Colorado lawmaker, who pushed for Epstein files release, points to bill’s unanimous passage through US House and Senate

Republican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado district, implying the president was playing at political retaliation.

The bill was aimed at funding a decades-long project to bring safe drinking water to 39 communities in Colorado’s eastern plains, where the groundwater is high in salt and wells sometimes unleash radioactivity into the water supply.

Boebert criticized the move, calling the bill “completely non-controversial” and pointed out that it passed the House and Senate unanimously earlier this year.

  • quantumfoam@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I have a theory that Lauren Boebert doesent actually need glasses but wears them to seem smarter. It isnt working.

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      We can check fairly easily.

      Prescription glasses cause refraction changes.

      Kind of like how if you put a straw in a clear glass of water. The straw will look bigger and shifted off to the side.

      Prescription glasses do the same. If person is near sighted or myopic. It will shrink the eyes.

      If far sighted then it will magnify them.

      Most people are near sighted until they get older (50 ish). At which time they become far sighted and need “readers” or if they are also myopic, they get bifocals.

      So let me Google some pics …

      I found multiple side profile photos that were perfect for checking this.

      There is zero distortion. None. Her face curves line up behind the glasses to the parts that are not.

      She’s wearing clear non prescription glasses. 100%

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          All of these people are extremely nearsighted. I’m just a little bit farsighted, and wouldn’t need glasses if I didn’t also have astigmatism. The refraction in my case is barely visible. People with an even subtler prescription with astigmatism would possibly have no refraction at all in that direction.

          I wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprised if Boebert was actually wearing non-prescription glasses, but she could have legitimate reasons to wear glasses which still would look like that. You’d need to also check refraction in the other direction to know for sure.

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    When the president does something like this, congress should keep sending it back. Just spam his ass with it.

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      No need for that. A veto can be overturned by Congress entirely and a unanimously passed bill should be quite easy to accomplish that with. In a normal functioning democracy, at least.

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        The GOP members who initially voted bypartisantly (I believe it was a voice-only vote, no exact tally was made) may not want to do a formal override vote and paint themselves as an opponent to their supreme leader.

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    Authoritarians who did everything they could to make this dude feel like he should be a literal king are mad that he doesn’t give a fuck what they say. Crazy.

    Morons.

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    Fuck around find out.

    This bitch and the rest of the GOP spent the last 10 years on their hands and knees sucking Trump’s tiny trumpet (Boebert at a Beetlejuice musical). Then the moment the narcissistic toddler they put into office again gets slight push back, he immediately retaliates.

    I garuntee you the dumb fucks who voted Boebert into office will primary her out next cycle. Not because of what I just said, but because she dared to challenge their god emporer who just took away their clean water.

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    Of course it is retaliation. What else would it be? His claim that it is wasteful or that it’s about “fiscal sanity” (lol) [1] is simply not a believable claim. Projects like this are exactly why governments exist. But selfish little baby has to make it all about him.

    [1] I love that, even now, the idiotic myth that Republicans and conservatives are somehow the best stewards of money, the economy or business still lingers on. It was a ridiculous notion decades ago and has blown way into the child-like imagination phase at this point. Conservatives and Republicans are always terrible for the economy and terrible at balancing budgets, etc.

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      Yeah but Conservatives and particularly Republicans are great at spreading a message. It’s more important that people believe that Conservatives and Republicans are good stewards of the economy than actually being good stewards. The economy will ebb and flow regardless of what anyone does, so why do anything about it when you can just take credit for the highlights.

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      She filed for divorce the month before the theater handy, and she’s not currently with the guy she was jacking, so it would seem that she’s pretty shit at handjobs.

      Kinda sad for someone who was supposedly a cheap escort in Colorado.

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    It may be retaliation, but it’s probably just as much about the Tina Peters situation as it is about Lauren Boebert. Trump seems to have decided that Colorado Must Be Punished, even though Eastern Colorado is as red Republican as the districts come.