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Which Branch Covidian Is The New Rosa Parks Now? Some Dumb Ass Barber In Michigan.
Rosa Parks wouldn’t have died for a haircut.
May 20, 2020 10:44 AM
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced this week that bars, restaurants, and some retail stores in parts of Michigan could open with reduced capacity on Friday, just in time for Memorial Day weekend, which is technically still happening. This is good news for sensible people, but a bit of a bummer for Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf (that's right). Leaf was ranting to a crowd of 350 anti-lockdown “patriots" when the news came down that Whitmer was relaxing restrictions for residents of the Upper Peninsula and much of the northern Lower Peninsula.
It "took some wind out of my sails," he said during his speech at the "American Patriot Rally — Sheriffs Speak Out" event Monday. (He was the only sheriff "speaking out.") However, he insisted the reopening should have happened sooner. The facts don't support his thinking, but who needs proof when you have instinct?
Leaf boasted that his office hadn't enforced the governor's stay-at-home orders anyway, because he believed they violated the Constitution.
Right now we don't even know if those orders are legal. If we start enforcing stuff that's not legal, we could be held liable.
LOL. Almost 60,000 people live in Barry County, and they couldn't find a better sheriff?
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The legal eagle claimed that Whitmer had placed the entire state under arrest like a common despot. Step back. He's gonna logic on your ass.
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<strong>LEAF:</strong> What's the definition of an arrest? It's basically taking away your free will, your right to move about.</blockquote><p>
I think Michiganders still had their “free will." A stay-at-home order isn't the<a href="https://youtu.be/vuKExOmuuvw?t=78" target="_blank"> anti-life equation. </a> Under Whitmer's <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/0,9309,7-387-90499_90705-522626--,00.html" target="_blank">order,</a> residents could leave their homes for "outdoor activity, including walking, hiking, running, cycling, or any other recreational activity consistent with remaining at least six feet from people from outside the individual's household."
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<strong>LEAF: </strong>And an unlawful arrest is when you do it unlawfully, so when you are ordered to your home, are you under arrest? Yeah, by definition you are.
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Individuals could even leave Michigan for a home or residence elsewhere, perhaps in one of those states where COVID-19 is a free-range virus. This was neither an arrest nor a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaTO8_KNcuo" target="_blank">tumor.</a>
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Yes, for a bleak few weeks there, you couldn't buy <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/republicans-dont-come-for-gretchen-whitmer-unless-she-calls-for-you" target="_blank">gardening supplies,</a> but that's all past us now. Unfortunately, there are still no haircuts, and that's the hill everyone is eager to die on. Whitmer said Tuesday that it's “unlikely" that hair salons can legally open next week. She's not a monster. She'd love a haircut herself — a g<em>ood</em> one, not whatever <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/ted-cruz-gets-bad-haircut-for-freedom" target="_blank">happened to Ted Cruz</a> — but because everything is so stupid now, Whitmer had to explain how haircuts work.
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<strong>WHITMER: </strong>It hurts me to say it because I would love to go to get my hair done too. But the fact of the matter is, the nature of that personal service is such that it is intimate, it is close, you can't social distance and get your hair cut.
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Wednesday, the hair deprived are set to storm the Capitol in Lansing for “Operation Haircut." This astroturf extravaganza is a sequel of sorts to the idiotic<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/just-look-at-these-f-king-idiots" target="_blank"> “Operation Gridlock."</a> Both were organized by the far-right Michigan Conservative Coalition. The group claims this protest is in "admiration and support" for Karl Manke, a barber in Owosso who<strong> broke the law</strong> and opened his barber shop despite several “stop that!" orders from the government. Manke <a href="https://nbc25news.com/news/local/owosso-barber-karl-manke-has-his-license-suspended-by-the-state" target="_blank" title="https://nbc25news.com/news/local/owosso-barber-karl-manke-has-his-license-suspended-by-the-state">had his license revoked</a> and is now involved in a big, showy court battle. Fellow scofflaw <a href="https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/05/18/dallas-salon-owner-shelley-luther-travels-to-michigan-to-back-defiant-barber/" target="_blank">Shelley Luther from Dallas, Texas,</a> traveled more than 1,000 miles to support Manke. (No Zooming when “freedom" is at stake.) There are photos of her <em>hugging</em> the 77-year-old barber she'd just met. Neither wore masks. My son is going to grow up in <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A36RTgylCBQ" target="_blank">The Omega Man</a></em> future.
