November 15, 2023 10:31 AM UTC

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Drops Skyhook on Lauren Boebert

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• by: Colorado Pols

We definitely didn’t see this one coming.

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar used his substack page on Tuesday to criticize Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump…but not before using the occasion to hammer Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-ifle). Yes, we understand that it would be a simpler reference to say that Kareem “dunked” on Boebert, but as basketball fans we feel it is more appropriate to shout out the Hall of Famer’s signature skyhook shot.

In his substack segment titled “This Week in Dumb & Dangerous Statements by Politicians,” Abdul-Jabbar points to a recent Newsweek article that mocked a recent fundraising request from Boebert’s re-election campaign:

MY TAKE: I am not among those who delighted in Boebert’s fall from media grace when she acted foolishly at a theater performance. Yes, there was some low-hanging hypocrisy to feast on, but mostly I saw a woman who’d recently suffered twin blows of divorce and the discovery that her 17-year-old son was going to be a father. Regardless of the positive political spin she tried to put on both, I’m sure they were personally devastating.

Rather, I prefer to focus on her ineffectiveness and irrationality as a legislator of uncommon thickness who doesn’t deserve to be in government on any level. Today, we’ll just deal with her campaign tweet [My comments are in bold and brackets.]:

In less than one year, Colorado’s 3rd District is going to be THE battleground district that will determine if we keep the House or not. [This allows her to bypass her personal lack of achievements in her job and make the election about the GOP keeping control of the House. She’s signaling how important she is as a political placeholder rather than a hard-working legislator. Also, this is not “THE battleground” but one of several around the country.] My opponent has Hollywood elites [Dog whistle wording: Hollywood elites=rich liberals. She wants to imply that these champagne-slurping celebrities aren’t like the common work-a-day people who support her. Of course, she doesn’t name any of these “elites,” who, if they exist at all, could be movie business executives and not celebrities.] POURING money into his campaign. [“POURING” must mean a lot since it’s all in caps. That has the sinister feel of a conspiracy. She doesn’t say how much her opponent has raised, nor how much she’s raised. Perhaps no one likes her enough to POUR money her way.] Can I count on you to help me push back against their dark money [“Dark money” sounds nasty. She’s betting that people don’t know what it is and just generally are put off by the term. She also doesn’t offer any evidence that dark money—which is legal—is actually being used. Are we also meant to believe that if large businesses donated dark money to her, she’d turn it down?] and support our campaign today? 

This is a strong take by the player nicknamed “Cap” (short for “Captain”). Now, Abdul-Jabbar doesn’t live in Colorado or have any particular connection to the third congressional district, but this is another indication of how Boebert has so thoroughly embarrassed her constituents that she has reached a level of infamy that will make it nearly impossible to reset the narrative before the 2024 election.

We’ll let “Cap” close things out with a (purple and) golden conclusion:

Let’s not dwell on her vaping and groping, and miss the bigger sin. As of January 2022, she had introduced seventeen bills and seven resolutions, with none passing the committee. However, in an effort to really become significant, in February 2023, Boebert co-sponsored a bill to designate the “AR-15-style rifle” the National Gun of the United States. She also submitted resolutions to impeach President Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris. Donating money to her is like rubbing dirt on a gaping head wound.

Donating to Lauren Boebert “is like rubbing dirt on a gaping head wound.”

Oof.