Have they thought this through?

A recent New York Post story contained this interesting tidbit, "Empire State law has been turning markedly softer on younger criminals, driven in part by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s theories that under-21s’ brains are still developing."  An extension of Heastie's logic is that under-21s should not be allowed to vote, if they can not be held accountable for their felonious acts.  Has Heastie thought this through?  

There there is the Tampa Bay Times story about the candidate for the Florida State House who falsified her college degree, including posting what has been characterized as a doctored diploma.  After being caught,  "I would like to apologize to my family and my supporters for this situation," Howard said in a statement. "It was not my intent to deceive or mislead anyone. I made a mistake in saying that I completed my degree. What I did was wrong and set a bad example for someone seeking public service. I am staying in the race and intend to win and lead by example from now on."  A mistake in claiming to have graduated?  Hmmm?  Let's see, the portion where she says she will, "lead by example from now on" leaves one wondering what she was doing before her misrepresentation (a six syllable word for lying) to the voters?  Has she thought this through?

Moving on, a Wall Street Journal story reported "Democratic Socialist congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said last week that 'unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs' and 'people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely feed their family.'  Yet, according to the story, the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate last "month 7.6 million, or 4.9%, of the 155.5 million working Americans had multiple jobs."  Certainly seems Ocasio-Cortez didn't think it through.  Of course, according to the piece in the Washington Examiner, she said a report "shows that 'Medicare for all' is actually much more – is actually much cheaper than the current system that we pay right now,” flying in the face of reports of a $32T increase for her Medicare for all proposal.  Apart from being less than verbally adroit, it's clear she didn't think this through.

Kind of reminds one of the oft reported Darwin awards for just plain stupidity.