My bet is there was never as much vaccine available as they said there was. It's just more cruelty for the sake of cruelty. They fucking lie about everything and Trump's months long temper tantrum that his rigged election didn't work to keep him in the White House is going to get more and more psychotic. What's nearly 320,000 dead when you can have half a million by inauguration day? What's half a million when you can have millions by the time the country is fully vaccinated? Oh and what's tens of millions when you've convinced 74 million people that COVID is no big deal no matter how many dead bodies pile up around you? Trump is no different than a serial killer or a mass murderer. He is pathologically psychotic and all of the damage done to this country is 100% justifiable in his mind because he has never been denied what he wanted when he wanted it, ever.

trumpf "... has never been denied what he wanted when he wanted it, ever."

... other than Parental Love but
well that's just Inherited *Wealth for ya
shall we continue to let it destroy America?

*Massive
back in the day
till he gambled it all away
America's biggest LOSER
we'll be Paying for this Clown
for GENERATIONS. thnx Republicans

I was wrong, the vaccine is there, Trump is just hoarding it. The cruelty is the point.

Millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are languishing in warehouses awaiting shipment instructions from the Trump administration — even as states are clamoring for them — vaccine manufacturer Pzifer said in a statement Thursday.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pfizer-warehouse-doses-trump-administration_n_5fdbe0c4c5b6094c0ff08c4a

redux
other than Parental Love but hey
well that's just Inherited *Wealth for ya
shall we continue to let it destroy America?

Massive*
back in the day
till he gambled it all away
America's biggest LOSER
we let him Burn it Down we'll be
Paying for this Clown for GENERATIONS

thnx, Republicans!

3

“First, they [Fake ‘prez’] said covid was no big deal… “
yep. it’ll all go away
Magically
the trumpfster tole US

“masks were unnecessary… “
til Science said they Were Necessary
but dipshite Fake 'prez' what-was-‘is-name?
Hoarded them for psychopantic Repub Govs
But Front Line Workers need them Most so don’t
waste ‘em selfishly fools. and that was their Final Straw.

“no need for social distancing… “
Gosh – Love how you tossed that one in
kudos

“now the vaccine is useless.”
‘cause trumpfy’s Cultists
have claimed it so
and now you do
too.

“And millions in this country agree.”
Nearly 73 millions have
Drunk the Kool Aide
Jim Jones gotta be
Rockin and a Rollin
In his sad tomb
a Million Dead
well done
Adios.

Vaccines literally sitting on freezer shelves.

MILLIONS of vaccines ready to go, but Trump has a hissy fit that we're not Praising Him for it, so he refuses to ship it to the states. Red States. Blue States.

START YELLING AT THE WHITE HOUSE!

Oh for God's sake. Clear the stupid park, and demolish that house before they set it on fire.

Oh, and police OT: The mob that took over Capitol Hill and trashed downtown pretty much assured that the cops were going to have a Merry Christmas this year. That dumb bit of theatre that the council performed (covering the OT, but saying that they were definitely going to take it out of next year's budget!) shouldn't fool anyone. The more violence, the more money for the cops, the less money for services.

Police reform (not the dumb "defunding" meme) starts with the contract, and until the city comes to the table with a baseball bat, nothing's going to change.

And yes, I'm in a mood this morning. We had run out of coffee, and I had to drive in the dark! Old people don't like to drive in the dark!

@9 - I thought the same, but then I decided Tucker Carlson IS a dildo...coated in broken glass.

Atmospheric rivers give me a feeling of dread. I hate their unsettlingly tropical temperatures and humidity. I hate the extremity of going from the unnaturally dry first week of the month to normal-seeming northwesterly winter storms to a surfeit of sub-tropical moisture, all in a few weeks. Abnormal is the new normal.

@14: Why didn't you send Mr. Vel-DuRay to get the coffee?

@14, you’re not old Catalina, you’re just well seasoned.

ESD raised their estimates of fraudulent claims another 40%+ and still nobody at ESD has been held accountable and months into this and they STILL don't know how much money they lost.
Fire Levine.

I tried to dig some more about the CDC cutting vaccine distributions but no other news sites are reporting on it. The only source for that information is a tweet from inslee, and it's disputed by a spokesperson from the DHHS. I'm harboring some doubts about the credibility of this information.

