John Cornyn criticized Chinese for eating snakes. He forgot about the Texas rattlesnake roundups.

[Zorro]

John Cornyn criticized Chinese for eating snakes. He forgot about the rattlesnake roundups back in Texas.

While defending President Trump’s use of “the Chinese virus” to describe the novel coronavirus, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) blamed China on Wednesday for the disease and several other viral epidemics from the past two decades.

“China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that,” Cornyn told reporters. “These viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people, and that’s why China has been the source of a lot of these viruses like SARS, like MERS, the swine flu, and now the coronavirus.”

The senator’s comment was immediately panned as racist by Democrats and critics on social media. The Texas Democratic Party said Cornyn was “dog-whistling” and urged him to focus on preventing the spread of covid-19. Cornyn did not immediately return a request for comment from The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/19/coronavirus-china-cornyn-blame/

[Vogon_Glory]

1. I expect that Cornyn thought that he could

insult snake-eaters and still keep Nolan County as a Republican stronghold. The Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup was scheduled for last weekend.

[customerserviceguy]

2. Do Texans eat the snakes?

In any case, bats are not food.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

6. Last time I was in Sweetwater, TX

Yes, rattlesnake burgers were on the menu in their annual roundup.

[customerserviceguy]

7. Ok, then

Cornyn is either a hypocrite, or he's got a lotta splainin' to do with some of his constituents.

[DFW]

3. Cornyn eats rattlesnakes?

CANNIBALISM!!!!!!!!

[Sunriser13]

8. Alright, you!

[dawg day]

4. He must not remember the swine flu...

Seems to me a whole lot of Americans eat pork

[Wounded Bear]

5. I hear rattler is pretty tasty stuff...

just avoid the pointy end when you catch them.