# The dumbest public official (possibly dumbest person) in the universe. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 4, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993 "2013-03-04T14:01:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/21 "2013-03-06T00:37:01Z")
Pfft. I’ll see your dummy and raise you an [idiot from Atlanta…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-HCYgZo_og) Hank on [midgets](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yznX-hOFT4)… Hank [apologizes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMjcpIg1H6k)to “abnormally small” people. And Hank on various issues… “Thomas Jefferson was a terrorist, he went after the free people of Libya.” “[George] Washington, the racist might as well have had a KKK robe on under his powdered wig.” “Martin Luther King was on the verge of revealing Halliburton was stealing oil from Africa in April 1968, that’s why they took him out.” “White folks shouldn’t just pay reparations, the only REAL reparations will come when they go back to Europe and let the Africans have this country, and the Indians can go back to India too (and take their teepees).” “George Bush should be tried in the Hague for all the crimes against Africa during his regime.” “The benefits and salary that we get, we earn. It’s not elaborate, it’s just a bunch of poppycock that a lot of people have spread around trying to get us to hate our own government and our government representatives.” “I think we immediately need a Constitutional amendment to allow for the legislative branch to put controls on the so-called First Amendment rights of corporations to affect political campaigns.” We grow them pretty stupid in Georgia. The secret is the hot sun. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/22 "2013-03-06T04:12:58Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > I’d lay odds this tax loving, teabagging waste of skin is also a AGW denier to boot, which makes his CO2 comment hypocritical as well as idiotic to the extreme. I think you’d [win that bet](http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/apr/12/bill-moves-washington-state-plant-off-coal-by/): > [@](#): > > A bill that would gradually shut down Washington state’s largest coal-fired power plant cleared another hurdle Monday, paving the way to end coal-burning as a source of electricity in the Northwest. [The bill passed with an 87-9 vote and strong bipartisan support.] > … > Rep. Ed Orcutt, R-Kalama, voted against the bill, saying before the vote Monday that he didn’t like that the company was forced to the negotiating table. “Who is going to be the next target of the environmental community?” Orcutt asked. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/23 "2013-03-06T05:08:28Z")
Wasn’t this just this guy’s protest against the gasoline tax that Washington is set to pass? He’s making the same argument about bikes that the people who support the gas tax are making about cars. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/24 "2013-03-06T05:17:46Z")
> [@ducati](#): > > “White folks shouldn’t just pay reparations, the only REAL reparations will come when they go back to Europe and let the Africans have this country, and the Indians can go back to India too (and take their teepees).” This has a stark, zen beauty. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/25 "2013-03-06T13:17:54Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Wasn’t this just this guy’s protest against the gasoline tax that Washington is set to pass? He’s making the same argument about bikes that the people who support the gas tax are making about cars. Well, okay, if by “making the same argument” you mean something like extrapolating from ‘Polar bears are dangerous’ to ‘We should ban those animated Coca Cola ads because they’re too dangerous for the film crew’. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/26 "2013-03-06T17:30:42Z")
New contender for dumbest public official: Utah state senator Allen Christensen, who says that [if abortion is legal in Utah, cockfighting should be too.](http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865574791/Utah-lawmaker-opposes-cockfighting-bill-because-abortion-is-legal.html?pg=all) Christensen, “criticizing an anti-cockfighting bill, called cockfighting a natural event. He added, “yet we allow people to go ahead and murder their unborn babies”.” Yes, chickens “naturally” want to be fitted with razor-sharp metallic spurs so they can slash each other to death, which is exactly like legalized abortion, if you are insanely stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/27 "2013-03-06T17:36:48Z")
It\* is\* Utah. Maybe their abortion techniques are out of date. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/28 "2013-03-06T18:10:34Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > [QUOTE=ducati] > > “White folks shouldn’t just pay reparations, the only REAL reparations will come when they go back to Europe and let the Africans have this country, and the Indians can go back to India too (and take their teepees).” This has a stark, zen beauty. [/QUOTE] Yet, I feel stupider having just read it. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/29 "2013-03-06T18:18:37Z")
> [@ducati](#): > > “[George] Washington, the racist might as well have had a KKK robe on under his powdered wig.” > > “The benefits and salary that we get, we earn. It’s not elaborate, it’s just a bunch of poppycock that a lot of people have spread around trying to get us to hate our own government and our government representatives.” I don’t really get what’s so stupid about these two. The others, certainly. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/30 "2013-03-06T22:26:23Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Yet, I feel stupider having just read it. Is there any chance the guy is just yanking chains? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/31 "2013-03-07T02:59:07Z")
> [@ducati](#): > > “White folks shouldn’t just pay reparations, the only REAL reparations will come when they go back to Europe and let the Africans have this country, and the Indians can go back to India too (and take their teepees).” My Native friends are going to _love_ that one… ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/32 "2013-03-07T03:59:12Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > My Native friends are going to _love_ that one… Hey, it’s entirely possible that on their way to Siberia from Africa they passed through India. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/33 "2013-03-07T08:06:31Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Leaving the pol with a Cat 69 tattoo. 😉 You got grease WHERE? ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/34 "2013-03-07T09:30:35Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > Is there any chance the guy is just yanking chains? Start looking up Hank Johnson quotes and videos. He is the best argument for forced sterilization I know of. For anyone who voted for him, that is. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/35 "2013-03-07T16:09:47Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > New contender for dumbest public official: Utah state senator Allen Christensen, who says that [if abortion is legal in Utah, cockfighting should be too.](http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865574791/Utah-lawmaker-opposes-cockfighting-bill-because-abortion-is-legal.html?pg=all) > > Christensen, “criticizing an anti-cockfighting bill, called cockfighting a natural event. He added, “yet we allow people to go ahead and murder their unborn babies”.” > > Yes, chickens “naturally” want to be fitted with razor-sharp metallic spurs so they can slash each other to death, which is exactly like legalized abortion, if you are insanely stupid. Oh, “cockfighting” is outfitting _chickens_ with razors and letting them slice each other up. That’s a relief! For a second there, I thought…well, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/36 "2013-03-07T16:33:47Z")
**elucidator** , I made that joke once when I was 19, and I haven’t since. I conclude I am a better person than you. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/37 "2013-03-07T18:14:36Z")
Perhaps he’s only 19. That makes it a tie at best. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/38 "2013-03-07T19:07:20Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > You can’t make this shit up. Why? Cause fiction has to make sense. > I’m saving that link for the next time my Seattle friends make fun of politics in California. Yup. This is up there with people threatening to rip out the entrails and hang them with it of the people saying their religion isn’t a religion of peace. If an author was to put this in a novel or a movie people would critisize it as so unrealistic ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/39 "2013-03-07T20:37:42Z")
> [@ducati](#): > > And Hank on various issues… > > “ > “George Bush should be tried in the Hague…” > > . If we just leave it here, and assume he’s talking about the Shrub, then he’s not \*all \*crazy… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993/40 "2013-03-08T01:05:34Z")
> [@bup](#): > > **elucidator** , I made that joke once when I was 19, and I haven’t since. > > I conclude I am a better person than you. Gotta be one somewhere. Might as well be you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-public-official-possibly-dumbest-person-in-the-universe/651993.md?page=3)