Debbie Berkowitz, former senior policy advisor for OSHA, talks with Rachel Maddow about the false choice the Donald Trump administration has presented of either preserving the U.S. food supply or keep workers safe from COVID-19 infection in meat processing plants. Aired on 04/28/2020.
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Trump Admin Forsakes Worker Safety In False Choice Over Meat Supply | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Wrong President at the wrong time, the Unchosen One .
eurekajim #VoteBlue2020 we’ve had more deaths than the Vietnam war that spanned 19 years, and America has hit that in less than 2 months. So sad.
this pig is the wrong one for anytime
@Crystal Zieu So true 👍. Be well and be safe ✌️.
Wrong president at ANY time!
He’s the wrong president. Period.
Trump has been trying to tell the American people that some of you will have to die needlessly in order for him to be reelected. And anyone who has a problem with that is nothing but a “never Trumper.” Jim Jones demanded loyalty and dogmatic obedience from his followers at Jonestown, and Trump expects nothing less from his cultists.
@trumputin bonespurs that was cute though! And sit tight cuz the Obama Administration is getting ready to go to jail indictments are about to be unsealed conviction are coming LOL😂😂😂😂😂😂
@trumputin bonespurs and when Barack Obama plays golf for 6 months straight at Camp David during the Ebola virus when more than 11,000 people died you said nothing so keep your mouth shut
@REAL BLACKS KNOW THE TRUTH ACTUALLY SNOWFLAKE, PRESIDENT OBAMA ACTED QUICKLY AND BECAUSE OF HIS INTELLIGENT RESPONSE, THERE WERE ONLY 11 CASES OF EBOLA IN THE US AND ONLY 2 OF THOSE PEOPLE DIED SO KEEP YOUR MOUTH ON TRUMP’S STUMP AND TAINT AND KEEP SUCKING AND LICKING. NOW I KNOW YOU TRUMP SYCOPHANTS ARE BAD AT MATH AND SCIENCE BUT LET’S LOOK AT SOME FACTS. EBOLA IS MUCH DEADLIER THAN COVID-19 BUT IN 6 MONTHS, ONLY 2 PEOPLE DIED IN THE USA BECAUSE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA’S EXEMPLARY LEADERSHIP. IN CONTRAST, BECAUSE OF TRUMP’S GENIUS LEADERSHIP, OVER 65,000 DEATHS SO FAR IN THE USA IN JUST 4 MONTHS. AND WHY DO YOU WHITE PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING TO BE BLACK OR ANOTHER RACE OTHER THAN WHITE? YOU’RE STUPIDITY AND IGNORANCE REVEALS YOU REALLY ARE WHITE.
@REAL BLACKS KNOW THE TRUTH ONLY PEOPLE GOING TO JAIL IS TRUMP AND HIS CRIMINAL EMPIRE. YOU THINK IT’S CUTE TRUMP GOT OVER 65,000 AMERICANS KILLED BECAUSE OF HIS INCOMPETENCE? SO WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO FAKE BEING BLACK? DID YOU SEE A VIDEO OF DIAMOND & SILK AND THINK YOU COULD PULL OF BEING BLACK ONLINE? THEY MAY SUPPORT TRUMP BUT THEY’RE JUST GAMING THE SYSTEM AND GOT VISITS TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND A SWEET GIG ON FOX BUT JUST RECENTLY GOT FIRED BY FOX WHEN FOX FOUND OUT THEY WERE PLAYING BOTH SIDES. YOU’RE SO STUPID AND IGNORANT THAT YOUR WHITENESS SHINES THROUGH.
IN TRUMP’S OWN BEST WORDS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g62jSVJaFI
@REAL BLACKS KNOW THE TRUTH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHjJydZO99A
Cuomo to Trump
” Mr President, you are the President of ALL Americans. If you can’t understand that then it’s time for a new President “
Wrong sweetie you do realize that, so so much from the New York state that that’s the reason why he has to ask for federal funding in the first place? I’ve been a New Yorker all my life the Cuomo family even his father destroyed New York City! Born and raised I watched them turn it upside down
Funny how all the accounts on here offer trump quotes. Bot much? Even the comments are fake my friends. This is how pathetic it is
So uneducated president in history he accountable for the dead of Americans.
