January 23, 2024 02:54 PM UTC

Lauren Boebert Returns to Her Crazypants Roots

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• by: Colorado Pols

Back when Lauren Boebert was still a relatively-unknown aspiring politician hoping to unseat incumbent Republican Rep. Scott Tipton, about the only thing that anybody seemed to know about her was that she liked to pair a handgun with high heels and was a big fan of QAnon conspiracy theories.

Boebert has never given up the “handgun and high heels” shtick, but after upsetting Tipton in June 2020, she did try to crawl back from the edge of the Qliff and clarify that it was really her mother who was the true QAnon enthusiast. “I’m not into conspiracies,” Boebert told Fox 31 in July 2020. 

Boebert’s attempts at dismissing her love for QAnon always seemed half-hearted; she eventually realized that she could follow the lead of former BFF Marjorie Taylor Greene and raise a lot of money by parroting idiocy to her social media followers. Boebert quickly raised her conspiracy game in order to catch up with MTG and former Rep. Madison Cawthorn, repeating every asinine conspiracy theory — most of which she barely understood — that showed up in “The Epoch Times” before making its way onto Fox News. Before long she was rushing to barf out the latest nonsense via fringe right-wing media channels, holding court on topics ranging from the “Great Replacement Theory” to gibberish about Republicans making gains in the “spirit realm.”

Entering her first re-election campaign in 2022, Boebert kinda sorta tried to focus her carnival barking on more “mainstream” partisan antics — like screaming at President Biden during his 2022 State of the Union speech.  She made a brief effort to dial that back after nearly losing to Democrat Adam Frisch, but that lasted about as long as a visit to the theater. By early 2023, Boebert was back to barreling ahead with her version of performative politics, with antics such as holding up pictures of dead fetuses in a congressional hearing about the Endangered Species List. Boebert eventually wore out her welcome in the third congressional district and made the Qurious decision to run for an open seat in CO-04 instead of seeking re-election in her home district.

Now that Boebert is untethered from the bothersome task of pretending to do her actual job as a Member of Congress, she has come full circle back to where she started: Shouting out absurd and largely-forgotten conspiracy theories!

Ah, “The Great Reset.”

Wait, what was that again?

“The Great Reset” conspiracy is popping up again because this is the time of year when the globalist lizard people get together in Davos, Switzerland for the annual “World Economic Forum” and plot out how they will force people to eat bugs, or whatever. This silliness originated in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as the Anti-Defamation League explains:

The conspiracy first surfaced in earnest in June 2020 after the World Economic Forum—the prominent international non-governmental organization behind the annual Davos conference—introduced “The Great Reset” initiative, an effort to reduce global inequality and advance environmental initiatives in the wake of the devastation of the coronavirus.

The Great Reset conspiracy theorists argued that this announcement was proof that global elites want to use the coronavirus as a tool to reorganize global societies and economies to their benefit at the expense of ordinary people, with the ultimate goal of a global totalitarian regime… 

…While the conspiracy transcends American politics, unsurprisingly some of the theory’s supporters have weaponized it against the incoming Biden administration, warning that it will be used to usher in radical changes, including using the coronavirus as a pretense to impose lockdown measures, destroying small businesses and weakening the economy, stripping away people’s freedoms, increasing mass surveillance and forcing vaccines on Americans. Similar to QAnon adherents, many Great Reset believers cast President Trump as the only person between the American people and these disastrous outcomes. [Pols emphasis] 

Both “The Epoch Times” and Fox News recently published updates on “The Great Reset,” ringing the bell for its Pavlovian audience and prompting Boebert to use the occasion of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary to rile up the morons once more. This is the same sort of crap that helped Boebert get elected in 2020, and she’s hoping history will repeat itself now that she is running in a different congressional district.

These callouts will no doubt bring in small dollar donations for Boebert’s campaign and earn her a pat on the head from Donald Trump, but they also serve as a reminder to a new group of Republican voters in CO-04 that Boebert is absolutely not a serious person.

Is this the right political strategy for Boebert to prolong her career in Congress? Probably not…but it’s really the only thing she knows how to do.