Trump says we will open the economy no matter what, and while I agree we need to reopen the economy in smart ways, step by step, Trump's a "no matter what" approach is stupid.
I have good friends, long time friends, normal people, that say they will choose Trump because he is still the best option in 2020 despite his murderous and negligent and careless pandemic failure. Trumps approach is an "Arbeit Macht Frei" approach to reopen our economy
One of my friends voted for Obama first term, then switched due to the Affordable Care Act, and he's a retired 73 year old man! How does an old man not see health care as a RIGHT?
How is it that in 2020 y friends and I cannot agree that trump is an ass hole? We never had such strong feelings before about any President.
Are we afflicted?
"In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability."
Here are links to D-K Effect.
Are we blinded by what I will call the "Goebbels Effect," Trump calls "truthful hyperbole," both addressing very effective lying
Does Trump magic powers?
Are we all prone to confirmation bias?
I do not get how meat packers are more essential than manufacturing covid-19 PPE as Trump uses the Defense Production Act for meat, but not doctors and nurses.
Trump reverses course on immigrant workers [for MEAT! lol!], probably without realizing it
by Charles Sauer | April 30, 2020
"From an administration that targeted immigrants, hunted them down, and attacked businesses for hiring them, President Trump this week signed an executive order under the Defense Production Act to help ensure meatpacking plants can stay open. This is despite the raids on meatpacking businesses that his administration has orchestrated, despite his threat to not only build a wall but also end the legal programs that allow immigrants to work here legally, and despite his continued berating of immigrants. Trump has now signed an order basically begging immigrants to still go to work to help save our country.
That is a level of hypocrisy that is actually kind of hard to digest."
No, Trump didn’t order meat-processing plants to reopen [Disingenuous at best, this article is. Trump never literally says anything, but he takes credit if his comments succeed and avoids blame when his comments fail, ALWAYS.]
The president likes to claim powers he doesn’t really have. We don’t have to go along with it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/04/trump-meat-processing-order/
" . . . the fact that Trump’s order, which appeared on the White House website late Tuesday, does not actually order meat-processing plants to reopen. Indeed, it does not order the meat-processing plants to do anything. And although the president had told reporters Tuesday that his order would “solve any liability problems” that plants might face with respect to lawsuits arising from covid-19 exposures, the order does not do that either. Far from a death warrant, it is a paper-thin proclamation with limited legal effect."
So where's the "beef?"
" . . . Notwithstanding headlines like CNN’s “Trump orders meat processing plants to stay open,” neither Trump nor his agriculture secretary has issued any such mandate. If a plant is closed, it can remain closed. If managers want to close an additional plant, they can. Nothing has changed any of that as a legal matter.The danger, though, is that workers and managers in the meat and poultry industry will respond not to the law but to the way that the law is portrayed. It is quite a lot to ask any nonlawyer to parse the text of Trump’s executive order and the statutes on which the order is based. And certainly when union leaders, progressive politicians and respected media outlets affirm the president’s delusions, we cannot blame ordinary folks for assuming that shuttered plants now must spring back into action."
The writer simply glosses over the fact Trump appointed a meat factory owner in charge, not the Unions. People die, we get steaks! Yay!
Making the play to open meat plants, Trump is saying "Arbeit Machsts Frei!"
Trump is marching meatpacking workers off to their deaths
Steven Greenhouse 30 April 2020
"In ordering the nation’s meat plants to stay open, Donald Trump is in essence marching many meatpacking workers off to slaughter. With his executive order on Tuesday night, the president is in effect overruling safety-minded governors and mayors who have pressured numerous meat, pork and poultry plants into shutting temporarily after they had become hotspots that were spreading Covid-19 through their surrounding communities. With such a move, Trump is – let’s not mince words here – is showing contempt for both workers’ health and public health."
Americans should die so Americans can eat MEAT?
Why is Trump insisting that meat-packing plants stay open despite risks?
Art Cullen 1 May 2020
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/01/trump-meat-processing-executive-order-workers
"The president said he is protecting companies from liability – but employees are afraid of sick leave and filing for workers’ comp or unemployment
Thousands of workers stream in single file, at dawn and mid-afternoon, to suit up in masks and chain gloves and put their lives on the line so you can put cheap sausage on your biscuit.
They are accustomed to living in fear – of starvation from drought in Guatemala, or death squads in El Salvador or drug cartels in Mexico. Of being hunted and caged, whether documented or not. And now, of meeting their fate over a pork chop.
“It’s genocide against the working class. It’s hard to visualize it and articulate it for what it is,” Jesse Case, the leader of Teamsters Local 238, the largest private-sector union in Iowa, told me.
Donald Trump, invoking the Defense Production Act, has ordered meatpacking plants to stay open no matter the cost. Plants won’t even close for a deep cleaning when a deadly pathogen is found. The president said he is protecting companies from liability – you know, in case somebody keels over because of someone else’s negligence."
