No war on caterpillars here
When the GOP announced that white white person Reince Priebus would be taking the place of white black person Michael Steele, we knew we had seen him somewhere before.
We were a bit thrown off by his name because it does not sound really white; rather it sounds like some kind of species, as in domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, SPECIES. Basically the end of the line. Any way you look at it, the name seems altogether fake.
It turns out that Priebuses are nocturnal creatures, which accounts for why he is not as visible as Mr. Steele was (and still is). This week he came out of the darkness to say, with a straight and uninteresting face, “If we talked about caterpillars, the Democrats would say we have a war on caterpillars.”
Why caterpillars? Why not slugs? What about termites?
The name Reince Priebus traces back to the beginning of time, when God made a last minute decision to create a species that could survive until the end of time. He does not use his middle name, Reince the-alpha & omega Priebus, except on rare occasions. Not surprising then, that Reince Priebus chose a caterpillar, a species that avoids terminal ugliness by turning into a butterfly. Jealousy, it seems, was his motivation.
Had it not been for Kafka’s friend Max Brod who saved Kafka’s writings from the trash heap, and changed a few words before publishing them, we would have read the first sentence about a salesman’s tribulations in The Metamorphosis as ” As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a giant reince priebus.”
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