Just Who Exactly is "Mentally Ill"?

Chris Nesi / New York Post:
Sen. Tommy Tuberville claims ‘many’ airline pilots, air traffic controllers are ‘part of the furry community’  —  Fly the furry skies.  —  Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville claimed the airline industry is full of members of the “furry” subculture in a bizarre speech from the Senate floor connecting transgenderism to mental illness.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:   One of Our Senators Actually Thinks Airline Pilots Are Secretly Furries
Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos:   GOP senator freaks out over ‘furries’ flying the friendly skies

Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:   GOP Senator Ahead of Midterms: Furry Airline Pilots Are ‘Terrifying’

Steve Benen / MS NOW:   Alabama's Tuberville worries aloud about airline personnel joining ‘the furry community’

Where'd he get the bizarre delusion that airline personnel are furries, & what is the connection between furries & these imaginary "terrifying furries"? The only "mental illnesses" here are football & being a Republican spud. Total fucking incoherent weirdoes, all of them.