Chip Roy
I was outta pocket yesterday when Chip Roy up and blurted something weird, mean, and bigoted in the middle of a damn congressional hearing.
He said that there’s a common saying in Texas about a rope and a tall oak tree. I’m a fifth generation Texan on my momma’s side and I have never heard that.
Chip Roy is from Maryland. He came to Texas as a adult and was the ghostwriter for George W’s book. He also worked for John Cornyn, was First Assistant for Ken Paxton, and became Ted Cruz’s chief of staff. So, I have no damn idea what manner of caca del toro he has heard while in Texas. A piano player in a whorehouse would have been subject to more proper and intelligent conversation.
I wish he’d just shut his mouth instead of repeating horrid crap he has heard in the back rooms he frequents.
Today he has doubled down. He’s refusing to see the errors of his ways. He also learned that from the men who never learned that.
The bottom line is that is not an “old saying” in Texas. That is a new saying, brought to you by the highest levels of the Texas Republican Party.
It’s from the Willie Nelson and Toby Keith song, Whiskey for My Men and Beer For My Horses.
1The hearing was about racist hate crimes and he thought it was a good idea to bring up lynching? I can’t even…
2Chip-O’s from Maryland, is he? That figures—Maryland is where our dung-heap Lt. Gov. Danny Goeb Patrick came from. Maryland needs to quit shipping its garbage to our fair state.
3And make texas proud goober gohmert along with others voted against making lynching a hate crime. He had some gobbledygook reason he thought was good, but really it’s emblematic of him.
4And the Texas GOP has a statement out:
https://www.texasgop.org/statement-remarks-by-chip-roy/
From it: “My recommendation to Congressman Chip Roy would be to engage the brain before firing the mouth”.
Objection, your honor! Referencing Roy’s “brain” is arguing facts not in evidence.
5I would not have thought it would have been easy to make Roy’s star turn worse, but Allen West makes it look easy.
6Rep “uh-oh” Roy blurted something out that didn’t make sense …
‘Find all the rope in Texas and get a tall oak tree’
Last time I checked, Texas still believed it was a big deal with lots of people and home of “the biggest” everything in the US. Trying to find “all the rope in Texas” seems to me to be a fool’s errand. Even more ridiculous than my sending Tenderfoot Boy Scouts around from camp to camp to find a “right-handed smoke shifter.” Similar to a family friend suggesting a scheme to my Dad that they buy a large number of WWII Jeeps that had never been used after the war, but had somehow been shipped back to storage in the US.
I’m not certain why Rep Roy wanted to endorse “citizen justice” of a rope and a tree. Perhaps he didn’t remember James Byrd Jr. being tied with Texas rope and dragged behind three racists in a car? That was when he was still out of state as an investment analyst, so perhaps he didn’t read the story.
7john in denver:
When I was in Boy Scouts, I was always sent to find a “left-handed smoke shifter.” Everybody knows there’s no such thing as a “right-handed smoke shifter.” Sheesh.
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8Seems he has kept the kind of company for many years that sucked his brains out.
9He probably saw it in a John Wayne movie. He thinks they were all documentaries.
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