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Lauren Boebert Walks Into A Massive Self-Own When She Tries To Give Americans A Civics Lesson

If you thought you’d seen and heard all of the laughable ignorance that can possibly come from Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, she outdid herself today, and it resulted in one of the most humiliating (and hilarious) self-owns you’ll ever encounter.

For some reason, Boebert decided that she’d offer a lesson in civics to everyone on Twitter, posting this:

“This is your daily reminder that America is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy.”

Is Boebert right? Nope.

Yes, we are indeed a Constitutional Republic, but if we weren’t also a democracy, then what would be the point of the republic?

As the Washington Post rightly noted in a 2015 article:

The United States is not a direct democracy, in the sense of a country in which laws (and other government decisions) are made predominantly by majority vote. Some lawmaking is done this way, on the state and local levels, but it’s only a tiny fraction of all lawmaking. But we are a representative democracy, which is a form of democracy.

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To be sure, in addition to being a representative democracy, the United States is also a constitutional democracy, in which courts restrain in some measure the democratic will. And the United States is therefore also a constitutional republic. Indeed, the United States might be labeled a constitutional federal representative democracy. But where one word is used, with all the oversimplification that this necessary entails, “democracy” and “republic” both work. Indeed, since direct democracy — again, a government in which all or most laws are made by direct popular vote — would be impractical given the number and complexity of laws that pretty much any state or national government is expected to enact, it’s unsurprising that the qualifier “representative” would often be omitted. Practically speaking, representative democracy is the only democracy that’s around at any state or national level.

Long story short: The United States is a republic governed by the Constitution, but it’s also a democracy because we elect those who represent us to make the laws by which we’re all governed.

So Boebert is wrong yet again, which isn’t surprising when you consider that she needed multiple attempts before she passed the GED high school equivalency exam.

Twitter users couldn’t resist reminding the Colorado Republican that she had once again managed to prove her own ignorance.

https://twitter.com/XandraCarre/status/1628805320700198912?s=20

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Donald Trump QAnon WTF?!

QAnon Members Angry With Trump For Eating McDonald’s Because ‘They Use Human Meat In Their Burgers’

During his visit to East Palestine, Ohio, disgraced, one-term, twice-impeached ex-president Donald Trump decided to stop by a local McDonalds, where he bragged that he probably knew the menu better than the people who worked there.

As Newsweek reports:

Trump told employees that he knew what was on the restaurant’s menu “better” than they did on Wednesday while visiting a McDonald’s in the eastern Ohio village, near the site of a toxic train derailment earlier this month.

A clip of the moment captured on video and shared to Twitter by The Recount had been seen more than a million times as of Wednesday evening.

“What’s your specialty today? Hello everybody. That’s a nice, beautiful group of people.
“So, I know this menu better than you do. I probably know it better than anybody in here.”

However, some of Trump’s most ardent constituents in the QAnon movement were not happy with the Donald being at a McDonald’s because they claim the fast food chain uses “human meat” in their hamburgers.

Take a look at some of the madness that circulated on social media:

That led to endless mockery of the QAnon nuts.

 

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Supreme Court

Elena Kagan Mops The Floor With Brett Kavanaugh In SCOTUS Ruling

A ruling just released from the U.S. Supreme Court features a hilarious footnote in which Justice Elena Kagan uses logic and reason to remind fellow Justice Brett “I like beer!” Kavanaugh that the law applies to everyone, including large corporations who try to get out of paying their employees.

Mark Joseph Stern of Slate caught the dustup between Kagan and Kavanaugh in a case where Kagan was in the majority on an opinion involving overtime pay for a man who worked 84 hours a week but was denied overtime by his employer.

The case is Helix Energy Solutions v. Hewitt. In it, Michael Hewitt alleged that he often worked as much as 84 hours a week on an offshore oil platform owned by Helix but was only paid a set amount for weekly work, not hourly, even though he clearly exceeded 40 hours work in a week, meaning he was entitled to overtime.

Kavanaugh, along with Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, were in the minority, ruling that Hewitt wasn’t entitled to receive overtime for his work. Kavanaugh also authored the dissenting opinion.

That led Kagan to make the following notation in the footnotes of the majority opinion, clearly aiming her comments at the three justices who had ruled against Hewitt, especially Kavanaugh since he was the author:

“The dissent… tries just to power past the regulatory text. The dissent reasons that because Hewitt received more than $455 for a day’s work, he must have been paid on a salary basis. That is a non-sequitur to end all non-sequiturs. Hewitt’s high daily pay ensured that the HCE rule’s salary-level requirement would not have prevented his exemption: $963 (per day) is indeed more than $455 (per week).”

