Pompeo invites hundreds to indoor holiday parties.

[My Pet Orangutan]

Pompeo invites hundreds to indoor holiday parties after subordinates are warned against hosting ‘non-mission critical events’

Following a sharp spike in coronavirus cases across the country, State Department leadership sent out a notice to employees one week ago recommending that “any non-mission critical events” be changed to “virtual events as opposed to in-person gatherings.”

That same week, U.S. event planners were told that the guidance did not apply to the upcoming functions they were working on: large indoor holiday parties hosted by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife, Susan, on the eighth floor of the State Department involving hundreds of guests, food and drinks.
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Pompeo’s lineup of parties in the next three weeks comes as the Trump administration’s own health experts are imploring Americans to limit travel and avoid large gatherings amid a pandemic that has killed more than 270,000 Americans and infected nearly 14 million across the United States.

A copy of one invitation, obtained by The Washington Post, welcomes guests to a Dec. 15 event titled “Diplomacy at Home for the Holidays” in the Benjamin Franklin Room, the department’s flagship reception space, which features cut-glass chandeliers and towering Corinthian columns. Invitations have already gone out to 900 people, said two U.S. officials familiar with the planning, raising concerns about a potential superspreader event.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/pompeo-coronavirus-holiday-parties/2020/12/02/9a06d0a6-3421-11eb-afe6-e4dbee9689f8_story.html

[enough]

1. Just can't resist the desire to behave like celebrities with taxpayers' money.

Such a petty, petty grift.

[brooklynite]

5. No: lining up support for his 2024 Presidential run...

[enough]

10. That of course, with a dose of the other, given Mr. and Mrs. Pompeo's track record. NT

[Rhiannon12866]

14. So why risk killing off those most likely to support him?

[tanyev]

2. I cannot imagine avoiding Covid this long just to throw it all away,

weeks before a vaccine is available, to attend a Christmas party thrown by an administration that is circling the drain.

[Baclava]

3. 900 people? So only 50 or so get infected, take that home for the holidays, kids

[Mike 03]

4. Here is a link to images of the Benjamin Franklin Room

https://www.google.com/search?q=benjamin+franklin+room+state+department&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi3xsiIibLtAhUNRKwKHY3uD-EQ_AUoAXoECBIQAw&biw=1164&bih=796

[I_UndergroundPanther]

9. Love the red marble columns

[LudwigPastorius]

13. It's the most beautiful Petri dish in the world.

[Pachamama]

6. Spreading a lot more than Propaganda and Holiday Cheer....

Disgusting

[struggle4progress]

7. Influenza blues

[struggle4progress]

8. Don't stand so close to me

[BobTheSubgenius]

11. Nero fiddles while Rome burns.

JFC. Are these people the dumbest people ever to have such coverage. or are they completely unhinged?

[LudwigPastorius]

12. I've heard he's serving Salmon Mousse.

[Evolve Dammit]

15. I can't believe anyone would be so fucking stupid and career-hoping, but I guess they are there.

Anyone who wants to bring on "The Rapture" or agrees with Pompeo, Pence et al in this regard needs intervention, serious meds, counseling, 3 courses in ANY science subject(s), de-programming and a good dose of reality, whatever form that may take.