Nation's Governors Consider Forming Country

[Wounded Bear]

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/nations-governors-consider-forming-country?fbclid=IwAR3Y_7uldVXELav2m2mmNXTp81J6qd65CytyHNH7OzSFZmEX_edB69GhqHA

Nation’s Governors Consider Forming Country

AMERICA (The Borowitz Report)—In order to better coördinate their efforts to combat the coronavirus, the nation’s governors are considering the extraordinary step of forming a country.

The radical proposal is an unusual bipartisan effort, spearheaded by the Democratic governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, and the Republican governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine.

“Mike and I were bidding against each other for masks and ventilators, and I was, like, ‘Mike, this is crazy,’ ” Whitmer said. “ ‘It would be so much better if we just worked together and formed a country.’ ”

DeWine said that Whitmer’s proposal of creating a country out of the fifty states “made a lot of sense.”

[FM123]

1. Funny not funny.

Some days these articles from Onion or Borowitz actually seem plausible. These are crazy times and it's getting harder to recognize satire any more.

[GopherGal]

2. Borowitz hitting too close to home

When I saw "Confederacy" trending yesterday, I half entertained the idea that the various governors' coalitions that were/are forming could be likened to a secession.

It does really underline the inadequacy of the maladministration's response that governors are in effect forming their own federations to address the problems. Unfortunately for Mr. Borowitz, I think this one is too true to be funny.

[roamer65]

3. Michigan would join the Canadian confederation.

We are more like Ontario, rather than Alabama.

The deplorables in Lansing yesterday would be the ones we would forcibly deport.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. They could call it "The States, United."

It’s a work in progress.