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January 29, 2021, 12:45 pm
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), fast-becoming one of the most notorious new Congressional members, mixed it up on Twitter with 20-year-old gun-control activist and school shooting survivor David Hogg on Thursday—and predictably got roasted by many Twitter users.
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Boebert looked to be responding to a video circulating of fellow freshman lawmaker Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene harassing Hogg. She was also responding to Hogg’s tweet insinuating that the two of them were “threats.”
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Hogg wrote, “They can put up all the fencing around the capitol the real threats of @mtgreenee and @laurenboebert will still be inside until @GOPLeader takes a stand.” Boebert responded in a quote tweet that read, David, please. We all saw how tough you were when questioned face to face. Give your keyboard a rest, child.”
That met with considerable pushback, starting with another Coloradoan in Congress, Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), who said, “So here’s the deal. In my experience, those who haven’t experienced the trauma of mass shootings usually talk the toughest. But the tough talk and bullying of survivors is the ultimate sign of weakness.”
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Crow is, by the way, a former Army Ranger, who emerged as a hero during the Capitol riots three weeks ago by helping other members of Congress through the trauma.
Devin Nunes’ Cow, a Twitter account that regularly skewers its namesake and other Republican politicians, noted, “Nobody shot up your high school and you still couldn’t graduate,” referring to revelations about her not graduating from Rifle High School—yes, she hails from a town named Rifle—and eventually getting a GED.
Nobody shot up your high school and you still couldn’t graduate.
— Devin Nunes’ cow
(@DevinCow) January 29, 2021
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Another person chimed in to call her a “lowlife, seditious traitor,” and charged, “You make Louie Gohmert seem intelligent and decent by comparison,” referring to the oft-ridiculed Congressman from Texas.
CNN personality Jake Tapper noted, “Beyond the fundamental indecency of a congresswoman going after a college kid, not to mention a school shooting survivor, sits the bizarre take that David ignoring a crazy person accosting him on the street wasn’t what every law enforcement and security expert recommends.”
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Writer Molly Priddy highlighted that even a priest—albeit, the very online Fr. Robert Ballecer—went in, making an allusion to Boebert “tweet[ing] out the location of potential victims” during the Capitol riot.
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Someone even flashed his NRA credentials, earned at age 12, before asserting that Boebert is “the nut job nobody would trust in a duck blind.”
And Hogg himself came in to note, “Sorry I was a little more worried about MTG not shooting my friends and staff with her concealed gun she was threatening us with than responding to your evil twin.”
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He then added, “It’s a little thing called de-escalation; you probably haven’t heard of it.”
Judging from what happened Thursday, Boebert might want to practice de-escalation on Twitter.”
*First Published: January 29, 2021, 12:45 pm
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