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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNation's Governors Consider Forming Country
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/nations-governors-consider-forming-country?fbclid=IwAR3Y_7uldVXELav2m2mmNXTp81J6qd65CytyHNH7OzSFZmEX_edB69GhqHANations Governors Consider Forming Country
AMERICA (The Borowitz Report)In order to better coördinate their efforts to combat the coronavirus, the nations 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 Whitmers proposal of creating a country out of the fifty states made a lot of sense.
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Nation's Governors Consider Forming Country (Original Post)
Wounded Bear
Apr 2020
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FM123
(10,053 posts)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
(2,008 posts)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
(36,745 posts)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
(43,181 posts)4. They could call it "The States, United."
Its a work in progress.