Boebert spreading lie that Biden's energy plan will limit people to 4 lbs of red meat a year

[Nevilledog]

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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw
This is a complete lie and I’ve seen it no less than five times this morning already. The Biden plan includes no such thing.

Lauren Boebert
@laurenboebert
Joe Biden’s climate plan includes cutting 90% of red meat from our diets by 2030. They want to limit us to about four pounds a year. Why doesn’t Joe stay out of my kitchen?

If you care to have a taxonomy of what happened, Biden announced a goal to cut emissions by 2030. It didn’t include anything about how Americans’ consumption would change, so the Daily Mail more or less made some things up and threw them in an infographic.

https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9501565/How-Bidens-climate-plan-affect-everyday-Americans.html…
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Then that infographic got disseminated throughout the Murdoch sphere as though it was Biden’s plan. But there’s nothing in Biden’s plan about any of it. The Daily Mail p much invented it wholecloth.
9:07 AM · Apr 24, 2021

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

1. Lying grifter gonna lie and grift.

[Nevilledog]

3. Yup....with a huge helping of crazy

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Look out folks, we got some badasses over here. They're going to eat burgers!
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[TheBlackAdder]

31. STOP THE STEAL! AUDIT NOW!

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There's no way she got a G.E.D. by her own efforts.



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[dalton99a]

37. +1. Her only school diploma is from elementary/middle school

[struggle4progress]

2. "Pick up some of my pork sliders and get bloody diarrhea for free!"

[jimfields33]

6. Four pounds? I wouldn't last a week. Thank God this is bunk.

[LanternWaste]

15. Yo man, or thank Biden instead...

However, I'm sure you imagine you wouldn't last a week. We are a placid and complacent people.

[jimfields33]

19. I'm sure I'd survive but....

I mean the government just made us stay in our home for a year with barely a peep. We deal with the rules given.

[SMC22307]

4. Where's the rapid response from the Biden Admin/the Democratic Party...

shutting down this right-wing nonsense? There's got to be as way to point out #SQeakyBoebert's idiocy -- attack her with humor, perhaps. Just don't make her sympathetic to anyone.

[PortTack]

10. President Biden has ignored the most egregious attacks, even on his son Hunter and it has been

Quite effective.

Why start now responding to a low life like her that will be gone in the midterms

[Aristus]

18. I agree.

Why give this issue oxygen?

[SMC22307]

21. Because it's Obama and arugula and Michelle and healthy school lunches all over again.

We never shut these fuckers down; meanwhile, it will run all over right-wing media to the point I'll hear a nutty neighbor whining about 4 lbs of beef per year.

[SMC22307]

20. I'm not convinced she'll be gone.

I'm not asking for some major response, just a carefully crafted tweet to absolutely level her. And mention pork sliders. Probably not from Biden but maybe the DNC. Ted Lieu and Eric Swalwell excel at this.

[Elessar Zappa]

24. Her district is very purple.

It's very possible she'll be gone by 2023.

[bluedigger]

33. I've been voting in her district for over ten years now.

Have yet to see a Democratic candidate come even close to winning a Congressional seat. Heck, I'm pleasantly surprised when a Democrat is even on the ballot in local races.

[Elessar Zappa]

34. Maybe I'm thinking of another district.

Didn't she only win by a few percentage points or am I mistaken?

[bluedigger]

35. It was probably a close win for her.

She was a pretty weak candidate after all, and still won. Finding those last few points is the trick.

[SMC22307]

39. She trounced the Republican incumbent in the primary, running against AOC and the Squad.

She beat the Democratic candidate in the general 51.27% to 45.41% The balance was made up by Libertarian and Unity votes. Her district is over 70% white. She whipped voters into a frenzy over soshulism!11341 and voted against the economic relief package; meanwhile, her voters are enjoying those COVID checks. How do we beat her? Throw back in their faces that any stimulus money they received was thanks to Democrats? She'll always have gunz and immigration to rely on...

[Kaleva]

13. People who believe such nonsense are too far gone.

[SMC22307]

22. Some are too far gone, but there's the mushy middle...

that needs to be told what to think and Qbert is stepping right up with the disinformation.

[Chipper Chat]

5. This would probably be a good thing if we all did it.

Would Trump be exempt so he won't be estranged from his Beloved Bigmacs?

[bearsfootball516]

7. I'll run down Pennsylvania Ave naked in a Trump hat if Trump is alive in 2030.

[bullimiami]

8. That's not a lie. It's just stupid. Stupid crap from a stupid person.

[Chipper Chat]

9. Nancy should kick her ass outa congress

She and Loonie Gohmert should get married.

[obamanut2012]

14. Pelosi had no such power

And, she shouldn't.

[niyad]

16. q-bert is married to a sexual predator.

[Walleye]

11. She has to have the red meat to throw out to her constituents in her speeches

[bahboo]

12. does anyone ever ask her for, you know...proof....

[Kaleva]

17. that'd be like asking the former guy for proof that the election was stolen.

[NickB79]

23. We WILL have to severely restrict our meat consumption to hit those targets

Whether or not the numbers are accurate, the truth is that we can't keep eating meat, especially red meat, at our current levels and hit emission reduction goals. Livestock farming requires significant carbon inputs, and those can't easily be reduced while still churning our billions of pounds of meat annually.

If we priced red meat to reflect it's climate impact, hamburger would be $10/lb and steak $20/lb. The fact I can still get a cheeseburger under $2 is insane with the damage climate change is set to unleash. That can't continue if we want to have a fighting chance. And this is where we'll see demand reduced, by higher costs. Ultimately, plant-based or lab-grown meat will have to replace a good chunk of our farmed meats. And since climate change and aquifer depletion on the Great Plains is set to devastate farming by mid-century, we better move fast.

The Democrats are fools if they don't get ahead of this message. Stop denying it, or we'll all look like liars.

[Elessar Zappa]

25. Telling people

that meat prices need to be significantly raised would lose us the election. Of course, Dems didn't say that and Boebert is a lying dipshit.

[NickB79]

26. So we lie and cook the planet instead

You're not wrong though. We're in a really shitty conundrum.

[Elessar Zappa]

27. No, we can do measures about meat

but we shouldn't campaign on it or else Repubs will stay in office and continue doing nothing.

[NickB79]

28. We need a way to subsidize or promote plant-based meats more

Impossible and Beyond are good, but they're still more expensive than real meat, and the flavor isn't 100% yet.

And you can bet the GOP WILL campaign on it, when meat prices go up significantly in coming years. We need an effective response to that planned out, because Americans love meat.

[Kaleva]

30. Remember that those targets are intended to slow down the approach of severe climate change.

If impact on climate was factored in, the price would increase by $146%

"Study: Meat Would Cost 146% More If We Factored In Climate Change"

https://www.livekindly.co/study-meat-cost-climate-change-price/

My guess is that people would be willing to pay that.

[NickB79]

32. I'm sure they would, but not with a smile. People love meat

Given how much meat we eat, though, that would add hundreds, if not thousands, to an average family's grocery bill annually.

It would be really easy for a politician to campaign on that resentment and win big.

[milestogo]

29. I will be selling my 4 lb allotment on ebay

since I am a vegetarian.

[marie999]

36. How many American omnivores eats only 40 pounds of red meat a year?

[Johonny]

38. I love that GOPers will be gobbling red meat all through the Biden administration

yet still believe this lie. Just like they paid higher taxes under Trump and hailed him for their tax cut.