How Trump Left The Country With No Real Vaccine Distribution Plan | Talking Points Memo

Millions of Americans would be getting vaccinated by early 2021, bringing the COVID-19 pandemic to its final end, the Operation Warp Speed official promised.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1356087

…and WHY???…

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Many people are saying that the extended Saudi Royal Family has been vaccinated as well as Kim Jon Un. :thinking:

Becuz Jared…

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How Trump Left The Country

Boy, I had really hoped this lede was going to go in a totally different direction…

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He simply didn’t care.

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That’s exactly what I saw at first as well. Sad.

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Epitaph to a failed presidency.

But this misses the most important part that is bigger than Trump, Republicans and not just Trump stink at governing.

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Perhaps because the focus was on the 27 billion and how to get a portion of that in the right pockets. Takes a lot of planning and creativity.

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I am assuming that it may be even worse than that…and a testiment as to what we have to confront in these United States and the propaganda that made it so.

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BREAKING not the NEWS!!!

WASHINGTON —A newly unchained Dr. Anthony Fauci stunned the White House press corps on Friday when he recited the entire periodic table of elements at a coronavirus briefing.

Without warning, the esteemed virologist named all of the hundred and eighteen chemical elements on the table, starting with hydrogen and ending with oganesson, along with their abbreviations and atomic numbers.

“That felt amazing!” Fauci exclaimed, visibly throbbing with excitement. “Now let’s do it backward!”

According to White House sources, Fauci’s realization that he can now speak freely about science has resulted in several such outbursts since the Inauguration, including during a vaccination-strategy meeting, when he began explaining the theory of relativity.

“He went to the whiteboard and started scrawling these insanely long equations,” a White House staffer said. “It was like he was possessed.”

Another staffer agreed. “It’s great having Tony fully engaged, but he’s got to dial it back a little,” the staffer said. “Right now, it’s kind of like having Bill Nye the Science Guy in the room.”

For his part, Fauci acknowledged that he has not yet fully adjusted to his recent liberation. “Don’t worry—after a day or two I’ll calm down,” he said. “Hey, do you want to hear the first hundred digits of pi?”

You should have guessed it! :smiley: :laughing: :sweat_smile:

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The Biden administration is now confronted with a serious problem: how to pick up the pieces and build a new, federally managed vaccination effort starting, virtually, from scratch.

On the plus side, frequently you can move faster and better when implementing something new, as opposed to trying to fix some horribly broken system that despite its issues still has people invested in its existence.

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bingo

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Did he simply learn “The Elements Song” by Tom Lehrer?

Either way that’s cool.

EDIT: I’ve been Borowitzed!

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You expected different? Following his “within two weeks” health care plan, how could anybody consider anything Trump said other than bullshit?

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Because Trump
Because GOP
Because FreeDumb
Because ignorance, inhumanity, and greed

But I repeat myself.

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He doesn’t want competency when he hires but “yes” folks. Plus when the vaccine didn’t come by Election Day, he lost interest.

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All Trump cared about was being able to take credit for the actual vaccines. It was all immediate gratification for himself. Trump and his minions did not care about the long term goal of herd immunity through vaccination. He is incapable of any long term strategy. And here we are.

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Republicans always shit the bed on the way out the door.

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Also, a hearty fuck you to Sam Stein for smarmily tweeting that Biden’s people were lying and there was a plan based on a document about things they might do to put together a plan if they were inclined to have a plan which Stein called a plan.

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Yeah, but did he set it to a Gilbert & Sullivan song? :slight_smile:

ETA: And I’ve been @teenlaqueefa 'ed!

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