For a political party that desperately wants rural Wisconsin voters to think it understands their way of life, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin picked a strange way to celebrate June Dairy Month: by posting a graphic featuring two bulls.
Yes, bulls.
Not cows. Not dairy cows. Bulls.
Now, to be fair, dairy farming can be complicated. There are milk prices, feed costs, herd health, and all sorts of technical challenges. But one aspect of the business has remained fairly straightforward throughout human history: bulls do not produce milk.
Within minutes, Wisconsin social media users began pointing out the obvious mistake. Soon, Republican elected officials, statewide candidates, and plenty of ordinary Wisconsinites joined in on the fun, wondering how a party that constantly lectures everyone else about science could somehow forget one of the most basic facts of animal biology.
GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany, who grew up milking cows on his family’s dairy farm, reminded Democrats that you cannot, in fact, milk a bull.
Republican Secretary of State candidate and farmer, Nate Pollnow, said that the Democrats’ bulls identify as “inseminated heifers.”
Another X user compared the post to a rather humorous scene from the 1996 cult comedy film Kingpin.
While it’s easy to laugh it off as a simple mistake (perhaps the social media intern accidentally mixed up the Dairy Month and Pride Month graphics), the WisDems’ bovine blunder also highlights something deeper: a party that increasingly struggles to acknowledge basic biological realities.
After all, this is the same political party whose leaders have spent years insisting that biological sex is little more than a social construct and pushing policies that allow men to compete in women’s sports. It’s the party of Gov. Tony Evers, whose administration famously proposed replacing the word “mother” with “inseminated person” in the state budget. These are the same Democrats who routinely condemn anyone who suggests that only women can become pregnant. Given that track record, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that a pair of bulls ended up representing Wisconsin’s dairy industry.
The episode perfectly captures why Democrats continue to struggle outside Wisconsin’s urban strongholds. Rural voters don’t expect politicians to know everything about farming. They do, however, expect a basic level of familiarity with the industries and communities that power the state.
Instead, Wisconsin Democrats managed to turn June Dairy Month into a punchline before it even began.
The irony is hard to ignore. Wisconsin is America’s Dairyland. Dairy farming isn’t some obscure niche interest. It is one of the state’s defining industries and a cornerstone of its identity. Yet the party that claims to represent working people couldn’t even get the animals right.
At least they gave Wisconsin something to laugh about.
Unfortunately for WisDems, the joke was on them.
