Lauren Boebert has evidently crowned herself Queen of MAGA America, or at the very least she’s looking to have the obvious run off — and run in — with Marjorie Taylor Greene, that would be necessary for her to assume the title. Boebert went on record recently stating that she’s “moved beyond” the confrontation with Ilhan Omar and all the world loves her for it. She “won.” Take a listen.
Lauren Boebert says she has received supportive calls from followers and two phone calls from Trump after her Islamophobic attack went viral. pic.twitter.com/Kwx1bJxFjH
— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) December 3, 2021
Her constituents love her and Donald called her twice. Isn’t it odd that the editorial board of the Denver Post apologized for her and called her an embarrassment? That is the biggest paper in Colorado. The Denver Post is behind a pay wall but the Independent has a synopsis.
In an editorial published Wednesday by the Denver Post, the paper’s editorial board said Ms Boebert “crossed a line” in videotaped remarks that went viral last week, in which the freshman congresswoman spun a fictitious yarn about an elevator ride with Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar that concluded with her referring to Ms Omar as part of the “jihad squad” and making an Islamophobic quip about Ms Omar having the potential to be a suicide bomber.
The Post editorial board wrote that they had “mostly tried” to ignore Ms Boebert, but the occasion of her bigoted remarks was one in which they “must stand up for common decency”.
Ms Boebert, they wrote, “is intentionally using her platform to peddle a gross and false narrative about Muslim Americans”. They added that they “cannot fathom what evil intent drives this behaviour”.
“Making a joke about suicide bombers and suggesting that a congresswoman is a threat to safety and security because she is a Muslim is both racist and a form of religious bigotry,” they continued, adding that Ms Boebert’s attempts at apologising — first through a statement directed to “anyone in the Muslim community” that ignored Ms Omar, then in a phone call which Ms Boebert used “as a publicity stunt” — were insufficient.
Continuing, the board declared that Ms Omar “deserved nothing short of a full apology,” which they would offer because Ms Boebert was “clearly incapable of remorse or reflection”.
“We apologize to the Congresswoman and to the Muslim community for Boebert’s insensitive remarks. Such remarks, no matter how innocently intended, have no place in American discourse … we are embarrassed a Colorado representative is engaged in widening this divide, and we are sorry we didn’t call her out the first time she used a derogatory reference toward you and other members of Congress who are women and minorities,” they wrote.
I emphasized the text above, “incapable of remorse or reflection,” because it’s the only point I disagree with. Boebert is digging what she’s doing. There is nothing to reflect upon. And she’s not the least bit remorseful as long as those contributions she’s requested for $17.76 (or more) keep coming in. She’s jazzed. She’s the new darling of the right, because she’s the “biggest enemy of the far left.”
After her viral anti-Muslim comments, Lauren Boebert is raising money off claims of being the “biggest enemy” of “the far left.”
One of her Telegram followers responded with threats to behead Muslims. pic.twitter.com/6Pz9N8NKOc
— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) December 4, 2021
If you missed it, her “boss” Kevin McCarthy admitted that she’s a distraction but he doesn’t seem too torn up about it.
Kevin McCarthy: “Yes,” Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, and Lauren Boebert are distractions to winning back the majority next year.
“It’s things we would not want to deal with,” and “it causes problems.” pic.twitter.com/1xUFjuBLjX
— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) December 4, 2021
Clueless craven Kevin. Another day on the job, another day he shows how he sucks at the job.
Here is my prediction for the New Year: Boebert, Greene, Gosar, Cawthorne, Gaetz, all the rest are going to continue to outrage and enrage because they can and it amuses the base. McCarthy isn’t going to be squat because he’s incapable. Therefore, the cultural discourse is going to go even further downhill. Don’t say that’s impossible. Not with where we’ve gone since 2016. Things can always get worse and will with the MAGAts.
She should have to resign; she’s not capable of doing her official job.
Who wants to bet that if SHE got some threatening letters, hoping that she’d suffer serious bodily injury or even death, she’d be calling the Capitol police and the FBI *demanding* action be taken against the writer and/or writers?
I’m not taking that bet. These idiots are real big on threatening others but when someone even looks cross-eyed at their lily-white asses, they run off screaming to their mommies, etc.
I’m pretty sure she has also received a great deal of fan mail for her little hate stunts. She did not get elected because of any perceived intelligence or desire to serve her constituency.