(April 19, 2020 at 8:59 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I'm referring to the rightwing nutball protests and misinformation surrounding the governors order. Those guys were always going to declare the democratic governor of anywhere a totalitarian dictator wannabe. Rand paul is singing the same song here about our governor (and our home improvement centers aren't even cordoned off....yet!).
Rinse and repeat with states all over the us. It's a coordinated political messaging campaign. Regardless of our general lack of interest in supporting dem candidates or giggling at the inadequacy of the dem ticket at the national level, that's the reality of the issue in the stories you were reading.
People can buy whatever they want, buying whatever we want is not a right, and there's nothing unreasonable about cordoning off areas that people are congregating in, already under guidelines, during an outbreak.
-zooming out into the general, we have white house advisors like Stephen Moore floating the idea to any rag that will listen and print it..that these neo-confederate morons are the new rosa parks. Meanwhile, the president of the united states declares them to be Very Responsible People™ and tweets out "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!".
Yes, well sometimes the bleating of politics as usual is rather on the mark though. I can say that without receiving a paternalistic finger wagging lecture from you, can't I?
Whitmer's edicts and messaging have been all over the place. So bad, that she apparently had to be reminded by staff that one of her arbitrary decrees would result in violating of cities' ordinances and imposition of fines, thus putting herself in the position of have fix, clarify or otherwise amend her nonsensical mishmash--which she's trying to push off as "thoughtful governance". Clearly it isn't.
The fact that Republicans are gonna Republican doesn't change that.
