France Closes Border With UK As New COVID Strain Spreads In England | Talking Points Memo

You say tomato…

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This is absolutely horrible. I wonder how the new vaccine will fight this…or if it can.

It started before the gov’t ever mentioned it.

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No doubt Trump is working on a tweet designed to make life in Great Britain even more miserable than current conditions.

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I do, yes, and not infrequently.

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The only thing he cares about is punishing the country for the election and finding out if he is immune to the new strain. Nothing else matters.

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I wonder if he’s even aware there’s a new strain. Paying any attention to covid at all was just an election ploy for him and when it didn’t work out he basically dropped it for the most part. People are telling reporters he’s “over covid,” he had only so much attention to give it and it persisted beyond his ability to pay any more.

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A fun Festivus airing of grievances here.

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Max Boot WaPo

“I think he’s just done with covid,” one of Trump’s closest advisers told The Post. If only covid-19 were done with us. The only time Trump even mentions the pandemic anymore is to brag about the vaccine rollout, yet he has ignored pleas from his aides to tout the safety of the vaccine, push for a national testing plan…”

Exactly. The Trump inspired vaccine is the greatest thing that’s ever happened but no way he’s going to go public and promote Americans to get vaccinated.
He’s insane.

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For weeks, I don’t know what started it, the refrain from Beck’s song “Loser” has been playing in my brain every time I see Trump’s name. :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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I heard this morning that the only different with the new strain is that it is more contagious and spreads faster. The symptoms of those infected with it are the same, so the vaccine should be just as effective.

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He’s not insane. He’s just the incredibly petulant, greedy, selfish, lying, grifting con man he’s always been. And this utter POS without any brains, character, decency, honor, or compassion is what half the country LOVES.

I was reading that besides ALL of the European countries supporting their citizens with monthly stipends through this pandemic, Malaysia is as well. Malaysia. But not the U.S.

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WTF is it with people that are entering a store and literally stop IN THE DOORWAY to take a phone call, or dig in their purse for something, or have a conversation with the person they’re with? Full stop, no one gets in or leaves, Henrietta has nickels to find. And if you look at her, or say something, or make a motion indicating “Hey, I’d kinda like to go in there” you get the look. It says “You see these three square feet, right here under my feet, in the doorway? Well, they’re mine until I’m damn well ready to give them up, so piss off!”

WTF is that?

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Of course it’s a total coincidence that the countries hardest hit by covid just happen to be run by far-right authoritarians who are often quite corrupt or at least more than a little bit crazy. No connection whatsoever.

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Without a doubt, it’s the people on their phones, driving 5 MPH in a 35 zone. In the left lane. In their fucking gigantic SUVs.

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People die every year from bug spray, boredom and falling airplane toilet crap, so Dem hoax.

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Are you sure that such people do not exist simply to follow you around?

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For me it’s the people who start slowing down for a turn or stop sign 10 blocks before, and when at a stop sign, take 30 seconds to get moving “just in case”. I’ll take aggressive drivers over hyper-cautious slow-ass chickenshit drivers anyway.

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And who in the hell writes checks to buy ANYTHING?? Are you kidding me? Is that a checkbook you just got out? You don’t have a pen you say? Here, borrow mine. Let me shove it in your eye for you.

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Only when it is not snowing, or sleeting, or freezing raining.

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