AOC And Rep. Lauren Boebert Are Beefing After Boebert Mocked AOC’s Sick Grandma

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July 12, 2021, 8:44 am

Rep. Lauren Boebert has a following since she managed to get elected, but her platform seems to be telling people that the government will never help them. It’s difficult to think of who that’s popular with, but Boebert knows her audience. She brought that rhetoric to her speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, HuffPost reports.

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“We’re here to tell government: ‘We don’t want your benefits. We don’t want your welfare,’” she said at the conference in Dallas. “Don’t come to us with your Fauci ouchie. Leave us the hell alone!”

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These are two of the stupidest sentences I’ve heard from the GOP in at least a day, but Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez probably gave the best response:

Tell ‘em loud and proud girl! GOP will strip your unemployment protections and dismantle any semblance of a public safety net we have left! Then make working people pay way more for everything on low wages while Wall St gets a meal ticket!

Good ol conservative values baby! https://t.co/inym5QkuBC

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 11, 2021

“Tell ’em loud and proud girl!” she tweeted, quoting the video. “GOP will strip your unemployment protections and dismantle any semblance of a public safety net we have left! Then make working people pay way more for everything on low wages while Wall St gets a meal ticket!”

“Good ol conservative values baby!” she added.

The whole platform Boebert has built her fame on is strange, especially because she herself has admitted to being on welfare in the past. And now she wants to kick the ladder down and away from anyone below her:

I’m living the American dream. I came up from welfare, standing in line waiting for government cheese, to now running for Congress.

Let’s keep radical socialists out of government so that people can be empowered to lift themselves out of poverty, rather than wait on government!

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) September 16, 2020

Boebert replied to Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter, arguing that “nobody is taking safety nets away” then mockingly questioning how “government reliance” was working for “abuela,” referring to an AOC tweet from earlier this month about how her grandmother in Puerto Rico still hasn’t received government assistance following the destruction of her home from Hurricane Maria in 2017.

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Oh please, Sandy. Ask Abuela how that government reliance is going.

Nobody is taking safety nets away.

Growing up in a Democrat household, I stood in line for bread and government cheese. I want more for your grandma, just as I did for me.

Don’t limit the American dream. https://t.co/yp8W5sueVY

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) July 11, 2021

In return, Ocasio-Cortez called out Boebert’s low blow in mocking her ill grandmother on the Internet before writing, “I’ll fight for your constituents more, too.”

Thank you for proving to the world that today’s version of “conservative role model” is a person who mocks other people’s ill grandparents on the internet.

I can promise you I will treat your family better than you do mine. And I’ll fight for your constituents more, too. https://t.co/Mm9IXQTTnq

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 11, 2021

AOC isn’t the only one responding angrily to Boebert’s threats, a few making some excellent points about why Boebert is still relying on the government herself:

Says the woman that # rode in a car driving to CPAP on public roadways, flew on a plane public air space, is employed by the PUBLIC and is enjoying healthcare paid for and is better than the tax payers even get.

— Office of Former President Cheetolini (@Pottsie5) July 11, 2021

Lauren Boebert’s restaurant received a $233,305 PPP check. Give The Money Back @laurenboebert

— Christopher Eagle (@eagle4congress) July 11, 2021

Red states are socialist. They balance their budget from the federal government as they are poor and unable to pay their bills. The rest of us pay for them and they call us socialist. Stop paying them.

— p.endicott (@pendicott70) July 11, 2021

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Yeah. My brother voted for Trump and recently went on a long rant about people living off the government. When I pointed out that he had no retirement savings at 55, he said he’d live off social security. So there’s that.

— StephanieScarborough (@SScarborough) July 11, 2021

So her constituents don’t want social security, medicare, medicaid, ACA, food stamps, etc, etc, etc. She must represent a very rich area of Colorado – NOT

— Theresa M. Janson (@janson_theresa) July 11, 2021

She just told Republican voters who have worked all of their lives contributing to #Medicare and #SocialSecurity – both a federal guarantee – to NOT ACCEPT THE BENEFITS… and so like, when is #Boebert going to give up her BENEFITS as an elected official? #CPAC #MedicareForAll

— #BernieSanders #MedicareForAll #WearAMask (@LostDiva) July 11, 2021

And for a while, the amount of money that Boebert took from PPP loans started trending on Twitter:

Lauren Boebert’s restaurant, Shooter’s Grill, in Rifle, CO received a $233,305 PPP check. So there’s that… https://t.co/SVTvBwD4XJ

— Matt Friedlander (@dodgermf) July 11, 2021

Think she’ll be paying that back?

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*First Published: July 12, 2021, 8:44 am