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turbinetree's JournalTrump is forcing workers to go back to meat plants despite outbreaks
By Dan Desai Martin -April 29, 2020 10:40 AM
Republican officials begged Donald Trump to use his authority to keep plants open during a health crisis.
Donald Trump signed an executive order to define meat processing as critical infrastructure after two of the largest pork processing plants in the country suspended operations due to the coronavirus crisis, the Associated Press reported Tuesday night.
Trump will use the powers of the Defense Production Act to force production plants to remain open, despite the safety risks to meatpacking plant workers, to ensure there is chicken, pork, and other meats at grocery stores during the crisis.
When speaking to reporters earlier on Tuesday about the executive order, Trump did not say what, if any, additional protections would be offered to workers.
Unions immediately slammed the decision, saying it's prioritizing meat over people's lives.
https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-coronavirus-meat-workers-pork-critical-infrastructure-covid-19/
Hey Sen Mike Rounds, if your fucking kid was in that plant what would you fucking say.................fucking chickenshit asshole...........
Dr. Ashish Jha: We Must 'Gear Up' For A Resurgence Of COVID-19 In The Fall
?list=PLDIVi-vBsOEygID4uPKD-GL39WY-tEDyp6 GOP lawmakers who say blue states shouldn't get federal help for virus
By Emily Singer -April 29, 2020 10:10 AM
All of these politicians come from states that take more federal taxes than they pay in.
The chorus of Republican lawmakers who say they will refuse to support giving aid to Democratic-controlled states struggling with the economic fallout from the coronavirus is growing.
"Why should the people and taxpayers of America be bailing out poorly run states (like Illinois, as example) and cities, in all cases Democrat run and managed, when most of the other states are not looking for bailout help?" Trump tweeted on Monday. "I am open to discussing anything, but just asking?"
However, the blue states facing the worst coronavirus outbreaks and the biggest budget shortfalls — like New York and New Jersey — pay more in federal tax dollars than they get out, according to data from a Rockefeller Institute of Government study.
New York has the biggest deficit in the amount of federal tax dollars it pays compared to federal tax dollars it receives, the Rockefeller study found. New York pays $256 billion in federal taxes and receives $220.6 billion back — a deficit of more than $35 billion.
https://americanindependent.com/gop-coronavirus-relief-blue-states-mitch-mconnell-matt-gaetz-covid-19/
Looks like #Moscow Mitch doesn't brush his teeth.......and doesn't have enough taxpayer money to afford toothpaste...........
McConnell: No more relief funds unless we stop workers from suing if they get sick
By Oliver Willis -April 28, 2020 6:01 PM
Mitch McConnell said the Senate would draw a 'red line' against virus relief legislation unless it protects businesses.
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he will not pass any further coronavirus relief unless workers are prevented from suing employers if they get sick on the job.
Speaking to Fox News' Neil Cavuto, McConnell said such an anti-worker provision is a "red line" for the Senate and that no legislation will pass without it. On Monday, McConnell described "liability protections" for employers as an "urgent need" that should be a part of any additional legislation.
Donald Trump has called for backed such provisions as well.
"We have tried to take liability away from these companies," Trump said last week. He claimed that stripping the right to sue from workers is necessary because "we want the companies to open and to open strong."
https://americanindependent.com/mitch-mcconnell-coronavirus-relief-worker-protections-liability-lawsuits-gop-senate-covid-19/
And this libertarian asshole "dark artist fucking Sith Lord".................there "fucking dark artist president " signed an executive order on this fucking shit for the meat packing plants.......see the pattern.............. 
Democrats' Senate majority odds boosted amid outbreak, Trump's uneven response
Source: Reuters
POLITICS APRIL 28, 2020 / 1:59 PM / UPDATED 13 MINUTES AGO
(Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Steve Daines has been airing a television advertisement in Montana touting his efforts to protect his state’s residents from the novel coronavirus.
But his likely Democratic opponent, popular two-term Governor Steve Bullock, is dominating local news as the face of Montana’s fight to contain the outbreak, boosting his profile as his party fights to win control of the Senate in November.
That national battle is now a dead heat. Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the 100-seat chamber, and most analysts remained convinced throughout 2019 that Republicans had a small but significant advantage in this year’s elections.
Democrats’ chances have improved thanks to high-profile recruits like Bullock, a rash of impressive fundraising, Joe Biden’s triumph in the party’s presidential nominating contest and a public health crisis that has decimated the U.S. economy once touted by Republican President Donald Trump, according to strategists from both parties and independent analysts.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-election-senate-an/democrats-senate-majority-odds-boosted-amid-outbreak-trumps-uneven-response-idUSKCN22A2ZM?il=0
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This election is if you support someone that wants to keep you alive or if someone that wants to kill you based on there libertarian values.........
Lockdowns Didn't Flatten The Curve, Tucker Carlson Muses, COVID-19 Just Isn't That Deadly
By Matt Shuham
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April 28, 2020 10:39 a.m.
