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Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
Tue May 12, 2020, 07:08 PM May 2020

Armed militia helped a Michigan barbershop open, a coronavirus defiance that puts Republican lawmake

Source: Washington Post



An Owosso, Mich., police officer speaks with Karl Manke about his defiance of state orders to keep his barber shop closed. (Nick King/AP)
By
Moriah Balingit
May 12, 2020 at 5:46 p.m. CDT

OWOSSO, Mich. — Armed members of the Michigan Home Guard stood outside Karl Manke's barber shop, ready to blockade the door if police arrived. They were determined to help Manke, 77, reopen his shop Monday, in defiance of state orders, and dozens joined them, wearing Trump sweatshirts and Trump cowboy hats and waving Trump flags.

They gathered not because they desperately needed haircuts but to rail against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D)’s approach to fighting the coronavirus outbreak in Michigan, one of the nation’s worst hotspots. They were channeling President Trump’s support of such protests, but some also were taking aim at the state’s Republicans, who they say have not done enough to “liberate” the state from safety measures that have ground life to a halt.

Michelle Gregoire, a 29-year-old school bus driver from Battle Creek who is running as a Republican for a seat in the state House, waved a yellow “Don’t tread on me” flag at passing traffic. She derided Whitmer as “a tyrant.” But she also urged Republicans “to get in line and get it together.”

The protest and others like it — including two at the state house last month that included demonstrators with swastikas, Confederate flags and some with long guns inside the capitol — have alarmed lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. But after Trump appeared to urge the militia members on, tweeting that they are “very good people” who “want their lives back again,” they have forced Michigan’s Republican lawmakers to strike a delicate balance, managing a deadly virus while also being careful not to contradict Trump or alienate their conservative supporters.



Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-michigan-republicans-whitmer/2020/05/12/54975e1a-9466-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html



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Armed militia helped a Michigan barbershop open, a coronavirus defiance that puts Republican lawmake (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2020 OP
What is that second picture? Srkdqltr May 2020 #1
Monty Python skit vanamonde May 2020 #3
Ok I never watched that. Srkdqltr May 2020 #5
The Characters Are Called Gumbys ProfessorGAC May 2020 #7
Our problem is with gunbys. nt eppur_se_muova May 2020 #18
Well Played! (nt) ProfessorGAC May 2020 #19
Oliver has run himself over! Alacritous Crier May 2020 #11
These people are dying to vote for Trump. LastLiberal in PalmSprings May 2020 #2
Trump is accelerating the blueing of Michigan pecosbob May 2020 #4
There was a similar set of nitwits who occupied a public space in 2016 gristy May 2020 #6
LOCK HIM UP..............end of story........... turbinetree May 2020 #8
Now that they released a lot of prisoners to avoid the virus MichMan May 2020 #9
More accurately, violating state orders and health concerns. LanternWaste May 2020 #16
How long before these militia morons take this to the Haggis for Breakfast May 2020 #10
Fox News and right wing radio is making them batshit crazy! dubyadiprecession May 2020 #12
Ah, look, they brought their children. Squee alert! Midnight Writer May 2020 #13
Are meat plant workers welcome to come in and get haircuts? keithbvadu2 May 2020 #14
Or help protest outside sans mask? keithbvadu2 May 2020 #15
And then there's this: Squinch May 2020 #17
I'll say it again. If it's so bloody safe, why do some of the protesters wear masks? Vinca May 2020 #20

Srkdqltr

(6,128 posts)
1. What is that second picture?
Tue May 12, 2020, 07:17 PM
May 2020

If one goes to that barber shop and gets the virus can the barber be sued? Seems if he goes against the order it would open him up to liability.

ProfessorGAC

(64,425 posts)
7. The Characters Are Called Gumbys
Tue May 12, 2020, 07:39 PM
May 2020

Google "python gumby".
There's a 24 second clip that will show you the absurdist humor behind it.

2. These people are dying to vote for Trump.
Tue May 12, 2020, 07:17 PM
May 2020

Unfortunately for them -- and their families -- if they keep it up many of them won't be alive when November rolls around, and they will have just ... died.

I'm assuming the bottom photo is of Monty Python.

gristy

(10,667 posts)
6. There was a similar set of nitwits who occupied a public space in 2016
Tue May 12, 2020, 07:31 PM
May 2020

Granted, there are several differences in the details, but that event did not end well for the nitwits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_National_Wildlife_Refuge

MichMan

(11,789 posts)
9. Now that they released a lot of prisoners to avoid the virus
Tue May 12, 2020, 08:08 PM
May 2020

They should have plenty of space to lock up an 77 yr old man for cutting hair.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
10. How long before these militia morons take this to the
Tue May 12, 2020, 08:13 PM
May 2020

predictable end ?

What in the Hell happened to Michigan ?

dubyadiprecession

(5,620 posts)
12. Fox News and right wing radio is making them batshit crazy!
Tue May 12, 2020, 08:21 PM
May 2020

They are the ones, getting all these tin foil hat wearing, nut jobs worked up!

keithbvadu2

(36,368 posts)
14. Are meat plant workers welcome to come in and get haircuts?
Tue May 12, 2020, 08:29 PM
May 2020

Are meat plant workers welcome to come in and get haircuts?

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