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Lauren Boebert’s attempt to troll Biden at his speech backfires in wake of new report

Lauren Boebert’s attempt to troll Biden at his speech backfires in wake of new report

In today’s social media political circus where every little action can become a viral moment and politicians are cringingly embracing the art of shitpost, it was inevitable that some of the more media-hungry right-wingers would try to pull some kind of stunt at President Biden’s big speech last night. While a certain Texan Senator went for the childish disrespect and pretended to fall asleep, Rep. Lauren Boebert tried to catch the nation’s eye with a flashy prop.

Attempting to bring attention to the influx of immigrants at the southern border by bad-faith virtue-signaling over children in ICE detention centers  — which they gleefully supported while Trump’s horrifying child separation policy was in place — Boebert’s little ploy accomplished little, as both facts and social media rose to shut her down.

While the Biden administration may not be holding weekly press conferences obsessing about the border, that doesn’t mean they haven’t been hard at work behind the scenes. The Biden team has been working overtime to reduce the number of kids in the Border Patrol’s cages — for that is what they are — and have successfully cut the numbers by 82%. The Trump administration reveled in keeping the kids locked up and away from their parents, vulnerable to sexual abuse from their swinish captors, and deliberately mistreated out of spite.

Unfortunately, the news isn’t all good; the Biden administration is still deporting far too many people back to Mexico, where they are vulnerable to the predation of cartel gangs.

The insinuation that Lauren Boebert cares one iota for the kids in CBP custody is laughable and it’s disgusting to see her try to exploit sympathy for migrant children that she herself does not hold to make a cheap political point. There is nothing that Biden could do at the border that would please a white nationalist psycho like Boebert beyond leaving each and every one of them to die in the desert.

Social media had a lot to say about the gun-toting loony’s little act.

Colin Taylor
Opinion columnist and former editor-in-chief of Occupy Democrats. He graduated from Bennington College with a Bachelor's degree in history and political science. He now focuses on advancing the cause of social justice and equality in America.

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