LIVE Updates #OperationGridlock: Tens of Thousands Protest Lock-Down, “Time to Re-Open!” ““Recall Whitmer!”

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VIDEOS: It Begins: MASSIVE PROTESTS Against Democrat Governor Whitmer’s Tyranny

Demonstrators at Michigan state capitol protest stay-at-home order

A crowd of protesters organized by a conservative group descended on Michigan’s state capitol on Wednesday to protest Gov. Gretchen Whitmer‘s (D) stay-at-home order during the coronavirus outbreak.

Supporters of the Michigan Conservative Coalition (MCC) urged Whitmer to reopen the state’s non-essential businesses on May 1 while urging their own members to practice social distancing during the “Operation Gridlock” protest, local news radio station WWJ reported

Video of the event posted on Twitter showed some demonstrators on the capitol steps while others remained in their vehicles, honking loudly.

“When did one size solve everyone’s local issues?” one unidentified organizer asked WWJ. “Governor Whitmer will put you out of business before allowing mere citizens to be responsible for their own behavior. That is madness.”

Whitmer has ordered Michigan residents to stay at home unless performing essential tasks until April 30, and has closed non-essential businesses in the state, though activists are complaining about which businesses have been allowed to stay open — as well as the de facto cancellation of Easter and Passover services.

In a statement at a news conference earlier this week, the governor pointed out that the MCC is funded in large part by the family of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, which is very active in Michigan conservative politics.

“This group is funded in large part by the DeVos family,” she said Monday, according to WWJ. “And I think it’s really inappropriate for a sitting members of the United States president’s Cabinet to [be] waging political tax on any governor.”

Whitmer added: “I think that they they should disavow it, and I encourage people to stay home and be safe.”

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Herman Nelson
Herman Nelson
3 years ago

“gretchen” should be happy it was just cars driving by and not rope thrown over a strong branch of a tall tree.

deb
deb
3 years ago
Reply to  Herman Nelson

Not yet!

Herman Nelson
Herman Nelson
3 years ago
Reply to  deb

We are getting closer to Reset Day.

Rob English
Rob English
3 years ago
Reply to  Herman Nelson

You beat me to write it, also.

Jerry
Jerry
3 years ago

I would think hanging your governor falls under the essential service category…

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago

can’t plant a spring garden, can’t have a motor on your rowboat? this is the democrat party, the party of the state. the best way to destroy them is to defund the state by a state-wide strike. no payroll, no payroll tax, government employee moochers start going hungry. i live in CO, they are destroying my business, and at the age of 65, my new mission is to take the democrat state government down with me. what have i got to lose?

Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
3 years ago

Whitmer has sacrificed her career and her legacy as an elected American leader by fully embracing the phony fear factor of the Democrat Party’s “By Whatever Means Necessary” policy to take down Trump.
This is what they’re capable of.. and more.
Sad.

Christina
Christina
3 years ago

I heard I believe in Rush’s show yesterday that the funding from the Devoss family that the gov is complaining about was a mere $250!
Yeah, a lousy $250…. that really goes a long way! ????????????
RECALL GOV WHITMER NOW

Anthony Silvio
Anthony Silvio
3 years ago

Well this is a nice start,….. perhaps these protesters and ‘others’ WON’T KEEP ELECTING DEMOCRATS ?!!
…… We’ll just have to wait and see

hoedown
hoedown
3 years ago

This is bloody stupid! Usually (often?) I agree with the Gellerreport – not on this one.

The lack of social distancing is appalling (I dont mind those in trucks – just a waste of gasoline). Do you think Covid19 is a joke? Maybe when you come down with coronavirus, are unlucky enough to have to go to the hospital, then go to the ICU and then have to be put into a coma (they call it ‘sedation’) where they jam a tube down your throat to go on a ventillator (if one is available) then maybe you wont think protesting was so smart.

And if you dont think about yourself, think about the nurse or doctor that gets covered in your coronavirus-infested spittle, and the comes down with coronavirus.

I wonder what the corona ravaged people in New York, Italy, Spain or the UK would think of your little protest – not much I think. We in the UK dont.

Bonnie Pupowner
Bonnie Pupowner
3 years ago
Reply to  hoedown

The nice part is gas is pretty cheap right now.
They are in vehicles for most part, or socially distanced.

LeslieFish
LeslieFish
3 years ago
Reply to  hoedown

Here in Arizona, where our governor has had better sense, businesses and individuals have taken to “distancing” and providing face-masks for ourselves. Our infection rate is very low, and not growing.

imagine7generations
imagine7generations
3 years ago
Reply to  hoedown

Experts say the death rates for covid are normal for seasonal cold and flu. Stop watching fake news. It’s been a fake planned pandemic since the beginning.
https://scientists4wiredtech.com/2020/03/covid-19-open-letter-from-prof-sucharit-bhakdi-to-german-chancellor-dr-angela-merkel/

Commissioner Gordon
Commissioner Gordon
3 years ago

They are going to get Trump out if it kills us.

turkeychoker
turkeychoker
3 years ago
Reply to  hoedown

You in the UK got ran out once, so be quiet.

