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anticipate that, sir. a local atlanta paper felt compelled to point out that mr. johnson as far as they could tell was not making an april fool s joke. we talked about the island of guam capsizing from the weight of all the new people there. but he kind of was making a joke there. he did not really think that guam was going to tip over. he was using metaphor as a commentary on the size of the u.s. military presence on the island and he was just being incredibly dead pan about it while he used that metaphor. turns out that congressman dead pan hank johnson is a very funny congressman. but he s so dead pan about it, he does not betray he s making a joke that other members of congress do not laugh when he s making jokes. his dead pan humor does not play in the room because the people with him do not get it. he s setting them up in a way that s just over their heads. here s the latest from congressman hank johnson on the subject of helium.
tell. zoom out. you can see it is way, way out there in the pacific ocean. if you think about flying from california to hawaii, if you do that, that gets you roughly half the way there. just keep going that distance again and you ll get to guam. guam is closer to the philippines and china than it is to hawaii. it is north of australia, so far west, it is east. technically guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the united states. the island sends a nonvoting delegate to congress. and guamians get to vote in a nonpreference poll when it comes time to vote for president. even if guam doesn t have a vote in the electoral college, but what they do have a huge military presence. the american military covers something like a third of the entire island. and those bases on guam are a big part of the u.s. military presence in that whole part of the world. that whole region of the pacific. couple of years ago, the pentagon considered building an even bigger military presence on the isl
the plan would ve increased the population of guam by almost half. and when that plan was being considered in congress, that s when a little known congressman from georgia named hank johnson spoke up in a hearing with this rather amazing comment on the giant u.s. military and its huge and maybe increasing presence on the tiny little island of guam. i don t know how many square miles that that is. do you happen to know? i don t have that figure with me, sir. i can certainly supply it to you if you d like. yeah. my fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize. we don t anticipate that. i love the navy admiral being there. i have to address the congressman s concern, we don t
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