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Derp deficient?

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Ernst is running for re-election on the dead bodies of Iowans.... They deserve each other...

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... I honestly can't tell whether anyone's sarcastic anymore. That's Björn Ulvaeus. Pete couldn't rock platforms like that.

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I get to paddle you.

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I'm sorry you got yelled that. Rebecca definitely should have yelled at me. And I told her so.

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Much better!

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OMG! Looks like only Obama supporters get life boats! And is that JFK, Jr.??

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I'm going to borrow "If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for everything" and put it right next to "You should keep an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out" in my Aphorism File.

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That's one of the lines of the Strangelove script that I'm sure the great comic novelist Terry Southern wrote.

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“Is Joni Ernst trying to lose her Iowa Senate race? Does she hate herself, and hate her job, and hate having to pretend that everything is fine, just fine with an orange shitgibbon as the avatar of her party?”

She’s a Republican in Iowa. This is the place that gave us Chuck Grassley and Steve King so it all sounds pretty normal for that state.

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Fucktose is an unusual disaccharide that one uses to adulterate a date’s drink to increase chances of an amorous encounter later that evening.

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Reminds me of an infamous (albeit unverified) Henry Kissinger story.

Kissinger once assigned a significant report to a staffer. Kissinger accepted the report, held onto it for a few days, called the staffer into his chamber and asked in his inimitable voice: “Is this the best you can do?” Staffer mumbles something about citations, yadda yadda, and resubmits. A few days pass and Kissinger repeats the question. Beleaguered staffer insists that yes, this is the best I can do (this may have had another iteration).

Kissinger replied: ”In that case, I’ll read it.”

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