Someone’s gotta take the blame. But not Trump. Never, ever Trump.

The governor does not get to make a law. That's not how it works. Cops will kill people none the less. Glad you're supportive of that. Nice work.

Now I understand this garbled mess of a response.

An executive order from a governor is essentially a law as long as it doesn’t violate the constitution.

Uh no. An executive order is an order from the executive branch or the part of the government executing the laws. It must not only comply with the constitution it must also comply with existing law.
Not only is life liberty and property protected by the constitution, its also protected by law.
People need to start suing their local governments for lost profits and forcing them to let them open.

You clearly don’t understand what an executive order is.

You clearly don't understand the law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order
"Executive orders issued by state governors are not the same as statutes passed by state legislatures but have the force of law, like in the federal system. Executive Orders only apply to State Employees and Departments, and do not act as any form of law upon the Citizens."

An Alex Jones follower citing Wikipedia. Wow. Read past the first three lines.

A governor can issue an executive order (such as a lockdown order) and it can be overturned by the courts (as evidenced by the dipshits in Wisconsin) or by the state legislature.

If all three branches are in agreement, it’s basically an enforceable law.

Nope you missed the most important part "Executive Orders only apply to State Employees and Departments, and do not act as any form of law upon the Citizens"

Jesus tapdancing Christ...

Keep reading.

“There are also other uses for gubernatorial executive orders. In 2007, for example, Sonny Perdue, the governor of Georgia, issued an executive order for all of its state agencies to reduce water use during a major drought. The same was demanded of its counties' water systems as well, but it was unclear whether the order would have the force of law”

...but because they were all in agreement that it “promoted the general welfare” (kinda like wearing a mask during a pandemic where sneezing and breathing on people can transmit the virus), the executive order was enforced.

Stop being a baby. Put on the f**king mask, you selfish c**t.

Judges decide whether its lawful or not and your example is for the city owned water company to reduce water usage. It never touches citizens.
Just because one governor illegally uses an order and gets away with it does not mean that's now the accepted use.

Let me explain it to you in terms you can understand.
It starts with masks and curfews and things that sound reasonable, then it moves to being forced to take a vaccine that can't possibly work. Then it moves to vaccine I'd or certificates of health. Then you do something they don't like and they revoke the certificate and suddenly you can't buy groceries, eat in public or use any public service.
The next step is prison and then death.
We already see people being thrown in jail.

Or we follow the recommended protocols by scientists who know what they’re talking about and everyone stops acting like a bunch of babies because they can’t get their hair cut.

There was a pandemic response playbook left by multiple administrations that got thrown out the window because the “optics” were bad for the raging cheeto...Misleading Mitch already admitted to that...and THATS the reason this thing is dragging out longer than it should have had to.

All you conspiracy nut jobs that are claiming “slippery slope”...they’re already opening everything up so you idiots can start a second wave of the virus before the first one is finished. I’ll get no satisfaction to tell you cuckoo birds that I told you so, because people are going to either die at a rate of 5%-10% OR you’re going to be permanently maimed with either scarring of your lungs and/or heart muscle or your kidneys and/or liver will shut down.

I’ll be wearing masks, washing my hands constantly and staying away from everyone for the next two-to-three years. Best of luck to you.

Recommended protocol is to quarantine the sick and test anyone in a risk group. That's not what they told Trump to do.

The *initial* recommended protocol was that, then when they realized how infectious this was, they upped it to social distancing, face masks, and hand washing for 20 seconds.

Trump and the right has brainwashed their knuckle-dragging minions that protecting the health of the general public is less important than a robust stock market...even though unprecedented unemployment numbers hasn’t slowed the stock market down much. My annuity number are already back to where they were pre-COVID, even though I was down 40% by the beginning of March.

You, me, and the rest of America’s middle- and working-class are expendable. That’s the message being delivered here, and you, ignorantly, are reinforcing it.

Mmmm. No. Trump recognizes that if the economy tanks, more people will die than from the virus. Its simple math. Let the elderly and infirm die from the virus, or let 100s of millions die from an economic depression.

