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Biden Might Rescind Vaccine Mandate. It’s Still Bad.
President Joe Biden and his communist handlers have hinted that they would rescind their “mandate” for even federal employees to be vaccinated. Many people might be hollering “Yippee! Yahoo!” Not me.
They don’t really care if you get vaccinated, and that was never what this was about. It was about wielding power, and they did. They proved to everyone that they could force us to get vaccinated, and companies across this country would scrape and bow and enforce their distinctly un-American dictates.
This was an escalation of the “Dear Colleague letter” that former President Barack Obama’s administration sent out, requiring by unofficial correspondence that universities establish kangaroo courts to persecute men who are accused of assault by (mostly) politically inspired women. We are learning that our institutions, our employers, and our fellow countrymen no longer share our American values that laws should be enacted by due process, even if not by legislation.
The Republican Party needs to campaign on this. The GOP needs the people to understand it. We need to change this. We need to make it a cause of action to sue in court when someone issues such a threatening mandate, and when someone obeys such a threatening mandate.
I doubt the party will. The GOP is probably wondering how it can use that tactic.
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Oh, I think the elected people care about losing power. My point is that the unelected bureaucracy won’t be affected by the mid-terms and they’re the ones driving the country off the cliff deliberately. So they’ll keep the pedal to the metal, accelerating the destruction of the country in favor of a glorious socialist future and they will suffer no consequences.
And getting rid of Democrats in the mid-terms will change nothing.
Okay.
I apologize for not including a trigger warning.
Look, I simply disagree with Skyler when he says “They proved to everyone that they could force us to get vaccinated.” They proved that they can try, but lots of us didn’t get vaccinated, lots of law suits were filed, at least two federal judges blocked the administration’s overreach, and President* Brandon is now in retreat on the issue.
They picked a fight and they lost. Doesn’t mean they didn’t bloody us some, doesn’t mean they didn’t hurt people. But they failed to demonstrate that they can push us around any way they want. I see that as a victory. It’s okay if others don’t.
Some of us don’t think Brandon et al saying they’re going to pause until after the holidays – likely for reasons other than federal judges etc – amounts to a victory.
I think it’s amusing that the administration announced on Monday that it was “suspending” the mandate for federal employees — and judges on Tuesday blocked the mandate in multiple states, observing that the President* probably doesn’t have the authority to impose it. It almost sounds like face-saving on the part of the administration….
Except Brandon hasn’t had a big problem with defying courts before, including SCOTUS. It’s quite possible that losing a bunch more workers – such as truck drivers – over the holidays due to not being vaccinated, would have resulted in even more empty store shelves etc, with consumer reaction more resembling the frog jumping out of the already-hot water. Whereas after the holidays going back to a slower ratchet of mandates and firing people who don’t get vaccinated – whether that mandate is actually an (illegal) federal mandate or businesses picking up the “If you know what’s good for you…” message from Brandon and doing it (supposedly) on their own – would be more like raising the heat slowly until the frog is cooked.
Sure, it was. If it could handle Jefferson and Hamilton, it can handle commies.
I’m not in favor of the Stalinist approach of blaming all the failures of his system on the presence of spies, saboteurs and kulaks, and instituting a purge as his main priority.
We had a system of limits, checks and balances that was disabled by the progressive project of turning governance over to an administrative state. Put back the limits, checks, and balances, and you can deal with a few commies in the works. But if you don’t do that, you’ll have the same problems no matter how many commies you purge.
Well, like I said, we have to depend on the GOP for that, and they don’t seem up to the task.
Naw, it’s that not enough of them care as much as they care about what the NYT and WaPo write about them. It’s not incompetence, it’s apathy.
I don’t see any evidence that any but a small handful of conservatives on Ricochet are interested, either. Can’t expect the GOP to be interested if they aren’t.
And here’s why we’re suckers to believe the GOP is on our side: Here are 80 House Republicans who need to be primaried and removed from office ASAP.
‘Tool to Enforce Orwellian Rules’: 80 House Republicans Help Pass Bill to Fund Federal Vaccination Database
I think we see different parts of the elephant. In my part, I see companies that acted on the mandate before it was even official. I see a large company that already lost its government contract and is being replaced but is still enforcing the mandate. Courts be damned, they will still comply because someday they will want to win the next contract and that will be going to the ones who are willing to bow and scrape.
My friend, let us agree to agree on that point: I am disgusted by these hollow husks of men, these gutless pansies, who run our large corporations. I’ve spent most of my life working for one or another small business, and I have more respect for the owner of a five or ten million a year business who spends his days getting the job done and not giving a damn about diversity or whom he’s offending, and is instead focused on getting the next design debugged and the next machine out the door, than I do for these men-without-chests who cave at the first sign of pushback from the crybabies of wokeness.
You and I may disagree about the big picture, but I agree with you completely that corporate America is a bunch of sell-outs and sissies.
Some of you guys are really fighting hard to take a loss on this, and succeeding admirably well. I don’t know about the rest of ya, but I’m celebrating. Not only this vaccine mandate issue, but the whole tide of public pushback that has turned against the administration, a lot of it even coming from Democrats. I’ve never seen the public so anti-democrat in my adult life.
