Unserious
Rep. Luna and the JFK assassination.
We can add Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) to the list of deeply unserious members of the GOP caucus. Note that, as FNC reports, Anna Paulina Luna to lead task force on declassification of JFK assassination records, Epstein client list.
Note that at a press conference, she announced that as part of her efforts, the committee would be calling in the attending physicians who were at the hospital after Kennedy was shot as well as members of the Warren Commission.
Please note that all of these people are, well, dead.
She also appears to be a conspiracy theorist, which, of course, is exactly the kind of person you want on this kind of “investigation.”
On one hand, this is a minor story. On the other, this is an honestly troubling look into the House GOP caucus (which includes people like MTG and Lauren Boebert, amongst others, in a very narrow majority).
Further, it is just another piece of the puzzle of the unserious nature of the GOP writ large. And it is highly concerning that one of only two parties that can control the government is constantly showing itself to be so unserious (and worse, it’s the party currently in the majority).
Of course this is unserious, as well as truly stupid. But on the bright side this is at least one GOP member focused on harassing dead people instead of living ones, and she might bring some of the dimmer Members of Congress with her.
For God’s sake, how long would it have taken Luna (or one of her staff) to establish that ALL of these people are dead? In any case, you’d think they’d know already. Or at least been capable of assuming it.
This isn’t just unserious. It’s moronic.
I am sure folks in Western NC and LA, and other devastated areas of our country, are glad to hear we are investigating further into JFKs assassination. SMH. I for one would like a commission to investigate and reopen Lincoln’s assassination, ya know, I heard some things on the internet, just saying….O_o. Unserious indeed.
Inflation is increasing again, but the party that got elected to lower prices “on day one” wants to JFK conspiracy investigations?
They need investigate why states are unacceptably slow in building more housing, and why healthcare costs are still bankrupting families.
I wonder how many current elected GOP officials would have been JFK supporters during his lifetime.
Not generally a fan of counterfactuals, but this one seems pretty damn clear.
Accounting for the current ideological composition and depthof the GOP, I would hazard a guess that more than a few would have met his assassination with cheers.
On the other hand, Roger Stone was obsessed with it. Oh, wait, that’s because he pinned it on LBJ.
A government focused on wasted money and inefficiency, yet crap like this is considered a good use of taxpayer money? Bruh…I am at a loss
I’ll bet you almost anything that Luna couldn’t tell you what year Kennedy was assassinated, who did it, and what city it took place in. She might know that RFKJr. was related to him somehow but she probably never heard of Bobby or what happened to him.
Also, Steven, why no pic? We get pics of every ugly ass white man in politics. Why no Luna?
It may drive home the point just how unserious the voters in her district are.
@Kurtz:
Few if any–especially the populists. By the time of the assassination JFK’s unfavorable ratings were on a pretty steady rise.
https://historyinpieces.com/research/jfks-presidential-approval-ratings
JFK is a lazy wedge Presidency for people who want to mount an “unserious” argument about how “radical” Democrats have become. Some progressives try this with Reagan on a number of issues.
@Kurtz:
Finding a usable pic (I try to stick to the appropriate licenses) is time-consuming, and I just went with something in the archive.
@DK:
Finally we’re going to find out if Ted Cruz’s father was indeed on the grassy knoll as the motorcade went by. /s
This Republican Congress, as constituted after this election, is everything I thought it would be, and I thought it would be terrible. It’s worse that terrible.
@CSK: ” In any case, you’d think they’d know already. Or at least been capable of assuming it.”
The Warren report was released just over 60 years ago. And since Elon Musk wasn’t running the government, the commission was not staffed with 20-year-olds, but with men (all men) who had reached the highest levels of government — senators, congressmen, the chief justice of the supreme court. Which (especially in 1964), these guys were all at least in their 40s, which means they’d all be over 100 years old today. The odds of any of them being alive would be infinitesimal.
This woman is a moron.
Resonates with something I wrote on Monday
Our memory and history is being buried under a tsunami of daily content. Younger generations have lost details and contexts, swept away in a never ending, raging river of distracting stimuli. We, our human society, has hit its ceiling for assimilating its past.
@Steven L. Taylor:
I was joking. If I want to look at Luna, I have Google.
@wr: Elected by moronic voters to reflect a shared moronic worldview.
In fairness, five of the seven were already dead by the time Luna was born and a sixth while she was still in diapers, so she must have missed the news. But Gerald Ford’s death was definitely mentioned on Fox News in 2006, when she would have been in high school.
@al Ameda:
I’m sure the Black Sharpie Files will show it was Joe Biden shooting from grassy knoll.
@James Joyner:
I assume you’re being sarcastic here. A lot of people in government died before you and I were born, and we both know about their deaths.
An unserious person focusing her time and energy on unserious pursuits rather than hurting people. At least some of her time.
It could be worse. Look at the rest of the Republicans.
I don’t think that chatting about shortcomings in the government’s investigation into the JFK murder is merely crazy people doing stupid things. There are crazy people doing stupid things, but there is an agenda at work. Trump wants to reshape the FBI and the CIA. These organizations have a long standing position of trust and respect from the American people; there have been many movies and TV programs portraying them as good and smart. We have faith in Clarice Starling and Dana Sculley. To break down the goodwill that the FBI and CIA have banked with the American people it is necessary to reinvestigate some of the old cases. There are always some loose ends and inconsistencies that can be inflated into negatives. “We see all the failures clearly now. We are forced to purge these failed outfits!”
@Slugger:
Exactly. A set-up step for being Above the Law is to knock The Law down a few pegs.
This is the Anti-Intellectualism and Unreality elements of the fascism handbook playing out. Discredit trusted sources of expertise in order to establish your Unreality as more credible.
Properly ridiculed, stupid efforts like Rep. Luna’s investigation here can be used to thwart or slow the march of the emerging fascism. Don’t simply call them unserious, but call them out as dangerous.
@CSK: Dr J was definitely being sarcastic, I got a good laugh out of it!
I was curious about the fact that her last name fits her mental acuity, wondering if this was a case where a person’s name affects their personality. But no, from Wikipedia:
Can a British observer at this point observe:
wtf?
wtff?@
Rob1:
In the moronic inferno, time is a flat circle.
@Kurtz: Sorry–I get too literal sometimes!
The funny thing is that I checked and my best Flickr source actually had a pic of her!
House Republicans are also contemplating a resolution to deport Ilhan Omar, and another to rename Greenland as ‘Red White and Blueland’. At least it’s a welcome change from ‘Biden Crime Family™’ 24/7.