{"id":2217718,"date":"2024-04-10T17:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/member-of-the-party-of-science-doesnt-know-what-the-moon-is\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T17:10:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T21:10:55","slug":"member-of-the-party-of-science-doesnt-know-what-the-moon-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/member-of-the-party-of-science-doesnt-know-what-the-moon-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Party of Science Member Confused About the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmember-of-the-party-of-science-doesnt-know-what-the-moon-is%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2217718&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text\u2062 discusses a politician&#8217;s misguided statements about the Moon, highlighting her lack of\u2062 understanding and intelligence. Despite \u200cher attempts to clarify, her\u200b explanations only deepen the confusion and misinformation she spreads. The article sheds light on\u200c the absurdity of her claims and questions her competence despite her background and position. The article delves into a politician&#8217;s \u200cinaccurate remarks\u200c regarding the Moon, \u200bemphasizing her ignorance and lack of \u2064intelligence. Despite her\u200b efforts to clarify, her statements further sow confusion and misinformation. The piece underscores the outlandish nature of her assertions and raises doubts about \u200bher competency despite\u2063 her\u200b credentials and role in politics.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s a lot we can say about our political leaders. Are they corrupt? Yes. Are they power hungry? Yes. Are they a bunch of evil, soulless goblins? Yes. But what may be most significant \u2014 the trait that may have the most bearing on the future of our country \u2014 is that they are, by and large, extremely stupid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is little doubt that we are, right now, led by the dumbest collection of muddle-headed morons that has ever been assembled in our nation\u2019s capital \u2014 or any nation\u2019s capital. It is difficult to overstate just how monstrously stupid these people are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you doubt that, then please consider this video of Democrat Representative Sheila Jackson Lee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before we get to the video, you should understand a few things about Sheila Jackson Lee. First, she is a former member of the Science Committee. Second, she is also a former member of the Space and Aeronautics Committee. The third is that she is, once again, a sitting member of congress. In that position, she gave an address on Monday to students from Booker T. Washington High School in Houston, Texas. This address happened on the occasion of the eclipse. In fact \u2014 and this is not the really stupid part, though it is a stupid part \u2014 she claims that she, as she put it on Twitter, \u201ccreated the opportunity\u201d for the students to see the eclipse. Lee tweeted: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, I created the opportunity to see a unique science and solar experience for the students at Booker T. Washington High School. As a former member of the Science Committee and former Ranking Member of the Space and Aeronautics Committee, this was an irreplaceable moment in history. There should be more opportunities to introduce science to our diverse and vulnerable communities! So many students came out to see history for themselves! Many remarked \u201cthis is the first time I\u2019ve ever seen this\u201d as they made their way to the field. Despite over 90% of Booker T\u2019s students being economically disadvantaged, it has managed to build an enthusiastic environment where students are excited to explore the wonders of space and exploration. The hallmark of this excitement is anchored in opportunity.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now there\u2019s enough in these few sentences alone to assess that Sheila Jackson Lee has approximately the IQ of a toothpick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For one thing, she\u2019s somehow taking credit for the eclipse. She seems to suggest that these young people would not have been able to look up at the sky and view this celestial event if not for her intervention. By gathering with the kids and pointing at the sky and saying, \u201cHey check it out,\u201d she is, apparently, creating the opportunity to look at the sky. Without her, they never would have thought to look at the sky, or known how to look at it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Second, she seems to chide us for not giving \u201cmore opportunities\u201d to \u201cdiverse and vulnerable\u201d communities to view events like this. But she doesn\u2019t explain how we\u2019re supposed to create opportunities for diverse communities to see an eclipse in the sky during times when there is no eclipse in the sky. It only happens once every several years. What are we supposed to do about that? I guess we could invite diverse communities to come outside once a month and then put our hands in front of their faces to sort of simulate the effect of an eclipse, but I\u2019m not sure what that would achieve. Sheila Jackson Lee doesn\u2019t elaborate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Third, as further evidence of her toothpick IQ, she says this: \u201cThe hallmark of this excitement is anchored in opportunity.