Just before the U.S. House of Representatives voted 216-208 on Thursday to make Washington, D.C. a state, Ohio Republican state representative Mike Loychik posted a tweet insisting the “founders never intended for Washington DC to become a state.”

He’s not wrong, technically, but – as many corrected him – given that the founders never intended for many things, including for women and Black people to be allowed to vote, for people who did not own property to vote, and, as some noted, for Republicans to “commit sedition,” what difference does it make?

The founders also did not originally intend for Washington, D.C. to be the seat of government. First it was New York City, then Philadelphia.

Rep. Loychik, who just filed a bill to make Ohio taxpayers spend $300,000 to rename Mosquito Lake State Park in Donald Trump’s honor, did not respond to any of the people educating him, but hours later he posted a tweet attacking Democrats:

The founders are looking down on America and they’re DISGUSTED by what the Democrat party is trying to do to this country.

— Representative Mike Loychik (@MikeLoychik) April 22, 2021

Loychik is clearly ignoring the fact that “the Republican Party has historically taken far more effective advantage of the addition of new states,” as The Atlantic reported in 2019.

In 1889 and 1890, Congress added North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming—the largest admission of states since the original 13. This addition of 12 new senators and 18 new electors to the Electoral College was a deliberate strategy of late-19th-century Republicans to stay in power after their swing toward Big Business cost them a popular majority. The strategy paid dividends deep into the future; indeed, the admission of so many rural states back then helps to explain GOP control of the Senate today, 130 years later.

Washington, D.C. could become the 51st state, if Democrats in the Senate can convince six of their Democratic colleagues currently opposed to the measure, and another ten Senate Republicans to support it, or kill the filibuster, which would allow passage with 50 Senate votes plus Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie.

Here’s how some are schooling the Ohio Republican lawmaker:

You're only 3/5 right.

— Ed Bott (@edbott) April 22, 2021

The founders never intended for women to vote or people of color to be considered more than 3/5 of a human being. The founders never intended for @HouseGOP and @SenateGOP to commit sedition and overturn a free and fair election. Based on your logic, there should only be 13 states

— James (@JamesSNYC) April 22, 2021

The founders owned people like cattle.

— Review & Resist (@ReviewResist) April 22, 2021

The founders never intended for one of two political parties to flirt with fascist autocracy while attempting to implement minority rule either. But here we are. https://t.co/2DPIm5AfCK

— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) April 22, 2021

They never intended to extend voting rights to anyone other than property-owning white men, but here we are.

— Steve M. (@nomoremister) April 22, 2021

The Founders also believed that African-Americans were only 3/5ths of a person.

— Andrew C Laufer, Esq (@lauferlaw) April 22, 2021

They didn’t intend persons of color to vote, women to vote, or anyone who wasn’t a white guy with land for that matter.

DC has more people living there than WY or VT. It has more residents than 77 congressional districts.

So, no. You don’t get to deny DC their rights.

— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 22, 2021

Founders never planned to ride a train either, hoss

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 22, 2021

The founders never intended 2a to mean every moron can own an AR-15, either.

No one lived in DC then, they do now. Taxation without representation is illegal.

— 𝕸𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖕𝖔𝖔𝖕𝖔𝖔𝖕𝖔𝖔 (@maripoopoopoo) April 22, 2021

That’s inaccurate. Article IV Section 3 of our US Constitution laid out the pathway to statehood. Article I Section 8 lays out the purpose of our nation’s capital which is not to be a state.

— Rep. Ron Ferguson (@ronfergusonohio) April 22, 2021

Remind me which of the original 13 states Ohio was again? https://t.co/K8zZyycF5e

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) April 22, 2021

Founders never intended for there to be a standing army.

Founders never intended for popular election of Senators. https://t.co/hTatnAW3eY

— Mesopelagic Mike (@nyambol) April 22, 2021

They never intended a not well regulated militia with AK’s either.

— Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) April 22, 2021

The founders intended Ohio to be part of Connecticut & Virginia, but here we are (also they did not intend blacks or women to vote, but we evolved).

— David Rothschild (@DavMicRot) April 22, 2021

I think we can safely stop using “the founders never intended” for a lot of ideas. It’s been almost 250 years. A few things have changed.

