This is Allen Quist, a retired political science professor, who helped Michele Bachmann win election to the state Senate in 2000. Allen Quist is a 70-year old soybean farmer, gay bathhouse troll who loves dragons and believes that humans and dinosaurs may have coexisted in Southeast Asia as late as the 11th century.
Quist was the 2012 GOP candidate for Minnesota’s District 1 seat in the House of Representatives. His platform and ideology bears a close resemblance to Bachmann’s – an enormous family and a love-hate relationship with modern science. In the 1990s, the power duo of Bachmann/Quist worked to take down Minnesota’s state curriculum standards, a gateway to a totalitarian society built on moral relativism. Quist has the distinction of helping facilitate Bachmann’s rise to power.
The Queen lunatic endorsed Quist while noting that in her opinion, the former state representative is a man of:
“INTELLECTUAL FIREPOWER”
Okay, Michele, let’s start with some of Quist’s prior accomplishments:
“During his time as a state representative, Quist…went undercover at an adult bookstore and a gay bathhouse in an effort to prove to a local newspaper reporter that they had become a ‘haven for anal intercourse.’”
Taking one for the team, as it were.
Quist lists himself as Adjunct Professor of Political Science at a religious college in Minnesota, the designated field of expertise for wingnuts interested in dinosaur-themed creative writing. One section of an online curriculum supplement written by Quist asks this leading question:
“Did dinosaurs and people live at the same time, and why do so many recently discovered ancient art works accurately picture dinosaurs?”
Yes, yes they did:
“The only reasonable explanation for the stegosaurus carved in stone on the wall of the Cambodian temple is that the artist had either seen a stegosaur or had seen other art works of a stegosaur. Either way, people and stegosaurs were living at the same time.”
(Elsewhere, Quist provides scientific evidence for the existence of dragons, and suggests that the Book of Job be taught as a science lesson: “Today we know beyond a reasonable doubt—Job 41 is a picture-perfect description of SuperCroc”.)
Okay, basically, here is how Time works.
There is The Past, which is everything between Ronald Reagan’s election and now, or else my birth and now, which ever happened first.
Then there is Olden Times, which is everything that happened in the olden days, between the Crucifixion of Jesus and Reagan’s election or my birth, whichever happened later.
Before that there is Prehistory, which is everything that happened between God creating the universe and Jesus’s Crucifixion.
The latter two categories all happened at once, and without years or dates or any of that because it’s all kinda vague and anyway were you there?