\u201d Now I want to be very clear that this statement means absolutely nothing. There is no way to make sense of that sentence. There is no meaning we can really glean from it. I think that maybe what she\u2019s trying to say is that the kids were excited for the opportunity to watch the eclipse, which Sheila Jackson Lee had somehow created by some unspecified means. But the phrase \u201canchored in opportunity\u201d is at best clunky and unnecessarily wordy, and the phrase \u201cthe hallmark of this excitement\u201d is just incredibly dumb. Together they make a dumb sandwich.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1344-member-of-the-party-of-science-doesn-t-know-what-the-moon-is-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In fact Sheila Jackson Lee, we can tell from this alone, is the dumbest kind of dumb person. She\u2019s the exact inverse of the smartest kind of smart person. The smartest kind of smart person is someone who understands complex topics but talks about them in simple ways using simple words. On the other end of the spectrum is the dumbest dumb person who tries to use big words to communicate simple ideas, but doesn\u2019t understand the words they\u2019re using, and so they don\u2019t manage to effectively convey even the simplest idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So by all of that evidence alone, we already know that Sheila Jackson Lee is a momentous moron. But it\u2019s about to get so much worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At this event, before somehow, in an unclear way, providing kids the opportunity to look at the sky, she addressed the crowd of students and gave them a little lesson in astronomy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, though, she has an understanding of astronomy that is so garbled, confused, and delusional that my four-year-old daughter could easily fact check her. Here\u2019s what she said:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, this sitting congresswoman, who has been a member of the science committee and the space committee, says that the Moon is \u201cmade up mostly of gases.\u201d She then juxtaposes the Moon with the Sun, which she says has a \u201cmighty powerful heat\u201d while the Moon is \u201cmore manageable.\u201d So she appears to believe not only that the Moon is a gaseous entity but also that it gives off its own light and heat. She very much appears to believe that the Moon is basically a much dimmer, cooler version of the Sun. I\u2019m not exaggerating or trying to be funny here. That\u2019s really what she apparently believes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it is needless to say \u2014 hopefully needless to say \u2014 completely false. The moon is solid. Its surface is rocky. The light it gives off is the light it reflects from the Sun. It does not create its own light. This is a very basic fact about our solar system that every child by first grade should understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If my ten-year-old thought that the Moon was made of gas, I would be concerned. That would be a disturbing level of ignorance for a ten-year-old. For a 74-year-old congresswoman it is horrifying. Not to mention baffling. I truly have no idea how you can live through seven and a half decades and never encounter even the most basic facts about the Moon. This is like if a 74-year-old woman declared that the Pacific Ocean is made of chocolate syrup. It\u2019s not just that the belief is wildly off base. It\u2019s that it would seem impossible to maintain such an outrageous misconception for that many years. Yet that is what she has done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Later that day, Lee responded to the mockery over these comments. She said this: \u201cObviously 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!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, once again, we have a statement here that makes no sense and means nothing. \u201cFoolish thinkers lust for stupidity.\u201d What? What does that mean? It doesn\u2019t mean anything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She just thinks it sounds insightful, so she said it. Because she is quite literally dumber than a grasshopper. She claims that she was really talking about the Sun, which is the worst excuse she could have offered. If anyone on her team was at least slightly more intelligent than her, they would have suggested that she try to claim that she was referring to the Moon\u2019s atmosphere when she referenced its gases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Moon does have a very thin atmosphere made up of helium, methane, and other gases. It would be a hell of a stretch to try to spin it that way, but at least that would be a somewhat workable excuse. Instead she comes up with the least plausible cover story imaginable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let\u2019s go back and see what her statement would sound like if you swap in the word \u201csun\u201d for moon. It would be this: \u201cA full sun is a complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases. The question is how could we live on the sun? Are the gases such that we could do that? The sun is a mighty powerful heat. It\u2019s almost impossible to go near the sun. The sun is more manageable, and you will see in a moment, well not a moment, but in a couple of years, that NASA is going back to the sun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be clear, that\u2019s what she\u2019s claiming she meant to say. So the spin that this ignoramus came up with is that she didn\u2019t mean to say that stupid thing \u2014she actually meant to say an even stupider thing. Now we have a choice. Either Shiela Jackson Lee thinks that the Moon is made up of gases. Or she thinks that we can live on the Sun and that NASA, in a couple of years, will be visiting the