hey that sounds familiar
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-response-failure-leadership.html
But [the Trump administration's] ultimate goal was to shift responsibility for leading the fight against the pandemic from the White House to the states. They referred to this as “state authority handoff,” and it was at the heart of what would become at once a catastrophic policy blunder and an attempt to escape blame for a crisis that had engulfed the country — perhaps one of the greatest failures of presidential leadership in generations.
good thing i voted tho lmao
FAA VACCINE MANDATE FOR PASSENGERS
FEDERAL TESTING SITES
VACCINATION DATABASE WITH DOOR TO DOOR VACCINATION DRIVES
AND MANY MORE
YOU DUMB FUCK
AAAAAAAAAA
Sorry Mack, we only provide federal solutions for problems in other countries, like Iraq and Syria. Our record with hospitals in those countries isn't so good anyway, probably for the best that we stay out of this pandemic thing. Maybe ask the state governments to do something.
If we bomb the hospitals there won't be any one hospitalized due to Covid:think-mark:
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1319446692236791814
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1327418359848300545
YOU ARE LITERALLY THE MOST POWERFUL HUMAN BEING ON EARTH YOU LIBERAL PIECE OF SHIT
There is no federal solution to beat Goku, this gets solvedat a state level
We called Superman but he said he "didn't want to fight that guy again" and hung up
YES BUT HE HAS TRIED NOTHING AND IT HASN'T WORKED SO WHY NOT GIVE UP
And he'd demonstrate that if there was a left of center revolt. But apparently not in any other circumstance.
I just want to go back in time and spit on the liberals who told me to vOtE fOr HaRm ReDuCtIoN. There's your electoralism. Add a small coffee to it and it will be worth a dollar.
Add small coffee to it and it will be worth a dollar.
It would somehow still be decaf + folgers.
WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT OF HAVING A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IF THEY CAN'T ENFORCE BASIC POLICY‽
This isn't a crisis, this is the system acting as intended. The oldest political tradition in the U.S. is kicking the can down the road.
"All men are created equal. Except the ones we own. But that's fine because it will solve itself in a generation or two and these questions are really starting to bum me out."
"OK, fine, slaves are free. Free to work the same land they were already working, but this time for a wage! ...aaaand that's all the time we have for systemic change, I'm sure it will work out fine."
"Oh, sure the market just did the biggest crash in the history of there being a stock market, but if we do nothing, clearly the problem will solve itself."
"GRID? Well if you're not gay, why even talk about it? Oh, anyone can get it? Well, we've already committed to not addressing this, so sorry, best wishes!"
"Covid...?"
A constitutional crisis is an event in which a government cannot fulfill its basic functions for whatever reason. That the Amerikkkan government is riven with them constantly doesn't make it not such an event, it speaks to the absolute joke that burgers will fight and die for.
ah, pardon me. I thought it meant something like "crisis of legitimacy" and/or "point where the rules conflict or don't cover"
There's definitely a lot of overlap, there, to be totally fair. The usual reason for such things is the equivalent of "there's no rule that says a dog can't play basketball", except that it nearly always kills millions of people.
Can you call it a constitutional crisis if the problem isn't that the government cannot fulfill its basic functions but rather that it refuses to do so?
Sure. When you're a globe-bestriding empire, there's no particular difference between the two things, but in particular making the judgment that your government has no power to handle a major pandemic and that it should be handed off to some other body (or 50 of them) is pretty textbook. The reasoning will always be some procedural nonsense about what powers are actually granted by <fill in your body of law of choice>. As ever, the feds have all the power in the world when it comes to robbing you (and everyone else around the planet) of life, liberty, and dignity, but are utterly shackled when it comes to keeping you safe.
They can enforce basic policy. They don't want to when it conflicts with business interests.
Biden solved covid in early 2021! It’s up to the states now to make sure their citizens get their fauci ouchies
states: there is no state solution, this gets solved on a county level.
Or even more stupid, the state-level bans on local plastic bag bans. Banning the bans.
They can't even let single use grocery bags fall out of use, everything is culture war.
They did this with the soda tax in Seattle/Washington. Coca-Cola said no more soda taxes!
Can't even make an argument for federal intervention during a pandemic. We're well on our way to Tea Party people being mainstream Dems.
I genuinely think the Biden admin has been brainstorming and working on this for a while. It's just they really can't find anything they're willing to do. This is the limit of their liberal ideology
Can't even pretend to care, let alone use the federal government to solve this. More insider trading, useless bills, and vaccine hoarding. Yeah midterms and the 2024 elections are going to be bloodbaths.
