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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSusan J. Demas: Protestors threatened Whitmer's murder. GOP leaders haven't condemned them.
Welcome to Michigan in the Trump eraIts an extraordinarily low bar for Michigan Republican leaders to condemn heavily armed protestors calling for the governors murder, and yet theyve managed to fail to clear it.
You can stop holding your breath waiting, too. There were men with rifles yelling at senators from the chamber gallery during a Thursday session, as state Sen. Dayna Polehanki (D-Livonia) noted, as the GOP majority passed measures attempting to quash Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmers power and sue her for measures trying to stop the spread of a pandemic thats killed more than 3,700 in our state and more than 60,000 nationwide.
This was an act of intimidation and it wouldnt have happened if GOP leadership didnt want it to.
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So there you have it. Republican leadership is just putting a respectable sheen on the crude and violent arguments made by protestors. This is what the GOP is today in Michigan.
https://www.michiganadvance.com/2020/05/01/susan-j-demas-protestors-threatened-whitmers-murder-gop-leaders-havent-condemned-them/
onecaliberal
(32,863 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)onecaliberal
(32,863 posts)Its so fucking true. Can you imagine armed black folks storming the state Capitol of some southern state and not all being shot dead by police?
sellitman
(11,607 posts)According to The Orange Anus.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Cops should have been wearing protective face shields.
*This screaming thug would be shot dead were he a black man on the street
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farmbo
(3,122 posts)It was passed by both houses of the legislature and signed into law by the previous Republican governor... the same Governor who will be remembered for poisoning Flints water supply.
Its also permitted in several other states.
Budi
(15,325 posts)What about Fed courthouses or airport TSA clearance.
Guess that would fall under Federal law though.
Ugh.
What is wrong with this country? Can nobody see how insane this is?
BComplex
(8,053 posts)All we need is for democrats to constantly pin all this crap on republicans.
crickets
(25,981 posts)There you go.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I don't get it. If people are standing there in the State House with a loaded gun and are threatening to murder the Governor, why are they not being arrested?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But yeah, Michigan seems to be edging into Idaho East territory.
Paladin
(28,264 posts)ChoosenWisely
(17 posts)Our Michigan State Sen. Dayna Polehanki, glad I voted for her in the Blue wave 2018 elections. Cant wait till they ungerrymander our state in 2021 and we have a bigger blue wave in the 2022 State elections.