When we last looked in on the astoundingly dim-witted, ignorant, unqualified Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee here at Ethics Alarms, she was setting out to violate the Constitution with her brain-dead on arrival (BDOA) Leading Against White Supremacy Act, which has to be read to be believed. A junior high school civics class could use the thing as a final exam: “Please explain why the U.S. Supreme Court would declare this proposed law unconstitutional.” In the same post in which I discussed that monstrosity, Lee’s invention, I wrote of her self-evident intellectual caliber,
She’s a fanatic supporter of reparations for slavery; she’s a knee-jerk race-baiter (any criticism of President Barack Obama, a serial bungler, was racist in her view). She’s one of those not very bright people who speak assertively and defiantly because they are laboring under the delusion that they are intelligent, thus fooling others who aren’t very smart either.
Lee once mixed up Wikileaks and Wikipedia in an interview. She has complained that the naming of storms is racist, because the names are “too white,” but we know that if we gave hurricanes names like “LaShonda” to hurricanes, she’d complain that blacks were being deliberately compared to destructive forces.
Lee’s been named an Incompetent Elected Official thrice with the latest award, and I’ve given her a break a few times because she is such a boob that her constant humiliations (none of which she is aware of, or course) enter Julie Principle territory: Lee is a throbbingly stupid woman, and she’s not going to get any smarter. I had to wrestle my tongue to the floor last July not to comment on her statement in the House expressing indignation that the Supreme Court finally ruled that the laws against preferences in college admissions based on race applied to preferences in college admissions based on race.
In her strong, confident voice, Lee proudly announced, “I rise today as a clear recipient of affirmative action, particularly in higher education.” Uh, yeah, Congresswoman, anyone who’s listened to you over the years has figured that out by themselves. She added, “I may have been admitted on affirmative action, both in terms of being a woman and a woman of color, but I can declare that I did not graduate on affirmative action.”
I’m sure that’s what they told you, dear.
So there Lee was yesterday, making everyone in her audience a little bit dumber (and making science teachers, at least those on faculties based on merit, wish they were dead), explaining that the moon was mostly “made up of gases.” Funny, it sure looked pretty solid when Neil Armstrong was there, but I’m sure Lee missed that. She just mixed up the moon with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the planets that are sometimes called the Gas Giants because so much of their masses consists of gaseous atmospheres. It could happen to anyone, or at least anyone as clinically clueless as Jackson.
I’m surprised she didn’t say the moon was mostly made of cheese. She must be smarter than I thought….
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If you try to contradict her on a Meta or Google-owned platform, you will probably be flagged for ‘misinformation’.
Neil Armstrong planted a flag on Mars.
jvb
It was the Ukraine and Palestine flags combined.
I thought Niel Armstrong colonized the moon and kicked the inhabitants off. I heard that the task was made easier by the fact that they weighed one sixth of a comparable slave on earth which weighed three fifths of a white person.
yep
“Almost impossible to go to the sun” implies it’s indeed possible.
Perhaps Sheila will volunteer.
She’s going at night.
The antics of “She-Jack”, as they call her, is a continuous source of disgust and amusement for my sister and BIL who live in Houston. She’s certainly a prime contender in the race to the bottom for worst congresscritter.
NB: We’ve been to the sun. The Parker Solar Probe was the first human spacecraft to physically touch a star, when it entered the solar corona in 2021. (I think they should have named it “Sundiver”, for David Brin.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe#:~:text=on%20the%20project.-,Spacecraft,mechanisms%20that%20accelerate%20energetic%20particles.
I’ll see you your elected official and raise you a Social Security agent. Not really related but Jack, you have to hear this. I immediately thought of you.
I called SSA this morning and after 48 painful minutes, along with giving up irrelevant information to the matter, the agent proceeded to tell me that the nearest local office was over an hour away.
I informed him that that was not true. The nearest office was 20 minutes away, with two more offices about 30 minutes away. The office over an hour away happens to be in my state yes, but it is not the closest. The closest are just over the state line.
He answered with “I’m in Baltimore, ma’am. How would I know that?” I said “your employer should know that, your software should know that, Google knows that, GPS knows that, a simple paper map knows that…”
All I could think of are the people who don’t know enough to do a “near me” search and go driving a hundred miles to a SS office they were told was the closest because “I’m in Baltimore, ma’am.”
Oh yeah, that’s exactly the kind of thing I’ve been dealing with. Low level staff who don’t know their jobs, and who aren’t even apologetic about it.
“ ‘I’m in Baltimore, ma’am.’ ”
He’s suffering enough….
PWS
Yeah, well, I was in DMV hell last week. My mother in law is transferring a car to her sister. The car is registered in Texas but her sister lives in Oklahoma. I had an 8:00 a.m. hearing in a courthouse with a DMV annex; the DMV annex opens at 8:00 a.m. I needed to ask if the Texas title should registered in Oklahoma or if there is a different form to register it there. Simple question, right? Not at 7:45 a.m. because the DMV doesn’t open until 8:00 a.m. The DMV agent threw me out, telling me to return at 8:00 a.m.
