Lauren Boebert - Rotten Pork Sliders
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Get your shots if you do go there.
Mrleft8
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That part of Colorado is actually very beautiful in late may, through most of June.
I only talked to a few people there when I stopped for diesel, and beer, but everyone of the people I talked to were very beautiful, well proportioned young women who thought that Vermont was part of New York, and would be happy to join me on my trip back east, if only they could find a fill in for their job.... I waited 5 minutes for 3 of them, got 2 kisses and all 3 phone numbers. There was one I almost turned around to try a second shot at, but...... Nebraska was calling my name. (STUPID MOTHER FUCKER!)
Sounds like they dodged a bullet.
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It's about the balance. Her district does have the crunchy enclaves of Durango and Aspen. But it's mostly Western Slope, and Western Slope doesn't really pull the tourists too much, which I likely explains your confidence that you will never find yourself there.
To end up in Boebert's district, you kinds have to want to go there. The balance on that side of the state is mostly rural, and rural people tend to vote differently than urban and suburban people.
But if you have never been to a place like Rifle, Colorado, you can't really imagine what it is like, and it is a lost opportunity that the Demublicans haven't managed to learn about places like this. The average income in Rifle is about $20k less than a place like Denver. And the costs of Rifle are still pretty high, it's expensive to heat anything on that side of the state. Water is expensive, food and supplies are Denver prices because transport to Rifle goes through Denver far more often than Craig, which is closer to Rifle, but on the Western Slope, which is economically depressed in part because it's expensive to build roads through mountains and ranches on the Western Slope are isolated from the rest of the state, they can't get the favorable pricing on livestock like the Front Range, and it's a little harder to sell hay and grain.
So these poor schmucks in Rifle wake up each morning, already behind the 8-ball, they just don't have the commercial infrastructure. It's good for the Colorado-Mexican families who have been there from back when that was part of Mexico. They tend to have alternative markets when the prices get too low. But in general, they support people like Boebert for roughly the same reason Alabamans elected Tommy Tuberville; being quiet and well-behaved in politics doesn't pull "lost" pork into a constituency. And that's what these town need; economic development and a little publicity.
If you visited Rifle, you would be hard-pressed to find anything more than a few random kooks who support Boebert's fundy politics. But they voted her in because they see her as an ally in a way that they don't see the Sociology Professor from Steamboat as a person who understands what they need to put food on the table in rural American. The Sociology Professor might make a fine promoter of Garfield County, but the voters didn't see that.
You have no need to visit Rifle, Colorado because you don't see certain Americans as critical for the success of social justice in the USA. And until you dispose of your left-right worldview, your impact on the world will be mostly cancelled out by your doppelganger on the other side of the picket fence. What's the point of that? Who does it actually help?
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The Bathroom Fight Fueling Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert’s Break Up
A shouting match in a bathroom. Kevin McCarthy. Donald Trump. Ukraine aid. They're all contributing to the split between two of the far right’s most high-profile figures.
www.thedailybeast.com
Bus Driver
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I admire Rep. Dingell for not participating. Her response to inquiry is appropriate.
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Lauren Boebert says "conspiracy theorists" shouldn't be on committees
The Republican representative said Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell should be kept off the Intelligence Committee in the new GOP-controlled House.
www.newsweek.com
Good lord, projection here we come.Lauren Boebert says "conspiracy theorists" shouldn't be on committees
The Republican representative said Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell should be kept off the Intelligence Committee in the new GOP-controlled House.
Rasputin22
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Thanks for the run down on Rifle, CO Mike. I was the skipper for a guy who was from Rifle. His Dad and Mom pretty much ran the show in that town.
mikewof
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I get it, things can get kinda ... landlocked around here. Is he still in Bama?
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The owner was never here in Alabama. I designed and built the 50' cat for him in St Croix. He is back in Rifle selling water to the smaller ranchers.
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Now I understand what you mean about his parents running the place. They owned a ditch company? Selling water might be the only reliable way to make money on the Western Slope.
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The guys dad was a big real estate developer in Newport/Laguna Beach when things were hopping. He was making big bucks and needed a long term investment and the oil shale thing was making all the news back in the 70's. Dad bought 27,000 acres along that oil shale ridge thinking that would turn into a great return over the years. In the meantime they sort of consolidated the several cattle ranches that they had absorbed and were running about 1000 head of prime black angus. Mom started a local bank since there was none in Rifle at the time. She had been into show horses back in S Ca. and took an interest in the wild Mustang ponies which were all over the place back then. She decided that she could breed the Mustangs with prize quarter horses to make an optimised 'cattle pony' and the locals thought she was nuts, but she had the money to make it work. It took a couple of decades before her cross bred cow horses caught on but they are well suited for actual herding of large herds on open prairie.
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Boebert suggests God used her to stand up to McCarthy
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) suggested that God used her to stand up to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), whom she indirectly referred to as one of her “demons,” while speaking at a women’s conference at a Dallas church over the weekend.
“Ladies … God is using you in mighty ways,” she told a crowd of what appeared to be mostly women, according to clips of her remarks posted by PatriotTakes, a liberal PAC. Boebert was a featured speaker at the SALT Conference at Storehouse Dallas, which aims to provide “spiritual and leadership training to equip an army of women to awaken culture with the truth and love of Jesus.”
