Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley has triggered an avalanche of hypothesis and snark after asserting that he discovered somebody’s lifeless pet chicken in his entrance yard. He adopted up by reminiscing a few time he hit a deer along with his automotive.
Utilizing his distinctive fashion of social media prose, the 87-year-old Republican lawmaker knowledgeable the world about his troubling discovery.
“If u misplaced ur pet pidgin /it’s lifeless in entrance yard my Iowa farm JUST DISCOVERED right here,” he tweeted. The senator listed the identification info on the chicken’s leg band, including: “Sorry for dangerous information.”
The message instantly sparked theories that Grassley’s Twitter had been hacked. Nonetheless, two hours later one other tweet appeared: “I assumed deer lifeless bc it was evening and no carcas,” he wrote, apparently in reference to a legendary 2012 tweet wherein he disclosed that he had simply hit a deer.
“In case of this pidgin i may really decide up chicken. No life in any way,” Grassley helpfully clarified.
The slightly uncommon Twitter thread caught the eye of Grassley’s senate colleague Mike Lee, who joked that he had requested the Iowa lawmaker to “deal with my pigeon, not kill it.”
@ChuckGrassley, I requested you to TAKE CARE of my pigeon, not kill it. (His title was Sebastian). What the heck? Is that this payback for my place on ethanol? #LilSebastian https://t.co/IkqV1czCUS
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) September 20, 2020
There have been loads of different zingers in response to Grassley’s chicken obituary. Entrepreneur Adam Greatest quipped that studying Grassley’s creatively-worded tweets was like taking hallucinogenic medicine.
Chuck Grassley tweets all the time make me really feel like I ate too many magic mushrooms. https://t.co/XLQ6arZKVt
— Adam Greatest (@adamcbest) September 19, 2020
Some jokingly speculated whether or not the tweets could possibly be linked to the loss of life of Supreme Courtroom Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and if the senator was cryptically dropping clues about whether or not he would help changing her earlier than the presidential election.
let’s examine in with senate republicans and see how they’re dealing with the enormity of the second https://t.co/fYGc91fPMS
— j.d. durkin (@jiveDurkey) September 19, 2020
Because it’s Twitter, there was additionally paranoid dialogue about Grassley speaking along with his “Russian handler.”
Grassley is legendary for his distinctive Twitter lingo. In a single traditional message, the senator defiantly informed then-president Barack Obama that he is “not a nail” and couldn’t be “hammered” into agreeing to healthcare reform.
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