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In reply to the discussion: Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies without a word [View all]ancianita
(36,023 posts)The Democratic governors are using their brains to outsmart Trump's racketeering. I think it's beyond that. It's downright American patriotism.
I don't think they thought they had to hide what they were doing at all. They've got guns, too, you know. And the force of their governor and state law behind them. FEMA can't override state level transactions. Just hospitals', apparently.
FEMA does its job, but most people in FEMA are not henchmen, just people doing their job while Trump abuses his legal power to order FEMA around. It is a "national disaster," after all.
CA's gov now calls his state a nation state. Which to the rest of the globe, it is, and can be traded with as such. I remember how Venezuelan oil was bought by one northeastern governor when fuel was running out for heat during a particularly bad winter. So governors have global trade. With this hollowed out government these days, they might need to make that work in The People's favor.
When Newsom gets all those millions of supplies and ships them to blue state governors, he will have cockblocked the punishment Trump's administering by favoring distribution to his loyalist governors. We'll get him later in court under RICO law, probably.