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What Michigan Gov. Whitmer Needs Is An Anger Translator
If you’ve lived long enough — and I have — then you probably know what it’s like to care about someone who doesn’t care about themselves. You keep trying to rescue them from the flames of their own self-destructive behavior, maybe feeling like some kind of hero, only to watch them pull away and jump headlong right back into the pit. But rather than let them catch fire, you figure it’s up to you to keep jumping in after them and pulling them back to safety, no matter how many times it takes.
Until that one time.
Because sooner or later that time comes when you decide, you know what? Fuck it. And fuck him/her. I’m out.
She’ll never say it publicly because there’s no way she can if she wants to get re-elected, but I’m betting Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is starting to feel that way about all her efforts to keep her constituents safe, despite the threats and attempts on her life and the constant barrage of attacks from the Republican idiot fringe in the legislature who think liberty and freedom of choice means freedom to not only risk your own life but the lives of others. I mean, she’s got a family too, right? How long is she supposed to expose them to all this bullshit?
So now her new strategy to combat the pandemic has shifted. Rather than resorting to locking…
