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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Researchers at the University of Minnesota believe that Republican members of Congress have obtained extremely high levels of herd mentality, a new study shows.
According to the study, the researchers found that, in obtaining herd mentality, the G.O.P. lawmakers have developed near-total immunity to damning books, news reports, and audio tapes.
Herd mentality was observed in congressional Republicans from every region of the country, with the exception of one senator from Utah, Mitt Romney, who was deemed an outlier and therefore statistically insignificant.
Davis Logsdon, the scientist who supervised the study, said that Republicans were exhibiting herd mentality to a degree never before observed in humans.
Herd mentality at these levels historically has appeared only in other mammal species, like lemmings, the researcher said.
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elleng
(130,861 posts)no joke.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)AkFemDem
(1,823 posts)Used to just do satire!
brer cat
(24,555 posts)and he didn't disappoint.
lastlib
(23,204 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)the sooner we can end this shit
amazing amt of analysis, as if they're studying fish without water