Fringe-Watching - Lauren Boebert

she's been doing about il Han Omar. There has still been no condemnation from Republican leaders after GOP Congresswoman Lauren Bobert made an Islamic phobic comment about one of her Democratic colleagues. In a new video, Congresswoman Lauren Bobert making an Islamic phobic suicide bomber joke about being in an elevator with Congresswoman il Han Omar, who loved to my left, and there she is Omar. Well, she doesn't have a backpack. We should be fine, suggesting she was concerned Omar would

blow up the elevator. I had one floor to go, and I was like, don't say it. When they were decided to show up for work today, Wow, you know, for something that offensive, that was one of the most boring stories I've ever heard, because you realized basically she was like, so I'm on an elevator with a brown

person and the whole time I'm having racist thoughts. The end. Now, if you're familiar with Lauren Bobert, hearing that she made some islamophobic jokes about a fellow congress person, that won't come as too much of a surprise for you, because Bobert, like Marjorie Taylor Green or Madison Cawthorne or countless other Republicans, they're like the crazy little spawn that Donald Trump gave birth to right before he left town. But if you don't know who Lauren Bobert is, well you're about to

find out in another installment of fringe Watching. In less than a year, Lauren Bobert has made a name for herself as one of Congress's pre eminent nut jobs. But before she could get to d C, she had to win over the voteses of her conservative Colorado district, and props to her because she knew just how to do it, Republican Lauren bober pulled off a stunning upset by taking down five term Congressman Scott Tipton, and her path to

victory was straight out of the far right playbook. In May, her restaurant refused to close down during the COVID nineteen pandemic even after a season desist order until her license was temporarily suspended. And we don't want to be restricted by these arbitrary orders and placed by our governor who thinks that he's a king. Lauren Boberd is the third candidate this cycle that we've seen on the Republican side who has spoken approvingly of Q and On this conspiracy theory,

who actually emerged on top in her primary room. Honestly, everything that I've heard of Q, I hope that I hope that this is real because it only means America is getting stronger and better and people are returning to conservative values. Yeah, that's right. Q and On is a return to conservative values. I mean, we all remember Ronald Reagan's famous speech in Berlin. Mr Gorbachev, Tom Hanks, co star of Bosom Buddies drinks baby blood, powerful stuff, man,

powerful stuff. I remember that day now, to be fair of Bobert's that's what she was saying about Q and On before her Republican primary, because you see, six days after she won her primary. She clarified that she is not a follower of Q and On and had been purposefully vague about it earlier. So she isn't necessarily insane, just willing to say anything to win the votes of

insane people, which in her way, is much worse. On the other hand, though, there is a conspiracy theory that Bobert has fully embraced, and this she's embraced with all her heart, and that is that the election was stolen from Donald J. Trump. And on January six, she was busy writing up her fellow believers. One of Congress's newest faces is already facing calls for her resignation just a few days into her term. I have constituents outside this building right now, less than a half hour before the

capital came under siege. They know that this election is not right. One of the newest Republican House members, thirty four year old Lauren Beaubert of Colorado, was on the House floor fanning the flames of the insurrection. I will not allow the people to be ignored. She spent the morning tweeting today is seventeen seventy six and promising to fight with everything I have to ensure the fairness of

the election. During the insurrection, she used her Twitter account to announce to the public and thereby any insurrectionists who might look that Speaker Pelosi had been removed from chambers. Okay, okay, okay, I know that sounds bad, but let's not jump to conclusions like maybe she wasn't trying to say Nancy Pelosi is getting away, go get her. You know, maybe it was more like great Nancy Pelosi got away. You blew it, dip shits. After the riots, Bobert released a state but

denouncing the violence. But I mean, she was the one telling everyone who was seventeen seventy six, which only means one thing. I Like, I'm not an expert in American history, but I'm pretty sure that the colonists didn't overthrow Britain with a change do old petition. Those dudes were killing each other in funny wigs. Now violent you have to be to put on a funny wig and then stab somebody. That's the next level of violence. But Bobo's true passion

