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Landslide Loss in the Governor's Race

Your exact thoughts and opinions are what Iowans aren’t agreeing with. It’s libs like you that turn everyone off. You’re just as far left as trumpers are to the right.
Of course they don't agree...but they'd be wrong. Owning libs is what they have been taught instead of doing what's good for them. The state is getting worse because of simpletons voting against their own interests. They are going to re-elect Chuck Grassley who has done nothing for them but become a millionaire. He will talk about lowering drug prices but NEVER gets it done. They eat up the lies.
 
What a piss poor attempt to deflect.

Eric Branstad deserves to be dead. But shitstains like him are alive while his victims are dead.

Corruption in Iowa is alive and well.

Carolina claimed Eric Branstad was drunk.

I ask what his blood alcohol content was.

And you accuse me of deflecting?

Congratulations on the worst post ever.
 
What was his blood alcohol content?
Hey, if you want to continue to beat that drum and bury your head in the sand, that’s on you. And if your defense is that Eric wasn’t impaired he’s just that much of an idiot, that’s even worse IMO.

Either way, Terry and son have a flagrant disregard for human life and personal responsibility when it doesn’t suit their interests. And your continued attempts at obfuscating that point is yet another salient example why you have no credibility whatsoever.
 
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Hey, if you want to continue to beat that drum and bury your head in the sand, that’s on you. And if your defense is that Eric wasn’t impaired he’s just that much of an idiot, that’s even worse IMO.

Either way, Terry and son have a flagrant disregard for human life and personal responsibility when it doesn’t suit their interests. And your continued attempts at obfuscating that point is yet another salient example why you have no credibility whatsoever.


Stop with the smokescreen.

You're siding with Carolina in his claim that he was drunk. I'm asking you for evidence. Do you have any?

This is a simple request.

I like facts.
 
Maybe Iowans are just rejecting the lefts agenda and ideas.
You have to actually HAVE an agenda and ideas for them to get rejected, and we've not seen much from the Iowa Democratic Party. Trying to embarrass the Iowa Democatic Party is like trying to embarrass your disabled neighbor. if you get joy in this, there must be something wrong with you.
 
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Carolina claimed Eric Branstad was drunk.

I ask what his blood alcohol content was.

And you accuse me of deflecting?

Congratulations on the worst post ever.
So you are choosing to remain obtuse. It has been common knowledge in my state for decades he was driving drunk and Terry had this swept under the rug. You know people can't answer your question because there isn't an answer. It doesn't mean that we all know what he did. Everybody knew.
 
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So you are choosing to remain obtuse. It has been common knowledge in my state for decades he was driving drunk and Terry had this swept under the rug. You know people can't answer your question because there isn't an answer. It doesn't mean that we all know what he did. Everybody knew.

"Common knowledge"?

"Everybody knew"?

"You know people can't answer your question because there isn't an answer".

If there isn't an answer then how does everybody know?
 
Of course they don't agree...but they'd be wrong. Owning libs is what they have been taught instead of doing what's good for them. The state is getting worse because of simpletons voting against their own interests. They are going to re-elect Chuck Grassley who has done nothing for them but become a millionaire. He will talk about lowering drug prices but NEVER gets it done. They eat up the lies.
Still waiting for a list of items that are in my best interest that I'm voting against.
 
Maybe Iowans are just rejecting the lefts agenda and ideas.
Because a lot of Iowans live in an alternate reality, they assume that the lefts agenda is having children be groomed by transgender Furries who are also members of antifa and were primarily responsible for the attempted coup d’état on January 6, and who intend to turn every public school into a permanent drag show.

In reality, progressives want human rights, women’s rights, fair wages, sustainable policies, a livable environment, and good quality of life, not the corporate hellscape that corporate funded propaganda machines are helping to create, distracting everyone with culture war issues.

The right wing is so good at marching in fascist lockstep, and moderates and progressives, because the world is actually a complicated place, haven’t been able to accomplish very much significantly because we are all under the delusion that neo liberal capitalism, or capitalism itself, ever supported or will ever support an actual democracy. It never did and it never will.

to quote a fake liberal from Arkansas who became president in 1992: It’s the economy stupid.

it’s the economic system, actually.

Clinton and every other Democratic elite knows that it’s not the economy, but it’s the economic system that cannot be sustained in its current form any longer, at least without destroying our democracy and our environment and setting us into Civil War. However, the establishment Democrats and all of the Republicans are so sold out to the corporations, they’ve actually given up on democracy decades ago. We need a new system, economic and political, if we have any hope. We need fundamental reform.
 
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I like facts.
Lol. Sure, when it suits you.

Again, it’s giving Eric the benefit of the doubt in assuming he was drunk or impaired.

