Iowa GOP Senate Candidate Runs on a Platform of Proud Hog Castration

She’ll make Obama squeal
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This is Joni Ernst. She is one of the Tea Party Republicans running for the Iowa Senate seat to replace retiring Democrat Tom Harkin.

She grew up castrating hogs. Judging from the relish with which she tells the tale, it looks like she enjoyed it quite a bit.

This may not seem like the kind of personal detail most folks would brag about, but Ernst is using it. She wants to go to Washington so she can “cut the pork.” Bam. Viral.

Joni Ernst, making castration work. For her.

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1 goddamnedfrank  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:42:02pm

The subtext here is that Harkin is the pig.

2 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:43:52pm

Thank glod she wasn’t a cheese maker, or she’d be cutting the cheese.

Blessed be the cheesemakers.

Youtube Video

3 Pie-onist Overlord  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:45:26pm
4 b.d.  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:48:35pm

re: #3 Pie-onist Overlord

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Tell the Lockerbie families on how Libya was silent two years after Reagan bombed a tent.

5 darthstar  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:49:32pm

Unless she was castrating hogs with her teeth I’m not impressed.

6 Floral Giraffe  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:50:12pm

OMG. She actually ends the promo with “lets make ‘em squeal” Yes, she did!

7 darthstar  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:50:19pm

I wonder if she put lipstick on them after.

8 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:51:13pm

She faces 3 other Rs—businessman Mark Jacobs, former U.S. Attorney Matt Whitaker and radio host Sam Clovis.

BTW, Bruce Braley apologized to Grassley. BTW, when is Grassley going to retire? He’s hogged that seat since 1981.

huffingtonpost.com

9 b.d.  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:51:56pm

Was it a lifetime of handling pig d*cks that made you realize you were a republican?

10 RealityBasedSteve  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:52:32pm

re: #5 darthstar

Unless she was castrating hogs with her teeth I’m not impressed.

I seem to recall seeing that on “Dirty Jobs”, and was thinking… Nope, mark that one of the “Career Change List”.

RBS

11 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:52:53pm
12 Kid A  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:53:14pm

I just heard this on Hardball, and thought Matthews was auditioning for Onion TV.

13 Kragar  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:55:31pm

re: #3 Pie-onist Overlord

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14 dog philosopher  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:58:09pm

re: #13 Kragar

How Reagan can be a hero to the right when he cut and ran from Beirut?

i’ve tried this one on wingnuts but the result it usually just a face like a kid that’s been spanked

15 Pie-onist Overlord  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:58:45pm
16 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:59:47pm

Well, she certainly outranks her husband:

“Ernst has served a combined 21 years in the US Army Reserves and the Iowa Army National Guard. She spent 14 months mobilized and overseas in Kuwait from 2003-2004 as a company commander at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom.[1][2] Her unit was responsible for running logistical convoys in Kuwait and into southern Iraq. A Lt. Colonel, Ernst currently commands the largest battalion in the Iowa Army National Guard.

“Senator Ernst resides in Red Oak, Iowa with her husband of 21 years, Gail, a Command Sergeant Major in the Army Rangers (retired) and their three daughters.”

en.wikipedia.org

17 William Barnett-Lewis  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 4:59:53pm

re: #15 Pie-onist Overlord

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Best one yet.

18 William Barnett-Lewis  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:02:18pm

Goddamn idiot Reagan.

19 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:07:04pm

Is this about one of those MIke Rowe jobs?

20 Pie-onist Overlord  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:08:43pm

HURR HURR!!!!!

21 b.d.  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:10:56pm

re: #20 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR!!!!!

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So she is admitting that Reagan was an impotent leader doing what he was told by a young Nancy Pelosi and folks like her?

//

22 dog philosopher  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:11:31pm

re: #18 William Barnett-Lewis

Gooddamn idiot Reagan.

A former defense secretary for Ronald Reagan says he implored the president to put Marines serving in Beirut in a safer position before terrorists attacked them in 1983, killing 241 servicemen.

“I was not persuasive enough to persuade the president that the Marines were there on an impossible mission,” Caspar Weinberger says in an oral history project capturing the views of former Reagan administration officials.

* * *
[H]e said one of his greatest regrets was in failing to overcome the arguments that ‘“Marines don’t cut and run,’ and ‘We can’t leave because we’re there’” before the devastating suicide attack on the lightly armed force.

“They had no mission but to sit at the airport, which is just like sitting in a bull’s-eye,” Weinberger said. “I begged the president at least to pull them back and put them back on their transports as a more defensible position.”

23 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:12:32pm

Waiting until the last minute?

White House: More than 1.1 million people visited healthcare.gov yesterday, the site’s 2nd highest traffic day ever - @jbendery

end of alert

24 nines09  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:13:14pm

re: #4 b.d.

