Subject: So many whacko Republicans
how weird is it that maddeningly-unindicted sex pest Matt Gaetz is now the host of a fringe-channel tv show? not as weird, apparently, as the clownfuckingly bizarre notions that rattle around inside Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett’s head. here’s a thing Tim actually believes: that space aliens live under the ocean — and the government is hiding this from us

Burchett: “I’ve talked to people that are sonar people, and the way they hide it from us, Matt, they say it’s because our sonar — I believe, I haven’t been briefed on this, this is just from what I’m putting together — but we have some secret sonar. but what’s so crazy about it, like we’re hiding it from the Chinese … but when they tell me something’s moving at hundreds of miles an hour, underwater … this one, it was larger than a football field, underwater. and this was a document case, and I have an admiral telling me this stuff.”

Gaetz: “so that’s where you think the bases are, is underwater then.”

Burchett: “I do, I do. I think, traveling light years, I think it happens, I think it’s possible.”

ohhhh-kaaaaaay. where do you even start with this gibberish? I’m really fucking tempted to ask, “Tim, all these space aliens and sonar experts and this admiral, are they in the room with us right now?” but I’m afraid Tim’s answer would be “yes, they are.”

people of Tennessee’s 2nd district, this is your elected official: a guy who when confronted — on live TV — with evidence of insurrectionists clubbing the shit out of cops on Jan 6, refused to believe it. but space aliens zipping through the oceans at hundreds of miles an hour? absolutely.

Tiedrich