I Dunno. That’s Kinda Weird.
Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst makes me a tad uncomfortable. Any woman who smiles when talking about castrating anything makes me nervous and I don’t even have anything castrateable.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Y24MFOfFU
I guess if she could be confined to the Republican side of the aisle, I’d be okay with that. But I sure wouldn’t be giving her any knives.
She’s running for Tom Harkin’s old seat. Mitt Romney backs her. Apparently he was castrated in November 2011 so he doesn’t have to worry.
Thanks to Karl for the heads up.
Given that the GOP base is aging male and insecure about their sexual potency, this approach could backfire. Though, now that I think about it, we may have a way here to mellow out the more radical elements of the base.
1Jindal’s Party of Stupid just keeps on adding st00pid.
She could be the cure for the 27th Texas Congressional district. Run Pajama Boy!
2I completely agree with Lynn. Talk of cutting is likely to make the menfolk nervous.
3Too much talk of “severing Baal’s” in this salon full of scissors and razors for me, today. I may not uncross my legs until Easter.
4She’s trying to prove that she “knows farming” since the Democratic candidate, Bruce Braley, made a statement about
5Chuck Grassley not being a lawyer, but a farmer, and therefore
should not lead committee for Justice. It was a mark against Chuck’s lack of qualifications and the Pubs twisted it all around to sound like a hit against farmers. Sadly, polluting, corporate farms have increased so we can sell more Spam to China and raise pork prices here at home.
I hope the good folks over at Timberlake Christian School don’t get a gander at her short, sassy hair and tomboy clothes…
6Joni? Isn’t that name edging over toward the boys’ names? You know, used to short hair meant we couldn’t do a thing with our hair. But just take a look at THIS:
7Koch Brothers’ Donations Fuel Joni Ernst’s Opposition to Minimum …
http://www.iowademocrats.org › News
Feb 24, 2014 – Des Moines – Iowans now have an answer as to why Joni Ernst takes … Joni Ernst: Putting Koch Brothers’ Big Oil Agenda Before Iowa.
A long time ago, my friend worked at a meat company. On his way to work early one morning, he was pulled over by the police. They asked him where he was going & he replied “to work”. They asked him what he did. He stated “I slaughter pigs”.
Yea, he got a ticket.
8Even Iowa farmers might cringe at the image this conjures up.
9That ad nicely highlights my view that many of these new-century R’s are simply barbarians.
10another reminder of who’s taking over Congress:
IA-Sen: Joni Ernst (R) Reminds Washington She Castrated Hogs …
11http://www.dailykos.com/…/-IA-Sen-Joni-Ernst-R-Reminds-Washing…
Daily Kos
23 hours ago – Joni Ernst, Iowa state senator and Republican candidate for United … whoever wins the GOP nominee will get the Koch Brothers backing.
This ad explains precisely why her kids grew up toothless,effeminate and drug addicted. Baby pigs get their eye teeth clipped out,get shots in the butt and are castrated as soon after birth as possible. It never occurs to these dingbats not to do this to their own offspring as soon as the afterbirth clears.
12She’s a light colonel in the Iowa National Guard. There she’s known by her work name – Col. Kutchernutzoff.
13Oh man, don’t that smart???
http://www.jefferspet.com/jeffers-emasculatome/camid/LIV/cp/16150/
Why sure it does – especially if you get your thumbs in between!!
14I read somewhere that if Hillary Clinton had produced an ad like that Republicans would have exploded en masse. Honestly, is there any way we could encourage her to do just that?
15SomedayGirl has the best comment here!
16I bet that would make a man, any man, just draw up in a tight little knot.
17So she actually clipped pigs with her own two little female hands? I want to hear or maybe even see exactly how she did that. And what did she do with the stuff she cut off? Thats another whole question and darned interesting. If she backs off, you know she is doing exactly what Ronnie Ray-gun liked to do: make stuff up. Back home its only the vet who clips pigs. He/she will do it right and there will be no infection to end up killing a valuable market animal. Next question: was her “expertise” limited only to pigs? How about rams and bulls? If she did, and can explain her procedure, I am dead sure that any man listening will be slack jawed and whiter than Lady Pepperell!
