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WATCH: Joe Biden Hilariously Mocks Lauren Boebert: ‘Massive Failure In Her Thinking’

President Joe Biden had a laugh at the expense of Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert during an interview on a progressive podcast, suggesting that the controversial Boebert doesn’t give much thought to the patently ridiculous things she says before she spouts off.

Speaking with Ben Meiselas of the anti-Trump Meidas Touch PAC, Biden was shown remarks Boebert made about the Inflation Reduction Act.

Meiselas told the president:

“We’re at the CS Wind turbine factory, the largest wind turbine factory in the world.”

“You were talking about the Inflation Reduction Act and jobs being brought to cities and communities across the United States of America and here in Pueblo. And the MAGA Republican representative, though, of Pueblo, Colorado, is MAGA Republican Lauren Boebert, and she gives the alternative position there on the Inflation Reduction Act.

“And she says that the Inflation Reduction Act is a massive failure. And she said that it is another con by the Democrats. If I can. I want to show you a video of MAGA Republican Lauren Boebert talking. I apologize in advance for even showing this to you.”

Cue the video of Boebert, railing on the House floor: “And it does the exact opposite of what Americans need right now! This is just another con game by the Democrats calling something one thing.”

That led Biden to comment:

“If it weren’t so important, it’d be humorous! What’d she call it, a massive failure? The only massive failure occurs in her thinking. The idea that in her own district. We’ve created so many new, good-paying jobs. And by the way, it’s generating economic growth across the board was the board. And when people get a good job, what they do is they have an opportunity to spend on things that their, basic needs for themselves. And by the way, we cut the deficit by $7 billion. The idea that she’s talking about this being a massive failure, I don’t get it. I don’t know whether they just don’t understand anything or whether or not they, in fact, are.”

The president added:

“I hope she comes back here and tells the people in this factory the largest wind turbine factory in the world, that this is a massive stimulus. So just to invite her to come back. Come back and tell the folks back home. This is a massive failure. Tell the folks back home that all we’ve done to generate economic growth is not worth it. And I’d like to ask explain how she supports not taxing billionaires more than 8%. I have trouble explaining that again. I probably shouldn’t waste my time trying to.”

The latest polls from Boebert’s district suggest she’s in big trouble come November, as her challenger, Adam Frisch, is raising tons of campaign money and polling well against the incumbent. Here’s hoping that means Boebert will soon be a former member of Congress.

 

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Lauren Boebert Gets Schooled By Social Security Official After Proving Her Ignorance Of Math

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) once again proved her seemingly unlimited ignorance on Wednesday during the questioning of an official from the Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to HuffPost, Boebert chastised the SSA official and suggested that employees for the agency are lazy.

Boebert told Oren “Hank” McKnelly, an executive counselor for the SSA, that the agency was allowing “delinquent employees to sit on their sofas at home” instead of “actually getting to work and doing their jobs” as she took aim at telework policies during a House Oversight Committee hearing.

“This is absolutely unacceptable,” said Boebert, known for her bizarre behavior in and outside Washington, D.C.

McNeely told the congresswoman that all employees who work from home are monitored.

That led Boebert to ask, “Then why is the backlogs for Social Security applicants increased from 41,000 to 107,000?”

McNeely replied, “Because we’ve been historically underfunded for a number of years now.”

The congresswoman tried to be snarky, telling the official:

“I don’t think you’re underfunded. You’re funded at the Nancy Pelosi levels, at the democrat levels. We just continued that same funding.”

McNeely dropped the hammer on Boebert by using simple facts to refute what she’d just said.

“So I’d say we’d have an increase of over 8 million beneficiaries over the last 10 years. At the same time, we experienced our lowest work staffing levels at the end of FY 22. That’s a math problem. I mean, that is a problem. If you have those workloads increasing and you don’t have the staff to take care of those workloads, you’re going to have the backlogs that you’re talking about, representative.”

The video, which has more than 2.4 million views in less than 24 hours, also drew plenty of comments from other social media users.

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WATCH A House Democrat Confound And Humiliate Lauren Boebert With One Simple Question

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) proved her unmatched ignorance once again today during a debate on a spending bill in which she was unable to answer a simple question from one of her Democratic colleagues.

The House of Representatives was debating a bill when Boebert attempted to add an amendment which would have prohibited any funds going to so-called sanctuary cities, leading Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) interjected:

“I rise in perplexion. I’m asking you to yield for a question.”

Boebert: “Sure. Ask your question.”

“What funds in this bill are used for the purposes you are opposed to?” Hoyer asked.

“This is precautionary,” Boebert responded.

“Precautionary for what?” Hoyer inquired.

