Gretchen Whitmer creates perverse spectacle

In the past week, Vice-President Kamala Harris has made several unforced errors in her campaign. Two nights ago she appeared at a town hall event on Univisión – and someone stationed a camera behind her. The camera, positioned to look at her audience, picked up her TelePrompTer. That, according to Christina Laila of The Gateway Pundit, was only one of several faux pas. If her own performance were all she had to worry about, she could fix that – if she made the effort. But it’s not all. The co-chair of her campaign, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.), seems to introduce sexual perversion into her every appearance. Her latest stunt, also last Thursday (October 10), carried her taste for perversion to a new level. In fact a critical examination of her public life reveals subtle hints that have largely escaped notice – until today.

What was the latest Gretchen Whitmer spectacle?

Two days ago, Whitmer appeared with a podcaster named Liz Plank, in a video the two women cut for Instagram. Whitmer, dressed in somewhat form-fitting Navy blue warm-ups and a turtleneck, wears her Harris-Walz baseball-style cap. Plank, wearing a pink sweater and with a white ribbon tied in her hair, kneels before the older woman. Whitmer places a Doritos® tortilla chip into the young woman’s mouth. One can see the bag of chips in Whitmer’s hand. The caption for this video reads:

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 posted this herself, under an account she calls “feministabulous.”

The CHIPS Act reference is to a bill, which President Biden signed into law two years ago, providing subsidies for American integrated-circuit or “chip” manufacturers. But if Whitmer really wanted to call attention to the CHIPS Act, why didn’t she go to a chip factory? Why mention a snack chip? In fact Vice-President Harris has a penchant for that brand of snack chips:

This video has two problems. First, it presents an obviously perverse image: a younger woman submitting to a strong and dominant older one. Second, it is a travesty of the Holy Eucharist (literally, Thanksgiving) during Catholic and Anglican church services. TGP’s Kristinn Taylor noticed that shortly after the Instagram post appeared.

Reaction – and a non-apology

Reaction, from the Trump Campaign, Catholic Vote, and The Post Millennial, was swift and uniformly negative.

At the same time Whitmer and Plank made this video, Plank did an interview with Whitmer. They talked about, among other things, an alleged kidnap plot against Whitmer. That plot has been proved false, and was an FBI entrapment operation. Yet Whitmer not only talks as if the plot were real, but said she wants to meet the two men whom the FBI arrested, charged in the plot, and then had to release.

One thing should electrify viewers of this video and the Instagram post. Whitmer and Plank are dressed exactly the same in the video and the post. The only missing item of clothing is Whitmer’s Harris-Walz ballcap. That suggests the two women decided to “fool around” after the interview. The Instagram post was the result of that “fooling around.”

Moreover, a brief glance at Liz Plank’s Instagram page shows more lightly perverse posts of that nature. One of these posts depicts Plank wearing devil’s horns and surrounded by bright orange flames.

Today Whitmer issued a statement that raises even more questions. Cullen Linebarger of TGP shared a transcript:

Over 25 years in public service, I would never do something to denigrate someone’s faith. I’ve used my platform to stand up for people’s right to hold and practice their personal religious beliefs.

My team has spoken to the Michigan Catholic Conference. What was supposed to be a video about the importance of the CHIPS Act to Michigan jobs, has been construed as something it was never intended to be, and I apologize for that.

Now, wait a minute…

That statement does not persuade CNAV, any more than it did Cullen Linebarger or Kristinn Taylor. Again, if Whitmer wanted to promote those microchip manufacturing subsidies, she could have visited a microchip factory. She could have followed shots of the factory in operation, with numbers showing the benefits of the bill. (If Donald Trump is really considering a repeal of the CHIPS Act, then he must find those benefits dubious.) Absent the caption, that this was a promotion of an economic subsidy would never occur to a viewer of the silent video.

Moreover, such a dry business-news item is not in keeping with the overall theme of Liz Plank’s page. That page devotes itself to seeking out men for Plank’s pleasure of the moment, while also trying to encourage them to bring an instant “morning-after” contraceptive preparation. Apart from the medical harm women risk while taking such preparations, this is a direct invitation to immoral acts.

Whitmer herself is clearly indulging in an act with a sexual connotation, immediately after granting Plank an interview loaded with sexual innuendo. A woman wants to meet the men whom the FBI alleged wanted to kidnap her? What sensible woman would think of seeking out such a meeting?

The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Hamlet III.ii.219

If Whitmer paid better attention to her campaign job, maybe Kamala Harris wouldn’t be making these unforced errors. And maybe the campaign wouldn’t be in the trouble it’s in.

Instead, Harris’ appointment of Gretchen Whitmer has just become another unforced campaign error.