East Tennessee’s Tim Burchett, a Republican, said he believes that aliens must have the technological capacity to “turn us into a charcoal briquette”.

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    Check out other things he said, it fits. I wonder how people that stupid actually get voted into office. Shouldn’t people vote for someone smarter than themselves to represent them? Or did they?

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      One of Dubya’s biggest selling points was that he was “someone you could have a beer with”.

      So no, the people that vote for those kinds of people don’t want someone smarter than themselves. They want someone like themselves.

      That was actually a part of Hilary’s trouble too: people just didn’t like her on a personality level, so they didn’t vote for her.

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        One of Dubya’s biggest selling points was that he was “someone you could have a beer with”.

        Which is insane because W. went to a prep school and graduated from Harvard and Yale. His goofiness hid his incredibly privileged upbringing.

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        It’s apparently illegal to have a beer with someone that’s not a complete imbecile in the US.

        Probably one of those old laws that never got repelled.