Tell the Lockerbie families on how Libya was silent two years after Reagan bombed a tent.

Stop muddying up the waters with facts.

25 Pie-onist Overlord  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:13:27pm

WHO WHO WHO So does Adela think it was the Rothschild, the Illuminati or Aliens?

26 JustMark  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:13:46pm

re: #25 Pie-onist Overlord

WHO WHO WHO So does Adela think it was the Rothschild, the Illuminati or Aliens?

Yes

27 dog philosopher  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:14:19pm

re: #20 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR!!!!!

ask him if it was pelosi who convinced him that raising defense spending and cutting taxes would balance the budget

28 dog philosopher  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:17:28pm

re: #23 Justanotherhuman

Waiting until the last minute?

White House: More than 1.1 million people visited healthcare.gov yesterday, the site’s 2nd highest traffic day ever - @jbendery

end of alert

just think, in six short years between 2008 and 2014 obamacare has gone from running 1/6 of the nation’s economy and establishing death panels condemning grandma to euthanasia to merely raising premiums sky-high

what a comedown

29 Pie-onist Overlord  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:17:32pm
30 Pie-onist Overlord  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:18:51pm

Adela is a total nutbag, I don’t know if I want to even mix it up with her/it.

31 nines09  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:19:26pm

She sounds like the kind of gal that if she likes you, you better move. Fast. “I’m a moron and I’ve approved this “massage”. C’mere you! SQUEELLLLL!”

32 Charles Johnson  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:20:48pm

Send Joni to Washington so she can castrate the living shit out of everything in her path. She’s a castratin’ fool.

33 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:21:02pm

We didn’t get any snow here today but it never got over 39 deg; my grandson called his work and they said it was snowing across the lake where they are, just a bit farther north. Cheeez.

34 Kragar  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:22:11pm

re: #29 Pie-onist Overlord

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35 Fortitudine  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:26:48pm

One wonders how much of the Ernst family farm’s annual income is derived from farm subsidies.

36 jaunte  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:27:06pm

I’ll see your ‘Mama Grizzly’ and raise you two hog balls.

37 RealityBasedSteve  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:29:28pm

re: #19 FemNaziBitch

Is this about one of those MIke Rowe jobs?

Yea… I’m pretty sure I saw it on “Dirty Jobs”, and like I said, took it right off my “Career Change List”.

RBS

38 theheat  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:30:09pm

After listening to her voice and seeing the crazyeyes stare, deep down I know Joni’s advocated colloidal silver, is firmly behind the ag-gag bills, and probably a fan of Ann Barnhardt. And she probably has a great recipe for peach cobbler. //

It’s that batshit dominionist farmer contingent of the GOP. Creepy as hell.

39 wrenchwench  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:30:46pm
40 ObserverArt  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:31:35pm

re: #33 Justanotherhuman

We didn’t get any snow here today but it never got over 39 deg; my grandson called his work and they said it was snowing across the lake where they are, just a bit farther north. Cheeez.

We had a 10 minute mini blizzard around 4:30 PM and then nothing but a stiff cold wind. I hope the weathermen are right saying this is the last real cold wintry night.

41 Charles Johnson  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:33:12pm

Castration. A message that appeals to the Iowa Republican base.

42 RealityBasedSteve  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:33:50pm

re: #38 theheat

After listening to her voice and seeing the crazyeyes stare, deep down I know Joni’s advocated colloidal silver, is firmly behind the ag-gag bills, and probably a fan of Ann Barnhardt. And she probably has a great recipe for peach cobbler. //

It’s that batshit dominionist farmer contingent of the GOP. Creepy as hell.

Yea, but ya gotta admit, they make a hell of a Green Bean Casserole (with the little canned fried onions on the top).

RBS

43 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:36:58pm

BEEBEE Elephant!

44 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:38:01pm

Personally, I have issues with the name “Joni”.

It’s just not good.

45 Stanley Sea  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:40:06pm

re: #44 FemNaziBitch

Personally, I have issues with the name “Joni”.

It’s just not good.

One of my first roommates. Kinda psycho. Binge eater, get up in the morning & find the fridge cleared out. So yeah.

46 Pie-onist Overlord  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:40:17pm

re: #44 FemNaziBitch

Personally, I have issues with the name “Joni”.

It’s just not good.

I like Joni Mitchell.

47 theheat  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:40:23pm

re: #42 RealityBasedSteve

The only thing better than representing the creepy crazy dominionist farmer contingent for the GOP is anything The Troops™. They must be nearly fainting over Joni.

It makes my skin crawl. All of it.

48 Pie-onist Overlord  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:40:35pm

HURR HURR!!!!!

49 Pie-onist Overlord  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:41:49pm

Why does Kragar get all the fun ones?

50 b.d.  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:45:01pm

re: #48 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR!!!!!

