Yes, Donald Trump won it in 2016, by less than 15,000 votes out of around four million votes cast. That means, for one brief moment, we were purple. But it went back to blue in 2018, with the four statewide Democrats running for office–Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel, and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson–all winning easily.

Michigan will be blue for a while, yet it can slide to the middle on occasion, which I go over here in my post from March about the midterm election coming up. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Files for Reelection — Can She Win?.

Then we have the idiotic plot to kidnap an elected official who has done a crap job, which now looks like it was helped along with FBI plants, and considered by those who watched a bit too many “Road Runner” cartoons and “Batman” (the original T.V. series) episodes as kids.

Saying “campy” to describe this plot does not do this justice.

From Bonchie yesterday: Massive Blow to the FBI After Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Verdict Drops…

Jurors on Friday acquitted two men of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, and said they were deadlocked on charges against two others, in a significant defeat for federal prosecutors in one of the highest-profile domestic terrorism cases in decades.

The jury of six men and six women found Brandon Caserta and Daniel Harris not guilty of all charges against them, and did not reach any verdicts on the charges against Barry Croft and Adam Fox. All four of the men had been accused of plotting to snatch Ms. Whitmer, a Democrat, from her vacation home in 2020.

As the verdicts were read, federal prosecutors and F.B.I. agents sat in silence while Mr. Harris and Mr. Caserta hugged their lawyers.

“Obviously we’re disappointed in the outcome,” Andrew Birge, the United States attorney for the Western District of Michigan, said outside the courthouse. He added: “We still believe in the jury system, and really, there’s not too much more I can say at this time. I appreciate the time the jury put in. They listened to a lot of evidence, deliberated quite a bit.”

Now I have zero doubt that there are a lot of people in this state who absolutely felt their backs were up against the wall, with dictates from a governor who had no idea why she was doing the things she was doing during the pandemic. I know if her Democratic colleagues like former New York Governor, Andrew “Roaming Hands” Cuomo, and California Governor Gavin “Hair Gel” Newsom did something, Michigan would follow within days. Whitmer was more than happy to follow rather than lead, and as we are seeing, none of this was based on science or data.

I also have no doubt that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, over a yet-to-be-determined amount of time, has become incredibly politicized. As Bonchie writes in his piece above, anyone thinking that the FBI is totally on the up-and-up needs to do a little bit more digging. Everything in Washington, D.C., right now has the stench of partisan politics all over it — and it looks like it has for decades.

Yet when a potential kidnapper or an FBI plant brings this up as a plausible plan…

From M-Live

An FBI special agent testified Tuesday, Oct. 13, that a leader of a group plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer considered leaving Whitmer in a boat in the middle of Lake Michigan.

Adam Fox, 37, identified by the FBI as a leader of a group, said the group considered taking Whitmer to the middle of the lake then disabling the boat’s motor, FBI special agent Richard Trask II testified.

…maybe it is time to just stop for a minute, and wonder why you made the life choices you did.

Going out on a boat in the middle of Lake Michigan and leaving a human being stranded with a disabled motor —  who comes up with a plan like that? Honestly, the stupidity on every level of this story makes my brain hurt.

Also, this crap makes me wonder why I’m still in a state that is blue and will probably continue to vote blue for at least the immediate future, and wonder where the public school system went wrong.

As I said at the beginning, I do love my state. The state of Michigan has so many things to see, four seasons to enjoy, and some of the most gorgeous scenery of any place — not only in the United States, but the world.

Yet when you have a clown for a governor and a clown car full of people who think they are in some sort of HBO mob T.V. series, it makes you wonder about why anyone ever stayed.

I do hope change comes in November, or more people will leave here — because this cannot continue and offer any hope for our future.