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February 20, 2021 10:53 AM UTC

Boebert Ridicule Intensifies After Especially Stupid Tweet

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R).

The Hill reports on a Tweet yesterday morning, part of Rep. Lauren Boebert’s daily Twitter maelstrom in the image of Boebert’s Eternal President Donald Trump, that went viral on account of being so fundamentally clueless about the most basic constitutional principles taught in civics classes across the nation, that even by the highly relaxed factual standards of the Trump era, it’s honestly quite disturbing:

Twitter users mocked first-term Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) on Friday over a tweet in which she argued that defending the U.S. Constitution “doesn’t mean trying to rewrite the parts you don’t like.”

Users on Twitter were quick to point out to the gun rights advocate the many changes that have been ratified to the Constitution since it became the country’s official legal framework in 1788… [Pols emphasis]

Jezebel’s Ashley Reese:

On Friday, Boebert tweeted, “Protecting and defending the Constitution doesn’t mean trying to rewrite the parts you don’t like.” Okay, except, that’s literally what Constitutional amendments do.

I’m sure there are quite a few of those amendments that Boebert enjoys quite a bit, like the 19th amendment, which grants her the right to vote, or the first amendment, which allows her to say all the dumb shit she wants without the government throwing her into prison.

As Raw Story reports, Boebert doesn’t seem to understand that she herself is co-sponsoring legislation to (wait for it) amend the U.S. Constitution:

The newly elected Colorado Republican insisted the Constitution shouldn’t be revised, which, of course, Congress has done 27 times in a process laid out by the founding document — and Boebert herself has co-sponsored an amendment that would subject lawmakers to term limits. [Pols emphasis]

As Huffington Post’s David Moye reports, the judgment of the Twitters was swift and unsparing:

If you’re a politician who has promised to uphold the Constitution, it might help if you’re actually familiar with what that document includes…

Boebert’s tweet was sadly misinformed ― the Constitution was designed to change with changing times, hence the rules for adding amendments.

So after Boebert suggested that “protecting and defending the Constitution doesn’t mean trying to rewrite the parts you don’t like,” many Twitter users decided to give her the civics lesson she apparently missed in high school.

It’s a situation in which Boebert’s defenders–here’s looking at you, Dick Wadhams–might look for an alternative interpretation, maybe an acknowledgement that the point was made clumsily but “what she really meant is…” Except you can’t do that in this case. There’s just no way to make what Boebert said even remotely make sense.

The depth of ignorance suggested by this Tweet from Rep. Boebert obviously invites the massive outpouring of social media ridicule she received in response to it yesterday. Here also once again Boebert’s critics risk in the intensity of their ridicule defensive pushback over what’s been described as “elitist prejudice” against Boebert. While it’s true that people from all walks of life have contributions to offer to the civic life of the nation, that does not spare anyone from being corrected, even lampooned, when they say something that reveals they don’t understand a subject central to their job on a fundamental level.

Who knows? Next time Boebert hears the words “Second Amendment,” the light may go on.

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        1. Can you imagine the bullshit that’s going to be flowing at the Mar-a-Lago Ballroom in about 15 minutes as the MAGA’s assemble for their $10,600/couple grassroots hootenanny???  

        2. It gets worse, Duke. Note the name Caroline Suplizio on the invitation. She’s a career political fundraiser who was wife No. 2 of Sam Suplizio, the baseball promoter and longtime JUCO chairman in Grand Junction. He died in 2006 but she obviously returned to her usual haunts.

           

          1. I did get to know, professionally, Sam Suplizio, but not too well. I did, however, play some pretty competitive softball with bankers and such a few decades ago. His friends and associates are some of the most powerful and influential people in the valley.

    3. Shooters isn't licensed to sell liquor.  So, there will need to be further inquiry into the proprietors' and staff's favorite Constitutional clause. 

      Here's hoping they don't merge elements and begin to favor the right to bear claws.

      1. They can’t  do that- it would contradict A2 language that citizens have the right to arm bears! 
         

        And who can forget Michelle Obama’s controversial display of Bare Arms?

  2. An amendment is hard to pass for a reason. It takes two thirds of both chambers of Congress, and three fourths of the states, for a reason. What Q*bert said is absolutely true: defending the Constitution means to refrain from attempting to rewrite the parts of the Constitution you don't like. Only when there is broad, diverse, and overwhelming consensus, both on a national level and between the states, may it be acceptable that a portion of our supreme law be altered. If YOU don't like it, tough shit. Only if so many people agree with you that it is fair to characterize the nation as agreeing with you may you alter the nation's charter.

    At this point, we are so divided, I don't see anybody agreeing that much about much of anything. So we should, temporarily, regard the Constitution as unalterable, anyways.

  4. Boebert encouraged Three Percent militiaman Glen Wes Lee Croy of Colorado Springs to riot in DC January 6. Croy was arrested February 17. He is the seventh Coloradan to be arrested for Jan 6 rioting, , and the second to have had direct communication with Boebert. The other was Robert Gieswein, who posed with other militia outside her restaurant, and at the Capitol. Klete Keller, Patrick Montgomery, Jeffrey Sabol, Harlan Boen, and Stanley Williams have also been arrested for their roles in the insurrection.

    On Dec. 27, 2020, Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert tweeted “who is going to be in DC on January 6th to stand with President Donald Trump?”

    Croy, using a Twitter account that has since been disabled, replied, “fellow Coloradan we will be there,” according to the criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court and unsealed on Wednesday.

     Croy in front of the Lincoln bust with a confederate. Credit: US District Court

      2. Mr. Cox,

         

        Could you explain please (if known) the etymology of the term "Pew-Pew" where Congressclown Boebert is concerned? I suspect it has to do with the sound a child makes when imitating the report of a firing weapon…

         

        Much obliged.

        1. Winner, winner! Chicken Dinner.! You will note she often waves her right index finger as though it were her Glock.

          And please..Mr. Cox was a nice, southern gentleman, but passed away a couple of years ago..

          I’m Duke. 😊

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