No so bright Sunny Hostin wins this week's "The View" Dummy Award

"I was like, yo."

It's hard to imagine anyone of at least average intelligence conflating earthquakes, emerging cicadas and solar eclipses with climate change. They are not related other than the fact that they happen and we can observe these events. And regarding eclipses and cicadas, they are quite predictable, with earthquakes less so.

Then we have the women of "The View," America's most notable overachievers. Of these "geniuses" the winner of this week's Dummy Award is the execrable Sunny Hostin, a woman whose given name is an oxymoron as she is one of the least bright people in the public eye.

Hostin suggested that for some, and for herself, the fact that an earthquake, emerging cicadas and a solar eclipse all happening in the same year, proves that climate change is real. It's an idiotic opinion regarding unrelated phenomena, and while her co-hosts would normally go along with most idiotic positions, Hostin actually got some blowback from her comrades.

"All those things together would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on," Hostin said Monday.

Something is really going on? What is she alluding to? Aliens? Trump?

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake was felt across New York and New Jersey on Friday and on Monday the highly anticipated and totally predicted solar eclipse occurred across the continental U.S. and Canada.

Hostin also recalled how her studio makeup artist "put on her coat" and "ran down the hallway" during the earthquake, saying "Jesus is coming" and "the rapture is here." This is mainly due to the idea that in order for one to work for the women of "The View," one has to be crazy.

What was unpredictable was that co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg disagreed with her take on the effects of global warming on the moon and sun, and bugs that come around every 17 years.

"Except earthquakes are not at the mercy of climate change. It's underground. It can’t," Behar said, baffling Hostin with her brilliance.

"How about the warming of the planet?" she responded.

"No, it happens," Goldberg said. "And the eclipse, they've known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen, and they actually can say when these things are going to happen."

The audience was now totally confused, not knowing who to believe.

Hostin pointed out how it was the first time in 100 years that two different cicada broods would emerge for their mating seasons at the same time, but Goldberg promptly shut her down, arguing it happens every 17 years.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin also joked that Trump caused the quake, "I read online that the earthquake epicenter was actually at Bedminster in New Jersey … Fun fact. So, it originated with Trump."

The audience was now really, really confused because a fake conservative told them what they already believed.

Others have caught big blowback for similar stupid takes, including Green Party member and U.S. Senate candidate for New Jersey Christina Amira Khalil. Her tweet went viral after she posted a similar theory to social media claiming the earthquake that rocked New York and New Jersey on Friday was caused by climate change.

Whatever happened to, "I don't know what a woman is; I'm not a biologist?" when it comes to earth science and astrophysics?

"I experienced my first earthquake in NJ. We never get earthquakes," she said. "The climate crisis is real. The weirdest experience ever."

Khalil is not an earth scientist, but she's definitely a moron. 

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