I thought it would be the oil refineries and gas station owners.
Chris Christie: Open the economy. If people die, they die.
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“People who die should get a medal for taking one for the country”, Christie said.
“We’ll call it the Presidential Medal of Freeedom [mispeled of course]. President Trump will mail them. Families will display the medals (with Trump’s visage) proudly at the wakes and viewings.”
Trump after hearing about the idea, “I prefer heros who aren’t dying.”
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Maybe they can just toss handfuls of those medals into the mass graves. 
Mass graves indeed:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-is-pursuing-a-herd-immunity-strategy-—-whether-intentionally-or-not/ar-BB13BXsQ
Check out the charts in that article of various countries’ infection rates. In the civilized world, cases spike and then fall off a cliff. Here in the US, it by looks like we are on track to sacrifice 1-3 million on the altar of redneck anti-intellectualism on our journey to herd immunity.
Congratufuckinglations, rednecks of America! You may have succeeded in putting an end to American greatness itself, all because you’re credulous morons obsessed with your hateful prejudice against liberals, a demographic which, as described in the redneck media, is actually The Bogeyman and not a real group of Americans at all.
You. Fucking. Idiots.
Sounds like Christie has also succumbed to the horrifying illness that plagues our nation…
By an absolutely astonishing coincidence, not one of those people advocating ‘opening the economy’ has any remote intention of putting themselves in harm’s way.
No: that’s for other people to do. Chris Christie isn’t going to risk exposing *himself *to the virus—you can count on that!
Or they can bestow on them Tan the Conman’s highest honor: piss on their graves, just like they’re pissing on everything else.
Not so! He’ll be right out there with his family on the beach, soaking up rays; not hiding at home, mixing with the crowds.
Wait!? He’s no longer governor of New Jersey where he can close down state beach parks for his own use.
/never mind.
Vote 2020
heh - (quite aside from the horrifying message) you made me laugh… assume this was intentional?
yep
As Hunger Swells, Food Stamps Become a Partisan Flash Point
*Democrats are seeking to raise benefits as research shows a rise in food insecurity without modern precedent amid the pandemic. But Republicans have balked at a long-term expansion of the program. *
First they want free money. Now they want [del]free[/del] cheap food. <scoff> That would interfere with their constitutional right to starve.
**The Trump Administration Is Reversing Nearly 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List. **
*A New York Times analysis found more than 60 environmental policies officially rolled back under Mr. Trump and another 34 rollbacks still in progress. *
When the Dems move back in, they’re going to find everything in shambles.
If the laws were so poorly written that Trump can dismantle everything without Congressional consent, then they need to be rewritten anyway.
What?? 
Laws are words. If you are stopped for running a red light at a deserted intersection at 2am, the officer has the discretion to strictly enforce the letter of the law or to decide it was no big whoop and let you go on your way. The flex in the legal code is the only thing that makes it tolerable.
The executive branch is tasked with enforcing the spirit/letter of the law. If the administration decides to interpret them in an inconsistent or contrary manner, the laws, any laws, mean nothing. Or mean that the administration is simply behaving lawlessly.
Yes, laws are just words, but some words are easier to ignore than others, and some can even be ignored in a perfectly legal way.
The use of regulations enables a flexibility that allows a government department to adjust to new realities without needing to go through the whole process of re-writing a law, and getting it passed again. When the department in question is acting in good faith, this is usually a good thing.
But here’s the thing: anything that is currently in a regulation, can be put into the law, if the people writing the laws decide that the department isn’t acting in good faith. That makes it far harder for them to just ignore the words, and puts them in the position of actually having to break the laws, rather than just rewrite or reinterpret the regulations.
Consider a law about pollution. You could write a general law that prohibits dumping pollutants into public waterways, and then refer to regulations for the definition of “pollutant”. This way, if I come up with some new kind of pollutant never before known (see nuclear waste for a historically recent example), you can just amend the regulation to include this new waste.
But if I manage to lobby (bribe, flatter, coerce) the President into pushing to deregulate my new pollutant, the legislature could, in theory, amend the law to explicitly include my pollutant, without needing reference to a regulation.
It would be hard to pass that, but it would also be just as hard to then toss it out later.
And now that they’re in violation of an actual law, they can be actually sued for that, when they might not have been in the case of merely re-writing a regulation.
Christie must have his eyes on some appointed position in the Trump mis-administration. Sucking up to Cheeto in Chief is a well- proven way to get hired.
Yeah, but not when you’ve put his son-in-law’s father in jail. It’s obvious to anyone with half a brain that no matter how loyal Christie shows himself to be, Kushner will never let him get anywhere.
Trump Campaign Manager calls their effort “The Death Star”
Really.