October 04, 2021. Article by Conservative Max Boot. “Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.): Birds that aren’t killed by windmills, he said, are SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUSTING WHILE FLYING OVER SOLAR PANELS. He acts as if “flamers” — yes, that’s the term he uses — are actually a big thing. . . . . Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.): She doesn’t believe in evolution BUT DOES BELIEVE IN JEWISH SPACE LASERS.”
• More egregious examples of Republican ignorance can be found in all their accusations that Democrats are turning America socialist. “They’re forcing their communism through the corporations,” Greene charges, as if “communist corporations” weren’t an oxymoron. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) warns that a “socialistic government” won’t “allow women … to be on stage, or entertain.” She seems to have confused the communists with the Taliban. Meanwhile, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is upping the rhetorical ante. “The $3.5 trillion Biden plan isn’t socialism, it’s marxism,” he tweets. By his logic, we should already have gulags in America since Trump added $7.8 trillion to the national debt.
• I wish I could report some sign that the GOP is wising up. In fact, it is continuing to dumb itself down. Josh Mandel, who is seeking the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Ohio, recently tweeted: “You can’t spell panDEMic without ‘DEM.’ Is this a coincidence?” That is a level of reasoning that would seem more at home on an elementary school playground than on the floor of the Senate. But Mandel should fit right in with his Republican colleagues if he is elected. They “imeach” themselves with every witless word.
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