Gretchen Whitmer continues to try to destroy her state and the reason are nefarious.

And Cancel Culture is being federally expanded.

 

These Guys Don’t Get It

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is not only trying to screw up her state but now she’s trying to screw up the whole Northeast.

In November, the state of Michigan sued the company Enbridge which runs a 645 mile long oil pipeline. This runs from Canada to the United States. It runs the Great Lakes, where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron connect. The stretch of line is called Line 5 and transports about 540,000 barrels a day.

The Governor said in a statement:

“These oil pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac are a ticking timebomb, and their continued presence violates the public trust and poses a grave threat to Michigan’s environment and economy.”

She wanted the Enbridge, a Canadian company, to kill the line by May 12.

Enbridge said in a statement that the pipeline was safe and far more efficient, safer and better for the environment than using the 2100 trucks it would take to keep the propane flowing. By the way, they never shut down the pipeline. They said that Whitmer has no authority to shut down the pipeline because it was built based on a treaty between the United States and Canada.

This line has been up since 1953 with no real issues. Why is she doing this? Because she wants more government control and wants to spend more money. She wants to implement a propane security plan which makes it so the Michigan government would have a say in how fuel is transported from Canada.

Here is the plan:

• Find alternatives for propane delivery: Whitmer’s proposed 2022 budget includes $10 million for the Michigan Department of Transportation to invest in new rail infrastructure, $5 million to install propane storage at rail yards, and $100,000 for grants to local development organizations to develop alternative propane supply and delivery options. The state said it is also working with the propane industry to find other ways to deliver propane, “pre-buy” propane for next winter to lock in lower prices, and is developing a “strategic propane reserve” to prevent shortages if retailers’ supplies run low.
• Prevent price gouging, provide payment assistance: The Attorney General’s Corporate Oversight Division will handle complaints related to propane price gouging, and the administration has increased funding and restructured existing state programs to provide bill payment assistance to propane customers who can’t afford to pay their heating bills.
• Trigger market incentives: Whitmer’s order to shut down the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline “sent as clear a signal as possible to propane retailers and other propane suppliers, who are responding to this opportunity,” the governor’s release said. The plan cites recent purchases of the Upper Peninsula’s Kincheloe terminal and the Lower Peninsula’s Alto terminal as examples, and notes that some propane suppliers have begun to wean themselves off of Line 5 by using state grants to invest in rail facilities.
• Keep tabs on propane supply: The MPSC already does this, through a monitoring program that tracks state, regional and national energy supplies and maintains a plan for managing supplies and reducing propane demand.
• Boost energy efficiency: Drafty homes consume more fuel. To reduce demand for propane, the plan calls for using money in Whitmer’s proposed 2022 budget to help low-income homeowners renovate their homes to improve energy efficiency. The newly-established Michigan Propane Commission will levy a fee on propane sold in Michigan and use the proceeds on incentives and rebates aimed at boosting customers’ propane efficiency. Beyond that, Whitmer’s administration is looking for ways to meet residents’ heating needs through electric heat powered by renewable energy.

Some things about this:

• This may not seem like much but this is an attempted take over of a private industry by the government. And government does not have a real good track record with taking over energy companies.
  • They spend a lot of money. All tax money.
  • The government is not efficient.
  • The government doesn’t care about people. Energy will cost more and be rationed.
  • We’ve seen this before. In Russia, China, Cuba and, most recently, Venezuela.
• She’s been a terrible governor.
  • Detroit is a disaster.
  • The state still has a drinking water problem.
  • Her COVID policies killed people.
    • The nursing home scandal.
    • She’s under a criminal investigation for screwing with COVID death numbers.
    • She has the most restrictive COVID restrictions in the country but has some of the worst COVID number in the country. The bitch banned paint and plants!
    • Her vaccination distribution is terrible. Her state has some of the lowest vaccinations.
  • She’s a hypocrite.
    • During the shutdown, her husband used her name to get his boat put in the lake at the height of the pandemic.
    • She set up travel restrictions but still traveled to Florida to see her parents.

This is a woman you want to depend on to make sure you have gas in your car and have heat in your home in -20 degree weather? I think not.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer-unveils-plans-to-shut-down-a-65-year-old-pipeline

 

 

Stop Listening!

Big Brother is listening and he is taking out on anybody who has the audacity to have an opinion.

Big Brother Has the Name of Biden

President Joe Biden’s administration is reportedly preparing to contract with private firms to surveil the social media accounts of service members to weed out those with views that the administration deems “concerning.”

