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That's fine. Stay home, lock your doors, don't come out for any reason... wear gloves and masks to bed and continue collecting UE checks. Red States are open for business.
So no Republicans are collecting unemployment? I didn't know that.
President Trump declares houses of worship are "essential"
Trump is just trying to get attention and trying to feel relevant. He'll back down and say the opposite tomorrow. He's just sticking his puny finger in the wind, as usual. Can't trust the guy with anything but chaos.
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I sometimes actually feel sorry for those who have no faith.
Beaudelaire said the devil's greatest trick is in convincing the world he doesn't exist. I've never seen a place where his success is more evident than CityData.
I feel sorry for those who have no common sense.
God doesn’t need you to go to a building to prove you love him... He’s got a long distance inter dimensional wireless signal that’s accessible anywhere...
This is pure presidential politics. 'Political jujitsu' at its finest. Take notes, aspiring politicos. This is how you do it.
Trump has no "authority" to make the states do this. There are a number of cases related to this already in the courts, so if "authority" is at issue here, it will ultimately be the courts that bring that to bear.
Listen to President Trump's announcement of this (2 minutes, 10 seconds):
What he is actually doing here is forcing these governors to either 1) agree with him, or 2) push back and be against churches and people of faith. The courts are ultimately going to rule that the first amendment applies and that the places of worship have to be allowed to open. But this allows the President to fire up his base and to further force the Democrats to define themselves as being not only pro-lockdown but also anti-Christian or anti-religious.
He cannot lose here. It puts the Democrat governors in a tight spot. And as he has done so many times, he is now changing the narrative in way that works in his favor. The media will not be able to resist. At least they never have been able to resist yet.
Kind of ironic, isn't it, that Trump's leftie and Dem detractors
are accusing him of over-reach and bashing him over his orders to the states to consider houses of worship as essential businesses and allowing them to reopen.
IIRC, it was these same Trump haters who had their panties in such a wad over his leaving details of the execution of the "stay at home", social distancing, "nonessential" business closures to each individual state's governors and local municipalities. This occurred from around the end of March through April.
I heard and read endless regurgitations about how this proved
Trump dropped the ball, was incompetent, lacked leadership, was an orange-faced nincompoop, etc. because there was no uniform federal mandate to all states spelling out the minutiae for carrying out the shutdown.
Still, Trump wouldn't have had to issue such an order regarding the houses of worship were it not for the obvious bias, and discrimination displayed towards them by Democrat governors.
Governors were/are overriding the rights of the people.
False. You don't understand the Constitution or how our judicial system works.
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