— Anthony (@anthonytx42) April 22, 2021

Yup. And HR-51 does this specially. pic.twitter.com/GEF3Z77Mx2

— sunni ♥︎ (@sunnivaskeleton) April 22, 2021

A Strict Constructionist reading (or any reading for that matter) of Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution does not exclude ANY area that is not already part of a State, @MikeLoychik.

Read the WHOLE Constitution, Mike, not just the 2nd Amendment. https://t.co/XilZo4NtKU

— Sgt Joker (@TheSGTJoker) April 22, 2021

The Founders thought bloodletting cured fevers. Go play.

— BettyFastCat (@BettyFastCat1) April 22, 2021

The founders never intended for the Air Force to become a military branch but here we are.

— National Security Counselors (@NatlSecCnslrs) April 22, 2021

I dare say they would start a revolution to fight against taxation without representation.

— Nick Done 🇺🇸 (@NickDone8) April 22, 2021

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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski ridiculed Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) for becoming the latest man to underestimate Stacey Abrams.

The Louisiana Republican challenged Abrams to identify provisions in Georgia’s new restrictive voting law that she believes are racist, and he then unsuccessfully scrambled to derail the voting rights activist after she calmly recited a litany of measures that will make it harder for Black voters to cast their ballots.

“Why do people keep underestimating her?” Brzezinski marveled.

Scarborough joked that TV’s Matlock would be disappointed with Kennedy, an Oxford-educated attorney.

“You don’t ask the question if you don’t know the answer,” Scarborough said. “Especially if you’re trying to set somebody up like — and i’ll tell you something else, and maybe it was just the seersucker suits that made him so darned polite with his witnesses, but Sen. Kennedy, former John Kerry supporter, he kept trying to throw her off, he kept trying to interrupt her. He would say, explain it — he would cut her off — it just, seriously, this guy, I guess they don’t teach Matlock at Oxford, because he sure made a mess of things for himself, didn’t he?”

Co-host Willie Geist said Kennedy and other GOP senators got way more than they bargained for in the hearing, and contributor Eugene Robinson said the Louisiana senator was clearly outmatched.

“You better come with more than what our faux Matlock had yesterday — that was a riot,” Robinson said. “I was thinking the same thing — that’s obviously something they don’t teach at the Oxford debating union about dealing with intelligent people, who are just going to — I mean, she mowed him down, basically. It was highly entertaining to watch.”

Brzezinski praised Abrams’ poise in the face of a man repeatedly interrupting and condescending her, and she said Kennedy looked foolish.

“It was a really great example for anybody who sort of is figuring out, how do women develop their voices in this sea of how men do what they do,” Brzezinski said. “She was elegant, she was measured, she kept coming back, and she mowed him down without lifting a finger.”

“Why in the world does anybody keep underestimating this woman? she added. “If you think about it, if you think in the way she turned out the vote in Georgia, the way she turned out the vote saved our country, if you had any concern about [Donald] Trump. I mean, this woman is not to be messed with any way, shape or form, and he was acting as if he was dealing with some neophyte. He was condescending, he was arrogant, he was a moron.”

A family member of a 15-year old Columbus, Ohio girl says she called police around 4:30 PM local time on Tuesday. Fifteen minutes later police were on the scene and shot her, WBNS reports. “The family says Bryant called the police for help because girls were fighting outside her house.”

The 15-year-old’s name was Makiah Bryant, The Daily Beast reports, citing their source as the teen’s aunt, Hazel Bryant.

But The Beast also reports a different reason for why police were called: “According to Bryant, Makiyah called the police because someone in her house was abusing her. She went on to say that police saw a knife on the ground near Makiyah and shot the teenager four times.”

The Columbus Dispatch reports the person who called 911 “reported a female was trying to stab them, then the caller hung up.”

“Columbus Fire medics were cleared to come into the scene at 4:46 p.m., police said. The wounded person was transported in critical condition to Mount Carmel East hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 5:21 p.m., police said.”

“She was a good kid. She was loving,” said Hazel Bryant in a video posted to social media (below). “She was 15 years old. She didn’t deserve to die like a dog in the street.”

Alexis Moberger, a reporter for Columbus’ WSYX, posted the video:

WARNING: Video contains strong language. A woman near Legion Lane says her niece was killed earlier tonight after an officer involved shooting. Police still haven’t confirmed victim pic.twitter.com/wpx9Wowtwl

— Alexis Moberger (@alexiswsyx6) April 20, 2021

Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther confirmed the shooting and that the victim was “a young woman.”

Video via WBNS:

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