I attended my hearing and and 8:10 a.m., I went back to the DMV and the very same person who threw me out at 7:45 a.m. pleasantly asked how she could help. Somewhat flummoxed, I repeated my 7:45 a.m. question and , lo and behold, the very same person enthusiastically helped me and gave the proper forms with a link the DMV website.
I wept openly. Openly and deeply.
jvb
Did I mention that I had to spell out my street address? I live on Locust St. Locust. I had to spell it for him.
Rep. Lee’s is around for Democrats in order to make VP Harris’ comments about the women’s NCAA brackets read like Tolstoy.
I’m not sure Ms. Lee could out-think a fence post.
The honorable representative (attempts to) defend[s] herself:
<blockquote>”Obviously, I misspoke and meant to say the sun, but as usual, Republicans are focused on stupid things instead of stuff that really matters,” Lee wrote on X. “What can I say though, foolish thinkers lust for stupidity.”
Obviously I misspoke and meant to say the sun, but as usual, Republicans are focused on stupid things instead of stuff that really matters.
What can I say though, foolish thinkers lust for stupidity! https://t.co/ABGxUdRqF6
— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) April 9, 2024
In a video on X that’s been viewed nearly 600,000 times, Lee said “sometimes, you’ve heard the word full moon. Sometimes, you need to take the opportunity to just to come out and see a full moon — it’s that complete rounded circle which is made up mostly of gases.” She went on to say “that’s why the question is why or how could we as humans live on the moon — the gas is such that we could do that.” </blockquote>
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/article/sheila-jackson-lee-moon-gas-19394031.php
Sadly, she’s probably much more intelligent that the folks who voted for her. But obviously that’s not saying a lot.
She’s got to be some sort of puppet. An AI can write a speech that makes more sense than what she said. The question is, why did they let her say all that? Or is she going off-script and they figured that they’d just do damage control afterward?
What if those WERE the prepared remarks? Look at Kamala Harris, most of those insane speeches seem to be prepared. Her speeches are the kind of thing that undergrad political science majors think is profound and deep.
I was trying to figure out who she was talking to. Third graders? Mentally-impaired third graders? Smart dogs?
She was talking to loyal Democratic-voting women with ‘a Master’s Degree’. That is what seems to pass for deep thinking in the ‘elite’ crowd.
Greta Thunberg?…
Anyways…
Had our Bailey (a pretty smart dog) been in the audience for that comment, I have to believe she would have walked up to the Congresswoman, squatted, and piddled on her shoes for saying something so brainless.
It’s hard to believe that there could be living, breathing, constituents anywhere in this country that could listen to her and think, “That woman speaks for me!”
When I was growing up, people that said things like her were the kids that super-glued their eyelids together, ate crayons on a dare, and stuck their tongues on the flag-pole in December. We gave them a lot of attention simply to see what stupid thing they would do next, but we didn’t elect them to Congress.
Really? The most dangerous place on the planet is between Jackson-Lee and a microphone and a camera. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, tells Shelia what to say.
jvb
She-Jack trying to put on her eclipse glasses:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1777789915490873360
My initial reaction was that she had just spoken poorly… But I have no idea what she was even trying to say, even post clarification. I’m left thinking that this is the new “Guam might tip over”.
She got some support from Rep. Jasmine Crockett (also from Texas) who just suggested that blacks be excluded from taxes. I guess if you identify as multiracial you only pay partial taxes? More deep thinking from the elites.
Is there a limit as to how many times you can be given this award. Can we not just name her “Ethical Dunce Emeritus.”
You do know that she served as a member of the Science Committee and the Ranking Member on the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee.
Shelia simply cannot be embarrassed. This is her response:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-sheila-jackson-lee-explains-why-she-claimed-the-moon-is-made-mostly-of-gases
Check this out: “Obviously I misspoke and meant to say the sun, but as usual, Republicans are focused on stupid things instead of stuff that really matters. What can I say though, foolish thinkers lust for stupidity!”
and
“Also, I care more about these children who would not have experienced the eclipse in this enthusiastic manner,” she added. “And, I care more about protecting the rights of women and children than engaging in this kind of senseless dialogue!”
Texas is so proud.
jvb
Now don’t get me wrong, I enjoy making fun of people as much as anyone, but highlighting blathering’s like this are intentional distractions and they are working.
So, here’s the thing. I just had the opportunity (oh joy!) to listen to the rest of her remarks.
I am here to tell you the clip above was the intelligent part. I am serious. I could feel little bits of intellect eroding from my brain as I listened.
At one point she even appealed to someone in the administration to make sure she didn’t mis state the science. The response was inaudible on the tape I was listening to, but what could that poor woman possibly say back to Jackson? “You have the IQ of an alpaca”?
TIm Conway’s The Oldest Man could be a stand in for Biden — I’ll bet he also had a character that could pass for Jackson. A genius at work.