Not SNL... Jaw dropping actual transcript from Congress on Tuesday..

[ehrnst]

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY): Sec. Kerry, I want to read part of your statement back to you: “Instead of convening a kangaroo court, the president might want to talk with the educated adults he once trusted his top national security positions.” It sounds like you’re questioning the credentials of the president’s advisers, currently. But I think we should question your credentials today. Isn’t it true you have a science degree from Yale?

Kerry: Bachelor of arts degree.

Massie: Is it a political science degree?

Kerry: Yes, political science.

Massie: So how do you get a bachelor of arts, in a science?

Kerry: Well it’s a liberal arts education and degree. It’s a bachelor…

Massie: OK. So it’s not really science. So I think it’s somewhat appropriate that someone with a pseudo-science degree is here pushing pseudo-science in front of our committee today.

Kerry: Are you serious?! I mean this is really a serious happening here?

Massie: You know what? It is serious. You’re calling the president’s Cabinet a “kangaroo court.” Is that serious?

Kerry: I’m not calling his Cabinet a kangaroo court, I’m calling this committee that he’s putting together a kangaroo committee.

Massie: Are you saying it doesn’t have educated adults now?

Kerry: I don’t know who it has yet because it’s secret.

Massie: Well you said it in your testimony.

Kerry: Why would he have to have a secret analysis of climate change?

Massie: Let’s get back to the science of it.

Kerry: But it’s not science, you’re not quoting science!

Massie: Well, You’re the science expert. You have the political science degree.

Link to tweet

[Vinca]

1. And just like that Massie is at the top of the moron list.

[ehrnst]

2. I'm just picturing him looking back at his staff and miming "mic drop." SNL could cast Beck Bennett

as Kerry, Melissa McCarthy as Massie, and just use the actual transcript...

[dubyadiprecession]

16. "Tell me about this bachelor of science degree..

Why are you against married couples that want to graduate from college?”

[SKKY]

3. Massie is playing the idiot for political theater's sake...

...Dude went to MIT. He's not a dummy like, say, Louie Gohmert or someone like that. Which I guess makes him look even more ridiculous.

[2naSalit]

6. Having an engineering degree from MIT

does not necessarily translate to having human qualities or common sense. My dad was an electronics engineering whizz but he was also a horrible human being... if he had been monied, he could have been another dolt45.

He obviously has no mental connection to social science and probably has no business being in government if that is his mindset.

[ehrnst]

8. His disdain for "liberal science" types stank right through the video.

"MIT Tech bro takes down old Yale guy!!!" ~ his own brain.

[2naSalit]

10. Yeah, that too..

says the person with an advanced polisci degree.

He was blatant, to put it mildly. I'm glad Kerry called him on it as he was quite childish and obviously trying to derail the topic at hand.

[yardwork]

31. That's it.

[SKKY]

17. Oh yea, I agree 100%...

...But he knows what Political Science is. He knows it's not "pseudoscience". He's playing theater for one. I'd much prefer it if he were just that stupid.

[2naSalit]

19. That's where the being

an asshole part comes into play. He's really bad at acting, though.

[MurrayDelph]

49. I've met a lot of people

who somehow believe that just because they are an expert at one thing they are an expert at everything.

Amazingly, besides being wrong, most of them have more than a touch of libertarianism in them.

[True Blue American]

50. Thank you

I was just thinking the same thing. Engineering has nothing to do with climate change.

Not sure who is the dumbest Republican Congress person.

Matt Gaetz and his ignorant pencil neck. Massie,Gohmert and his asparagus, Gym Jordan, Mark Meadows and his token or McCarthy. They all blend in together.

[ehrnst]

7. Sub-reddit class Tech Bro, with all the arrogant, clueless entitlement that comes with it.

"I TOTALLY pwnd this old YALE dude!"

The KKK had doctors and lawyers among them, so education isn't an innoculation against cluelessness in other areas.

[hunter]

38. Nah. I've met too many dumb as fuck Creationists who are engineers, physicists, physicians etc..

There's even a few bad biologists who were dishonest enough to pass their exams by regurgitating the evolutionary theory they'd refused. They are bad biologists because Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution (Theodosius Dobzhansky). Dobzhansky is is interesting because his sharp scientific insights about evolution coexisted with his religious beliefs.

There's an amateur scientist named Forrest Mims who does some interesting work, and writes quite wonderful books and articles about electronics, but his Christian Creationist views have blinded him to a great extent, and have caused him to promote some bizarre theories, not just science theories. He was rejected as the Scientific American amateur scientist columnist for this reason. Outside his obsession with electronics, he's just not that bright. I'd say Massie is a similar sort.

[enough]

4. Massie's twitter claims he played with Kerry like a shark with a seal. NT

[blm]

11. They are delusional talk radio repeaters.

[raging moderate]

15. So Massie unwittingly admits his cannibalist tendencies.

These people keep broadcasting the fact that they are predators. They see themselves as the only true humans, and they see the rest of us as their legitimate prey.

[FiveGoodMen]

43. But their followers ADMIRE that.

[2naSalit]

5. The optics were amazing.

I watched that interaction on some news stream and this clown was so full of himself, pointing at Kerry like he couldn't figure out what he was gonna do next, like: "You know what? I'm gonna show you, you ,you... just shut up, I;m gonna show you!"

