'Lower than snakes***': Lauren Boebert's State of the Union antics are catching up with her at home

[Eugene]

Source: The Independent

‘Lower than snakes***’: Lauren Boebert’s State of the Union antics are catching up with her at home

The Colorado Congresswoman stepped up her knack for controversy this week while shouting at Joe Biden and turning her back on the Cabinet. But her antics are dividing her constituents along with the rest of the country, Western Coloradans tell Sheila Flynn

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There are exactly three customers sitting in Shooters Grill the day after its owner, Lauren Boebert, created a national brouhaha when she heckled President Joe Biden during the State of the Union address – as he spoke about his dead veteran son.

The Republican congresswoman’s restaurant is on Main Street in Rifle, Colorado, sandwiched between her constituency office and an interesting business that’s a tattoo parlour/pawn shop. Shooters has been home to controversy for even longer than Boebert has been making headlines with her outspoken, far-right views; after an incident in the town, Boebert bragged that she and all her waitresses were openly carrying weapons. The restaurant also flouted Covid lockdown laws and subsequently got into trouble.

Boebert seems to revel in drama, whether it’s posing with guns at Christmastime – with her underage children also armed in the viral photo – or posting outrageously on social media.

The congresswoman really caused a stir on Tuesday night when she shouted at President Joe Biden during his State of the Union speech, accusing him of being personally responsible for the deaths of 13 service members in Afghanistan last year. Her heckling came as the president was speaking about his veteran son, Beau, who passed away in 2015; addressing burn pits in war zones and their residual affects on veterans, Mr Biden raised questions about his late son’s own toxic exposure while on deployment in Iraq.

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Not everyone in Boebert’s constituency loves her outlandish behaviour. Far from it, in fact.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/lauren-boebert-colorado-state-union-heckles-b2029354.html

[Srkdqltr]

1. They looked like a couple of street people yelling at passing cars.

[oldsoftie]

6. Yes, they did look like hookers.

[monkeyman1]

10. please quit de-grading hooker's !! they are well above her !

most are well educated ! more than the 2 monkey howler 's !

[oldsoftie]

12. HAHAHAHAHA! Thank you for that laugh.

[lees1975]

18. They reminded me of a couple of chattering magpies

mouths gaping open, angry look on their faces.

[Praek3]

2. No Brains

No brains. No beauty. No decency.

Standard GQP crap. Mentally ill human feces by the pair. Cheap. Made in Mar a lago.

[Cha]

3. boebert & greene.. Bully howler Monkeys

Flinging their Shit.

TY for this

[Cha]

4. I wish I could continue reading

but I don't want to register.

Darn.

[oldsoftie]

13. Click the top link & it'll let you read it. Thats what I did

[Cha]

21. Thank you, oldsoftie..

I'll try it!

[Lonestarblue]

15. Click on the link to the Independent.

When the box appears asking you to register, click on the “I’ll try later” box. That will let you read the whole article.

[Cha]

22. Oh Thanks.. I didn't even see

that but I was in a hurry to go catch a bus!

[Blue Owl]

5. Likely those 3 unlucky customers all ended up with explosive diarrhea

[PatrickforB]

7. As a person born and raised in Colorado, I have to say that

Lauren Boebert has brought shame upon my beloved state, and its 5.7 million people.

[SouthBayDem]

11. Thankfully Colorado has moved on from the Republican Party.

When was the last Republican statewide victory in Colorado, Corey Gardner as senator in 2014?

[democratsruletheday]

8. she's repugnant...

and MTG is worse somehow. LB looks and acts like a dumber version of Palin

[ShazzieB]

17. Yes. LB reminds me SO much of Palin!

She even looks enough like Palin to be her daughter.

Her dumber, meaner daughter!

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Another Democratic challenger to Boebert: Alex Walker

He apparently raised a real shit-storm with this ad:

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/columnists/trail-mix-newest-boebert-challenger-lands-in-democratic-primary-with-a-splat/article_56c01b9e-95ab-11ec-b987-331d1fde55ee.html

[TomSlick]

14. Accurate but maybe just the least bit over the top.

[LuvLoogie]

19. It went on too long. Kinda juvenile.

He won't win. It makes him seem more ridiculous than she is. The dude has all the creativity of a, uh...hmmm...a...oh yeah--a Republican.

[ancianita]

16. Boebert's district's biggest cities are Grand Junction and Pueblo. The really weird thing is,

Grand Junction, with most of the district's red vote, has only 65,560 residents, while Pueblo, home of the blue vote, has over 111,876 residents.

So whatever happened with the turnout, she only won 51% of the district vote.

It seems logical that with a better GOTV, along with people offended by her do-nothing drama, she'll likely lose in 2022 even if her war chest is bigger.

These are the three Democrats running against her, and Walker makes four.

https://www.westword.com/news/meet-lauren-boebert-opponents-running-against-her-in-2022-11896128

[krkaufman]

20. Yet another Boebert victory

Another rag giving her the attention she seeks *and* echoing her attack on Biden.

[Cha]

23. TY From your link..

“The thing that bothers me so much about the politicians we have ... [is that] instead of just doing good policy, instead of just working hard for their constituents, they’re being controversial,” says Ms Hall, who has worked in public life for a quarter-century and currently chairs the Colorado Department of Transportation commission.