Biden Rips Trump Admin For ‘Falling Behind’ On Vaccine Rollout Amid COVID Surge | Talking Points Memo

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday took aim at the Trump administration for “falling behind” on vaccine distribution as the country reels from more than 330,000 deaths from COVID-19 thus far.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1351412

This is good politics from Joe. The reality is that we’re not going to be able to get the vaccine rolled out to enough of the population until May/June b/c of Trump’s poor planning. Starting in late Jan with no help or competence from the prior administration really delays the projected timeline. Israel, for all of Bibi’s flaws, is rocking it on vaccine roll out. Of course, Bibi will make sure most Israelis are vaccinated before they vote in a couple of months. You can’t say that man doesn’t understand politics.

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OT Apparently Melania has been applying her same legendary bad taste to Mar-a-Lago as she did to the White House. Trump upset.

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I wonder how many Republican House members had a little chat with their state’s governor over the holiday? I mean I keep hear Trumpers complain about bailing out states and cities like states and cities all have a budget item marked funds for the next global pandemic, DO NOT TOUCH!

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”400,000 deaths before the end of Trump’s term next month.”

Have we reached the point where Trump starts blaring the song “Downtown” yet?

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Please don’t forget that Israel is 44, 726% smaller than the US. That gonna help them get their population vaccinated faster than us.

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More, please…

The truth is out there. Somewhere. Just not in the Trump Files.

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Oh Joe, it isn’t as if we expected this to go smoothly, after all nothing else has. The GOP only know how to disrupt,it does not know how to govern, it really comes down to that.

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Bibi has messed up a lot of things. They’re on their 3rd lockdown, but he knows he can clean all of his sins if he rolls that vaccine out like Sony rolling out the next playstation.

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They’re gonna need a bigger RV.

And this would be Fat Nixon’s song of choice…

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Based on that article, it may be that he’s angry at the “lack of parties, events, and fundraisers” which might just be a predictor of the lack of influence he’s sure to face in three weeks.

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Oh, then he’s totally fucked.

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It was the “white marble and an abundance of dark wood” that sent him over the edge (that is, if there is an edge he hasn’t already gone over). Simply not Dictator Chic enough for his “taste.”

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Its Arab citizens, not so much.

And Palestinians? Pfft.

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I said to my wife weeks ago that my suspicion is that there was never a detailed distribution plan.

Ta-da … no plan.

Perhaps a look-back to the Salk-Sabin oral polio vaccine would help.

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I realize this is off topic, but I saw this today and still can’t figure out why the WH needs to “proclaim December 29, 2020 as the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket”. It’s the 850th anniversary, whether Trump proclaims it or not. I’m also pretty sure that he would have been more sympathetic with Henry II than Becket, regardless of the twaddle about religious freedom.

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Part of the problem.

The United States, despite having the world’s highest number of documented infections, has a weak track record in publishing genomic sequences, the process that enables researchers to track changes in the virus. Most sequences have been published by academic or private research institutions. By contrast, the United Kingdom has a national health system with a robust surveillance system.

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Or “Don’t sleep in the subway”

:notes:You try to be smart, then you take it to heart
'Cause it hurts when your ego is deflated
You don’t realize that it’s all compromise
And the problems are so overrated

Goodbye means nothing when it’s all for show
So why pretend you’ve somewhere else to go

Don’t sleep in the subway, darlin’, don’t stand in the… :notes:

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Anyone else seeing this?
Kyle Griffin on Twitter: “Breaking WaPo: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has retained forensic accounting specialists to aid its criminal investigation of Trump and his business operations, as prosecutors ramp up their scrutiny of his company’s real estate transactions. https://t.co/iDTDzO547N” / Twitter

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Moving on him like a Bitch!

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