“There are sanctuary city policies that are in place that are allowing the refuge of illegal aliens in this and there is an influx of crime and drugs in these cities and there is no way for these folks to even report what is taking place because they are protected under this fake policy that has been created that is subduing the actual rule of law that we have in the Constitution of the United States,” Boebert insisted.

Hoyer: “I understand that, but what you’ve said none of the funds in this bill can be spent for that objective. What funds are in this bill that are to be spent for this objective?”

“I have seen this administration use all sorts of funds to protect illegal aliens,” Boebert said.

“There are no funds in this bill to do that,” Hoyer noted. “So this is just an opportunity for you to stand and perhaps speak about an important subject, I understand that. But there are no funds in this bill to accomplish that objective. You don’t believe that the chairman would put funds in to accomplish that objective, do you?”

Once again, the Colorado Republican insisted she didn’t trust the Biden administration to spend money correctly, which led Hoyer to retort:

“If we do this amendment, any subject that anybody has an interest in would be subject to such an amendment. The rules committee has waived points of order, contrary to what they said they wanted done when we were in charge, because they didn’t want points of order, but there are no funds in this bill, Mr. Speaker, for the objective that the gentlelady wants to prevent.”

“This amendment has no place in this bill because there is no money in this bill,” he added. “You can argue about the sanctuary cities and argue about the border and do all of that, but this is not the bill to do it on.”

Lauren Boebert doesn’t know how to legislate or govern. About the only thing she’s any good at is vaping and giving hand jobs to her boyfriend in public.

Here’s the video from C-SPAN:

 

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Lauren Boebert’s Divorce Finalized After Closed-Door Shouting Match At Colorado Courthouse

On Tuesday at a courthouse in Grand Junction, Colorado, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and her husband, Jayson, finalized their divorce, and based on a report from Business Insider, it sounds like the last moments of their relationship were just as hateful as the congresswoman herself.

The hearing itself was delayed for unknown reasons for nearly 30 minutes, during which the door to the courtroom was locked. Raised voices and the former couple’s six-month-old grandchild crying could be heard through the door. The congresswoman brought her grandson to the hearing, which Jayson Boebert told reporters was so he could pick up the child from her.

Boebert filed for divorced from her husband in May, citing “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split.

The couple has four children, which led the congresswoman to seek over $1,800 a month in child support.

However, the request for child support was dropped on Tuesday.

As for her kids, Boebert’s lawyer, Annie Le Fleur, announced that the initial plan for $1833.43 would be reduced to nothing. Le Fleur said Jayson Boebert provided “ample” support for the couple’s children. 

Interestingly, Jayson Boebert arrived at the Tuesday hearing without an attorney, and he recently defended his ex-wife after her raunchy display at a musical where she was observed vaping and making out with her date.

After news of the event broke, he wrote on Facebook:

“I am asking for you all to show grace and mercy towards Lauren in this troubling season. She deserves a chance to earn your forgiveness and regain trust. I have broke her down in so many ways, but she will come out stronger as she always does, and so will I.”

The congresswoman is facing an uncertain bid for reelection in 2024.

After squeaking by in the 2022 midterm by a razor-thin margin of 546 votes, recent polls show her potentially losing to her challenger, Democrat Adam Frisch.

 

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Lauren Boebert MELTS DOWN When Asked If McCarthy Is About To Be Ousted As Speaker

Things are not going well for the House Republican caucus, and it has everything to do with the fact that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) managed to pass a 45-day spending bill on Saturday that will avert a shutdown of the federal goverment.

House Democrats crossed the aisle to provide the necessary votes for the spending package, and that has left many on the far right wing of the GOP furious, suggesting that McCarthy needs to be booted as Speaker.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was asked about the temporary spending bill by CNN’s Manu Raju, and she also sounded ticked off that federal offices wouldn’t be shuttered.

“We should have forced them to come to the negotiating table and come to conference and hash out our differences with these four appropriation bills before there was another payday that was at risk of being missed,” Boebert told Raju.

Does that mean Boebert wants to give McCarthy the boot?

“That isn’t what we’re talking about right now.”

“Well, Matt Gaetz has said that if he (McCarthy) relies on Democratic votes, he will no longer be Speaker,” Raju noted.

Boebert snapped:

“I’m not Matt Gaetz.”

“My name is Lauren Boebert. I represent Colorado’s third district and my focus is getting the federal government funded as we ought to with 12 individual spending bills, like we promised everyone in January.”

The Colorado Republican added: “Unfortunately, now we’re at 45 days of the same bipartisan muscle memory of a straight up and down vote and ‘whatever’s in it is good with us.'”

Gaetz, it should be noted, attempted to call a vote that would have pushed McCarthy out as Speaker, but his motion was ignored by the the congressman presiding over the House at the time, leaving Gaetz angry and humiliated, according to reports.