Who the Hell Jodi Ernst?

[Doctor Jack]

I was reading today that she has moved to the top of Trumps VP list. Of coure I did a quick google search and see that she ia a senator from Iowa and she has been on the job for about...14 hours. But besides that Ive never evem heard of her. Who the fuck is this person?

[yeoman6987]

1. She's a first term senator

She's awful but first term is not why. President was first term and he did fine. Honestly who cares who trump picks. They will lose anyway.

[Doctor Jack]

3. People in the politco story were saying she is like Palin on steroids

Can i assume a 4th grade level of grammar and a very poor grasp of...everything?

[yeoman6987]

6. Probably true

She was a career military so I give her that. Her beliefs are like palin.

[3catwoman3]

28. More on Ernst's career in the reserves.

Senator Ernst calls herself a combat veteran at every turn — on her Senate web page, in campaign debates, and in her stump speeches. She can say this because she served in a combat zone.

And it’s technically true. She was company commander of the Iowa National Guard’s 1168th Transportation Company during its tour of active duty in Kuwait and southern Iraq, from February 2003 to April 2004. But the unit was never in a firefight, or for that matter attacked at all; it delivered supplies, and later, guarded the front gate and ran perimeter patrol at their home base outside Kuwait City, Camp Arifjan.

Real combat veterans I spoke to don’t think much of how the Senator talks up her combat duty. Larry Hanft, for instance, who earned the Combat Infantryman’s Badge fighting in Vietnam, says, “By her definition, everybody who stepped off the plan in Kuwait is a combat veteran. Joni Ernst is using her military experience to gain a political edge and pull the wool over the eyes of the American people. She’s a fraud...” Mr. Hanft is one of Sen. Ernst’s constituents.

(For the record, I spent 4 yrs on active duty in the AF nurse corps and 8 as a reservist)

[Doctor Jack]

41. It sounds like she definitely has a good military record but..

...that she is also is exaggerating her exploits. Just like how I pretend to be a medical doctor but I only have a mail order doctorate in art history from Pakistan....ok not really but still I feel like there is less to this lady than she claims.

[3catwoman3]

48. A case of...

..."the letter of the law but not the spirit," IMO. No matter how the military might define it, I would not call myself a combat veteran unless life and limb had been at risk.

[karynnj]

61. I respect your service, but I think it better NOT to attack something her on that as a Democrat

She did actually serve. If she is the VP, her biography will come out completely - and yes - Trump, who said McCain was not a hero because he got caught and a party that attacked Kerry, with his 3 purple hearts, silver star and Bronze star with valor for not really being a war hero -- will make a big deal of her military background.

However, the VP choice rarely makes a difference -- and with the addition of Ernst, they might have a historical low in government experience between them.

[Marie Marie]

2. Isn't she the "bread bags on my shoes" lady?

[JustAnotherGen]

5. Yeah

A genuine ass wipe. That's her!

[JustAnotherGen]

4. The pig farmer lady from Iowa

She was the darling of the TEA Wing of the Con party in 2012.

[Doctor Jack]

8. Paul Ryan style nutjob or Rick Santorum style nut job?

Would we get pseudo constitutional scholar where the federal government shouldnt exist type of republican or gay conversion therapy, a cross in every classroom type of republican?

[Zambero]

16. Much closer to Santorum nuttery

Fundie to the core. Ernst is big on talking points and slogans, otherwise as shallow as a Nevada alkaline flat. If she was selected, it would be for the purpose of coaxing the religious right onto the Trump bandwagon. She is stridently anti-choice, a position that would not serve any national ticket well at this point in time time.

[JustAnotherGen]

52. A whole new breed

A gun toting bread bag wearing on the feet is the solution to everything citizen of right wing crazy town

[femmocrat]

7. How soon they forget:

[jberryhill]

9. She castrates hogs while wearing bread bags on her shoes

[Doctor Jack]

10. How delightful

[lancer78]

17. Don't make fun of bread bags

They are really effective at keeping your feet dry.

[jberryhill]

21. Not on the outside of your shoes they aren't

You wear them over your socks, and inside your shoes.

And you don't do it because you are poor. You do it so you can try to get away with wearing keds in the snow.

[lancer78]

23. She wore them outside her shoes?

What an idiot.

[DawgHouse]

27. Yes, over your shoes works too.

Mom used to fasten bread bags over my keds when I had to walk to school in the rain. When I got to school, I had dry shoes and could just throw the bags away.

[dflprincess]

29. Or you put them over your shoe and then put your foot in your boot.

Many years ago when I as a kid we had rainboots and snowboots that we put on over our shoes. Even newish ones would leak before too long so the breadbags were put on over the shoes before your foot went into the boot. As you said, it had nothing to do with being poor we were in a solidly middle class area and everyone's mom did this (and when we complained nearly every kid on the street had a mom who reminded them that she "grew up in the Depression and we took care of our things...&quot

It was a sign you were growing up when you finally got a pair of boots that you didn't put over your shoes - I think I got my first pair in 6th grade.

[jberryhill]

34. Good point

Oh, those things made for tripping on stairs.

[elleng]

11. You've missed a lot, Doc.

[Cali_Democrat]

25. Joni Ernst is a fucking twit. nt

[BlueMTexpat]

53. Now there's a campaign

slogan for you: "Two f**king twits!"

[Doctor Jack]

30. I was really busy during the 2014 election and didn't pay much attention

At least not to races outside of my state. Don't get me wrong, I voted but a random candidate from Iowa wasn't on my radar.

[elleng]

45. and most of us wish she hadn't been on ours!