isn't quing on or overthrowing the government, or even casual Islamophobia. No, what really gets her going is the Second Amendment. I don't know. You're thinking, yeah, there's a lot of people who like guns. No no, no, no, no, no no. I'm telling you now that Lauren Boberg, she makes all of them look like Gandhi. This is Lauren Boberg. She's a congress one from Colorado. She who was at a hearing and she her her background on her zoom is

a whole bunch of guns. The Republican Congresswoman Lauren Bobert decided to copy one of her Republican colleagues, and she posted a photo of herself with her children, you know, some of them rather young here holding what appeared to be semi automatic rifles in front of their Christmas tree.

On the day she was sworn in, she released this flashy video declaring She'll be bringing her nine millimeter gluck to the halls of Congress and streets of d C. It's our job in Congress to defend your rights, including your Second Amendment, and that's exactly what I'm here to do. Bobert has attracted national attention for a while. She owns Shooters Grill in her hometown of Rifle, Colorado, a gun themed restaurant where she encourages her employees to be armed.

So I'm guessing you haven't had any sort of altercations or any attempted robbers or anything like that since the girl started packing heat. No, we have had no altercations like that, nothing physical, and no one has certainly tried to rob us, unless you count our salt shakers does get taken often. That's right, Lauren Bob owns a restaurant where all the waitresses are strapped, which also makes it the only restaurant in America when nobody asks to split

the check five ways. No, I'll just pay, thank you. And look, I don't know if I want to eat at a restaurant where everybody's armed. I mean, it's a fun gimmick, but you realize the second someone drops a plate, that place is turning into a Tarantino movie. I mean, it's still a restaurant, so you can't have bare feet, but otherwise it's a Tarantino movie. But clearly this person has an unhealthy fixation with guns. Forget Congress, she's not

qualified to serve as an interior decorator. You know what, this bed needs a pile of guns, and let's just up this bathroom with another pile of guns, and you know what instead of a kitchen, just guns. But that's Mobert. She's probably the first person ever to try and register an emotional support block. And it really makes me wonder why why is the Second Amendment the only amendment that politicians are obsessed with? I mean like obsessed with that.

Just once. I want to see a politician who's all about the Third Amendment, you know, just stumping through a campaign commercial like shut me to Washington and I'll make sure a soldier in peacetime is never recorded in your house. Use airbn bak and let me break back. But look, I'm sure bob it is as safe and careful as possible when she's hanging air fifteens on the Christmas tree, or at least she's more careful with that than she

is with campaign finance laws. In August, news broke that Bobert did not disclose almost a half million dollars her husband made in the energy industry. Ethics and campaign finance laws require candidates and members of Congress to disclose how immediate family members make money so voters know about potential conflicts of interest. Now we have learned that Bobert paid rent and utility bills for her restaurant with campaign funds, which is very much in violation of federal campaign finance laws.

The new filings of the Federal Election Commission show, and this is not the first time Bobert has misused campaign funds. In February, the Denver Post reported Bobert paid herself more than twenty two dollars and mileage reimbursements for her campaign

account last year. To justify those are first vents Bobert would have had to drive get this thirty eight thousand, seven twelve miles while campaigning, despite having no publicly advertised campaign events in March, April, July, and only one in May. After questions were raised, Bobert amended her filing, subtracting seven thousand miles from her claim, so she miscalculates it by

seven thousand miles. The only other time that happens is after you make a wrong turn using Google Maps, recalculating new distance seven thousand miles, you will arrive at your destination in the year three. Because that's that's a lot of shady campaign finance stuff after just one campaign one but I mean, I guess this is the swag of someone who owns that many guns? I mean, the FBC probably had a zoom meeting with her and then they show her background. What were they gonna say, Hey man,

what's a few thousand miles? This will be cool. Let's be cool. Lady, you love me out, leve me out. So that's Lauren Bobert's load breaking, conspiracy theorist, gun enthusiast, and insurrectionist. In other words, if you see her get on an elevator, maybe you should take the stairs. What's the Daily Show weeknights at eleven tenth Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast