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Whitmer to Michigan: Stay Home and Shut Up
Real Clear Politics ^ | 19 April 20 | Debra Saunders

Posted on 04/21/2020 5:04:51 AM PDT by Bruiser 10

When historians look back at America's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, they likely will cite Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as the best example of how not to contain a pandemic in your state.

The Democratic governor has turned her state into the heart of COVID-19 resistance. On Wednesday, protesters shut down the roads in Lansing, the state's capital, in a protest dubbed "Operation Gridlock."

Whitmer responded to the outrage of her constituents thusly: "I know that people are angry and that's OK, and if you want to take it out and send it my way, if it makes you feel better, that's fine. I support your right to free speech, and I respect your opinions. I just urge you, don't put yourself at risk and don't put others at risk either. I was really disappointed to see people congregating, not wearing masks. I saw someone handing out candy to little kids bare-handed."

She did everything but brand her critics "barbarians at the gate" -- unwashed hordes who stand against the good people who stay home and don't make waves -- when her provocative attitude and policies truly were a problem.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gestapogretchen; governorkaren; halfwhitmer; heilhalfwit; michigan; policestate; protest; whitler; whitmer
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To: brownsfan

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/493678-poll-michigan-residents-favor-whitmer-coronavirus-handling-over-trump

The mental midgets of my state have spoken.I find it strange that no one I know, or myself for that matter are ever called for these polls?


21 posted on 04/21/2020 5:33:58 AM PDT by Nekman (The Dems are SocialistCommunistUtopianMarxists...SCUM for short...it FITS!)
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To: Bruiser 10

SURRENDER REPUBLICANS!
22 posted on 04/21/2020 5:36:08 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: Travis McGee

To which I might add, sequester and protect the most vulnerable.

(s) nully, whose household has been hunkered down since 2/3/20. Mom is 91...


23 posted on 04/21/2020 5:38:22 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: blackdog
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. "

— C. S. Lewis

24 posted on 04/21/2020 5:42:34 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: null and void

LOL!!I don’t care whether you doubt it or not. It is immaterial what you think because it is going to happen period. Are you involved in National Defense? Do you fully understand what’s going on and who is pulling the strings on both sides? I don’t think so as you are obviously an adherent to the MSM propaganda BS based upon your response.


25 posted on 04/21/2020 5:43:52 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: DarthVader
When the official news hits the streets (and it will) that the Chinese, camelrapingragheadterrorscum and Democrats colluded together to try to bring down the govt and our country it will be Donald J Trump, president for life! Gretchen,Joe and many others will be gone for good.

This was NOT AN ACCIDENT !!! THIS WAS NOT A BAT BORNE !!! THIS WAS/IS AN ACT OF WAR!!!

26 posted on 04/21/2020 5:45:13 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: mabarker1

Exactly and anyone who thinks that we are going to have an election when these revelations are made public along with the necessary ruthless action required is totally out of touch.


27 posted on 04/21/2020 5:47:26 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Bruiser 10
International Women's Day Marred by Slut Shaming of the 50 Ft ...
28 posted on 04/21/2020 5:51:50 AM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: Bruiser 10

Mizz Planned Parenthood wearing hat. Deliberately provocative.

Michigan, please recall this governess. She cannot handle the job.


29 posted on 04/21/2020 5:51:55 AM PDT by sauropod (Pelosi Galore: We know she's lying when we see her dentures flying. Have some cake, Peasant!)
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To: Bruiser 10

“I saw someone handing out candy to little kids bare-handed.”

The horror, the horror.


30 posted on 04/21/2020 5:54:38 AM PDT by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: alloysteel

“...if Michelle (Michael?) Obama is not interested..”

She’s far too lazy.


31 posted on 04/21/2020 6:12:11 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bruiser 10

Laws that do not apply to lawmakers are unconstitutional. Similarly regulations that do not apply to regulators must not be followed. Any governor who puts his citizenry out of work must not draw a salary. It is the height of arrogance for a bureaucrat to insist on the suffering of others while continuing to eat ice cream.


32 posted on 04/21/2020 6:17:00 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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To: DarthVader
Nope. I think you are spot on as to the underlying facts, I just think you are vastly overestimating the ability of 150 million democrats to admit they are wrong.

The full disclosure? Yeah, that will happen.

Pretty much none of the foam flecked screamers will change their minds.

The gibsmedats will still stay on the plantation and vote for whoever promises seize from the taxpayers to give them the most stuff. (On the bright side, in the booming Trump economy a lot of gibsmedats became employees and got a taste of the self respect and personal security earning one's own way provides, and the edumaction of seeing how much of that paycheck is taken by the IRS!)