In another footnote to the majority opinion, Kagan also wrote that Helix had made an argument in their filing before the Supreme Court they failed to make in lower court filings, which would normally mean the high court wouldn’t even consider it in their ruling, and yet Kavanaugh saw fit to “opine on it anyway” in his dissent.

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Jill Biden WTF?!

Conservatives Lose Their Angry Minds After Jill Biden Places ‘Valentine To The Country’ On White House Lawn

It doesn’t get said often enough, but one of the best things about having Donald Trump out of the White House is that his wife, Melania Trump, had to leave with him.

Sure, Melania said she wanted to make cyber bullying the issue (remember #Be Best? What a joke that was!) that she focused on as first lady, but she never once addressed the bullying her husband did each and every day on social media when he wasn’t busy trying to stage a coup and overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Now we have First Lady Jill Biden, and what a refreshing change she’s brought, making sure to reach out to all Americans.

For example, with today being Valentine’s Day, Ms. Biden decided to put valentines to the country on the White House lawn, The Hill reports.

Early on Tuesday morning, a massive “Valentine to the country” was installed on the North Lawn of the White House.

Alongside illustrated versions of the Bidens’ furry family members, German Shepherd Commander and cat Willow, was a message: “Reach out with open hearts and helping hands this Valentine’s Day.”

The blue- and red-colored handprints featured on the lovey-dovey display come from students enrolled at a child development center at the Fort Drum Army Base in New York. Biden visited the base last month as part of her Joining Forces initiative.

But to see the reaction of conservatives, MAGA morons, and other assorted right-wing trash, you’d have thought Ms. Biden had sent out messages of hate and loathing to the nation. In other words, it was the same shit you see each and every day from people who have no hearts, no souls, no brains, and certainly no class.

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Jake Tapper Calls Bullsh*t On Rick Scott’s Bogus Claim That Joe Biden ‘Cut’ Medicare

Rather than admitting that he wants to dramatically slash spending on Social Security and Medicare, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is now trying to shift blame for his heartless plan and suggest that others are the ones who have cut the programs.

But CNN anchor Jake Tapper is having none of Scott’s bullshit, and he called him out Thursday on the network, noting the the senator had tried to suggest that Tapper himself had reported Biden cut Medicare by billions of dollars.

Speaking with CNN host Kaitlan Collins, Tapper began:

“You interviewed Senator Scott about his proposal, about the fact he did, in Rescue America, call for all federal legislation to sunset after five years and then it could be brought back up if Congress chooses to do so. Then he started saying that Democrats tried to cut Medicare spending. You pointed out what he was talking about was not a cut. It was allowing Medicare to negotiate for cheaper drugs, and then he tried to use something I said — I was very surprised by this — back in 2017 as his defense to that. Take a listen to this little excerpt.”

In the video clip, Scott remarks:

“Okay, Kaitlan, let me just read you something Jake Tapper said. This is back when Republicans were proposing reducing the cost of Medicaid. He said — Jake Tapper said, ‘I know the Trump Administration is excited that Medicaid will go back to the states where they have more control and can experiment and be more efficient, but without question, $880 billion is a cut.”

That led Tapper to rightly note:

“So, he didn’t include the quote where I talked about that the cut was analyzed by the Congressional Budget Office. Here’s what I actually said back in 2017. So the context here is I was quoting the CBO on its analysis for a proposal from Medicaid, and I was asking the Health and Human Services secretary, Tom Price, how that cut as, defined by CBO, didn’t violate Trump’s campaign promise to never make such a cut.”

Collins concurred with Tapper that Scott was blowing smoke out of his butt:

“Yeah, and really the issue here that it’s a separate matter, Jake.It’s what was most confusing to me as we were talking about this … what is happening here in the Inflation Reduction Act is that they reduced drug prices. Basically the government can negotiate drug prices. so basically their spending money. And reducing money is not the same as reducing drug prices. It makes the provision more beneficial to those recipients. That was not the point of the interview, was which was to talk about the plan he proposed, which, he told me this morning, does not believe a mistake. To roll out this plan that would sunset all this including Medicare, including Social Security every five years unless it was authorized by Congress. That is at the heart of the matter.”

Republicans have been dying to cut Social Security and Medicare for years. If you doubt that, consider what Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said in 2010:

“It will be my objective to phase out Social Security — to pull it up by the roots and get rid of it.”