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BaronChocula

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

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Aug 29, 2025, 01:53 PM

Aug 2025

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.

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Joni Ernst calls it quits! [View all] jmbar2 Aug 2025 OP

All political careers die. Sneederbunk Aug 2025 #1

Especially when they're pummeled by self-inflicted wounds EYESORE 9001 Aug 2025 #2

"We're all going to die" underpants Aug 2025 #8

Campaign slogan of the year - LOL! jmbar2 Aug 2025 #19

Many of us earlier due to republican policies. Norrrm Aug 2025 #28

Not McConnell's, it just smells that way. n/t Uncle Joe Aug 2025 #12

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Who's squealing now? nt SouthBayDem Aug 2025 #35

I was hoping JBTaurus83 Aug 2025 #3

I was thinking the same thing. PhilosopherKing Aug 2025 #20

I'm wearing bread bags over my sandals to mark this... BoRaGard Aug 2025 #4

She can spend more time at the cemetery now Ponietz Aug 2025 #5

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Woo Hoo! Fiendish Thingy Aug 2025 #6

Not soon enough - couldn't she have done it effective immediately?! UTUSN Aug 2025 #7

Hope she announces it from a cemetary . . . . . hatrack Aug 2025 #9

Her poll numbers must be in the toilet peggysue2 Aug 2025 #10

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Is she polling poorly? Raven123 Aug 2025 #15

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And there she goes, off into the sunset... Scalded Nun Aug 2025 #16

Well, she is vested. But she will only be receiving a retirement niyad Aug 2025 #24

Agreed. But also remember, when they 'reformed' retirement pay for civil servants they also carved out the largest Scalded Nun Aug 2025 #41

The handwriting is on the wall. Blue wave tsunami is building. Blue Full Moon Aug 2025 #17

Go back to the trough from which you came. Buddyzbuddy Aug 2025 #18

Good riddance. milestogo Aug 2025 #21

The eventual Democrat will have a messaging wind at their back BaronChocula Aug 2025 #22

Iowa's Marie Antoinette. ProudMNDemocrat Aug 2025 #23

may her famous statement be quickly prophetic. niyad Aug 2025 #25

Trump will probably appoint her to the most ironic position of some agency. chowder66 Aug 2025 #30

maybe the honored position of queen of the cemeteries nt orleans Aug 2025 #40

More like head of an intelligence agency or some life saving agency. chowder66 Aug 2025 #42

I think her comment bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #31

I would like to think it was based on her prospects for the midterms surfered Aug 2025 #32

Hey, Joni... Mike Nelson Aug 2025 #33

Nobody left in the Pentagon that she wanted to get with? liberalla Aug 2025 #34

Ooh I'd missed that. Innnnteresting. underpants Aug 2025 #39

Outside of the male pigs she will castrate Norbert Aug 2025 #36

Hooray! MuseRider Aug 2025 #37

It's always good LilElf70 Aug 2025 #38