Chuck Grassley seems to have lost his mind

[Tanuki]

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[JI7]

1. isn't he 200 years old ?

[LuckyCharms]

2. He's in his late hundreds.

[In It to Win It]

8. ...

[Kali]

30. !

[SCantiGOP]

3. If you live near him

Please call the local Sheriff for a Welfare Check.

[jorgevlorgan]

4. Maybe he got hacked

Regardless, that's hilarious.

[demtenjeep]

5. setting the stage for an insanity alibi

for what is the question

[ellie]

6. Someone on that

Twitter thread mused that Chuck probably thought he was texting instead of tweeting.

[LakeArenal]

7. If he votes No, I'll get him a live pidgin.

[SharonClark]

9. Oh, oh, I understood everything he tweeted.

[GoCubsGo]

11. So did I.

He needs to learn how to spell "pigeon."

[csziggy]

10. Twitter is having a lot of fun with it according to Mediate

Twitter Confused By Senator Chuck Grassley’s Dead ‘Pet Pidgin’ Tweet: ‘A Key Senate Voice Weighs In’
By Zachary PetrizzoSep 19th, 2020, 6:31 pm

United States Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent out a curious tweet seeking to find the owner of a dead “pet pidgin” found on his front lawn Saturday afternoon. The tweet left much of verified Twitter confused.

“If u lost ur pet pidgin /it’s dead in front yard my Iowa farm JUST DISCOVERED here r identifiers,” Grassley tweeted. “Right leg Blue 2020/3089/AU2020/SHE ///LEFT LEG GREEN BAND NO PRINTED INFO.”

“Sorry for bad news,” he added.

Twitter users quickly had some fun at the fact Grassley billed the animal as a “pet pidgin,” while others jokingly claimed it was their pet.

More, including some fun tweets: https://www.mediaite.com/news/twitter-confused-by-senator-chuck-grassleys-dead-pet-pidgin-tweet-a-key-senate-voice-weighs-in/

My favorite response:

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For those who can't see Twitter messages, it is basically this:

[smirkymonkey]

12. What the fuck, Chuck?

You ok, dude? You're not sounding very well.

[renate]

13. OMG I'm dying laughing

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[betsuni]

25. I was waiting for the "Sir, this is a Wendy's."

[Liberal In Texas]

14. One time code to communicate with Russian handlers. n/t

[crickets]

15. "The pidgin squawks at midnight."

[Tanuki]

16. Quoth the pidgin, "Nevermore!" 🐦

[2naSalit]

17. Notice a theme here?

Animal are ending up dead in his front yard?

[Tanuki]

18. Sort of like something out of The Godfather

[Baked Potato]

19. First few lines of the FinCen Rag ? 🎶

[KatyMan]

20. the q contingent probably

sees these as coded messages, like Hillary has been arrested and convicted, or that it's time to raid pedo pizza parlors. Those people are truly idiots.

[MustLoveBeagles]

21. What the hell is he on about?

He's either off his meds or needs to be on them.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

22. Chucky bein' conservative compassionatin'.....

wid da lost banded pidgin........


And we be Kentuckin'.........


See, I'm slowly getting this new age lingo right!

[torius]

23. Has the pidgin owner replied?

Is fowl play suspected?

[LuckyLib]

24. Chuck, someone sold you a bill of goods when you signed on

for the course on Pidgin for Texting and Tweeting.

[sarcasmo]

26. Term limit poster boy.

[lunasun]

27. With all this twitter attention the bird band will probably get identified at least

[Nevilledog]

28. ...

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[hvn_nbr_2]

29. I could imagine the one about the dead deer...

could have been about that politician that ran over a guy and killed him and said he thought it was a deer. But no idea why Grassley would be talking about it, unless he just did the same thing. (Just in case: no accusation. Just mentioning a wild-ass possibility.)

[Tanuki]

31. I thought the deer tweet was extremely random, but the magic Google machine

tells me it refers to a controversial previous tweet from all the way back in 2012:

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[Silent3]

32. He found a grammatically simplified language in his front yard?

Used to communicate among two or more groups which do not possess a common language?

[Totally Tunsie]

33. Let's not mock him right now. He's rumored to be a possible crossover vote

with regard to timeline for the next SC confirmation. We will need his vote quite soon!