The incoming Biden administration needs information on the COVID-19 pandemic, including the “all-important issue of vaccine distribution,” from federal agencies in order to prepare to take office, President-elect Joe Biden told reporters on Thursday.
Glad to hear that they are starting to put Fat Nixon’s fat derriere on the fiery Weber grill. Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle.
One minor point, they have to have that plan to actually share.
Their dog might have ate it.
And half the country has said “fuck ideas, plans and leadership, we want more of the gormless, unhinged, incompetent, directionless, malignant, narcissistic, orange smegmaweasel!!”
It’s still a bit amazing that we’re having this nightmare of a transition…with a clear election result you’d think that everyone would be onboard aside from some who just don’t want to give up. That’s how every election has been, even in 2000 (and the really awful SC decision) people moved on after the result was clear.
And yet, here we are, with a Republican party that refuses to bow to the reality being led by a madman who is trying to undermine our democracy. And, if he can’t get his way and stay in office, he’s going to light the nation on fire with thousands of dead Americans and a raging virus infection. It should be unimaginable that we’d be here, that major political figures would be working to undermine the election result, openly and unabashedly, and that an entire political party that prides itself on its patriotism is standing by and applauding the deceit.
Things get worse from here too…it’s now obvious that the Republican party is being controlled by its white supremacist base, and that base demands nothing less than the overthrow of our democracy to install their Christian theocracy with whites in power (and white males running everything). It really is a religious war to them, and in war everything is fair…and they aren’t going away or dying fast enough to make the nation turn towards diversity and democracy fast enough. It will take immense effort by the rest of Americans to turn the tide, and it’s not really clear to me that we have it in us, too many aren’t willing to fight as hard or get stuck on minor things when the fate of the nation is on the line.
I was hoping to watch the nation march towards freedom and equality after Obama was elected…now I wonder if I’ll see a truly diverse, just America before my life is over.
Oh, I do hope they take Ms. Murphy to court over her malfeasance (misfeasance?), er, failure to do her damned job.
I’m just now thinking that Trump and his enablers/sycophants are holding back because they don’t want to share the credit for a successful vaccine, including distribution, etc. That’s bad enough as it is.
But we also know that the states are simply not prepared to distribute a vaccine that has to be kept at dry-ice temperatures because they are broke and don’t have the personnel to do it. So the federal government really has to be ready to step in. This point might give the Biden folks some leverage because they really can tell these clowns that if vaccine distribution turns out to be a clusterfuck, as it is really looking at this stage, they will get the blame.
That just proves there’s a conspiracy!!!1!!1!!!1one!!!eleventy!~!!1
Biden added that the transition team “hadn’t ruled out” legal action against General Services Administration chief Emily Murphy, who is responsible for recognizing Biden’s victory and allowing federal agencies to begin sharing information with his team.
Any reason that anyone can discern for not taking her to court a week ago? She’s clearly a GOP hack whose future will be destroyed by Trump if she voluntarily does her job, so unless Biden is happy to set the precedent that the GOP can break the law and not cooperate with incoming Democrats, he’d better get his legal team on board now or he will simply not receive the benefit of a transition, period. This isn’t hard.
Unlike you, the Biden team is careful not to go off half-cocked and give Trump ammunition to use for the GA runoffs.
We have two Senate seats to win, and no one with a political brain is going to rock the boat before it gets to shore.
I try to console myself with the knowledge that it’s technically only 25% of the country (70 million out of 330 million). But then I’m taken aback anew when I think, “Egads! It’s nearly half of all voters.”
Biden needs to sue Emily Murphy personally and in her official job, and ask for immediate injunctive relief so he goes to court immediately. Make it personal and potentially really expense.
Lean on these motherfuckers, Joe – legally, but especially in the court of public opinion. The time for being a nice guy and gracious winner is over. People are dying by the thousands every week, and soon every day.
You think that Democrats going to court to ensure that GOP doesn’t scupper the transition will… make Democrats less popular?
As I said yesterday it could be they’re destroying evidence
YEP !
“Trump and his allies are now 1-31 in post-election litigation.”
"“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Pelosi and Schumer are heading to DE tomorrow to meet with Biden. Biden can deal w the gopotus, but I hope he gets them to go after McConnell hard.
Yeah. That’s what I meant.
I suspect Trump’s inclination is to burn all of the data, have everyone at the CDC shot and then torch the White House on the way out. Time will tell how much of that he actually gets done in the next two months.