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  I live in her district and don’t blame her one bit! She is a complete idiot and I would expect no different from her. It’s the people who voted for her are to blame, it’s absolutely shameful that 50.1% of our people share her values and ideals and she continues on with her shenanigans that are just flat out facepalm embarrassing!
context: The original letter: 
  After receiving the narrowest congressional reelection margin in the country, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has apparently learned absolutely nothing. By refusing to stand or applaud the heroic Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his speech to Congress, she has once again embarrassed her 3rd Congressional District constituents and the entire country. During this historic speech, Boebert was seen scrolling on her phone rather than listening, while sitting next to U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz who was doing the same.
  Boebert and Gaetz not only refused to acknowledge the heroism of Zelensky and his country’s 300-day fight to defend their freedom from Russian aggression, but they ignored Capitol police as they blew past a security checkpoint outside the House floor, refusing to go through the security screening before entering the chamber. They are among a small group of far-right house members opposed to any future aid to Ukraine and are demanding a “full investigation” into the aid already sent to help the war-torn country survive.
  It’s clear that Boebert does not understand the importance of defending democracy in our world and does not care about the wishes of her constituents. She is clearly on the wrong side of history. Will she never learn?
  Carol Cure, Durango >
  
  
  ... they ignored Capitol police as they blew past a security checkpoint outside the House floor, refusing to go through the security screening before entering the chamber.
  
  If it's optional, it's not "security." Where are the fucking consequences?? >
  
  My thoughts exactly.  It's not like they're untouchable.  If the Capitol Police can arrest AOC and 16 other democrat members of congress in July for protesting SCOTUS, they can at least detain Bobo and Gaetz and send them through security. >
  
  No! Not “detain them”. Pull weapons on them and slam them up against the fucking wall! >
  
  But but they're white .. . >
  
  So am I. Let me try that stunt with any cops but especially Capital cops. Fuck those bastards. We need to undo this privilege shit. >
  
  Honest question, what would a "full audit" look like in this case? Isn't most of the aid package equipment and material support? >
  
  Exactly. The Federal government is sending money to US defense contractors and other manufacturers to pay for the weapons/ gear. They are sending MREs for soldiers on the front lines. On a limited basis we are paying for services like Starlink. 
  This idea that we are sending plane loads of cash to Ukraine is pure fallacy.
  If anything, this should be considered an economic subsidy for the defense industry. >
  
  Yeah in any other timeline they NeoCons would be salivating over the defense contracts but nope our timeline got hacked. >
  
  They had to choose, support authoritarianism, or the defense contractors. Half or more chose the former. >
  
  Devils advocate:
  What if playing to both sides (re: supporting Ukraine whilst the other half supports Russia) is a grand scheme to send tax dollars into the military industrial complex by prolonging the war to extract as much profit as possible from the conflict? >
  
  Well maybe if most republican officials wherent still on board with ukraine. It's half the republican electorate I'm talking about. >
  
  Apparently it's going to be a Mexican Restaurant now. >
  
  For a moment I thought you meant she was changing the menu to serve Mexican food and I was about to lose my mind.
  This is much better though. >
  
  It closed in July of this year. Lauren's excuse,
  
  Boebert said her new landlord informed her that the restaurant's lease would not be renewed after June.
  "There wasn't really much wiggle room or anywhere to compromise unless we bought the building ourselves," Boebert said. She added that she was hoping to preserve the "Shooters brand" with her husband. 
  
  But, it was already failing for reasons such as,
  
  In 2014, it made headlines after users posted pictures of its gun-toting waitresses on Facebook. The lawmaker also repeatedly used a bogus story about a man being "beaten to death" outside her restaurant to advocate for gun rights, despite the man in question having died of a drug overdose. 
  
  And,
  
  In 2017, The Daily Beast reported dozens of people at a local Colorado rodeo came down with symptoms of food poisoning after consuming the restaurant's pork sliders. 
  
  So, new owners.
  Edit- fixed link >
  
  Well if a man had actually been beaten to death outside the open carry restaurant, I feel like that just causes the "more guns = more safety" argument to look worse. Surely one of those heroes with a gun inside could have saved the man. >
  
  She made it sound like it happened in her parking lot. 
  
  The police department told the newspaper that a man had indeed died down the street from the gun-themed Shooters Grill restaurant in August, but that an autopsy indicated that he had died after overdosing on drugs. 
  
  They didn't say how far, but r/technicallythetruth I guess? >
  
  But they reelected her. Clearly, she isn't the only one who doesn't learn. >
  
  
  Fox News host Tucker Carlson was also included in the Russian report.
  
