From Texas, or rather Austin, a socialist and a product of the Jesuits. Most politicians are absurd to one degree or the other, but I think this gentleman has attained the very quiddity of absurdity.
Eight, Count ’em a Big Eight, Hour Fast by Congress Critter
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Most days I do a 16 hour fast for health reasons. This guy’s a turkey.
Thank you for distinguishing between Texas and Austin. They are as far apart as Dwight and Chicago 😎
And to provide that extra soupçon of absurdity, he live-streamed periodic medical checkups held during his stunning and brave 8-hour publicity stunt/‘fast’.
Interestingly enough, under the old Church laws re: fasting before receiving Communion, every man woman and child preparing to receive Communion would have done without food and water as long or longer than Rep. Casar. Without the grandstanding or the live-streamed medical checkups.
I was hoping they would lock him in a semi trailer in the sun, you know, like the human traffickers do.
He’s very light weight.
Rep. Casar is incredible. Surely a stint on The View is in order. Maybe a Nobel Peace Prize too. Uncle Joe could shine up a medal of honor to bestow upon him.
For goodness sake, I hope and pray he doesn’t try to go 8 hours without a tamale.
btw……I love authentic tamales.
“From Texas, or rather Austin, a socialist and a product of the Jesuits. Most politicians are absurd to one degree or the other, but I think this gentleman has attained the very quiddity of absurdity.” Most Texans disavow Austin. Austin falls into the same category as virtually every other college town, except it has the double strike of being the state capitol as well (at least many of the politicians are only in town for 90 days every other year). I live in one now. A well funded university insulates the entire metropolitan area from the consequences of their stupidity (proving also my wife’s theory that the more degrees you have, the dumber you get, something I try not to take personally). We used to refer to where we live as 5 square miles surrounded by reality; now it is 30 miles surrounded by reality.
Millions of Muslims around the world fast from dawn to dusk every day for the month of Ramadan. Almost everywhere in the world this is longer than nine hours, even when Ramadan falls in the shortest days of winter. Do these clowns really think their empty gesture has any meaning at all?
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