Mmmm. No. Trump wanted to allow the virus to “wash over” the country. It was the CDC and Fauci’s team that told him that would be idiotic (paraphrasing). The only thing that Trump recognizes is that of the economy tanks, his billionaire donors will have to buy a 350’ yacht instead of the 400’ one. This isn’t the dark ages. Hundreds of millions won’t die from “economic depression.”

And to read you so nonchalantly say “let the elderly and infirmed die?”

My wife is immune system is compromised because of cancer.

F**K. YOU.

Yeah, that's why he stopped flights from Wuhan in January and ordered the CDC to distribute millions of test kits right?
What happened was that the World Health Organization told everyone it can't pass from person to person.
Fauci and his goons told him it would be over quickly and it was nothing to worry about.
The CDC distributed millions of test kits that didn't work.
China lied about what was going on.
I think you are blaming the wrong person for a lot of things.

What testing kits? There weren’t any testing kits for a virus that didn’t exist a year ago. Remember when Trump said he inherited “broken, obsolete tests” from the previous administration...three years before the existence of the virus? Or have you chosen to selectively ignore it?

“Fauci and his goons”? You mean the people who know what the f**k is going on and are way smarter than me or you?

You are the living embodiment of the Dunning Kruger effect.

You are sadly misinformed. The virus existed in US bio-labs that Fauci ran and was created by Fauci. Obama did the right thing and shut Fauci's research down and Fauci transferred it to the Wuhan lab along with 3.7 million dollars.
The research is known as 'gain of function' and what they do is watch the virus mutate and then try to come up with a cure for it. Which is supposed to mirror foreign governments making bio-weapons and having the cure ready, but is extremely dangerous because you can accidentally release it on your own people.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/u-s-governments-3-7-million-grant-to-wuhan-lab-at-center-of-coronavirus-outbreak/

You’ve established yourself as a tin hat wearer. Congrats. You’re opinion is no longer valid.

Children’s Health Defense is an anti-vaccine organization.

Lol, so says Franken30 the arbiter of all truth!
Yeah, no. Everything I've said is backed up by facts and science. Please try again.

Feb. 11 — Tedros called the outbreak a “very grave threat for the rest of the world.”

“We have a window of opportunity now for the rest of the world. We see what's happening in China in terms of the number of cases and fatalities, so if we don't use the window of opportunity we have now, if we don't operate with a sense of urgency, there could be a serious consequence,” he said. “I will continue to remind until the world really takes this seriously, does it with a sense of urgency and believes from the heart that time is of the essence now.

Feb. 15. Trump played golf and then attended a political fundraiser in Palm Beach.

Feb. 16. Trump and first lady Melania Trump attended the Daytona 500. He didn’t mention the virus. Two months later, the racetrack was a drive-through testing site.

Trump headed back to Washington, attending adviser Stephen Miller's wedding at Trump's D.C. hotel.

Feb. 17. Trump had no events scheduled, given the Presidents’ Day holiday.

Feb. 18. Trump left D.C. for a series of events on the West Coast.

During a briefing on the 2020 Olympics, the subject of the virus didn’t come up. A month later, the Games were postponed until 2021. Trump then attended several fundraising events in Southern California before heading to the Trump hotel in Las Vegas for the night.

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Its not his fault the CDC is incompetent. Please try again.

I have science. Trump was told by WHO it was not communicable. He was told by China that it wasn't a big deal. He was told by Fauci and his goons that he shouldn't worry about it.

Yes and he never heard of Stormy Daniels, and Mexico will pay for the wall too.

Jan. 30 — With reports of 9,692 COVID-19 cases in China and 213 deaths, and only 82 cases outside of China, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the COVID-19 outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.