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The "American Patriot Rally — Sheriffs Speak Out" was held in downtown Grand Rapids at Rosa Parks Circle, so of course Leaf compared Manke to the civil rights activist. He called the barber a "little version of Rosa Parks" and asked a crowd that included armed members of the Michigan Liberty Militia to “imagine" a world where Parks never sat in the front of the bus. It's easy if you try.
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It's as if every <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/branch-covidians-declare-white-salon-owner-lady-new-rosa-parks" target="_blank">hair stylist who doesn't care about public health</a> is Rosa Parks. Stop dragging black heroes into this stupidity. Miss Rosa wouldn't have gotten on the bus at all if it was covered with coronavirus. <a href="https://www.rosaparks.org/about-us/" target="_blank">(Her husband, Raymond,</a> was a barber but he wouldn’t have killed anyone to make a few bucks.)</p><p>
Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey attended the rally and encouraged the crowd to continue breaking laws they don't like.
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<strong>SHIRKEY: </strong>Be ready to test and challenge government when they get it backasswards and they think they're the ones who have the rights to give us, when really the government is to provide and protect our rights.
</blockquote><p>Whitmer's actions are protecting Michiganders right to continue breathing with<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaRL0KGG248" target="_blank"> non-holographic lungs.</a> These free expressions of whiteness have not resulted in any tickets or arrests despite violating the governor's stay-at-home orders. More people show up with guns than masks. But these fools are trying Whitmer's last nerve, and she implied that they shouldn't push their luck any further. They don't call her the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/all-hail-gretchen-whitmer-the-wolverine-queen" target="_blank">Wolverine Queen</a> for nothing.</p><p>
[<a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2020/05/michigan-sheriff-says-gov-whitmers-stay-at-home-order-is-akin-to-mass-arrest.html" target="_blank">Michigan Live</a> / <a href="https://wwmt.com/news/state/gov-whitmer-says-its-very-unlikely-salons-across-michigan-will-open-next-week" target="_blank">WWMT</a>]<br>
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Very Cool 'MAGA Life Coach' Says MASKS Are For DORKS, And He Is NOT DORK, OK?
Listen to your friend Brenden Dilley, he's a cool guy.
May 19, 2020 04:45 PM
Y'all might have heard that there is a whole thing among chickenshit weenus MAGA guys that they don't want to wear masks, because they think it makes them look unmanly. These are the same people who think Donald Trump is very butch and strong. Yes, this Donald Trump, the one who looks like this:
It's the same type that gets an "ARTOFWAR" vanity plate and puts it on their 4-cylinder Mustang and parks it on the sidewalk. It's that bizarre Ben Garrison type.
It's the type that feels the need to tell you it's manly and NOT A DORK, instead of just trusting that you can see that for yourself.
Well! Meet Brenden Dilley, who according to the internet is a MAGA life coach. He even wrote a book, called Still Breathin', to teach you how also to be cool.