Mr Paul Middleton
Mr Paul Middleton
3 years ago
Reply to  turkeychoker

A ‘We won the war’ response. Yeah, right. If you can’t win on the issues …you be quiet.

turkeychoker
turkeychoker
3 years ago

I`ll confess, I was making a poor attempt at sarcasm. I don`t like the new buzz phrase, “we`re all in this together”. I see a concerted effort to further convince people of a ‘we are the world’ crap.It`s not important to me to win all the time.I simply want to learn and speak truth. I am adamantly opposed to collectivism. I will fight against it every time it rears its ugly head. All it takes is a word, a phrase,an idea. I look to see where it would ultimately lead, and frankly,I don`t care what people in the UK think. This new virus scare is just that. A new scare. Don`t think for a moment, the ‘social scientist`s aren`t watching folks reactions. Panic buying, So called ‘social distancing’, etc.. I`d like to see 1 person who hasn`t already been exposed to it.

Mr Paul Middleton
Mr Paul Middleton
3 years ago
Reply to  turkeychoker

Mr Cynic. Doing the right things in the face of this virus isn’t moronism. You seem to be advising that we should all do the wrong things just to make a point to ‘them’. And why single out the UK? That says more about you. Dear me, you do have a lot of baggage that you seem to need to impose as a filter through which to view the virus threat. If you even think the virus is a threat at all, which obviously you don’t. The correct response now isn’t as complicated as you cynics want to paint it. I am only going out when necessary because I do believe that will save lives, perhaps mine, perhaps yours, perhaps our families. I need no further convincing that you will do whatever the hell you want. All I can say is I hope you get fined for doing it because cynics who insist they know better than the medics and the scientists about how to face this virus are a danger to us all.

turkeychoker
turkeychoker
3 years ago

Well, look at you.I wear a mask when I have to go to muslim operated stores because of their hygiene practices and i use hand sanitizer. I read the news,i listen to broadcasts,i hear a variety of do&don`ts that several of which conflict w/ea. other. Go out for walk, stay inside,ok to grocery shop,it`s even on your shoes. (hint; it`s airborne). Hide under your bed,if it makes you feel safe.You don`t know me,I am an individual. not a lemming or part of your herd.By-the-way,I carry a permission paper from my employer,to be out. That should disturb everyone. “Papers,Please” or ve shoot you. But as you demonstrate,the ever so smart ones as yourself, trust the Government. I`ve made so much money assuming that everything the Government did to help us, would be wrong. Love it. Go hide w/covers over your head. cynic,indeed.

L-Dan
L-Dan
3 years ago
Reply to  hoedown

Your army didn’t like George Washington’s forced quarantine in Yorktown either.

Bonnie Pupowner
Bonnie Pupowner
3 years ago

Has anyone noticed she looks like Caitlyn (Bruce) Jenner?

France-HP-a-ciel-ouvert
France-HP-a-ciel-ouvert
3 years ago

Now it’s time for the citizens to take their country back. KAG2020.

VTS
VTS
3 years ago

Instead of locking her up the swamp locked all of us up. It is time to break out!

France-HP-a-ciel-ouvert
France-HP-a-ciel-ouvert
3 years ago
Reply to  VTS

True, only question being: do we open up the goulags for these kinds of vermin?

pocath
pocath
3 years ago

The people have spoken!!!
Looks like Whitmer is doing damage control reporting that there were never any items banned, pushing her fake news again and her leftist newspaper buddies are towing her lies.

Yeah…THE PEOPLE KNOW DIFFERENT, THE PEOPLE SAY DIFFERENT, THE PEOPLE WERE THERE,

THE PEOPLE ARE THERE AND THEY WITNESSED IT!!!!.

LeslieFish
LeslieFish
3 years ago

I expect to see similar revolts in Virginia, not to mention other states whose governors have tried similar power-grabs.

kkb1221
kkb1221
3 years ago

“This group [Michigan Conservative Coalition] is funded in large part by the DeVos family,” she said…

And that fact has to any bearing on exactly what, Madam Governor?

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago
Reply to  kkb1221

DeVos is another stinking liberal. She has completely fouled the school system, contrary to what she had promised.

kkb1221
kkb1221
3 years ago
Reply to  Dorrie_

Dorrie, the public schools have been “fouled” since the early 1900’s, when John Dewey was influential in creating a progressive education system. It was accelerated by the creation of the Dept. of Education, a payback to the teacher’s union for their support of Jimmie Carter.

It didn’t start with Betsy DeVos and besides, that has nothing to do with their support of the MCC.

John Acord
John Acord
3 years ago

Too bad they didn’t bring some heavy weapons and clean out the rats nest in Lansing. One fact is for certain when the Civil War actually begins the LibTards will be stumbling over each other running for the Canadian border.

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