Then, I have a story you can probably relate too…So, while I was in the Navy, I so happened to be stationed with many guys from the mid-west and south. Great guys. Anyway, Donnie Brasco had just come out in theaters, and several of us went to see it. The mid-west/southern crowd loved it…especially the whole scene with “Fuggedaboudit”
So, for weeks, around base, if they saw me they’d shout, in their respective accents, “Hey Al…say it! say it!” I’d sigh, shake my head, and reluctantly play along–“Fuggedaboudit!” They would clap and high five each other “He said it! He said it!!” This went on for weeks!!!
Looking back, I have fond memories of it. But during, I felt like a trained chimp in a diaper.
I have a neighbor who’s from Hamburg who today has only a trace of a German accent, and sometimes she’ll say a German name and I’ll think oh, that’s how it’s pronounced. She also told me that what JFK famously said in Berlin in 1960 Ich bin eine Berliner is translated literally as I am a jelly doughnut (he should have said in German I am of Berlin)…
Honestly, I’ve never heard of Texass being referred to as fly-over country. Houston and Dallas are big hubs, aren’t they? Fly-over country used to refer to places that didn’t have easy access to travel by the public via the big airlines, or that went from coast to coast without a layover in another major US city in between.
Next, he’ll being calling Texass, the Heartland, something many deep red southern states want to get in on calling themselves these days. That too was never the original idea behind what people called the Midwestern States to which it refers.
Ted Cruz…changing definitions almost as quickly as tRump changes the meaning of Yiddish words I see.
If there is anyone that is a wolf in sheep’s clothing it is Cruz who is very Ivy League educated and married to a Wall Street Banker not to mention foreign born. What a charlatan.
I don’t know if you remember, but Cruz was also an accomplished debate-team member. I’ll have to look for the article where a former opponent said something to the effect that Cruz had good technical skills, but they could beat him by getting inside his head.
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He was an extremely accomplished debate-team member, but an unlikeable turd even then.
That flash of self-deprecation was not enough to endear Mr. Cruz to his fellow debaters. When his peers learned that he intended to run for president of the parliamentary debate league, they met late at night in a hotel to recruit a protest candidate, who eventually won.
This neighbor is a wonderful source of all sorts of info, very smart woman, including this: her mother as a teenager in Hamburg went to the see the Beatles in the dank little basement clubs they played in before they’d made a name for themselves.
It happens with capicola too…the Italian meat. When they come visit me, I always take them to this fantastic Italian deli near me for some fresh mozzarella, proscuitto and capicola. So I order it the self-respecting Northern Jersey way…as gabagool…they love it when I say that.
I love the stuff! can’t get enough. It will end up killing me, but I’ll go out with a smile on my face. <—sort of like that. It always makes me happy chatting with you, Blue. I wish you and yours the happiest of holidays. That goes for everyone else, as well.
Ah, but there’s method to his madness. To call himself part of fly-over country, pretending any people who live in southern states are hicks, and that Clinton as much as Obama look down on ‘those people’, is his way of getting ‘those people’ to somehow relate to him. Its disingenuous to say the least, not only because of his elitist background, ties to Wall Street and billionaire donors, but because his phoniness is rarely called out by the media.
Cruz is incredibly fluent in setting up straw men whenever he makes a statement attacking Dems or the government. He’s rarely asked to explain himself and his own policies and when he is asked, he consistently deflects answering by just offering up more insults.
Much like tRump, he doesn’t have any serious policies to speak of. He’s worse than tRump though, because he’s a fucking nihilist when it comes to good governance. I believe his primary goal is to replace democracy with his own brand of fucking theocracy he learned from his dear old dad. He wants the country to be the United States for Jeebus. He’s nuts and imo, dangerous as hell.
The next time I hear how “brilliant” he is or how good a debater he is…I think I’m gonna puke. He’s as slimey and evasive as they come.
His criticism of HRC is that she is “…e need to be governed by what she deems as moral and philosophical.”? As opposed to Teddy wanting to rule by theology and bigotry? Tough choice.
Cruz certainly knows how to speak the language of grievance and resentment. He is absolutely laying the foundation to grab Trump’s supporters, if it comes to that.
<—sort of like that. It always makes me happy chatting with you, Blue. I wish you and yours the happiest of holidays. That goes for everyone else, as well.