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Monday , 23, November 2020 Election 2020, Elections, MAGA, Sad! Leave a commentHow to Create a Constitutional Crisis While Drinking Dom Pérignon: MI GOP Grasps the Last Straw
Sunday , 22, November 2020 Election 2020, MAGA, Sad!, Trumpenreich Leave a commentUp North Progressive has been pretty quiet lately. That’s because the Up North Progressive volunteered on the campaign staff of a state house candidate. It was a great learning experience, but there was so much writing to do about one candidate, it made writing about anything else happening up north difficult. The best part of […]
Trump Minus Seventy Eight Days and Counting
Saturday , 7, November 2020 COVID_19, Election 2020, MAGA, Sad!, Uncategorized, Vote by Mail Leave a commentNorthern Michigan Fruit Farm Founded by Nazis Sues Lil’ Hitler over Wearing Masks
Thursday , 13, August 2020 COVID_19, Election 2020, MAGA, Trumpenreich 8 CommentsUPDATE! A reader provided a copy of what Friske Orchards Farm provides to customers when they ask about wearing masks in their store. You can see it below. On August 5, 2020, Friske Orchards Farm filed suit against Governor Gretchen Whitmer due to violating the legal mandatory mask order. The Charlevoix farm in Antrim County, […]
EXCLUSIVE: This is What Your Post Office Looks Like Now
Saturday , 8, August 2020 Election 2020, MAGA, Sad! 4 CommentsYesterday, August 7, 2020, while the new Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, made radical leadership changes to the United States Post Office, postal workers finished their shifts and went home. Under new rules imposed by DeJoy, any mail undelivered at the end of the shift must wait until the next day. Overtime to finish delivering the […]
The @MIGOP Racism Problem in Michigan is Much Bigger than Tom Eckerle
Friday , 7, August 2020 COVID_19, MAGA, Trumpenreich Leave a commentUPDATE! Tom Eckerle will resign his seat to the Leelanua County Road Commission on Monday, August 10, 2020 On Thursday, August 6, 2020, The northern Michigan county of Leelanau found the eyes of the world trained on them as the news broke that two days before, Tom Eckerle of the Leelanau County Road Commission, proudly […]
#MaskUpMichigan the COVID Stupidity Level Reached Critical Mass: FTBA Edition
Thursday , 25, June 2020 Community, MAGA, Sad! 2 CommentsDear fine people who put their lives on the line every day keeping essential businesses and services open during a global pandemic that parts of the United States can’t seem to shake off: If someone approaches your place of employment brandishing one of the cards shown above there is no such thing as the FTB […]
The Molotov Cocktail Jack O’Malley Lit: “Constitutional” Sheriffs Edition
Thursday , 4, June 2020 Election 2020, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Gun Reform, MAGA, Michigan Republicans Leave a commentYesterday, June 2, 2020, The Glen Arbor Sun published an article exposing more information about the April 15, 2020, political stunt 101st State House Rep Jack O’Malley orchestrated to coordinate with Betsy DeVos’s astroturfed “Operation Gridlock” Trump rally at the state capital in Lansing. The day before, four Michigan Sheriffs signed a press release stating […]
Pro-Trump Boogaloo Gun Nuts Cancel 5/31/2020 Trump Rally At Capital: “We will not be associated with political terrorism”
Sunday , 31, May 2020 Community, MAGA, Michigan Republicans Leave a commentIn their own words: Michigan United For Liberty, a grassroots organization of over 9,000 members in Michigan, has canceled its Michiganders’ Marketplace “Sunday Funday” freedom celebration at the Michigan Capitol, which had been scheduled for 1pm on Sunday the 31st. The decision was immediately made when the group was informed that another group of demonstrators […]
@LeeChatfield and the rest of the @MIGOP Pretend to Backtrack their Support of Domestic Terrorism
Friday , 15, May 2020 Governor Gretchen Whitmer, MAGA, Sad! 2 CommentsLee Chatfield (R-TSA agents think I’m cute), Speaker of Michigan’s State House, and representing the 107th district has never once met a gun he didn’t like. Remember when he introduced a bill to eliminate handgun registration in Michigan? A year later he was handcuffed in a TSA agent’s office at Pellston Regional Airport after trying […]