Morning Jolt: Our Modern Outbreak of Idiocy

WITH JIM GERAGHTY

April 11 2024

On the menu today: Representative Sheila Jackson Lee tells a group of high schoolers that the moon "is made up mostly of gases." Senator Elizabeth Warren argues that Israel is pursuing genocide in the Gaza Strip. Former president Trump speculates that Joe Biden used cocaine before his State of the Union Address, and says he wants Biden to take a drug test before any presidential debate. And Marjorie Taylor Greene insists that Vladimir Putin, by invading Ukraine, is "defending Christianity."

We're in the very best of hands, America.

The Ridiculousness of Our Ruling Class

You could argue that spotlighting a spectacularly inane comment from 15-term Democratic Texas representative Sheila Jackson Lee is akin to shooting fish in a barrel. But I think spectacularly ill-informed lawmakers usually get too little grief for their idiotic comments, instead of too much.

Jackson Lee appeared at Houston's Booker T. Washington High School ahead of Monday's solar eclipse, and she offered some . . . curious remarks about astronomy ...

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