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I'm not saying Pelosi and Schumer should run again, but they are there now. And who will replace them? (Not AOC - she's too young and inexperienced as yet.)

But until there are credible replacements, and I think there are, they have the power. And I have no problem blaming Moscow Mitch for all the shit in the world.

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The criteria right now is for frontline health workers and republican elected officials get them first, because MAGA!

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Well I AM incensed and it's a damn good thing I'm not a medical professional tasked with giving these assholes their shots.

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It makes some sense but it also rewards bad behavior.

"Oh, you're gonna vaccinate super-spreaders first? Great, I don't even own a mask and I run around coughing and spitting on dozens of people every day. Gimme my shot!"

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Speaking as a person with numerous allergies - and since being allergic to one or more of the components is a deal-breaker - and since they won't tell us what the components are - I see it a little differently from most people. May the entitled jerks suffer all the allergic reactions - they are welcome to them by me.

Years of experience have taught me that as a rule doctors and even pharmacists may be whizzes at chemistry, but they have literally NO idea of where these chemical substances were extracted from. And it matters.

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After that bill it's now their job to find credible replacements.

Re distributing blame, McConnell got more accomplished as a minority leader than they did.

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And, for the record, she said she wasn't ready to lead in the same interview in which she said Pelosi and Schumer need to go.

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Ah, Marco, a tan? Wimp. You should really bear down and get skin cancer. I mean, where better to do that than Florida?

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There's a whole fuckton of stuff that doesn't belong in there, like the US position on the criteria for the appearance of the next Dalai Lama, a bunch of foreign policy stuff about Afganistan and eastern Europe, new rules about defining 3 year old race horses as a certain kind of property, etc.. It's more a slush fund of pet legislation than a stimulus bill.

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It would be hilarious, wouldn't it, if Cruz and AOC collaborated on unfucking the legislature?

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Their complete lack of leadership while 319,763 Americans died didn't cost them anything at the ballot box. Republicans even came just a few seats short of reclaiming the House of Representatives.

Yup, which is why if COVID19 destroys America...that's exactly what they deserve.

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Fuck Joni Ernst.

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Under normal circumstances I'd be OK with Federal government members being on the priority list. They're the people with the power to mobilise effective defenses against a pandemic - deliver financial support during lockdowns, close national borders, monitor national trends, mobilise the armed forces for logistic support etc. Under normal circumstances you need your Federal government on top of its game, not dying of the goddamn virus. It's important they get priority for vaccination.

Under normal circumstances.

But with these clots of fuck...

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The ingredients are listed at the FDA Website. Ingredient lists are shipped with all vaccines and are available from a doctor or hospital if you ask. They are not hiding the ingredients.

https://www.fda.gov/media/1... (Moderna, ingredients on page 2)

https://www.fda.gov/media/1... (Pfizer, ingredients on page 2)

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The ingredients are very simple; "extracted" is doing a lot of work here for "common crap you find in nature." The RNA lipids are synthesised in the lab. All the other ingredients are potassium salts (you can get those from ocean water), sodium salts (you can get that in your kitchen), and sucrose (you get that from sugar beets or sugar cane).

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There are far too many vaccine skeptics in the US. Showing prominent leaders getting the vaccine might reassure enough of them to make a difference in community outcomes.

Much as I despise these assholes, I'm OK with them getting vaccinated.

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