You Are What You Eat
There’s a reason that you don’t see Texas Senator John Cornyn making a lot of speeches and television appearances. Like Ted Cruz, he’s a buffoon. Unlike Ted Cruz, he knows it.
Would you like to see an example from yesterday? Defending his leader Donald Trump, Cornyn explained why Republicans are calling Coronavirus the “Chinese virus.”
“China is to blame,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Wednesday of the virus, which was first identified in Wuhan, China. “Because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that.”
Damn, dude. You’re from Texas. You eat crawfish, which are just big roaches that live underwater. You eat crabs and oysters and you eat oysters raw. You eat gator and bull testicles. You eat Bambi’s mom and say it’s yummy. And if you try to convince us that you’ve never eaten rattlesnake, then you will lose four counties in west Texas. You’re a Texan and that means you’ll put pretty near any goddam thing in your mouth, chew it up, swallow it and then cheerfully wait a day or two before you leave it in the outhouse.
Don’t get prissy, John. If you’ve ever eaten chili that you didn’t make yourself, you have no idea what you’ve eaten.
And, the icing on the cake is a charming article at The Root. It contends that Cornyn’s statement is only the third most racist thing Republicans said yesterday. Be sure to read to the bottom – you’ll snort giggle.
“You’re a Texan and that means you’ll put pretty near any goddam thing in your mouth, chew it up, swallow it and then cheerfully wait a day or two before you leave it in the outhouse.”
I never knew…
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1Cornyn has probably attended too many of Loopy Louie’s bareback balcony barbecues. All Congress varmints with an “R” after their names should seriously consider being tested for vCJD (variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.) Odds are not favorable that more Republicons will test positive for “mad cow disease” than COVID-19. Case in point, Devin Nunes.
2Cornyn needs to be reminded that H1N1 (swine flu) originated in the American Midwest. Mars came out of the Middle East. He and the wind farm opponent Joe Barton need to stay out of the sun.
3GOP racist (and sexist, and homophobic, and just plain stupid)? Oh, shocked I say (says no one with any sense). First (and only) time I ate breaded and deep fried sheep balls, was back when I lived in the DFW area-so yeah, the list of odd foods I’ve tried is long-and I’ve never been to China. As for the Root-if the Salon family hasn’t yet made their way there, they need to start ASAP! The comment section alone will have you laughing, sometimes crying, and cheering! It’s a great site, and is on my list of daily must reads-along with yours, of course!
4I watched a feature on the Taylor Rattlesnake Roundup on Vice News and was appalled at the willful ignorance and lack of concern by the JC redneck spokesman that was justifying holding the gathering where more infections were guaranteed.
5As a native Texan, born and raised, I can attest to the list of Lone Star delicacies listed above. And let’s not forget bottom-feeders (catfish).
6Except for the testicles.
But that’s probably more to do with being from southeast Tejas, gateway for Cajun cuisine.
Yeeah….. that’s the ticket.
That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
https://ncov2019.live/
– China 88% recovery rate
– USA 1% recovery rate*
* We were the last to climb on the Corona caboose though.
Now where can I get some of those Beijing bat wings? Or do I have to go all the way to Wuhan?
7And lard – how many delicious biscuits and pie crusts have we have from that! In my case, probably too many!
8Here Are the 51 Republican Senators Who Just Voted Against Expanding Paid Sick Leave to All Workers
Edit: “If one of these Republicans (or two!) is your senator, call their office right now and tell them you saw their vote and you won’t forget.”
Republican senators on Wednesday teamed up to kill an amendment introduced by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray that would have expanded paid sick leave to millions of U.S. workers left out of a bipartisan coronavirus relief package.
Every Republican present for the vote, 51 in total, voted against the amendment while every Senate Democrat voted in favor.
Sens. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) were the only senators who did not vote on the amendment, which would have guaranteed two weeks of paid sick leave as well as 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave to all U.S. employees and independent contractors.
“[Fifty one] Republican senators just voted against an amendment… that would have expanded paid leave to millions of Americans left out of the package,” tweeted progressive advocacy group Indivisible. “Let that sink in.”
“If one of these Republicans (or two!) is your senator,” the group added, “call their office right now and tell them you saw their vote and you won’t forget that they voted against the Murray amendment to expand paid sick leave to millions of Americans: 1-855-980-2355.”
The Republicans who voted against Murray’s amendment are listed below:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/19/here-are-51-republican-senators-who-just-voted-against-expanding-paid-sick-leave-all
9In America we’ll grind up anything into a fine paste, mix that pink slime-like substance into sausage shaped items, blended lunch meats, and of course if it’s called a nugget, all bets are off as to what’s in there.
When I was very young, I was playing at a neighbor’s house and his mother once asked what we had for lunch at my house. When I mentioned creamed corn as one of the items, she turned visibly pale. I mean, so visibly pale a child noticed. I asked if she didn’t care for creamed corn? She only managed to reply “I worked in a canning factory once. I saw what went into the creamed corn.”
10While living in Texas, I’ve eaten rattlesnake – there used to be a rattlesnake round-up in Glen Rose and they would sell them afterwards as well as frying them duing the event.
And along the border with Mexico, I’ve eaten dog, cow brains (with scrambled eggs) and pickled pig’s feet. The dog I knew about after eating chili and later seeing behind the cafe piles of dog bones and skins stretched out on frames. [The place also sold fringed leather jackets, but never specified what critter the leather came from].
All of that is necessary training to be able to look at Texas Republicans and not immediately start projectile vomiting.
11Not to mention the 1918 flu that killed millions is thought by many to have arisen in midwest army base shipped to Europe with the AEF.
12Called “Spanish” Influenza because all countries involved in WW I considered the severity of the outbreak as a military secret but Spain, being neutral, was only “developed” country reporting real numbers. Hence its name.