Lauren Boebert thought she was making a pithy political point, but only proved how stupid....

[George II]

....she really is.

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She followed it up this morning claiming it was a "typo"!

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[leftieNanner]

1. "Therein" is a real word Lauren

[ecstatic]

2. Omg! The responses are hilarious!

My favorite:

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[Walleye]

3. Wait. Who was president in 2020?

[ProfessorGAC]

10. First Thing I Thought, Too

I'm hoping some twitter responder pointed that out.

[CatWoman]

13. ....

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[ProfessorGAC]

14. Well, Thank You

Glad to see it.
I'm not a twitterer. Thanks for the help.

[Sanity Claws]

4. It is not a typo

It shows a lack of vocabulary and dirt-level ignorance.

[Mr.Bill]

11. Correct.

A typo, or typographical error is defined as accidentally hitting a key that is adjacent to the key you meant to hit. This one isn't even close.

[Quixote1818]

5. Her stats are totally misleading of course.

In 2020, 543,018 missing persons cases were entered into the FBI’s National Crime Information Center system.

Of those, 365,348 were age 17 or under, down from 421,394 in 2019.

The counts include children who were reported missing to law enforcement more than one time.

The number of active cases is much smaller.

The nonprofit National Center for Missing & Exploited Children said it assisted law enforcement, families and child welfare agencies with 29,782 cases of missing children in 2020.

Of those, 27,072 were runaways, the vast majority of whom are located quickly, said the center’s Rebecca Steinbach. The next-largest category was family abduction, 1,396 cases.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/sep/29/viral-image/post-overstates-number-missing-kids-flawed-compari/

[Mariana]

16. The counts also include all the little kids

who go missing for mundane reasons that have nothing to do with abduction or running away or anything like that. If a kid is reported missing and is then found sleeping soundly in the closet, it's still counted as a missing child report.

[spooky3]

6. "Klannie Oakley" -- great name given to her in a reply.

I hate clicking on her tweet and giving her more attention/revenue, though.

[Johonny]

7. The thing is, politicians don't need to whine about the media ignoring an issue

because they can legislate solutions to the problem instead. If she really cared she'd be talking about what she's doing about it. She can't because she'd done jack and shit.

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. Unfortunately, 1/2 the members of Congress don't do legislation.

They focus on meaningless rhetorical bomb throwing.

[wellst0nev0ter]

8. 365,348 was a typo?

That number is the number of children reported missing to the FBI. The vast majority are runaways who are eventually found. Closer to 12,100 cases are non-family abductions, and less than 1% of the children reported missing have not been found.

[drmeow]

12. Its easy to miss - took me a minute or two

your brain autocorrects it:

enlies

There enlies

Should be Therein lies

[wellst0nev0ter]

17. Yes, that's the typo everyone's talking about

The real sinister message is the deliberate misinformation about missing children that is popular among the QAnon crowd

[WhiskeyGrinder]

20. Yep. And everyone's taking the bait.

[Mariana]

15. 365,348 was the number of children reported missing.

Of course, the overwhelming majority of them were never in any danger and were found safe, after having gotten lost, or wandered off, or fallen asleep behind the sofa, or something like that.

My own kid got reported missing when she was three by her aunt and uncle. She was visiting at their house and she decided to go on an adventure. A kind stranger found her walking down the sidewalk, called the police, and stayed with her until they arrived. I went to get her and she never stayed with that aunt and uncle again. All was well.

12,100 seems very high for non-family abductions in one year. I believe the number is much smaller than that.

[wellst0nev0ter]

18. These people cite 33 nonfamily abductions per day

https://childsafety.losangelescriminallawyer.pro/non-family-abduction.html

So its easy to extrapolate 12,000. However, I believe such kidnappings have declined over the years.

[Mariana]

19. I'd like to see their source.

This Reuters story from 2019 says otherwise, and cites the FBI:

On average, fewer than 350 people under the age of 21 have been abducted by strangers in the United States per year since 2010, the FBI says. From 2010 through 2017, the most recent data available, the number has ranged from a low of 303 in 2016 to a high of 384 in 2011 with no clear directional trend.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wisconsin-missinggirl-data/kidnapped-children-make-headlines-but-abduction-is-rare-in-u-s-idUSKCN1P52BJ

Maybe the "33 nonfamily abductions a day" refers to worldwide numbers, not just in the US.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. For this thread

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[mcar]

22. She must have turned her spellchecker off

It would have fought her on "enlies."