So Lauren Boebert's origin story is apocryphal

[DemocratSinceBirth]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/12/lauren-boeberts-tall-tale-about-mans-death-that-led-her-pack-heat/

[MineralMan]

1. It's Also Poppycock...

[Shell_Seas]

2. I like it when you say poppycock.

[MineralMan]

3. The origins of that word are interesting:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poppycock

[Shell_Seas]

7. Haha. Thanks. I needed that laugh.

[MineralMan]

9. I had to look it up.

I mean, I've used that word many, many times, but wondered where it came from today.

[fishwax]

8. A-poppycock-ryhpal

[Cirque du So-What]

4. 'Apocryphal' is not synonymous with 'fucking lie'

‘Apocryphal’ implies that it can’t be proven one way or the other. This is just a fucking lie - cut from whole cloth.

[Blue Owl]

5. There's a strong fantasy element associated with guns

I think most gun nuts like Boebart have an imagined belief that they are the arbiters of justice and everyone else is either the enemy or fodder in their hail of righteous bullets. And you all saw the ridiculous, insane photoshops with t***p's fat ugly head photoshopped onto a machine-gun wielding Sylvester Stallone in Rambo. And I remember as a child, that playing "guns" with the neighborhood kids (with plastic toy guns of course) gave an imaginary feeling of glory and valor...

[maxrandb]

6. Sea Story

In the Navy, these stories start with "this is a no-shitter..."