REAL BLACKS KNOW THE TRUTH who got booted out of NY? Psst. Name starts with a T.
If Coumo didn’t harbour 2 million illegal aliens that the federal government received no cooperation in removing , perhaps the NYC hospitals wouldn’t of been overwhelmed
Of all the awful things Dumpster Fire has done, this is one of the worst. He’s graduated from sociopath to active sadist!
@eric oxner I couldn’t agree more. I can’t understand where these people are coming from calling themselves Americans and acting like this. It’s truely a sad thing what Trump and his friends at FOX FAKE RIGHTWING ENTERTAINMENT have been able to do to this country…..
@John Harrison Bye …
@Wim VE bye bye 🙂
@Don Greenlee There is gonna be a reckoning for what they have done.You do not get away with causing trouble.Sooner or later its gonna catch up with them.
@Justin Shim he does not know much about employee safety cause he has never ran his companies. He only showed up at work to impress investors in to the Trump empire. He has always hired illegals and never worked a day in his 74 of life on planet Earth. He does not care about safety cause he has never been accountable for anything. This time he will one way or another. He is a President, not a king and he has to follow the law. He will be held accountable for all the deaths from the Corona Virus, the counted and uncounted deaths. Blood on his hands, since he declared our fight for survival as a war of a stupid kind in his mind. He will pay with his very life for all that his did not do as a leader.
GOP is showing how much it cares for working-class Americans.
@Don Quixote very good question! GOP leaders insist their constituents don’t want affordable healthcare, good public schools or higher wages you tell me. Wave a flag and talk like you know god and people swoon. its a mystery.
I hope we all remember this in Nov.
@J M M HAHAHA good job karens of the world even more unemployed hey don’t lefties love sweden they didn’t have lock downs and not killing people with ventilators.
@Cathy Mc Kean trump 2020 hes still against CHY-NA 2 scoops 2 genders 2 terms
@Dave Schultz STFU TROLL
Trump can order the plants to stay open! He cannot, however–force anyone to go to work there–don’t go in if the conditions at your plant are terrible!
@Beenthere Donethat Yeah, save the N95 masks for nurses and doctors,—then hospital administration tells nurses they can’t bring their own N95 masks. Why? They didn’t want people to wear masks. The doctors at the Mayo clinic stopped wearing masks because Pence is their role model. The doctors and nurses don’t need as many masks as they thought they would; there were so many deaths among staff. Trump was right! Now we’re the king of masks! None for the meat workers though. The stockpile is for the Feds.
@justsaying not criminal, the republicans right the laws and theybdecide whatvis criminal.
@fleckensteinsmonster and all this time the Republicans talked about small government and now the fat orange clown is making all the workers at the meat processing plants, his slaves. Work and die or don’t work and die is no choice any free person should ever have to make. Where is the Republican outrage?
@Beenthere Donethat So they’ve basically turned the workers into indentured servants for the good of the State. That’s communism folks.
@Gene Roles https://www.collective-evolution.com/2020/04/26/two-emergency-medicine-doctors-on-why-quarantine-just-doesnt-make-sense/?fbclid=IwAR209PVW9tlvER2xUCbaGlw8yJp_IFFsvU8oZkpdu7RR3J72GR2tzKXRl-0
True Story: Tyson Foods Founder & Chairman John H. Tyson’s net worth is $2 billion, and he can’t buy PPE for his employees.
B Bodziak Sure it is. Think of your typical “cycle of abuse” of abused kids abusing their own kids as adults or seeking out new abusers as spouses. The mind becomes acclimated to suffering and violence.
@B Bodziak The US sent PPE to China when their outbreak began. They had no idea that decision would be such a bad one until they became aware it created a shortage here.
