Were it not for Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin would be, without any real argument from anyone, the dumbest Senator alive today. Were that not enough, Johnson was one of those Senators who just happened to find himself in Moscow on the Fourth of July weekend in 2018 (No one does symbolism quite like Putin and his sycophants, we suspect that Putin is taunting us, and he doesn’t even need to hide it.)

True to what one might expect of a senator who likes to hang out on the banks of the Volga, Johnson always seemed to be pushing the exact same theories that our intelligence services warned us would come from Russia.

Peculiar.

Ron Johnson is not about to let his MAGA man go down with a conviction and is happy to muddy the water even if in the normal court of events it would humiliate a person to death. He does know that the insurrection at the Capitol was “bad,” so we suppose he should be given kudos for that much of the effort. He also knows that Nancy Pelosi remains the perfect foil for any self-respecting MAGA. So, Ron Johson must believe that putting the entire insurrection on Nancy Pelosi’s doorstep makes perfect sense.

The fact that this is utter insanity doesn’t matter, Ron Johnson embodies utter insanity. Listen to the crazy:

Ron Johnson absurdly floats that Nancy Pelosi is somehow responsible for a MAGA mob descending on the Capitol for a deadly insurrection pic.twitter.com/hUi6SydEe1

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 7, 2021

What did Nancy Pelosi know and when did she know it? She knew that mobs were attempting to hunt her down in the Capitol in order to kill her, and she knew it right after Donald Trump sent his hordes up to Capitol Hill to foment an insurrection.

What else could possibly be relevant?

Absolutely nothing. Ron Johnson simply believes he’s being sly. But when a man as dumb as Johnson takes to the mic to cast doubt on the Democrats, it need not make any sense at all.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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