Yeah. It is getting a little out of hand. What started out as seemingly a couple of months of just trolling the world to pass time as Donald Trump waited to be inaugurated has become a pattern with real events – so weird, though – and accompanying real-world consequences that are transitioning from the just weird to the kind of disturbing. Donald Trump began 2025 with a string of bizarre rants that left Americans (And Canadians, Greenlanders… ) scratching their heads, “Is this guy serious?” Well, serious enough. Somehow we ended up with the Gulf of America and the Associated Press kicked out of the White House without any sort of rationale as to why the name should be changed other than, perhaps, just to show that Trump can do something so provocative without a care in the world. We now have the next generation iteration of the exact same principle, except the state of Texas is going after something that – unlike the name of the Gulf, really does touch on something important, something impacting some people’s daily lives in a personal way, they’re renaming steak, damn it. All to just piss people off. Well, they say “marketing” – but we know better.
Yes, without any sort of discussion as to what might have been the problem, Texas wants the larger side of the T-Bone to become a Texas thing. According to a report in The Guardian:
While Texas grapples with its worst measles outbreak in decades, its Republican lieutenant governor has moved for the state’s restaurants and groceries to change the name of the “New York strip” steak cut to the “Texas strip” in what he evidently hopes is a blow to liberals.
Dan Patrick announced on Friday on social media that he intended to go to Texas’s senate and work with lawmakers to pass a resolution favoring the switch – which would not carry the force of law but nonetheless would amount to a substantial statement of legislative support.
Right. Yeah – it may not carry the force of law, it may actually carry something far stronger. After all, a law would effectively tells others what to do – and they hate that. Much better to throw out a suggestion, an idea, something to truly bother Democrats… Again, does anyone really care about the name of a steak? Not really. Kind of. It sort of becomes important when the patterns get to the point that it is one half of society mocking the other half, baiting them, just “because we can.” At that point one can actually argue that there is harm to be done.
Americans are at each others throat with plenty of intensity already. There is little need nor desire – at least on the left, to needlessly increase the temperature. Yet we continue to see it, little things, trolls, bullies, over and over, all to just piss people off. Eventually it matters. We’ll see.
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Why are red states so embarrassing stupid? Damn Texas the whole world is laughing at you and you don’t realize it
Yes my liberal tears are flowing because you changed the name on a cut of meat. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth in NY
All you did was make your state look so frickin petty and small minded
I don’t really get why this jerk thinks changing the name is going to “own the libs” since the stereotyped “lib” wouldn’t eat steak anyway. As I said, it’s a stereotype. There are plenty of liberals and progressives who eat meat just like there are plenty of heterosexual men who don’t freak out at the idea of eating salads. But the usual stereotype for a “lib” is to eat sushi or to be a vegan, not someone who chows down on a beef steak.
Maybe the Lieutenant Governor of New York should recommend renaming “Texas toast” to “Empire State toast” and recommend people stop discussing “Tex-Mex food” and describe it simply as “Northern Mexican food” or “Rio Grande food.” Maybe even change “automatic rifle” to “Texas school shooting accessory.”
But, of course, conservatives (or “conservatives”) find it so much easier to indulge in meaningless bull crap than to do anything that has any REAL affect (think “Freedom fries”).
The better cut of steak, that has excellent marbling, and the only one I ever order, is the LIBEYE!! Yum!!
It won’t affect me much as it will be contained to the state of Texas, a state which, like Florida, I have never stepped foot in, nor do I intend to.
Yeah, just fuck that guy. What a dummkopf. Texas should be embarrassed to have someone this stupid as their Lt. Governor. But republicans are all about renaming things now. They don’t like Denali as a name for a mountain. They don’t like the Gulf of Mexico being called that either. Another thing they changed the name of was treason, they now call it patriotism.
And Cleora, you’re right, the LIBEYE is far more clever and a much better cut of meat.