Republican West Virginia Governor Jim Justice addressed a meeting of the state legislature to tell Bette Midler and other people who doubt the competence of West Virginia’s that they can kiss the hiney hole of his bulldog Babydog–and then shows the people where they can put their lips. In late December, after Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin had refused to reform the filibuster to facilitate the passage of infrastructure and voting rights legislation, Midler tweeted that West Virginians are “backward” and “poor, illiterate and strung out.”