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Late Night Open Thread: To the Moon, Rep. Gohmert!

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During a Tuesday hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee, Rep. Louie Gohmert seemed to float a novel idea for solving the climate crisis: changing the orbits of the Earth and moon.

Gohmert, R-Texas, posed that highly speculative theory in the form of a question to Jennifer Eberlien, associate deputy chief of the National Forest System.

“I understand, from what’s been testified to the Forest Service and the BLM [Bureau of Land Management], you want very much to work on the issue of climate change,” Gohmert told Eberlien. “I was informed by the immediate past director of NASA that they’ve 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.”…

IT GETS BETTER…

As video clips of the exchange began circulating, Gohmert lashed out at critics who mocked the idea that altering our planet’s orbit was a viable or wise solution to climate change. Specifically, he took issue with those he said had conflated the Bureau of Land Management and Black Lives Matter, which share the same initials…

Nobody I can find conflated these two acronyms. Or called him a racist. Just an idiot.

… Long a climate change denier, Gohmert in 2015 mocked Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore over their advocacy to address global warming, saying that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was a good thing because it meant “we’ll have more plants.”…

For some reason, I am reminded of the Molly Ivins’ signature quip about a different Texas legislator: “If his I.Q. slips any lower, we’ll have to water him twice a day.”

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  1. 1.

    patrick Il

    Earlier today someone in comments suggested that Gomert could not be that dumb and he meant it as sarcasm. I looked again and agree with the consensus –he’s that dumb.

  2. 2.

    mrmoshpotato

    National Forest Service or BLM

    Oh. I read that as Black Lives Matter earlier today, since Louie is such a nutjob.

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    I’d use the phrase lunatic fringe but in Gohmert’s case it’s an insult to fringe.

  8. 8.

    jl

    I suppose Gohmert thinks that electric cars and renewable energy are very risky outlandish, inefficient, unworkable dreams of communist tyrants trying to stuff us into tiny hobbit houses…

    Maybe Gohmert will offer to make the trip up there to check out the possibilities?

  9. 9.

    craigie

    suppose Gohmert thinks that electric cars and renewable energy are very risky outlandish, inefficient, unworkable dreams of communist tyrants

    I have often wondered about a version of this, namely, if we transported today’s conservaloonies back 100 years or so, to the start of the automotive age, would they have been trying to pass legislation to force people to own multiple horses, and restrict gas stations to one every 50 miles, etc? It seems like they would.

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    @jl

    “Why don’t we build cars out of chlorophyll? Why isn’t the Department of Energy working on that?”

    //

  13. 13.

    JaneE

    It seems the appropriate answer to that question is “Just as soon as you provide the lever and a place to stand”.

  20. 20.

    mrmoshpotato

    Just occurred to me – does this this Texass assclown think the United States owns the Moon because our flag is on it?

  24. 24.

    Ruckus

    @MattF:

    Someone has to be the bottom. And we aren’t talking bedroom.

    Gofart is one useless clump of something and if it wasn’t for autonomic breathing, he never would have been able to figure out how – or why breathing was important.

  27. 27.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @mrmoshpotato: yes, the rest of the world will just standby while our home grown nitwits try some stunt that could kill everyone?

  32. 32.

    evodevo

    Well, in the old days, people this stoopid were confined to state legislatures (See: MO and OH)…nowadays they are routinely elected to positions in the national spotlight…..local dumbassery is now federal dumbassery….

  35. 35.

    Ken

    @Kayla Rudbek: That was because if the car (or train) moved too fast, passengers would be suffocated as the air moved past too quickly to inhale. This is of course why people are cut down en masse on windy days.

  36. 36.

    Gravenstone

    Gohmert is a prime example of the adage “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”. Hears something once vaguely related to a topic at hand, then tries (and fails) to sound intelligent by attempting to regurgitate the information he heard.

    Or as they say in Texas, that fella ain’t right….

  39. 39.

    Nettoyeur

    @jl: One look at new apt blocks GOP idol Putin’s Russia: rabbit hutches, even worse tha  hobbit houses.

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