Just when you thought she could not possibly be more ignorant and then let's her stupid shine.
Marjorie Taylor Greene just took stupid to a new low and the jokes write themselves.
Now the far-right congresswoman has offered her hot take on electricity, and let’s just say she’s not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
Specifically, she appears to be in disbelief about the existence of batteries — you know, those things that were invented in 1800 to provide power without the need for cords.
After learning that Air Canada recently placed an order for 30 electric airplanes, Greene expressed some rather dim concerns. True to form, she also managed to be as offensive as possible.
“Air Canada, get this, has ordered 30 electric airplanes…I mean, it shouldn’t surprise you, look who’s the president of — I mean, Justin Trudeau, right?” she told a crowd at the Texas Youth Summit.
It goes without saying, but Justin Trudeau is not affiliated with Air Canada.
Then she really went off the rails, comparing electric planes to… slave ships?
“We were talking, how is there an electric airplane and what does that look like?” she said. “Remember back a long time ago when you’ve seen movies where people in those slave ships and, they’re down there and they’re rowing, and they’re being whipped to row?”
“We’re saying, how are they gonna keep powering these electric airplanes, what are they gonna have, it’s like a spin class in a tube? Where they’ve got everybody riding spin cycles, and those mean nasty airline stewardesses that forced you to wear masks all the time on the plane…are they gonna be forcing you to like keep spinning to keep the airplane in the air? It’s absurd!”
Heart Aerospace, the manufacturer of the short-range planes, explained in a press release:
“The new airplane design, called the ES-30, is a regional electric airplane with a capacity of 30 passengers and it replaces the company’s earlier 19-seat design, the ES-19. It is driven by electric motors powered by batteries, which allows the airplane to operate with zero emissions and low noise.”
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Saw that on the news. What shocks me even more than this DIMwit is that so many follow her and it seems the dumber the comment the more her enablers like her. Maybe they think if someone dumber than they can get into office there is hope for them. A study showed this (non)reason was behind 'W's' popularity.
JackPedigo
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Sep 20, 2022
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If brains were dynamite, she would not have enough to blow her nose!
Barnie2years
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Sep 19, 2022
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As long as Heart Aerospace can figure out how to charge those batteries without causing greenhouse gases. I believe that coal fired electricity is the main source in the USA. But coal companies are good at lying.
One needs no qualifications to be elected to the senate or congress or many other political posts.
rogerbenham
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Sep 19, 2022
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Canada is the world's fourth largest producer of hydroelectricity, and is phasing out what coal power plants it has left. I think they're good. 
@Druvius Yes, I am aware of that but dams are not all glory. Vast amounts of concrete or unstable earth dams. The tailings ponds are a future nightmare.
From a North American viewpoint, all river valleys in BC, Oregon, Washington and California should be dammed. The trouble is that there just happen to be lots of people in those valleys. 2 or 3 dams could be put on the Skeena but the communities I know well would all be drowned.
Similarly, the Rocky Mountain trench could be several times dammed but again the wipes out lots of communities.
Do we want to push them through as the Chinese did?
@rogerbenham Yes, hydroelectricity isn't without its issues, in the tropics it is especially questionable. Better than coal though. And no emission planes are great no matter the way the batteries are charged.
@Druvius For sure, but it all is fairly moot as the real solution is so simple but there is no way the Western rich nations are going to do it. With a 1/3rd of the USA in complete denial, I can see no way to tell them that their standard of living must change right now. And the corporation act must be changed to a primary need to care for the environment as opposed to bringing profit to their shareholders and paying ridiculous salaries to their executives.
Perhaps insanely, I quit a salary of $400,000 because I preferred to live without pay to selling my soul to corruption.
An essentially untapped source of energy is the Yellowstone Caldera. The heat energy could probably provide energy for much of the US, but we'd lose much of Yellowstone...
@racocn8 as long as one does not cause it to blow. But that would somewhat reduce civilisation.
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