Lauren Bobert....who the hell voted in this shameful, selfish fool?

[634-5789]

[PJMcK]

1. Even Ted Cruz knew the optics were bad

Boebert is an airhead. She's going to end up like Michelle Bachman, she of the crazy eyes.

[TwilightZone]

4. Boebert is way more calculating.

Bachmann was/is just nuts.

For Boebert, her ignorance is intentional and part of the act. This is how she wants to be seen. She's pretty clearly playing the "female Trump" role, right down to using many of his same phrases.

[PJMcK]

5. She's just as dumb as Trump

I don't think she's calculating in the sense that she's "acting." She's really stupid.

Take a look at some of her comments about our government. She has NO IDEA how it works. Thankfully, that's what limited Trump's damage.

Boebert going to either do something over the line or she'll just be a fringe nut-case.

[TwilightZone]

6. Yeah, well, nearly everyone underestimated Trump.

He's not as dumb as he appears. Much of what he does is an act. To me, it seems completely obvious.

Proof was on the Woodward tapes, where he sounds like a halfway normal human. His public persona is almost entirely made up.

Boebert is no different. She's clearly channeling Trump and it's quite intentional. Most of the GOP plays dumb. She's just better at it than many.

[Celerity]

7. Yes, Trump is a strange one. He IS very uncurious about most things, UNLESS it can affect his power

or money or both. He absolutely uses a con man/troll act so much. He is staggeringly dangerous, and arguably the worst human (in terms of impact and pathological drive that has allowed this) that the USA has ever produced. He is so resilient in his shitbaggery.

Boebert, OTOH, is indeed an all-round fucking moronic POS lightweight.

Lil' Gunny, the white power wannabe in trailer trash wedgies and skin-tight jeans.

[OldBaldy1701E]

12. PLEASE PLEASE

tell me that she went to the local store for a Diet Coke and while in there, someone called the cops because they felt threatened by her and then the cops showed up and she grabbed her pistol to shoot whomever the cops were there to arrest (It couldn't be her of course... she is as pure as the driven snow), and they blew her away before she could even wave that '45' hat at them... please? NO?

damnit...

[dalton99a]

35. Hideous creature

[Celerity]

39. As each year goes by, I admit to being more and more at a loss to explain the cataclysmic schism

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in the American zeitgeist that has produced an environment where a Boebert-type is ADORED by 100 million or so US citizens. I mean, sure, we can say guns, gawd, white power, and greed, but ffs, cannot people at least see that they are buying into a death cult that will fuck almost all of them at every level, both great and small, at the end of day?

Most all of them will NEVER be at a systemic controller level of wealth, most all of the women will be brutalised in a myriad numbers of ways, and the lower 90+% of Rethugs will just get an insane level of wealth extracted from them by ones up at the pyramidion. Almost all of them WILL be hurt by a lack of regulation (PROTECTION) and an ever-degrading environment. Their progeny are going to be hellscaped down the road.

It is literally a collective suicide pact they have entered into, with a massively lowered (for all but a few) quality of life to exist in on the way down to the death pit. The best thing I can come up with for a meta-explanation is the willing suspension of disbelief that is necessary to believe in a god or gods has perma-fucked-their brains (with aid from technologically-enabled/enhanced forms of agitprop-driven mass/social media brainwashing/reflexive control/programming mechanisms).

As an outsider who did not grow up there, I simply cannot, even given all my analytical skills and vast amounts (for my age) of global travel (which gives me a broad basis for comparison), cannot wrap my mind around it. It seems all so illogical, all so self-destructive, and all so unnecessary.

shit

[dalton99a]

43. +1. The GOP brainwashing machine is historic in reach and duration

We're talking about 30 years of Rush Limbaugh et al. Boebert is 34 years old, and that's all she's ever known. It is clear that the poison is deep and resistant to intervention

[smirkymonkey]

52. +1000

Thank you, Celerity. One of the best posts ever.

[TwilightZone]

44. Her status as a moron and the possibility that she's putting on a show aren't mutually exclusive.

I don't know why that's so hard for people to understand. She can have a basic lack of intelligence *and* be conning everyone at the same time. To me, the fact that she's putting on a show is even more obvious than Trump doing so.

It's blindingly obvious. Do people really think her constant use of Trump phrases is just a happy accident?

