Do Not Come For the Divine Miss M

Last month, Bette Midler called out ALLEGED Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin in a tweet that also badmouthed West Virginia:

“What Joe Manchin, who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn, has done to the rest of America, who wants to move forward, not backward, like his state, is horrible. He sold us out. He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out.”

Now, there was a backlash because, clearly, not everyone in West Virginia is a low-income addle-brained meth head and so Midler went back to Twitter to apologize, and also take on Manchin again:

“I apologize to the good people of [West Virginia] for my last outburst. I’m just seeing red;  Joe Manchin and his whole family are a criminal enterprise. Is he really the best WV has to offer its own citizens? Surely there’s someone there who has the state’s interests at heart, not his own!”

Well, this week, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice gave his State of the State speech and went after Midler himself. He held up his bulldog Babydog—seriously, this is what a grown man calls his dog—turned her rear end to the cameras and said:

“Babydog tells Bette Midler and all those out there, ‘kiss her hiney.’”

Oh snap … except Bette Midler has zero fucks to give either Manchin or Justice; she retweeted a picture of the stunt with the caption:

“Here we can see a dog’s asshole. Right next to it is the butt of Jim Justice’s dog.”

And then to prove her point, she Tweeted this:

“BTW, here are the state rankings of all the areas and agencies for which the so-called ‘Governor’ of [West Virginia], Jim Justice, is responsible. Judging from these rankings, I’d say his dog’s ass would make a better Governor than him!”

Do not come for Midler unless she sends for you.