'Our supply line is brittle': Thomas Massie warns US could be weeks away from food shortages

Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie warned that the United States could face food shortages due to the “brittle” supply chain, bankrupting farmers and forcing them to euthanize livestock. “We are weeks, not months, away from farmers euthanizing animals that would have been sold for meat/food. Also, fruits and vegetables are going to rot in the fields. A drastic change in policy this week could ameliorate this inevitability,” he tweeted Monday.

Massie shared an interview he did with a local radio show host for the tri-state area of Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky, during which he spoke about how the U.S. could see farmers going bankrupt and euthanizing cattle and hogs because meat processing plants have shuttered during the coronavirus pandemic. “You have people running the government that have no clue about how the economy works and how their food gets to the table,” Massie told radio host Tom Roten. “The shocking thing is that farmers are watching the value of their hogs and steers, cows, go down. In fact, they're going to some of the lowest levels ever,” he said. “So the question is: Why is the price of meat going up in the supermarkets and the price of cattle going down at the auction ring? It’s because our supply line is brittle. You have to take cattle, steer, beef, whatever, hogs, to a processing plant. And these processing plants, like much of industrial America right now, are shutting down because of absentees, which has been exacerbated by the unemployment program the federal government has instituted — plus the $1,200 checks that are about to hit, plus some of the regulations that the states have put in place.”

He said there are at least six giant meat processing plants that have shut down during the pandemic, including one plant that was processing 1,900 cattle a day. “I'm afraid you're going to see … cattle and hogs being euthanized or incinerated and buried while we have shortages at the supermarket. And you talk about civil unrest when you start seeing that. And it’s all because of the brittle food supply chain,” he said. Massie added he is working on a bill to help prevent a shortage and get cuts of beef and pork on dinner tables. “I've got a bill that would let these local meat packers sell cuts of meat individually instead of having to sell half a cow or a quarter of a cow,” he said.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/our-supply-line-is-brittle-massie-warns-us-could-be-weeks-away-from-food-shortages

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>>8777981

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Top coronavirus forecaster warns of 'rebound' if country reopens May 1

The creator of a top U.S. coronavirus model warned of a resurgence if social distancing guidelines around the country are eased on May 1. As some advisers to President Trump advocate for a push to reignite the struggling economy next month, Christopher Murray, the director of the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, said premature easing of restrictions meant to stem the spread of the virus could have disastrous effects. "The first testing we've done on this is if you opened up the entire country May 1, then we would very clearly have a rebound," Murray said Sunday on CBS News's Face the Nation. "We don't think the capability in the states exists yet to deal with that volume of cases. And so by July or August, we could be back in the same situation we are now. I think what Dr. Fauci was talking about this morning is that different states are on different timings," he added. "And so maybe some states can open up mid-May. But we have to be very careful and make sure that we don't sort of lose all the effort that the American people have put into closures by premature opening."

The model overseen by Murray was used by the White House to predict at the end of March between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths in the United States from the virus, with mitigation. By last week, the IHME model was forecasting the virus would kill as few as 60,000 people, suggesting social distancing has been working. The U.S. death toll surpassed that of hard-hit Italy on Saturday, and reached more than 22,000 people by Monday morning, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. There have been more than 557,000 confirmed cases.

There are signs that the worst of the crisis is over. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, predicted it would be a "bad week," after which there would be a turnaround thanks to social distancing measures that drove down new hospitalization rates. Calling it one of the "toughest" decisions he'll ever make, Trump told Fox News over the weekend he will make a decision "reasonably soon" on an effort to promote the reopening of wide swaths of the economy.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-coronavirus-forecaster-warns-of-rebound-if-country-reopens-may-1

Real estate mogul and close Trump friend Stanley Chera dead at 77 from coronavirus

A real estate developer and close friend of President Trump, who the president had said was in a coma, died on Saturday after a monthlong fight against the coronavirus. Stanley Chera led Crown Acquisitions, a real estate firm that he founded and ran. Trump first spoke of a friend who had fallen ill with the coronavirus at a March 29 White House briefing, where he noted the “viciousness” of the disease. "I had a friend who went to a hospital the other day. He’s a little older, and he’s heavy, but he’s [a] tough person," Trump said. "And he went to the hospital, and a day later, he’s in a coma. … He's not doing well." "The speed and the viciousness, especially if it gets the right person, it’s horrible. It’s really horrible," he said.

