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Kamala Harris wants to ban plastic straws but says paper straws too 'flimsy'

[YAHOO] Sen. Kámala Harris

Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, indistinguishable from the others...
, D-Calif., said Wednesday during a CNN climate change forum that the U.S. should ban plastic straws while answering a question about curbing the country’s reliance on single-use plastics. But Harris also said she wants to "encourage innovation" around paper straws that break too often.

"I think we should, yes. I mean. Look, I’m going to be honest. It's really difficult out of --drink out of a paper straw ‐ like, if you don’t gulp it down immediately, it starts to bend, and then the little thing catches it," Harris says, making a snapping motion with her hands and laughing. "So, we gotta kind of perfect that one a little bit more."

"Innovation is a process, but let's encourage innovation, and I think we can do a little better than some of those flimsy" paper straws, the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, senator continued.

"We do need to ban the plastic," Harris added.

"I think we should" ban plastic straws, says Sen. Kamala Harris, but she adds we still need to rely on innovation to perfect the paper straw.

"It's really difficult to drink out of a paper straw...if you don't gulp it down immediately it starts to bend."
Why, back in my day (he said, putting his teeth in) we slurped out of paper straws. They didn't bend, and some even came with accordion-style bends. The paper back then was waxed, but I guess we've lost that level of technology.

Posted by Fred 2019-09-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Better idea. Ban you.

Posted by Phaick Uneretle6310 2019-09-06 00:52|| 2019-09-06 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 And she is taking a page out of AOC's(All OutCrazy) coloring book when today she couldn't respond to her assertion as to why the US wants so many ice breakers in the Artic; ignoring for the moment that the Artic is the latest hot spot for development and governments need to protect its stakes in the area. could it possibly be that that is where the ice is???

Sure as hell ain't in Bermuda.
And this is the best the Dems have to offer???

Posted by USN, Ret. 2019-09-06 01:28|| 2019-09-06 01:28|| Front Page Top

#3 "It's really difficult to drink out of a paper straw...if you don't gulp it down immediately it starts to bend."

Who knows stuff like that? Well, she would know.

Posted by Beau 2019-09-06 03:28|| 2019-09-06 03:28|| Front Page Top

#4 if you don't gulp it down immediately it starts to bend

She learnt that with brown-willy Willy Brown.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-06 03:40|| 2019-09-06 03:40|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder which paper straw manufacturer marketing department manufactured the plastic straw fakenews.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-09-06 06:34|| 2019-09-06 06:34|| Front Page Top

#6 At this part of the campaign, while pandering to the wackos in their base, they forget the rest of the world is also there watching. The commercials will be devastating.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-09-06 08:33|| 2019-09-06 08:33|| Front Page Top

#7 ...and here's the background music.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-06 10:15|| 2019-09-06 10:15|| Front Page Top

#8 I nominate #4 for snark of the day.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-09-06 10:42|| 2019-09-06 10:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Procopius2k - the stalker song is so appropriate

Posted by 3dc 2019-09-06 10:42|| 2019-09-06 10:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe she should try a rolled up $20?

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-06 12:33|| 2019-09-06 12:33|| Front Page Top

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