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Trust The “Experts”

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Public health authorities have failed us at every level, and the powerful people who were catastrophically wrong about China.

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The long hard road to decoupling from China. We cannot have globalization with countries that do not share our values of liberty and individualism. But we should more strongly embrace the China that works: Taiwan.

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A bipartisan call for WHO to make Taiwan a member. That of course begs the question that WHO is an organization even worthy of our funding.

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The massive failure of the federal government in the pandemic argues against Medicare for all.

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Half-Whitmer

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Michigan has possibly the worst governor in America.

I was talking to my brother, who lives just south of Flint, about this yesterday, when we talked for Easter. They usually drive down to Southfield on holidays to visit with his wife’s family, but couldn’t do it due to the lockdown order.

She’s not up for re-election until 2022, but maybe she could be recalled. But she’s also on the list to be Biden’s running mate, because she has the right number of X chromosomes. Not at all clear that she would strengthen the ticket in MI, though, in the wake of this tyrannical idiocy.

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As George Turner notes in comments, there’s a very popular recall petition at Change.org.

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More at Redstate.

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Wow, the signatures are coming in more than one per second. My brother, his wife, and their two kids have signed. My question is, is there a legal recall procedure? I don’t think this petition has any legal weight.

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Here is the procedure. The petition has to first be approved, then needs 25% of the people who voted in the last general election in the state. Looks like it would force a gubernatorial election in November, in which she’d have to defend her office against challenger(s).

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This is the official manual for how do it. There were four and a quarter million votes in 2018, so the petition would need a little over a million signatures. Based on the Change.org petition, that seems doable.

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She’s not the only one; this is exposing the little tyrants all over the country.

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These petty authoritarians are getting out of hand.

[Tuesday-morning update]

Michigan business people: Why is our state different?

Because your state elected a moron in 2018 as governor.

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While Trump rants, it’s the governors who are being the Captain Queegs.