I’m not sure if you don’t know or if your question is a setup to try to convince the person who responds that she didn’t actually kiss ass, but she’s been cozying up to Trump in the name of putting the work above her ego, and it’s lead to some embarrassment for her. I wouldn’t necessarily say she’s been kissing ass, but I mean, she’s playing the game.
Before I say what I came here to say, I want to digress with a story I heard about Whitmer.
In the opening, uncertain, days of the pandemic, when it looked like there were going to be unknown outcomes from the economic slowdown, and Michigan’s governmental revenue (via taxes) was going to take a hit, Whitmer made the hard call to furlough many state-level employees.
… Right after the Federal Government passed an increased unemployment assistance bill, and Michigan re-scoped unemployment to include partial furloughs, starting at 6 hours a week. Whitmer took every state worker in Michigan that earned less than about $350 a day and automatically signed them up for unemployment, and furloughed them one day a week off for 12 weeks. My friend more or less got 12 weeks of 4 day workweeks, with 6 days worth of pay. (It might have been 8 weeks - my memory is crap, but even still.)
With an awful lot of respect, I say that I think she’s a clever operator, and she can ‘play the game.’ Trump did set her up a few weeks ago, but I trust that whatever angle she’s working, she’s probably got a good plan. I know that sounds a lot like compromising centrist talk, and that’s fine - that’s what Whitmer is. I haven’t seen her backpedaling on important issues (yet). (Which is weird, now that I think about it. Fuck she runs a good media game.)
Which is to say - I can see why people think she’s kissing his ass. But like, she’s gotta govern, and has to live in this reality. She’s not kowtowing to him as far as I can tell. She seems to be rather deftly doing what she has to do, while (it seems, so far) not compromising herself or her policymaking.
Obviously I’m being a little hyperbolic. She didn’t literally kiss his ass. But she was photographed in the oval office while he signed a bunch of his stupid executive orders. And more recently greeted him off the airplane with a hug before joining him at one of his rallies. Article here.
That was not a fucking hug by anyone but a clickbait-title-writer’s definition. That was Trump doing his fucking shake your hand and pull you at him bullshit.
Dear Governor Whitmer and other members of the Michigan Democratic Party,
Do you see what all that recent Trump ass kissing has gotten you? Now smarten up, grow a spine, and fight back!
Whitmer kissed ass? When?
I’m not sure if you don’t know or if your question is a setup to try to convince the person who responds that she didn’t actually kiss ass, but she’s been cozying up to Trump in the name of putting the work above her ego, and it’s lead to some embarrassment for her. I wouldn’t necessarily say she’s been kissing ass, but I mean, she’s playing the game.
Before I say what I came here to say, I want to digress with a story I heard about Whitmer.
In the opening, uncertain, days of the pandemic, when it looked like there were going to be unknown outcomes from the economic slowdown, and Michigan’s governmental revenue (via taxes) was going to take a hit, Whitmer made the hard call to furlough many state-level employees.
… Right after the Federal Government passed an increased unemployment assistance bill, and Michigan re-scoped unemployment to include partial furloughs, starting at 6 hours a week. Whitmer took every state worker in Michigan that earned less than about $350 a day and automatically signed them up for unemployment, and furloughed them one day a week off for 12 weeks. My friend more or less got 12 weeks of 4 day workweeks, with 6 days worth of pay. (It might have been 8 weeks - my memory is crap, but even still.)
With an awful lot of respect, I say that I think she’s a clever operator, and she can ‘play the game.’ Trump did set her up a few weeks ago, but I trust that whatever angle she’s working, she’s probably got a good plan. I know that sounds a lot like compromising centrist talk, and that’s fine - that’s what Whitmer is. I haven’t seen her backpedaling on important issues (yet). (Which is weird, now that I think about it. Fuck she runs a good media game.)
Anyway - like 2 1/2 weeks ago, She was in DC for a meeting with Trump and he ambushed her with a press conference where he signed a bunch of awful executive orders.
Whitmer Shows how Democrats are playing with fire in cozying up to Trump.
‘A hug?!?’ Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s optics with Trump could cost her in 2028.
Whitmer defends her working relationship with Trump: ‘Put service above self’
Which is to say - I can see why people think she’s kissing his ass. But like, she’s gotta govern, and has to live in this reality. She’s not kowtowing to him as far as I can tell. She seems to be rather deftly doing what she has to do, while (it seems, so far) not compromising herself or her policymaking.
Obviously I’m being a little hyperbolic. She didn’t literally kiss his ass. But she was photographed in the oval office while he signed a bunch of his stupid executive orders. And more recently greeted him off the airplane with a hug before joining him at one of his rallies. Article here.
That was not a fucking hug by anyone but a clickbait-title-writer’s definition. That was Trump doing his fucking shake your hand and pull you at him bullshit.