“How dare you! You think we don’t have hearts?”
-- Louie Gohmert (R-TX) I may owe Mr. Gohmert an apology for ridiculing him on social media about saying this yesterday. My initial reaction was that everyone has a heart, even Al Capone and Stalin, and that what's important is how one uses it. And so it came across like faux-tears whining from someone who enabled Trump's hate-filled actions for four years against Mexicans, Asians, children in cages, judges, the press and more that put lives at risk However, it has since occurred to me that Gohmert may not have been foolishly whining at all. Rather, it is very possible he was just rehearsing for an upcoming Capitol Hill production as Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and simply got the speech slightly wrong. "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die?" What threw me is that the words were close, but just a wee bit off. That, and also I couldn't see Louie Gohmert playing a Jew. But I should have figured it if only from the last line. "And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" I guess what threw me is that Shylock was actually wronged. Now, if Shakespeare had written, "And if we are treated fairly and most properly, but we think we hath been wronged for that things didst not turn out the way we wanted, shall we not revenge?" -- then I probably would have gotten it right away.
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Myles Berkowitz
6/3/2022 10:43:48 am
Any time someone gets angry and yells because he or she feels they've been called a racist or heartless or whatever...it usually means that they are a racist or heartless or whatever.
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Robert Elisberg
6/3/2022 11:25:58 am
Yes, this is the periodically-mentioned here Myles Berkowitz.
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