Rep. Lauren Boebert pivoted right into a pile of dirt while sharing her geopolitical expertise with Fox News on Sunday at CPAC.
After telling the network that she’s praying for Ukraine, the Colorado Republican took a sharp left, saying Canada needs to be “liberated.” Yes, really.
“I pray for Ukraine, and I wish them the best,” she said. “They have a great president right now… but we also have neighbors to the north who need freedom and who need to be liberated and we need that right here at home.”
Lauren Boebert told Fox Nation at CPAC that Canada needs to be "liberated" along with Ukraine.
"We also have neighbors to the north who need freedom." pic.twitter.com/dymrCTRcxp
— David Edwards (@DavidEdwards) February 27, 2022
Boebert was likely referring to the so-called “freedom convoy” of anti-vaccine truck drivers, but her comparison to Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine doesn’t quite hold up.
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Her comments sparked immediate criticism from Canadian citizens and officials, and we’d be remiss not to start with this one:
Lauren Boebert is an idiot. I am an openly gay man living in the suburbs in Canada with my husband. We went and got fancy bagels to go today and stopped for Starbucks on our way home. Liberate Canada? Girl. We are fine. Fuck off.
— ? (@veryjarring) February 28, 2022
MP Anthony Housefather reached out in hopes of educating Boebert. Good luck with that:
Congresswoman @laurenboebert, while it’s good that you are not following the Trump line and are standing with #ukraine instead of #Putin it is sad to hear you compare free & democratic Canada to the invasion of Ukraine. If you would like to learn about Canada please reach out. https://t.co/6UEfAjdsPA
— Anthony Housefather (@AHousefather) February 28, 2022
Former US Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman took a more pointed approach:
Reckless, dangerous and crosses every line of diplomacy and decency. Boebert would have been expelled from the @GOP before Trump but now the darling of CPAC. Canada is our best friend-best trading partner- closest ally and should be treated as such. https://t.co/W4VJhE1ENO
— Bruce A. Heyman (@BruceAHeyman) February 27, 2022
Here’s how others are responding:
Lauren Boebert says Canada needs to be “liberated”. From what? Universal healthcare? Being the most educated country in the world? Being rated the number one country in the world for well-being? Being the country most want to immigrate to?
Umm, no thanks. We’re good, moron.🇨🇦
— Trent Capelli 🇨🇦 (@TrentCapelli) February 28, 2022
Everyone be quiet! Lauren Boebert is working on getting her GED. pic.twitter.com/iWVWeuv8ah
— Brad (@brads0924) February 28, 2022
Colorado’s 3rd Congressional district will liberate itself from Lauren Boebert in November.
— Chris Hahn (@ChristopherHahn) February 28, 2022
Lauren Boebert said Canada “also” needs to be liberated along with Ukraine.
Is she evil or just stupid?
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) February 27, 2022
Please, Lauren, free us from our hellhole of free medical care, 1-yr paid maternity leave, 10+ statutory paid holidays every year, and schools free of shootings.
— orgfarmer (@orgfarmer) February 28, 2022
“Liberate Canada” says one of the absolute dumbest members of congress Lauren Boebert.
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) February 28, 2022
Essie
Does she even know anything about Canada? Or any country? The people who elected this uneducated moron need to hide their faces in shame. She is pathetic.
Mack
She’s upset because Canada didn’t give in to her trucker terrorists friends. But she has competition from her party for the dumbest. They really fall all over themselves trying to win that award.
THAT Steve
We might have to split this into female and male categories ’cause I’m pretty sure when Maddy read it he was all ‘hold my beer’.
Cam
Just like Trump. Republicans love and support dictators like Putin and hate our allies, democracies, and anything else that isn’t a rac-ist religious theocracy or dictatorship.
Den
I am quite surprised that Bobert actually went against the word of her idol, and said she stood with the people of Ukraine! She will probably walk that back if Trump responds to excoriate her for being a “rino”.
If told that, in fact, the majority of Canadians oppose the freedumb convoy she would probably deny it. The right needs their myths and lies like an infant needs its pacifier.
scotty
praise jeebus.
jt1990
If you guys ever watch any real news Miss Boebert’s statement would make some sense. I wouldn’t want something jabbed into me that could cause fatal complications! Didn’t you people learn anything from the hiv crisis back in the day? Liberals (homosexuals) seem strangely attracted to pointy things that are also very bad for them.
shaniac
In America, in schools at least, the thing that would be jabbed into you that causes fatal complications is a bullet.
Cam
@jt1990
What a shock, the right wing troll that supporrts anti-LGBTQ bigots, rac-ists, sexists, and anti-American domestic terrorists is also an anti-Vaxxer.
Sweetie, maybe it would be easier if you created a new screename each day, because when you bring out old ones like this, it just makes it even more easy to mock your troll postings.
mailliw110
Says the guy who wraps himself in bubble wrap.
lambchopp59
RWNJ’s doubling down so feverishly in their own feeble attempts at relevance not only making zero salient points anymore, but unveiling embarrassingly how utterly bobbleheaded their clapping supporters have become, so star-struck with Trump and ilk… just WTF? Is it meth has completely destroyed their collective cerebral ability? Honestly, after Ray Gun’s nonsense this shit should have marched itself off a cliff somewhere. But then there was Fox Noise channel. Only now are they finally so deadheadedly delusional there’s nearly a million dead at the canyon’s bottom, and Tucker Carltooth stands there and laughs, the trolls can’t defend this garbage with any factual integrity, yet R’s predicted to take congress next year?
I gotta take my blood pressure pill.