Sen. Dick Durbin: We Can’t Safely Reopen Without More Testing | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Il., criticizes the move to bring senators back to Washington, and he says scientists should set standards on reopening. Aired 5/6/2020.
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    1. Trump will definitely be re-elected… Democracts definitely support abortion and LGBTQ.
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    2. The only people going to prison will probably be James Comey and others. President Trump was correct about the FBI!

    1. HAH…. WHAT U THINK..??? NONE PPL WHO WHO DIED OR THE PPL IN ICU “PRAYED OR BELIEVE IN GOD?”

    2. @Taylor Craig Newbold Of COURSE you’d ” LYAO”….. you’re just as ROTTEN and RACIST as HE IS !! You’re the COMMON RACIST ROT seen EVERY DAY in Trump’s MAGGOT Americkkka !! I’m NOT surprised by people (?) like YOU !!

    3. @Tim Yatcak No Noam is alive and more in his right mind at 90, than Trump has ever been! He speaks science, facts, and truth that will chill you to your spine! 😔

    4. You Democrats OFFEND Jesus as you support the killing of a Baby inside the womb! Trump will WIN in 2020! Thank God!

    1. @William H Music 2020 Trump is the one who lit the White House in rainbow colors!!!

    1. @William H Music 2020 Oh, now I know you are trying to start an argument, no one is that stupid and able to type.

    2. Michael Law : Wow ! Wasn’t America white people populated by those from mainly Europe who just didn’t fit in at home, (as well as those who hated tyranny and also sought freedom of religious expression ¿?).

    3. @Suzy Qualcast I was asked by a young engineer in Germany why the USA seems so messed up, naturally he is getting most of the information he basis his opinion on from so called “news outlets” like CNN, MSNBC, and perhaps the NY Times. I gave his question a little thought and answered:The US has always been a messy and divided society only the internet and a constant stream of sensationalized news makes it seems more divided. The Internet is a loudspeaker going 24 hours a day. I worked in research for a large corporation with global reach. Many of our operations are in Europe. The nature of the divide in America is now closer to that of divided Europe. In the past America civil culture was something Americans tended to agree upon, it was non-ideological and concerns money and the divide between those that identified with owners and those that worked for them. Each working to maximize their holdings. Today in addition to the money divide there has been injected an ideological divide among those university educated and young. The divide is mainly coastal, the East coast and West coast (California) against the center of the nation, the Midwest, and the South in opposition to the coastal states. Call the Midwest and South traditional America and Trump’s supporters. Older people both universities educated and those without a university education holding more traditional views with many the victims of globalization and a financialized world in tension with the cool kids on the coast that love to jet everywhere and see a borderless world. Those cool kids make their high-tech junk in China and love to gamble in the markets. Traditional culture matters little, they have POP culture. Today young people are brainwashed by a left leaning ideology coming from the academies (American Universities). Our universities have come under the influence of two streams of thought from Europe. Firstly, “the “Frankfurt School” was a group of scholars known for developing critical theory and popularizing the dialectical method of learning by interrogating society’s contradictions. It is most strongly associated with the work of Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse and secondly, the postmodernist French intellectuals and postmodern philosophers like Jean Baudrillard, Jean François Lyotard, and Jacques Derrida. Michel Foucault.” : “Michel Foucault: Iam not saying everything is bad, I am saying everything is dangerous…
      Theodor Adorno: I am saying everything is bad.” Their ideas spread across the Atlantic and profoundly influenced the social sciences as they are taught in the US academies, these ideas have even begun to invade STEM fields (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) and people your age and younger in the US now have a left leaning bias closer to what it means to be a leftist in Europe. In Germany for example many of Europe’s former radial leftists have permuted and gone from “red” to “green” and “The Green Party” Their leadership comes from people closer to my age those old 68 er’s (1968) civil disobedience in France and Germany. The leftists have given up on the proletariat because workers were corrupted by consumerism. Today’s youth have been brainwashed into believing CO2 is killing the planet and that computer models on climate change being far more complex than pandemic modeling(as shown recently to be hugely in error) but radically promoted by activists as whole cloth and not just a small thread in the tapestry of climate. So, if you cannot save all of humanity with failed Utopian visions then save all of nature by preserving nature from the corrupting effect of capitalistic economic activity. The Internet drives and feeds global hysteria and picks up on the loudest and most extreme opinions coming from activists. Those that think there is a perfect and logical solution found in trusting an expert elite (meaning themselves) and there never is one perfect Utopian solution only at best a choice between Scylla and Charybdis. People my age (I am getting close 70) see the divide today in America and in Europe as one of vision. The best explanation of is Thomas Sowell’s book “Conflict of Visions” A short video explains …. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkCSbANBeuIPresident Trump has a constrained vision as many business leaders do. Obama and those younger tend to follow the unconstrained vision. I believe this is the best way to explain why people become polarized: they are see things differently having nothing to do with good and evil while some describe those they disagree with them by simple labels, stupid, evil, or both and those prone to these labels usually have unconstrained and more idealistic leanings.