Stormy Daniels got jack from Trump. She was paid off by his lawyer.
Mexico is paying for the wall, by way of tariffs and a loss of revenue from illegals crossing over and sending money back (i.e. more money is staying in our economy which made it boom).
Only leftists thought Mexico would be forced to write a check.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-fauci-coronavirus-not-big-deal-fox-town-hall-2020-5?op=1

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-fauci-coronavirus-not-big-deal-fox-town-hall-2020-5?op=1

https://www.sciencealert.com/niaid-director-warned-us-government-of-a-surprise-outbreak-in-2017

At the time he had no reason to lie, no one knew what covid-19 was or where it came from (a US lab under Fauci).
Many scientists warned that we will eventually have some kind of disease outbreak pandemic that will spread across the world. That's not news.

trump does not even need a reason to lie. its what he does. always.

lol no. He may very well lie, but since no one will report the truth about him, we are left wondering.
So far I have not seen him intentionally lie about anything in all the appearances I've seen him in. Have you seen him directly lie with a verifiable fact you can compare it to?

"We do need a public-health emergency fund. It's tough to get it… but we need it," Fauci said.

"Because what we had to go through for Zika – it was very, very painful when the president asked for the US$1.9 billion in February and we didn't get it until September."

But the Trump administration did not create such a fund, and instead cut spending for federal agencies responsible for detecting and preparing for outbreaks.

In May 2018, Trump's national security advisor disbanded the National Security Council's pandemic response team, while in October 2019, the administration declined to renew funding for a pandemic early warning system.

Nope, more fake news. He did not disband it. He merged it into another group. They have a response fund already and all Trump did was streamline them.

Throughout January, February, and March of this year, Trump downplayed the outbreak in the US, saying, "we have it totally under control", "it will disappear", and, "America will again and soon be open for business".

However, Fauci and other top government officials – including health secretary Alex Azar and trade adviser Peter Navarro – have painted a more sobering picture.

In congressional hearings and public press briefings, Fauci has repeatedly contradicted Trump's positive narrative, which has at times seemed to frustrate the president.

Trump recently retweeted a call from a Republican congresswoman to fire Fauci after he said the US's slow response to COVID-19 has cost lives.

That's because he was told by everyone around him, China, and the WHO that it wasn't anything to worry about. Please get your facts straight.
He puts a positive spin on things because to do otherwise is to panic everyone. Imagine if he said "We're all going to die, everyone needs to stay home and starve until its over." How would that go over do you think?

More fake news.

god you are freakin hopeless.... here is a tip for you, if you ever get an email from a Nigerian General looking to get money out of the country... just delete it... you are welcome

Not everyone is a scientist. His job is not to know science. His job is to listen to his advisors who's job is to know the science. They told him lies. He acted on that information.

while trump is a liar and has zero credibility... lets just say for arguments sake it was true... his JOB is to hire competent good people to advise him.....surprised he did not rely on Ivankas word.

He hired the 'best' people that Obama had hired. So are you saying Obama didn't hire good people or what? Most of his current advisors are Obama hold overs. Any criticism of them is a criticism of Obama. Do you really want to go there?

again, it was a 'hypothetical'.... that said... he sure has replaced all the folks in the Justice Dept that can nail him... ditto for the Defense Dept, the Energy Dept, the Health Dept. etc etc etc.... trump is a LIAR.... and a baby that is incapable of taking responsibility for ANYTHING>

Its standard procedure for every president to replace most of his predecessors people. Its a testament to Trumps patience that he's waited this long.
No one could nail him because he didn't do anything wrong. Please go check your facts.

The WHO told Trump they believed the virus was contained. They were wrong. Just like you are in every conceivable way.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/23/coronavirus-wuhan-china-quarantine-vaccine/4551112002/

Your article supports my statement that the WHO thought it was contained but wasn’t.

So the first reported case...CASE...in the US was January 21 and the article is dated January 24...did you ever think it’s possible that the understanding of how the virus is transmitted has evolved in the months (and 89,620 deaths) since then? Or is the world the same static test pattern that you seem to allow you understanding of the world to be?

They not only thought it was contained, but also said it couldn't be passed from person to person.
They didn't change their stance until after the virus was firmly rooted in the US and Europe. This is one of the many reasons Trump defunded the WHO.