Can Trump Overrule the Governors and Open Up the Country with an Executive Order? (Vanity)

April 30, 2020 | Ednamode

[Steve_Seattle]

I'm not sure what you mean by an "asymmetric warfare event," but if that means that you think the virus was spread deliberately by China, I think any rational person would at least have to wonder about that possibility.

Consider the facts:

1. Trump has been pursuing an aggressive policy of renegotiating trade agreements with China, as well as hoping to return some manufacturing from China and elsewhere.

2. No Democrat would be likely to pursue those same policies, but would instead continue to aid China in its rise to world dominance.

3. China DOES seek world dominance, and can only be alarmed by the possibility of a resurgent USA.

4. China would know that the American press would reflexively blame the outbreak on Trump, and tend to take China's side in any blame-game.

5. The World Health Organization, with a president beholden to Chinese interests, initially took the view that the virus was not easily spread, and delayed raising the alarm during the crucial early weeks of the virus's spread. The WHO also opposed any international flight restrictions, and takes China's side in any disputes with the US or other countries.

6. The virus emerged in the run-up to an American presidential election, an election featuring Donald Trump, who has been the toughest president on Chinese affairs in decades.

7. The virus probably emerged from a Chinese lab.

I will leave out some of the more speculative arguments, but these alone seem pretty straightforward - most are inarguable, the others highly probable. At some point an accumulation of "coincidences" canto be regarded as a coincidence.

[DarthVader]

+10000!! Excellent!! You hit the nail on the head on many of my own reasons and there are a few more as you say!! I’m going to ping a few to this.

Hey guys see post#61

[Bommer]

Yes and no. If its deemed essential to national security, he has a state over-ride (like munitions, petrolium refining or meat packing, things like that) He has no control over local non-essential jobs. But he can wack the hornets nest and report how republican run states are doing, and then ask how NY, NJ, Michigan, Nevada, Washington, Oragon and California and the other communist ran states are doing? And to remind people that they are the party making life worse. Remember that in November!

[silverleaf]

He could let the DOJ go after the states with massive civil rights lawsuits

By why would he not trust the citizens of each state to seek response from their governors and legislators? Better if change comes from the bottom up, not the top down

[SKI NOW]

Be a lot easier if this was Billie Jeff and Waco just roll the tanks.

[LibFreeUSA]

I’m 1000% for going back to work, for discarding masks unless you are going into nursing home, and near anyone who is at high risk. “Social Distancing” is a scam that’s turned this entire country into a psychotic madhouse.

That being said, the President should not issue any executive order unless to declare or rescind martial law.

[ronnie raygun]

Let the people decide what they want to do with their dictator.

[The Great RJ]

If Trump were to issue a blanket national end of lockdowns, there would be court challenges and injunctions as well as howls from the media jackals. Better to let the liberal governors show themselves as despots snd face tbe wrath of the voters in November. Some states like Minnesota that Hillary narrowly won in 2016 could swing to Trump as a result of liberal governor’s unpopular lockdowns.