Most U.S. Jobs
You don’t say.
But I’ll bet a lot more of them can than have been until this.
Apollo 13, And Commercial Crew
I did a Twitter thread.
Half-Whitmer
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.
[Late-morning update]
As George Turner notes in comments, there’s a very popular recall petition at Change.org.
[Update a while later]
More at Redstate.
[Update a few minutes later]
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.
[Update a couple minutes later]
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).
[Update a couple minutes later]
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.
[Update a few minutes later]
She’s not the only one; this is exposing the little tyrants all over the country.
[Update early afternoon]
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.
[Update a while later]
While Trump rants, it’s the governors who are being the Captain Queegs.
If Biden Were President
…our coronavirus problems would be much worse.
Yup.
The EEOC
It’s too bad that the Trump administration doesn’t take it as seriously as it does judicial appointments. With the wrong people on it, it can be a very damaging institution.
California
Has it been here (at least in the Bay Area) a lot longer than we thought? I think it’s quite plausible that it was here in December, which in a sense is good news, because it probably means we already have a lot more herd immunity than we thought, and the fatality rate is much lower than earlier fears.
Crossfire Hurricane
It’s official: Every aspect of it was shady.
It was a corrupt criminal conspiracy against first a presidential candidate of the opposition party and then a president. And there should be little doubt that the Obama White House was fully aware of it. One of the reasons that a lot of this is coming out now (and the State Department refused to ask for Executive Privilege to prevent Hillary from being deposed) is that Grenell is finally starting to clean house (which was why the Left went nuts when Trump appointed him) in preparation for Ratcliffe to take over as DNI.
But will there be indictments this time around? I hope that history is not prelude. It’s up to Barr now.
Optimism
We are 100 times safer now than in early March. Hope this is right.
The Handshake
A eulogy.
I for one would not miss it. It has caused countless hours of lost productivity, and lives. We should have abandoned it decades ago.