Colorado lawmaker, who pushed for Epstein files release, points to bill’s unanimous passage through US House and Senate
Republican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado district, implying the president was playing at political retaliation.
The bill was aimed at funding a decades-long project to bring safe drinking water to 39 communities in Colorado’s eastern plains, where the groundwater is high in salt and wells sometimes unleash radioactivity into the water supply.
Boebert criticized the move, calling the bill “completely non-controversial” and pointed out that it passed the House and Senate unanimously earlier this year.
Override the veto? A unanimously passed bill should be able to do that, and push back at the admin, win win
The last article I read didn’t even mention the possibility which I couldn’t understand; at least this one does:
It was not immediately clear whether the Republican leaders in Congress would allow a vote to override Trump’s veto in Colorado
I can only assume republicans wouldn’t because they didn’t know they weren’t in step with Trump’s wishes?
It’ll be interesting to see how it goes and how willing Congress is to separate themselves from such an unpopular president.
With Trump officially opposed, I assume that Mike Johnson will prevent an override from coming to a vote. That will be fun to watch.
It’s kind of shocking to learn that there are places in the United States where radioactive tap water is a thing.
3/4 of the US outside major metros should be classified as a developing country. We have many areas that barely have functional plumbing, let alone any other type of developed infrastructure.
Which is even worse when you know that most of these places were doing pretty solid up until the 1970s-1980s, they’ve spent 50 to 40 fucking years slowly decaying while the feds and to an extent the states sat on their assess doing nothing. Fun act did you know that The Learning Channel has its roots in Appalachia as a way of educating the masses there. Sure some of them got fucked over by simple inevitably factors like the collapse of the logging industry up in NorCal, but others were fucked over by bad government policies that empowered corporations and fucked over smaller co-ops, independent farms, and small corporate farms.
Fun act did you know that The Learning Channel has its roots in Appalachia as a way of educating the masses there.
Considering what The Learning Channel turned into, that’s a perfect microcosm of the sort of shit that’s happened to them over the last few decades.
I’m in my 30s and I, briefly, lived in a house with no running water some years ago. I agree that most people don’t realize how far behind the rural areas are.
The Navajo nation in New Mexico just got widespread electricity in the last 20 years. In other parts of the country, Natives still live without power.
A lot of people don’t have any idea how desperate life is for the poorest in this country.
I believe it. I had grandparents in Appalachia that didn’t even get indoor plumbing until the mid-1990s, and they were the first in their area. There are many places with some insane levels of poverty in the US that the state and federal governments just give zero fucks about.
They probably have to worry about the credible death threats that Taco will direct at them. The Republican Party is not so much a political party but more like a crime family or a terrorist group.
I’ve been wondering about that myself.
“But you weren’t supposed to retaliate against me”
“Who would have thought this spotted apex predator would eat MY face??”
The leopards are running out of faces so they’re eating their own.
I have a theory that Lauren Boebert doesent actually need glasses but wears them to seem smarter. It isnt working.
We can check fairly easily.
Prescription glasses cause refraction changes.
Kind of like how if you put a straw in a clear glass of water. The straw will look bigger and shifted off to the side.
Prescription glasses do the same. If person is near sighted or myopic. It will shrink the eyes.
If far sighted then it will magnify them.
Most people are near sighted until they get older (50 ish). At which time they become far sighted and need “readers” or if they are also myopic, they get bifocals.
So let me Google some pics …
I found multiple side profile photos that were perfect for checking this.
There is zero distortion. None. Her face curves line up behind the glasses to the parts that are not.
She’s wearing clear non prescription glasses. 100%
Here are some comparison photos to real prescription glasses.
All of these people are extremely nearsighted. I’m just a little bit farsighted, and wouldn’t need glasses if I didn’t also have astigmatism. The refraction in my case is barely visible. People with an even subtler prescription with astigmatism would possibly have no refraction at all in that direction.
I wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprised if Boebert was actually wearing non-prescription glasses, but she could have legitimate reasons to wear glasses which still would look like that. You’d need to also check refraction in the other direction to know for sure.
That’s fair
Authoritarians who did everything they could to make this dude feel like he should be a literal king are mad that he doesn’t give a fuck what they say. Crazy.
Morons.
Ya love to see it.
Keep tearing each other apart, MAGA. This is better than daytime TV.
I want to believe, but this all seems like theater to me
When the president does something like this, congress should keep sending it back. Just spam his ass with it.
No need for that. A veto can be overturned by Congress entirely and a unanimously passed bill should be quite easy to accomplish that with. In a normal functioning democracy, at least.
The GOP members who initially voted bypartisantly (I believe it was a voice-only vote, no exact tally was made) may not want to do a formal override vote and paint themselves as an opponent to their supreme leader.
Hence my last sentence.
He’ll just use an autopen.
In addition to the autopan in his bed.
All these assholes who supported this idiot and are now seeing what he is were thoroughly warned. They chose not to listen because “librul says”!
I wonder if, in those areas where 50,000 people live, if there are any Taco flags still flying. Their vote for Taco didn’t matter since Colorado went blue, but…still. They might want to read the fucking room.
I drove through rural Georgia this week. Yep, they’re everywhere.
Oh, I believe that. I meant more about people flying a flag that says “I love the guy that is actively denying all of us CLEAN WATER!”
Here’s a bet, IF the Congress has the guts to override the cult leader, he tries to use an executive order to prevent the implementation somehow.
The US has to decide if it abides by the rule of law or the rule of executive orders. If it’s the latter, Congress is no longer necessary and can be disbanded.
And may as well get rid of the courts too.
If they disband congress please remove the pensions as waste, fraud, and abuse.
Fuck around find out.
This bitch and the rest of the GOP spent the last 10 years on their hands and knees sucking Trump’s tiny trumpet (Boebert at a Beetlejuice musical). Then the moment the narcissistic toddler they put into office again gets slight push back, he immediately retaliates.
I garuntee you the dumb fucks who voted Boebert into office will primary her out next cycle. Not because of what I just said, but because she dared to challenge their god emporer who just took away their clean water.
Of course it is retaliation. What else would it be? His claim that it is wasteful or that it’s about “fiscal sanity” (lol) [1] is simply not a believable claim. Projects like this are exactly why governments exist. But selfish little baby has to make it all about him.
[1] I love that, even now, the idiotic myth that Republicans and conservatives are somehow the best stewards of money, the economy or business still lingers on. It was a ridiculous notion decades ago and has blown way into the child-like imagination phase at this point. Conservatives and Republicans are always terrible for the economy and terrible at balancing budgets, etc.
Yeah but Conservatives and particularly Republicans are great at spreading a message. It’s more important that people believe that Conservatives and Republicans are good stewards of the economy than actually being good stewards. The economy will ebb and flow regardless of what anyone does, so why do anything about it when you can just take credit for the highlights.
How is this helpful? It’s important to know about these things.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t know about it, I’m using Norm to comment that of course this is retaliation. Everything with Trump is transactional.
I just did it using a one word fictional magazine title. Norm used this gag more times than one, and usually accompanied the graphic with, “Read all about it in this month’s riviting issue of Duh.”
No shit, dumbfuck.
Stick to the handjobs. You’re better at it than thinking.
She filed for divorce the month before the theater handy, and she’s not currently with the guy she was jacking, so it would seem that she’s pretty shit at handjobs.
Kinda sad for someone who was supposedly a cheap escort in Colorado.
She’s pretty sharp for the dullest knife in the drawer.
It may be retaliation, but it’s probably just as much about the Tina Peters situation as it is about Lauren Boebert. Trump seems to have decided that Colorado Must Be Punished, even though Eastern Colorado is as red Republican as the districts come.
