Let’s Go Smack a Woman
Y’all, of course, have not forgotten that Texas Congresspuke Blake Farenthold wanted to have a duel with the Republican female senators who voted against the Trumpcare bill.
Well, like crabgrass and Baptists, it’s spreading.
Today, Buddy Carter (R-GA) appeared on MSNBC, where he was asked what he thought about Trump’s attack on Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) after she refused to vote to proceed on Trumpcare. Carter responded by advocating for violence against his female colleague.
“I think it’s perfectly fair, let me tell you somebody needs to go over there to that Senate and snatch a knot in their ass,” said Carter. “Snatch a knot” is slang for physically assaulting someone.
I am from the South. I have lived all my life in the South, as have my people. I have never heard the term “snatch a knot in their ass.” I have heard “snatch her bald”, “put a knot on his head”, “whip his ass”, and pretty often “who the hell is Buddy Carter”, but I have never heard snatch a knot in their ass.
If you ask me, it sounds like something real creepy that happens in S&M sex dungeons, which I am now certain is where Buddy Carter spends his weekends.
Republicans are creepy people, y’all.
Thanks to Larry for the heads up.
it just seems to me all these creepy, vulgar people have found a hero and are now mouthing off! Disgusting, these are Senators not bar trash!
1You have to fight for Putin’s puppet AKA Traitor Trump.
2I haven’t voted for Lisa because I vote for Democrats, but right now she is my hero, and I have told her so. If anyone else feels like giving her some support, here’s her address. https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/contact/email
3I thought he was another Repub that went around snatching at women’s yarn like his hero likes to do and that was what he called the grab.
4Turns out that the phrase apparently originated in Georgia and has relatives pretty much all over the South (including Texas): https://stronglang.wordpress.com/.
Still, that’s no excuse for either the phrase or the sentiment behind it (see the incident in England where an MP–“representative” there–was dismissed for using a racial slur). I don’t see these idiocies as too different from that; the idiots I see as much worse.
Yes, Lisa needs all the love we can give her! Thank *goodness* for her!
5Said by a “superior” of and to an “inferior”.
In the 80s I worked for a manager who always went off to “jerk a knot in the ass” of the underling or customer who most recently irritated him. He died on MLK Day in 2010. Being he was a racist as well, I energetically celebrate his death on the day the rest of the country honors the life of Martin Luther King. The irony overwhelms me some years.
I do hope my old boss and Buddy Carter share a fifth floor walk-up in Tartarus in the near future. Today would not be soon enough.
6Looks like it’s open season on woman, trans, blacks, Muslims, Mexicans…
7I wish it were open season on a**holes. There are plenty to choose from in many areas.
Folks, our neighboring county wants to know why 3 of their 9 county council members come from the little enclave of Takoma Park. I think it’s because the lefties in Takoma are political as hell and they vote like sons of b*****s. They probably need three times as many voting booths per capita as the rest of the county. We need a lot more of that all around the country. Most people want Dems in charge of Congress now, but most people who say they’re sure to vote are GOP. We need to GET OUT THE VOTE! Start now!
8@ Maymoon: Yeah, Trump has brought out the worst in a whole bunch of people–including a few Senators Representatives. Some of them would have to grow up a lot to qualify as bar trash.
@ Rhea: Hurray for Takoma Park (I used to live there)! YES! Vote like your life depended on it, because it may.
9It used to be that people said when drunk a person shows their true colors. Now I guess it’s when snacilbupeR we see their true selves. Yuuuuugely.
10@That Other Jean: Yes, yay for Takoma Park! I told my husband, “I took public transportation to a street festival, signed a bunch of petitions, contributed to several causes including a memorial statue of a local rooster, ate food from two other countries, listened to music from about 18 cultures, bought some handmade soap, and I’ve never seen so much tie-dye in my life. It was a very Takoma Park day.”
11I’d like to have a Prius-per-capita smackdown between core Takoma and our old town Greenbelt, but I can’t figure out how to get the numbers.
I am a lawyer. I used to laugh at lawyer jokes. Hell, I even told a few. Then I was in a couple of courthouses where lawyers were shot — some even killed. I quit laughing and pretty much berate anyone that does try to tell a lawyer joke.
Talk about violence against women is like that. People like Carter and Farenthold talk about it long enough that it somehow becomes acceptable.
We have to call them on it. Every time.
12Displaying their st00pid through euphemism doesn’t make it any less st00pid. They want a challenge? Think about this boys. Real men are capable of an intelligent conversation with intelligent women. It’s quite fun. Sorry about your luck that you will never have that pleasure.
13Please, somebody, reassure me that this man is not related to Jimmy Carter the Humanitarian!
14The correct terminology in the VA/WV part of Appalachia is “jerk a knot in his tail” and yes, it’s usually applied to males or pigs.
Rather than being directed TOWARD a woman, the epithet usually said BY a female, and directed toward a male because of something inherently stupid she just found out he did.
I have used it myself, and have rarely seen it applied without merit.
15DaddyWasATexan is absolutely right. Seems ‘ole Buddy musta flunked outta Bubba College ’cause he can’t get his colloquialisms or their meanings straight.
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