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There’s no getting the best of her, after all she IS:

7th Cous Pres.Harding

Take that!!!!

51 Kragar  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:45:18pm
52 jaunte  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:46:06pm

re: #50 b.d.

7th Cous Pres.Harding

That’s a long way to go for an authority argument.

54 Pie-onist Overlord  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:47:43pm

re: #52 jaunte

That’s a long way to go for an authority argument.

Not impressed by “7th cousin”, there are only 6 degrees of separation between you and any other random person in the world.

55 b.d.  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:49:15pm

re: #54 Pie-onist Overlord

Not impressed by “7th cousin”, there are only 6 degrees of separation between you and any other random person in the world.

Not everybody can claim they are 7th cousin to Pres. Harding. Almost everybody, but not everybody.

Harding!?!?!?!

56 wrenchwench  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:49:30pm

re: #38 theheat

After listening to her voice and seeing the crazyeyes stare, deep down I know Joni’s advocated colloidal silver, is firmly behind the ag-gag bills, and probably a fan of Ann Barnhardt. And she probably has a great recipe for peach cobbler. //

It’s that batshit dominionist farmer contingent of the GOP. Creepy as hell.

You certainly know your creepy crazy domionist farmer contingent. I was curious how old the piglets are when castrated, so I googled (3 days to 7 weeks). The first result was Texas Tech, the second was Quiverfull. From the latter, Step 9:

Spray the piglet well with a disinfecting agent, we use iodine, and my in-laws like to apply some colloidal silver as well.

Not linking, don’t look!

Please note that we aren’t vets, and cannot take any liability for the outcome of your own castration of your piglets. This information is provided for educational purposes only.

Other than the photos, the worst part:

Depending upon the age of the pig you may need to cut down further into the testes sac depending upon the amount of fat between the skin and the testicle. You’ll have to figure this out as you go.

57 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:50:10pm

Joni’s husband. I don’t think “civil rights and social action” is what he thinks it is.

linkedin.com

58 wrenchwench  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:50:45pm

From the second comment at the Quiverfull site:

Fantastic!!! Can’t wait to share this with my husband.

59 jaunte  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:51:06pm

re: #55 b.d.

Harding!?!?!?!

Who would question her?
“Oh yeah, Harding, good for you.”

60 Pie-onist Overlord  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:51:17pm

re: #55 b.d.

Not everybody can claim they are 7th cousin to Pres. Harding. Almost everybody, but not everybody.

Harding!?!?!?!

Harding was like TEH MOAST SUCK POTUS EVER.

61 Pie-onist Overlord  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:52:42pm

But won’t somebody think of the fetuses who run a business!!

62 Pie-onist Overlord  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:55:39pm

I’m seeing a definite Caste System in the minds of wingnuts. To them, anyone who is a wage earner, whether a minimum wage worker at Walmart or a high-tech salaried professional, is a lower being than a JRRB CREEYATER even someone who operates some marginal low-level office and has two unpaid interns.

63 jaunte  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:57:08pm

re: #61 Pie-onist Overlord

Ben Shapiro is working hard to make everyone who reads his sentences just a little dumber.

64 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:57:43pm
65 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:57:57pm

re: #46 Pie-onist Overlord

I like Joni Mitchell.

Yes, tho, I”ve never met her personally.

66 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:58:11pm

re: #53 dog philosopher

larry sabato’s crystal ball sez most likely she loses

One of her RW competitors:

Scott Schaben Suggests He’s Not Racist Because His Wife Is African American

huffingtonpost.com

67 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:58:50pm

re: #41 Charles Johnson

Castration. A message that appeals to the Iowa Republican base.

Tool or threat of the Powerful?

68 austin_blue  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:59:20pm

re: #41 Charles Johnson

Castration. A message that appeals to the Iowa Republican base.

Down here, it’s called “nutting hogs”. An even more disturbing activity is “tusking boars”, where you knock their teeth out with a hammer.

No shit.

69 dog philosopher  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:59:43pm

sabato estimates 2014 senate democratic min 48 max 51

house, currently 201 democrat 234 republican, he estimates at dem min 193 max 205

70 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:00:55pm

re: #61 Pie-onist Overlord

But won’t somebody think of the fetuses who run a business!!

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Yes folks, according to the Right, a corporation is a person. Of course it has none of the responsibilities, obligations, or moral/ethical restrictions of an individual, but hey it can have religious beliefs…or rather its owner can have religious beliefs and make them your beliefs so long as you draw a paycheck from them.

71 freetoken  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:02:56pm

Well, we at least now know which is the pro-castration party.

72 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:03:40pm

As always, wonderful w/kids. And still had time to talk w/Jay Inslee about the mudslide in Oso .

