Month: November 2022

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Congress GOP LGBT Issues Uncategorized

Lauren Boebert Gets Hit With Her Anti-LGBTQ Tweets After Saying She Mourns Shooting At CO Nightclub

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was reminded of her many hateful anti-LGBTQ tweets Sunday after she expressed sympathy for the victims of a mass shooting at the Club Q nightclub that left five dead and 18 injured.

“The news out of Colorado Springs is absolutely awful. This morning the victims & their families are in my prayers. This lawless violence needs to end and end quickly.”

Club Q, it should be noted, is a gay and lesbian club that has hosted drag shows. Such shows have been repeatedly attacked rhetorically by Boebert and other right-wing Republicans who have wrongly accused the LGBTQ community of “grooming” children for sexual purposes.

Boebert was quickly hit with reminders of the disgustingly bigoted things she’s posted on Twitter in the past about LGBTQ Americans.

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GOP Joe Biden

Numerically-Challenged Lauren Boebert Humiliates Herself With An Attack On Joe Biden

While we’ve known for two years now that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) isn’t exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, a criticism she made of President Joe Biden regarding restocking of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve provides evidence that Ms. Boebert cannot even comprehend basic math.

As she often does, Boebert went on a Twitter rant aimed directly at the president. She attacked him for selling off 180 million barrels of oil to lower the price of gasoline earlier this year and is now angry that Biden is refilling the reserve with the price of oil and gas now significantly lower., posting her complaint for the entire internet to see.

“Trump stocked up our reserves at record-low prices. Then, Biden emptied it out to get through the midterms. Now, he’s going to stock it back up at a MUCH higher price.”

However, there’s one problem with Boebert’s tweet: It’s complete bullshit and anyone who can add and subtract would know that right off the bat.

Fortunately, Patrick De Haan, a gas price tracker, saw the congresswoman’s tweet and corrected her since she clearly didn’t learn much in those GED classes she took.

“Average selling price $96 [at the time of the sales], including some sales close to $120, and the price today is $75. You’re not the best at math.”

DeHahn, who has been extremely critical of Biden in the past for not doing enough to boost the domestic gasoline supply, also added a little zinger for Boebert: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) actually decreased when Donald Trump was president.

“In addition, the SPR declined during Trump’s tenure from 695 million barrels to 634 million.”

There’s also this handy factual tidbit that Boebert would have discovered if she’d merely done a quick Google search: The United States has made $4 billion so far this year from SPR sales, according to Business Insider:

The US government has pocketed a roughly $4 billion windfall from sales of crude this year out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

In the week ending December 9, the US released about 4.7 million barrels of crude, and the Energy Department has said it will conclude deliveries this month. 

Since President Joe Biden tapped into the reserves in March — just after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — the US has sold 180 million barrels of crude at an average price of $96.25 per barrel, per The Wall Street Journal. 

Sorry, Bobo, but you’re wrong in every way imaginable, and you’re even dumber than we feared.

 

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Congress GOP

Adam Kinzinger Predicts Kevin McCarthy Won’t ‘Last Very Long’ As Speaker

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday that even if House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) does indeed become Speaker of the House in the next Congress, he won’t last very long because he’ll be hostage to the most extreme elements of the Republican caucus.

Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Kinzinger was asked by host Jake Tapper what kind of Speaker he thought McCarthy would be, to which the Illinois Republican replied:

“If you had asked me five years ago, I would have said a pretty good one. Now, I think he has cut so many deals with bad people to get to this position that I think he’s not going to be a leader.”

Kinzinger then elaborated on his prediction:

“I think he’ll be completely hostage to kind of the extreme wings of the Republican Party. And I frankly don’t think he’s going to last very long, Maybe he’ll prove me wrong but it’s sad to see a man that I think had so much potential just totally sell himself. He’s the one that resurrected Donald Trump. The second he went to Mar-a-Lago a week or two after Jan. 6, he resurrected Donald Trump politically. So he owns everything that Trump says now.”

Indeed, McCarthy has sold what was left of his soul to the most extreme elements of the GOP, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who is expected to get assignment on a couple of the most powerful committees in Congress, Judiciary and Oversight.

Kevin McCarthy is about to find out that when you make a deal with the devil, your soul gets lost in the transaction. Provided that McCarthy had a soul in the first place.

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Congress Elections GOP

Lauren Boebert Claims Her Razor-Thin Reelection Was Fair After Saying The 2020 Election Was Rigged

Today’s entrant in the category of Biggest Hypocrite of the Year is none other than our favorite clueless congresswoman, Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who declared Thursday (and again on Friday) that she had been reelected, even though a mandatory recount will be done because the race between her and her Democratic opponent, Adam Frisch, was separated by just a few hundred votes.

On Thursday, Boebert released this statement:

“I’m told that there are less than 200 votes outstanding, which makes me so happy to announce, we have won this race!…Past recounts in Colorado have resulted in far fewer votes being adjusted than anything that could affect the current outcome we’re seeing tonight.”

She’s claiming victory even though she raised holy hell when Joe Biden was declared the victor over Donald Trump in the 2020 election. She has even suggested that the violence on January 6, 2021 was justified because Trump had the election “stolen” from him. He didn’t, of course, but Lauren didn’t want to miss a chance to kiss Trump’s fat ass in order to prove her undying loyalty to the Orange Menace.

After Frisch conceded the race on Friday, Boebert posted this:

Work? Is that a damn joke! Lauren Boebert has done nothing over the past two years except tweet, whine, hold press conferences, and manage to lose her failing restaurant, Shooters Grill, which has gone under and was heavily in debt when it closed.

Shooters was Boebert’s pride and joy, because she claimed it was proof that hard work pays off in the United States and you don’t need a college degree to be successful. Success, however, is a foreign concept to this woman. She had never succeeded at anything, and the fact that she barely won a second term in a district that has voted Republican since 2010 is a damning indictment of her first term in office.

Lauren Boebert is a grifter and a failure. No wonder she worships Donald Trump.

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Congress Donald Trump

Pelosi Throws Epic Shade At Trump As She Discusses The Presidents She’s Worked With

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was discussing her two decades a leader in the Democratic Party on Thursday, noting that she will no longer be a member of the House Democratic leadership.

Pelosi pointed to three different presidents she worked with to pass major legislation:

“I have enjoyed working with three presidents, achieving historic investments in clean energy with President George Bush.

“Transformative healthcare reform with President Barack Obama. And forging the future from infrastructure to healthcare to climate action with President Joe Biden.”

Notice someone Pelosi didn’t mention? She was also Speaker during Donald Trump’s four years in the White House, but she didn’t give him a shoutout, HuffPost reports.

Of course, Pelosi also served as speaker of the House under President Donald Trump, but he bore no mention during her speech.

Trump relentlessly attacked Pelosi in public, often with one of his juvenile nicknames: “Crazy Nancy.”

Just two weeks ago, he told a crowd of supporters at a rally in Iowa, “We’re going to end Crazy Nancy Pelosi’s political career once and for all.” Days earlier, a man had broken into Pelosi’s San Francisco home and attacked her husband with a hammer, sending him to the hospital for surgery on his head. The suspect, David DePape, had reportedly shouted, “Where’s Nancy?”

Pelosi will remain a member of Congress, representing California’s 12th congressional district. She was first elected to that office in 1987.