Gohmert wants to change the orbits of the earth or moon to combat climate change.

[Nevilledog]

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“Is there anything the National Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Mgmt can do to change the course of the moon’s or Earth’s orbit around the sun? Obviously that would have profound effects on our climate.”

- Louie Gohmert, Republican Member of Congress

[dalton99a]

1. He should tell the next Trump administration to try nuclear weapons.

LOTS of nuclear weapons

[smb]

20. But We Need To Save Our Nuclear Weapons Stockpile For Hurricane Season! nt

[Duppers]

40. "Next" tRump admin?

Bite your tongue...keyboard.

[dalton99a]

45. Trump will be reinstated.

Mark your calendar. Use a pencil.

[Duppers]

53. 😂

👍 Gotya.

[Yavin4]

2. Texans, wow. Just wow.

When GW Bush is the smartest one among your elected officials, then wow. Just wow.

[Orrex]

3. Clearly he's a man of science

But wouldn’t it be easier to push the sun farther away?

[SheltieLover]

12. Hahaha

[Midnight Writer]

17. We could do it at night when it's not so hot.

[LastDemocratInSC]

27. Hey, I was going to suggest that.

Thief!

[CrispyQ]

28. LOL!

And this from the party that thinks they should be in charge.

[Siwsan]

4. I think my brain just got bruised from listening to that.

[dchill]

13. We are all dumber for it.

[EYESORE 9001]

5. The smartass is shown to be a dumbass

Thinks he’s sofa king cute...

[Pobeka]

6. Cuz, you know, the NFS and BLM are specialists at altering orbits of things in space.

[Ocelot II]

7. DO NOT READ THAT TWEET. It will give you brain damage.

I swear to God, that guy sucks IQ points out of the atmosphere and smashes them with a hammer.

[mopinko]

8. because he believes a long debunked conspiracy theory.

'solar cycles' was being shopped around as a cause of climate change.
iirc, al gore debunked that in his movie.

[lagomorph777]

9. Hey Gomer, we could put you into orbit.

That would help.

[smb]

21. Gohmert In Orbit -- Testing The Effects Of Weightlessness On Weightlessness nt

[Submariner]

10. I read he used to be a Judge

If I was someone sentenced unfairly by that moron I'd be requesting a new trial on the grounds that "my first judge was NUTS".

[gratuitous]

11. That would be easier than developing renewable energy resources

Or living less wastefully. Or cutting down on burning fossil fuels.

I guess it's progress of a sort that Rep. Gohmert seems to acknowledge at last that we might have the weensiest little problem with anthropogenic climate change.

[ShazzieB]

51. I don't think he's acknowledging that climate change is anthropogenic.

He seems to be acknowledging climate change, but definitely trying to blame it on non-anthropogenic causes. What a maroon.

[Blue Owl]

14. FOX's new segment "Just That Simple" with Louie Gohmert

[captain queeg]

15. As I get older I don't think I'm quite as sharp as I used to be

If Gohmert is an example of what happens to you in old age? Maybe Logan’s Run isn’t such a bad idea.

[Ocelot II]

22. If I start saying stuff like that, I want my family to put me out on an ice floe.

[Xipe Totec]

16. There is no doubt in my mind that changing orbits could have a profound effect on climate

Fortunately, that's not something we can do.


Yet...

[pazzyanne]

36. Came to that exact same conclusion! nt

[Midnight Writer]

18. I've got to hand it to him. He's thinking outside the box.

[milestogo]

52. I'm not even sure which box -

But he's way outside of all the boxes I know of.

[Budi]

19. If it keeps the metal screen door from magnetically sticking to my head since my vax, then..

..suit up Gohmie & send him into space to save the planet earth..PLEASE!!

[skypilot]

23. It was really cringey watching this woman...

...play Deborah Birx to his Donald Trump.

[Vinca]

24. My husband says Louie should ask Donald Trump since Trump claimed to have an uncle

with one of the greatest scientific minds teaching at MIT. Dear Ex-Leader surely must have inherited some of that brilliance.

[lunatica]

38. He's a stable genius!

[Goodheart]

25. Has a congressman ever been so aptly named?

Gohmert? LOL. Sounds like a name a satire novelist would assign to his character.

My apologies to Gohmerts who happen to be Democrats. It's just unfortunate.

[modrepub]

26. Futurama Episode "Crimes of The Hot"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_of_the_Hot



F-ing dumba-ss.

[iscooterliberally]

29. yes we can easily change the orbit of the moon and sun.

All you have do is shut your pie hole you stupid gohmert.

[treestar]

30. OK if the other countries in the world

(which probably are irrelevant to Gomer) are in agreement with it.

[Solly Mack]

31. I'm told shooting Gohmert into space would change the climate.

I've also heard the more republicans you shoot into the space, the better the climate gets.

[Nevilledog]

41. I support doing this.

[Solly Mack]

46. And you know it would work because you read it on the internet.

Even still, we should at least try it.

[Nevilledog]

48. I'm torn between who we should catapult first.......

Let's just call it a self-rapture and send them all at once.

[Solly Mack]

50. Be still me heart! Yes, please.

[yonder]

32. Fuck oh dear. Did you just hear that, Texas? That's your guy.

[TygrBright]

33. You go, Gohmert! NOBODY gonna out-stupid you, not even among GOP congressweasels! n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

34. A man of the sauce

Unfathomably stupid.

[pazzyanne]

35. Amazing!

Gohmert is really that stupid. I wonder how he finds his way home at night.

[calimary]

44. Wonder what the IQ is of his average voter back home.

Square root of negative one, perhaps?

[Stuart G]

37. Thank You for posting...STUPID IS STILL STUPID..IS STUPID, IS STILL STUPID..!!!!!!

[ramapo]

39. So painful

There is no depth of stupid that is too deep

[Duppers]

42. AMEN!

[calimary]

43. More from the "could they drink Clorox?" club.

Knuckledraggers Inc.

[jcgoldie]

47. This is 'drink bleach and shove lightbulbs up them' level stupid

Congratulations Gohmert that is a level of scientific ignorance attained by few...

[caraher]

49. No he doesn't

He's arguing (falsely, of course) that climate change is due to forces entirely outside our control (such as subtle orbital changes and variations in solar activity). He's arguing for doing nothing.

(edited to add) Yes, he's an idiot, but we should at least make an effort to recognize what is a rhetorical tactic vs. a serious proposal.

[ShazzieB]

55. He sounded pretty damned serious to me.

He does think climate change is due to forces other than human activity, but I think he was making a serious (to him) suggestion.

It would take Olivier levels of acting ability to say something that monumentally stupid with a straight face if he had any idea how stupid it was.

[caraher]

57. It's just his standard deadpan asshole delivery

Another example of Gohmert doing the exact same thing:

Also, no matter how dim he truly is, were he serious he would surely have urged NASA or Space Force to look into changing those orbits rather than the Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management.

[treestar]

54. Maybe he can work with Kim Jong Un on that

Yes, this IS the Onion

[tanyev]

56. Sure, just tweak the orbits a little bit. What could possibly go wrong?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

58. For this thread

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