So, learning new information in the intervening 5 years should not matter?Good to know.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 2, 2020

Ruffini is a GOP pollster - facts and new information are an anathema to GOPers.

(EDIT-added):

I’ve been to the Black Hills once. I’ve written about it, and I was fascinated to learn the history of how the US fucked over the Sioux and their claims to the Black Hills. It was set out in the Treaty of Fort Laramie. The moment gold was found in the Hills, the US abrogated the treaty and seized the lands. Even Mount Rushmore was expropriated by the US and state of South Dakota over objections of the tribe.

The parklands (Badlands, Mt. Rushmore, etc.) may now preserve the land, but it wasn’t meant to be federal land in the first place. It was set aside as tribal land. And we’re still fucking over the tribes. The US offered up a monetary settlement, but the tribe wants the land so the money sits in escrow in the meantime - now over $1 billion. That’s a pittance compared to the value of the land and gold extracted from just Lead, South Dakota mine district (which extracted ~1.2 million kg of gold over life of the mine).

If a kg of gold is worth around $50,000, that means you’re looking at $60 billion in gold alone.