I’ve seen some stuff in almost 40 years of watching the world for a living.
But the sheer sustained force of GOP U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s “you’re-making-that-up” eldritch is like nothing I’ve ever encountered.
Just about every single day, Boebert broadcasts sometimes dozens of freaky to creepy exclamations on Twitter or Fox TV like a pulsating Rain Bird sprinkler tapped directly into the wobbling head of the long-gone Laughing Sally outside the Lakeside Amusement Park Fun House.
What boggles the mind, is that the media has either so tired of pointing out Boebert’s boundless sagacity, or decided reporters are only making it worse by repeating or drawing attention to all that Boebert goes off on, all day, every day — without accountability.
Don’t take it from my conclusions that not only is Boebert not OK, but that allowing official members of the government to spew this stuff, as if it makes sense or even hovers nears reality, actually makes the media, and everyone, complicit in whatever it is that Boebert is moving toward.
Here’s just a few recent highlights and some observations:
Boebert: “Dear men, you will never be woman enough to be a female.”
Perry: (I know a lot of women who are so much more than reproductive organs)
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Boebert: “There are only two genders.”
Perry: (Choose carefully)
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Boebert: “Fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction. It’s time to aggressively address this crisis!”
Perry: (The top causes of death in the US are heart disease, cancer and COVID-19. Suicide, often by gun, rates far above fentanyl overdoses. But yes, years into enveloping opioid addiction, now would be a good time to save lives.)
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Boebert: “1984 called and they want their bleak, immoral, thuggish and deadly totalitarian dystopian future back.”
Perry: (George Orwell – “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”)
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Boebert: “It is immoral to signal to poor and desperate people to put their lives in the hands of the cartels and come here illegally. This breaks my heart. CLOSE THE SOUTHERN BORDER!”
Perry: (SEE BELOW)
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Boebert: “The Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents caught nearly 4,000 migrants over the Memorial Day Weekend. More than 1,600 migrants avoided apprehension and made their way into the United States. Make no mistake, this is not a “humanitarian effort”, it’s a full-scale invasion!”
Perry: (SEE ABOVE)
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Boebert: (Quoting an endorsement from the Colorado Springs Gazette) “Boebert relates to average, hard-working Coloradans like no one we have seen… District 3 primary voters should nominate Boebert for a second term.”
Perry: (The Cheshire Cat – “We’re all mad here.”)
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Boebert: “Take your children to CHURCH, not drag bars.”
Perry: (RuPaul: “Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.”)
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Boebert: “Biden trusts Ukraine with guns. He trusts the Taliban with guns. He trusts the Mexican drug cartels with guns. Why doesn’t he trust law-abiding Americans with guns?”
Perry: (Guns were the leading cause of death of American children in 2020)
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Boebert: “Pray as if it all depends on God. Live as if it all depends on you.”
Perry: (Jack Handey: “To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.”)
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Boebert: “The same Democrats who think 18-year-olds can serve in the military but are too immature to buy guns also want 16-year-olds to vote and 6-years-old to be able to identify as the opposite gender. Make it make sense.”
Perry: (Dr. Seuss: “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”)
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Boebert: “You know the American education system is in trouble when teachers are praised for talking about their sex life but are fired if they dare utter the name of God.”
Perry: (Nelson Mandela – “No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”)
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Boebert: “The price of gas is higher than Hunter when he started snorting the Parmesan… and these prices are only getting higher.”
Perry: ( Lewis Carroll – “Beware the Jabberwock, my son. The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch!”)
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Boebert: “The Archbishop of San Francisco has announced that Nancy Pelosi will be denied the Holy Eucharist. She’s likely more concerned about not being able to drink the Communion wine.”
Perry: (Colorado Newsline, in a story about her being arrested for disorderly conduct for interfering in the arrest of teenagers caught drinking underage in 2015 – “Lauren (police said) then began stating again that we illegally arrested her and that she was going to have Fox News and every reporter at the court house,” the report said. The charges against Boebert were later dropped. Fox News, apparently, did not cover the event.)
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Boebert: “It took @elonmusk barely 24 hours of becoming a Republican for him to be Me Too’d. Do you see the way they play this game now?”
Perry: (Elon Musk tweet Oct. 28. 2021 – “Am thinking of starting new university: Texas Institute of Technology & Science”.)
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Boebert: “So now the term woman is too old school for Michelle Obama and she’s decided to start using “womxn”. Yes, really. They’re erasing women right before our eyes!”
Perry: (Michelle Obama – “When you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.”)
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Boebert: “It is official. Liberals in power support killing a baby on the day of birth.”
Perry: (1 in 170 pregnancies fail in the last trimester, resulting in about 23,000 “stillbirths” each year. Abortion restrictions could insert government restrictions in a most dire and agonizing event in a woman’s life, even jeopardizing a woman’s life.”)
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Boebert: “Perfect love casts out all fear. Love is fearless!”
Perry: (James Baldwin – “Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?”)
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Boebert: “The Left has gone beyond questioning man and are now questioning the will of God. Dangerous and demonic territory.”
Perry: (Cheers to the men and women who constantly question men and women and question a god who says, “For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken. No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.”)
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Boebert: “If you’ve been woke all these years, you must be tired. Time to take a nap. The patriots are taking back over.”
Perry: (Everyone I know fighting the good fight against bigotry, hatred, white supremacy, treason, injustice, misogyny, and turning the American republic into a dictatorship have never been more committed to keep on fighting.)
