'If You Have 99 Employees, You're All Fine': James Lankford Mocks Biden's Vaccine Mandate

mr president senator from oklahoma mr president last week president biden announced that he had lost patience with the american people and that he was demanding people get a vaccination no i've had the vaccine grateful for the vaccine it's entirely different issue for the president united states to wag his finger at the american people and to say i know what you've chosen but i choose something different and you're going to follow me to literally instruct every employer with a hundred employees or more every federal contractor every federal employee to bend to the will of the president and take this injection that's a very different thing there are over 39 million americans right now that we know of that have already had coveted 19 have survived it and have natural immunity the president's demand for vaccine ignored those almost 40 million americans that already have natural immunity his demand was i know you have natural immunity i want you to get this vaccine as well it ignores cancer survivors that are very very careful about what goes into their system it ignores people with religious objections and there are millions that have religious objections it ignores individuals that just don't want to do it because they're an american and they don't have to and they do not like to have a federal government instructing them what they're going to actually put in their body now ironically this was a random selection of of companies that have 100 employees and up so i assume if you have 99 employees you're all fine but if you have 100 employees it's totally different there seems to be no accounting for where your employees work are your employees all tightly packed all 100 in one small room or all your employees all working outside do you have 100 employees but they're in 19 different locations there seems to be no accommodation for any of those it's just the president saying i've lost patience you need to go get the vaccine immediately so by thanksgiving he's planning on laying this vaccine mandate down on the country here's the multiple problems there as i've already outlined the 40 million people that have already survived covid and don't want to do the vaccine the individuals in different medical treatments the individuals of different other religious issues that they have but it's also an issue of trying to have a mandate come down from the federal government with an executive order that's not how our system works the president united states does not have the ability to be able to just demand behavior from the american people that's not their role it's been interesting to me i've had several people that have reached out to me and say i found out that the president's order exempts congress and so how come you get an exemption and i don't i've quickly responded back to them because we're a co-equal branch of government and the president's trying to find everybody under quote-unquote his purview to be able to do this but the judicial branch and the legislative branch aren't under his purview neither should the american people because the american people do not work for the president of the united states and companies of 100 people or more their chief executive their leadership does not work for the president united states so now what there are lawsuits that are pending but those lawsuits can't move forward until the actual paperwork comes out from the white house when that actual paperwork comes out in the next couple of weeks we assume we've not been told then they'll have what's called standing in the courts and litigation from across the country will be able to speak into and federal judges across the country will be able to move on an injunction on this out of control mandate and to be able to say they cannot just compel people to be able to go take a shot because the president wants to get it so that'll be the first big step there'll be legislative challenges that'll come through this body they are slower so the federal courts are the fastest response to this but there'll be multiple other groups that will push back on this myself included listen why would we not respect those individuals that have already had coveted 19. according to an article that's in the wall street journal just today there was a study out of israel that shows that the immunity from natural immunity is 27 times more effective than the shot 27 times according to the study that was just recently come out to ignore that and to say that's not enough is absurd or to compel americans whether they've had covet or not to be able to have a behavior be just because the president has quote unquote lost patience is not who we are as americans it's not constitutional it will not stand in the courts and should not stand we should push back on this let me

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Published: Tue Sep 14 2021