It's going to tip over!

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), speaking at a House Armed Services Committee meeting, made the bewildering claim that overpopulation could cause the island of Guam “to tip over and capsize.”

A spokesperson later made this statement on Johnson’s behalf:

I wasn’t suggesting that the island of Guam would literally tip over. I was using a metaphor to say that with the addition of 8,000 Marines and their dependents – an additional 80,000 people during peak construction to the port on the tiny island with a population of 180,000 – could be a tipping point which would adversely affect the island’s fragile ecosystem and over burden its already overstressed infrastructure.

Of course. The old “tip over and capsize” metaphor. You not crazy for this one, Hank Johnson.

Carry on.