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That’s good news since we thought we might have lost him forever to the douche factory that is Los Angeles. So on behalf of our staff and our readers, we’d like to welcome The Kid home. Let’s go crazy and paint the town purple. Either that or host a mass purification in Lake Minnetonka.
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This is great news! GTFU of my town you crazy Jesus freak dick!
First off, Prince and the State of Minnesota are so intertwined, you think of Prince when the state is mentioned and vice versa. I happen to think he's one Hell of a musician, but quite honestly, I couldn't imagine ANY Minnesotan even possibly thinking of going back to that state once they've left - let alone even acknowledging they're from that state to begin with - when faced with the fact that not only did their esteemed voters elected not only a "wrastler" to the Governorship, but they also "elected" a clown - and not a very funny one (I've never thought Franken to be even remotely funny since his first days on the SNL crew) to Congress.
I'm guessing, and quite honestly there really is no other conclusion that can be drawn by ANY stretch of the imagination, that this state is filled with incompetent people doing jobs they're not even close to being qualified for. Fry cooks from McDonalds working in the finanical field, investment bankers working in the janitorial sector, 8th grade drop out's working as tenured college professors, etc., because there is NO OTHER CONCLUSION one could even think of coming to given their record of electing SUPREMELY unqualified individuals, again, by ANY stretch of the imagination, to posts of governmental "leadership".
But hey - if you're cool with being looked at by the rest of the nation as a bunch of inbred, mentally retarded dolts(as I guarantee you is currently the case) have at it. You've not only succeeded in spades, but have also proven once and for all and for perpetuity, that the collective stupidity of the Democrat Party is surpassed and overshadowed ONLY by their incredible, colossal and mind numbing intellectual dishonesty.
Congrats Minnesota!! You must be SOOOO proud of yourselves.
Ya sure, you betcha...!!
excuse me but dont be mad at us because your people leave your shitty bumfuck town to be douchebags over here
Al Franken was elected to the SENATE, you freaking dolt. Clown? He's a best selling author, and graduated cum laude from Harvard with a POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR! What's your degree? Where did you go to school? And good luck with bashing the democrats for being dishonest, it's common knowledge that dishonesty and corruption is a Republican characteristic... Your statements are so stupid and hypocritical that it's a waste of my time to even argue otherwise... P.S. your republican congresswoman, Michelle Bachman, is the one to be embarrassed of, she's the laughing stock of the nation... Douchebag...
"The collective stupidity of the Democrat Party is surpassed and overshadowed ONLY by their incredible, colossal and mind numbing intellectual dishonesty."
As opposed to the Republican party, which deals in just regular dishonesty.