While Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene arrived at this week’s State of the Union address wearing a bulky white Chinese balloon-style costume and loudly heckled President Joe Biden throughout the event, Greene’s rival and fellow sophomore outrage condenser Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado made her biggest splash on Twitter with the following now-infamous but as-yet undeleted moment of ludicrousness:
We expect our astute readers to instantly recognize that this accusation is false, since it was governors and not presidents who made the decision to close schools during the early vaccineless phases of the COVID-19 pandemic–and that doesn’t matter anyway, since Donald Trump was President of the United States when the schools closed, not Joe Biden. Boebert wasn’t just a little bit wrong in this case, and her mindless poo-flinging betrayed a much deeper ignorance than even most Democrats would have presumed.
After barely surviving a re-election campaign she was supposed to win easily and promising afterward to “turn down the temperature” after two years as one of the most visible, least productive members of Congress, since returning to Congress in January Rep. Boebert has shown no sign whatsoever of changing course. Boebert’s calamitous stand against now-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy resulted in MTG severing any remaining public pretense of friendship. But as the Independent’s John Bowden reports, that didn’t stop the two from making themselves the “Q-some Twosome” stars of this week’s hearing of the House Oversight Committee, devoted to uncovering alleged censorship at Twitter before Elon Musk took over:
Reps Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert fumed about supposed shadow bans and censorship of conservatives, which Twitter executives have long denied ever occurred. Ms Greene, in particular, was so incensed that she ranted about how she would not let Twitter’s former head of safety, Yoel Roth, respond to her questions (thereby making it unclear why a hearing was necessary at all)…
Ms Boebert…used her question time to harrangue Mr Roth about whether he personally authorised the “shadowbanning” of her account, @LaurenBoebert; Mr Roth repeatedly stated that he did not, though Ms Boebert would insist otherwise while growing visibly emotional and claiming that “Twitter staff” had informed her “last night” that he had done so.
All in all, it was a chaotic mess that exemplified the tumultuous start of the 118th Congress, which took more than a dozen tries to elect a Speaker of the House and was widely mocked this week in the media and online after Ms Greene and others caused disruptions during the president’s State of the Union address.
After which Boebert more or less went off the deep end of nuttery:
So everyone’s clear, the “poll” Boebert is misquoting is a joke–and as for Boebert’s suggestion that Wednedsay’s Twitter issues were a conspiracy, Musk has had enough problems keeping the lights on that we’d hesitate to go there without very good evidence.
At this point, it doesn’t matter if MTG and Boebert are friends or blood rivals. The competition between these two bombastic figures to occupy the outer limits of the far right of the Republican Party is just another factor preventing Boebert from “turning down the temperature,” not that she would be inclined anyway. Whether it’s Boebert’s messianic conviction about her election to Congress or a simple inability to recognize self-injurious behavior, Boebert is freshly proving her inability to become less of a risk in a district Republicans shouldn’t have to worry about.
From county party turmoil to the halls of Congress, chaos reigns in today’s GOP.
In Colorado, Boebert remains the face at the top of the pile.
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Boebert learned exactly the opposite lesson she should have from almost losing. She's even more certain God is behind her.
She has to be voted out by Heidi Ganahl margins. It's the only way.
Yes, CD-3 is starting to resemble CD-4 circa 2006 and 2008.
Angie Paccione took on Musty – who was generally reviled by all with the exception of a small portion of the lunatic fringe of the GOP – and almost beat her.
By 2008, Marilyn's magic had worn off and the combination of revulsion towards Musgrave combined with a credible, well-financed opponent and a wave election with Obama at the top of the ticket sealed her fate.
Here's hoping 2024 does the same for Adam Frisch or whatever Dem gets the nomination if Frisch should decide not to run.
A gnat’s ass stretched over a rain barrel has more depth than that gene 🧬 pool.
All the comments spot on. If we could have awakened the sleeping independents and non MAGA conservatives earlier we would not put our district and country through this shit. I tried and so did others. We have not given up. Boobert does nothing but send me requests for money, never answers my letters, calls or emails for help from VA.. She is a total POS.
Sadly, I suspect that Lauren Boebert has no clue how to do anything else so she is merely going to repeat what has worked for her in the past.
Pew-pew says her “conservative” POV came from, in large measure, the humiliation of being forced to eat “government cheese” when she was a child. Her childhood story isn’t significantly more believable than that of George Santos, especially in view of her apparent taste for “campaign cheese” and that especially tasty “O&G cheese”.
What she has discovered, I suspect, is the superior qualities and richness of “the Lords’ cheese”. ( I use the term by reference to a comment I read on fb about ” the Lords’ chicken” at Chick- fil-A). As many might recall, I have predicted the eventual landing place of our holy warrior will be at the pulpit, milking and bilking millions out of those who need a hateful stand-in for their fear and loathing.
She is a natural.
I can’t wait for the day she breaks into tongues and calls in the Angels from Africa, ala Paula White.
I’m also looking forward to the day she condemns the government programs that made her cheese possible.
You know her stand on that. Socialist cheese for me, but not for thee.
Like Clarence Thomas and affirmative action.