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From: shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
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Subject: Re: The Stupidest Member of Congress, Sheila Jackson Lee (D): "The Moon is Made of Gases"
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:30:25 -0400
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On Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:06:05 +0000, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

>On Apr 9, 2024 at 1:24:54 PM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
>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
>>> 
>>> --------------------------
>>> This is a senior member of Congress. Houston sure is being well represented,
>>> isn't it? It's a wonder this woman's brain even has the power to keep her
>>> breathing.
>> 
>> I don't know where she would even have gotten the idea that the moon
>> is made mostly of gases. Maybe it's mostly helium which is why it
>> keeps floating above the Earth like a kid's balloon.
>> 
>>> Keep in mind that this Mensa genius is also famous for asking the NASA
>>> director why he didn't land the Mars rover closer to where the astronauts
>>> landed in the 60s so we could see the relics of the original space program.
>>> 
>>> She also notably claimed that "The United States has been operating under the
>>> Constitution for the last 400 years."
>> 
>> She at least got it sort of close.
>
>If you think missing it by over 150 years is sort of close.

Hey she could have thought the USA had been around a few thousand
years.