Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow. Oh yeah. Republicans in
Speaker 1: Congress have been acting out. Marjorie Taylor Green compared mosque
Speaker 1: mandates to the Holocaust, Paul Ghost chopped off AOC's head
Speaker 1: in an anime video, and Mitt Romney while he went
Speaker 1: through that sexy goth phase. And now Colorado's Lauren Bobert's
Speaker 1: is under fire for a little stand up routine that
Speaker 1: she's been doing about il Han Omar. There has still
Speaker 1: been no condemnation from Republican leaders after GOP Congresswoman Lauren
Speaker 1: Bobert made an Islamic phobic comment about one of her
Speaker 1: Democratic colleagues. In a new video, Congresswoman Lauren Bobert making
Speaker 1: an Islamic phobic suicide bomber joke about being in an
Speaker 1: elevator with Congresswoman il Han Omar, who loved to my left,
Speaker 1: and there she is Omar. Well, she doesn't have a backpack.
Speaker 1: We should be fine, suggesting she was concerned Omar would
Speaker 1: blow up the elevator. I had one floor to go,
Speaker 1: and I was like, don't say it. When they were
Speaker 1: decided to show up for work today, Wow, you know,
Speaker 1: for something that offensive, that was one of the most
Speaker 1: boring stories I've ever heard, because you realized basically she
Speaker 1: was like, so I'm on an elevator with a brown
Speaker 1: person and the whole time I'm having racist thoughts. The end. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're familiar with Lauren Bobert, hearing that she made
Speaker 1: some islamophobic jokes about a fellow congress person, that won't
Speaker 1: come as too much of a surprise for you, because Bobert,
Speaker 1: like Marjorie Taylor Green or Madison Cawthorne or countless other Republicans,
Speaker 1: they're like the crazy little spawn that Donald Trump gave
Speaker 1: birth to right before he left town. But if you
Speaker 1: don't know who Lauren Bobert is, well you're about to
Speaker 1: find out in another installment of fringe Watching. In less
Speaker 1: than a year, Lauren Bobert has made a name for
Speaker 1: herself as one of Congress's pre eminent nut jobs. But
Speaker 1: before she could get to d C, she had to
Speaker 1: win over the voteses of her conservative Colorado district, and
Speaker 1: props to her because she knew just how to do it,
Speaker 1: Republican Lauren bober pulled off a stunning upset by taking
Speaker 1: down five term Congressman Scott Tipton, and her path to
Speaker 1: victory was straight out of the far right playbook. In May,
Speaker 1: her restaurant refused to close down during the COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: pandemic even after a season desist order until her license
Speaker 1: was temporarily suspended. And we don't want to be restricted
Speaker 1: by these arbitrary orders and placed by our governor who
Speaker 1: thinks that he's a king. Lauren Boberd is the third
Speaker 1: candidate this cycle that we've seen on the Republican side
Speaker 1: who has spoken approvingly of Q and On this conspiracy theory,
Speaker 1: who actually emerged on top in her primary room. Honestly,
Speaker 1: everything that I've heard of Q, I hope that I
Speaker 1: hope that this is real because it only means America
Speaker 1: is getting stronger and better and people are returning to
Speaker 1: conservative values. Yeah, that's right. Q and On is a
Speaker 1: return to conservative values. I mean, we all remember Ronald
Speaker 1: Reagan's famous speech in Berlin. Mr Gorbachev, Tom Hanks, co
Speaker 1: star of Bosom Buddies drinks baby blood, powerful stuff, man,
Speaker 1: powerful stuff. I remember that day now, to be fair
Speaker 1: of Bobert's that's what she was saying about Q and
Speaker 1: On before her Republican primary, because you see, six days
Speaker 1: after she won her primary. She clarified that she is
Speaker 1: not a follower of Q and On and had been
Speaker 1: purposefully vague about it earlier. So she isn't necessarily insane,
Speaker 1: just willing to say anything to win the votes of
Speaker 1: insane people, which in her way, is much worse. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, though, there is a conspiracy theory that
Speaker 1: Bobert has fully embraced, and this she's embraced with all
Speaker 1: her heart, and that is that the election was stolen
Speaker 1: from Donald J. Trump. And on January six, she was
Speaker 1: busy writing up her fellow believers. One of Congress's newest
Speaker 1: faces is already facing calls for her resignation just a
Speaker 1: few days into her term. I have constituents outside this
Speaker 1: building right now, less than a half hour before the
Speaker 1: capital came under siege. They know that this election is
Speaker 1: not right. One of the newest Republican House members, thirty
Speaker 1: four year old Lauren Beaubert of Colorado, was on the
Speaker 1: House floor fanning the flames of the insurrection. I will
Speaker 1: not allow the people to be ignored. She spent the
Speaker 1: morning tweeting today is seventeen seventy six and promising to
Speaker 1: fight with everything I have to ensure the fairness of
Speaker 1: the election. During the insurrection, she used her Twitter account
Speaker 1: to announce to the public and thereby any insurrectionists who
Speaker 1: might look that Speaker Pelosi had been removed from chambers. Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I know that sounds bad, but let's not jump to
Speaker 1: conclusions like maybe she wasn't trying to say Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: is getting away, go get her. You know, maybe it
Speaker 1: was more like great Nancy Pelosi got away. You blew it,
Speaker 1: dip shits. After the riots, Bobert released a state but
Speaker 1: denouncing the violence. But I mean, she was the one
Speaker 1: telling everyone who was seventeen seventy six, which only means
Speaker 1: one thing. I Like, I'm not an expert in American history,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure that the colonists didn't overthrow Britain
Speaker 1: with a change do old petition. Those dudes were killing
Speaker 1: each other in funny wigs. Now violent you have to
Speaker 1: be to put on a funny wig and then stab somebody.
