Kildee on MI Protests: People Are Willing to Let Thousands Die So They Can ‘Get Their Smoothie’

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) reacted to the protests against the state’s stay-at-home order by stating that there are people that aren’t “willing to make the sacrifice of a few weeks of not mowing their lawn or going water skiing,” and are okay with more people dying because “they just want to be able to get their smoothie.”

Kildee said, “[W]e see this group of protestors show up at the capitol, trying to get the governor to dial back on the lifesaving measures that she has taken. The president could take a lesson from Governor Whitmer. She’s willing to make tough decisions that in some circles are unpopular, but she knows that they will save — these decisions will save lives. This is really fundamentally a question between people who don’t have the patience of a few weeks, that are willing to make the sacrifice of a few weeks of not mowing their lawn or going water skiing, I don’t know why they want to do that when it’s 38 degrees anyway, but don’t have the patience. Think about the generations that precede us. Think about the generation — the Greatest Generation, the sacrifice they were willing to make when there was a global threat that required sacrifice, for years, in order to save something that we hold sacred. And now we have these people, who after a few weeks, have run out of patience. And if that means that a few thousand or 10,000 or 100,000 more die, that’s okay with them, they just want to be able to get their smoothie.”

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