Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 22:30:06 -0400
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On 4/9/2024 6:58 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 17:27:14 -0400
> moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/9/2024 4:33 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>> On Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:26:32 +0000
>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Congress's resident moron,
>>>> Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee (D):
>>>>
>>>> The moon is "made up mostly of gases" so we can soon live inside
>>>> it, unlike the sun which is "almost" too hot to go near.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1777722525939625984/vid/avc1/320x320/IqS6IPUaTCXkT8hU.mp4?tag=14
>>>>   
>>> Apparently, her ignorance of astronomy is as profound as her
>>> ignorance of pretty much everything else. She reminds me of the
>>> meme of AOC wanting to send a NASA mission to the sun but to avoid
>>> getting burned up by going at night.
>>> ...
>>
>> That meme sounds damning.  Otoh, maybe it's bullshit for the
>> credulous:
>>
>> https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/clip-ocasio-cortez-urging-trip-sun-take-samples-is-altered-2023-11-13/
>>
> Don't think we didn't notice you skipping right over what Jackson-Lee
> actually said in the video that BTR cited. What's the matter? Cat got
> your tongue? I'm waiting to hear you explain how she's really not
> nearly as stupid as people say she is, despite huge factual errors like
> this.

Jackson?  Who gives a shit about Jackson?  Your "meme" was of AOC.