Speaker 1: That's the next level of violence. But Bobo's true passion
Speaker 1: isn't quing on or overthrowing the government, or even casual Islamophobia. No,
Speaker 1: what really gets her going is the Second Amendment. I
Speaker 1: don't know. You're thinking, yeah, there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: who like guns. No no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you now that Lauren Boberg, she makes all
Speaker 1: of them look like Gandhi. This is Lauren Boberg. She's
Speaker 1: a congress one from Colorado. She who was at a
Speaker 1: hearing and she her her background on her zoom is
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of guns. The Republican Congresswoman Lauren Bobert
Speaker 1: decided to copy one of her Republican colleagues, and she
Speaker 1: posted a photo of herself with her children, you know,
Speaker 1: some of them rather young here holding what appeared to
Speaker 1: be semi automatic rifles in front of their Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: On the day she was sworn in, she released this
Speaker 1: flashy video declaring She'll be bringing her nine millimeter gluck
Speaker 1: to the halls of Congress and streets of d C.
Speaker 1: It's our job in Congress to defend your rights, including
Speaker 1: your Second Amendment, and that's exactly what I'm here to do.
Speaker 1: Bobert has attracted national attention for a while. She owns
Speaker 1: Shooters Grill in her hometown of Rifle, Colorado, a gun
Speaker 1: themed restaurant where she encourages her employees to be armed.
Speaker 1: So I'm guessing you haven't had any sort of altercations
Speaker 1: or any attempted robbers or anything like that since the
Speaker 1: girl started packing heat. No, we have had no altercations
Speaker 1: like that, nothing physical, and no one has certainly tried
Speaker 1: to rob us, unless you count our salt shakers does
Speaker 1: get taken often. That's right, Lauren Bob owns a restaurant
Speaker 1: where all the waitresses are strapped, which also makes it
Speaker 1: the only restaurant in America when nobody asks to split
Speaker 1: the check five ways. No, I'll just pay, thank you.
Speaker 1: And look, I don't know if I want to eat
Speaker 1: at a restaurant where everybody's armed. I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: fun gimmick, but you realize the second someone drops a plate,
Speaker 1: that place is turning into a Tarantino movie. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's still a restaurant, so you can't have bare feet,
Speaker 1: but otherwise it's a Tarantino movie. But clearly this person
Speaker 1: has an unhealthy fixation with guns. Forget Congress, she's not
Speaker 1: qualified to serve as an interior decorator. You know what,
Speaker 1: this bed needs a pile of guns, and let's just
Speaker 1: up this bathroom with another pile of guns, and you
Speaker 1: know what instead of a kitchen, just guns. But that's Mobert.
Speaker 1: She's probably the first person ever to try and register
Speaker 1: an emotional support block. And it really makes me wonder
Speaker 1: why why is the Second Amendment the only amendment that
Speaker 1: politicians are obsessed with? I mean like obsessed with that.
Speaker 1: Just once. I want to see a politician who's all
Speaker 1: about the Third Amendment, you know, just stumping through a
Speaker 1: campaign commercial like shut me to Washington and I'll make
Speaker 1: sure a soldier in peacetime is never recorded in your house.
Speaker 1: Use airbn bak and let me break back. But look,
Speaker 1: I'm sure bob it is as safe and careful as
Speaker 1: possible when she's hanging air fifteens on the Christmas tree,
Speaker 1: or at least she's more careful with that than she
Speaker 1: is with campaign finance laws. In August, news broke that
Speaker 1: Bobert did not disclose almost a half million dollars her
Speaker 1: husband made in the energy industry. Ethics and campaign finance
Speaker 1: laws require candidates and members of Congress to disclose how
Speaker 1: immediate family members make money so voters know about potential
Speaker 1: conflicts of interest. Now we have learned that Bobert paid
Speaker 1: rent and utility bills for her restaurant with campaign funds,
Speaker 1: which is very much in violation of federal campaign finance laws.
Speaker 1: The new filings of the Federal Election Commission show, and
Speaker 1: this is not the first time Bobert has misused campaign funds.
Speaker 1: In February, the Denver Post reported Bobert paid herself more
Speaker 1: than twenty two dollars and mileage reimbursements for her campaign
Speaker 1: account last year. To justify those are first vents Bobert
Speaker 1: would have had to drive get this thirty eight thousand,
Speaker 1: seven twelve miles while campaigning, despite having no publicly advertised
Speaker 1: campaign events in March, April, July, and only one in May.
Speaker 1: After questions were raised, Bobert amended her filing, subtracting seven
Speaker 1: thousand miles from her claim, so she miscalculates it by
Speaker 1: seven thousand miles. The only other time that happens is
Speaker 1: after you make a wrong turn using Google Maps, recalculating
Speaker 1: new distance seven thousand miles, you will arrive at your
Speaker 1: destination in the year three. Because that's that's a lot
Speaker 1: of shady campaign finance stuff after just one campaign one
Speaker 1: but I mean, I guess this is the swag of
Speaker 1: someone who owns that many guns? I mean, the FBC
Speaker 1: probably had a zoom meeting with her and then they
Speaker 1: show her background. What were they gonna say, Hey man,
Speaker 1: what's a few thousand miles? This will be cool. Let's
Speaker 1: be cool. Lady, you love me out, leve me out.
Speaker 1: So that's Lauren Bobert's load breaking, conspiracy theorist, gun enthusiast,
Speaker 1: and insurrectionist. In other words, if you see her get
Speaker 1: on an elevator, maybe you should take the stairs. What's
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