  Have Republicans and their media learned anything? >
  
  Democrats- Pro Democracy, Pro Ukraine
  Republicans- Pro Fascism, Pro Russia
  The lines couldn't be clearer, war in Ukraine isn't just a proxy war of US vs Russia, it's a proxy war of Democracy vs. MAGA. >
  
  60 years ago my grandfather said "there wasn't a nickels difference between the two parties". He'd be amazed at how that slim difference grew into a grand canyon. I watched it happen, slowly at first. Then, under Trump, believing lies, and respawning similar lies, became a staple of the far right. Sad. Really sad. >
  
  In 1962, the leader of one of our political parties was president and trying to end the CIA's stranglehold on foreign policy (i.e. overthrowing democracies for fruit companies), address civil rights issues and inspired the country to put a man on the moon.  
  The other political party was calling anyone who didn't want to invade Cuba/Viet Nam a commie traitor, was actively recruiting bible-thumpers into the party, and would just a couple of years later begin actively recruiting Southern white racists into the party.
  "Both parties are the same" has never been true. >
  
  She is mean, hateful and dumb. She isn't  shy to prove it either. >
  
  Prerequisites for running as a Republican for any office. >
  
  When you are a gun toting asshole who has no respect for courage -democracy -the constitution- the law - the right to live your life peacefully what else do you expect? Boebert Gaetz Carlson Hawley Green and all of Trump’s magaets are proudly true to who they exactly are and leave nothing to ponder. They are supporters of Putin and proud of it. >
  
  I don’t understand why she’s allowed to skip security measures and pretty obviously be carrying firearms into congressional spaces. Workers are not allowed to skip protocols at other jobs, why this one? >
  
  I think what Z wore was appropriate for what his country is going through. >
  
  As if flying onto an aircraft carrier and posing for photos in a flight suit in front of a 'MISSION ACCOMPLISHED' banner was anything more than performative... >
  
  archived >
  
  Did you expect her to learn? You have to want to learn to actually learn. >
  
  “There is no such thing as a stupid person. There are only those that choose not to learn.” >
  
  Choosing not to learn is pretty stupid. >
  
  More people of her district should speak out ..they elected her to get a salary of $175k to embarrass the hell out of the fools who voted for her. If that isn't welfare I don't know what is. This b$!#\/ sure as hell doesn't earn it .. >
  
  That's a drop in the bucket.  She went from owing unpaid taxes to being worth $42 million now, on that salary. >
  
  Just fyi, unless something has changed that 42 million number is unsourced. The last time I tried to find one I could only find a screenshot of a tweet referenced by a net worth website that looks like it is generated by a bot. Her actual net worth is closer to 1-2 million.
  The real question is how her husband started taking in 500k a year for an oil company that wants to increase drilling in Colorado. >
  
  Isn’t it usual (for me it was) to have your phone on silent or off completely and hidden away? Literally every corporate meeting I have attended (a TON of them) and board meetings it became so common knowledge that presenters no longer have asked politely to please refrain from using your electronic devices. I haven’t heard that since 2008. These people are children. >
  
  Disrespecting him and the rest of congress was intentional. >
  
  Agree, still childish behavior. I guess that’s the norm now. >
  
  Shouldn’t surprise you.
  I hear her husband is a fan of childish… >
  
  Says a lot that Russians were lauding them for being “brave” for not supporting Zelensky during his visit.  Scrolling on their phones.  Tinder?  Grinder? >
  
  You have to understand that people like Gaetz and Boebert have the emotional maturity of neglected toddlers: success is measured by how much attention they get by acting out.
  I would bet my next paycheck that they were scrolling Twitter and right wing news sites to see if anyone was noticing their performative bullshit. >
  
  I am sure you are right, it’s just so hard to think like that when you aren’t a narcissistic a-hole.  I’m sure they enjoy all the controversies they create, until they create a career a ending one.  Which should’ve already happened, especially for Gaetz. >
  
  It’s amazing that she always sits with a pedophile (Gaetz) and is married to a convicted pedophile, yet the Christian Republicans hold her is such high regard. >
  
  Is there really not a single ex or scorned ex best friend of hers out there that doesn’t have some kind of crazy doxxable communique from the early days of Facebook that we can’t sniff out here? 
  I’m at the point where this mess of a human just needs to be taken out as effectively, efficiently, and quickly as possible. She’s a human fatberg clogging the pipes of progress, and at some point we just need to rip open the sewer main and pull out all the used wet wipes and pipe scum she attracts. We’ll need a backhoe I’m pretty sure. Cuz she is one massive pile of wet septic buildup if ever there was one. 
  Human. Fatberg. >
  
  To shreds, you say. >
  
  And the wife? >
  
  To shreds as well? >
  
  Tsk tsk. >
  
  She is just a stain on the US congress. Hopefully her district will kick her out next time given how close it was this year >
  
  Unfortunately they probably won’t >
  
  Conservatives like sex traffickers like Matt. He’s still in office.