[Celerity]

47. She is a con artist, sure, BUT she is also not intelligent. I have seen nothing to change my

mind on that. She is a career criminal or at least a career arrestee for various offences. Her rap sheet is off the carts. She married a bloke who whipped his cock out in front of a minor with her there, ffs.

[bdamomma]

45. Yuk

She is a waste. Take your guns and go home, bitch.

[samnsara]

8. trump had the $ to have people think for him

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. Yeah, well, his ghostwriter of "The Art of the Deal"...

... NEVER witnessed all of that intelligence that seems obvious to you, and he followed Trump closely for MONTHS... for a book written about Trump!

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all/amp

Edit:
If constantly watching Fox News and actually believing the nonsense constitutes genius, then he's a genius.
He was basically the "Fox News candidate" in 2016. so that was obviously going to resonate with people who keep themselves within that echo chamber.

[COL Mustard]

21. And Someone To Take His SATs For Him

[Buckeye_Democrat]

24. And he wasn't Trump's only biographer who described...

... him that way.

There was an interview of a group of his other biographers, before the 2016 election, and they laughingly all said that the Trump seen publicly was ACTUALLY him.

I suppose that he could be described as "genuine" in that regard -- a genuine narcissistic, lazy and attention-deficient sociopath -- but that's about it for any compliments.

[TwilightZone]

41. Nowhere did I say he was intelligent.

I'm saying that his public persona is clearly an act. You obviously don't think so, yet there's solid evidence. You just choose to ignore it and twist what I said.

Same with Boebert. She's putting on a show, but you just don't want to see it. You'd rather just assume that they're dumb as bricks and that there's no thought or planning behind it.

The two are not mutually exclusive. It's possible that both can exist at the same time. In fact, it's obvious.

Everyone underestimated Trump and just assumed he was an idiot and that everything he did was just off the cuff. It's not - everything he says has intent and that intent is to generate a specific response from a specific audience. Meanwhile, he got elected and fucked up the country.

Enjoy your evening.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

46. You're correct. You write that he's "not as dumb"...

... as he appears in public.

All of his biographers would disagree with you, from what I read in 2016 when most of the mainstream media kept wondering when he'd drop the act, as they also assumed, and finally behave "Presidential".

Sorry, but the Woodward tapes never made him seem "not as dumb" to me, but only made it more clear that he's a LIAR too.

[TwilightZone]

48. "Why Trump Sounds So Different Talking...To Bob Woodward?"

"Many people were quick to notice that Trump's tone and speech in the recording was a complete departure from what we see on a daily basis: not only did he seem to have incredibly specific details about the illness long before the rest of the U.S. did, but many pointed out how lucid the president sounds in this recording, which is very unlike the rest of his press briefings, where he’s known for bumbling and tripping over his words and speaking in nonsensical sentences."

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/09/10015913/trump-woodward-tape-covid-19-voice-truth

That's closer to the real Trump, whatever that is. It doesn't even sound like the same person. It doesn't sound like the same person because it's not.

What we see is the act. It couldn't be more obvious, but it's just easier for people to assume he's just dumb as shit and what we see is the "real" Trump. He's an actor playing a role.

[dpibel]

38. Fran Liebowitz disagrees

"Echoing the reported opinion of former US secretary of state Rex Tillerson, Lebowitz thinks the biggest danger of Trump is that he is a moron. 'Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.'”

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/mar/20/fran-lebowitz-you-do-not-know-anyone-as-stupid-as-donald-trump

[Lucky Luciano]

14. She's a HS dropout. Minimal intellect.

...and it’s not like she dropped out to support the family...just a moron.

[Tribetime]

27. Well if she graduates high school in the future maybe

[niyad]

34. She got her GED last summer during her campaign.

[TwilightZone]

42. A diploma isn't a sign of intelligence.

Nor is the opposite true.

Do you think Richard Branson is an idiot? How about Nicole Kidman? Aretha Franklin? Quentin Tarantino?

They all dropped out before graduating high school.

[Tribetime]

49. Your right school is a waste

[Sugarmaggie]

2. Disgusting excuse for a human.

[SheilaAnn]

3. The good news however, betcha she's a one-termer. n/t

[niyad]

17. Would not count on it. The district is very red. They LOVE their guns!

[Mr.Bill]

29. She won with 51% of the vote. n/t

[colorado_ufo]

37. She surely didn't win by my vote

nor my husband's!

What a humiliation for Western Colorado.