Clear the park, but they'll all be back tomorrow.

Raindrop dear, Mr. Vel-DuRay is retired. He sleeps in. I'm up at 5am every morning, and it's my duty to have fresh hot coffee for my husband when he arises. It's in the Bible (book of Carla, 24:14)

Catalina, I know you are really a man. If you want to be a woman that's ok by me.

By the way, the city hasn't and doesn't provide a Housing First program to actually solve the homeless issue so they are wasting monies on cops and brutal sweeps.. Be thankful you have a roof over your head and are not out there in the rain like they are.
Do you really need to demonize the protesters and the homeless, do you? I thought better of you. So I am very disappointed in you.

Catalina, you are sounding like a trumper now. Come on.

Come on yourself, Ivy Dear. You can either be part of the Perpetual Anger Brigade (on either side of the political spectrum) or you can be a pragmatist and look for solutions.

You want police reform? (I won't call it "defunding". I refuse to do the conservative's work for them). It starts on the street, but it moves very quickly to the contract. The police reform movement has captured the attention and support of the citizens. There's no need to keep enriching the cops by demonstrations, and letting the movement be discredited by Agent Provocateurs (as we have seen in many American cities this last year). That trick is as old as the hills, and the left falls for it every single time.

Until the contract is fixed, the movement will go nowhere. And now is the perfect time to work on the contract, for it expires on December 31 and I don't think they have a new one yet. If they do, it will expire in three years. The pressure should fall on the city government, for it has a well-earned reputation for letting the unions walk all over them, because the politicians somehow still think that Seattle is a union city.

(As a union member myself, I support labor, but I've seen how the city knuckles under on frankly stupid stuff that is not in the citizen's best interest. Ironically, when Seattle really was a union town, the city was much more likely to play hardball with the unions - except for SPOG, which has always gotten a pass, and continues to get a pass, no matter how many glamour fits CM Sawant and her ilk throw. They get a lot more press out denouncing the status quo then supporting real reform)

If I were the city, I would begin the negotiations from a baseline of no raises, no new benefits, and more expensive healthcare, and refuse to budge from that until the rank-and-file got sufficiently frustrated with SPOG and revolted against their leadership. The city doesn't really need an active police contract. They can't go out on strike, and have very few tools other than stuff like work slowdowns and calling in sick, which costs the members.

As for "housing first", that's a fine idea, but it has to have some structure to it, don't you think? As I said in another post, we need to realize that the homeless are not homogenous. Some have addiction problems, some have mental health problems, some of them are the working poor (although in my experience, a lot them are either living in their cars or couch surfing, not occupying parks, because it's hard to hold a job if you live in filth). We need some sort of way of determining who needs to be in a facility versus a group home versus an apartment, and we need a plan to provide those facilities in the right number.

And I'm very serious about forcing developers and property owners to demolish boarded up buildings that they are sitting on, rather then letting them be "occupied" or squatted in. It's too dangerous for first responders and the surrounding neighbors. If we want to make it a law that they have to keep them available as housing until the permits are ready, that's fine as well.

I have lived in Seattle for more than thirty years, and have been around the city since the 1970's. We didn't get in the homeless situation we are in overnight. Part of it is the unexpected consequences of the things like the legislation resulting from the Ozark Hotel fire and the Growth Management Act (the former eliminated a lot of the non-governmental low income housing in town, the latter made land more valuable by limiting sprawl), part of it is Republicans policies on the federal level, particularly when it comes to veterans, taxation, mental health care and the "war on drugs", some of it is our regressive tax policies on the state level, and some of it is because of our unprecedented prosperity coming on the heels of the long malaise caused by The Boeing Bust. Seattle used to be a middle-class town, then suddenly money started pouring in due to the innovations that were being developed here.

Bottom line is this: What we're doing is not working for anybody, and we need to find a new way - for policing, housing, taxation, healthcare, etc. But a lot of that is outside of our control.

And yes, Ivy. I am a man. Anyone who has paid any attention to my posts through the years knows that I'm a man. My avatar is a mannequin (you'd be surprised at how many people don't figure that out). I do channel her from time to time, as she is the one who tempers my posts.

@24 - thank you for a sensible analysis of the homeless issue. That's been in very short supply around here.