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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Wed Dec 30, 2020, 06:23 AM Dec 2020

'This Is No Time for Playing Politics': Mike Pence, on Ski Vacation, Defends Trump, on Golf Vacation [View all]

Over Biden’s Criticism of Slow Covid Vaccine Rollout

Vice President Mike Pence offered a public defense for his boss, President Donald Trump, over the increasingly alarming lack of progress in Covid inoculations of Americans, as both were spending their holidays at respective vacation spots.
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“Operation Warp Speed is on track to distribute 20 Million doses of Coronavirus Vaccine by next week,” Pence claimed. “Millions of Americans have been vaccinated and we are working with States every day to vaccinate millions more. This is no time for playing politics!”

[link:https://www.mediaite.com/news/this-is-no-time-for-playing-politics-mike-pence-on-ski-vacation-defends-trump-on-golf-vacation-over-bidens-criticism-of-slow-covid-vaccine-rollout/|]

Apart from the fact they having been playing politics with the pandemic since day one, do they have any idea how tone deaf they sound? Always amazing the framing of the mendacious - Republicans being bad at their jobs be like "not a time for playing politics" but any circumstances that put democrats in a bad light, even as they are invariably grounded in right wing media is always the best time to play politics for the righties, even as people go hungry and fall ill and die. The economic fallout of the pandemic, for the republic is one big game, so as Pence accuses Biden of playing politics with the Pandemic, Moscow Mitch be like...



Playing politics my arse.








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