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06 Jan 2020
Alex Jones conflates two different idioms to create a nonsensical phrase about getting to callers.

No, because it's not an expression. Alex was conflating too, but he's talking about how, like, I'm going to get to calls. The term Alex was looking for, he was looking for isn't Hairlips the Admiral. The general formulation of it is Hairlips the Governor. That's an old southern expression, which basically just means come hell or high water. Okay. You know, I'm going to do this even if it hairlips the general. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Being that it's kind of making reference to people with cleft lips, I think it's probably a pretty insensitive expression that I don't think it would be appropriate to use anymore. But I can't imagine that Alex is apologizing for that, that it's not politically correct. I think so. That's a level of sensitivity that Alex is far be far from. Okay, so then let's go to the second part of the idiom. If the water doesn't rise over Bear Creek, it's not a popular expression. It's kind of a formulation of Lord willing and the creek doesn't rise, which is a slang term that was actually used as a title for Spike Lee's 2010 documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The thing is, though, that those two idioms mean completely different things. The first is an expression that no matter what, come hell or high water, something is going to get done. The second is an expression that says that this thing is going to be done provided that the creek doesn't rise.