    4. @Michael Law you forgot to mention 4 decades of neoliberalism, capitalism on steroids and the privatization of any and every public asset or service has transformed society from permanent employment to being uber, who ever would have thought to see that word again but then with demagogue high priest foxy sky murkdog trumpeting lies into facts and facts into lies, playing the ignorant like a master pied piper and does so on 3 continents. You forget to mention the other oligarchs altright billionaires behind, the scenes the mercer, koch etc

    1. @The Tigress I will laugh when it’s time for you to depart earth only to find there is a god and you’re not getting the utopia you’ve been asking for

    2. DEMOCRATS…I cant say the word without laughing…hahahaha..The complain just never ends from these miserable maggots..hahaha! Id rather have the Corona Virus and be stuck with one!

  1. A 60 year old Ohio man who dismissed the coronavirus pandemic as a “political ploy” and ripped his state’s lockdown as “bull s–t,” died of COVID-19.

    He passed away in Columbus — exactly a month after firing off angry messages on social media about the the virus and being quarantined.

    He called “bulls–t” on Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s stay at home order and closing bars and restaurants.

    “He doesn’t have that authority. If you are paranoid about getting sick just don’t go out. It shouldn’t keep those of us from living our lives. This madness has to stop” he wrote.

    He tested positive for the coronavirus in late March and passed away on April 15.

    “Does anybody have the guts to say this COVID-19 is a political ploy? Asking for a friend. Prove me wrong,” he wrote on March 13.

    COVID-19: ” Does thou test me?”

    1. Nurse Blacke
      Don’t you mean “intubating?” Hopefully, this was some kind of autocorrection mistake by your phone or computer you didn’t catch.

    1. @Rose Lilly nope, the US economy is tanking as the days go by and with record unemployment rates, no American wants to elect a clown who can’t lead a nation through a pandemic. He’s DONE, trumpflake – so stick a fork in him.

  2. Yeah, God forbid Trump make sure our healthcare workers have the PPE they need. And for all those meat packing plant workers? I’m not eating meat for a while, not because of you, but FOR you. Maybe your bosses will then insure all workers are properly protected. Trump is a dismal failure.

  3. Trump doesn’t want real experts telling the truth, he wants someone that he thinks he can control like Bootlickers and Yes men. It also looks like trump wants the Coronavirus to keep killing people by reopening the country. I guess that’s his way of depopulating America. He’s a killer!!!

    1. @David Matthews He never saw it that way, he never intended to be a real president. He went in as a con man, and went in intending to do it his way, Donald Trump style, while he took advantage of his lost crowd who cheered him on.

    2. @Rose Lilly I blame him for several hundred things, do you have a day or two?

      ….Covid -19 response; levi g paris climate agreement; Helsinki; Reversing DACA; Family Seperation; kids in cages; Change in asylum rule; His bald head and badcombover; Increasing Air pollution by decreasing MPG; Lightbulbs; Hiz orange skin; Bears Ears; Fracking; Rolling back clean water rules; Puerto Rico; threatening to withhold FEMAfunds afyer wildfires; Voter suppression; the fu_king wall….