@Diane Bush That shipment was sent on Feb 7 after the WHO declared an International Public Health Emergency on Jan 30 without checking the status of the National stockpile.
There is no difference in the way they treat their animals and their employees except the former get chopped into pieces by the latter who’s sick. Sad
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Looks to me that even before the virus meat packers where treated worse than animals for the sake of profit.
Steve E they are killing animals all day . Those people should be so grossed out by their job.
@Wendy Sybers are you grossed out out when you cut up vegetables to make a salad it’s just food
@Susan Baron y not
Treated “worse” than the animals?? They aren’t the ones being gassed, electrocuted, and killed..
@Susan Baron The workers at the meat plants are not able to practice social distance because of the way the owners have set up the physical space.
Thanks Donald…for tearing down far more than you could ever hope to build.
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Very well said.
His nickname is demolition man. look it up.
@Thomas Rogers Tell us more.
Capitalism is out of control. We bail out billionaires who own mega companies with the money we deserve to have to ourselves… All while their offshore bank accounts full of money to fix their own problems stays untouched. Billionaires didnt get rich from their hard work. They got it from exploiting our hard work and rigging the system to favor them.
@Star Fox…well said!!
This is NOT capitalism…It’s socialism for the rich and powerful and fascism for the rest of us. Capitalism is DEAD.
Come on be fair, do you know how much it costs to buy a new corporate jet? You gotta feel sorry for them they don’t know where there next million will come from.
This is not capitalism!
People like to mistake corruption with capitalism. While this mistake is understandable as the most corrupt people always defend their corruption with the argument of capitalism (Rex Tillerson, Trump and many others) this is not true.
Those people destroy your education so you do not even know anymore what socialism, capitalism, communism etc is.
Republicans are so pro-life when it comes to women rights and so pro-choice when it comes to the rich exploiting the poor. This is why no one takes you all seriously.
@B Bodziak The Bible clearly states that life begins at first breath. Pro-birth ignore this clearly stated fact in favor of “at conception” which is not the word of their God. Pure hypocrisy but what else is new.
@Dave Schultz Why are you ignoring the blatant sexual abuse from the current president. EVERY allegation against him is WAY worse than any allegation against Biden! Republicans like YOU are the worst humans possible!!!
@Damia Savon I did not know this! Do you mind me asking where 8 can find this in the Bible? Genuinely asking.
Every republican needs to go…EVERY ONE..including this one that thinks he’s going to run independent. Forget his name. The fact that he’s a republican says it all.
Simply put, the Republicans are HYPOCRITES Enrique Ordaz. I say that and I’m not a Democrat, but an independent observer of the current scene.
Im an Australian and proud of it as you are of your country but from what Im seeing there beggars belief. If this is a war then whats happening is tantamount to war crimes being committed. Your Govt is treating your citizens as cannon fodder to pander to big business. When the dust settles (assuming it does) there should be litigation after litigation. This goes against the grain of what it is to be human. The CDC is a toothless tiger. Your President is a buffoon and is an easy target for laughter but it is at the expense of real peoples lives. Every other country is managing this crises by putting public safety first. The people orchestrating your strategies are nothing short of terrorists
@Amanda Skilling Yes, a country of 300 mil plus people and these are the best two they can find to vote for! Although Obama aside there hasnt been a great list of leaders in recent times anyway.
Good assessment. The USA is not a United populace. Too much diversity. Diversity is a bad thing.
@riddler Although not always popular and not perfect, I think they need someone like NYC Governor Cuomo, he doesn’t want to be president though. America’s situation is so shocking, unbelievable that there isn’t a cohesive plan and a criminal egotist for a so called leader turning it into the Divided States of America. Wishing all the best for the people of the USA <3 <3 <3
@Amanda Skilling That makes it even more baffling when you see some Governors showing empathy and integrity that have that ability – but the problems in US go deeper than that I think. Theres a vid here on YT ‘Capitalism and the American Pandemic Response’ – well worth a look. Gets a bit Trotsky at the end but it is a great analysis of how America works and how its found itself in this situation. Everyone stay safe
@Will Storm I agree. I’ve never been keen on Morrison, especially how he’s matey mates with Trump. But I approve how he has handled this CORONAVIRUS. He was terrible with the fires, but I’m happy now. He is an angel compared to Trump. Truly a vile man.Has no compassion or empathy.
