Is huffing model airplane glue the latest ridiculous COVID-19 cure or something? Can she really be this ignorant? A sitting congresswoman? Really? Or is it simply that her fundraising haul goes up every time she demonstrates a basic misunderstanding of … erm ... everything?
She is the Lauren. She speaks for the trees. And the boulders. And her conservative Q-stituents. And a hefty portion of the world’s mold and mildew, for that matter. Anything insensate, really. Lauren Boebert (R-Inanimate Matter).
So, yeah, it’s a day ending in “y” in a month that ends in cold sweats over the fragile state of our democracy in the Year of our Lord 2021, so naturally Lauren Boebert remains locked in a death struggle with Reps. Louie Gohmert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Paul Gosar to see whose brain can hatch its ravening alien larvae first.
And here’s Rep. Boebert’s latest entry in this modern-day clash of the titans:
For the nontweeters:
365,348 children went missing in 2020.
You haven't heard a word from the media about it.
There enlies the problem.
So which is more egregious? The lie or the rank ignorance?
Well, let’s start with the lie. The 365,348 number is hugely misleading, as it includes runaways who almost immediately return to their homes or are quickly found. PolitiFact checked a similar claim in the wake of Gabby Petito’s disappearance and noted that the number of children who remain missing is far smaller than the total number of children who are reported missing in a given year:
The counts include children who were reported missing to law enforcement more than one time. [...]
The nonprofit National Center for Missing & Exploited Children said it assisted law enforcement, families and child welfare agencies with 29,782 cases of missing children in 2020.
Of those, 27,072 were runaways, the vast majority of whom are located quickly, said the center’s Rebecca Steinbach. The next-largest category was family abduction, 1,396 cases.
Also, this:
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And here’s my own humble contribution:
And let’s just throw this into the mix, too, shall we?
Lauren Boebert is tres ignorant, but she’s also an inveterate liar. And all indications are that she doesn’t really believe in democracy—unless it somehow morphs into permanent white minority rule.
Then again, being purposely ill-informed, ignorant, and racist are now unquestionably the GOP’s brand. Well, they always were, but now they’re far, far more proud of it than they’ve ever been. And therein lies the problem.
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