Joni Ernst calls it quits!

[jmbar2]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/politics/joni-ernst-iowa-senate

[Sneederbunk]

1. All political careers die.

[EYESORE 9001]

2. Especially when they're pummeled by self-inflicted wounds

[underpants]

8. "We're all going to die"

[jmbar2]

19. Campaign slogan of the year - LOL!

[Norrrm]

28. Many of us earlier due to republican policies.

[Uncle Joe]

12. Not McConnell's, it just smells that way. n/t

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

29. Lol

[SouthBayDem]

35. Who's squealing now? nt

[JBTaurus83]

3. I was hoping

she would stay in. She was a weakened candidate. Probably forced out by the Dump Regime, and they will give her a new job.

[PhilosopherKing]

20. I was thinking the same thing.

She owns the shitty Trump policies.

[BoRaGard]

4. I'm wearing bread bags over my sandals to mark this...

happenstance...

[Ponietz]

5. She can spend more time at the cemetery now

[Karasu]

27. Clearly looking for a nice cliff to jump off. We're all going to die after all, so might as well get it over with.

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. Woo Hoo!

Now let’s nominate a strong Dem who opposes the filibuster and supports court expansion to run against the extreme MAGA wackadoodle the republicans are sure to nominate.

[UTUSN]

7. Not soon enough - couldn't she have done it effective immediately?!

[hatrack]

9. Hope she announces it from a cemetary . . . . .

[peggysue2]

10. Her poll numbers must be in the toilet

For Iowa and the rest of the country that rejects fascism and Agent Orange, this is good news.

Senator Ernst said it herself: We all die after all.

That includes political careers.

[mwmisses4289]

11. She not maga enough for trumpy boy?

[beaglelover]

13. She'll just be replaced by another repuke. Probably more rabid and deranged. Happy days.

[3catwoman3]

14. She's stayed in long enough to get the senate...

…retirement, so her work is done.

[Raven123]

15. Is she polling poorly?

[bearsfootball516]

26. Hard to say for sure as there hasn't been any public polling.

But for her to be declining re-election in a state that's moved as red as Iowa is, internal polling must be brutal.

[Scalded Nun]

16. And there she goes, off into the sunset...

With her lifetime pension, lifetime healthcare, and millions she grifted off of her role as a senator. She just could not take the citizens of her state being 'not nice' to her while she did her part in the destruction of our Constitution, and the decimation of the middle and lower classes in this country.

Good riddance, you treasonous piece of shit. Everyone dies, and I hope to live long enough to celebrate you reaching that milestone.

[niyad]

24. Well, she is vested. But she will only be receiving a retirement

percentage based on 12 years, not her full salary. Still, a pretty decent chunk of change.

[Scalded Nun]

41. Agreed. But also remember, when they 'reformed' retirement pay for civil servants they also carved out the largest

per year salary percentage for representatives and senators.

[Blue Full Moon]

17. The handwriting is on the wall. Blue wave tsunami is building.

[Buddyzbuddy]

18. Go back to the trough from which you came.

[milestogo]

21. Good riddance.

[BaronChocula]

22. The eventual Democrat will have a messaging wind at their back

Farm bankruptcies are back on the rise. And then the whole inflation thing. The question is will "the Democratic Party left me" Iowans find things dire enough to vote for someone who also defends civil rights for all those weird not white, not straight, not Christian, not male people.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

23. Iowa's Marie Antoinette.

Joni Ernst's words..."We're all going to die anyway, " has come back to haunt her. Voting AGAINST one's constituents has consequences.

[niyad]

25. may her famous statement be quickly prophetic.

[chowder66]

30. Trump will probably appoint her to the most ironic position of some agency.

[orleans]

40. maybe the honored position of queen of the cemeteries nt

[chowder66]

42. More like head of an intelligence agency or some life saving agency.

[bucolic_frolic]

31. I think her comment

expressed her subconscious desire to hang it up. This is just her realization.

[surfered]

32. I would like to think it was based on her prospects for the midterms

[Mike Nelson]

33. Hey, Joni...

... so, what's the total? I recall you entered office with a promise to castrate male Democrats in Washington DC. "Make 'em sequel!" you declared. We got it. So... how many Democratic penises did you accumulate?

[liberalla]

34. Nobody left in the Pentagon that she wanted to get with?

*snark*

[underpants]

39. Ooh I'd missed that. Innnnteresting.

https://www.propublica.org/article/joni-ernst-congress-military-relationships

[Norbert]

36. Outside of the male pigs she will castrate

I see no downside.

[MuseRider]

37. Hooray!

Isn't she the one who hid from gay people at a rally? She ran and crouched down behind some bushes and the press caught her and brought us all pictures? It was a while ago for this aging brain, I could be wrong but....... . HOORAY anyway. Oh yes, her husband was an *interesting guy*.

[LilElf70]

38. It's always good

when one of the predefined loons of the GOP finally wake up and see how f'ed up the government is today. They want no part of Trump and/or the GOP anymore. I can't really blame them, but I do. Their complicity is unbelievable.