“While driving up Highway 141, a two-lane highway, Eric pulled into the other lane to pass a car when the coast was obviously not clear. One car avoided a head-on collision by quickly swerving onto the shoulder. A second car was sideswiped when it tried to drive between Branstad’s van and the car he was trying to pass. The third car, and its passengers, would not be as lucky.”

If your contention is that Eric was of sound body and mind and is just naturally that stupid, I’ll happily concede that point. I thought it was being nice believing Eric was under the influence and wouldn’t otherwise be that much of a dumbass, but if that’s the hill you want to die on, more power to you. For your next act, will you be defending Hunter Biden?
 
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Lol. Sure, when it suits you.

Again, it’s giving Eric the benefit of the doubt in assuming he was drunk or impaired.

“While driving up Highway 141, a two-lane highway, Eric pulled into the other lane to pass a car when the coast was obviously not clear. One car avoided a head-on collision by quickly swerving onto the shoulder. A second car was sideswiped when it tried to drive between Branstad’s van and the car he was trying to pass. The third car, and its passengers, would not be as lucky.”

If your contention is that Eric was of sound body and mind and is just naturally that stupid, I’ll happily concede that point. I thought it was being nice believing Eric was under the influence and wouldn’t otherwise be that much of a dumbass, but if that’s the hill you want to die on, more power to you. For your next act, will you be defending Hunter Biden?

I'm not dying on any hill. There are head on collisions in Iowa all the time involving people making bad passes. They're not all drunk.

It's ok to admit that you jumped in on this one without thinking. It's ok to backtrack.
 
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So you are choosing to remain obtuse. It has been common knowledge in my state for decades he was driving drunk and Terry had this swept under the rug. You know people can't answer your question because there isn't an answer. It doesn't mean that we all know what he did. Everybody knew.
I don’t think Northern understands it actually makes Eric look worse if he was sober during that incident.

Regardless, the fact remains Eric was penalized a mere $15 dollars for that incident. People are free to draw whatever conclusions they want. Oh, and another fact: Eric Branstad has plenty of alcohol-related infractions, which includes an OWI.

Regardless, I’m happy Northern is this dedicated to the scrupulous defense of those in life who can never catch a break. I’m sure he applies the same gracious standards in his discussions about Hunter Biden.
 
I don’t think Northern understands it actually makes Eric look worse if he was sober during that incident.

Regardless, the fact remains Eric was penalized a mere $15 dollars for that incident. People are free to draw whatever conclusions they want. Oh, and another fact: Eric Branstad has plenty of alcohol-related infractions, which includes an OWI.

Regardless, I’m happy Northern is this dedicated to the scrupulous defense of those in life who can never catch a break. I’m sure he applies the same gracious standards in his discussions about Hunter Biden.

But I'm not defending anyone. I'm just asking for facts.
 
Still waiting for a list of items that are in my best interest that I'm voting against.
Funding schools - not giving teachers raises - that improves Iowa Public Education. Lower Drug prices. Lower Health Care costs. Better state infrastructure. Better pay for workers - which will get more people out of poverty, lowering crime rates. Stricter gun laws - not a ban. Environmental protections so bodies of water in Iowa are safer to use.

That's just a start. To me the biggest is health care and prescription drug prices. Your party wants nothing to do with lowering those costs. Your party votes against every single thing I listed. That doesn't even touch voting against aid to veterans, voting against alleviating price gouging, bringing in baby formula...all that recently at the national level.

Republicans get you sooooooo pissed off about various things and then vote against fixing any of those things when Democrats try to do something. I don't know what else to tell you.
 
I'm not dying on any hill. There are head on collisions in Iowa all the time involving people making bad passes. They're not all drunk.

It's ok to admit that you jumped in on this one without thinking. It's ok to backtrack.
Lol. Backtracking on what? You are sticking to a spurious point you inexplicably believe makes Eric Branstad look better. And I’m telling you if that’s the hill you want to die on, which you have aptly demonstrated that you do, regardless of what you wish to believe, that is in fact worse.

And, with all due respect, an “ooops, he goofed, shit happens” bad pass, like the one you’re suggesting, does not involve nearly hitting two different cars before fatally colliding with a third.

Again, and I will type slowly for you: If…your…contention…is…that…Eric…wasn’t…impaired…and…is…just…that…stupid…I…will…gladly…concede…that…point. I was trying to be nice, but if you insist, meh, okay.
 
But I'm not defending anyone. I'm just asking for facts.
Facts of what? That Eric Branstad has a record of alcohol-related infractions? You can look that up yourself.

In terms of the facts of the incident involving Eric Branstad killing two people in a car accident, I already laid them out, including his $15 dollar fine for the incident. Again, everyone is welcome to draw their own conclusions. I’ve given mine.
 