That was what it was like, no wonder Kerry truncated his act. It was like a bad attempt at comedy. Sad.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Can someone go line by line and explain what Massie's intent was with each response?

I can't for the life of me, follow his logic. It sounded like he was trying to dominate the situation by using a superior mocking tone, but his questions kept undermining him.

[pnwmom]

18. Massie thinks he's being super clever because Massie has a science degree from MIT.

And yet he comes across as a sheer idiot.

[stevesinpa]

33. he was playing to trump, fox news and the idiotic trumpsupporters

fox news will pretend he got the better of the situation, and trump supporters, with their lack of critical thinking skills will make him a hero. and trump will treat him as a great lackey. that was his goal

[treestar]

46. He is trying to imply Kerry knows nothing about science

but is claiming to because of having a B.A. in political "science."

[The Genealogist]

12. Hey Massie, did you know that Mars Bars are made right here on earth?

My partner and I have been laughing about this compete idiot's ignorance since last night.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. "Well I've never seen no plants growing out of no toilet." nt

[Mendocino]

26. Brawndo

It's got electrolytes!

[UpInArms]

54. It's what plants crave!

🤦🏽?♀️

We are there

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. LOL, wonder what Massie would make of my bachelor of science in journalism degree.

[Harker]

23. That's the daily double. n/t

[ehrnst]

45. .....

[Historic NY]

20. Reminds me of.....

Lawyer: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
Witness: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight
Lawyer: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
Witness: No.
Lawyer: Did you check for blood pressure?
Witness: No.
Lawyer: Did you check for breathing?
Witness: No.
Lawyer: So, then, it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
Witness: No.
Lawyer: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
Witness: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Lawyer: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
Witness: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law

[Chin music]

30. Heh heh.

[happy feet]

41. Good one

Thanks for the chuckle.

[exboyfil]

21. The Twitter responses are absolutely hilarious

Link to tweet

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Of course a political scientist is important for assessing the impact of climate change. It impacts people directly, some of them in life threatening ways. That is what political scientists study.

[java108]

24. I can't find anything funny about this.

The GOPigs are now ramrodding willful ignorance and obfuscation.

They are cockroaches.

[George II]

25. The man's in Congress but doesn't know what a "political science degree" is?

[LakeArenal]

27. Willful ignorance.

Compounded by willful arrogance.

[keithbvadu2]

28. And a PhD can practice medicine.

And a PhD can practice medicine.

(sarcasm thingie goes here)

[BlancheSplanchnik]

44. Ah, but the Dr. shouldn't be practicing!!

He should already know what he’s doing!!!1Blargle!!!

[IADEMO2004]

29. Massie is Lex Luthor smart and evil. Great radio soundbite for his base. They eat that shit up.

[Johnny2X2X]

32. These are the kinds of idiots the GOP is putting into power

My word, horrifying. An elected member of Congress doesn't know what the term Political Science refers to.

[chia]

34. Brazen, mind-numbing stupidity. It's intentionally exhausting, it's meant to wear us down.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. Massie can't attack Kerry's message so he attacks the messenger. Rs do alot of that. . . . nt

[athena]

36. My bachelor of arts degree is in physics.

And it’s from one of the top physics departments in the country, at an Ivy League university. Massie has no idea what he’s talking about. Perhaps someone should look into whether he ever got a college degree, since he seems to be completely clueless about the terminology.

[Shrike47]

37. He's got a BS and MS from MIT, Engineering. I think he is play acting for his base.

[athena]

40. It's amazing that his supporters would fall for this.

The Republican Party has been taken over by sociopaths.

[True Blue American]

51. But that is only Engineering

Nothing to do with climate change.

Massie got his 5 minutes, now everyone is laughing at him. From Kerry to Massoe! How far the mighty have fallen.

[Mendocino]

39. Just KKKubuki theater

for the drones.

[YOHABLO]

47. Does Massie know that a teaching degree in education is a Bachelor of Science degree?

[osmium]

48. This..

I agree with the sentiment, but quoting J.B.S. Haldane is a little too obscure. "Stupid 1984," heh. I guess the attempted grilling was done in Room 101.

Link to tweet

[Soxfan58]

52. How does SNL

Make this any funnier? Just roll the tape.

[kyburbonkid]

53. I'm so embarressed for our state

It has to be all of the oxy-cotton in the water. Oxycontin too. There is a special brand of crazy in republicans here and the Morain Massie just revealed some of his.

[yerop]

55. I don't post very often but, rant warning: I can't believe America has come to this.

Just in the last few days: Seeing Mnuchin acting like a creepy child in front of Waters, old clips of Herman Cain (up to be on the Fed. Reserve) fumbling like a gradeschooler to answer simple questions, William Barr's lunkheaded talk of "spying", airhead nutcase Candace Owens on behalf of the GOP at a hate crimes hearing--not to mention laughing out loud (but sadly) at Trump's senile "anti-climb" and "oringes" rambles... I can't believe America has come to this. It's like one long cringe. The Republican Party! We said there'd never get back in after the disaster of the GWBush and now here they are making GWBush look like Einstein in comparison. I am losing hope for America. End of rant.