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America's 20 Craziest Politicians
My thought Gohmert just sneaks in at 17.
By Stephen Sherrill
Illustrations by Ward Sutton
November 30, 2014
How do you feel about facts? Do you hate them? Are they super annoying, like science? Are you frightened of communists, Muslims, and vaginas? Good news! This month, America is inaugurating a new class of elected representatives, and while some of them are bright, able politicians, a few of them are seriously looney. And they'll be in good company
_NOTE: These crazy politicians are NOT ranked in order of craziness. They all crazy in equal amounts. _
Rep. Ted Yoho [R-Fla.]
Just how crazy?
Claimed he sees "one side of our government, or two-thirds of it, running one hundred miles an hour toward socialism" and that conservatives like him "are like Fred and Barney in the Flintstone-mobile, trying to stop that."
Actual thing he said:
Explained his opposition to a proposed tanning-bed tax thusly: "I had an Indian doctor in our office the other day, very dark skin and two non-dark-skinned people, and I asked..., ’Have you ever been to a tanning booth?’ And he goes, ’No, no need.’ So therefore [the tax] is a racist tax, and I thought I might need to go get to a sun-tanning booth twice so that I can come out and say...I got taxed because of the color of my skin."
Fun fact:
Is a large-animal veterinarian.
Think of him as:
Joseph McCarthy, if he could deliver a calf.
https://www.gq.com/story/craziest-politicians
My thought Gohmert just sneaks in at 17.
By Stephen Sherrill
Illustrations by Ward Sutton
November 30, 2014
How do you feel about facts? Do you hate them? Are they super annoying, like science? Are you frightened of communists, Muslims, and vaginas? Good news! This month, America is inaugurating a new class of elected representatives, and while some of them are bright, able politicians, a few of them are seriously looney. And they'll be in good company
_NOTE: These crazy politicians are NOT ranked in order of craziness. They all crazy in equal amounts. _
Rep. Ted Yoho [R-Fla.]
Just how crazy?
Claimed he sees "one side of our government, or two-thirds of it, running one hundred miles an hour toward socialism" and that conservatives like him "are like Fred and Barney in the Flintstone-mobile, trying to stop that."
Actual thing he said:
Explained his opposition to a proposed tanning-bed tax thusly: "I had an Indian doctor in our office the other day, very dark skin and two non-dark-skinned people, and I asked..., ’Have you ever been to a tanning booth?’ And he goes, ’No, no need.’ So therefore [the tax] is a racist tax, and I thought I might need to go get to a sun-tanning booth twice so that I can come out and say...I got taxed because of the color of my skin."
Fun fact:
Is a large-animal veterinarian.
Think of him as:
Joseph McCarthy, if he could deliver a calf.
https://www.gq.com/story/craziest-politicians
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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