Amen, Brother! I am also dumbfounded when I see large corporations praising Black Lives Matter as if it was a religious charity, and bending over backwards to accommodate perverted sexual communities and practices. As a matter of pure economic sense, they should just keep their mouths shut.
A lot of my clients are heads of large companies and I know they are not all like that. A guy I’m doing a painting for right now is the founder of a large corporation and is a staunch conservative who doesn’t buy into anything woke. I used to get Christmas letters from the CEO of Lincoln Electric Company who would start the Holiday message by saying stuff like “Obama is destroying our economy, we must fight back!” Mine and my wife’s favorite Christmas letters!
On the other hand I was once in a meeting with the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic about 20 years ago when an aide came in to get approval on a hospital newsletter that contained a joke or a cartoon depicting Arabs (although not offensively). He told her ‘Ya know, Arabs make up a large part of our customers (Arab sheiks and presidents of Arab countries). I think you better take that out.” That may have been a compliance with political (or economic) correctness, but pales in comparison with the public groveling some of the modern CEO’s do to win favor with the left.
It’s really hard to know whether they’re going along with the herd or driving the herd.
I’d say a little bit of both. So I’m not willing to call them all “sell-outs” when they’re the ones doing the selling.
I think people are more likely to get relaxed and harder to get to start fighting again, if they’re celebrating a victory because they think it’s basically over and they already won.
Maybe so for the guys in office who make the rules, but for you and me, it doesn’t amount to a hill of beans what we think. I’ve known guys who watch football on TV who thought that they could influence the game by wearing a lucky shirt or by yelling the right directions at the players. Just as long as we keep spreading the simple truth to our family and friends, we are doing our part, but one guy on Ricochet (or 1,000) celebrating with a victory dance isn’t going to deter Rand Paul or Ron Disantis from doing their jobs.
Another reason why we all need to get off the internet and enjoy life.
What any hospital franchise that gets sued has on its side is that they are a mega corporation, and can use every mega corporation trick in the book to stall the case, or have it outright dismissed.
If the individual who is suing does ever get his or her day in court, by then there will be a gazillion citations for the mega corporation to use to defeat the individual.
We saw this before. Back in the 1990’s when one out of five American service people who had squalene injected into them as part of basic training suffered some measure of disability, and many of them died, so lawsuits were brought against the US military for its mandating these basically untested vaccines. The military simply saw to itr the cases were stalled.
Stalling helped the defendants out a lot. By the time the cases came to court, there were so many studies produced by US government-supported labs that were offered as “proof” that the vaxxes were safe. Plus then it was suggested that those attempting to sue were malingerers or motivated by greed, as after all, the vaccines were “safe.”
It will be the same with any COV vax lawsuits.
No, that’s not political correctness. It’s good business. Don’t piss off customers by insulting them. That’s why it makes no sense for companies to go woke.
Personally I think they do so because behind the scenes organizations like the Rainbow Coalition or Al Sharpton are whispering, “Nice business you got there, it would be a shame if there were a boycott,” and money miraculously flows to them.
Boy this brings up a couple thoughts. The five-star Saudi floor at a prestigious east coast hospital, with medical people employed as butlers and maids (I exaggerate only slightly). And the Saudi slave trade in kidnapped butlers (it existed once and my still).
Bruce Wayne had to take out extra insurance on Alfred.
Saudi slave trade in kidnapped butlers? I must have missed that in history class.
It was, I don’t know five or ten years ago. I can’t find it now (not even sure how to search), but it involved a ring of Saudis who enslaved, traded, and apparently sold butlers. My wife says she thinks they were mostly kidnapped from the UK, but I don’t recall that specifically.
I vaguely remember that, but my web searches failed to find anything. It wasn’t just butlers, it was all manner of household staff.
The Senate just voted 52-48 to rescind Biden’s Federal Vaccine Mandate, getting Democrats Jon Tester and Joe Manchin to vote with Republicans. Folks, we are not losing this battle.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/senate-votes-to-repeal-bidens-vaccine-mandate-for-businesses/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=25976490
County executive here in Oneida County, NY just reinstated mask orders starting next Monday. Even for the vaccinated. The unvaxxed must also be temperature checked. All public indoor facilities.
Not doing this anymore. Not wearing a mask, not showing papers. I am prepared for confrontation if that’s what they’re asking for. You cannot comply your way out of tyranny.
My youngest was upset because she wanted to go skating at the city’s indoor rink, but they required masks. Oldest daughter said she couldn’t do physical activity with a mask on and wouldn’t go inside.
Many tears. Much angst.
They’d better get the outdoor rinks open soon.
Which reminds me that I need to write to the city about their evil two-tiered social system.
Oneida is a rural county where less than one-in-a-thousand people are currently testing positive for Coronavirus per day. What gets me about things like this, and DeBlasio’s recent vaccine mandate in New York City, is that New York State has had one of the lowest death rates in the country after originally being the worst place nearly two years ago. If you’re worried about Coronavirus, it is now one of the safest places in America. So this is all about the science, eh?
Here’s the New York State graph: