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ancianita

(36,023 posts)
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 09:10 AM Apr 2020

We Democrats will fix THAT later.

"Administration officials also will not say what supplies are going to what states."


Why BD says states should look out for their own supplies, and yet confiscates orders to places within those states is a shady use of law.

Which is one reason BD has surrounded himself from accountability from Congress with an iron curtain of 7 inspector generals.

He also said in his April 7 presser that he can't tell governors what to do, which is why he hesitates to proclaim a national stay-at-home order.

So that's why MA's governor, Charlie Baker, can deliver his supplies, using his state police, to another governor, Andrew Cuomo, and his state police deliver them without confiscations.

And it's why CA's Newsom can have orders of millions of masks and other supplies come to CA every month without confiscation. You don't go on the Rachel Maddow Show and call your state a nation state for no reason. California, in global terms, IS a nation state.

Other governors have traded directly with other countries: Cuomo and Newsom with China, Ryan of Illinois with Cuba and northeastern governors with Venezuela.

Bloody Donnie's FEMA task force has no legal jurisdiction over governors and THEIR supply orders, while local hospitals and medical networks CAN have their shipments confiscated by FEMA.

So what we are seeing is Democratic governors taking over the direct delivery of supplies THEY own to other Democratic governors. Because, while BD doesn't want to be transparent about where the "national stockpile" is going, it's now clear to the rest of us that his red state loyalist governors get preferential supply delivery treatment during this pandemic. All Republicans are secretly proud of his so-called power.

Democratic governors -- 'cause they have state police power, lawyers, guns, and money, too, you know -- are cockblocking BD's secret, preferential treatment of COVID-19 supply distribution.

I call them good old American Patriots. Democratic governors are shining lights of power for The People in a dark time.

A time of pandemic, when this feckless, fakeass, fatass fuck of a president and his Repub henchmen only care about the survival of SOME Americans. HIS voters.

That red states have NOT issued stay-at-home orders was to let the pandemic kill off minorities, with BD saying, " I can't stop them," shrugging the national order off during in his presser yesterday.

All Democrats in Congress have to do is get the record of FEMA confiscations,
find out where those supplies were re-sold -- i.e., follow the money, because they ARE being resold -- and they have a RICO case.

"Yet there is little indication that federal officials are controlling the market."


We'll fix THAT later, motherfuckers.



https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-washington-seize-coronavirus-
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We Democrats will fix THAT later. (Original Post) ancianita Apr 2020 OP
Sooner Or Later, Ma'am The Magistrate Apr 2020 #1
I believe, Sir, that if the feds were going to confront locals in this matter, that they would have ancianita Apr 2020 #2

The Magistrate

(95,244 posts)
1. Sooner Or Later, Ma'am
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 09:22 AM
Apr 2020

State and local police are going to have to confront Federal agents in this matter, to protect the lives of people in their states and municipalities.

ancianita

(36,023 posts)
2. I believe, Sir, that if the feds were going to confront locals in this matter, that they would have
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 09:28 AM
Apr 2020

by now.

Though, indeed, you're not wrong, Sir, so we shall see.

One misstep, and the Democrats will add to SDNY's cases, all ready for filing, and then we will brush this dictator off like the parasite he is.

I'm just waking up to the day with my first cup of coffee, but this is how I see it, Sir.

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