73 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:04:15pm
74 Killgore Trout  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:04:46pm

This should be interesting

Former President Jimmy Carter will join “Consider This” host Antonio Mora on Tuesday, March 25 at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT to discuss his new book on women’s rights, “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power.” Read an excerpt below.

The excerpt is very careful to citing examples or worst offenders. Just a general vague feeling that things are bad for women in general everywhere. The whole book can’t possibly be so vague.

75 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:07:17pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

This should be interesting

Former President Jimmy Carter will join “Consider This” host Antonio Mora on Tuesday, March 25 at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT to discuss his new book on women’s rights, “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power.” Read an excerpt below.

The excerpt is very careful to citing examples or worst offenders. Just a general vague feeling that things are bad for women in general everywhere. The whole book can’t possibly be so vague.

AAAHHHH! ON AlJazeerra —Wingnuts are going to have a lot to say about that.

76 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:07:49pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

This should be interesting

Former President Jimmy Carter will join “Consider This” host Antonio Mora on Tuesday, March 25 at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT to discuss his new book on women’s rights, “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power.” Read an excerpt below.

The excerpt is very careful to citing examples or worst offenders. Just a general vague feeling that things are bad for women in general everywhere. The whole book can’t possibly be so vague.

It’s the introduction, Killgore. Do you know what an introduction is?

I find Carter fatuous, but for fuck’s sake, show some common sense.

77 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:09:03pm

Jimmy Carter’s book is available on Audible.com

78 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:10:38pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

This should be interesting

Former President Jimmy Carter will join “Consider This” host Antonio Mora on Tuesday, March 25 at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT to discuss his new book on women’s rights, “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power.” Read an excerpt below.

The excerpt is very careful to citing examples or worst offenders. Just a general vague feeling that things are bad for women in general everywhere. The whole book can’t possibly be so vague.

because it is bad for women in general everywhere.

Try walking around, live your regular life someday dressed in drag. You might get a taste of what every women lives with —even in the good ole’ US of A.

79 Killgore Trout  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:12:50pm

re: #78 FemNaziBitch

because it is bad for women in general everywhere.

Try walking around, live your regular life someday dressed in drag. You might get a taste of what every women lives with —even in the good ole’ US of A.

I agree. Women’s rights are an important issue.

80 goddamnedfrank  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:18:39pm

re: #79 Killgore Trout

I agree. Women’s rights are an important issue.

Which is why you think it’s funny when they get pepper sprayed for no good reason.

81 RadicalModerate  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:20:14pm

re: #6 Floral Giraffe

OMG. She actually ends the promo with “lets make ‘em squeal” Yes, she did!

It’s official. Republicans are openly courting the “Deliverance” demographic. Only a matter of time before one of them uses “Duelling Banjos” for their campaign music.

82 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:21:27pm

re: #76 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

It’s the introduction, Killgore. Do you know what an introduction is?

I find Carter fatuous, but for fuck’s sake, show some common sense.

I don’t find Carter fatuous, but he does approach the subject from the broad angle of religion which I have no use for. I think his approach to the condition of women is shallow because all religions have been, and will continue to be, run by men. He remains under the delusion that religion makes you “virtuous”.

It’s easier to get women into high positions within secular institutions, such as democratic govts, where they can promulgate civil laws than it is tradition-bound religions, most of which never keep up with the progress of contemporary societies.

83 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:29:39pm

re: #79 Killgore Trout

I agree. Women’s rights are an important issue.

Human Rights are an important issue.

Woman are Human

84 Zirgar  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:53:53pm

Hog castration; get it? She’s trying to say that she has a long history of cutting the pork! These people are simply awful and lame.

85 EPR-radar  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:54:31pm

re: #60 Pie-onist Overlord

Harding was like TEH MOAST SUCK POTUS EVER.

Harding usually ends up in the bottom five, so he was a lousy president.

However, James Buchanan usually ends up in last place. Seems that historians have a dim view of the merits of Buchanan having his thumb up his ass while he hoped a Supreme Court decision (i.e., Dred Scott) would settle the slavery issue for him.

86 Zirgar  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:56:29pm

re: #84 Zirgar

Ugh. I should’ve watched the video before I commented.

87 wheat-dogghazi  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 6:56:37pm

re: #55 b.d.

Not everybody can claim they are 7th cousin to Pres. Harding. Almost everybody, but not everybody.

Harding!?!?!?!

Yeah, but I’m like a 12th cousin to Richard Nixon. My president cousin at least was alive during my lifetime. So there.

Vote for meee~!

88 theheat  Tue, Mar 25, 2014 7:15:12pm

re: #56 wrenchwench

You certainly know your creepy crazy domionist farmer contingent.

If that was a Jeopardy category, all I can say is stand back, because I wouldn’t miss. Ever. Never, ever, ever, ever.

Useless talent number 47.


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