Michigan manbaby protest: Wait, we thought conservatives were "rugged individuals"

[marmar]

Michigan manbaby protest: Wait, we thought conservatives were "rugged individuals"
Who'd a thunk it? Right-wingers are a bunch of spoiled brats who start whining over the slightest inconvenience



On Wednesday, a crowd of right-wing nuts — complete with their oversized but underworked utility vehicles, Confederate flags, guns and other such overcompensation accoutrements — descended on the State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, to whine about the temporary pause to dinners at Applebee's and accidental brushfires at gender-reveal parties. The deep fear of emasculation driving the protest was not particularly subtle at this protest, as the crowd chanted "Lock her up" at Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat who is accused of no other crime other than making deeply insecure men fuss about a woman in power.  

The ostensible purpose of the protests was to pressure Whitmer to relax some of the restrictions on businesses and movement under the coronavirus lockdown. In reality, of course, this is happening because a bunch of Fox News-loving Trump supporters have been poisoned by propaganda that has convinced them the coronavirus is overblown or a hoax, all being spread by the libs to destroy Trump's chances at re-election.

Well, that, and the fact that they're a bunch of sexists who hate having a female governor, which goes a long way toward explaining why the Michigan protest was bigger than others in Ohio or North Carolina, whose governors are male. .......(more)

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/16/michigan-manbaby-protest-wait-we-thought-conservatives-were-rugged-individuals/

[tblue37]

1. But they had gunz, big manly gunz! nt

[applegrove]

2. They are afraid of coronavirus and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. They mostly

stayed in their cars because of the 6 feet rule. This reeks of GOP astroturf meant to make Biden's possible VP pick look bad. Because Republicans vote on looks, and that is why Sarah Palin became a thing, so they know some of their base would vote for a stunner mid-westerner woman and a folksy insider man on a very white ticket.

[marmar]

3. It was. Sponsored by the DeVos family.

[applegrove]

4. There you go.