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Belle of the Ranch

Let's talk about DC statehood, the founders, and a tweet....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:21.0

Well, howdy there, Internet people people it's Bo again so today we're going to talk

0:27.5

about DC statehood whether DC should become a state in the intent of the founders.

0:34.5

We're going to do this because I saw a tweet

0:36.7

and I'm going to be completely honest,

0:38.2

I thought it was satire.

0:39.4

Like I thought it was a joke.

0:40.6

I thought it was a really good satire. Even the name, Mike Rounds. My Grounds. You know,

0:47.0

DC's my grounds, statehood. Yeah, then I found out no. He's a senator from South Dakota,

0:54.9

and it wasn't funny anymore.

0:56.2

In fact, I got kind of sad.

0:58.1

But we're gonna go through his tweet.

1:00.0

There's two parts to it.

1:06.4

And talk about some of the assertions that he made. The first is the founding fathers never intended for Washington DC to be a state. That's true, kind of. I mean, it's

1:17.6

accurate in a way. The intent behind creating DC was not to create a federal jurisdiction for no reason.

1:28.0

It wasn't just for giggles.

1:30.0

There was a worry that if we put the capital in another state,

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