Made mention of the few MAGAts holding Town Halls and their constituents are "pissed" at the policies they are supporting.

I didn't quite get his point as to why he is losing his farm.

I stopped listening at that point. As satisfying as it was to hear a Republican lawmaker handed his ass, that nonsense about his farm told me he was not all there.

What on earth could he have possibly been trying to articulate?

He said, in essence, he was losing his farm because Iowa doesn't have wills - they only have trusts.

Iowa has both.

But even if it was true, only having trusts would not result in him losing his farm. It is a common estate planning tool - even among farmers. I'm the daughter of Nebraska farmers. All of my parents' farmland is in trusts. When one of them dies, all the corpus pours over to the trust of which the other is the beneficiary. When the last of them die, the kids become beneficiaries.

I can't envision any scenario when the existence (or not) of wills (or trusts, for that matter) would result in losing the farm.

That looking back realizing that you have lost the plot. Lucky you.

To lose the plot, there has to be some plot in the first place. Again, there is no plot I can even imagine that involves wills and/or trusts causing the loss of the farm.

now going viral

(so unsanitary)

They've been around awhile and know bullshit when they see it. They also have a better sense of history than most younger people.

My younger granddaughters are going to get the TRUTHFUL history of this country from me. I intend to avoid the lies.

At 73,a Professional Costumer for over 40 years, I remain a student of History to this day because of what I do. Not only about who wore what during an age or era, but the politics, society in general, music and art trends, etc. I delve into Military History being that some of my clientele are re-enactors of specific historical periods, the age of sail, etc.

Theatrical set & costume designer, actor, with minors in history and English Lit!
Illinois Wesleyan University, class of 1972.

and I'm amazed at how ignorant so many people are about the past. I find it all so fascinating and there is always so much to learn.

You're granddaughters are very lucky to have you!

but it wasn't until later in life (after college) that my interest really took off. I think I know the reason (at least for me)... schools made the subject so freaking dry. It was all memorizing names and dates. We didn't really delve into politics, government, society in general, customs, etc. IOW, everything that makes history "history" was left out. When you just rely on learning dates and names, it's a pretty awful subject.

His barely covered snark combined with genuine feeling toward students made me love that class. It was finally more than dates and facts, it became part of riveting reality. He had a curious and free mind, in a way that most other teachers at my high school did not.

There was a lot that he wouldn’t have been allowed to teach or say. So I graduated from high school still wondering why the US was supporting a bunch of awful dictators — Pinochet, Marcos — and training death squad leaders in torture techniques at the School of the Americas — while pretending to be all about democracy. Took me 22 more years to find Chomsky, Zinn..suddenly the lightbulb moment. When a population in a poor country is 98% landless, while the 2% that inherited all of the land wants to prevent progressive taxation or funding for public schools or nationalization of resources, an obvious irreconcilable conflict may arise between ‘capitalism’ and ‘democracy’. The 2% can always phone-a-friend, Uncle Sam, to stop the ‘excess of democracy’.

But he told us about his experience as a dog handler in Vietnam, which I’ll never forget. They are at the front of the line, and the average survival rate of soldiers in that position was only around 6 weeks, but he was there for …a few years? One time he gestured at the reality of the two places on a human body that the dogs were trained to attack, one of which was the neck.

He was wiry, strong, not tall, reportedly had lots of plants in his van and students who got a demerit for being a little late for the bell could give him a plant to remove the demerit. That sounds like bribery, but in the late 1970s, there was much more room for individuality than there is now.

I tried looking him up several times over the decades, to tell him thank you and that I’ve never forgotten him.

Such teachers make a huge difference.

Most of the history I learned was on my own. I started out being fascinated by archeology and ancient history. Then I gradually started moving forward through different time periods. It wasn't until more recent years that I became interested in American history. It was such a dry and dull subject in school - now I know it also was very sanitized and often inaccurate.

I was lucky in high school as I had a fascinating world history teacher who really inspired me.

Seriously, now. These old farts, the farmers, the small business owners, they all vote Republican so the Rs will take away everyone else's stuff, and they get mad when their stuff gets taken as well.

They never learn.

I am an "old fart" at 67, but I've voted for the most liberal people I could since I first started voting. I know who's on my side and it doesn't diminish my needs to have the needs of others considered.

and you know what it is, don't ya? We've got that dreaded disease "empathy"...! (gryn)

Many are programmed from a young age and are resistant to change.

Like you I've always been liberal and I'm even older than "much older than dirt"! I did vote for one republican back in the late sixties but that was just a vote against Mayor Richard Daley who we viewed as a total tyrant. Unfortunately, he won anyway.

Well done sir.

That voter is right about Republican lawmakers having their heads up Trump's ass, but there are a lot of Republican voters in Missouri, and elsewhere, who have a similar problem...collective heads up their asses.
It makes it easier for them to not see and not hear what's really happening around them.
It also makes it easier for them to not be "woke"; that is, be awake.
What the country needs is a huge dose of wakefulness on the part of the Republican voters.
That's going to require them pull their heads out of their asses....not much chance of that happening, at least not in time to save our Democratic Republic.

We need more of these people to stand up and speak out, and VOTE their values, principles, and morals, and NOT just because they have an R after their names. If more people did that, we all would be doing a hell of a lot better right now.

Note how the current administration is attacking education, and rewriting history.

I minored in American History in College, yet took World History as well.

History has always fascinated me from the time I was in Jr. High School. In 8th Grade, we had to memorize he Gettysburg Address. Having actually toured that hallowed ground in 2011, I was at the Cemetery across the way from the Visitor Center and stood at the memorial there, marking the spot where Abraham Lincoln gave his 2 minute 18 second speech. I can only imagine the stench of death that covered the 3 days in July of that battle, resulting in the defeat of Pickett's March on the 3rd day.

To this day, I remain a student of History, the good parts as well as the bad.

We had a history presentation by my grade, either 6th or 7th grade, and I gave Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, also from memory.
That was back in the late 1950's.

Yet this hayseed sounds surprised...............

They only exist to kiss Trump's ass and do the every evil bidding of Rupert Murdoch.

I don't believe any of those fuckers and their rants.

Anyone who's been following Republican polling for the last 10 years knows this is how they think, regardless of whether or they regret their votes or not.

But then again, if your head is up trump's ass, you at least have an excuse (even a weak one) for being blind.

Looks like after the "Trump's ass" comment, some goon tried to take the mic away from him quickly.

I fear this just fell on deaf ears. It's the truth and the GOP can't handle the truth.

see this! This is next door to the county where I live. That area is also quite republican.

They can't ever be videotaped agreeing with any of these voters, because it will get back to Chump in no-time.
Democrats are much better at handling the public, and also explaining official policy to unhappy voters.

The leadership such as it is, makes people do things against their own best interests.

The good thing though, once a cult leader is demonstrably incapable of 'leading', the whole cult just crumbles, evaporates, dissipates.
People who were in the cult will then deny they were part of it.

Trump is getting close to that point.

My new bumper sticker idea. I'm sure people have noticed he talks like he knows everything about
everything.