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| Vindictive Detroit Democrats to Censure Lawmaker for Saying Trump Saved Her Life |
| 2020-04-24 |
| The Plantation is Self-Imposed [PJ Media] Last month, State Rep. Karen Whitsett, a Detroit Democrat, tested positive for the coronavirus. Thanks to President Trump's touting of the hydroxychloroquine, she was prescribed the drug, after which she says she felt relief from her symptoms within two hours. She said she "does not believe she would have thought to ask for it, or her doctor would have prescribed it, had Trump not been touting it as a possible treatment for COVID-19." After crediting Donald Trump with saving her life, Detroit Democrats are planning to vote on Saturday to censure her and bar her from making any future endorsements, according to a report from The Detroit News. Whitsett is a first-term state representative from the 9th Michigan House District. She participated in an April 14 meeting of coronavirus survivors at the White House with President Trump and Vice President Pence. "Thank you for everything that you have done," Whitsett told Trump at the meeting. "I did not know that saying thank you had a political line. ... I’m telling my story and my truth, and this how I feel and these are my words." Whitsett seems undeterred by the move of her party members. "I'm a Democrat, and I plan on continuing to be a Democrat, but they will change their ways. I have my First Amendment right, and no one will take that away from me." The resolution Detroit Democrats will vote on Saturday alleges Whitsett "misrepresented the needs and priorities" of the Democratic leadership to the president and the public, and notes that in addition to her participating in the event with President Trump, she also participated in an event with the Republican Women's Federation of Michigan, where she also expressed gratitude to the president. The resolution reads, in part, "State Representative Karen Whitsett has repeatedly and publicly praised the president's delayed and misguided COVID-19 response efforts in contradiction with the scientifically based and action-oriented response from Michigan's duly election [sic] Democratic leadership […] endangering the health, safety and welfare of her constituents, the city of Detroit, and the state of Michigan." In short, Whitsett is being punished for destroying the false narrative that Democrats want the public to believe about Trump's response to the coronavirus. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #7 ^crab bucket Reference for those unfamiliar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality |
| Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-04-24 17:08 |
| #6 Let one slave escape the plantation unpunished, and pretty soon you'll have a lot more realizing they can get away. And for some of these folks, the carb bucket effect applies. |
| Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-04-24 17:06 |
| #5 ^ you mean, the Black Caucus. The Dem. Party generally is a complete Shitshow now. Wild one though he is, OrangeMan's re-election campaign is far more disciplined than anything the SS Party will come up with. Brad Parscale's data-driven campaign operation has been extremely impressive. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-24 13:08 |
| #4 Credit the Democrats with much better party discipline than Republicans could ever manage. That's about the only think I'll give them. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-04-24 12:58 |
| #3 "I have my First Amendment right, and no one will take that away from me." Amen, sister. Whatever our political differences let us not forget that which defines us as a natio of free people. F--- the smelly little would-be fascists across this country who seek to silence us. F---them in the arse. We are Americans and we will speak out, and will peaceably assemble, and will scorn and denounce the idiocy of our leaders when and as we see it. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-24 00:25 |
| #2 "...misrepresented the needs and priorities" of the Democratic leadership..." Obviously the "needs and priorities" (read: saving of life) of Ms. Whitsett do not matter one scintilla to the Democrats. Another sick/grotesque example of TDS. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-04-24 00:16 |
| #1 You can leave the plantation, but they still own your a$$... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-24 00:09 |