We do this in Florida all the time. We had a very moderate female candidate (Gwen Graham) who was the daughter of a beloved Democrat Florida Governor in the 80s (Bob Graham) running. All signs pointed to her beating DeSantis. Out of nowhere, we nominated Tallahassee's small time but charismatic mayor Andrew Gilliam and then watched him barely lose to DeSantis. She would have won going away, against the guy now four year later, leading non Orange candidate to win GOP Republican nomination. Oh and the ex Mayor us Florida Dems nominated then gets caught drugged out in a hotel with male escort a year later and was two months ago was arrested as part of local FBI investigation into corruption.

As a life long Democrat, I can absolutely say in addition to all the nefarious stuff and the brainwashed cult the GOP has manufactured over last 25 years, another reason things are the way they are is sheer incompetence by the Democratic Party at National and State levels.
Gwen Graham would have defeated DeSantis. As a Republican I can admit this. ALL my Tallahassee friends were aghast that Gillum could even have come so close because they despised the guy and his cronies.
 
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Maybe Iowans are just rejecting the lefts agenda and ideas.

That is downright impossible. The left is so smart and have the answers to everything. You are clearly a woman hating racist magat.
What’s the crazy Iowa Democratic agenda? Getting government out of the womb and the bedroom and instead focusing on providing all its citizens with a better education and future? Sounds horrific.
 
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Funding schools - not giving teachers raises - that improves Iowa Public Education. Lower Drug prices. Lower Health Care costs. Better state infrastructure. Better pay for workers - which will get more people out of poverty, lowering crime rates. Stricter gun laws - not a ban. Environmental protections so bodies of water in Iowa are safer to use.

That's just a start. To me the biggest is health care and prescription drug prices. Your party wants nothing to do with lowering those costs. Your party votes against every single thing I listed. That doesn't even touch voting against aid to veterans, voting against alleviating price gouging, bringing in baby formula...all that recently at the national level.

Republicans get you sooooooo pissed off about various things and then vote against fixing any of those things when Democrats try to do something. I don't know what else to tell you.
All you did was post a bunch of liberal talking points. Where is the list of items that are in my best interest that you claim I'm voting against? I have no interest in voting for something that will increase the cost of my health insurance or medication. I'm quite happy with my wages and the starting wages pretty much anywhere are acceptable. The crime rate where I live is non-existent so I have no interest in paying higher taxes and not benefit from it.
I vote on things that affect my life, not what affects yours because quite frankly your life is not my concern or responsibility. So making the claim that I'm voting against my best interest is a strawman argument at best; but in reality it's simply bullshit.
 
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What’s the crazy Iowa Democratic agenda? Getting government out of the womb and the bedroom and instead focusing on providing all its citizens with a better education and future? Sounds horrific.
I’ve always read that Iowans are in the Top 5 for literacy. Are you saying that’s not the case?
 
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I’ve always read that Iowans are in the Top 5 for literacy. Are you saying that’s not the case?
Like most educational metrics in this state, that's slipping. We are no longer top 5 but 9th and dropping: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/us-literacy-rates-by-state

We also used to have the top national test scores in the country. So much so that we made it part of our state quarter, along with Grant Wood. We are now down to #22 under Republican "leadership". We've lost many quality teachers in rural schools near the border, fleeing to states like Minnesota and Illinois:

 
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Like most educational metrics in this state, that's slipping. We are no longer top 5 but 9th and dropping: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/us-literacy-rates-by-state

We also used to have the top national test scores in the country. So much so that we made it part of our state quarter, along with Grant Wood. We are now down to #22 under Republican "leadership". We've lost many quality teachers in rural schools near the border, fleeing to states like Minnesota and Illinois:

Yes but we have teachers fleeing Missouri and Nebraska to Iowa. Of course, that may be part of the problem.
 
Funding schools - not giving teachers raises - that improves Iowa Public Education. Lower Drug prices. Lower Health Care costs. Better state infrastructure. Better pay for workers - which will get more people out of poverty, lowering crime rates. Stricter gun laws - not a ban. Environmental protections so bodies of water in Iowa are safer to use.

That's just a start. To me the biggest is health care and prescription drug prices. Your party wants nothing to do with lowering those costs. Your party votes against every single thing I listed. That doesn't even touch voting against aid to veterans, voting against alleviating price gouging, bringing in baby formula...all that recently at the national level.

Republicans get you sooooooo pissed off about various things and then vote against fixing any of those things when Democrats try to do something. I don't know what else to tell you.
@Hawkeyenuts66 Show me how I'm wrong. All you do is giggle. Can't have a conversation. Apparently you're fine with all of this. Otherwise explain to me how cons are for lower drug and healthcare costs, for starters. Explain to me how they want to fund schools. Add stripping SS and Medicaid to the list of voting against your own interests. Explain how they don't steal from us and plan to continue.
 