<p>Dilley has a message about mask-wearing, and what is cool, and what is dork, and you should listen to him, because he is one of the popular kids. How popular? Um, well, when he ran in the Republican primary to represent Arizona's 8th Congressional District in 2018, a whole 823 people <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Brenden_Dilley" target="_blank">voted for him,</a> AKA he came in 11th place. That's <em>pretty </em>cool, and we bet only <em>some</em> of his votes were pity votes from family members.</p><p>Doesn't Brenden Dilley (<em>above</em>) look like a very cool and popular guy? Here, let him tell you about why masks are for dorks:</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
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</p><p><br></p><blockquote><strong>DILLEY:</strong> Be afraid! Wear your fuckin' mask! DURR HURR! Where's your mask, sir! Better to be safe than sorry! BETTER TO BE DEAD THAN A FUCKIN' DORK!<br><br>What? Yes, I mean that literally. I'd rather die than look like a fuckin' idiot like you do right now, you weakling. </blockquote><p>What if he's not actually facing a binary choice here? Bless his heart.</p><blockquote><strong>DILLEY: </strong>You don't need the mask. If you have a mask, take it off. There's somethin' you can do with the mask, OK? It's something The Rock would have told you to do. <br><br>You take the mask, you remove said mask, you take your mask, you TURN THAT SON OF A BITCH SIDEWAYS, AND YOU SHOVE IT STRAIGHT UP YOUR CANDY ASS, THAT'S WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR MASK!</blockquote><p>OK.</p><blockquote><strong>DILLEY:</strong> Fucking ridiculous, the numbers aren't there, it's not real, it's bullshit, you're just a big pussy who wears a mask, wearing those fuckin' maxi-pads across your face, like a fuckin' CUCK.</blockquote><p>Uh oh, he used the "C" word that very cool conservative dudes who definitely have had consensual sex use, but which means nothing to anybody outside their (ADMITTEDLY VERY COOL) bubble. And he says The Rock would totally tell you what to do with your mask, you just take it, and then you turn it sideways, and then you put it in your bottom! (Remember to turn mask sideways.)</p><p>You will not be surprised to learn this not the first time Brenden Dilley, MAGA life coach, has suggested putting things in your bottom. He said in 2019 that if somebody comes to your house for Thanksgiving and says something mean about Donald Trump, you should put a DRUMSTICK IN THEIR BOTTOM! Right there in the front yard! </p><p>In this video, he says you should ask your guests if they can behave at your house by not saying anything mean about the orange-faced senile shithole president he worships, or whether you want to get "BUTTFUCKED BY A TURKEY LEG." </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
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</p><p>Truly, this guy is not a dork, and we should take our mask advice from him.</p><p>In case you are not completely reassured of how cool he is, besides how often he tells you, here is Dilley in 2019 challenging Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims to the Suck-A-Dick Challenge, to prove that he is gay. Brenden Dilley does not believe Brian Sims is gay (he's gay), and if Brian Sims won't get right up in Brenden Dilley's face and suck a dick — and he probably better get that dick right up in Brenden Dilley's face so he knows it's a real dick! — then Brenden Dilley will know Brian Sims isn't a real gay (he is gay).</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
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</p><p>This is Brian Sims, who is definitely NOT GAY (he's gay), in a pic we stole from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B3muOYxBQHG/" target="_blank">his Instagram:</a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>And here is Brian Sims wearing a mask, so we guess this mean's he's neither gay NOR cool:</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>And here's a picture of Brian playing football in college, because as we all know, only DORKS play football in college:</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>And here's some more gratuitous thirst trap shit from Brian's Instagram, we don't know:</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>And here, once again, is Brenden Dilley, an actual cool guy. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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Shocker: Astroturf Protests Actually COVID-19 Bug-Chaser Conventions
Why yes, there ARE hundreds more cases after Wisconsin idiots' big MAGA rallies!
May 19, 2020 09:00 AM
Last month, about 1,500 protesters gathered at the Wisconsin state Capitol to oppose Gov. Tony Evers's tyrannical stay-at-home order. Now at least 72 people who attended the rallies have since tested positive for the coronavirus. Wisconsin's Department of Health Services can't confirm that they caught COVID-19 at the rally, but according to state DHS spokesperson Elizabeth Goodsitt, when someone tests positive, they're asked if they did something stupid like attend a large gathering with other dummies.
(We're kidding: Goodsitt didn't call anyone a dummy. People who tested positive were just asked if they'd attended a large gathering, which Wonkette contends only stupid would do right now.)
This could mean around five percent of protesters left the rallies and began spreading COVID-19 across the state — which may indeed be what happened, because on Saturday the DHS reported 502 new coronavirus cases from a round of 6,051 tests. That's the largest single-day increase in cases since the pandemic started.
Wisconsin's total number of confirmed coronavirus cases is at present 12,187, and 453 people have died. Here's the kicker: Around 17 percent of all positive cases ended up hospitalized. Those figures are more than enough to keep my ass at home, but I bailed on parties in my 20s because it was cold out and a good "Law & Order" episode was on.
