Will Chuck Grassley make it two more years?

LOL/

Also..."If u lost ur pet pidgin it's dead."  I can't stop laughing.

But...do people have pet pigeons they band?  Sounds like a research bird.  (Or homing pigeon?) Maybe he should check with his extension office there at Ames.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:  I just read that he hasn't made up his mind yet whether he'll run for reelection in 2022.  He'll be 89 years old, ffs.

UPDATE:  He's entertaining tonight.

And I assume he's talking about South Dakota's attorney general who claims he thought he hit a deer, when in fact, he hit and killed a man.  But is Chuck saying he once hit a deer?  And assumed the deer was dead because there was no "carcas"?  (Where did this man go to school, and does he ever read anything?)  I would more likely assume a deer was dead if there WERE a carcass.

At any rate, some of the comments on this tweet are pretty funny.

Oh, wait...he's talking about this (from an October 2018 article) which was probably brought up again in light of the SoDakota AG...

DES MOINES — Five years ago today, a deer died and a social media legend was born.

Well, we assume the deer died.

It was five years ago today — Oct. 25, 2012 — U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s vehicle hit a deer on an eastern Iowa road, presumably killing the animal.

Grassley tweeted about the experience, and the tweet’s closing phrase, “Assume dear dead,” became a Twitter legend, still referenced by Twitter users.

[...]

His unfiltered, 140-character messages often are delivered in his unique shorthand.

[...]

According to Grassley, on Oct. 25, 2012, he was being driven through eastern Iowa — he cannot recall from or to where — by Fred Schuster, the regional director for Grassley’s office in Cedar Rapids, in Schuster’s Prius.

They were traveling on Iowa Highway 136 south of Dyersville when something — they couldn’t see what — struck the car. They did not immediately know the extent of the damage, but could tell the fender was rubbing on the tires, so they pulled over.

[...]

The inspection made it clear: They had struck a deer. And although they could not see the animal, Grassley was sure what happened.

“I just had to presume the deer was dead, because I never did see the deer,” Grassley said.

Grassley thought word of the incident might spread, so he took the proactive step of tweeting it out. He said he primarily was thinking about his staff when at 8:31 p.m. he tweeted this:

“Fred and I hit a deer on hiway 136 south of Dyersville. After I pulled fender rubbing on tire we continued to farm. Assume deer dead”

[...]

It’s the staying power of Grassley’s “Assume deer dead” tweet that makes it stand out. Twitter users who follow Grassley and know his Twitter style still make reference to the tweet five years later.

  Iowa Courier

It's baaaaaaack.

Even this week while talking about that viral tweet, Grassley relayed a story about recently being in a car with Schuster driving back from the final of his 99 county meetings and just missing a deer.

“This was daylight. I think it was real early in the morning. We actually saw a deer, and we were able to slow down and miss it,” Grassley said. “I told Fred, ‘If you hit that deer, I’d be able to get 10,000 more tweet followers.”

He's a real card.