Dateline:   StupidVille, June 27, 2025

From time to time an Empty Award is given to the politician whose rhetoric is breathtakingly devoid of rational thought. Really stupid. But not just plain stupid. The winner has to be falling down dumb with a remember-to-breathe kind of vacuous mind.

This week the Award goes to Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn. Yesterday, Murphy disputed the effectiveness of Operation Midnight Hammer. He cited a partially leaked preliminary DIA report of “low level confidence” as his justification.

The report, which was issued hours after the bombing, did not include input from any other intelligence agency inside or outside the US. Since then, other intel organizations, national and international, have reported the complete destruction of Iran’s three nuclear sites.

Murphy’s dispute of the effectiveness of the Operation is stupid. But not Award winning. For sure, belief of a partially leaked, preliminary report unsupported by any other source is idiocy. But, it is also pretty SOP for politicians who want to destroy Trump’s agenda.

Murphy’s Award winning performance is his response to the question of whether he would have approved the Operation if he’d been advised of it beforehand. He firmly stated, “No…you cannot bomb knowledge out of existence.” In other words, if you develop world-ending weapon systems you are free to use them.

That remark truly takes the stupid cake. Murphy rejects the notion of defense of Country, protection of life and liberty, self-preservation. His extreme position is beyond destroying an agenda. It is societal suicide.