Mon
Dec 14 2020
07:59 pm
By: bizgrrl
Biden/Harris confirmed by electoral college. Yeah, again.
William Barr resigns. Yeah.
Coronavirus vaccine is available to first groups in the U.S. YEAH!
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Vaccines
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is hoarding a big part of our first vaccine shipment in case this Covid thing gets serious. We may have to come up with a plan or something.
Heh. Wasn't sure who was
(in reply to fischbobber)
Heh.
Wasn't sure who was worse. FL Gov. Desantis suggested people might just take the first dose. He doesn’t think FL got enough.
Idiots!
Tennessean his
(in reply to fischbobber)
Tennessean
his administration defended its decision-making by saying there was no fair way to decide which hospital would receive the early shipment.
OMG! An administration with no decision making skills. Wow! Who elected him? Oh, yeah, never mind.
This is bad!!! (link...)
This is bad!!!
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I have a lot of hope we will
(in reply to JaHu)
I have a lot of hope we will survive the last 30 days of the current administration. Things like this take away some of that hope.
Biden should try to convince
Biden should try to convince Rachel Maddow to become his Press Secretary. She is highly intelligent and sharp witted. Only drawback I see is, she is so really needed for her news broadcasts.
When I saw this it made me so
When I saw this it made me so damn mad I threw my phone across the room.
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Republicans are concerned
Republicans are concerned about the nation's debt when stimulous money is offered to people who need it but not when it's given to corporations. It's puzzling that people who side with the Republican party can't see this? I guess they are just being sympathetic to the poor rich corporations who must deserve it more.
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