Stupid: It Aint Just for Republicans Anymore

[Political Heretic]

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) is afraid that the U.S. Territory of Guam is going to "tip over and capsize" due to overpopulation.

Johnson expressed his worries during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the defense budget Thursday.

Addressing Adm. Robert Willard, who commands the Navy's Pacific Fleet, Johnson made a tippy motion with his hands and said sternly, "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize."

Willard paused and said: "We don't anticipate that."
http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-the-know/36-news/3169-rep-hank-johnson-guam-could-tip-over-and-capsize

[SpiralHawk]

1. "But we did stupid first and best. Neener." - Republicons

"And we promise to do stupid and FAIL even mo bettah in the coming future that lies ahead."

- Republicons

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[Warpy]

3. Well, it's nice to know we no longer have to bear the burden

of being knowledgeable about everything any more or even paragons of sanity. We'll continue to look that way next to most Republicans, of course, but that perfection thing was becoming far too heavy a burden.

What a doofus. Of course he's from Dixie.

[Kalyke]

20. I'm from Dixie and I'm not dumb.

Where are you from? Some place up North where everyone's an asshole? :eyes:

[Warpy]

22. I spent much of my later school years in Dixie, and I aint dumb

However, nobody seems to do dumb like Dixie does, although I've met dummies all over the country. Dixie is the only place it's considered a populist virtue.

And if you want to call people assholes, start with that face staring back from a mirror.

[Chulanowa]

28. I'm from the Heart of Dixie

And it's only due to a long upriver struggle, akin to the trials of the chinook salmon, struggling against the current of stupidity in public education and popular culture, that i'm also not dumb.

I've spent the last several years patting my brain and reassuring myself that, despite my time in Alabama and Georgia and Mississippi, it's all still there. Reassuring myself that, despite all the people assuring me that Jefferson Davis was a founding father, that turtles can leave their shells, and that it's okay to "round up" the value of Pi, I'm still an intelligent individual.

It's a scary place. Maybe Florida is better...


yeah or maybe not. Oops.

[Warpy]

30. Keep an eye on the news out of Florida

While Dixie has made a virtue of dumb, Florida has almost cornered the market on crazy.

And yes, I've lived there, too.

[lonestarnot]

41. Well I'll raise you dixie, florida and throw in Arizona.

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[kestrel91316]

5. That man's cognitive function is severely impaired.

[Posteritatis]

6. Willard's reply wins, though. (nt)

[Political Heretic]

9. Absolutely. That dude's a hero just for saying that with a straight face.

[sandnsea]

7. I am literally busting a gut

Oh my god I don't remember ever laughing this hard.

And the Admiral, lolol, *paused*..

and what went through his mind and good on him for keeping his composure...

"we don't anticipate that".

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Oh good god I have to go get kleenex.

:rofl:

[Political Heretic]

13. Who said politics can't be fun? lol...

Pregnant pause....

we don't anticipate that. bwhahahahhaha!

[Political Heretic]

8. A bunch of R's just went "O SHIT NO HE DID NOT! That's it is ON mutherfucker!" We can top that!

:rofl:

[Turbineguy]

10. We've got somebody

who can get elected in Michelle Bachmann's district here.

[Political Heretic]

11. LOL!

[TlalocW]

12. No wonder my stuff keeps sliding off my shelves

The heavy populations on the coasts don't quite balance out to keep America in perfect equilibrium.

TlalocW

[Political Heretic]

14. In the winter I keep feeling tilted... probably all the people flocking to california!

:P

[Phlem]

33. Dude

you made me cry.

nothing like a good laugh to start a day.

-p

[lonestarnot]

42. Damn, you might want to invest in some

lifejackets.

[monmouth]

15. I thought the guy was pulling a clever April Fools joke....sigh...n/t

[Political Heretic]

16. Hehe a day early! (March 31st)

[monmouth]

17. Ah, my bad....still...LOL...n/t

[era veteran]

18. He sounded impaired.

[Posteritatis]

19. With a comment like that, if he wasn't impaired, he was still impaired. (nt)

[no limit]

21. Wow, is he related to Palin? But I guess the unrec police doesn't like this though, too bad.

[cloudbase]

23. I thought this would be about

Sheila Jackson Lee asking the NASA/JPL team if the Mars rover would be checking out the site where Armstrong planted the flag.

[Solomon]

24. I for one, (the only one it seems) don't think the guy meant that

literally. I think he was talking in metaphors.

This guy was a lawyer and former judge, I hear. No way you're smart enough to pass the bar but believe something like this.

I don't think hew meant it literally. If he did, then I'm with everybody else.

[blindpig]

26. Come on down to the Spartanburg Co courthouse some time...

Case closed.

[The Doctor.]

27. When I first heard it, I thought the same. He seemed to be searching

for a way to describe 'catastrophe' with a metaphor.

[sandnsea]

32. "and capsize"

He didn't say, it will reach the tipping point - he said "tip over and capsize".

And Capsize!!!

I am the first to give people the benefit of the doubt on making word jumbles, but he said "tip over and capsize", with his hands doing a little tippy rolly thingy. No metaphor.

[Political Heretic]

36. Dude.... watch the video.

lol

[frylock]

25. so just move the population to the center of the island..

jeez, what a maroon!

[unblock]

29. i understand he's got hepatitis c and may be on interferon, which can have cognitive side effects

can't say whether or not he's that stupid without the meds, but having been on another cognitive-impairing med (topomax, aka DOPamax, for migraine prophylaxis), if it is the meds, he has my complete sympathy.

been there, done that. just glad *i* wasn't on t.v. when i, as the resident analytics guru, couldn't see "2+2" on one side, and "=4" on the other, and somehow couldn't make the connection. glad i didn't lose my job, either.

[sandnsea]

31. Hubby was on interferon for 6 months

I have serious cognitive impairment because of thyroid dysfunction.

You don't go from intelligent to "the island might tip over".

You do things like call and ask for the phone number of campaign headquarters, only to hear your friend say "it's on the web site", duh, which you know because you've been in the web site business for 13 years. (Yes I did that 2 days ago)

[JoeyT]

38. Topomax can almost do it.

Though usually when it hits you hard enough to make you go from intelligent to "the island might tip over" you're incoherent enough that people have trouble understanding you anyway. So that drug probably isn't the cause either.
I've spent this entire thread giggling like an idiot, so if it turns out to be a medical condition I'm going to feel bad. :P

[Phlem]

34. Your Captioning Rocks!

Priceless.

-p

[awoke_in_2003]

35. Laugh now...

what do you think happened to Atlantis? :rofl:

[Political Heretic]

37. LOL!!

[comrade snarky]

39. I thought he was making a joke

I told myself he must be making a joke! Had to be a joke.

Then I saw the video... ouch.


Course the joke will be on us mockers when Guam tips over and sinks after the next troop increase. :evilgrin:

[fascisthunter]

40. Pretty Certain He was Making a Joke

[Political Heretic]

43. You'd be pretty wrong.

Watch the video.