This stuff’s been happening in WI for years, with Scott Walker & Robin Vos lying about what goes on at UW & suggesting the votes of the state’s 2 largest cities shouldn’t count. It’s fundamentally incompatible with democracy & we shouldn’t tolerate it, much less standalone block quote in the papers.
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Mark Copelovitch
No, really, imagine the conversation we'd be having about lack of respect for Real Folkz if a Democratic politician said, "Well, we'd control the entire state government if you simply didn't count the votes of every rural county in the state."
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Putting the merits aside, it’s wild how the media treats GOP hatred of the majority of the country as normal."
https://bsky.app/profile/onekade.bsky.social/post/3lqdtsrup722v
Living in bucolic cities in blue states while demonizing them and claiming to know "heartland" America
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/south-dakota
https://bsky.app/profile/michaelhobbes.bsky.social/post/3lr4abmqe7k2o
"San Francisco and North Dakota have roughly the same population size but North Dakota had around twice as many COVID deaths"
https://bsky.app/profile/michaelhobbes.bsky.social/post/3lr47zgyyik2o
PA, MI, WI. (used to be Ohio too)
Liberals continue to leave them, making their votes redundant on the coasts or futile in the most popular destinations, such as TX, FL, and TN.
It's as if they don't believe in climate change either.