Stupid Is As Stupid Does

 This is a government by the consent of the governed. In other words, we get the government we deserve. I'm looking at you, east Texas. You elected a guy who recently asked, in a congressional hearing about climate change, the U.S. Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management "is there anything that the National Forest Service or BLM can do to change the course of the moon's orbit or the Earth's orbit around the sun? Obviously, that would have profound effects on our climate." 

Okay, so maybe he was following the advice of the Great One Wayne Gretzky who said, "You miss one hundred percent of the shots that you don't take." Asking the Forest Service to alter the orbit of celestial bodies seems like that kind of thing. You never know unless you ask. In this case, Jennifer Eberlien, an associate deputy chief of the Forest Service smiled ever so slightly and demurred, "I would have to follow up with you on that one, Mister Gohmert."

And that's the reaction that one might expect. Because Louis "That's My Real Name" Gohmert has a history of babbling with the tiniest bit of coherence. Like his concerns for the caribou near oil pipelines: "So when [caribou] want to go on a date, they invite each other to head over to the pipeline.So my real concern now [is] if oil stops running through the pipeline, do we need a study to see how adversely the caribou would be affected if that warm oil ever quit flowing?" Or his reaction to the massacre at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater: "You know what really gets me, as a Christian, is to see the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs, and then some senseless crazy act of terror like this takes place. We've threatened high school graduation participations, if they use God's name, they're going to be jailed. I mean that kind of stuff. Where was God? What have we done with God? We don't want him around. I kind of like his protective hand being present." Smiling politely and backing away. And then there's this: ”I talked to a retired FBI agent who said that one of the things they were looking at were terrorist cells overseas who had figured out how to game our system. And it appeared they would have young women, who became pregnant, would get them into the United States to have a baby. They wouldn’t even have to pay anything for the baby. And then they would turn back where they could be raised and coddled as future terrorists. And then one day, twenty…thirty years down the road, they can be sent in to help destroy our way of life.” 

Still smiling? 

Then I ask you to remember that Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't even live in the district she represents in Georgia. During an interview with everyone's favorite Conservative Puppetmaster Steve Bannon, MTG got all wound up about firing Doctor Anthony Fauci, ultimately insisting that she does not believe in evolution. But apparently she does believe that scientists can create viruses in the lab that can be weaponized. One wonders how this all fits into God's Plan, but that would imply logic was applied at any point during this discussion. 

And yes, sports fans, even Donald J. Trump was elected once. The man who suggested we inject bleach or figure out a way to introduce ultraviolet or very powerful light inside the human body. And the noise from wind turbines causes cancer. One election. 

Now just smile and back away slowly.