Mo Brooks (R-Clueless) says rocks falling into ocean causing sea level rise. (not the Onion)

[yellowcanine]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/05/17/mo-brooks-rocks-causing-sea-levels-rise/621389002/?fbclid=IwAR3zMt6LjMitWlY40Hj356Al5St9hijF-MDiocGyV5fO0C_vGr3Qb7eQC-s

Rocks in his head making him think that.

[guillaumeb]

1. Now that makes perfect sense.

So if each person removes one rick from the ocean, we can build a beautiful wll on the US/Mexico border and charge the Mexican Government for the labor.

A jobs plan, and a cure for climate change.

[Turbineguy]

2. Republicans won't elect you

unless you are a total dumbfuck.

[targetpractice]

3. Ooooh... Someone had a pet goldfish when they were young...

... Adding gravel does, indeed, make the water in the bowl rise. Same thing.

[ProudLib72]

4. Thus confirming that the only job you can get as a 5th grade dropout

is being a republican congressperson.

This is a "Dear Lord, what a dipshit" moment!

[Haggis for Breakfast]

5. WHO put him on the Science, Space and Tech Committee ?

Shouldn't there be some actual, oh I dunno, intelligence to get that gig ?

[Blue_true]

8. My guess is because of his district.

The Alabama Legistlature likely carved the Hintsville area up into several small pieces and attached each seperate piece to a large dumbfuckistan red region to create a district that a democrat could not possibly win. Mo Brooks likely got elected for one of the red districts that has a piece of Huntsville, hence he ends up on the Science and Technology Comittee.

Huntsville has one or two NASA facilities, the Redstone Arsenal military research arm (armor, munitions, nutrition, battlefield medicine, etc), has a recent Blue Ivy development facility somewhere near. It also has the University of Northern Alabama. It has one of the largest concentrations of PhDs in the country and has good public schools.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

9. Well then, if they've got some good schools

Then ONE of those PhDs should run for his seat.

I am so tired of politicians who know fuck all about science or medicine, and then proceed to "educate and inform" the rest of us with their "wisdom." The abortion debate has really shown just how STUPID and DANGEROUS some of these guys' ideas are.

[Blue_true]

10. The problem is maybe 15% of the people in the district

are educated enough to recognize that the PhD has a better plan. Their Legistlature make sure that 85% of the voters in most districts are gun loving conservative rurals. That only gets defeated with growth that brings in more people, or voters winning court cases against the political districts mapmakers.

I see the same problem in my part of Florida. We have Neanderthal conservatives representing us because the large, big blue city and blue county get carved up and sectioned off with deep red areas. That is slowly changing, but my guess is we are still at least a decade away from competitive State Legistlature, State Senate and US House races.

[saidsimplesimon]

6. ROFL, thank you yellow canine

[Captain Stern]

7. Brooks was a dope when that article was written (a year ago), and he's a dope now n/t

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. Oh, dear.

Just another example of how so many people really, really, haven't a clue about science things.