Dec 5, 2023
Lauren Boebert Finally HUMILIATED After Stunning Biden Truth Bomb
Lauren Boebert gets utterly humiliated by President Biden after he laughs at a video of her shameful stunt on the House floor during an interview with Meidas Touch. John Iadarola and Viviana Vigil break it down on The Damage Report.
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And it does the exact opposite of
what Americans need right now.
This is just another con game by
the Democrats calling something one thing.
>> Speaker 2: Gentlewoman's
time has expired.
>> Speaker 1: This is making the IRS.
>> Speaker 2: Gentlewoman's
time has expired.
Gentlewoman is no longer recognized.
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The gentleman from Missouri reserves the.
>> Speaker 3: Mr. Speaker,
how much time do you need?
>> Speaker 2: The gentlewoman
is no longer recognized.
>> Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
>> Speaker 4: No, that's okay,
if it weren't so important to be humorous,
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what's she called a massive failure.
The only massive failure is her thinking.
>> Boom, Doug Brandon hits Lauren Boebert
right there to the best of his abilities.
But anyway, with what he's got left,
he's hitting her,
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both guns blazing a little bit.
But there's Biden is being shown as he's,
by the way,
touring Lauren Boebert's district,
talking about the Inflation Reduction Act.
He's shown this video of her
absolutely losing her mind over it and
never has the term gentle lady,
there's been as much of a gap with
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the behavior,
she's dragged away from the pulpit.
Look, if you wanna point out armed robbery
by the government on its citizens,
you can come up with examples of that.
I mean, the massive wealth transfer of
those PPP loans to people like her and
her colleagues that they
didn't actually need.
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That's a massive armed robbery
against the American people.
I guess not armed,
although they do have a military.
But what she's talking about
there is the IRS is getting guns.
They're going to be coming to your house.
You should not be okay
with the IRS being funded,
cuz they're going to come to your house,
they're gonna rob you.
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And she's being honest there.
That's why she's against the funding for
the IRS, not because she doesn't want
the IRS to have the funding to go after
the rich and actually conduct audits.
By the way, it's been like two years now.
Has the IRS gone to anyone's house
with guns and robbed anyone?
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Cuz we were told that was gonna happen.
Has that actually happened?
It seems like it hasn't happened.
But anyway, she necessarily opens
herself up to a lot of mockery there.
That said, I wannna give Biden a little
bit more of a chance to really dig
the needle in on what she
actually believes about the IRA,
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cuz there's a little
bit of hypocrisy there.
>> Speaker 4: The idea that in our
own district, we've created so
many new good-paying jobs.
And by the way, it's generating economic
growth across the board, across the board.
And when people get a good job,
what they do is they
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have an opportunity to spend on things
that are basic needs for themselves.
And by the way, we cut the deficit by
$7 billion in our first year, okay?
The idea that she's talking about this
being a massive failure, I don't get it.
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I don't know whether they just don't
understand anything or whether or
not they, in fact, I hope she comes back
here and tells the people in this factory,
the largest wind turbine factory in
the world, that this is a massive failure.
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It's her district,
invite her to come back.
Come back and tell the folks back
home this is a massive failure.
Tell the folks back home that all
that we've done to generate economic
growth is not worth it.
And I'd like to ask her
explain how she supports not
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taxing billionaires more than 8%.
I have trouble explaining it,
but then again,
I probably shouldn't
waste my time trying to.
>> Speaker 3: Well, if the goal is
to explain it to her, then, no,
he should not waste his time.
He does also have trouble explaining
basically everything because
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it's not there anymore.
He doesn't have that juice.
He's pointing out good facts there.
It's just that he's not the person who
should be really selling this thing.
There are apparently in one wind turbine
facility in her district, 850 new jobs.
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It is benefiting many Republican
districts all over the country.
That's the way it was set up, to try to
get them to support it in a futile effort
because they can't do that federally.
But that doesn't mean that they
don't support it in some way.
So I wanna give you just one more clip.
This is Pete Buttigieg pointing
out a little bit more hypocrisy.
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>> Speaker 5: Representative Boebert
has written letters of support for
projects in her district to be funded
with President Biden's infrastructure
package that she didn't just vote
no on but referred to as garbage.
That didn't stop her from saying
that that garbage, I guess,
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as she had called it,
was gonna be good for her district.
>> Speaker 3: And if you are a Republican
or a conservative watching this,
I want you to really think about this and
what it means.
How often we see this play out,
where Republicans will try to block
funding from going to the country.
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But the second it passes,
instantly they're asking for it, and
then they're bragging about it.
They'll be tweeting about,
this project I got for
my district that I tried my damnedest to
stop from happening those jobs, 850 jobs.
She tried to stop them from being set up.
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But now that they're there,
she does want some cred for it.
And look, they're gonna be hypocritical.
It's on us to make sure that people
understand that's what they're doing.
Viviana, I wanna go to you, what do you
think about Lauren Boebert in this issue?
>> Speaker 6: Well, first of all,
I wanna apologize for that disruption.
Lauren came over to borrow a cup of sugar,
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so it was a little bit of
a ruckus if you heard that.
No, just my dog barking.
>> Speaker 3: No worries.
>> Speaker 6: It's a dog barking,
anyway, she is unhinged.
She is scary, we're in the middle of this
thing right now where Biden is holding
on to the old style of government where
you're just trying to be [INAUDIBLE].
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>> Speaker 3: Congresswoman,
go do your job.
>> Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
>> Speaker 3: Leave her alone.
>> Speaker 6: John,
you might have to let me go grab him.
