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If anyone was wondering about this politician's party, he's a Republican.
(No one was actually wondering. We all knew immediately.)
Yeah, I saw Washington and was like, it’s definitely a Republican.
I’m a bit surprised Washington has a Republican senator. But I guess there’s plenty of rural areas.
Almost the entire eastern part of the state (minus Whitman county and a few others) is Red. It’s only west of the mountains that it’s primarily blue. The population ratio is massively in favor of west of the mountains though
There’s a little blue dot in the center of Spokane, but it’s often overpowered by Coeur d’Alene.
...Which is in ~~idaho~~ Potatoland.
Thank fuck. If I had a bunch of those idiots actually in charge in the state, I’d move
Happens in California too. Even in the cities. I'm sorry to crush every rural liberals dream but the religions conservative right are everywhere.
2/3 of Washington State is very rural. Like, drive 65 miles through wheat fields without seeing a house rural. They also have mountains.
Of course. The primary function of any senate in the US is to give power to land rather than to people.
I-5 corridor is very blue, then you've got deer hunting backwoods rednecks on the peninsula to the west and rural farmers to the east on the other side of the mountains
Even around the interstate you've got plenty of people flying flags on their houses and their trucks. It's funny, the fascists where I live have abandoned their Trump 2024 flags for No step on snek. I guess they figure he doesn't trigger the libs as much with one foot in a jail cell. Or maybe against all odds they grew a sense of shame.
What is mo step on snek?
The Gadsden flag, notable for the text "Don't tread on me," on a yellow flag with a coiled snake in the center. It's popular with cishet white male alt-righters and libertarians who feel persecuted for whatever reason. People use the phrase "No step on snek" with a cartoonish snake illustration to mock the idea that the most privileged groups today would ever compare themselves to the people of the American revolution who fought and died under this banner.
Thanks. I know the phrase. I never heard the snek version.
Like many blue states, the red parts of Washington are probably more racist and fascist than even the deepest red states. Eastern Washington still has a massive presence of out-and-proud white supremecists, just like Northern California and Eastern Oregon.
State government…
I wouldn't necessarily make that assumption, I'm a gun toting Democrat myself
Yes, but are you dumb enough to take your gun with you when traveling internationally?
They probably just know there are consequences for their actions. Unlike the politician.
Did anyone actually read the article?
Did you?
Whoopsies!
The bit where he says he is the one that brought it to the attention of customs.
That doesn't make him any less stupid given that he flew to China with an illegal gun in the first place.
no but that's not really the point I was making
Sure, but it is the point the person you were replying to was making.
But that was the point they were making. Usually if you hear something this outright idiotic you would probably be correct in saying there will be an R by their name. This is coming from someone who leans left and owns guns and grew up around them and learned to respect them. They are a tool.
The stupidity was the giveaway, not the gun.
As others have pointed out, it's not the gun ownership. It's the stupid, entitled, law-breaking gun ownership. As you're a gun-toting Democrat, I fully expect you to be smart enough not to be packing heat on an international flight.
Do you know many gun toting democrats that are bad gun owners?
Yeah, but you probably aren't going to try to bring a gun to China.
As am I. Been a gun toting democrat since I shipped off to Iraq to look for yellowcake.
Good thing you guys never found any. With that name the Marines would definitely try to eat it.