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Gretchen Whitmer’s Virtue Signaling Can’t Hide That Her Lockdown Strategy Has Failed
thefederalist ^ | 08/10/2020 | Molly Davis

Posted on 08/10/2020 7:19:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has pulled yet another publicity stunt by declaring racism a public health crisis last Wednesday. To address it, she created the “Black Leadership Advisory Council” tasked with a number of goals, including identifying policies that negatively affect black Michiganders.

Additionally, all state employees will now be required to partake in implicit bias training to understand how their unconscious racism can affect others. This move is nothing more than virtue signaling to impress the public by using the latest newsworthy topics to grab their attention: racism and COVID-19. Whitmer is doing it not only to look good, but to distract from her failed coronavirus lockdown strategy.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: gretchenwhitmer; lockdown; michigan; strategy; whitmer; wretchedgretchen

1 posted on 08/10/2020 7:19:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She will never admit to anything. Its her way or nothing.


2 posted on 08/10/2020 7:19:36 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I once had a woman boss who reminds me of Whitmer. She was feared and hated by all of us “hired help” in the office.

The day she announced she was leaving to get another job, we all went out for “happy hour” and celebrated her departure.


3 posted on 08/10/2020 7:22:45 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Look’s like, acts like Cruella, 101 Dalmatians.


4 posted on 08/10/2020 7:24:47 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“a number of goals, including identifying policies that negatively affect black Michiganders.”

So.. if laws and/or Taxes negatively affect Black Michiganders??


5 posted on 08/10/2020 7:25:26 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: Dilbert San Diego
The day she announced she was leaving to get another job, we all went out for “happy hour” and celebrated her departure.

My sister did that for a co-worker. They had a small going away party, and when the co-worker left the party really began.
6 posted on 08/10/2020 7:26:26 AM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nurse Ratched would be a perfect pick for Clueless Joes vp


7 posted on 08/10/2020 7:26:52 AM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: richardtavor

Speaks like she has a mouthful of marbles


8 posted on 08/10/2020 7:27:34 AM PDT by Tuxedo (This space for rent)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ms. Whitmer is a total political failure


9 posted on 08/10/2020 7:43:16 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How’s the recall going?


10 posted on 08/10/2020 7:44:55 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it] today.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I once told an out going tyrant that Pizza was coming, to be delivered an hour after she left for good.


11 posted on 08/10/2020 7:56:21 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: Pajamajan
Haven't heard much about the recall petition drive.

The petition drive to repeal the 1945 emergency powers law which she's using, is going great.

12 posted on 08/10/2020 8:02:30 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There are some crazy people in Michigan. My once apolitical Michigander brother is drinking the Whitmer koolaid. He suffers from a severe case of TDS. I haven’t talked to him in over a month after a “discussion” of the urban legend University of Alabama COVID parties.
He denies that COVIDV deaths per million In Michigan are double that of Alabama.
This males me sad..


13 posted on 08/10/2020 8:13:36 AM PDT by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Time for a Heil Whitmer" piñata party for her and her administration.....just to show lynching doesn't descriminate!

14 posted on 08/10/2020 8:18:57 AM PDT by Bommer (I'm a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
...by declaring racism a public health crisis...

What Queen Gretchen I (among other Democrat governors) has discovered is that by declaring a "public health crisis" she can do pretty much whatever she wants by executive order.

What's next, declaring voting Republican a "public health crisis"?

15 posted on 08/10/2020 8:19:50 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

16 posted on 08/10/2020 8:32:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Bommer
I'll bring the hors d'oeuvres.

17 posted on 08/10/2020 8:33:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Baby got them crazy eyes. Whitmer is the kind of girlfriend you find to be great in bed but you very quickly find out she’s a nut job and you dump her fast.

Then she proceeds to stalk you to the point point of a court ordered restraint.


18 posted on 08/10/2020 5:06:01 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Whitmer's "governing", if you can call it that, brings her opinion into how history should now teach that racism is a disease that mainly African-Americans are susceptible to and victimized by, with white people being the only "carriers". She also believes or says she believes that white people may not understand how this could be, or even realize how racist they are, so it's almost like COVID-19 where you can be "asymptomatic", but don't kill yourself yet because it may not be your fault since the racism is "systemic" on top of being "historic". It all comes down to this: Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D- MI) has declared that she knows you better than you know yourselves, and I for one, hate when that happens.
19 posted on 08/11/2020 2:58:42 AM PDT by equaviator (If it seems like it's too bad to be true, then it probably isn't.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Whenever one of her policies is shown to be failing, she comes out and lectures us.

Interminable lockdown: She came out and played the victim, after her husband got busted pulling rank. She then slightly loosened restrictions.

After she marched maskless with BLM: loosened restrictions more so that they could riot (After condemning reopen protests)

Mask mandate for 4 weeks, no discernible effect on numbers: You’re all filthy racists.

My fear is that if Gropey Joe picks her, and Trump wins and Michigan goes red, she’ll come back and try to punish us.


20 posted on 08/11/2020 6:17:23 AM PDT by ferret_airlift
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