If brains were dynamite, Louie Gohmert couldn't blow his nose

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, put a new spin on his “gay island” story, arguing on the House floor that the push for LGBT rights is wrong because we would never choose to send gay couples or gay animals into space to start a new colony like in the Matt Damon movie “The Martian.”…. [D]ue to the attacks on “natural order” and religious freedom, Gohmert said, “we don’t have much longer to go.”…. Gohmert also cited the work of Jonathan Cahn, a far-right End Times preacher who believes God is punishing America (and France) due to gay marriage with events such as the 9/11 attacks, to assert that the end is near. He also claimed that transgender people are disordered and “perverse” individuals who need help.

One of the reasons I started this blog almost 15 years ago was because of my lifelong fascination with human stupidity. I’m not talking about a common, garden-variety, Darwin Award-worthy dearth of intellectual agility. That may be in some instances humorous, but it generally bores me. No, I’m talking about the willful, consciously chosen ignorance of reality chosen by some in public life (too many of them Conservative Republicans). One need only to look as far as former Congresswomen Michele Bachmann to understand my fascination with the willfully intellectually vacant. Her musings about how the End Times are upon us and that Liberals are unlikely to be granted access to the Kingdom of Heaven (God’s a Republican, don’tchaknow??) are truly the stuff of legend. Let’s face it; Bachmann was to intellectual vacancy what Steph Curry is to the three-point shot. As earnest as she is intellectually deficient, she was unchallenged when it came to securing the honor of being America’s Dumbest Congressperson ©. In a body replete with intellectually stunted Right-wing demagogues, Bachmann’s ability to protect her title over the long haul was beyond impressive.

Her retirement from Congress left a vacuum, if only for a nanosecond. Rushing in to fill the anti-intellectual void was Rep. Louie Gohmert, an ambulatory “WTF???” moment if ever there was one. Since ascending to the throne as America’s Dumbest Congressperson ©, Gohmert has consistently and repeatedly proven his worthiness. His latest magnus opus was a performance on the House floor belaboring the need to ensure we don’t send gay couples or gay animals into space. That could be a problem if, like Matt Damon in The Martian, we ever have to start a space colony…which seems unlikely. Then again, as ANY real American knows, life very often imitates the movies…especially ones starring Damon.

One of Gohmert’s staffers should really be responsible for ensuring Rep. Gohmert has taken his medication before stepping in front of a microphone on the House floor.