You can't make this stuff up....

[kadee79]

Maybe he needs to go back to school?...or he should have attended his classes?

Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican, asked a National Forest Service official whether the federal land agencies could alter the orbit of the Earth and moon to address climate change.

It's unclear whether Gohmert's outlandish question was serious or designed to poke fun during Wednesday's hearing before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.

"I understand, from what's been testified to the Forest Service and the [Bureau of Land Management], you want very much to work on the issue of climate change," Gohmert said. "I was informed by the immediate past director of NASA that they found that the moon's orbit is changing slightly and so is the Earth's orbit around the sun. We know there's been significant solar flare activities, and so, 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."

Jennifer Eberlie, the associate deputy chief of NFS, took a few seconds before responding.

"I would have to follow up with you on that one, Mr. Gohmert," she said, smiling.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-rep-louie-gohmert-asks-a-national-forest-service-official-if-she-can-alter-the-earths-and-moons-orbits-to-address-climate-change/ar-AAKSD3l?ocid=msedgdhp&li=BBnb7Kz

[billisonboard]

Not sure how to move the moon, but if you get everyone on one half of the Earth to jump and land all at the same time just as everyone on the other half jumps and are in the air .... 

 

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

How do you refrain from chucking your microphone at his head?

[chiver78]

Jun 9, 2021 16:59:16 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

How do you refrain from chucking your microphone at his head?

right!? I admire her restraint. 

[sesfw]

This reminds me of a congressman many years ago from one of the SE states in a hearing of some sort with the military.  Something like a suggestion that the military installation on a S Pacific island not made any bigger for fear of the island getting top heavy and tipping over.

And they live among us ............

[dondub]

Jun 9, 2021 17:02:10 GMT -5 sesfw said:

This reminds me of a congressman many years ago from one of the SE states in a hearing of some sort with the military.  Something like a suggestion that the military installation on a S Pacific island not made any bigger for fear of the island getting top heavy and tipping over.

And they live among us ............

Your team.

[kadee79]

Jun 9, 2021 17:02:10 GMT -5 sesfw said:

This reminds me of a congressman many years ago from one of the SE states in a hearing of some sort with the military.  Something like a suggestion that the military installation on a S Pacific island not made any bigger for fear of the island getting top heavy and tipping over.

And they live among us ............

They were talking about Guam in that one.  Yep, some really dumb folks have been elected to Congress over the years.

[NastyWoman]

Jun 9, 2021 17:02:10 GMT -5 sesfw said:

This reminds me of a congressman many years ago from one of the SE states in a hearing of some sort with the military.  Something like a suggestion that the military installation on a S Pacific island not made any bigger for fear of the island getting top heavy and tipping over.

And they live among us ............

The problem is less that they live among us, there is a village idiot everywhere; the problem is that we elect them to create the laws, pass budgets, select them to be judges, and put them in charge in general. And that shows how little common sense "we" collectively have.

[chiver78]

Jun 9, 2021 17:16:53 GMT -5 dondub said:

Jun 9, 2021 17:02:10 GMT -5 sesfw said:

This reminds me of a congressman many years ago from one of the SE states in a hearing of some sort with the military.  Something like a suggestion that the military installation on a S Pacific island not made any bigger for fear of the island getting top heavy and tipping over.

And they live among us ............

Your team.

you are way more diplomatic than I am....I deleted my original response.

[andi9899]

I saw that yesterday and my brain exploded. WTF?!

[Tennesseer]

I took Rep. Louie Gohmert's comment as sarcasm.

[kadee79]

Jun 10, 2021 10:16:42 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

I took Rep. Louie Gohmert's comment as sarcasm.

Are you sure he is that intelligent?...cause later he clarified his comment making sure that folks knew he was talking about the Bureau of Land Management rather than BLM, Black Lives Matter.

[sesfw]

Your team.

Another dumb absurdity ...


Democrat Hank Johnson.

FYI .........

[djAdvocate]

"Good luck with your asparagus"

-Eric Holder

[kadee79]

Jun 10, 2021 18:47:53 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

"Good luck with your asparagus"

-Eric Holder

Since I had never heard the above quote, I had to look it up....funny....and notice it's from 2014

Attorney General Eric Holder angrily and pointedly referred to a famously embarrassing comment from Texas Rep. Louis Gohmert at the end of a contentious hearing on Tuesday. "Good luck with your asparagus," Holder said — an unusual but obvious dismissal of Gohmert's entire line of questioning.



Background is in order, obviously. Last May, Holder and Gohmert got into an argument at a House Judiciary Committee meeting. Gohmert, who's been consistently critical of the attorney general (if largely inconsistent on the reason for the critique), alleged that the Department of Justice had failed to prevent the Boston marathon bombing. Holder criticized Gohmert's characterization, and Gohmert, flustered, responded: "The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus." It was never clear what he meant or what he was trying to say, but the "asparagus" line became a running joke, with Gohmert as the target.



The hearing on Tuesday was perhaps more heated, as Gohmert questioned why he had not been provided with documents he requested — that, despite the House voting to hold Holder in contempt last June.

news.yahoo.com/eric-holder-disses-louie-gohmert-good-luck-asparagus-174251641.html

[djAdvocate]

Jun 10, 2021 20:50:10 GMT -5 kadee79 said:

Jun 10, 2021 18:47:53 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

"Good luck with your asparagus"

-Eric Holder

Since I had never heard the above quote, I had to look it up....funny....and notice it's from 2014

Attorney General Eric Holder angrily and pointedly referred to a famously embarrassing comment from Texas Rep. Louis Gohmert at the end of a contentious hearing on Tuesday. "Good luck with your asparagus," Holder said — an unusual but obvious dismissal of Gohmert's entire line of questioning.



Background is in order, obviously. Last May, Holder and Gohmert got into an argument at a House Judiciary Committee meeting. Gohmert, who's been consistently critical of the attorney general (if largely inconsistent on the reason for the critique), alleged that the Department of Justice had failed to prevent the Boston marathon bombing. Holder criticized Gohmert's characterization, and Gohmert, flustered, responded: "The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus." It was never clear what he meant or what he was trying to say, but the "asparagus" line became a running joke, with Gohmert as the target.



The hearing on Tuesday was perhaps more heated, as Gohmert questioned why he had not been provided with documents he requested — that, despite the House voting to hold Holder in contempt last June.

news.yahoo.com/eric-holder-disses-louie-gohmert-good-luck-asparagus-174251641.html

yeah, my point was that Gohmert has been mangling shit for a long long time.

PS- the exchange above was hilarious.

[Bob Ross]

Jun 10, 2021 10:16:42 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

I took Rep. Louie Gohmert's comment as sarcasm.

I'm pretty sure it was, but it was so poorly delivered, from such a poorly functioning mind, that it was difficult for many to tell.

[kadee79]

Jun 11, 2021 10:31:20 GMT -5 Bob Ross said:

Jun 10, 2021 10:16:42 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

I took Rep. Louie Gohmert's comment as sarcasm.

I'm pretty sure it was, but it was so poorly delivered, from such a poorly functioning mind, that it was difficult for many to tell.

I'm still not sure, especially after what DJ quoted.

[weltschmerz]

Apparently, Bill O’Reilly has never heard of the moon. In a debate Tuesday with Dave Silverman, head of the American Atheist group behind this, the Fox host tried to prove the existence of God by citing the unknowable mysteries of the tides. “I’ll tell you why [religion is] not a scam, in my opinion,” he told Silverman. “Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.”


www.newser.com/story/109164/bill-oreilly-to-atheists-you-cant-explain-the-tides.html

[djAdvocate]

you can't explain why shit comes out. that is more accurate.