[sandensea]

10. I bet Boobert started stealing plates - thinking they were worth $5,800 each

"Can't you read? It says '$5,800 a plate'!"

[GoCubsGo]

11. Shameful, selfish fools like my brother and his wife voted for her.

Both of them right-wing bigots and gun-humpers. My brother was not raised that way, but decades in law enforcement, and being around other wingnuts, like his wife, warped him. Neither of them is quite as nutty as Boebert, but she has an "R" after her name, and that's all that matters to them.

[niyad]

15. A friend in ?Grand Junction has a similar brother and sister-in-law. Both medical, both guntrumpers,

both believe that CoViD is man-made.

[COL Mustard]

22. Lots of Us Have People Like That In Our Families

I no longer engage in political discourse with my T***p loving family members. If they want to hitch their wagons to a falling star, that's their business. I have better things to do with my time.

[GoCubsGo]

25. My brother claims to dislike Trump.

He loves everything preaches, though. I barely talk to him, either, especially about political things.

[niyad]

13. Bang bang barbie, or botulism boebert, is a guntrumper in a 2A rural area of CO. Married to a

sexual predator. Her restaurant sucks, sickened about 70 people at an event several years ago. Some piece of work is the former high school dropout (got her GED last summer during her campaign).

[TygrBright]

16. Rather a lot of shameful, selfish fools, I guess. n/t

[bearssoapbox]

18. Sometimes,

All you can do is shake your head in disbelief.

[paleotn]

19. People who are just as evil as she is.

[Kali]

32. Long time DUER got banned for playing games with that misogynist slur

Suggest you delete and stick with non-sexist insults for assholes like her.

[George II]

23. She also got reimbursed by her campaign in the amount of $22,000 for "mileage" and then....

....paid off $20,000 in liens from the state of Colorado against her restaurant.

$22,000 is more than 40,000 miles in less than 6 months!

[Trust_Reality]

26. Very embarrassing to be from the same state!

She represents the Western 3rd of Colorado. I suggest avoiding that part of the state when you plan your next Colorado vacation. Maybe they will get the message that they need to elect something other than a rebellious bimbo.

[momta]

30. I second that.

She's an embarrassment to our state.

On the other hand, MY rep (Neguse) and my kids' rep (DeGette) just served as prosecutors for Dump's second impeachment. Couldn't be more proud of them. Also Jason Crow who served as manager in the first impeachment. We do have some good ones. Now we just have to work on the western slope.

[niyad]

31. Not just the western slope. Don't forget lamborn and buck. The unholy puke trio.

[momta]

50. Agreed.

I guess I just think of the Springs as a lost cause. But you're right. Getting rid of those three would fabulous.

[niyad]

51. We have many good Dems here, but. . John Sayles once called the Springs the "heart of darkness."

Some very regressive thinking here.

[maxrandb]

33. Trust - I think you are on to something

The way Retrumplicans Gerrymandered the "eff" out of states wherever they could in 2011, it's gotten to the point where the ONLY recourse Americans have is to vote with their pocketbooks and wallets.

I do regret saying this about my fellow Americans, but if the voters in that area send POS like her and Gym Jordan to congress, there needs to be a grassroots effort to starve those places.

Find businesses located in those districts and boycott them.

Grassroots campaigns to end tourism to those areas.

Cut them off. Shun them.

There will be no change until the people in those districts suffer the consequences of their choices.

Texas is a perfect example. If we use taxpayer funds to make the electric utilities whole, the message sent is "there's no consequences for poor choices". They'll be back in 2 years giving Retrumplicans their votes all over again.

If Donnie Dipshit taught us anything, it's that this is a line in the fucking sand era for sane Americans

[joshcryer]

36. Pueblo is screwed by that district.

Need to really flip it because they're underrepresented to all hell there. Colorado passed a new law to redistrict the state more equitably. But there's just so much land out there with those racist rural voters who support psychopaths like Lauren Bobert.

[twodogsbarking]

28. She is Trump's type

Stupid.

[Progressive Jones]

40. She's not out of the woods yet on the Jan. 6th issue. She's one of them.

She tweeted as to where Speaker Pelosi was. Who knows what other
scumbaggery she was up to that day, and in the days before.

I wish for bad shit to befall this one.

[Jilly_in_VA]

53. Since the FBI has her phone records

we'll know soon enough.

[Progressive Jones]

54. Exactly. nt