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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.
As if MAGAts are sufficiently self-aware to admit they need hearing aids.
Specifically boycotting anything that comes from Iowa would be a great trade policy for our former allies to adopt
Boycotting stupidity? How would that even work?!?
Studies show that two out of every three Trump voters are just as stupid as the third one.
Grew up near Iowa, can confirm a lot of stupid people who think they're smart.
And they all vote. (credit to George Carlin)
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.
Idiots Out Wandering Around
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."
Is this a true story? Sounds to me like the gut may have fallen asleep or had some kind of mental short-circuit or something. I honestly can't believe someone can survive to adulthood if they were actually just this dumb...
I couldn't swear to every detail but it's certainly true that it's a story.
He was sorta funny lookin', though. And when he got out of the truck to check the tires, he wasn't wearing shoes, which was strange. So l said to him, "You know your socks don't match? You have one black sock and one yellow sock." And he replied, "Yup I know. Funny thing is l got another pair just like it back home."
Spoken like someone who's never met an Iowan.
iowegian
Forgive me if I'm just unknowledgable here, but it appears from the downvotes that there might indeed exist adults as dumb as the one described. I'm honestly dumbfounded if that's actually the case.
I wish it wasn't true but those guys aren't even that dumb compared to some people I know in real life
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.
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.