“What was he convicted of?” someone asked.

“He had tattoos on his body,” she replied triumphantly.

“Hey, smartass!” shouted a woman in her sixties, jumping to her feet. “You want to see my tattoo?”

“Lady,” the Trump supporter said. “You don’t know what a tattoo is.”

“Yes I do, I’ve got one!” the woman shouted, tapping her chest.

The Trump supporter dismissed her with a wave of one hand. “I’ve had enough of you Democrats,” she said.

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[–] 264 points 1 year ago (19 children)

The stupidity of some people in that article is jaw dropping.

Also, if they shout at each other now, just wait for the SSA, Medicare, and Medicaid cuts that make hearing aids too expensive for rural boomers.

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  • [–] 107 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Grew up near Iowa, can confirm a lot of stupid people who think they're smart.

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And they all vote. (credit to George Carlin)

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    EDIT: As fate would have it...

    I just got back from a PT appointment.

    ... The driver (local charity service for the broken and broke)...

    Yep. She was from Iowa.

    We got to talkin', I told her about my (former, before being goddamned maimed) line of work.

    I had to... spend most of the conversation explaining that software development... and IT... generally refer to completely different things and require significantly different skill sets.

    But uh, she was very cheerful and upbeat, with meaningless folksy aphorisms applied wildly out of context, to go along with a bafflingly out of touch assesment of how easy it will be for such a bright young man to find a job. (I am 35.)

    ... What a world.

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    Was heading up 35 to the Cities last fall and came up behind an old pickup with Iowa plates. Guy was poking along 5 under the limit. I was just getting ready to pass him when all the sudden he veered hard off the road and into the ditch. I quickly pulled over to check on him. "Are you okay? What the heck happened," I asked. "No, I'm fine," he answered, "I was on my way up to the Fair, you know, and I was just thinkin' about whether to go to the Dairy Building or the 4-H building first. But then I looked down and noticed my turn signal was on."

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago*

    Just a matter of time before conservative media finds a suitable scapegoat. They'll get a wall of "Transgender Mexican ISIS stole the last bits of New Deal social contract" news articles for six months and come out more rabid than when they started.

    This isn't merely "Iowans are uniquely gullible", either. The toxic nature of modern media is everywhere. And it produces as many Eric Adams Democrats as Donald Trump Republicans.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Most Americans aren't smart enough to connect the disappearance of Medicaid and stuff to anything.

    They'll just see it disappear, be angry for a little while and write things like "make it make sense", "a suit without a man" or whatever the buzzwords are then.

    Then the next outrage thing comes along and they'll bite, forgetting what they used to have.

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    [+] 222 points 1 year ago (15 children)
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    [–] 181 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    "Everyone that disagrees with me is a Democrat"

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    [–] 165 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You'd think farmers at least would understand the relationship between what you sow and what you reap.

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    [–] 157 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I’m sick of you democrats and your *checks notes* due process under the law.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago

    I’m sick of you democrats

    The utterance of someone so desperately grasping at straws because she can't make an actual argument about the things she's parroting from the TV so she relies on logical fallacies to shut down the argument completely.

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    [–] 86 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Iowa was improving in the 90s, improving in the 2000s. They were blue then.

    Now I hate going back, it's not the same state I grew up in. Abortion billboards and porn stores, same as the bible belt now.

    The state is not improving but they don't care anymore, long as the right people (like me) get hurt.

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    [–] 78 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Imagine believing that the best days of the US are ahead of you...

    I'm sure improvements will be made, but the United States is dying, thanks in large part due to the cancer that's rightwing propaganda networks

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Honestly, I don't want the United states to be a thing anymore. It is time for the nation to break up, so that people can choose what sort of government they want to live in. In my case, I would like something modeled after European socialism. I am sick of Fascist America dragging down my state with its evil and stupidity.

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    [–] 75 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Finishing lunch with two friends at a diner in Osage, Dixie Bowman, 88, a retired welder, said she liked what Trump was doing. Her two friends, when asked, said they preferred not to speak of it.

    Dixie Bowman: Trump is “a very kind, very generous person”

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    [–] 53 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The leopard’s are gonna be obese by the summer.

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    [–] 52 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    This will only escalate.. And, across the country...

    And I'm here for it.

    (How is it possible to have a "Food and Drink" emoji section that has no popcorn emoji*) 🤷‍♂️ 🤡

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I hope they rip each other apart trying to justify their own ignorance and his madness.

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    [–] 41 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    He had tattoos on his body? I keep mine in a drawer in the shed.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Ok, hear me out.
    David Beckham has tattoos on his body AND is an immigrant. Therefore he must be a part of the ms13 gang and should be deported. It's the only thing that makes sense!!!!!

    I've also heard Dolly Parton has tattoos...

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    “Lady,” the Trump supporter said. “You don’t know what a tattoo is.”

    ^ That line baffles me

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    [–] 38 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Going to the midwest sounds like going to the zoo.

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    [–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Eventually one of these rallies will turn into that church scene from Kingsman

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    [–] 34 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    He voted Republican chiefly on the issue of abortion...

    WTAF. Why are there so many idiots like this? You don't like abortion, don't fucking have one. And if you are male...it's not your concern.

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    [–] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Someone needs to bring these people a holocaust surviver to show them their tattoo and explain why fascism should never rise again

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    [–] 30 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Lived in Iowa for a few years, nothing but idiots.

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    The US is overdue for balkanization. I think the USA will split some time before 2060.

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    This might be both one of the funniest and saddest things I've read since the last time I read about Trump in the news.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I thought that was their only form of communication

    And I feel like this would be a great area for David Attenborough to do a nature documentary on

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't feel bad for anyone that voted for trump. Nothing he is doing is a surprise. So far it has been everything he said he wanted to do. Fucking morons got exactly what they voted for.

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