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Whether it’s mocking Christians, sexualizing the sacred, or shouting their abortions, the Left thrives on transgressive behavior – violating the “bourgeois” values and Judeo-Christian morality which they so deeply despise. In the latest example, COVID lockdown tyrant Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan’s Democrat Governor, drew social media mystification and condemnation Thursday after appearing in a bizarre short video that parodied and sexualized the Catholic sacrament of Holy Communion.

Canadian feminist author and podcaster Liz Plank, who has worked at NBC News and Vox Media, posted the 8-second video to her Instagram account @feministabulous after conducting a short, fawning interview with Whitmer in which they discuss – what else? – “reproductive rights” – i.e., murdering the unborn. In the video clip, Plank is seen kneeling on the floor expectantly, then stretching her tongue to receive a Doritos chip from a proffering hand a lá a wafer to a Catholic communicant. The camera pans from Plank and we see that the hand that fed her belongs to Gov. Whitmer, who is wearing a Harris/Walz cap and a cryptically flat expression. She stares unblinking at the camera as the video ends.

Plank captioned the post, “if he won’t, big gretch will.” Whitmer had told Democrats at her party’s convention in Chicago in August that “in Lansing, they call me governor, but in Detroit, I’m Big Gretch!” Weird flex, but okay.

The caption continued, “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.”

The $52.7 billion CHIPS Act was signed into law in August 2022 by President Biden, who claimed it would fight inflation. Americans are all painfully aware of just how well that worked out.

Social media responses to the short clip on Instagram ranged from understandably perplexed (“Strange,” political commentator Michael Cernovich wrote) to understandably appalled (“Wtf is this supposed to be? Disgusting,” wrote another user).

“This is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen,” another user wrote. Creepiest might be a more apt description, because the video gives off the same disturbing vibe as a sex fetish video. Plank welcomes the Doritos chip with a sexually suggestive gratitude and satisfaction, like a BDSM submissive to Whitmer’s dominatrix. Whitmer, for her part, then draws us unwillingly into the kinky scenario with her commanding gaze. It honestly feels like a violation.

Many conservatives noted that the video was undeniably a mockery of the Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist, with Whitmer (mis)cast in the role of priest. Commentator Liz Wheeler tweeted, “Democrat Gov Gretchen Whitmer blasphemes the Eucharist, feeding a Dorito to a leftist podcaster as if it’s Holy Communion. Wearing a Kamala hat. It’s wild that some Christians refuse to vote when Democrats obviously loathe you… because you’re Christian.”

Democrat Gov Gretchen Whitmer blasphemes the Eucharist, feeding a Dorito to a leftist podcaster as if it’s Holy Communion. Wearing a Kamala hat.

It’s wild that some Christians refuse to vote when Democrats obviously loathe you… because you’re Christian.pic.twitter.com/tcVN1lzWmh

— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) October 10, 2024

The Citizen Free Press similarly tweeted, “What in the hell is Gretchen Whitmer doing. She appears to be mocking Catholics and Communion. This is the Democrat Party.”

What in the hell is Gretchen Whitmer doing.

She appears to be mocking Catholics and Communion.

This is the Democrat Party.pic.twitter.com/eACpl8tueX

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 10, 2024

Social media entrepreneur The Art of Purpose piled on with a post as well: “Gretchen Whitmer – Governor of Michigan, has released a new video where she openly mocks the Catholic religion. Their degeneracy has no bounds.”

Gretchen Whitmer – Governor of Michigan, has released a new video where she openly mocks the Catholic religion. Their degeneracy has no bounds.pic.twitter.com/5rgomImSWF

— 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 🇺🇸 (@creation247) October 10, 2024

Who in Whitmer’s team thought this video clip, which has gone viral, was a good idea? If Whitmer, who is reportedly Christian, wasn’t savvy or sensitive enough herself to see how off-putting this video is, was there no one on her team to speak up and point out how it might adversely impact the crucial Catholic vote in the upcoming election? Could they not have found a more effective way to make their weak political point about the CHIPS Act?

Imagine if Republican VP nominee JD Vance, whom the Leftist media and leadership tried desperately to smear as “weird,” released a video in which he blasphemed, say, Islam and then stared into the camera as if possessed. Democrats would pounce and the fear-mongering would be apocalyptic. If Whitmer’s video was intended to be playful, it failed, although the anti-Christian bigots of the Left will no doubt find it entertaining. If anything, it came off as eerie, dark, and divisive.

But I will go a step further and assert that there is a sulfuric whiff of the demonic about this 8-second clip. As I have stated many times, our nation is engaged in intense spiritual warfare, which one can see manifested in our volatile political and cultural conflicts. In this Whitmer video there is something macabre in the surreal, sacrilegious, sexual framing and the intensity of her direct glare. Am I reading too much into it? Possibly. Or maybe it is giving us a representative glimpse, in its small way, of the dark forces behind a libertine Democrat Party that has made child sacrifice its highest sacrament.

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