From KDKA in Pittsburg:
The Biden campaign invited KDKA to Lancaster for a brief interview with the presumptive Democratic nominee. After he wrapped up a campaign event, we came no closer than 8 feet apart and wore masks.
Biden says we need to see more of that.
“I would go back to making sure that everybody had masks, that you had PPE lined up, making sure we stockpile all the things that we need and we don’t have now. The one thing we do know, these masks make a gigantic difference. I would insist that everybody in public be wearing that mask. Anyone to reopen, it would have to make sure that they walked into a business that had masks.”
Rice: Couldn’t you use your federal leverage to mandate that?
Biden: Yes.
Rice: Would you?
Biden: Yes, I would from an executive standpoint, yes I would.
Rice: So you would, in effect, mandate the wearing of masks?
Biden: I would do everything possible to make it required the people had to wear masks in public.”
Exactly where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that the President of the United States has the authority to make us cover our faces with a worthless piece of cloth in order to go outside in public or engage in private business with others?
If I go out without a mask on under the Biden Administration, can I be charged with a Federal crime?
If I repeatedly defy the mask executive order, can I be sent to Federal prison for it?
Who will enforce this? Will the FBI investigate me for not wearing a mask?
This is such over-the-top tyrannical bullshit but that’s what the Democrats want.
Exactly. Next thing you know they’re going to start requiring us to wear seat belts or prohibit us from smoking on planes, both of which, by the way, violate my constitutional rights. This is the United States, damn it. We do what we want.
I know you’re being non-serious and throwing stuff at the wall in defense of your beloved centralized federal power, but you’re actually right.
Blame the Department of Transportation withholding funds from states that don’t have seatbelt laws for the first. The second may be a combination of FAA regs and that nebulous Commerce Clause with progressive judges backing it up, and adding in a healthy dosage of “I don’t want to breath that!” from the general flying population at large, influenced by the anti-tobacco lobby for the second.
Trim all of those agencies’ regulatory power back to constitutionality (trim the roots too, if necessary). Leave it up to the states entirely, and to the airlines, although I suspect both policies will remain in place even if such IS done.
You’re not making the point you think you are.
Where can I find a Gov. Whitmer mask?
That meets the requirement of “face covering”.
Will we be required to have only approved hair cuts ala DPRK? Will a KKK hood be an acceptable face mask? Inquiring minds want to know.
Before the snowflakes get their panties in a wad, it’s sarcasm folks.
NRW: isn’t sarcasm directed at The Anointed Ones, bad think?
It’s in the same paragraph that says they can force us to buy health insurance.
The number of office holders, in any of the branches, who take the Constitution seriously can be counted on two hands. Perhaps on the thumbs of two hands.