After he left Mayo
Ahhhhh no.
Yellow undershirt sets up the question for her and Pence says “That’s a great question and I’m glad you asked me.” Yes of course she is: she gets the opportunity to tell a lie about why her arrogant pig of a husband breathed all over everyone he approached at the Mayo Clinic.
And no, it was not after he left the Mayo Clinic that he found out about their mandatory mask policy.
Look, it’s about hierarchy. Pence is the vice-dictator and the Mayo Clinic is just some medical-type place thingy that Pence was doing the great favor of visiting. It’s Pence who gets to tell the Mayo Clinic what to do, not the other way around. Respect authority!
Does he really KNOW he doesn’t have it? I know he was tested, but that was a couple of weeks ago. How recently has he been tested? Since he appears to be doing a lousy job of social distancing, and since it is not immediately symptomatic, it seems unlikely he could know with any certainty he doesn’t have it. Unless GOD told him? (His imaginary friend. How sweet.)
From RawStory:
The office of Mike Pence has reportedly threatened to ban a reporter for Voice of America radio for reporting on embarrassing details about the VP refusing to abide by the Mayo Clinic’s rules requiring masks.
“Vice President Pence’s office has threatened to retaliate against a reporter who revealed that Pence’s office had told journalists they would need masks for Pence’s visit to the Mayo Clinic — a requirement Pence himself did not follow,” The Washington Post reported Thursday.
“Pence’s wife, Karen Pence, said in an interview with Fox News on Thursday that he was unaware of the mask policy until his visit was over,” the newspaper reported. “But Steve Herman, who covers the White House for Voice of America, suggested that there was more to the story after Karen Pence’s interview.”
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The wife was obviously lying. Pence himself had said he wanted to be without a mask so that he could look people in the eye and say thank you, things that are perfectly manageable while wearing a mask. No, he wanted to look good, manly, confident, etc for the cameras, everybody else cowering behind masks except me! – the fellow’s as much a preening narcissist as is his master.
I remember the photograph of Pence attempting to look manly & heroic for the cameras as he gazed beyond the border between South & North Korea. Diawl! What a pitifully bad actor.
This is the key – not weak, like James Stewart. Not an intellectual effete girly man. He is John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Rambo, and the Terminator all rolled into one manly package. Doesn’t need a mask because the virus will know better than to mess with him, or with anybody else while he is in the room.
That last is probably superficially true as long as he stays out of rooms where people are in the last stages of the disease, since it doesn’t kill you instantly, Proof that being in the same room with Mike Pence is good for you, because none of the patients/doctors/nurses/journalists/assorted other individuals died while he was in the room.