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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)101. She mentioned being anti-choice in her speech. You are right.
The bread bags on her shoes is a way of making yet another connection with anti-choice, pro-gun people.
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How did they not get ripped to shreds, if you walked any distance? What did kids do who didn't
pnwmom
Jan 2015
#73
Well, you weren't wearing the plastic bags over your skate blades. What about when there wasn't smooth ice
pnwmom
Jan 2015
#85
I think they ARE attacking her credibility. She comes across as a very phony person,
pnwmom
Jan 2015
#104
joni was born in 1970; her family owned a farm and a construction company. she went to
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#109
+1000. Ernst is a liar and a hypocrite. She's spitting on the hardships of the poor.
Paladin
Jan 2015
#165
according to the op, we can't say anything about it though, because the stories are what poor
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#111
So you care more about what a few anonymous posters say on a message board
Cali_Democrat
Jan 2015
#20
Ernst is anti gay, anti choice, supports privatization of Medicare, dismantling the EPA and opposes
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2015
#158
I think people are mocking Joni and her stepford-wife, smiling presentation, as if there was
pnwmom
Jan 2015
#77
she was never poor. her family owned a farm and a construction company. she went to state
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#23
I don't care if she was never poor. What I care about is people questioning and mocking
Luminous Animal
Jan 2015
#50
no one is questioning what poor people do, but what LYING POLITICIANS do, especially ones
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#52
Why are you persisiting in being deliberately obtuse about DU'ers' comments re: Ernst?
WinkyDink
Jan 2015
#116
Please don't be upset. This isn't an attack on poor people. It just seems to many here that Joni's story
pnwmom
Jan 2015
#79
Well, you could talk about her opposition to the Minimum Wage or desire to privatize Medicare
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2015
#159
Mostly it's people who grew up poor saying she sounds like she's bullshitting.
LeftyMom
Jan 2015
#10
I grew up poor. You put the bread bags on the outside of your shoes so you don't
Luminous Animal
Jan 2015
#12
i ate sugar and butter sandwiches cause my mom taught me to. and joni ernst was never poor
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#27
we weren't that well off but we weren't 'poor' -- but we ate sugar and butter sandwiches, jam
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#25
Wouldn't it depend on the type of shoe? Like if they were good Sunday go to meeting
Maraya1969
Jan 2015
#30
Bread bags wouldn't offer any traction and as LeftyMom wrote above, they'd wear out quickly.
Gormy Cuss
Jan 2015
#32
Yes, they'd make your shoes slippery, Not only because they're plastic, but because you can't get
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#78
Wait, I'm getting you-don't-know-what-poor-is'd by somebody who went to private school?
LeftyMom
Jan 2015
#49
We couldn't have gone if it was free- too far and no bus service, and Dad left for work hours before
LeftyMom
Jan 2015
#68
So when the nuns introduced you as a charity case they also said not to tell anyone?
SunSeeker
Jan 2015
#163
Most of the Roman Catholic kids in my neighborhood went to the parish school.
Gormy Cuss
Jan 2015
#155
she was never poor so she has no capacity to empathize. she wants to end minimum wage,
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#83
she was born in 1970, which means she started college about 1988/9. That was long past the
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#60
she's using the issue of poverty while planning to kneecap the poor. i think it's entirely worthy
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#65
I see people criticizing Ernst and making fun of ernst, Because she's a liar and deserves it.
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#91
She was letting a lot of people who are poor know that she knows how they feel.
JDPriestly
Jan 2015
#29
Of course she is a phony. You and I know that. But a lot of those who voted for her,
JDPriestly
Jan 2015
#37
all the more reason to spread the word that she's a BIG FAT LIAR who wants to end every
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#105
SHE WAS NEVER POOR A DAY IN HER LIFE. SHE WANTS TO FUCK POOR PEOPLE SIX WAYS TO SUNDAY.
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#48
Agreed. But that does not prevent her from letting people know she knows how they feel.
JDPriestly
Jan 2015
#63
She doesn't know how they feel, because she was never poor a day in her life. Rather the opposite.
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#66
So instead of talking about the bread bags, let's talk about why she is wrong on other issues.
JDPriestly
Jan 2015
#69
I've been saying in nearly every post, she's pretending to have been poor so she can SCREW the poor.
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#70
I never ate sugar sandwiches, but I did put plastic bags (I don't remember whether they were
JDPriestly
Jan 2015
#24
I wear second hand clothes and have all my life. You don't know what poor means apparently,
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#88
Yes. I know. Did not mean to say that wearing second-hand clohes means poor.
JDPriestly
Jan 2015
#102
I didn't see or hear Ms. Ernst's speech but I think what is being mocked here is not poor people per
KingCharlemagne
Jan 2015
#34
It's late and I'm tired. But I'm not getting your point(s) nor how they relate
KingCharlemagne
Jan 2015
#53
Thank you. She can romanticize it BECAUSE SHE WAS NEVER POOR. Her family owned a farm
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#51
She;s always been part of the upper middle class AND KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT WHAT POOR
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#90
He says to the person who makes $600 a month working at a kind of sheltered workshop and can
ND-Dem
Jan 2015
#98
I gather you are speaking for yourself; it's best to leave it that way. YOU DON'T KNOW US.
WinkyDink
Jan 2015
#115
Luminous Animal, I get it. I am sorry you and your family were poor. I am sorry your mom
merrily
Jan 2015
#107
IDGADamn what her stories are; she's a dumb-sh*t Republican who now HATES the poor, the minimum-wage
WinkyDink
Jan 2015
#114
We were so poor that we wore bread bags over our heads to protect our hats & scarves
Orrex
Jan 2015
#128
I know where you're coming from. If people don't grow up that poor, they don't know what those who
Arkansas Granny
Jan 2015
#151
The question is, what does any of that matter in terms of Joni Ernst's political policies and impact
stevenleser
Jan 2015
#169
Exactly. I don't think people would be laughing if an actual poor person said this.
SunSeeker
Jan 2015
#164