The latest right-wing attack on Democrats: 'They want to take away your hamburgers'

[DonViejo]

By Antonia Noori Farzan March 1 at 6:38 AM

According to the latest attack line launched by some conservatives, supporters of the Green New Deal are waging war against one of our noblest and most treasured national institutions: the hamburger.

“They want to take your pickup truck. They want to rebuild your home. They want to take away your hamburgers,” former White House aide Sebastian Gorka declared at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday. “This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved.”

In fact, Joseph Stalin was unambiguously pro-hamburger: In the 1930s, he sent his food supply commissar on a research mission to the United States, which resulted in kotleti, a Soviet rip-off of the classic ground-beef burger, being popularized throughout Russia.

Also, and more relevant to today, none of the Democrats backing the Green New Deal, which seeks to radically overhaul the U.S. economy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, have actually suggested outlawing beef consumption, or, for that matter, seizing pickup trucks. But Gorka’s hyperbole — which was met with chants of “U-S-A! U-S-A!” — demonstrated how Republicans have turned environmentalists’ recommendations to eat less meat into an all-out culture war in which nothing less than American freedom is at stake. First, they came for your guns, the argument goes, and now they’re coming for your sausage links.

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[Dave Starsky]

1. They're called "hamberders" now.

The War on Backyard Barbecues.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Reminds me of Glenn Beck's admonition to Michelle Obama (re her healthy school lunches)

"Mrs. Obama, take your hands off my French Fries".

What asses!

[spanone]

3. They are such ignorant assholes

[watoos]

4. Don't bother responding to crazy.

Just laugh at them.

[gratuitous]

5. But do bring it up to the trolls at every opportunity

These rantings shouldn't be completely wasted. When some nutjob on a website starts going off about a lame conspiracy theory, tell them to relax and have a hamberder--oh, that's right! We're taking your hamberders away from you. Mwahahahaha!

Don't let them forget things like the Bowling Green Massacre or the Caravan of Doooooom.

[redstatebluegirl]

6. Next it will be Mom, hotdogs and apple pie.

[jcgoldie]

7. You'll have to pry my big mac out of my cold dead hands

Its true btw that cattle are terrible for the environment. I felt guilty enough to sell most of our herd and switch over to goats which leave a tremendously smaller footprint on the air, water, and especially the land.