Thankful Welfare Queen, Gets Gov't Cheese, Enters Congress, Wants to Cut Safety Net for All Others.

[TheBlackAdder]

Last edited Sun Jul 11, 2021, 12:28 PM - Edit history (1)

.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) came out with rockets blasting at Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) Saturday after the right-wing lawmaker called for the end of government benefits at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

“We’re here to tell government: ‘We don’t want your benefits. We don’t want your welfare,’” Boebert shouted as she marched back and forth across the stage in Dallas. “Don’t come to us with your Fauci ouchie. Leave us the hell alone!”

Ocasio-Cortez fired back: “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!”

Ocasio-Cortez sarcastically crowed: “Good ol conservative values baby!”


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
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!
🤑
Acyn
@Acyn
·
18h
Boebert: We’re here to tell government we don’t want your benefits. We don’t want your welfare…

Link to tweet

Ironically, Boebert has talked about her own days on welfare, which eventually led her to “living the American dream.” Now she’s ready to turn off aid to others.


Lauren Boebert
@laurenboebert
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!
10:28 AM · Sep 16, 2020

Link to tweet

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lauren-boebert-govenment-benefits-cpac-conservative_n_60ea6558e4b09f0145f38c6a

Typical "I got mine" Republican.

.

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. Ask Lauren about her PPP money.

That government money her business got during the pandemic. Maybe she should return her government paycheck, as well.

[CrispyQ]

15. "Do as I say, not as I do." It's the republican way. -nt

[PortTack]

2. The ppl of CO really dislike her and are embarrassed..she's going away in the midterms

So keep talking honey, your 15 minutes of fame is about up!

[Elessar Zappa]

5. Yeah, I think she's in a purple-ish district.

She can easily lose come 2022.

[GoCubsGo]

9. No Trump on the the ticket should help.

Not to mention, that district is in a part of the state where there's a lot of vaccination refusal--and rampant COVID infection. She may not have people coming out for her in the kinds of numbers she did last year.

[Progressive Jones]

34. Boo Boo is going to be real famous if she's implicated

in the Jan. 6th Trash Attack.

[soldierant]

47. Seeing as she famously tweeted out Speaker pelosi's location ...

I'd say it's pretty clear to a lay person she was implicated. I do realize proving that in court is another matter.

[Progressive Jones]

52. Exactly what I'm talking about. If this thing was planned at the top, it was also "war gamed".

They covered all the cover-your-ass angles. Plausible deniability, etc.
But, maybe not. They aren't the brightest bunch.
It's going to be fun to follow as it unfolds.

[not fooled]

36. Good.

Pro tip for voters in her district: insist on at least a high school graduate next time.

Not that being a high school or college graduate guarantees that they will be a good candidate, but a certain level of formal education does help. Otherwise you have a greater chance of electing a small minded, ignorant fool like this one.

[Bayard]

3. Typical

When a Democrat climbs to the top of the ladder, he turns around to pull others up behind him. Rethuglicans get to the top and pull the ladder up after them.

[bullimiami]

4. Boeron.

[LastDemocratInSC]

33. You have created a perfect word.

[NQAS]

6. And

Her federal health benefit

And her various travel allowances

[zentrum]

7. AOC is always brilliant

......with the exact words. She's a one-woman Lincoln Project when it comes to messaging.

[KPN]

46. She definitely counters GQP messaging as well as

anybody else I’ve seen inside or outside of our party. Her words are graphical, down to earth and clear. In other words, they resonate.

[GoCubsGo]

8. Boobert is a graduate of the Paul Ryan School of All-For-Me-None-For-Thee.

A.k.a., "I got mine. Screw you." Government Assistance Edition 2.

[Tommymac]

17. You used 'Graduate' 'School' and Boobert in the same sentence!

Impressive.

[Hugin]

10. Boebert should turn in her state funded GED, then. n/t

[I_UndergroundPanther]

11. People like boebert

Don't belong in government.period.

I hope she gets hit by a truck.

Asshole.

[MuseRider]

12. Who put the lead in her cheese?

[LastDemocratInSC]

39. That's a good one!

[packman]

13. Here's another classic "No one helped me"

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Here's another classic "Nobody ever handed me anything on a plate" (long)

[ZZenith]

21. So well done!

So much truth in every panel. The sad, ugly truth of it all.

[broiles]

28. +1, Excellent!

[Jakes Progress]

32. Make this an OP. More need to see it.

This is the story of the republican party.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

25. Craig T. Nelson was my first thought when I read her rant.

I remember watching that interview and laughing my ass off at CTN's stupidity. Conservatives need to be called on their lies and hypocrisy. The QGOP is the party of cruelty.

[mdbl]

27. Craig, you're a moron

Food stamps and welfare IS someone helping you out -- ME! What an ungrateful jerk.

[WinstonSmith4740]

14. And the best part?

She doesn't even get the irony in her statement.

