Among the great many useful properties of adjectives and adverbs in coloring language is that they allow one to apply relative quanta to that which they describe. For example, California and Texas are both large states geographically, but Texas is quantifiably larger than California. That doesn’t mean California is small, it’s just smaller than Texas. Alaska however is larger than both of them.

Similarly, when we say James Comer is dumber and more incompetent than Jim Jordan that doesn’t mean Jim Jordan is smart or competent. It’s not really quantifiable so much as really a gut feeling based on watching them on cable news and how they conduct themselves at hearings. They just freaking suck at this, and this morning Jim Jordan did nothing to disabuse that notion when Maria Bartiromo – who lately has been betraying a dim but noticeable awareness that these “Biden Crime Family” stories all complete bullshit – asked Jordan to quantify in relative terms which piece of evidence he and Comer have on Joe Biden is the most “damning,” as in politically disadvantageous.

Jordan actually gives Comer a run for his money when Gymbo said that it was the Devon Archer interview, referring to a July 2023 deposition in which one of Hunter Biden’s former business partners said, from the transcript, Archer was “not aware” of “any wrongdoing by Vice President Biden” and that he did not have “any knowledge of Joe Biden having any involvement with Burisma.”

Gym also told Bartiromo that blowing off a congressional subpoena is a serious criminal offense.