West Virginia… the state where Democrats are Republicans and Republicans are bat-shit insane. Last winter the WV Democratic Party had its snowball on the senate floor moment.
In January of 2016 a Democrat from the southern coalfields handed out sunscreen on the floor of the state legislature during a snowstorm in January. Delegate Rupie Phillips held up his tube of sunscreen with glee as he warned House colleagues of the dangers of “global warming, or climate change, or whatever it is today.” Clearly proud of his cleverness, Delegate Phillips smirked as he addressed the floor:
I worry about you. We got global warming going on. It’s not cold out there, that’s in your mind. As you travel home this weekend I want to make sure that your protected from global warming, or climate change, or whatever it is today. I personally call it mother nature.
In other news, world hunger has been solved because I just ate lunch.
The speech starts at 2h 44m 21s: