Sheila Jackson Lee, a science great

Just ask her. After all, she led the Space subcommittee of the House Science Committee, right?  And we know she never, ever, makes tells a untruth (when her lips aren’t moving.) The latest is, however, noteworthy.

“Sometimes, you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete-rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases. And that’s why the question is: Why or how could we as humans live on the moon? Are the gases such that we could do that?”

Jackson Lee continued making several statements that were questionable. In one statement, she told students the moon not only reflects the sun’s light but also emits “unique light and energy.”

“You have the energy of the moon at night,” Jackson Lee said.

Okay… I already learned much from her that I never knew before. How did the astronauts leave footprints, and land, on gases?

“What you will see today will be the closest distance that the moon has ever been in the last 20 years, which means that’s why they will shut the light down, because they will be close to the Earth, which is an amazing experience,” Jackson Lee said in a live video clip posted to her X account. “You will be able to tell because there will be complete darkness.”

In the video, Jackson Lee tells students not to look at the sun directly, warning them that the eclipse is a serious matter and that looking into the sun directly could mean students not being able to leave on their own but instead being walked out while holding their arm.

But, of course, she isn’t just saying stupid stuff. She’s just a victim of, to coin a phrase, of a ‘vast right-wing conspiracy.’ It’s the republicans make her say that!

“Obviously, I misspoke and meant to say the sun, but as usual, Republicans are focused on stupid things instead of stuff that really matters,” she said. “What can I say though, foolish thinkers lust for stupidity.”

Not her first rodeo, either.

In 1997, Jackson Lee visited NASA and demanded to see the flag that astronauts planted on Mars. She was gently advised that no human being had ever been to Mars because it was so far away.

She then went into a rage and accused the space agency of racism before pointing out her membership on the House science committee.

Luckily, her grasp of history is equally vast:

During the lesson, she thanked the GOP for “giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years operating under a Constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not.”

OK, Ms. Lee – start with a simple phrase: “Shall not be infringed.”

“there are a lot black people who are unintelligent” – Charles Barkley The Atlantic *

*(taken totally out of context but, hey, Barkley just appeared here yesterday. The full context was that intelligent well-spoken blacks had difficulty succeeding because too many blacks are more worried about ‘street cred’ than education or success.)

Category: "Teh Stoopid", Congress sucks