I'm not dying on any hill. There are head on collisions in Iowa all the time involving people making bad passes. They're not all drunk.

It's ok to admit that you jumped in on this one without thinking. It's ok to backtrack.
I don’t know the story of Eric Branstad, and this is all new to me, but I had a couple of friends who were friends of a prominent radio station owner in Iowa city and Cedar Rapids for decades, and he was drunk and was driving the wrong way on I 380 and killed a mother and her daughter, and himself. But that didn’t stop his friends from holding a memorial service at which no one, I was told, mentioned the fact that he was extremely drunk, according to his blood alcohol content tested by the coroner.

Even when the evidence exists, people very easily just dismiss what they don’t want to recognize. People couldn’t stop praising him even after death for how good of a guy he was, and not recognizing that he had had a problem for years and it was enabled by his friends and family. So people don’t wanna be complicit in anything, we just rather white wash it and shrugged her shoulders and MoveOn and edit out whatever is uncomfortable.

If a guy is driving on the wrong side of the road, drunk or sober, he is a menace to himself and to everyone, and should never be allowed to be in any position of responsibility. However, the likelihood of someone driving on the wrong side of the road and running head on into people sober is quite minuscule, especially in an era before smart phones and other such distractions existed.

How are you feel the need to defend this position is beyond my comprehension. Liberals openly criticized Al Franken for inappropriately gesturing to touch a woman on her flak jacket, and forced him to resign from the Senate. But Republicans will defend people in their party who actually kill other people. Not just un-American behavior to defend the indefensible, but sociopathic.

Or maybe that’s what true and blue Americans are best at: violence and genocide and racism and paranoid Christian fascism, as they have been great at that since they eradicated almost the entire indigenous population, enslaved millions of Africans, and built an economy on environmental exploitation and oppression of people here and globally. The truth hurts.
 
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"Common knowledge"?

"Everybody knew"?

"You know people can't answer your question because there isn't an answer".

If there isn't an answer then how does everybody know?

It's so cute watching you swagger around the last few days on your, "Prove it", "Post a link", jag.
 
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Facts of what? That Eric Branstad has a record of alcohol-related infractions? You can look that up yourself.

In terms of the facts of the incident involving Eric Branstad killing two people in a car accident, I already laid them out, including his $15 dollar fine for the incident. Again, everyone is welcome to draw their own conclusions. I’ve given mine.

Facts that support the assertion that he was drunk in that accident. But then you already knew that's what I was asking for. You've outkicked your coverage on this and you know it.
 
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Still waiting for a list of items that are in my best interest that I'm voting against.

I could add another 20-30 bullet items, but it's getting depressing.
 
I was reading in my ICPC, go purchase an online membership if you need a link, Northern, that there are 11 public beaches currently with no swim advisories. That is after we killed someone from Missouri last week due to our filthy water. One of the beaches is Lake Darling, which we spent a huge amount of cash to clean up a few years ago.
I have little faith in beating the old drunk Reynolds, but quality of life issues is a good starting point. Filthy water and air. Crumbling school systems, especially in rural areas. Lack of economic opportunity in rural areas.
 
It's so cute watching you swagger around the last few days on your, "Prove it", "Post a link", jag.

Well if it bothers you so much, then step up and help these guys out. They're high on emotion right now and short on facts.
 
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So you are choosing to remain obtuse. It has been common knowledge in my state for decades he was driving drunk and Terry had this swept under the rug. You know people can't answer your question because there isn't an answer. It doesn't mean that we all know what he did. Everybody knew.
This is news to me (maybe before my time?). Can you please provide details?
 
I was reading in my ICPC, go purchase an online membership if you need a link, Northern, that there are 11 public beaches currently with no swim advisories. That is after we killed someone from Missouri last week due to our filthy water. One of the beaches is Lake Darling, which we spent a huge amount of cash to clean up a few years ago.
I have little faith in beating the old drunk Reynolds, but quality of life issues is a good starting point. Filthy water and air. Crumbling school systems, especially in rural areas. Lack of economic opportunity in rural areas.

The lake thing was kind of a bummer. It caused us to change some plans recently. I'm alll for reallocating funds to address this.
 
Facts that support the assertion that he was drunk in that accident. But then you already knew that's what I was asking for. You've outkicked your coverage on this and you know it.
Actually, no, I haven’t. This is not a court of law. And there are a lot of facts from which one could easily deduce Eric was under the influence of something. If you had a gun to your head and had to rightly pick if Eric was under the influence or was sober, which one are you going to pick?

Look at it this way. It was fairly common knowledge back in the day that Fred Hoiberg would get stopped for driving under the influence and the cops would just drop him off at his parents’ house. While there aren’t any public “facts” per se, that doesn’t make it any less true.
 
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