Former Democratic Senate nominee claims "Ketchup packets are not available in rural areas."

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Why not buy bottle ketchup? Or create your own sauce with all the condiments thats around your house to experiment.

Not that this is a good point on Swearengin's part (I don't think it is), but if someone doesn't have access to ketchup, it's unlikely they have "all the condiments around their house" either.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Last week a friend and I had occasion to drive for about two hours through a remote area of the Catskills. In those two hours we passed:

1. A Sunoco station that was already closed at 8 pm
2. A ritzy resort restaurant that not even we, two middle-class people, would have been able to afford
3. Finally, at the end of the second hour, a Subway.

And this was in New York!

"Ketchup packets are not available in rural areas" is a very strange way to frame this and I still don't think Swearengin should have said this the way she did, but the idea that there isn't anywhere in West Virginia where food options might be genuinely difficult to get to is absurd and complacent.

Also, does this thread really need to be about abortion? I really, really, really don't think that it does.