When are people going to understand it’s not about being right. She is teeing up soundbites for right wing media to clip and talk about “how brave she is for tackling the corrupt EPA.”
The journalist does, probably. But this isn’t an opinion piece where they get to characterize what they assume her corrupt intentions to be. They’re reporting on the exchange, which all happened as described. They threw in his response, where he pointed out that she’s doing it for sound bites while praising and working with the EPA behind closed doors. What more can the journalist say? This isn’t a twitter post…but it is the independent. Which isn’t exactly much better. But it still needs to have the appearance of journalistic standards
It does matter to highlight her idiocy to the parts of the country not in the cult.
So lmk when you plan to stand against Biden, he literally has crossed all his morals so clearly has none left, and/or how do you plan to defend him?
great. doesn’t matter, that bitch won her primary, and is going to win the seat she carpetbagged her way into. all the shaudenfruede means nothing when the monsters still have the majority in the house, and can legislate. yeah she’s a moron. republicans don’t give a shit.
She won against the last Democrat by less percentage than my current BAC in a solid red district. Her being the candidate is the best hope for Dems to take that seat.
She’s not campaigning for a seat in the same district. She moved to a district in Eastern Colorado because she knew she couldn’t get elected in the same district she ran in last time.
Honestly, I’d rather Bobo get the seat than a Republican who may actually be able to legislate their awful beliefs. Boebert is a clown, but in the grand scheme of things, she’s a pretty ineffective member of Congress. Only 3 of her introduced bills have passed the House.
She may generate sound clips for the right wing media machine, but they seem to be able to generate endless hate porn without much want or worry. I don’t think Lauren is their golden goose, laying gilded shits.
So on balance, Bobo taking up a deep R seat isn’t the worst outcome.
Plot twist: your name is Bender Bending Rodriguez and your current BAC is 70.00
Boebert defeated five other Republicans for the party’s nomination in Colorado’s 4th District, which opened up after Rep. Ken Buck announced this year that he would resign. She will be heavily favored to win the seat in the general election given the area’s rightward lean.
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Yeah, I didn’t word that well. I know it’s not re-election to the same seat, but it’s elected again to congress. What would it take to defeat her in the general election? Money?
By the end of the back-and-forth, Regan stared at Boebert shaking his head with his mouth a gap.
“It’s just shocking you spent so much time with our regional staff and regional administration and region aid and have such productive conversations about how we’re doing things for your district and your state and then you take this microphone and you pretend that we should not exist,” Regan said.
Oh it’s all a big show for the idiots? Of course. She’s so dumb she can’t even make up an imaginary question.
That’s not the kind of head she good with
Hey, good thing our Supreme Court just ruled that people like her (and ultimately, them) will be the ones deciding ALL OF OUR REGULATIONS.
And stupid fucks like Boebert are actually desirable in that situation. Moreso than the more clever folks that will just get corporate lobbiests to literally write the regulations themselves for an $18k “donation” to their “campaign,” and a promise of a job after they’re voted out in two years or whatever.
If Congress does not codify Chevron deference before Trump (or any other conservative) takes office, then kiss “the administrative state” goodbye. And if you think you’re ok with that, or have some clever retort about “bureaucracy bad,” then you’re gonna find out real quick…
$18k “donation”
This is the part I hate the most about this. It’s one thing that we have this “squint a little and you’ll see it” kind of graft and corruption. It’s another entirely that the going rate for sending us all down the river is appallingly low. Especially since the kind of money a corporation can make for a favorable legal change could be a thousand times that, or more.
Don’t be so pessimistic! It really adds up if you do it enough!
Plus, the cushy job after leaving office is the real prize. Why don’t you just go ask John Boehner? Motherfucker spent a several decade career demonizing cannabis, blocking its decriminalization and putting hundreds of thousands of people in prison for it. He was the third second(? do you count the president?) person in line of presidential succession for at least a decade (think about that). Now he works at a pro-cannabis legalization lobby group (at least as of the last time I looked. Not going to google that piece of shit right now).
Republicans have no morals or ethics. They have no values to stand by.
The fact that they concede that they can’t stop themselves from raping and murdering folks without some kind of threat of cosmic torture is a pretty big self-report.
