She now claims it was a joke (at a Colorado Thanksgiving Day appearance — video of it, now available on Twitter). It was not — it is a core part of her on-brand belief structure (for her), and her small band of constituents, steeped in hate.
She is… a malignant cancerous growth, on the face of America. Before, hidden under the belly, now her hatred arrives in public, and unbidden — for all the world to see. Here is The Guardian (UK) on it, but a censure is inadequate. Hell, I may just move to my other place in Colorado for six months, just to work to have her ousted by the voters:
…She made the comments about Omar in her home district over the Thanksgiving break.
“Actually I have an Ilhan story for you,” Boebert told an audience, to laughter. “So, the other night on the House floor was not my first ‘Jihad Squad’ moment.
“So I was getting into an elevator with one of my staffers. You know, we’re leaving the Capitol and we’re going back to my office and we get an elevator and I see a Capitol police officer running to the elevator. I see fret all over his face, and he’s reaching, and the door’s shutting, like I can’t open it, like what’s happening. I look to my left, and there she is. Ilhan Omar.
“And I said, ‘Well, she doesn’t have a backpack, we should be fine.’
The audience laughed and applauded.
“We only had one floor to go,” Boebert continued. “I said, ‘Oh look, the Jihad Squad decided show up for work today….’”
What a piece of wasted human potential… is Boebert.
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