There has been a rush of Republican critiques and complaints about the Biden administration’s execution of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years of fighting. But no reaction appears to have gone as low as that from freshman Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., who joked about Afghans filmed falling off a U.S. military plane to their deaths on Monday.
“At least they won’t have to read ‘mean tweets,'” the congresswoman tweeted on Monday. Boebert’s tweet was accompanied by a video of hundreds of Afghan men swarming a U.S. military plane as it takes off. Several men quickly fell off the plane. Their deaths were filmed.
At least they won’t have to read “mean tweets”… pic.twitter.com/P42ZOTEpra
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) August 16, 2021
Needless to say, many people did not find Boebert’s so-called joke funny:
Really sensitive to these people who are suffering. You never really cared about them, obviously. You just love the political talking point
— Honorable DF (@DF72811) August 16, 2021
All you are doing is using their suffering to knock the other side. Thays all you dont care you voted against them. You want to use them. Your guy gave them 5000 of their soldiers back. Gave them their new president back. Maybe a deal without the afghan gov was a bad idea pic.twitter.com/S89kS8PrNy
— Stelenj (@stelenj) August 16, 2021
Want a daily wrap-up of all the news and commentary Salon has to offer? Subscribe to our morning newsletter, Crash Course.
We all know the trope that Republicans don’t have backbones, but it is even funnier when they are caught flagrantly, without abandon, losing their “morals” for a brief moment before falling back to Earth, as was the case with another Boebert tweet.
Joe has a 48 year history of making bad decisions.
Add this weekend’s foreign policy decisions to the list.
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) August 15, 2021
One Twitter user was quick to catch Boebert’s change in opinion from a tweet of her’s he pulled from last February.
This was you, only a few months ago…. pic.twitter.com/XWpwYAdJJu
— Martijn Janssen (@tweettinus) August 15, 2021
Boebert’s extremist opinions only continued on Monday:
The Taliban are the only people building back better.
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) August 16, 2021