[SharonClark]

68. She gave the GOP reponse to the state of the union

that is where the bread bag story came from.

[dhol82]

12. Hey, as long as she can cut the balls off anything

She is a suitable candidate.
Can the world get crazier?
Mind bending.

[Warren DeMontague]

51. Hey, it didn't hurt Ramsay Bolton's career.

[dhol82]

55. Yeah, but.....

Look how he ended up.

[Warren DeMontague]

58. And finally!

We were all waiting for that one, weren't we.

[beachbumbob]

13. Iowa version of Sara palin...

[HERVEPA]

18. nope.

Being a vet does not automatically mean respect.

[RAFisher]

57. Lee Harvey Oswald was a veteran

Extreme example but if people really believe all veterans deserve respect I guess he does too.

[Doctor Jack]

31. Agreed. I respect what McCain did in Vietnam

He's a war hero, no doubt about it. However, he is also a jackass and would have made a terrible president.

[BlueStater]

37. I don't recall anyone saying anything about her military service.

A clown is a clown, regardless of whether they're a veteran or not.

[MyNameGoesHere]

60. As a vet when I hear comments like this

it creeps me the fuck out. Blind support is never a good thing.

[MyNameGoesHere]

63. I spoke only of myself.

You seemed to have rearranged it to your liking however. It still creeps me out when people say thank you for your service. It's just weird. Go thank a single parent raising a child in poverty. They would be more deserving

[cosmicone]

15. The fact of the matter is ...

agreeing to be Trump's running mate is a career suicide mission.

No republican with a future will agree to it. So Trump is left with the bottom of the barrel - Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Jodi Earnst the castrator or Michelle Bachmann.

[HERVEPA]

19. if you have never heard of her you have not been paying enough attention.

[Doctor Jack]

33. Close enough

[madaboutharry]

26. She should turn it down.

She has a future in the Senate. She may be a right wing nut job, but she speaks well and has a lot of charisma. She is actually educated with a Master's degree, so she isn't exactly Sarah Palin. Ernst's political views are atrocious, but republicans love her. It would be a mistake for her to get on a ticket with Trump. She would be better off passing and waiting for another ticket, which I think is highly likely to be in her future.

[Doctor Jack]

32. If she is an extreme right winger, it won't do Trump any good

She might win him a few uneasy republican voters but it will turn off everyone else even further.

[IADEMO2004]

35. Her Campaign was pistols, pig nuts and, hate Obama Care.

Unlike Palin she never wanders off the script she's been given. Koch no Pepsi.

[Jitter65]

36. Do not underestimate her value to the GOP ticket. Any other choice would be bad for Trump. She is

good choice for him and dangerous to the Dems just because she is a female veteran.

[COLGATE4]

38. She specializes in castrating pigs. Should be more than

enough to move her to the top of Trump's list.

[emulatorloo]

40. Koch Brothers creation. They groomed her, she is their puppet n/t

[Dawson Leery]

42. She lied about being a combat veteran.

[nruthie]

43. She is insane. Naturally she would be perfect for the job.

[Doctor Jack]

44. So between her and Trump they have 1.5 years of political experience

Exactly what you want to see in the president and vice president.

[DesertRat]

46. For starters, she's a climate-denying senator

She's proposed eliminating the IRS, the EPA and the Dept. of Education. She's also called President Obama a dictator. She and Trump are a perfect match.

[RandySF]

47. Someone who witnessed and ignored sexual harassment while she was a state legislator.

A lawsuit alleges that Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst witnessed an instance of sexual harassment while she was serving in the Iowa state legislature, but did nothing to stop the behavior.

The allegations are included in a lawsuit filed by a former staffer for the Iowa Republican Senate Caucus, Kirsten Anderson. Anderson, 35, is claiming that she was fired because she complained to her superiors about sexual harassment she witnessed.

Ernst is not named as a party to the suit. She is only mentioned once in the lawsuit, which was first reported by the Des Moines Register.

“By way of just one example, Sen. Joni Ernst of Red Oak and Sen. Sandra Greiner of Keota witnessed sexual innuendo and inappropriate behavior exhibited by their male colleagues and did and said nothing while female staffers stood by unable to say anything,” the suit says.

Ernst denied the allegations and suggested they were politically motivated.


http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/221019-lawsuit-alleges-ernst-witnessed-sexual-harassment

[MADem]

49. She castrates hogs in her campaign commercial and she wears one of the most

formidable wigs in Congress.

I doubt Trump will pick her, especially once he gets a look at her wielding those clippers...

[Night Watchman]

50. Trump won't pick Ernst

She has experience castrating pigs, so why would Donnie put his gonads in danger?

[Drahthaardogs]

54. She is insane.

that is all you need to know.

[tallahasseedem]

56. Is that the one with the "Rachel" haircut?

OMG, bring her on! It'll be a Joe Biden whippin' again, especially if Warren is the VP!!!

[MineralMan]

59. Ignore all that! It's going to be Michele Bachmann!

I have that from sources close to his campaign and from some weird guy in Minnesota I met the other day.

[3catwoman3]

64. Either Bachmann or Ernst...

...would be Palin Redux.

[JCMach1]

66. She is solely owned by Koch Industries, so no VP

unless they approve of it.

[JCMach1]

69. And, I was right... Koch's DO NOT approve of the Donald

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/joni-ernst-trump-vice-president-225169

[TheKentuckian]

67. She is most well known for talking about breadbags in her shoes to show her common touch

It seems like it was one of the dumb responses to the State of the Union address maybe last year.