“Maybe he’ll have you ball up your fists and stand in front of some demons — maybe a speaker of the House?” Boebert added, to laughter and a standing ovation from those in the audience.
After some of the laughter died down, Boebert joked that she had also stood up to former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), “so nobody knows what I really meant there, for the record, when they try to put this in print.”
Boebert was among a small group of hard-right Republicans in the House who opposed McCarthy’s speakership bid, forcing four days’ worth of votes before he finally won the gavel last month. McCarthy made a number of concessions to hard-right members of his caucus to become speaker, including changes to House rules.
In another clip from Boebert’s remarks at the SALT Conference posted by Patriot Takes, Boebert describes how she and some of the other McCarthy holdouts — Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Scott Perry (R-Pa.) — put together a “final list of concessions” and walked it over to McCarthy’s office the day before votes commenced, only to be rebuffed by the Republican leader.
“We started hearing lies about the meeting, that we came in asking for a personal wish list, nothing for the good of the country,” Boebert said.
As she has before, Boebert also told the crowd that she was praying for President Biden to leave the White House.
“Let his days be few and another take his office,” she said, citing a Bible verse that includes a prayer for the death of one’s enemy.
“Unfortunately, he does have a really great insurance policy named Kamala Harris,” she added.
Representatives for Boebert’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday.
Boebert, one of former president Donald Trump’s staunchest and most controversial allies in Congress, has repeatedly sparked backlash for her inflammatory remarks against Democrats and political opponents.
Last year, Boebert faced criticism after she told congregants at a Colorado religious service that she was “tired” of the separation of church and state in the United States.
“The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church. That is not how our Founding Fathers intended it,” Boebert said then. “I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk that’s not in the Constitution. It was in a stinking letter, and it means nothing like what they say it does.”
Boebert barely survived her reelection bid in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, winning by roughly 500 votes out of 327,000 cast.
Since her election in 2020, Boebert has made national headlines for her remarks on subjects including gun rights and pandemic restrictions and has made baseless claims about Democrats. She also came under scrutiny for using campaign funds to pay her rent and utility bills, and for receiving an eyebrow-raising $22,259 in mileage reimbursementsfrom her campaign.
In March 2022, Boebert heckled Biden during his State of the Union address as he mentioned the dangers U.S. troops face, among them cancer, the disease that his son Beau died of in 2015.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) suggested that God used her to stand up to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), whom she indirectly referred to as one of her “demons,” while speaking at a women’s conference at a Dallas church over the weekend.
“Ladies … God is using you in mighty ways,” she told a crowd of what appeared to be mostly women, according to clips of her remarks posted by PatriotTakes, a liberal PAC. Boebert was a featured speaker at the SALT Conference at Storehouse Dallas, which aims to provide “spiritual and leadership training to equip an army of women to awaken culture with the truth and love of Jesus.”
“Maybe he’ll have you ball up your fists and stand in front of some demons — maybe a speaker of the House?” Boebert added, to laughter and a standing ovation from those in the audience.
After some of the laughter died down, Boebert joked that she had also stood up to former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), “so nobody knows what I really meant there, for the record, when they try to put this in print.”
Boebert was among a small group of hard-right Republicans in the House who opposed McCarthy’s speakership bid, forcing four days’ worth of votes before he finally won the gavel last month. McCarthy made a number of concessions to hard-right members of his caucus to become speaker, including changes to House rules.
In another clip from Boebert’s remarks at the SALT Conference posted by Patriot Takes, Boebert describes how she and some of the other McCarthy holdouts — Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Scott Perry (R-Pa.) — put together a “final list of concessions” and walked it over to McCarthy’s office the day before votes commenced, only to be rebuffed by the Republican leader.
“We started hearing lies about the meeting, that we came in asking for a personal wish list, nothing for the good of the country,” Boebert said.
As she has before, Boebert also told the crowd that she was praying for President Biden to leave the White House.
“Let his days be few and another take his office,” she said, citing a Bible verse that includes a prayer for the death of one’s enemy.
“Unfortunately, he does have a really great insurance policy named Kamala Harris,” she added.
Representatives for Boebert’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday.
Boebert, one of former president Donald Trump’s staunchest and most controversial allies in Congress, has repeatedly sparked backlash for her inflammatory remarks against Democrats and political opponents.
Last year, Boebert faced criticism after she told congregants at a Colorado religious service that she was “tired” of the separation of church and state in the United States.
“The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church. That is not how our Founding Fathers intended it,” Boebert said then. “I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk that’s not in the Constitution. It was in a stinking letter, and it means nothing like what they say it does.”
Boebert barely survived her reelection bid in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, winning by roughly 500 votes out of 327,000 cast.
Since her election in 2020, Boebert has made national headlines for her remarks on subjects including gun rights and pandemic restrictions and has made baseless claims about Democrats. She also came under scrutiny for using campaign funds to pay her rent and utility bills, and for receiving an eyebrow-raising $22,259 in mileage reimbursementsfrom her campaign.
In March 2022, Boebert heckled Biden during his State of the Union address as he mentioned the dangers U.S. troops face, among them cancer, the disease that his son Beau died of in 2015.
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I guess she's never been to Southern California.
SloopJonB
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Thinks she's witty but she's just too stupid to know the difference between climate and seasons.
Mike G
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And guess what i.q. range laughs with her?
