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.
Alright, so Lauren Boebert just sort of loudly opened a space blanket—like shook it free so that everyone could hear it in the chamber—and then just draped it on her lap.
I honestly don't know what it means.
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) April 29, 2021
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.
Meanwhile, while all this trolling goes on by Rep. Boebert and the right wing, the Biden administration has quietly been extremely effective over the last month at getting kids out of Border Patrol custody.
The number of kids in Border Patrol custody has dropped 82% in a month. https://t.co/RILQEofXAU pic.twitter.com/SZMBmI1NuY
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 29, 2021
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.
While the Biden administration deserves credit for their work on unaccompanied children, they are still expelling tens of thousands of *accompanied* children with their parents, sending them to Mexico. The results for many of those families are disastrous. https://t.co/XLishRN26W
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 29, 2021
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.
Or is she protecting herself from our Jewish space lasers just in case! https://t.co/B8dBHvrkxE
— Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) April 29, 2021
Lauren Boebert is proving that tinfoil hat wearers can accessorize. pic.twitter.com/qMZSPzShb4
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) April 29, 2021
That was the result of the previous idiot! You don’t and won’t even try to listen! America saw what the @GOP represents and you won’t be the major party any longer! America democracy needs a two party system for bipartisanship! So suck it up buttercup! #ExpelLaurenBoebert https://t.co/xW98CGqOyh
— Lisa Sharp, CSM (@lisaannsharp) April 29, 2021
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.