SD GOP candidate: ‘My opponent believes in global warming and has been to other countries, he is basically a monster’

GOP candidate: ‘My opponent believes in global warming and has been to other countries, he is basically a monster’ | Grist

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SD GOP candidate: ‘My opponent believes in global warming and has been to other countries, he is basically a monster’

The South Dakota GOP, in support of Kristi Noem, a representative from that state, has released an ad enumerating the many, many reasons that her opponent Matt Varilek is untrustworthy. They are as follows: Earned TWO master’s degrees — who needs that much education? Studied something called “the environment,” clearly code for “communism.” Lived in or visited several places that are not South Dakota. Believes in global warming. Corn dogs. republicanconference Kristi Noem, by contrast, had the integrity to not finish college, since she had to raise a farm and manage a family and didn’t have time for fancy lectures about imaginary global warming from liberal homosexuals. (UPDATE : I should have made it clearer that Noem says she left college because she had to manage the farm after her father died. This ad is idiotic but it’s not fair for me to make it look like anti-intelle...

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