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True fact: You can't be elected Senator in Idaho unless your brain is a potato. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jun 2021
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dflprincess
(28,079 posts)1. Yes, my mother often talked about when the Viet Cong attacked Pearl Harbor
Glad there is a screen shot of this, whoever handles the senator's Twitter account did revise the post.
brewens
(13,590 posts)2. Viet Nam War? I thought it was the Germans that bombed Pearl Harbor? :) n/t
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)3. Whew. Not much Senator can say but, "You know what I meant."
Enter stage left
(3,396 posts)4. And have a IQ about 1/3 of a potato
bottomofthehill
(8,333 posts)5. Two weeks after the famed Battle of Bowling Green.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)6. So fucking stupid.
Cab a Republican be embarrassed by their ignorance?
Response to Nevilledog (Original post)
bottomofthehill This message was self-deleted by its author.
ShazzieB
(16,412 posts)8. Must be a time traveler.
I wonder if he was also at Gettysburg, or San Juan Hill, or the Battle of the Somme?
TheBlackAdder
(28,208 posts)9. Not quite Sen. Spuds MacKenzie
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progree
(10,908 posts)10. Vietnamese, Japanese, what's the diff in his mind, they are all "Asiatics" to him, same war
different phases.
hoosierspud
(148 posts)11. Is Crapo hitting the gin bottle again?
N/t
Zambero
(8,964 posts)13. That's what Jack Mormons do!
Zambero
(8,964 posts)12. Bona-fried
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)14. Even if you switched it to "WWII" it's still arguably not accurate
Given that the US didn't enter that war until after this young man was sadly killed.
Ergo, he did not 'leave Idaho to serve' in WWII either.
rurallib
(62,420 posts)15. On the pus side, Crapo probably wrote this himself
to show his sincerity