White House Tells Rep. Lauren Boebert: 'Antisemitism Isn't Conservative, It's Evil'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) got a strong rebuke from the White House on Friday for a tweet she posted on Thursday that was critical of the president’s plan to combat hate, bias and violence against Jewish people.

After Joe Biden announced the first U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, the Colorado congresswoman took to Twitter to suggest that any plan to target hate was actually a plan to target conservatives. She added, “Their tactics are straight out of the USSR’s playbook.”

Link to tweet

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On Friday, White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates also criticized Boebert’s tweets in a statement to HuffPost.

“Congresswoman Boebert is mistaken; antisemitism is not ‘conservative’ ― it is evil,” Bates said. “President Biden is standing up for a bedrock American value that goes beyond politics and is embraced by liberals, conservatives and independents: That we are better than antisemitism and hate. Those vile forces fly in the face of what America represents.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-tells-rep-lauren-205509901.html

[Cha]

1. This is Brilliant.. Biden ain't

Playin', HATERS!

[PortTack]

2. If the shoe fits booboo

[thomski64]

12. ...Boebert shouldn't feel targeted.

...the campaign is against hatred. Were he to announce a campaign against stupidity, she would be justified to feel targeted...

[jmowreader]

19. Her hate equals her stupidity

[Justice matters.]

48. In a campaign against stupidity and against Fascism...

she should be justified to feel targeted...

[NBachers]

3. "Straight out of the USSR's playbook?" This one's all over the map.

[Celerity]

18. her socio-political/socio-cultural universe is partially funded & certainly buttressed by Russia

She is a fucking traitor, a clear and present danger.

[Iggo]

49. She doesn't remember the USSR.

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

50. She doesn't know...

... That the U.S.S.R. Was Russia, just that they were Commies.

[Lonestarblue]

4. Boebert is the perfect exemplar of the saying that it is better to keep one's mouth shut and be

thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubts. Though none of us have ever had doubts about BoBo.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

11. Vile, evil, devoid of ethics and humanity...that's the official opposition in America.

When will the mass media also state the glaringly obvious???

[Jean Genie]

5. Conservative my foot!

Bobert is such a stupid woman! I don't think "real" conservatives could have survived this long if they were all as ignorant as she is. How did that woman get elected to congress? Makes one wonder about the intelligence of some of her constituents.

[Delmette2.0]

8. They could recognize the R behind her name.

That is all they needed to know.

[Ilsa]

6. Republicans are stupid and lazy.

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They are too stupid and lazy to put themselves through the mental tasks of creating a valid platform to run on or even personally believe hating everyone different is so much easier for them, and it's easier to sell to their base.

[617Blue]

10. That about covers it.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

13. Well said. A party with no platform...historical laziness and irresponsibility. Look away though,

all sides equal, remember?

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. My go to response to people like Boebert is short and sweet

I ask "Are you high?".

[Higherarky]

23. Wait ... What???

Lots of folks get high and in no way resemble lauren boebert.

Not sure I get your point ...

[paleotn]

25. More of a meth or PCP high vs feeling mellow on weed.

The two are most definitely not the same.

[Higherarky]

30. I saw no differentiation in the usage of the term in post #7.

Hence,

[paleotn]

32. Maybe they should have said "are you drunk?"

Either way, one shouldn't be operating a motor vehicle or making political statements.

[Higherarky]

35. .

[Mosby]

29. Really? What dems leaders do drugs?

?????

[Higherarky]

31. Really? ????? What planet are you on?

Are you high?

[Mosby]

33. So you don't know.

You're assuming that some dems leaders do recreational drugs. Can you name one?

[Higherarky]

36. .

[Higherarky]

40. Buh-bye, Babe

[TexasBushwhacker]

39. Perhaps I should have said "Are you under the influence?"

In any case, she blurts out such idiot things that one could wonder if she was high, drunk or perhaps suffered a head injury. She says things that might imply that she is impaired in some way, because they really are that bad.

I remember when Ken Lay of Enron was speaking to hundreds of employees shortly after everything started to crash and burn. He took questions from the audience, some of which were written on cards. He got to one, which he read with a totally straight face, and it said "I would like to know if you are on crack. If so, that would explain a lot."

So that's why, when someone says something that is just plain dumbfounding, I just ask "Are you high?"