Asked whether Chera's illness had marked a turning point in his thinking on the pandemic, Trump said it had not because of the statistics and case numbers he had seen. "He's sort of central casting for what we're talking about, and it hit him very hard," Trump said of Chera on April 1. "I've never seen anything like it." As of Monday morning, more than 550,000 U.S. cases had been confirmed, and the virus had killed more than 22,100 people, according to Johns Hopkins University. Nearly 7,000 deaths have occurred in New York City.

At a 2019 rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Trump touted Chera as "one of the biggest builders and real estate people in the world." “A friend of mine — he’s very shy, but he’s very rich. He shouldn’t be shy. He’s one of the biggest builders and real estate people in the world, one of the biggest owners of property,” Trump said. "He’s a great guy, and he’s been with me from the beginning — Stanley Chera. Stanley! Those big beautiful buildings in Manhattan, you know, those big beautiful buildings? He owns them. Stanley, how much did you make this month? Stanley is a great guy. He’s been with us all. He loves you, and he’s been with us from the beginning." Chera, a Republican, was also a donor to the Trump Victory Fund.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/real-estate-mogul-and-close-trump-friend-stanley-chera-dead-at-77-from-coronavirus

>>8778088

Seems like they are falling all over themselves to come out of the woodwork.

>>8778104

Thinking it should be abundantly clear to most by now that these people are pushing an agenda rather than protection of the population. There are so many indicators of this if you watch and pay attention closely. How much longer before they are finally exposed and shut down is the question now.

>>8778164

Bingo…those were my thoughts! Also thought about the Queen saying "this will be the last Christmas"

The 13 revelations showing the FBI never really had a Russia collusion case to begin with

Recently declassified evidence directly undercuts the main arguments the FBI used to justify investigating President Trump and his campaign. They’ve come slowly, drip by drip: the reluctant revelations of an FBI bureaucracy. But taken together, the body of evidence now amassed over two years of investigating the investigators explains why Attorney General William Barr last week declared there was never really a basis to probe Donald Trump’s campaign for alleged collusion with Russia.

"I think the president has every right to be frustrated, because I think what happened to him was one of the greatest travesties in American history," Barr told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham. "Without any basis they started this investigation of his campaign, and even more concerning, actually is what happened after the campaign, a whole pattern of events while he was president. to sabotage the presidency, and I think that – or at least have the effect of sabotaging the presidency,” the attorney general said. Two years ago, those words coming from the top law enforcement official in the land would have been hard to imagine, or to support with public evidence. But today, after countless open record lawsuits, congressional investigations, sworn depositions and declassifications, there is compelling evidence that the FBI did not have justification to sustain its nearly three year-long, now debunked, Russia collusion probe or to support Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants targeting the Trump campaign.

Furthermore, the evidence shows, the false narrative was sustained by repeated leaks of information to the news media that was blatantly false, debunked in many instances by evidence sitting in the FBI's own files. The latest revelations came Friday, when previously classified footnotes from the Justice Department inspector general were unmasked and showed the FBI had stunning reason to distrust Christopher Steele’s dossier when the former British spy first pitched it in July 2016.

Here are 13 of the most important revelations that undercut the FBI’s predicate for opening an investigation targeting the Trump campaign in July 2016, for obtaining a year’s worth of FISA warrants to spy on former campaign adviser Carter Page and for seeking a special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, to take over and extend the probe.

There are many more revelations that expose flaws, lies and misconduct in the creation of a false Russia collusion narrative. But these 13 alone help explain why Barr made such a sweeping statement last week. They also likely explain a statement made years earlier in text messages between two key FBI employees, when lead Russia case Agent Peter Strzok texted his lawyer and paramour Lisa Page in May 2017 that there was “there's no big there there” in the Russia probe.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/13-revelations-showing-fbi-never-really-had-russia#digital-diary

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>>8778303

Letter dated Jan 28, 2020, to Attorney General Bill Barr from Senator Chuck Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson

Asking Barr to remove footnote redactions.

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020-01-28%20RHJ%20CEG%20to%20DOJ%20%28FISA%20Report%20Declassification%29_Redacted.pdf

>>8778114

>TAC

>GSG

Do we know what these are?

>>8778522

>its one way to get rid of "useless eaters"

Are YOU moar special than the life of another…You sound bitter.

>>8778545

Thanks anon, what I thought, wanted to be sure.