So everyone's playing off our junior senator's "we're all going to die" line, including proposing changing the state entrance signs to that slogan from "Freedom to Flourish."
Maybe someone can come up with an updated version of Country Joe McDonald's Vietnam-era "Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag."
With apologies to Country Joe and the Fish, It could be renamed "Feel Like I'm Fixin' to DOGE Rag." It might go something this:
Although the Trump Derangement Syndrome was created to own the libs, it turns out to be much more virulent in Republicans: hence Ernst's nonsensical answer to people dying for lack of Medicaid. Turns out, we libs can make points taunting Trump's stupidity. Republicans have to act like everything coming out of his mouth is genius--and it's destroying them.
We had several counties in North Dakota listed as sanctuary counties until the sheriffs in those counties questioned why they were listed as such. They were some of the reddest counties in ND with no immigrant population, but a couple of them were reservation counties. They were finally removed from the list.
You are spot on about the colleges, but it’s almost as though they want to purposely destroy higher Ed, because they think they are teaching “woke ideology “. My oldest granddaughter is a student at UNI. I want her to have a good comprehensive education. And not some right wing indoctrination, which is the only thing that will satisfy MAGA. My youngest daughter and her husband both have degrees from Iowa State. I keep my eye on Iowa even though I have resided in North Dakota for almost 50 years.
I'm thinkin' Nathan Sage would give her a run for her money precisely because he's not gentile. He knows how to confront someone like Joni and is much more authentic. I'd look forward to seeing them go toe to toe. Sorry the turnout up there was so low, but then that's how it usually starts.
1. If Trump's post election "Sturm und Drang" was aimed at the columns marching north it was dramatically effective--the border is silent after four years of chaos;
2. if his post-inauguration "Shock and Awe" deportation efforts provoke insecure illegals to self-deport--it may yet work;
3. that he would (and will) wink at fully-employed meatpackers and other "meatpackeroid" groups is entirely predictable from his first term wherein he "ordered" them to remain at work during the pandemic, and is entirely consistent with both #1 and #2.
Everyone including the President knows they can't round 'em all up and won't need to under the terms above. He is a master at hyperbole and excess as he attacks issues on many fronts, knowing full well he only has two years to do so and that there will be successes and failures.
It is hard to separate policy from personality, perhaps impossible in this case.
ICE raided a small pack in Omaha (blue city in a red state) and there are rumours that ICE is in Storm Lake IA (pulitzer prize winning editor/paper that leans blue in a red state). It's just started. If ICE shows up in Dodge City KS, we'll know.
"Shamelessness, defined as brazen disregard for that which might deter anyone else, has always been one of Donald Trump’s superpowers," writes Susan Glasser in a recent New Yorker magazine. Sneering at Iowans who fear losing Medicaid and seeing essential services, hospitals and nursing homes, close up might not work as well for Joni Ernst. If she keeps up the sarcasm, Sage might well have a chance.
So everyone's playing off our junior senator's "we're all going to die" line, including proposing changing the state entrance signs to that slogan from "Freedom to Flourish."
Maybe someone can come up with an updated version of Country Joe McDonald's Vietnam-era "Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag."
With apologies to Country Joe and the Fish, It could be renamed "Feel Like I'm Fixin' to DOGE Rag." It might go something this:
"Well it's 1, 2, 3, 4, what're you cryin' for?"
"Y'know we don't give a damn
" For Medicaid folks and foreigners, ma'am.
"And it's 5, 6, 7, 8 open up the pearly gates
"The senator says “Praise God on high!
"Whoopee! We're all gonna die!"
Hear, hear...spot on with your Iowa higher education analysis!
Although the Trump Derangement Syndrome was created to own the libs, it turns out to be much more virulent in Republicans: hence Ernst's nonsensical answer to people dying for lack of Medicaid. Turns out, we libs can make points taunting Trump's stupidity. Republicans have to act like everything coming out of his mouth is genius--and it's destroying them.
"mindless spunk born of deceit". Those few words are the perfect summary of where politics reside in our state.
We had several counties in North Dakota listed as sanctuary counties until the sheriffs in those counties questioned why they were listed as such. They were some of the reddest counties in ND with no immigrant population, but a couple of them were reservation counties. They were finally removed from the list.
You are spot on about the colleges, but it’s almost as though they want to purposely destroy higher Ed, because they think they are teaching “woke ideology “. My oldest granddaughter is a student at UNI. I want her to have a good comprehensive education. And not some right wing indoctrination, which is the only thing that will satisfy MAGA. My youngest daughter and her husband both have degrees from Iowa State. I keep my eye on Iowa even though I have resided in North Dakota for almost 50 years.
Love your columns!
I'm thinkin' Nathan Sage would give her a run for her money precisely because he's not gentile. He knows how to confront someone like Joni and is much more authentic. I'd look forward to seeing them go toe to toe. Sorry the turnout up there was so low, but then that's how it usually starts.
1. If Trump's post election "Sturm und Drang" was aimed at the columns marching north it was dramatically effective--the border is silent after four years of chaos;
2. if his post-inauguration "Shock and Awe" deportation efforts provoke insecure illegals to self-deport--it may yet work;
3. that he would (and will) wink at fully-employed meatpackers and other "meatpackeroid" groups is entirely predictable from his first term wherein he "ordered" them to remain at work during the pandemic, and is entirely consistent with both #1 and #2.
Everyone including the President knows they can't round 'em all up and won't need to under the terms above. He is a master at hyperbole and excess as he attacks issues on many fronts, knowing full well he only has two years to do so and that there will be successes and failures.
It is hard to separate policy from personality, perhaps impossible in this case.
ICE raided a small pack in Omaha (blue city in a red state) and there are rumours that ICE is in Storm Lake IA (pulitzer prize winning editor/paper that leans blue in a red state). It's just started. If ICE shows up in Dodge City KS, we'll know.
I figure the GOP is selling the idea that something is morally good if it makes money.
"Shamelessness, defined as brazen disregard for that which might deter anyone else, has always been one of Donald Trump’s superpowers," writes Susan Glasser in a recent New Yorker magazine. Sneering at Iowans who fear losing Medicaid and seeing essential services, hospitals and nursing homes, close up might not work as well for Joni Ernst. If she keeps up the sarcasm, Sage might well have a chance.
If "I’m the only working-class Senate candidate in the country right now" is the crux of Sage's campaign, he's already toast.