The Intercept reported:

An extremism steering committee led by Bishop Garrison, a senior adviser to the secretary of defense, is currently designing the social media screening pilot program, which will “continuously” monitor military personnel for “concerning behaviors,” according to a Pentagon briefing in late March. Although in the past the military has balked at surveilling service members for extremist political views due to First Amendment protections, the pilot program will rely on a private surveillance firm in order to circumvent First Amendment restrictions on government monitoring, according to a senior Pentagon official. Though the firm has not yet been selected, the current front runner is Babel Street, a company that sells powerful surveillance tools including social media monitoring software.

Questions:

• Define “concerning behaviors”? Is saying Old Joe is an idiot a concerning behavior?
• Define “extremist” behavior? Saying “a man is a man” is considered extreme today, enough to get you kicked off of social media. I know this for a fact.
• How is this not unconstitutional by violating the First Amendment?
• And, because it IS a violation of the First Amendment, why would the military approve of this since their job is to defend the Constitution?

A spokesperson for the House Armed Services Committee released the following statement:

The Committee understands that the Department of Defense is exploring a means of implementing social media screening in conjunction with background investigations. We anticipate that any social media screening would be intended only as an additional means of vetting cleared individuals or those seeking to obtain a security clearance, not as a tool for ongoing surveillance of all men and women in uniform. That said, Secretary Austin has been clear about his intentions to understand to what extent extremism exists in the force and its effect on good order and discipline. We look forward to hearing the results of the stand down and the Department’s plan to move forward. 

This is why I got off social media:

• Someone’s beliefs can cause fights with family and friends that would never normally happen in person.
• One’s beliefs, through comments and likes, can be put out in the open, exposing political beliefs. Some might not be popular.
• Someone could post or like something but that doesn’t mean he/she is an extremist.
• Some likes can be misconstrued because perception, in this world, is reality.
• People post stupid shit all the time. They are drunk, emotional or just not paying attention and suddenly they post something dumb. It happens. Should he/she lose his job?

This is the problem with the pronoun thing, changing of language and the “perception is reality” thing that HR departments have adopted. Anyone can be condemned for having an opinion, whether it is extreme or not. Also, the term “extreme” is subjective. Just a few years ago, it was thought “extreme” that a man marry another man.

I Love Being Right

Space Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who was fired after criticizing the U.S. military for the Marxism he claims has infiltrated the ranks. He said that Critical Race Theory was nothing but demonizing white people to push changing the systems in the country toward Marxism.

Lohmeier said on Fox News:

“What happened is I began noticing some time ago, and not just in the past few months, but over the past several years, in increasing relevance, of what I saw was Marxist ideology parading around by other names. The defense secretary in February, I think it was February 5th of this year, called for an extremism down day and they issued a guidance memorandum to all service members.”

“And in the guidance memorandum, he basically gave an injunction to every service member to combat extremist ideologies within the force where they saw them, and to take it upon ourselves to protect one another and to speak up and educate one another about extremist ideologies, when we discovered them, causing divisions within the force. And that’s me paraphrasing the guidance memorandum. And so I include that in the introduction to the book as well.”

This is what I’m afraid of when it comes to monitoring social media posts.

By the way, Lohmeier’s book is number one on Amazon’s book list, probably because of this story. This is an example of Cancel Culture backfiring.

What About Them?

Critical Race Theory is beginning to leave bodies in their wake.

The airline chose to investigate Guy Midkiff, 62, after several social media accounts urged the company to audit Midkiff’s social media history. Midkiff is a resident of Southlake, Texas, who has flown for American for over three decades.

He attacked a group called Southlake Anti-Racism Coalition on Twitter. This group is pushing CRT in schools in Texas. The CRT initiative has been quashed in a vote of 70-30.

Here are Midkiff’s tweets:

Anything really bazaar here? He’s not attacking someone outright, cussing or making threats. In fact, he’s just making fun of the group.

The SARC released a couple of tweets aimed at American Airlines:

First off, none of this is true. He was targeting the group who lost an election and, I bet, is pissed. He never targeted students. But that didn’t stop American Airlines. They said in a statement:

“We are troubled by the allegations made and have launched an investigation into the matter.”

What cowards!

Here’s a news flash: he did nothing wrong. He didn’t want his kids to learn a revised history of the United States that pushed the belief that all white people are racists and this country is a horrible place. That’s it. This should be a non-story with American Airlines not even acknowledging the tweets.

But this is the world we live in and the Biden administration wants more of this. That’s because Leftist policy is so bad and filled with so many lies that they can’t be debated or defended. Shutting up and cancelling their detractors is the only way their policies can get through.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/space-force-officer-fired-for-blasting-marxism-in-military-we-were-taught-whites-inherently-evil
https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-airlines-investigating-texas-pilot-who-criticized-critical-race-theory-in-his-local-school
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-use-private-firms-to-surveil-service-members-social-media-accounts-for-concerning-behavior-report