This hunk of garbage
The new Republican majority in Congress has decided to remove the metal detectors that outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi installed outside the House chamber after the Capitol riot on January 6, according to Rep Lauren Boebert.
“When I arrived in Congress two years ago, Nancy Pelosi put this hunk of garbage outside of the House chambers for members of Congress to go through,” Ms Boebert of Colorado said in a video in front of a metal detector being hauled down on Tuesday. “Today, they are being removed and we are turning Pelosi’s house back into the People’s House.”
When Boebert arrived in Congress two years ago it was attacked by a heavily armed mob which injured many people; a few were killed. That’s why Pelosi installed “this hunk of garbage.”
Republican members of the chamber chafed against the presence of the metal detectors, meant to keep members safe in the midst of an increase in political violence in the US and fears that Republican members were carrying weapons onto the floor.
Republicans are in favor of guns everywhere.
Gunfight at the OK Corral; I mean OK Capitol.
Could be every Republican congressman’s wet dream.
Did I miss metallic weapons being given “people” status? So hard to keep track of these things nowadays…
Boebert wants her Democratic colleagues to fear she is carrying a gun. It makes her feel powerful.
You have to be pretty unpleasant to want that.
Was Boebert looking in a mirror?
Ah but those metal detectors are there to keep out the sort of person Boebert sees as her people. If a mob of angry gun fondlers breaks in again, she’ll be safe as they are guaranteed to be low information Republicans just like her.