18Nuh Uh, that’s why Secretary/Senator Clinton scares the gohmerts off the RWNJs. She wouldn’t need implements. She’ll slice and dice them with facts. Intelligent women scare them far more than whack-o-birds with guns and pitchforks.
Old Vlad took Georgia on Dubya’s watch and grabbed back Khrushchev’s gift of the Crimea from the Ukraine. But I doubt Vlad would mess with Sec/Sen Clinton. She makes Maggie Thatcher seem like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
Joni Ernst would weep in a room with Sec/Sen Clinton. Little girls cannot compete with grown women.
19Given the choice of castration or allowing women to have abortions,guess which one wingnuts would choose-oops there’s that dang choice word again.
20I just now read that castrating male swine is for two reasons: behavior and taste. Hmm. I don’t think Iowa farmers, male or female, get faint at the sight. What I DO think is that the Koch brothers are more concerned about getting more of Iowan’s money and power in their hands than they are about anything else.
21I believe the castration was Nov. 2012. The lobotomy was a few years earlier.
22Marge Wood, R-Texas 27th, disputes that behavior and taste theory. He’ll squeal like a pig, but here is nothing that would improve his behavior or give him any taste beyond what we expect from a gohmert.
As for the Koch gohmerts, they should live so long as to atone for the crimes they have committed. May Joni Ernst win the GOP nomination and a personal meeting with her sponsors, the Koch brothers. Let’s hope she exercises her implements on the old tools.
23Snowdrift Snoozie, the sow griz, endorsed Cornflake Snoozie the sow hog farmer. You reap what you sow.
24e platypus onion, in the hands of ignorant grifters, sow and gohmert cover every part of speech. Too bad the grifters didn’t learn the only language they should be able to speak, while castigating bi-lingual, hard working immigrants who only want to pay taxes, raise their families, and keep their families together.
Holy Gomerts, e platypus onion, “light bulb” moment. No wonder the Koch gohmerts and other greed freaks don’t want immigration reform – they are willing to pay taxes. Marginalized citizens are proven better Americans than the privileged, inherited, trust fund baby advantaged American never worked a day in their lives moochers.
25Google charles koch son of fred koch what kind of work did charles koch do? long fascinating articles about the four Koch brothers and how they were raised.
26Sounds like this lady is nothing exceptional.
Unless she does it with her teeth.
27Colbert gave her the big thumbs-up last night.
28That’s lambs in NZ, LynnN – bite and spit! (D
Back in the day at Aggieland before little Lizzie became a “former student” we had animal science lab and learned these interesting farm barbarities. They did indeed clip those little teeth out and make two little slices ventral posterior on the males and pop out the parts that little incipient ham, bacon, picnic, and porkbelly wasn’t going to need so his loin would remain tender. He squeaked in protest, got wiped down with iodine and scampered back to join the others as fast as he could.
Three young men fainted. No girls fainted.
I cook and eat meat, but I am thoroughly aware of what we do to our farm animals to get them into the meat case, and I am glad I had the opportunity to learn it. Many people don’t REALLY realize that something else dies so they can eat it. It’s all too sterile and removed from us now. FWIW I eschew veal; don’t subscribe to those methods at all. I really don’t like production chicken either, and am working on raising my own at some point. They taste better and they will get to run around like they were meant to do!
Returning to the topic, ms Joni’s rhetoric is so much hot air: politicians are pretty much gelded by those who donate money to their campaigns-she’s behind the fair, and will find herself running in harness if the Iowans elect her silly self!
29Anybody notice the background in Col. Kutchernutzoff’s commercial?
30Joni is a Kochsucker. What she does with pig parts is none of my concern. I’m vegan, and shall so remain.
31Colbert’s endorsement included the caveat:
32“As long as she stays the hell away from me.”
Chris Christie, meet Joni Ernst. She can fix your memory problems.
33Aggieland Liz, let us know how your chicken raising goes. We did it in our back yard on Long Island a lot of years ago. Free range chickens do indeed taste better than caged, and their eggs have really hard shells. I figured that our 1/4 acre lot could be a farm same as in Japan. Lots of good food, including our own honey and fresh produce.
34OK, now that’s just creepy. Hi, I’m Joni and I want to talk to you about castration. (wha??) Wonder if she’s planning to use those big teeth.
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