For all of his faults, at least Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) is consistent. He can always be relied upon as a source of unashamed idiocy. He is a rabid conspiracy theorist, especially when it comes to matters of national security.
After having spoken at length about how President Obama has approved training missions in Texas for invasion purposes (because, you know, a nation can invade itself), America’s dumbest Congressman has lifted novelist Tom Clancy to Nostradamus levels, citing one of his novels to bolster a hilariously asinine claim that Islamic militants have joined forces with Mexican drug cartels.
“Like Tom Clancy had written about in a novel years ago, they are linking up with cartels and they’re putting America at risk.”
As a point of reference, Rep. Gohmert has been in Congress for ten years.
In Tom Clancy’s 2011 novel?Against All Enemies, Taliban militants and Mexican drug cartels form an alliance in the hopes of dealing major damage to America, because that’s Tom Clancy’s business model.
However, since Rep. Gohmert seems to believe the writings of Tom Clancy to be the work of a prophet — despite them actually being the work of a “profit” — the plot of?Against All Enemies?is more than enough to peddle the idiotic conservative narrative that ISIS and Mexican drug cartels are working together, so WE MUST SECURE THE BORDER, DAMMIT!!
I mean, seriously, Gohmert. What the hell? Has the fundamental lack of evidence to support an alliance between ISIS and Mexican drug cartels gotten you so flustered and desperate, that you have to resort to the literary mediocrity of Tom Clancy to convince the residents of towns like Muleshoe that the southern border needs to be closed? Has Tom Clancy really become the justification for your insistence that we need to keep the Mexicans out?
What’s next, Louie? Did?Oliver Twist?predict Jade Helm?