I cannot believe what is happening in America.
Forcing people to go back to work in these meat packing plants is a potential death sentence. It’s playing Russian roulette.
If they would just make it safe. Everybody wins.
@Steven Schulte except the animals
Yap I work in meat plant social distancing is impossible
It was Putin’s suggestion directly from Russia I’m sure… it’s his playbook for authoritarian rule for trump to be one as powerful and rich as that Russian mafia Nazi.
trump no longer cares how many people die, so long as his alternative reality is perpetuated.
He’ll be re-elected by Easter 2020
This is Trump’s problem because he didn’t do nothing but lied to the American public . In February he has said that coronavirus would be Miracle or magical gone . Donald J . Trump has never had a plan for America . His plan was to destroy America economy and continue to lie to the American public . Sad , sad 😪😪
@Thomas Rogers as what? Most popular suicide?
@adamf663 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5BZ09iNdvo&feature=youtu.be&t=106
@Thomas Rogers I guess there are disadvantages with having as president a psychopath with the mental acuity of a three year old.
What are you on about? they’re little more than slaves, not employees, this is the way you treat slaves.
Yep. They never wanted to end slavery so they invented a new form of slavery to make us work to build their wealth for them while staying on top.
Before the civil war, only black people were enslaved. After the war, we are all slaves. We just have two classes of slaves here in this country –the white slaves & colored slaves. The white slaves are treated better than the colored ones because they share the same DNA as their slave masters. So they’re allowed to have more privileges. But overall, we are still the same in many ways.
They want to control us so they keep us divided into small groups by created hatred among us through racism, sexism, political difference, & so on.. Divide & conquer is their method.
It’s hard to get out of this web as long as we continue to drink their Koolaid.
So may lies! Only the simple minded are spreading the virus because they are unable to understand the simple directive of social distancing. Those simple minded employees will be in their jobs until people go back to work and find a way to deal with them. They aren’t going way. In the US, you can not send the police in and remove them at gunpoint the way they do in China.
So may lies! Only the simple minded are spreading the virus because they are unable to understand the simple directive of social distancing. Those simple minded employees will be in their jobs until people go back to work and find a way to deal with them. They aren’t going way. In the US, you can not send the police in and remove them at gunpoint the way they do in China.
No not yet I was in Detroit in 1968 if you want to see what people do when they get angry
“You need to sacrifice people for the bigger thing, US economy is more important, you know…for my re-election”
Trump is forcing workers to remain in meat plants, regardless if they are contagious or not. It’s a recipe for disaster.
Don’t even read about reduced safety inspections and longer hours and sequestration of workers at the nuclear plants! Mr. Burns…
Why isn’t this called human rights violations?
IT IS TIME TO MAKE trump ENABLERS ACCOUNTABLE! SHAMELESS this corrupt, inept presidency being supported!
WE AMERICAN’S HAVE LIVED TOTAL COLLAPSE OF THE US. IN 4 YEARS OF TRUMP “MESSAGE”
Not really. He says the quiet parts out loud & has laid bare the rot that has always been there. We had simply bondo’d over the rust holes & now that the road has gotten rough, the bondo has cracked & fallen out.
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If Trump wants his hamburgers. He and his sons and daughter and his supporters needs 2 work in those meat packing. Fox Fake News employees too.
Extremely funny when a venezuela navy ship tried ramming a german cruise liner ice breaker ship then ended up sinking
Reinstate the draft and draft Trump supporters first, the Republicans.
No I don’t want Donald Biohazard Hypodermic Needles Trump anywhere near a Meat packing plant nor his children anywhere near a meat packing plant… Either
@Eddie Sanchez people fighting over toilet paper is funnier
He’s never worked a day in his life.