The French Are Coming and It’s Gonna Be All, “Obama est merveilleux!”
Just in case you thought that Louie Gohmert and Ted Cruz were riding in a two-seater clown car, along comes Senator John Cornyn of Texas who knows for a fact that French and Chinese people are coming across the border, and they probably have intent to cook food and criticize our wine.
“You gotta stop the flow of people coming across and my friends and your friends Edd who have places in South Texas tell me, as a matter a fact a guy told me last night, he said we’ve got people coming across our place speaking Chinese, French and basically all of the languages in the world, coming through and across our southern border,” Cornyn said during an interview on KSEV.
Okay, so here’s the scenario. There are fewer people than ever crossing the border. But “a guy” says that French people are crossing the border in Texas, probably intent on opening a restaurant called “Le Bon Taco” in Del Rio just to get health care. No, wait. They get free health care in France. Maybe they’re nihilists, I dunno.
John Cornyn
I have no idea how the Chinese people got to Mexico, much less Brownsville, Also, I have questions about whether “a guy” in Brownsville would know Chinese from Japanese or Korean if he heard it.
We haven’t even touched on the questions I have about whether there is even “a guy” or Cornyn has hit the tequila again.
Thanks to Gary, Brian and Kip for the heads up.
Looking forward to trying some of those Szechuan Napoleans I’ve heard so much about – toot sweet!
1I’m going with tequila or lack of medication for “mentally disturbed entitled freakazoid”~
2That’s right, Cornyn. Your southern border is being invaded by French-speakers. One of our sons has been married ten years to a French woman. They spend about half the year here and the other half in France. When they’re in the U.S., I can guarantee you that she much prefers other places than Texas. You can rest assured that you’ll never hear her utter “trou de merde” on any venue in your constituency – however warranted.
3Go easy on the General Chao’s Creme Fraiche…it sneaks up on you.
4They are probably sneaking into Texas to get their kids into our superior schools. Uh, no, its probably because they have heard about how much wage earners make in Texas. No, no it must be because of the security that comes with living where the accused can be sure of getting a fair trial with a just verdict. Uhm, let me get back to you on this.
5Good Grief.
How does he hold his head upright?
6If speaking literate English become a requirement for being in the U.S. then Cornyn is in real trouble.
7It’s empty, Lorraine. That makes it easier.
8I do wish he would change that picture. The costume is more appropriate for some adolescent.
9But of course, it is much easier for a french person to slog over the desert and climb over the border than to buy a plane ticket in France and land in the US.
10How ingenious, buy a ticket to Mexico and risk life and limbe to get here.
Texas really seems to a monopoly on genius!
Hey, Johnny! I think your Stetson is on too tight!
11You can tell by his outfit that he is a cowboy and not the least bit gay.
12This isn’t the first time Cornyn has quoted this “friend” who lives along the border. Hundreds of illegals are pouring across the border every night, according to his “friend”.
Since it clearly is a matter of national security, as a PUBLIC SERVANT, his first call should have been to the Dept. of Homeland Security, not Fox News.
Unless it wasn’t true.
So never mind.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/03/05/17195230-cornyns-secret-sources?lite
13The French hmmmm? And Chinese? Sounds more like John Cornyn had a long, lost weekend over the border in New Orleans, ate too much, drank to much, and started hearing voices. If he had thrown in a brass band I’d bet on it.
14Jsui etudient le francais. Ou sont les gens qui parlent francais?
15Correction! Darned keyboard:
16Je suis etudient le francais. Ou sont les gens qui parlent francais? Je voudrais leur parler.
@Umptydump: I hope momma doesn’t read French!! (Merde is my most favorite curse word! )
Just as long as they don’t come in the family station wagon. As Ronald Reagen feared.
17My mother spoke French and was born in Connecticut. What border?
18How did Cornyn’s “guy” know they were French? Must have been the berets, and the loaves of crusty bread and Jerry Lewis movie DVDs they were carrying that gave them away.
19I’m not sure “a guy” would know Chinese and French from Zapoteca or Hna-Hna or Tzotzil or… any of the other fifty-plus official languages in Mexico (none of which are Chinese or French) … assuming these were Mexicans (some of whom speak Chinese and/or French… or English, Platdeutch, Italian, Yiddish or Japanese). And, oh yeah… a lot of Mexicans speak Spanish, too.
20Zis makes ma derriere-hole pucker.
21Hey Corynball, How did this guy get close enough to these streaming hordes to get a sample of their conversations ? Cornyn and Cruz ? My God Texas ! What have we done ?
22this makes me laugh because….
Back when we owned our Cheese Shop, we used to get our daily bread delivery from La Madeleine, which is owned by French-speaking people. EVERYONE they employed – Anglo, Vietnamese, Mexican, legal or illegal – they taught to
speak French. It was hilarious fun!
Sometimes we’d get a new delivery guy who’d be Latino and he’d come into the shop and start speaking French to me, and I’d answer him in Spanish and say, I SPEAK Spanish, my French is not nearly as good as yours, can we
speak Spanish? And they’d be so surprised that white girl spoke Spanish, and so relieved that they didn’t have to try to make themselves understood in French to Anglos!
So this may be the second generation of illegal aliens who worked for La Madeleine and took their knowledge of French (and it was GOOD grammatical FRench, let me tell you!) back to Mexico!
LOL!
23Was he always this crazy? Or is it only recently that he is trying to out-Cruz Cruz?
24I hate to burst your bubble, get in your space, but it is in fact possible to hear “the hordes” walking through ranches. Crossings are down nationwide but not necessarily in South Texas. I invite you to read this link from Damien Cave of the New York Times who was recently here in the Valley and in Reynosa. I was his escort for the Mexico portion of the trip.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/world/americas/border-security-hard-to-achieve-and-harder-to-measure.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
As far as people here not being familiar with languages such as French and Chinese, all I can say is come on down. Pack your stereotypes and eat Moo Goo Gai Pan in one of many Chinese restaurants on either side of the border. Don’t get to insulated behind your keyboard
25El Profe, it’s kinda funny that you would think a girl from Southeast Texas, married into the Briscoe family, would be unfamiliar with South Texas ranching. There are Chinese restaurants in Kansas but that doesn’t mean they are owned by undocumented workers.
My keyboard is mobile, Honey, and so I am.
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