from sucking a dick?
The funniest thing is watching Biden- with no mask- complaining at a town hall last night about Trump not wearing a mask.
Most women think that plexiglass is wise, just and prudent.
Bring back the "cone of silence" for Kamala. Win-win
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Trump Flu.
She'll look ridiculous in a plastic box if Pence is just standing there. I might actually watch then.
It's not needed if they don't let Antifa/BLM contingent in.
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.
Husband of his communications chief has tested positive.
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.
"upside down"
It is a bat flu.
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.
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.
Plexiglass? The Spanxs weren't enough??
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.
The guy Lindsey Graham is running against did this and libtard Twitter thought it was the most brilliant thing ever.
To be sure.....the comment about the hologram projection booth was sarcasm.
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.
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.
That will make a really good visual- so I encourage her to debate from a glass box.
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?
Yeah, that Cone of Silence idea,
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHxAp14XsAAgG-N.jpg
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.
Kamala hits the plexiglass ceiling.
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.
Well played, Mr VP.
You know who else appeared in a Glass Booth?
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.
He should insist she wear the mask Hannibal Lecter had to wear in The Silence of the Lambs, to keep her from sucking dick.
"...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.
Lexan is more flexible than Plexiglas.
All these positives. Anybody actually sick?
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!
Let her wear hazmat suit. It's all political theater anyway.
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.
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
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.
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.
Will Harris's box have a glory hole?
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.
The plexiglass shield would also solve the Pence Rule problem.
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.
I think both Pence and Harris will be sitting down.
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.
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.
Pence is pretty class. Can't see him hocking loogies across the room.
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."
I have no doubt she has been exposed to far more toxins than the rona. Suck it up Kamala
In case of 25th amendment break glass.
Give some dry erase markers...
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
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Look for a photo of the debate stage. The plexiglass shields scream virtue signalling.
Just saw pictures of the plexiglass for the VP debate.
I see why Pence changed his mind. Can't see it having any impact.
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!
So publicity over plexiglass shields useful in further educating public on covid, including uselessness of the shields being employed at the debate.
The idiotic Cone of Silence is always idiotic.
"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.
debate from a glass box
Those that debate from a glass box shouldn't throw stones.
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.
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