It wouldn’t be a complete bullshit article without the famous lie about grandpa Jed Clampet Tucker shooting squirrels and picking cotton just to survive the harsh Texas winters!
So would that be the grandpa that you told us five days ago was a lifelong Navy man? Did he come back from WWII on the weekends to shoot squirrels, you fucknut?
Or is it the other grandfather you said was a career pharmacist? Last I checked, you could easily support a family on those careers 50 years ago without shooting squirrels and picking cotton.
He is a military man, when I need attention on Veteran’s Day! He is a rancher when I’m telling a fake story to some idiot blogger! He is a poverty-stricken squirrel shooter when I need to tell a fake story to the poor “working man” in Texas.
You fucking dolt. You scumbag liar. You absolute piece of shit.
For the record, you would need to eat about 10 squirrels a day to survive. And that’s just for the man of the house. Call it 40 squirrels a day for the entire family. Sounds like a lot of bullshit to me. Was grandpa too fucking stupid to shoot a deer? It’s a WAY bigger target and carries a lot more meat for the cost of a bullet.
You fucking retard.
Oh, also your grandpas were born in the mid-1920s. Which means their cotton picking years would have been the late 40s and early 50s – exactly when mechanized cotton picking was busy eliminating manual cotton picking.
- 1930s: John Rust developed the first cotton picker prototype, but early models were unreliable and expensive, slowing adoption.
- World War II (1940s): Labor shortages during the war accelerated the push for mechanization, with International Harvester producing a successful commercial picker in 1944.
- Post-War (1950s-1960s): Mechanical pickers became more efficient and common, leading to a dramatic shift. By 1960, about 60% of U.S. cotton was mechanically harvested, and hand-picking became a rarity, particularly in the West, followed by the South.