The novel coronavirus just isn’t so deadly! That’s the conclusion Fox News host Tucker Carlson came to in a monologue Tuesday night.
It’s not that social distancing and enforced business closures have slowed the virus, Carlson said — COVID-19 just isn’t as bad as public health officials say it is.
“You may remember what they first told us back in February and March,” Carlson told viewers. “They said, we have to take radical steps in order to, quote, ‘flatten the curve.’ Well, six weeks later, we’re happy to say that curve has been flattened, but it’s likely not because of the lockdowns. The virus just isn’t nearly as deadly as we thought it was.”
Carlson didn’t provide much in the way of evidence.
Introducing his argument, the Fox News host cited a recent news conference from a pair of California doctors and urgent care clinic owners who concluded — based on testing numbers at their clinics and the state’s relatively low number of deaths — that the threat of COVID-19 had been over-hyped.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/lockdowns-didnt-flatten-the-curve-tucker-carlson-muses-covid-19-just-isnt-that-deadly
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“As owners of local urgent care clinics, it appears these two individuals are releasing biased, non-peer reviewed data to advance their personal financial interests without regard for the public’s health,” the organizations said in a statement.
Carlson, criticizing the assumptions of political leaders, nonetheless made a few whoppers himself.
“Our national quarantine hasn’t worked in the way they told it would,” he said at one point Monday. “But you’d never know that from listening to the people in charge.”
And as an added caveat Tucks.................may I call you Tucks, not the stuff you put on your ass for hemorrhoids..............isn't your organization in a lawsuit for spreading misinformation like you did ...............you quite didn't add this part of information on your show..........or the simple fact there Tucks, that your lunatic orange hair asshole couldn't have been bothered to read the PDB........ and in what way did your right wing party standing at a podium do to help the public..............Oh, I know, they take gloves and masks and then sell them to the highest state bidder..........you POS................ 
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"Left unsaid by Carlson: The doctors have been “emphatically condemn[ed]” by the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine for their “reckless and untested musings” that are inconsistent with established epidemiology regarding COVID-19."
DOJ: Congress Can't Sue If Prez Orders Treasury To Pay For Everyone's Health Care
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Tierney Sneed
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April 28, 2020 10:52 a.m.
U.S. appellate judge Merrick Garland pushed the Justice Department to the logical extremes of its defense of President Trump by getting a DOJ lawyer to say that Congress couldn’t sue if an administration on its own decided to pay for uninsured people’s health care.
The hypothetical came up in the oral arguments for two blockbuster cases in the ongoing war between Trump and the Democratic House. The cases were argued together Tuesday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Garland’s questions appeared particularly geared to the House’s lawsuit seeking to block the administration from using national emergency powers to pay for the border wall Congress refused to fund.
The Justice Department is arguing that Congress cannot use lawsuits to resolve spending disputes it has with the executive branch, an argument that a Trump-appointed district court judge previously backed.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj-congress-cant-sue-if-prez-orders-treasury-to-pays-for-everyones-health-care
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For more than a year, the House Judiciary Committee has been seeking the testimony of the former White House Counsel, who featured prominently in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. The committee filed a lawsuit in July seeking a court order enforcing the April 2019 subpoena. A federal judge backed the House last fall, but her decision was reversed earlier this year in a 2-1 appeals court decision.
That decision, handed down by two GOP appointees, said that courts did not have the authority to resolve subpoena disputes between the executive and legislative branches, a stunning blow to Congress’ ability to perform government oversight — not just this administration, but administrations in the future.
Democratic-appointees make up a majority of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Trump’s two appointees on the powerful court have both recused themselves from Tuesday’s arguments, presumably because of their previous roles in the administration. (Another GOP appointee is sitting for the border wall case only.)
It appears likely that the McGahn case will ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court, which has on its plate this term a House subpoena lawsuit seeking documents from Trump’s financial firms.
Ohio holds first all-mail primary during a pandemic
By Associated Press -April 28, 2020 12:48 PM
Ohio's vote is being closely watched as a case study for how to proceed with elections if the pandemic doesn't ease.
The first major test of an almost completely vote-by-mail election during a pandemic is about to unfold in Ohio, offering lessons to other states about how to conduct one of the most basic acts of democracy amid a health crisis.
The process hasn't been smooth as state officials have navigated election laws and the need to protect citizens and poll workers from the coronavirus. Ohio's in-person primary was delayed just hours before polls were supposed to open last month, prompting legal challenges and confusion.
Tuesday's election replacing it requires voters to run at least three pieces of mail — an application, a blank ballot, and a completed one — through the U.S. Postal Service.
With Joe Biden emerging as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, there's little suspense in the results. Ohio's vote is instead being closely watched as a case study for how to proceed with elections if the pandemic doesn't ease. States have taken drastically different approaches, with Wisconsin proceeding with in-person voting earlier this month and New York saying Monday it would cancel its presidential primary, which was scheduled for June.
https://americanindependent.com/ohio-primary-mail-voting-2020-election-coronavirus-pandemic-covid-19/
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