>> Speaker 3: Okay, you grab,
so, yeah, look, she is unhinged.
And I think a little bit
of it is true to her.
A little bit of it is performative.
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She's supposed to have that sort
of meltdown, so many of them did,
lying about the IRS component of it,
lying about the effect of
the climate funding and all that.
We've got an appearance,
by the way, by a dog.
Who is this dog, Viviana?
>> Speaker 6: This is my new dog, John.
I found him in the street.
This is Cosmo, in Long beach they're just
giving, so sorry about the disruption.
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>> Cosmo is very cute, no worries.
>> Speaker 6: He's now
getting very comfortable and
likes to bark at every dog walking by.
>> Speaker 3: No worries.
>> Speaker 6: He's a very good boy.
>> Speaker 3: Well, look,
I'm excited to have Cosmo here,
because Cosmo now has an opportunity
to learn a little bit about the IRA,
which apparently a lot of dogs and
humans don't know much about.
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And that's really why I
wanna talk about this,
cuz there's polling showing
that about three-quarters,
71% of Americans said they've heard little
or nothing about the IRA since it passed.
And 57% say that they disapprove of
Joe Biden's handling of climate policy,
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which I think those are related, but
not necessarily the same thing there.
Yes, he did pass the IRA, the IRA does
do some things that would be good for
the climate.
You can acknowledge that and
still be frustrated with some of the other
things that he has had to say and
do both domestically and internationally,
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when it comes to climate policy,
drilling, those sorts of things.
But it is a problem that his signature
legislative achievement now quite a bit
of time has passed and most people
haven't heard much about what it's done.
And that doesn't mean that
nothing has been done.
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There are plants that have been set up.
There has been tens of billions of dollars
of funding in a lot of this stuff, but
people aren't hearing about it.
And that's why he's out on tours like
he's doing in Colorado right now.
And obviously Colorado is
an important swing state.
But again, if he's the person
that's delivering that message,
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is that really gonna be an effective way,
we're covering it?
But it's not like he's gonna go viral off.
>> Speaker 6: You hit
the nail on the head John.
You hit the nail on the head, he's
the wrong person to deliver the message.
And this is the problem with the DNC,
is they keep wanting to push this and
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they have good programs.
And they have good information, and they
wanna share it, but then they have this
guy who is just not a good figurehead
to deliver the information.
So it's just passing over everybody's head
and it's hard to wanna get behind him,
because he doesn't seem like he's
even convinced that it's working.
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You know what I mean?
I do like this has probably been the best
we've seen Joe Biden kind of respond to
somebody like Lauren Boebert recently.
Because I like that he responded in
an even-keeled with kind of a chuckle,
because it's so ridiculous, her behavior.
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And we do need to get back to that.
We need to acknowledge that some of this
behavior on the right is so extreme and
ridiculous that we kinda have to see it
as what it is, like childish tantrums.
And unfortunately, we do need to put more
attention into the Inflation Reduction Act
because it's a big thing.
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It affects a lot of
people in this country.
And these programs are gonna help us.
Why, like you said, are Republicans so
against programs like this?
And then they run to be front in the line
to take the credit, to take the money, and
then they go and
claim to their constituents that they've
been fighting for them the whole time.
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>> Speaker 6: Yeah.
>> And in fact,
we just see what her fighting is.
Fighting to stop it is what
they've actually been doing.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, individually and
as a party, that's what they're doing.
And there's one other point I want
to point out about this, is that you
have sort of the true substantive
on-the-ground effect of these policies,
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the jobs they create,
the money that's invested and all that.
And then you have the political
implications of the programs or
of people's perception of the programs.
So a lot of people haven't heard
about what has come of this bill.
And then I want to give people
sort of a case study of this.
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So I was just reading an article about
how, $2 billion is allocated for
funding electric vehicle chargers.
And because of a whole
bunch of bureaucracy and
requirements of paperwork and
blah, blah, blah, apparently,
while the money has been allocated in many
cases to a number of different states,
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none of that direct money has resulted yet
in an actual charger being built.
And the thing is, Republicans are trying
to stop that from actually happening.
They're trying to delay, delay, delay
until Donald Trump can become president
again, and then they can kill the program
so that those chargers never get set up.
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Now, are they doing that because
they don't want people to see
the effect of the programs?
They don't want to have their ability
to drive around a road trip or
whatever with an EV become easier?
Or is it just they think that
ideologically they have to be against EVs,
even though they worship Elon Musk on
almost the same tier as Donald Trump?
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I don't know, but in either case,
again, they want the money, but
then they're trying to stop people
from actually benefiting from it.
And so
there's sort of performative hypocrisy.
But then there's also this really, I would
say, subversive approach to infrastructure
where they wasted their opportunity under
Donald Trump to actually pass anything.
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And now that the Democrats are in,
they're trying to stop it
from actually helping people.
And so both sides of that
are incredibly frustrating.
>> Which is so weird, because on
the right, they're so, pro-American,
pro-business.
We have an infrastructure that
is crumbling in this country.
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We need to get together.
We need to find some common ground.
And I know later on in the show
you're gonna talk about somebody who
might be running for president, who might
be that common ground for the right.
There's a lot of people that don't like
this extremism, like Lauren Boebert and
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the Marjorie Taylor Greens.
They want someone who's
more even-keeled and
not gonna be flying off
the handle just for show.
I mean,
we know she likes to put a good show up,
we know what she did when she went and
saw Beetlejuice.
She said Beetlejuice too many times,
and now her head's spinning.
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