Louie Gohmert, a House Rep from Texas, is a familiar proponent of far right viewpoints and routinely repeats far right disinformation and talking points. He was angrily complaining about the treatment of Peter Navarro, who was indicted for contempt of congress.
"We have a two-tiered justice system. If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you. They're going to bury you, they're going to put you in the DC jail and terrorize and torture you and not live up to the Constitution there."
-- Louie Gohmert, June 3, 2022 to a Newsmax Reporter
Gohmert, as is typical of many Republicans on the far right, has a terrible understanding of scientific facts or the associated mathematics. He raised a question based a lack of knowledge about climate and its relationship to the moon's orbit - and also the earth's orbit around the sun. The most stupid of ideas sprouts from a desire to literally move all of the mountains and oceans in order to accommodate the fossil fuel industry.
“I understand from what’s been testified to, the Forest Service and the [Bureau of Land Management], you want very much to work on the issue of climate change. I was informed by the past director of NASA that they’ve found the moon’s orbit is changing slightly and so is the Earth’s orbit around the sun. We know there’s been significant solar flare activity, and so — is there anything that the NationalForest Service or BLM can do to change the course of the moon’s orbit, or the Earth’s orbit around the sun? Obviously that would have profound effects on our climate.”
-- Louie Gohmert June 8, 2021
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe had observed something critically important about solutions posed by climate deniers, which is also applicable in other areas where Republicans oppose resonable solutions. Republicans are deliberately evading the true solutions by offering wrong, but palatable, excuses. They are actually protecting parties with an interest in the problems NOT being solved.
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