      I could go on and on. He has bad leadership skllls.

    3. Radical Democrats do not want the Country to re open as they like doom and gloom. President Trump said months ago that the virus will get better in April AND IT DID!

    4. @Dorothy Pettijohn Democrats have morphed into radical, angry far left, America hating socialists! America does NOT want that kind of Leader!

    5. @Rose Lilly Now I know you are a troll. Don’t you have something constructive to do with your time?

  4. Reporter : “Why won’t you let Fauci testify to the House ?”
    Trump : “Because the Democrats will say bad things about me.”

    1. W McKinley -Please leave the emotionally and mentally inept alone. The poor thing doesn’t realize this group of Republicans could care less about the illiterate, except for their vote. They fail to comprehend, they have defunded and deregulated measures that help most Americans. This administration has one purpose, that is to fund their constituents and the rich, by stealing tax payers money and placing them on the front line to continue their servitude.

    2. @Firefly that rant was just like Trump. You lie as much as Trump does. I don’t lie and don’t follow liars just because he is the president. He started out lying on camera from the time he started running for office. The more you call out people or being a troll for Trump you are always come on the channels that according to you and Trump are fake news just to start trouble.

    3. Democrats have abused and bashed this poor President even BEFORE he took Office! Americans are fed up with all the hate for this President!!!

  5. *If there are more tests, there will be higher infection numbers, making Little Donny Fail-Fail look worse. Can’t have that.*

    1. You radical Democrats want more death as then you can continue to blame President Trump. The blame for the pandemic goes to communist China who have unleashed pandemics in the past.

    2. President Trump put a Travel BAN in place in January. In February your Queen Nancy told everyone to go to Chinatown.

    1. Socialism is a great threat to our Country and God forbid if a Democrat ever gets into Office! By the way…President Trump was correct again about the FBI!

  6. Democracy is dying in America and it’s terrifying to witness from Europe. We have our own issues, absolutely, but Trump the narcissistic is genuinely dangerous.
    Good luck, America. I hope your recovery is swift.

    1. at least you wasn’t hateful towards Americans… because Europeans usually are, especially the ones in the UK

    2. Thank you for your concern. We really are doing our best considering the Republicans who keep covering up 45.

    3. @Elizabeth notthe queen absolutely! Sorry, I hadn’t meant to insinuate that there wasn’t any opposition! There has been consistent and well-organised opposition since inauguration day. Keep up the good fight! We know that like anywhere else in the world, there is a majority of kind, loving, compassionate folk who have been deliberately locked out of the political system for decades.

    4. @Grace Hart No need to explain. It’s good to have the feedback from other countries and I appreciate your sentiments , very much . Stay safe.

    5. I just wish our downfall would slow! Give us a chance to recover without millions dying.

  7. These judicial appointments need to have terms, every 10 years they need to be reappointed or replaced.

  8. Protect Kentucky from a lethal pathogen. Close the borders and do not let McConnell back in.

  9. Just keep in mind that this is how this man acts when he WANTS TO BE RE-ELECTED!! Just imagine how he will behave if he gets a second term and has nothing to gain or lose!!

    1. I can’t imagine him.in office another 4 years another virus comes a long will start dying like flys we are are already dying in big numbers

    2. If he gets a second term? The Democrats are shaking in their boots as they KNOW he will be re elected! TRUMP IN 2020!!!!

  10. When tRUMP is removed everything he did everyone that he appointed everything should be gone over with a fine tooth comb

    1. Chris Bryant if he’s impeached how can we be nominating judges right now shouldn’t all that wait? Like they made Obama wait… y can’t the dems do that? I’m really tired of them not sticking up to the repubs n mitch

    2. President Trump will be re elected in 2020 and Democrats KNOW this! Trump gave us the greatest Economy in history and you radical democrats will never give him credit for anything.

    1. You Democrats are all for socialism and open borders. Just let all illegal aliens into our country with their assorted viruses?? No!

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