<p>But that's not all! On April 7, Wisconsin Republicans insisted that the state hold <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/wisconsin-primary" target="_blank">its primary election</a> with in-person voting as scheduled. The obvious voter suppression tactic didn't work. People still turned out, and even rightwing hack Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly was thrown out on his ass. The less good news is that 67 people who've tested positive for COVID-19 also reported having been at the polls. Again, health officials can't conclusively determine where they were exposed. Guess we'll never know! Let's <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/wisconsins-dumbest-flock-to-bars-while-still-in-their-quarantine-clothes" target="_blank">head to the bars.</a> <br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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Senate's Dumbest Republican Knows Why Trump Fired State Department IG, But SHHH IT'S A SECRET
Your Sunday Rundown 2.0!
May 18, 2020 12:25 PM
This week's Sunday shows had so much stupidity, it couldn't be contained to ONE Sunday Rundown. After Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was done blaming Americans being fat for them being more susceptible to COVID-19, CNN's "State Of The Union" interviewed Wisconsin GOP senator and Oversight Committee chairman Ron Johnson on the Friday night Saturday Night Massacring of Steve Linick, the inspector general of the State Department (SDIG). Host Jake Tapper quoted Utah senator Mitt Romney's comments about this "threat to accountable democracy" and then asked Johnson to weigh in.
Johnson retreated to the super worn-out reasoning the GOP has trotted out for everything from Trump firing Jim Comey to the firing of Andrew McCabe to Trump's retaliation against Alexander Vindman and Gordon Sondland for testifying about Trump's impeachable (and impeached) Ukraine extortion:
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<strong>JOHNSON</strong>: [T]hey serve at the president's will. And that is true of every inspector general.
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Tapper pointed the hypocrisy of this statement by playing the world's easiest "what if" game:
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<strong>TAPPER</strong>: Well, no one questions whether or not he has the authority to do so.
But I really have to say, I find it hard to believe that, if President Obama had gotten rid of four inspector generals -- inspectors general in six weeks, that you would have the same attitude that you seem to have right now.
</blockquote><p>Johnson looked for legitimate sounding reasons for Trump to have fired this IG, and then it got weird:</p><blockquote><strong>TAPPER</strong>: Well, what was their reasoning?
Because all the public knows is that this acting inspector general was investigating whether or not Secretary of State Pompeo was misusing a political appointee to do personal errands for him. That's according to Democratic aides on Capitol Hill.
And then a senior administration official has said Pompeo asked Trump to remove this inspector general investigating him, and President Trump did so.
What are they telling you that makes you feel like you understand their reasoning?
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<strong>JOHNSON</strong>: Again, I'm -- I'm -- I'm not going discuss my private conversations with senior administration officials.
But my guess, this will all come out. Congress will be able to do what oversight it choose to do. I'm sure the Democrats in the House will call in Mr. Linick, and he will be able to testify, and he will be able to tell his story.
And my guess, the administration will hopefully have an opportunity to tell their side of the story as well.
I'm not crying big crocodile tears over this termination. Let's put it that way. </blockquote><p>Oh, so it's a super secret squirrel reason! Well, calm down everyone. It's just a gentle secret between Trump and Senator Johnson. I mean, they've both been so <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/if-you-dont-stop-and-look-around-the-impeachment-you-could-miss-it">upfront</a> and <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/senates-dumbest-gop-idiot-wishes-whistleblower-had-kept-trumps-ukraine-crimes-to-himself">honest</a> before. Why shouldn't we take their word?</p><p>But, besides it being ludicrous to trust Trump or Johnson, it seems that once again Trump broke the actual rules for how you are to dismiss an inspector general:<br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
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</p><p>So here we are again as the Trump administration pulls some shit like this, and Democrats try to hold them accountable with the very limited power they have. Both Rep. Eliot Engel and Senator Bob Menendez have announced they will be looking into Trump's latest Saturday Night Massacre:<br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
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</p><p>But now it seems Johnson has added one more wrinkle and somehow made himself a character in Trump's latest abuse of power. <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/senates-dumbest-republican-up-to-ass-in-trump-ukraine-scandal" target="_blank">It is so common,</a> for him! </p><p>Although this time it seems a different person has something to gain from this firing, and for once it is not Trump.<br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
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</p><p>So this is awesome. Good luck with all of this, Mike Pompeo!<br></p><p>And thus concludes your second Sunday Show rundown, because there was so much stupid there had to be two of them this time.</p><p><strong>If you love Wonkette, SUPPORT WONKETTE FINANCIALLY.</strong></p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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