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- At the height of the pandemic, the Detroit rapper Gmac Cash recorded an anthem titled “Big Gretch”: “Throw the Buffs on her face ’cause that’s Big Gretch / We ain’t even ’bout to stress ’cause we got Big Gretch.” Whitmer has expressed ambivalence about the nickname (“Certainly, no woman I know likes to be called big”), but it has come to capture what her supporters admire most about her: she is a Democrat who fights and wins in one of the most competitive parts of the country. “People think she’s an intellectual, but she’s not,” Tommy Stallworth III, a veteran Detroit pol who is now a Whitmer senior adviser, said. “She is a wartime consigliere.”
My favorite excerpt personally.
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This is the trouble with echo chambers. It became such a tenet of faith within the GOP that democrats could only win by cheating that they decided they needed to cheat, too. It's the same line of reasoning that kept the USSR's bioweapons program alive and well into the 1990s. One brave person needs to stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes and the next will follow and then the next. I get that some have already tried (Cheney, e.g.), but none of the True Believers have. Such a disgrace. I know several of these people are septuagenarians and thus unlikely to see a jail cell, but I say fuck 'em straight where it hurts.