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50,000 sounds like a lot, but I'll bet medical staffs burn through them pretty quickly. We probably need millions. Anyway, it's good to see these various businesses chipping in.
Its 50,000 by Friday, sand it sounds like he wants to produce that many on a daily basis. While its still a small number vs's the need, its still a large enough number to be a significant contribution.
So while we may disagree with the mans politics and him attending the daily mini trump rally nonsense, he is doing something pretty good.
It's good to see businesses working to help make much needed medical supplies here. Proves to me that we don't make enough of our products and that needs to change. A small wine company in my city is currently making test kits.
I also think it's shameful for the media to mock Mike Lindell after he pledged to make masks for our citizens.
It's the circus/promotional activity around the virus crisis that is disconcerting.
I'm sure if it was a Democrat President with some liberal millionaire hawking his wares and spouting his ideology because he gave money to help in a crisis y'all would be as critical.
This guy isn't giving these masks for free is he?
He is offering his facility to make them and sell them .....to the people who need them.
WOW what a generous soul.
No, I don’t think they would. This is truly a new low. I know people on the right get mad about billionaires like Tom Steyer and George Soros, matched by people on the left getting mad about the Koch Brothers, but I don’t think anyone would be mad if GE or some other manufacturers known for left politics announced they were dedicating 70% of their manufacturing to making face masks for healthcare workers.
I don’t even understand the animosity really. What has he done to get people’s ire up about this? Because he advertises on Fox? Because he praised Trump? I’m truly confused. Besides the religion, he is doing what people on the left usually praise. He was a drug addict who recovered and built a huge business where he hires American workers, focusing on giving ex-convicts and recovered drug addicts a second chance.
50,000 sounds like a lot, but I'll bet medical staffs burn through them pretty quickly. We probably need millions. Anyway, it's good to see these various businesses chipping in.
No, I don’t think they would. This is truly a new low. I know people on the right get mad about billionaires like Tom Steyer and George Soros, matched by people on the left getting mad about the Koch Brothers, but I don’t think anyone would be mad if GE or some other manufacturers known for left politics announced they were dedicating 70% of their manufacturing to making face masks for healthcare workers.
I don’t even understand the animosity really. What has he done to get people’s ire up about this? Because he advertises on Fox? Because he praised Trump? I’m truly confused. Besides the religion, he is doing what people on the left usually praise. He was a drug addict who recovered and built a huge business where he hires American workers, focusing on giving ex-convicts and recovered drug addicts a second chance.
A lot of folks are offended by his politics, and his appearance the other day at trumps mini rallies aka "the daily coronovirus briefing" where he told people it was all about them not following god.
I agree with those people BTW. Keep your religious nonsense to those who care. Its not most Americans listening to a pandemic briefing. He can get stuffed with that nonsense.
But people then act like everything he does is objectionable, which is unwise. I for one appreciate that he is making masks at the moment.
Of course people mock him because he did not 'intelligently' off-shore his manufacturing capacity to sweatshops in Bangladesh to lower production costs and keep prices low so people keep buying.
Instead he owns a plant in Minnesota where he hires Americans and pays them a living wage with humane work standards. That's too much for the libertarian ideologues who think global capitalism is all that matters and cheap materialism will drive us into greater harmony (false).
We can't have an industrial policy in America because we don't have an industrial base. People respond arrogantly to Lindell by saying every other company has made the same promise and he is late in joining.
Guess what? This isn't 1941, none of those companies have any production capacity, not Tesla, not apple, not GE or GM (yes, even them), not Facebook, nor Amazon, or any of these modern 'titans' of business.
They all just file orders for masks from their third party manufacturers in Asia not knowing the functionality of the masks.
Americans delude themselves into thinking we could win world war 2 today with the military industrial complex being more reliant on China and companies producing goods abroad. Sure liberals will talk about globalism and libertarians will lecture us about the cost ratio and how we hire more consultants and financial advisers or whatever. That stuff is as empty and useless as their grand rhetoric.
Libertarians like the CATO institute who have had a monopoly on our political discourse for that last fifty years should be jailed, that is the extent of their betrayal. And politicians from both parties still buy their lies hook line and sinker.
Just found out..those are not the masks the doctor's actually need. And they turned this into a campaign and infomercial for himself and Trump. And I hear that his close friends and associates say that this pillow person lies a lot and might not even follow thru. This pillow person laid off workers after the tax cut. Another con artist. He needs to be watched.
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I'm not a practicing Christian but am appreciative of how he's helping out. You need to learn to accept people even if you don't agree with them. That's part of what Democrats are suppose to believe in - although it's not shown on these forums by Democrats.
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