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The topper to just a few weeks of mind-numbing Boebertisms? After hundreds of tweets about this kind of stuff above, and nothing of substance on anything but red-meat Biden, immigration and other bigoted tropes, this gem appeared a few days ago as her primary election approaches:
Boebert: “My top 3 priorities are water, water, & water. Rural CO’s water supply must be expanded, especially during times of drought. I am a champion for water policies that deliver solutions, & these projects will add thousands of acre-feet of water storage.”
Clearly, Boebert is drowning in her own delusion. Are we supposed to stand by and make believe she’s something other than everything she says and does every day? Not today.
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Pretty hilarious that someone who doesn’t even live in the behavioral sink otherwise known as the Front Range takes up this kind of real estate in the stunted peabrains of its neomarxist media members.
These people desperately need their Emmanuel Goldstein to shriek against.
Well put Orphan, I predicted and it’s been true so far that what Ex-Chief Wilson’s and her mate’s real problems having to actually do with Aurora have been silent in this paper. This newspaper is doomed for failure and as it advertises does not report Journalism responsibly.
She is an embarrassment to Colorado and She supported the coup on our Country.
“American for America”–haha, please. Your side doesn’t even like this country (it’s been subverting it for decades, after all), and would high-tail it to Canada if it ever was invaded.
Does anyone know what legislation Boebert has introduced?
Thanks for conceding the point.
You and your type are the embarrassment to original Colorados, as we found it in 1950s, 1960s. When family and I moved back to Colorado, after Goose Bay when Russia was trying to install missiles in Cuba, we found changes, with those who moved west, to enjoy, what we paid for, and helped to build. That was when we drove to the mountains, we found most of them with off-road trails up the buttes, and with developments that attracted wrong folks to come and stay.
Is this Borat?
I miust not be a good American ,according to Comrade Dave because as I read this article I agreed with much of what this ?? woman ?? said while trying to understand the gibberish hateful Dave was spewing like a firehose of tears as he realizes that his idea of a??progressive?? directed democracy is coming to an end. Wish I could vote for her.
You have him pegged. I told him years ago, while teaching Electronics at Lowry, having bought house in Aurora, with Trigg Realty managing it, when i transferred to Texas, he would never be a reporter. He has never written a favorable comment about Conservatives, unless they die in office, or retire. As one of our other Mayor wrote, when a particularly nasty article appeared, “He would not even use Sentinel in bottom of bird cage, if he had a bird and cage”. We had balanced conservative and liberal reporting, when Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, gave competition to Colorado, and entire West.
———My first experience with Denver was in 1951, when I met many friendly folks, just like our lady from Rifle. Nothing strange in seeing someone walking with holstered weapon, but here for a training course, which I then taught, when Military Instructor, found I had been working with what he was supposed to be teaching from a 3 ring, 3 inch thick binder. “Order to me” Corporal, bring your chair and set beside me. You wlll teach this course, including me”. Reason I had time to meet young lady, at lakeside, under ferris wheel, and came back next year in 1952, and married her. Took her to Nellis AFB, Nevada, She was Senior when Senator Harry Reid, was a Freshman, at Henderson HS, until we had birth of daughter in 1953. (Married 70 years in Aug). Denver was a friendly city then, and we never met a stranger. Too bad we have been invaded, not only from other countries, but from USA cities, who brought their habits with them. (Taught my wife to shoot in pit, across from Mobel Home Park, on Colfax, near Airport Road now. Highway patrol used to be there, and dump (pit) has been built over).
Nothing good can be said about conservatives
Nothing good can be said about your kind, either, Dougie.
I’m surprised to learn she knows multisyllabic words such as “totalitarian” and “dystopian.”
Yes, Lauren, remaining woke at all times can be tiring because it requires that one be constantly awake and aware, and speak intelligently without simply repeating tired, party talking points.
But don’t let this woman out of your sight or dismiss her because she is very dangerous.
“it requires that one be constantly awake and aware, and speak intelligently without simply repeating tired, party talking points.”
No, it requires one to be hyper-neurotic while simply repeating tired, neo-marxist talking points that haven’t changed in 50 years.
Why is it that the only people who use the terms “Marxism” and “socialism” are intellectually bankrupt conservatives?
Is this how conservatives do their grooming?
Why is it neomarxists like Jeff think a state that had a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators in the late 70s when he came to Colorado made it a red state? And why does he hate white people so much? Is this how leftists do their grooming?
I’m trying to comment less as I’ve had a kind of an awakening that we are all Americans and our real enemy is Putin and socialists in the USA. That said I don’t like to be called what I am not, “intellectually bankrupt”. So Jeff Ryan’s comment hit a sore spot with me.
To be fair though, locally, I feel the enemy is indeed the socialists on our own Aurora City Council and I will fight with all I have until they all are elected out of office because they propose to change the American way of life.
And what is the real and present American way of life? Not the idealized nostalgic inaccurate ‘good old days,’ but our nation as it really is, warts and all.
In the 70s Rs would chant ‘America, love it or leave it.’ Now realists would have to say: ‘America, fix it or forget it.’
The real and present way? Mental illness and dysfunction in deep blue urban cesspools.
Don’t know much about the women’s competence as an employee of the federal government, but she looks like she’s been hit in the face with a shovel.