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Sen. Chuck Grassley knows that what happens at Dairy Queen stays in Dairy Queen

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Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley tweets:

No. We don’t know what. And Chuck Grassley will never tell us. He tweets with no apologies, no explanations, and, oftentimes, no traditional punctuation. The result is a uniquely American style of free-form political poetry:

Who is Fred? Why didn’t Grassley check on the deer? What does “After I pulled fender rubbing on tire we continued to farm” even mean?

u kno what, I don’t actually want to know. Life is a mystery, and so too is Chuck Grassley’s Twitter feed. It’s enough to know that he’s there, working for us, bringing a little magic into our daily lives.

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