The swamp dwellers aren't going to quit their sinecures no matter what. "You mean get a job, actually working? Being held accountable? NO THANKS!"

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Am I involved with National Defense? No, although once upon a time I worked with a former Hitler Youth making ALCM cruise missile parts. He was still insisting the wrong side won... Hence my comment on foam flecked screamers.

Do I fully understand what's going on? Fully? No. No one does, not even you.

I don’t think so as you are obviously an adherent to the MSM propaganda BS based upon your response.

I don't think you understood my post. It's not about you, it's not about me. It's about half the population personally invested in Orange Man Bad. They cannot admit error. Even to themselves, or maybe especially to themselves.

They will NEVER be America first people. NEVER. NEVER. NEVER.

Like the escaped Nazis (actually quite like the escaped Nazis!) they will never give up their dreams of brutally ruling the world.

On the bright side, for the most part their kids became good Argentinians...

33 posted on 04/21/2020 6:18:57 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: MV=PY

The very next thing I was going to do was look up and post that quote!

Thanks!


34 posted on 04/21/2020 6:20:41 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: null and void

Great minds running along the same gutter... ;)


35 posted on 04/21/2020 6:22:04 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: null and void

Welcome to Internment Camp Michigan!


36 posted on 04/21/2020 6:24:49 AM PDT by Rodm
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To: null and void

This is moving beyond politics and it is not going to be solved politically which is why your opinions are not as valid as you think they are and what you suggest we will not see this time. Acts of war and treason have been committed by Americans. These traitors are going to be hit well in advance of November and I have talked to enough people of stature to know its true. Gen Milley is the worst person in the world you want to a traitor too. He is vicious and ruthless with our enemies. This Covid-19 incident at least have people conditioned and in the right mind where the people will welcome what the military is going to do. Anyone who resists has my sympathies.


37 posted on 04/21/2020 6:33:23 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: mabarker1
This was NOT AN ACCIDENT !!! THIS WAS NOT A BAT BORNE !!! THIS WAS/IS AN ACT OF WAR!!!

Yup. A tiny fraction of us know that.

We aren't going to a hot nuclear war with another nuclear power that through Clinton and Loral has, um, "Chinese copies" of our ICBMs.

We are going to have to utterly destroy them economically.

If the Chinese people become desperate enough, they will overthrow their own government. Given the very tight monitoring and iron-fisted control that government has over everything, they will have to be VERY desperate.

38 posted on 04/21/2020 6:33:39 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: Rodm

Oh? I can get out of Internment Camp Nevada without leaving my house? KEWL!


39 posted on 04/21/2020 6:36:34 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: Bruiser 10
When historians look back at America's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, they likely will cite Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as the best example of how not to contain a pandemic in your state.

The Democratic governor has turned her state into the heart of COVID-19 resistance. On Wednesday, protesters shut down the roads in Lansing, the state's capital, in a protest dubbed "Operation Gridlock."

Whitmer responded to the outrage of her constituents thusly: "I know that people are angry and that's OK, and if you want to take it out and send it my way, if it makes you feel better, that's fine. I support your right to free speech, and I respect your opinions. I just urge you, don't put yourself at risk and don't put others at risk either. I was really disappointed to see people congregating, not wearing masks. I saw someone handing out candy to little kids bare-handed."

In her first interview on "Fox News Sunday" since 2017, Billionaire House Speaker Ice Cream Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., spoke to anchor Chris Wallace about the coronavirus pandemic and its effect on Americans.

"People are taking to the streets, pushing back against some of the more stringent restrictions in some states," Wallace said during the interview, which is set to air Sunday on Fox News Channel. "Can you understand why they're doing that?"

Let them eat Ice Cream, Pelosi responded: "No, not, not really because what we have to do is, is, is shelter in place. That is really the answer."

Meanwhile, Nancy, In the real world, not your Ice Cream billionaire world, Our economy/citizens have been brutally raped/abused with the actions of your fellow elites, democrat governors and mediots!

“A shutdown is a broadly destructive solution, to a problem that could have been solved with far more targeted approaches!"

Quarantines only work to keep a small amount of sick people from going out and spreading the disease!

They don’t work to keep the vast majority of healthy people locked inside.

Thanks to HotHunt for this great visual!

If people want to stay home, let them! NO ONE wants to force them to go out!

40 posted on 04/21/2020 6:36:52 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Are the ChiComs, their ownership of America's, fake news media/CNN, the real Deep Staters?)
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