February 04, 2022 09:52 AM UTC

Deep Thoughts By Lauren Boebert: "Evolving!"

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• by: Colorado Pols

As Huffpo’s Ed Mazza reports, the internets had a field day with this one:

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) received a free lesson in U.S. history after posting her latest tweet about the Constitution.

“The Constitution is not evolving,” she wrote on Twitter. [Pols emphasis] “To say that spits in the face of every single one of our founders.”

In reality, the framers of the Constitution not only wrote it so that it could evolve, via amendments, but began using that process almost immediately with the passage of the Bill of Rights…

The first example that comes to mind is Lauren Boebert’s favorite Second Amendment, which she has apparently been invoking her entire life without a firm grasp on what an “amendment” actually is. And then there’s what should be an even more obvious problem, though we doubt Boebert would notice the loss like losing the Second:

So you don’t think you should have the right to vote? https://t.co/plwBJ8hUZh

— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) February 4, 2022

In short, if the Constitution had not “evolved” since its original drafting, not only would Lauren Boebert have no enshrined right to firearms but also no right to vote. Which was the nineteenth “evolution” of the document. Boebert was responding to President Joe Biden’s comments earlier this week, saying “the Constitution is always evolving slightly in terms of additional rights, or curtailing rights,” a clear reference to the debate over abortion rights–just one of many issues on which Boebert would be overjoyed to see our interpretation of the Constitution “evolve.”

While it’s considered bad form to take gratuitous shots at Boebert’s lack of education prior to being elected to Congress, sometimes Boebert’s irony-laden cluelessness becomes so overbearing that it takes over the conversation by force. Well before this point, recognizing their own ignorance, most people stop talking.

Lauren Boebert does not know how to stop talking.