(Source: MIRS.news, Published 12/27/2022) After Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake) turned heads with a goodbye speech warning that COVID-19 was a test before present-day policy discussions pursue "one world control," he told MIRS he knows people think he's off his rocker.
"I know, I know, yup…and that is not the first time I've been accused of that these last 14 years," Shrikey said on the MIRS Monday Podcast, after explaining "you know, I took a page out of George Washington's farewell speech, and he laid out a lot of things he was concerned about…and his was a lot longer than mine – thankfully for just some people – but that's what I felt compelled to do."
The media flocked to Shirkey's words on Dec. 7, as the term-limited lawmaker said in his farewell remarks that he carried the burden of seeing things "that are about to happen or (are) going to happen that other people sometimes can't see."
He described forces called "Little G-gods," which he said were created when humans combined control and reason without wisdom. Climate change, gun control, child sacrifice, digital currencies, artificial intelligence and critical race theory (CRT) were mentioned in his list of "Little G-gods."
Shirkey additionally said the World Economic Forum, a Switzerland-based lobbying organization engaging in political, business and cultural reforms, was "the most public and alarmingly transparent" group driving efforts to eliminate sovereignty.
The Clarklake Republican was criticized for spilling conspiracy theories onto the Senate floor. However, Shirkey said in his last 14 years as a legislator, both in the Michigan House and Senate, members of the media "enjoy making game out of me because they are not intellectually curious."
He later said he stopped reading newspapers in early 2021.
"When it's time for Christ to come back, there's gonna be a lot of turmoil in this world, and it's going to be focused on one world government, one world healthcare, one world religion," Shirkey said. "It doesn't mean it's happening tomorrow, doesn't mean it's happening next year, but it's going to happen – and I'm a big believer that we have to learn from our experiences."
He said he believes all individuals have an obligation to study history, to study the bible and to "understand that these are not fabrications – these are actual predictions that are going to happen."
Shirkey's debut year as the Senate Majority Leader could have seemed to kick off on a positive note when the Governor signed off on the 2019 auto insurance reform, which was designed to offer historic price drops and new flexibility to Michigan drivers by eliminating the mandate to purchase unlimited personal injury protection (PIP) coverage.
After being asked when things went off the rails, Shirkey said it was "unilateral decision-making when it came to COVID," suggesting that the Governor's office showed no interest to debate nor to "discuss the broad findings of science."
"I still maintain today, and it has been clearly proven, that my claim that natural immunity far exceeds any other immunity acquired during this process," Shrikey said, describing the COVID-19 vaccine as the "one-mentioned solution" from the state's health department.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a COVID-19 vaccination is a more predictable immune response than a coronavirus response, especially as some COVID-19 cases have reportedly been connected to long-term health issues.
When addressed with how 2021-2022 had fewer bills signed into law byGov. Gretchen Whitmer since lawmakers kicked off their full-time two-year calendars in 1965, Shirkey said he's never going to accept the notion that the Legislature's outgoing Republican majority gave up.
The Senate also had fewer attendance-taking session days in 2022 than any other year in the era of a full-time Legislature, with the chamber actively meeting on 62 days and the House taking attendance on 54 days.
"There was no terrific majority margin. All votes were close, and there were individual subgroups of people within the caucuses, both in the House and the Senate, that made it a challenge to get things done – get things passed," Shirkey said. "We are divided as a country, and we are divided even within our parities."
Shrikey made headlines in February 2021, after a video recorded during a meeting between Shrikey and Hillsdale County Republican Party officials captured him saying the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has "been a hoax from day one."
The senator told MIRS the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 rampage – a committee that summoned Shirkey with a June subpoena – "has not done its job."
"I think January 6 was a horrific event. I don't think it was as horrific as some people think it was. I think that there's still people who want to – well, how shall I say it – make it bigger than what it was," Shirkey said. "What made me the most upset in watching it was the very obvious inaction of those who I thought were there, present, to protect the facilities and the people…in other words, police and security."
