What goes, “Mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble BOOM! Mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble BOOM!”

Gov. David Ige, apparently.

Hawaii’s unleaderlike leader doesn’t really say much, but every so often he drops a bomb and then drops the mic. No discussion. No consensus-building. No town meetings or listening sessions. Ige likes an imperial fiat every once in a while.

His latest:

Hawaii is welcoming Syrian refugees. WHAAAAAT???

The reactions were swift, vehement and sometimes overwrought. For one day, for maybe the first time in his life, Ige was the hot topic of social media in Hawaii.

It was a bit of political say-anything-because-it’ll-never-happen on Ige’s part. Is the U.S. really going to ship these beleaguered people all the way to the middle of the Pacific Ocean to join a community that is already bursting at the seams, packed on top of one another and priced only for the very wealthy to live comfortably?

To be fair, Ige was reacting to a national poll of the states. He might have gotten even more grief if he had answered, “Nah, pass.”

But it made people wonder whether Hawaii’s governor sees what we see.

Perhaps, we thought, Ige believes Hawaii’s homeless problem is on the verge of being solved. Or is solvable. Or will magically resolve itself in part due to his, I dunno, recent trips to Asia.

Perhaps Ige has faith that the hopelessly broken Hawaii Health Connector will be magically restored and Hawaii can offer health insurance to new refugees.

Perhaps Dawn has an old family recipe for beef stew that can stretch to serve 100 at $3 per person, and all refugees will come with a fistful of federally funded Foodland gift cards.

But wow, you’d think the governor would talk with us and look around before he started inviting more folks to climb up on the rock. Before you open the doors to guests, you should really clean your house.

The next day, Ige called a hasty news conference to mumble through an explanation.

“This Syria issue is not of my making. It’s certainly not anything that I’ve spent any significant time on other than responding to media requests, so thank you all for keeping me busy,” he said to reporters with as much limp sarcasm as he could muster. When forced by the public to explain himself, maybe for the first time since he was elected, Ige sounded irritated.

So an influx of Syrian refugees is not imminent. Facebook can stand down for now. Ige can mumble-grumble about the media until the next time he drops a bomb.

If there are discussions in the Hawaii community as to the wisdom of welcoming in refugees, the focus should be on housing, employment, health care and the lousy track record our state has of organizing and administering programs to help the needy. Religion and cultural differences need not be part of the conversation. Hawaii can handle differences. Tolerance — we got that. Space? Yeah, we’re running out.