Genius at work (UPDATED)
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hell, even hank steps back in awe
Paula Broyard, PJ Media:
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), formerly on the House Space, Science, and Technology Committee, speaking to supporters ahead of Monday's solar eclipse, waxed poetic idiotic about the moon.
In her best Kamala-esque I-have-no-idea-what-I'm-talking-about voice, she said, "Sometimes you've heard the word full moon, and sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon... that complete rounded circle..."
Well, at least she got that part right. The round moon is really roundly rounded.
But then she added that the moon "is made up mostly of gases."
Who knew? We thought it was made of Swiss cheese.
"The sun is a mighty powerful heat, and it's almost impossible to go near the sun," she added.
Almost impossible, but not quite.
"The moon is more manageable," she noted, adding that NASA going back there soon, perhaps to float around on all that fluffy gas that constitutes the largest object in the Earth's night sky.
The moral of the story? Remember this the next time Lee claims, "Climate change is real and poses a significant threat to the future of the only planet we have" — and point out to anyone who is listening that the Democrats are not the party of science.
Dem Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Says The Moon Is Made Of Gas So It's Easier To Live On Than The Sun
Treat yourself, and click on the link above to view Jackson at peak stupidity, including her claim that the moon is a source of energy at night — take that, you solar energy critics who ask what we’ll do when the sun goes down!
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!
Shiela is just as knowledgeable about the guns she wants to ban. An AR-15 “weighs as much as ten boxes that you might be moving (possibly true, if the boxes were made of light cardboard, and empty) and shoots a fifty-caliber bullet”
Instapundit has more, oh, so much more, on this race-baiting moron.
In a statement to The Post on Tuesday, she admitted she was wrong to describe the moon, which has virtually no atmosphere, as being composed mostly of gas to the schoolkids.
“Obviously I misspoke and meant to say the sun, but as usual, Republicans are focused on stupid things instead of stuff that really matters. What can I say, though, foolish thinkers lust for stupidity!” she said of GOPers who swiftly criticized her glaring gaffes.
This isn’t the first time that the final frontier has vexed Jackson Lee:
During a 1997 visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Jackson Lee, who was then serving on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees U.S. space policy, asked a guide whether the Mars Pathfinder would be able to show an image of “the flag the astronauts planted there before.” When it was subsequently pointed out that the flag to which she was referring was in fact the one that Neil Armstrong had planted on the Moon—not Mars—in 1969, Jackson Lee complained that she was being mocked by bigots. “You thought you could have fun with a black woman member of the Science Committee,” her then-chief-of-staff wrote angrily in a letter to the editor.
How bad have Jackson Lee’s gaffes been over the years? Even her fellow leftists at the Daily Beast has goofed on her worst moments: The Constitution Is 400 Years Old and More Pearls From Sheila Jackson Lee.
