No Stimulus Deal Means Billions Missing From Vaccine Distribution | Talking Points Memo

President Trump’s decision to blow up talks over a relief package will deprive the COVID-19 vaccine distribution effort of billions of dollars in needed funds.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1336812

Vote the GOP out everywhere. It’s the only way to restore humanity and eliminate the insanity.

https://electoral-vote.com/

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No Stimulus Deal Means Billions Missing From Vaccine Distribution

I’m ok with this. President Ford’s 1976 election year swine flu rushed vaccine killed 30 times as many people as the virus did. 1976 swine flu outbreak - Wikipedia

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I guess we will find out on 11/3/2020 if being an ahole in the middle of a pandemic is good or bad politics.

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The QAnon nuts have it backwards. This is the satanic motherfucker right here. If I thought there were such a thing as hell, I’d want him to burn in it. Never has my TPM profile picture seemed more appropriate.

On a personal level, I feel like shit and I’m going to get tested Thursday. I hope it’s just a cold.

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Pelosi has all of the leverage. Trump and McConnell face massive defeat in November, and a stimulus package, including billions for vaccine distribution, are key to any GOP chance of staying in power.

Are they just giving up? Or do they plan on Barr/DHS/Russia blatantly stealing the election? Or are Trump and Moscow Mitch so jaw droppingly incompetent they don’t see how this move seals the nails on their political coffins? Or do they plan to cave and pretend this is a victory for the Trump regime? Anyone here have any theories on what the motivations are?

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And once again, our idiot-child “president,” now flying sky-high on steroids, throws a monkey wrench into any plan for the well being of the American People. How can anyone even consider voting for this mother-fucker?

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They’ve given up on winning the election, clearly. All they care about is ramming through Barrett, and everything and everyone else can go to hell.

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drump doesn’t care, he just wants people to think the vaccine is just around the corner, he doesn’t actually have to back it up.

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Donald Trump is abrogating his duty to protect the American people. He is inhuman. His campaign for re-election takes precedence over the welfare of citizens?? WTF??? I loathe him!!

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So this week Trump has personally hurt his WH staff, his secret service agents, Senate Republicans and other at his SCOTUS wet market, his donors at Bedminister, and now, Wall Street, and some millions of unemployed and/or struggling Trump voters. I don’t know who he’s going to try to hurt next, but I doubt he’s done. A winning strategy!

I do know who he won’t try to hurt, though. His ideal, his dream: Vlad the manly man.

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It is all about image.

Trump is a reality TV star and “reality TV” has little to do with actual reality.

That is Trump is betting on projecting an image of confidence and strength is more important than actually being confident and strong and will obscure the fact that he has no clue as to what he is doing or even what to do.

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The strategy is crystal clear: If I can’t win reelection, I’m going to kill as many Americans as possible. He’s hideously vile.

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Trump is such a fool. He doesn’t have the capacity to weigh the effects of anything.

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:crossed_fingers::crossed_fingers::crossed_fingers:

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I concur.

McConnell is either going to lose or retire post-election so is trying to cement his legacy through one last high court seat.

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NOW is the time for the weenies in the Republican Party to stand the fk UP and tell Trump they are a co-equal branch of the government and help the people that elected them.

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The electoral equivalent of “Nuke the site from orbit.”

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Very bigly smart galaxy-brain thinking to hand Democrats a reason to kill the filibuster on a silver platter, though.

Or maybe it’s a yuuuge, classy, very strong and powerful gold platter.

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Florida has extended voter registration until 7PM tonight, October 6th because of yesterday’s website failure.

Arizona has also extended voter registration until October 23rd (it was supposed to end yesterday)

My source:

https://twitter.com/weinsteinlaw/status/1313516750475087873?s=21

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