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bobbert's avatar

One active case. I don't actually find it disingenuous. More like using precise numbers to emphasize the hysteria. Maybe he should have gone with "Since there has been one death in America, out of {whatever the number of cases is now}", but that takes longer to say.

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bobbert's avatar

That's pretty depressing, considering that Braley has been at least within hailing range for the whole fucking campaign. I'm not really a Howard Dean fanboi, but he had the right idea about going after all fifty states.

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Ilgattomorte's avatar

Joni Ernst is a deep thinker, so deep that our shallow minds can't possibly comprehend her brilliance. Not unlike the way God moves in mysterious ways, you just have to trust and believe in Joni. When she says that "one Ebola case" is an opinion, she means that it may seem to be a fact, but she's playing advanced 4th dimensional mind chess people! How does anyone really know that there's only one case, what with Ebola infected Mexicans coming across the border holding soccer-themed prayer rugs or the scores of terrorist cells that are carrying bottles of Ebola infected urine, otherwise know as Ebola juice, just waiting to pounce. She is able to compute all of these facts together in a way that the average mind simply can't.

I mean, this has to be the case or else it would mean that Iowa is about to elect a delusional idiot with the razor-sharp mind of a stinkbug.

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Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

One <i>active</i> case, I'm guessing? The dead guy doesn't count anymore, he dead.

You can't say those people "have Ebola," because well, they don't.

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diogenez's avatar

Joni Ernst: you should not have been a contender.

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bobbert's avatar

Hmm, I find myself juggling bullets, which is annoying because it's really hard to control the little fuckers. Also, you have to keep washing your hands because of the lead.

Am I already drunk?

Maybe.

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Good_Gawd_Yall - Unperson's avatar

Congress should be making the legislative actions

I can't. even.

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Spotts1701, Taking Bible Guns's avatar

It's an <em>opinion</em> that 1 person has Ebola???

Anyone who makes that pronouncement isn't qualified to be a bottle cap tightener, let alone a United States Senator.

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Chris Grrr's avatar

But you tell me Over and over and over again my friend Ah, you don't believe We're on the eve of destruction

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bobbert's avatar

Exploding foamy pigshit?

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PubOption's avatar

If Ernst wins, can we get Sara Benincasa back to impersonate her?

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bobbert's avatar

And because the liberal MSM has inexplicably failed to point out any of her more crazy beliefs.

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PubOption's avatar

'She seems nice' - must credit Wonkette.

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Monsieur_Grumpe's avatar

I think we just found our next Michele Bachmann.

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

Enact the UN's insidious Agenda 21 and move the entire rural population of Iowa into an apartment block in Des Moines.

That's beginning to sound like a good idea. Empty the state out, declare it the "Corn Museum" (where corn used to grow, before the weather changed for good), and charge admission.

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