[jmowreader]

18. Hang on for a second

Isn’t “standing on line waiting for government cheese” a form of “waiting on government”? Y’know, it’s easier to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps if you have a little help.

[Ford_Prefect]

19. Bootstrappers are always lying about how many people's shoulders they stand on.

[HUAJIAO]

20. The physics of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps is impossible.

[Ford_Prefect]

41. It has a surprising and deleterious effect on memory too. Must be all those chemicals

consumed in the process.

Or is it like loaning money to a friend?

[soldierant]

48. It might conceivably be do-able with ropes and pulleys.

But that implies more thnjust bootstraps. Ropes and pullets are not free, espexially those which would support the weight of the human body. Upper arm strength would be needed, which implies proper nutrition and enough time to get great upper arm exercise. Also, the risk of falling would always be present, and the higher one got, the more one would have to lose from a fall.

I'm not smary enough to develop that analogy to the point it should be developed. But if one did ... and if a cartoonist this talented picked up on it ... it might be illumintaing.

[Duncanpup]

22. Scott perry pa 10 th welfare as child

Yet today he’s tea party trumpublican and would deny others, the pigs are evil.

[BradBo]

23. The "stupid" here hurts my brain,

especially Boebert, I’m endlessly amazed how she cannot connect the cause and effect of government helping people in the lowest point of their lives to give them a chance at grabbing the lowest rung on the ladder of life so that maybe they can survive. Allot of people don’t and can’t survive. She’s so pompous that she never looked back to appreciate the hands that helped her when she was at her lowest.

[Blue Dawn]

24. How do I loathe thee?

Let me count the ways.

[mdbl]

26. Someone please cut all of Lauren's Govt pay and benefits

She doesn't want them. Also no money for staff. She doesn't need it.

[area51]

50. +1.

Cut off her govt. healthcare & govt. pension.

[BumRushDaShow]

29. "I came up from welfare, standing in line waiting for government cheese"

The biggest irony is who signed the Farm Bill that instituted that "government cheese" program, 5 years before she was even born.

[dflprincess]

30. Typical Conservative mind set

"I got mine, too bad for you."

[Jakes Progress]

31. Texas governor abbot follows the republican pattern of meanness.

He is in a wheelchair because of an accident that occurred when he was a 20 something law student. He sued the homeowner for a falling tree and so far has received nearly 6 million in compensation, and will continue to receive money until he dies.

As a "good" republican he serves as judge and then politician to end that practice and cap damages at a tenth of what he has received. Plus, he has gone helped the insurance industry make it harder and harder to sue for damages. He got his. To hell with anyone else. The legal system threw him a rope, which he then burned so that no one else could use it.

Hypocrisy and greed and pure meanness is the hallmark of the republican party today. Greg Abbot is the epitome of that party.

[link:https://www.texastribune.org/2013/08/04/candidate-faces-questions-turnabout-and-fair-play/|

[Harker]

35. Boebert probably thinks she's presidential material.

After Trumpsky, why not?

What a facile, adolescent creep.

[roamer65]

37. I love to hear AOC attack. She's a very smart person.

[Blue Owl]

38. BimBoebert Alert!

[llashram]

40. agitating idiot, opportunistic

RW hypocrite...

"can't fix stupid" sociopathic people such as this or the low life sewer scum that voted for her...

[AZ8theist]

42. HIGH SCHOOL DROP OUT SAYS WHAT?

[oldsoftie]

43. Lauren is good for one thing;

and i shall not say it

[Mr.Bill]

44. In the early 70s when Patty Hearst was kidnapped

one of the many demands of the kidnappers was that her ridiculously wealthy family set up food give-aways for the needy. I went and got some of that food because I really needed it at the time.

So I guess you could say a wealthy man gave me a handout that I needed. But not until someone threatened to kill his daughter if he didn't. That's what it took to get him to help others in need.

[drmeow]

45. Its only a government handout

when it goes to non-white people or liberals. Just how all the abortions gotten by anti-abortion protestors are "different," all the government handouts gotten by anti-government people are different.

Its cause all us bleeding heart liberals have forgotten the most important modifier of "poor" - deserving.

[KentuckyWoman]

49. She's lying about the cheese.

She stated her mother went on welfare when they moved to Colorado. That was in 1998 or 1999 .... well after "free cheese" stopped being given out.

And if she had any damn sense, she'd know a Republican ... Ronald Reagan ... bought up warehouses full of cheese and butter to help stablize the dairy market... that's right corporate welfare. It got out the cheese was just sitting there going bad and the the proverbial cheese hit the fan ... next thing you know they started giving it away to poor people.

There's no earthly way Lauren stood in line to get free cheese. She's full of shit. Of course.

[Scalded Nun]

51. A female Paul Ryan

[Evolve Dammit]

53. I got my Ronnie's cheese, several times. It helped the family at the time. Wouldn't want that? nt

Of course she is totally a fucking liar as she wasn't born yet. I really hate these people.