One of the strangest aspects of this year’s campaign season was the Democrats’ effort to brand JD Vance as “weird”–an effort led by none other than Tim Walz! Vance’s brilliant debate performance put that one to rest, once and for all.
But that doesn’t mean there is no weirdness in contemporary politics. Check out this very short video, in which Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer feeds a left-wing “influencer” a Dorito, while wearing a Harris/Walz hat:
Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer appears in bizarre video feeding Doritos to a woman.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) October 10, 2024
That’s weird, all right. The New York Post tries to explain:
In the short clip, posted on podcaster Liz Plank’s Instagram account, the lefty influencer was seen on her knees opening her mouth for Whitmer to place Doritos on her tongue.
Plank was then seen eating it as the camera panned to reveal Whitmer, in a camouflage Harris-Walz hat.
The video is an apparent takeoff on a TikTok meme in which friends feed each other food and stare uncomfortably into the camera.
That doesn’t seem like a good enough explanation. Apparently Whitmer and Plank were trying to make a point about the CHIPS act:
“If he won’t, Gretchen Whitmer will. Chips aren’t just delicious, the CHIPS Act is a game-changer for U.S. tech and manufacturing, boosting domestic production of semiconductors to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers! Donald Trump would put that at risk,” Plank captioned the Instagram video.
That is, at best, a long and bizarre road to make a stupid point.
But most commenters can’t get past the apparent mimicking of Christian Communion. That certainly is what it looks like, and Whitmer has been widely denounced for the apparent sacrilege. To be fair, I suppose it is possible, given today’s Democratic Party, that Whitmer and Plank have never been to church, and the resemblance was unintended.
But then, what on Earth is Plank doing on her knees, with Whitmer putting the equivalent of a Communion wafer in her mouth? If it isn’t a parody of Communion, what is it? Something even more bizarre than we thought.
And Whitmer is supposed to be one of the more serious Democratic Party officials, who perhaps could have had the vice presidential nomination if she had wanted it. Now, that would have been really weird.
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