[Higherarky]

41. O. I C.

[druidity33]

44. I ask... "Are you OK?"...

and then sometimes i say "because it seems like you might have some anger issues", or sometimes it's "abandonment issues" or "Daddy issues". Either way, i like to imply that they have problems and then walk away shaking my head.

[Deuxcents]

9. Yep..calling the likes of you out. It needs to be called out and Biden is doing it, Boebert

Good thing she recognized it but missed the point 🙄

[Alexander Of Assyria]

14. Strange how republicans get a pass on the blatant racism and anti semitism...but when

the racists and antisemitism folks call democrats he same by twisting words out of context…it’s all sides equal in the corporate media!!

Corporate media is pro fascist it seems…certainly not taking a stand either way…that’s evil as well.

[Behind the Aegis]

15. So Bobo thinks going after anti-Semitism makes her the victim?!

Wow! That sounds sooooooooooooooooooooooo fucking familiar?! Where have I heard people whining about combatting anti-Semitism means they are the victim?!

I am SO glad Biden is the president! He has been good and even great, in so many areas, but when it comes to fighting anti-Semitism, I know exactly whose side he is on...the Jews!

[Grokenstein]

16. Knee-jerk gainsaying the opponent backfires, eventually.

That's true even among smart people, an' Boobert ain't.

[moreland01]

17. She'll never understand.

But we still have to try.

[elleng]

20. Thank him/them (WH) for setting the record straight.

[Initech]

21. We fought an entire world war against this shit.

Totally insane that it's happening again.

[Grins]

22. Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates is wrong.

Conservatism is evil, fueled by privilege and greed.

Nothing good has come from conservatism.

[paleotn]

24. So she's admitting her caucus of jackasses is hateful and anti-Semitic.

After all, any policy to address hate and anti-Semitism wouldn't impact them if they weren't exactly that. Am I right? Boebert isn't mistaken. She's being honest. Now I'll be honest and go all USSR. I sometimes think things would be whole lot better if we COULD send her and her fellow fascists to a gulag. Just a thought. Not advocating actually doing that.

[Leith]

46. That was my first thought, too

Nobody said a thing about conservatives. Biden said to fight hate and antisemitism, nothing more. If booboo connects those in her diseased little brain, that's on her.

As Ogden Nash said "golly, how the truth will out!" Since she has announced that those adjectives apply to her, let her own them.

[IronLionZion]

26. It's deplorable that she doesn't know the difference

that tells you a lot about RWers these days. They know they have plenty of Nazis on their side.

[JuJuChen]

27. So weird thinking the state that legalizes weed has this Debbie Downer

[MyOwnPeace]

28. I think that the most shameful part of this whole thing........

is that BoBo is actually a part of our federal government - responsible for running our country.
What can the rest of the world think when they see and hear such a brainless twit?
And really, Colorado, I LOVE your state - but what-the-hell were some of you thinking sending her BACK a second time?

[DENVERPOPS]

42. I would

have spelled "TWIT" differently...........

Letting this trailer park trash into the house or senate is the result of "Rural" votes across America, not just here in Colorado.

Was it James Carville who said about some candidate, (maybe Sarah Palin?), is what you get for tieing a string around a five dollar bill and dragging it thru a poor southern trailer park.......

[MyOwnPeace]

43. I 'see' what you did there!

And yes, comparing her to Sarah Palin is quite on - and add Empty Greene to that same list.

[Hortensis]

34. How revealing to IDENTIFY WITH hate groups, including antisemites.

Those she's speaking to do.

I never have to wonder if I'm on the right side. How many conservatives never have to? And those who don't ever can't.

[Trenzalore]

38. She does protest much to combatting white supremacy.

[lonely bird]

45. She is right but she doesn't get it because of her stupidity.

We damn well need to go after conservatives because today’s conservatives have nothing but hate.

[FakeNoose]

47. No kidding - antisemitism is evil! And it's also stupid

Somebody needs to tell Loony Lauren that many conservative (and Republican) American Jews support her Party. Or at least they used to, I'm not sure if they want any of their dough going to her now.

Also a lot of Religious Right/Evangelicals are crazy pro-Israel and pro-Netanyahu. Every time Loony Lauren opens her mouth, she's pissing off these people who should cut her off from their frequent donations.

Somebody shut her up and get her off the soapbox.