East Tennessee’s Tim Burchett, a Republican, said he believes that aliens must have the technological capacity to “turn us into a charcoal briquette”.

5 points

If I were an alien from another planet, I would definitely feed crazy, easily-dismissed people with some good information. That would make it way easier for me to fly under the radar.

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to fly under the radar

it’s more “flying under the sonar” underwater though, yeah?

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Check out other things he said, it fits. I wonder how people that stupid actually get voted into office. Shouldn’t people vote for someone smarter than themselves to represent them? Or did they?

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One of Dubya’s biggest selling points was that he was “someone you could have a beer with”.

So no, the people that vote for those kinds of people don’t want someone smarter than themselves. They want someone like themselves.

That was actually a part of Hilary’s trouble too: people just didn’t like her on a personality level, so they didn’t vote for her.

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It’s apparently illegal to have a beer with someone that’s not a complete imbecile in the US.

Probably one of those old laws that never got repelled.

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One of Dubya’s biggest selling points was that he was “someone you could have a beer with”.

Which is insane because W. went to a prep school and graduated from Harvard and Yale. His goofiness hid his incredibly privileged upbringing.

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All that was an act. This gubernatorial debate between him and Anne Richards shows that the bumbling GW the rest of the U.S. came to know in 1999 is not the same person here in 1994.

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Many people also feel threatened by people who are smarter than them. Very not trusting.

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I’ve seen so many UFO-related news during the last month, it’s insane. From that whistleblower to various reputable sources coming up with different pieces of info here and there.

It’s never aliens tho. What’s going on?

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There have always been a lot of wingnuts in the U.S., but at one time you could assume that if someone reached a position of power in the military or government, they probably weren’t completely insane.

That time has passed.

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2 points

Lead.

Chemicals in the water are turning the frogs humans gay stupid.

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Lead.

Knowing how worn out so much of the US’s infrastructure is at this point, I do wonder about all the modern contaminants - as well as all the lead in the air 40~ years ago.

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Fly underwater ? That is quite out there.

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East Tennessee’s Tim Burchett, a Republican, said he believes that aliens must have the technological capacity to “turn us into a charcoal briquette”.

Humans have that technological capacity, also.

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