Where does Lauren Boebert get the hubris?

[madaboutharry]

She is truly an ignorant know-nothing, yet there she is full of confidence thinking she is the smart one. I don't get it.

I will admit that I often like her outfits.

[CincyDem]

1. Dunning-Krueger poster child. n/t

[cilla4progress]

2. Screw

her outfits.

I hate everything about her.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I think most of her outfits aren't appropriate for a Congresswoman.

[Raven123]

4. You answered your own question. Ignorance.

[maxsolomon]

5. She's a loudmouth blowhard.

She gets it from the same place Orange Hitler gets it: Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

With a sprinkling of Jesus.

[Beaverhausen]

6. "the world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness"

to quote a line from one of my favorite films, Bull Durham.

[Midnight Writer]

7. I think she has been taking lessons from Paula White, the Christian mega-church pastor.

They both strut around the stage the same, both use similar speech inflections, same gestures, same little grin when they think they have made a point.

[Caliman73]

8. Confidence and ignorance are often inversely related.

When you know "a lot" of things, you know enough to know that there is A LOT more that you don't know. That typically makes you humble and not likely to speak authoritatively.

Ignorant people tend to be self satisfied in the little that they do know. Add in religiosity and you have the recipe for Boebert. She is not very intelligent, not intellectually curious, and at least feigns to be a "holy roller". She has the confidence of "being in the lord". Her loud and brash personality will tend to fool other equally ignorant people into thinking that she knows what she is talking about.

[moondust]

9. Emboldened by guns.

[SergeStorms]

10. There's a big cave dug into the side of a mountain....

in her district that is stocked to the ceiling with hubris. That's where she's been getting it.

[Polybius]

11. "I will admit that I often like her outfits."

And she's real easy on the eyes. That's about it though.

[niyad]

15. The eyes are the window to the soul. And hers are dead.

[Judi Lynn]

24. Absolutely, niyad.

[kacekwl]

26. She resembles the

Wicked witch of the west if you ask me.

[Polybius]

32. Opinions differ

To me she looks like a Porn Hub actress.

[MurrayDelph]

28. She is now

But as Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter have shown, the realities of the soul will bubble to the surface soon.

[Polybius]

33. Yup

None of us can stay young forever.

[Aristus]

12. I call it the unshakeable self-confidence of the completely ignorant.

The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know.

The ignorant are ignorant of their ignorance.

[Kennah]

13. Not fair to use words like hubris that she doesn't understand

[magicarpet]

14. People are saying Boebert shoots up 10 vials,...

....of testosterone via a hypodermic needle directly into an artery. This is what makes her a pushy big loud mouth and gun nut. Some say she is so manly - she has a thick carpet of hair growing on her chest and soles of her feet.

[samnsara]

18. she and greene compare adams apples

[FakeNoose]

16. I think she's envious of the attention that nasty MTG gets, and she wants some too

Of course that can backfire, but it seems she doesn't much care. Now that she's won re-election she doesn't have to worry for another 2 years.

[samnsara]

17. shes got a good paying job with bennies and little work to do for the next 2 years

..no reason to do anything of consequence cept whine and make noise

[Maru Kitteh]

19. She thinks she's really hot. And many tell her she's really hot. So she thinks

she can do whatever she wants and so far little has gotten in her way . . so far she's been right, so she keeps doing it.

[Retrograde]

20. She got re-elected

so she thinks whatever it is she's doing is what the people want. Yeah, I know she barely squeaked by with only a few more votes than her opponent, but it doesn't matter to her - she's got the seat for the next two years and she's going to capitalize on it.

She does dress better than MTG, though.

[jcgoldie]

21. How many republicans do you think there are in CO 3...

...who held their noses and voted for this moron just to see the GOP take the House? And now they are just watching her shit all over it.

[Hortensis]

22. She's easily discardable by the white male Christian nationalist party.

They'd managed to make their caucus literally a very hostile workplace for women and to purge all but 13 women from it a couple elections ago. Then the leaders were surprised to find that was backfiring on them and quickly arranged to elect a number of women to look better, among whom are obviously extremely unfit characters like Boebert and Greene. Tenor of the times, though.

As I said, discardable. When the Christian nationalists finished their takeover and got rid of the lowlifes and obstructionist extremists causing them trouble, it'd be styled as a return to principled, responsible government. Itm, she's has a huge leap in her socioeconomic status.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. Her husband I guess

It takes a lot of hubris to expose yourself in public.

[Earth-shine]

25. She's making MTG look like an elder statesperson.

[grantcart]

27. Hubris R US

"Our personality implants are so great that people who choose 'humility' exude the greatest humility in the world".

[diva77]

29. With the advent of social media, we have gone from a meritocracy to a shock-ocracy

Whomever performs the most outrageous stunts that play well on social media climbs the highest & quickest.

The fact that this thread exists is a testament to the success of boebert's M.O.

MTG is a big zero as well with nothing constructive to offer as a representative, yet she has acquired power through her use of shock on social media -- you can't get through an evening broadcast on corporate media without some mention of her - regardless of how negative it is.

Oh, and they're all armed to the hilt, so count intimidation as part of the equation as well.

The saying "I'm shocked but not surprised" frequently heard in media commentary characterizes the shameful state of affairs these days.

[myohmy2]

30. it...

...drips and leaks from her anal orifice...

...that's the way I see it...

[Hekate]

31. "The best lack all conviction, and the worst are full of a passionate intensity" ...

Yeats on the modern GOP.