The Scotus has now ruled on the Biden administration mandates which as
we discussed at length this morning on TDR,
I will remind you because you will almost never hear it are not vaccine mandates.
They are mandates that mandate either vaccinations or testing.
The testing part is always dropped off in the discussions of this,
it seems like something we should know.
But in any event, the court struck down the president's mandate which used OSHA,
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to compel private employers
to force employees to either get jabbed or submit to regular testing.
Biden was handed the defeat by a 6 to 3 decision with only the court's liberals
dissenting.
6-3 is a number you're gonna want to get used to for the next 15 years or so,
maybe 20, cuz it's gonna crop up in a lot of cases, really devastating ones too.
So, that one went the way, the right wingers want get rid of the mandates,
allow COVID to spread as freely as it wants,
allow it to feed on the American people.
So they like that, but Brett Kavanaugh is finding himself facing the scone off
the right because he cited with chief justice John Roberts and
the court liberals to save a mandate from
medical facilities which accept Medicare or Medicaid payments.
The mandate for health care workers there to comply with vaccination or
testing scraped by in a 5-4 decision.
So the right is not happy about that.
It's a much more minor mandate in terms of how many
people would affect than the private employer,
when the private employer one would have covered 80 million employees.
It was believed, I think that it would have saved something like 2500 lives.
Feel free to check that number, those lives will now be lost.
And the right is very angry about the minor loss that they had here.
Fox news writer Kyle Becker tweeted,
Kavanaugh's selection earns a face palm for the Trump administration.
You would think after leftist smeared his reputation with false rape allegations,
he would give them the time of day thank the turtle in charge of the Senate for
his nomination.
So his argument there, is that because lefties were mean to him, he
should rule differently than he thinks is just when he gets into the Supreme Court,
that's an interesting position.
Rhonda Santis had this to say, we won 6-3 on that the first, which is good, but
honestly, this is a no brainer.
Anybody who's at a far left jurist is gonna go that way.
But on the medical, the nurse mandate and the doctor mandate,
Robertson Kavanaugh joined with the liberals to allow the nurse mandate.
Honestly, Robertson and Kavanaugh didn't have a backbone on that decision,
that's the bottom line.
And if that isn't enough,
take a look at what Tucker Carlson had to say about Kavanaugh in particular.
>> Right now, we have a 3 to 1 in terms of the number of the federal
mandates that president Biden has tried to push.
Three of them have been struck down so far and only the one today with healthcare
workers which I disagree with but that has gone forward.
So, 10 million healthcare workers do have to get vaccinated if they wish
to keep their jobs in a covered facility.
Which is really unfortunate given the massive shortage
that we have of health care workers right now in our hospitals.
>> Yeah, with no help from Brett Kavanaugh,
I notice cringing little liberal.
I'm sorry, I'm not gonna ask you to respond to that, so
[LAUGH] >> Easily among the creepiest people on TV
and it's not talked about enough.
But yeah, they got virtually everything that they wanted their and
they're frustrated with the prospect that,
the idea that nurses and doctors should either be vaccinated or be tested.
They would prefer them to be sick with COVID as they're administering to patients
coming to the hospitals.
But yeah, they're not happy with Kavanaugh or John Roberts here.
What do you say about this Francesca?
>> Yeah, and and the way that they are criticizing Kavanaugh
using the rape allegations and to say nothing of the dozens of
investigations that were never pursued into Kavanaugh's
background which are still being investigated now or hopefully.
The way they talk about it in such crass terms,
people using terms like yeah Kavanaugh really dry humped this situation,
yeah, this is a real rape situation.
>> Wow. >> It gives you a sense.
Yeah, this gives you a sense of where we are as a country.
You have people like Kyrsten Sinema and even Joe Biden thinking that somehow you
can republican whisper and these people are gonna come around.
No, they are crass, they are immoral and they love being crass and immoral.
They love the blood on their hands, they are proud of it, they are proud and
they parade around the idea of freedom which doesn't exist and it grosses me out.
And so I'm just like look,
in the face of them having such little regard for nurses and doctors.
What's our plan, what are we gonna do about it?
And so far we don't have anything there.
>> There it is.
It is John, I'm just Francesca leaves out.
>> [LAUGH] Yeah, 100%.
Yeah, no it's like so, this by itself would be frustrating enough
that it's not like Biden has come up with like a 57-point list of
the ways that he's going to save America from the pandemic.
But he's done a few things, he's certainly encouraged vaccination.
He has in the areas where they felt they could pass,
it's called passing constitutional muster when it's really passing
an overwhelming conservative majority of the Supreme Court in terms of mandates.
He has done that and so, but here's the thing that makes it even more frustrating,
they just knocked down the mandate.
So, 80 million workers will either not have to get vaccinated or won't have to
be tested, they will be potentially walking around with COVID without knowing.
You will be exposed to more of your coworkers that won't know that they
have COVID.
And all the while as the inevitable comes from that which is more sickness,
more hospitalization, more death.
The right wing will then say, ha, how come Biden is doing so
poorly when it comes to the pandemic?
He said he was gonna have this thing under control.
They criticized Trump and yet Biden had so many deaths, don't wear a mask,
don't get vaccinated,
don't comply with mandates, get as much COVID as possible, cough in my mouth.
And somehow they're still shocked that it isn't going so well here.
So they're really having their pathogen and eating it too here.
>> Yeah, the world is that all the way up side now.
>> Bottom line, let's go on bottom line on this.
The world is upside down, we're in the twilight now.
>> Yeah. >> Seriously.
>> No, and and you're totally right.
They will say exactly that, I thought it was supposed to go so well.
Yeah, you prevented it.
>> Yeah. From going better, and
by the way Liberals and Republicans alike.
We're gonna be hearing a lot of like gee what's going on with the labor shortage,
[LAUGH] seems like nobody wants to work.
I don't ever wanna hear the words labor shortage out of anyone's mouth ever again,
ever.
Stop, stop with the Op-eds, stop with your smarmy little like
Wall Street executive sort of glass, glassed out ivory tower takes on all this.
People are staying home because they don't want to get sick,
they don't wanna infect their loved ones.
Right, and not to mention all that we're doing to protect the pigheaded
anti-vaxxers, still at this point, still trying to keep them from dying.
>> Yeah. >> But really trying to, we are the ones,
people who are staying home, people who are being cautious
actually are the ones who are trying to look out for nurses and hospitals.
>> Universal healthcare Francesca and John to,
let me just slide that on into this conversation.
Because in the face of something of this magnitude [LAUGH] We got these folks
on Capitol Hill that do not understand that this is the time
to have universal health care right now.
While we got this kind of life and death crisis on our hands in this country and
in the world.
>> Yeah.