Sun \u2014 or rather going back to it, because they\u2019ve already visited it. Pick your poison. And keep in mind that what you just heard was only a 45 second clip of remarks that went on for more than five minutes. Remarks that also featured this claim:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Okay, now I can\u2019t be sure what exactly this lunatic is babbling about, but she seems to be confusing an eclipse with a Supermoon. The latter occurs when a full moon coincides with the moon\u2019s closest approach to Earth, which is something that happens not once every 20 years, but a few times every year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for the statement that \u201cthey will shut the light down,\u201d I honestly have no idea what that\u2019s even supposed to mean. Who is \u201cthey\u201d? Does she think there are people living on the moon who manually control how much light comes from the Sun? In my entire life I\u2019ve never heard anyone refer to the moon as a \u201cthey.\u201d Does she think the Moon is non-binary? We can\u2019t be sure. But she keeps going. Listen: <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Moon and Sun create our music, she says. That\u2019s obviously asinine but it is the closest she gets to something resembling a coherent thought. The problem is that right before that she claims that there are solar systems \u201csmaller than the Earth.\u201d That would mean that somewhere in the universe there is a star that, together with the planets orbiting it, is smaller than the Earth itself and so small in fact that the orbit of the planets around it is no greater than the diameter of the Earth. For the record, there is no evidence that anything like this exists anywhere in the universe. But it does exist in Sheila Jackson Lee\u2019s imagination. A place where the Moon is not only made up of gases, but is also a planet:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now is probably a good time to tell you that this woman graduated from Yale. She\u2019s a Yale graduate, a prominent congresswoman, and a former member of multiple science committees, yet she can\u2019t even bull**** her way through a five minute presentation about the eclipse to a bunch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/solution-found-behar-on-school-students-just-have-everyone-repeat-the-year\/\" title=\"SOLUTION FOUND: Behar On School Students: \u2018Just Have Everyone Repeat The Year\u2019\">public school kids<\/a> without diving headfirst into the most bizarre science fiction anyone has ever heard. This is like what would happen to me if I woke up one day and suddenly found myself standing in front of some sort of conference of mathematicians, expected to give a presentation about calculus. Except that I could probably get out at least one or two sentences before it becomes painfully obvious that I haven\u2019t the slightest clue what I\u2019m talking about. And also that\u2019s calculus. In Shiela Jackson Lee\u2019s case, she was asked to speak at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/father-eviscerates-critical-race-theory-teaches-my-daughter-her-mother-is-evil\/\" title=\"Father Eviscerates Critical Race Theory: Teaches My Daughter \u2018Her Mother Is Evil\u2019\">grade school level<\/a> about the Moon, and couldn\u2019t do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fortunately she did fact check herself during her remarks, checking with someone to make sure her science was accurate. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She was near it. Yes, about as near as the Earth is to Pluto. Which according to Sheila Jackson Lee is probably about 14 and a half miles or so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, there is no reason to belabor the point any more than I already have. The point is that this woman, quite literally, could not pass a first grade science exam. And yet she is a member of \u201cthe party of science,\u201d and has been a prominent congresswoman in that party for 30 years. And lest you think that perhaps this woman has not always been this stupid. Perhaps she is just another member of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-biden-stumble-into-a-new-world-war\/\" title=\"Will Biden Stumble Into a New World War?\">ruling political class<\/a> who is suffering from dementia or some other form of brain damage. Consider that way back in 1997 it was reported that this same congresswoman, then a member of the House Committee on Science, visited the Mars Pathfinder Operations Center in Pasadena, California and asked whether the Pathfinder \u2014 on Mars \u2014 had been able to find the flag planted there by Neil Armstrong. This question was not caught on camera, so after it was reported Sheila Jackson Lee\u2019s office accused the journalist of racism. But now we know, all these years later, that believing we visited and planted a flag on Mars is actually the least idiotic misconception this woman has about our solar system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are ruled by morons. By people who should not be trusted to walk across the room holding a pair of scissors. People who probably have to wear velcro shoes so that they aren\u2019t caught on camera struggling to tie their shoes. These are the people running the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The good news is that maybe we can convince them all to board a rocket ship and take a trip to visit the Sun. I hear it\u2019s nice this time of year. And that would solve a lot of our problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our political leaders are often described as corrupt, power-hungry, and even soulless. 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