Aren’t you glad to know that? It seems she just can’t try to put herself in the limelight. Well, this one is a doozy. She made a couple of statements that were completely wrong and got busted for it. Why do we have so many people in government who don’t think before they speak? Things might not be as messy. Actually, if we had people who thought, it wouldn’t be such a mess. You’ve heard that from me probably far too many times already. I need to come up with something different to use (ha). With gratitude to Raw Story:
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) made a head-turning claim on X Monday about how President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement deployment to airports is already producing results — but this claim turned out to be a fabrication on multiple levels. “You can’t make this stuff up!!” wrote Boebert. “ICE agents show up at airports, and suddenly, TSA wait times in Minneapolis drop to less than five minutes! Called it!!” She accompanied her post with a video of herself saying more or less the same thing.
She sounds like a newscaster on Fox. Or, harkening back to the song “Dirty Laundry” with the lyric “the bubble-headed bleach blonde/comes on at 5/she can tell you ‘bout the plane crash/with a gleam in her eye”. Okay, Ho-bert isn’t a blonde, but she could certainly handle the rest. She’s definitely bubble-headed. It seems she also needs to draw attention to herself every so often so we don’t forget about her (even though we wish we could). Actually, to make sure I was remembering the song correctly, I went and looked it up. Most of the song would suit Ho-bert.
“Dirty Laundry” Don Henley lyrics
But this soon prompted a response from Billy Binion, a reporter with the libertarian magazine Reason. “‘You can’t make this stuff up!!’ is a funny way to start this because Lauren Boebert did, in fact, make this stuff up,” wrote Binion. “ICE agents are not at the Minneapolis airport, where TSA lines have been consistently quick.” “We are living in an episode of Veep,” he added.
Ooooops! Busted! It seems we need to add “author” to the list of her “skills”. She’s certainly developed some interesting *cough* ones. If anyone has watched “Veep,” let me know what it’s about, as I don’t watch TV except for open-wheel racing. And Drift. Heh, as if you needed to know that. But it’s Late Night, so going off on a tangent is okay.
TSA staffing has plummeted to critical levels as a result of the ongoing shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security, which has no end in sight as Democrats demand civil rights and accountability reforms to ICE to fund the agency, and Trump refuses suggestions by Senate Republicans to fund ICE separately so the rest of DHS, including the TSA, can be funded. Trump’s move to deploy ICE agents to select airports, which reportedly originated from a random person from Arizona he saw call into Fox News with the idea, has been met with outrage, given that the agents are not trained to process people through security lines, and their potential utility in assisting overwhelmed TSA workers is minimal.
Y’know what ICE is doing? Wandering around the airports, trying to look intimidating, and arresting people they think are immigrants. There is not a damn thing they can do to “help”. They’re getting paid. The people they are supposed to be assisting are NOT being paid. How does that help morale? I wouldn’t want them anywhere near me, especially if I were a TSA agent.
So, Ho-bert made a fool of herself with her post. It was easily disproved. Coverage of ICE in airports has been noted as unhelpful. She’s going to have to come up with something good to cover her a$$ for this flub. We should have been keeping one of my infamous lists for all the craziness from her, Mace, and MTG, even if Marjorie has mostly faded from the news these days. Too late. Apologies if you get stuck with a YouTube commercial. What’s it going to be, Lauren? What’s she gonna do?
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I agree that Boebert frequently does not have
Her facts straight, but was the “ho” really necessary?
That nickname came out of her shenanigans at the live “Beetlejuice” show. I don’t use it very often, but since this was Late Night, I did. I did not mean to offend you or anyone else. I will remember this.
Open wheel racing? As in Formula 1? That’s all I watch on TV, too. Looking forward to Japan this weekend.
Yes! Formula 1, Indycar, LeMans/SCCA (because endurance races are amazing) and Formula Drift. I left CASHCAR … er … CRASHCAR … er NASCAR a long time ago. They made a lot of changes I detest and it’s sad because I really enjoyed it.
Was China a barn burner or what? Sure, one person led all laps and won the race but it was still really interesting! And whoa, Hammy first podium since *2023*???!!
I think a more appropriate match for the ICE skill set is “boots on the ground” in Iran. Show us just exactly how bad you are.
That had occurred to me awhile back, like at the beginning of the war, but I couldn’t figure out how to make it into a worthwhile column. But by all means, send them over there!