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According to The Daily Beast, Lander County, Nevada is under fire for purchasing a $2,500 lifetime membership for the county in an extremist group that has ties to the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
"A former mining boom community in the Nevada desert, Lander County is the rural home to fewer than 10,000 residents," reported Kelly Weill. "But after a 4-1 vote by its board of commissioners, it's the first in the nation with a dubious distinction: Lander will become a county-level member of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, a right-wing group that promotes sheriffs as the last bastion of freedom and safety in Joe Biden's America."
According to the report, the membership will give residents lapel pins, a plaque, and a celebration event featuring Simone Gold, "a hydroxychloroquine-hyping doctor who is currently facing charges for allegedly entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot." Gold, who practices in California, was caught on video inside the Capitol during the attack.
CPSOA also has ties to Joe Arpaio, the infamous former Maricopa County sheriff who kept prisoners in scorching hot desert tent camps and was pardoned by former President Donald Trump from contempt of court charges stemming from racial profiling incidents.
Some residents and county officials are angry about the decision.
"I don't know why the county's joining organizations," said county Democratic Party chair Claudio Cardosa. "That should be left up to individuals, not counties. We've got that much money we can just join associations, right or left?"
On Saturday, Business Insider profiled how conspiracy theory-loving, pro-Trump Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has become reviled not just by Democrats, but by a number of Republicans as well.
Greene, according to the report, has become a kind of "Voldemort" of Congress — in that nobody wants to speak her name.
"Greene only burnished her reputation as a Capitol Hill rabble-rouser after she aggressively confronted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just off the House floor Wednesday afternoon and was overheard by reporters berating the New York Democrat for pursuing 'radical socialism,'" said the report. "Even some of Greene's GOP colleagues shied away from answering questions about that interaction. For their part, Democrats sounded like they were flabbergasted. 'I was relieved before this,' Rep. John Yarmuth, who as chairman of the House Budget Committee would have had to work with Greene had she not lost her work assignments, told Insider. 'As far as I can tell, she's here for all the wrong reasons. She is here just to make a show of herself. She's here for the theater.'"
With no committee assignments and no ability to influence legislation, one of Greene's only tactics to get noticed are to repeatedly force votes to adjourn Congress during the middle of business — something even Republicans are frustrated about.
Per the report, Republicans are also fleeing questions about Greene's behavior — even some of the far-right freshmen who were elected alongside her last year.
"Rep. Michael Burgess, a Republican of Texas, told Insider he had not seen any news articles about it," said the report. "When asked about what he thought of not being able to work with Greene on the House Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a Republican of North Carolina, said this week that he did not take questions from reporters in the halls of Capitol Hill."
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Another user also offered a breakdown of the times Trump has been wrong, including in his decision to support Boebert's election to the House of Representatives.
That user tweeted, "About what He was wrong about the tax cuts paying for theirselves Wrong about COVID Wrong about Russia Wrong about the environment wrong about immigration reform Wrong about health care Wrong about almost every appointment Did he endorse you ? If so , just another mistake."
As Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) on Friday continued her unwavering support of former President Donald Trump, Twitter users fired back at her with a brief history lesson. The Colorado lawmaker posted a bizarre, contradictory tweet that read, "President Trump wasn't politically correct. He was just correct."
President Trump wasn’t politically correct. He was just correct.— Lauren Boebert (@Lauren Boebert)1621025170.0
Her remarks did not bode well with many Twitter users and they quickly weighed in with their thoughts offering Boebert a stinging reminder of the truth about Trump, according to The HuffPost. Opposing Twitter users flipped the script and fired back with countless tweets highlighting the many times Trump was incorrect during his time in office.
One Twitter user wrote, "When was he correct? He was wrong about Covid He was wrong about the election He was wrong about A LOT of things. The only good thing he did was playing golf, because that meant he wasn't ruining the country even more."
@laurenboebert When was he correct? He was wrong about Covid He was wrong about the election He was wrong about A L… https://t.co/Psfrx6RxPF— Andiders (@Andiders)1621028872.0
@laurenboebert Really. The bleach thing? And the virus just disappearing? Grab’em? 500,000? Making fun of the di… https://t.co/NRyG4QfKs2— HRHOurania (@HRHOurania)1621025440.0
Another user also offered a breakdown of the times Trump has been wrong, including in his decision to support Boebert's election to the House of Representatives.
That user tweeted, "About what He was wrong about the tax cuts paying for theirselves Wrong about COVID Wrong about Russia Wrong about the environment wrong about immigration reform Wrong about health care Wrong about almost every appointment Did he endorse you ? If so , just another mistake."
@laurenboebert About what He was wrong about the tax cuts paying for theirselves Wrong about COVID Wrong about Rus… https://t.co/w0Qoe8Dugt— Stephen not Steven (@Stephen not Steven)1621041605.0
@laurenboebert EPIC FAILURE!!! "I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, an… https://t.co/xmeIWHNOUx— scotfasco (@scotfasco)1621039300.0
@laurenboebert https://t.co/PviddOZfYM— Mark James (@Mark James)1621026491.0
@laurenboebert He was correct at what exactly? We can wait.— Beagleness 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️🌈 (@Beagleness 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️🌈)1621028123.0
@laurenboebert See? Now a smart, well informed person would follow that claim with examples, an explanation or evid… https://t.co/inciB4suW3— Hettie (@Hettie)1621038065.0
@laurenboebert By Easter it will go away like a miracle.— DF (@DF)1621025326.0
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