Oops! Boebert Accidentally Accuses Trump Administration Of Being Lazy
Math is hard, especially for Republican lawmakers. For the second time in as many months, a Republican lawmaker has apparently forgotten who was the President in 2020. First it was Marjorie Taylor Greene, and this time it was Lauren Boebert. During a House hearing last week, Boebert tried to paint federal workers as “lazy” by revealing information from a leaked report that the witness had to point out was the PREVIOUS Trump administration, not Biden’s people. Farron Cousins explains what happened. Link – https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-accidentally-accuses-trump-administration-being-lazy-1786822 Don’t forget to like, comment, and share! And subscribe to stay connected! Connect with Farron on Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced *This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos. Folks, math is hard. Math is hard, and memories fail, which I guess is why so many Republicans this year have basically attacked President Biden for things that actually happened during the Trump administration. They just can’t, can’t seem to remember who was president in the year 2020 first. Of course, it was Marjorie Taylor Green who said that a a a pair of overdose deaths that happened in 2020 were somehow then private citizen President Biden’s fault. Um, that’s not what happened. Biden mocked her po uh, publicly during a speech and got raus laughter from the crowd. But this past week it was Lauren Bobert who just couldn’t for the life of her, remember who the president was in the year 2020 during a house hearing where she was, uh, grilling, uh, health and Human Services director, or actually, that’s US Office of Personnel Management. Kieran, uh, uh, uh, [inaudible] I believe that’s how you pronounce it. My apologies if it’s not. But anyway, Lauren Bobert brought up a leaked report that was reported on by the Washington Free Beacon, a right wing website, uh, last summer that showed that from March of 2020 through December of 2020, roughly 25% of the personnel at Health and Human Services who were working from home because of the pandemic, they didn’t log into their VPN on a daily basis. So Bobert says you’re not aware of any employee taking something that one would consider a vacation time and bringing their computer and maybe logging in just a portion of that time, or not at all. We have more than 25% of federal employees not logging into work, and they’re Teleworking, personnel management chief said, Congresswoman, I, I do take issue with the characterization that 25% of individuals are not logging in. Bobert responds. It’s in this league document right here that we just submitted into the record. So she says, uh, you’re basing that from 2020, which is in the last administration, and I can’t speak to that. So Bobber, who’s like, ha ha, we got you. I’ve put it into the record. That was, that was the last guy that, that was the guy that you liked. Like that’s the guy that you’ve put up on a pedestal, because it was from March to December of 2020 when Donald J. Trump was in charge. So Bobert accidentally, of course, accused the Trump administration of being a bunch of lazy, just lazy buffoons, I guess, taking vacation time. They’re out at the beach, but they’re logging in 75% of ’em, I guess, you know, to make it look like they were working. At that point, not only was Bobert made a fool of by not knowing who was present in 2020, but then Katie Porter did what Katie Porter does best and actually explained things so that everybody could understand, because what the leaked report showed wasn’t that people weren’t logging into work, it’s that they weren’t logging in specifically to a VPN n to access their internal computers. Here’s what Katie Porter pointed out. I just wanna flag for everyone here that VPN and using VPN n login as a way to measure employee engagement and productivity is notoriously inaccurate and misleading. It does not necessarily reflect an employee’s access to their email internet. They can be working on Microsoft Word drafting a document. They can be in Excel, putting in data without being connected to the internet at all. So Porter’s pointing out like, okay, people may not have been connected to the internet, but guess what? I, I know it’s hard for, for some of you youngsters to, to know this. Computers actually work without the internet. They, they worked without the internet for a very long time. You can do lots of things without the internet, including taking physical documents and digitizing them by typing in the data while not connected to the internet. That’s a thing, and that is also, by the way, a thing that federal employees have to do. So not only was Bobert wrong about who was president at the time, but she was also wrong about what this leaked data from the Washington Free Beacon even showed us.
Math is hard, especially for Republican lawmakers. For the second time in as many months, a Republican lawmaker has apparently forgotten who was the President in 2020. First it was Marjorie Taylor Greene, and this time it was Lauren Boebert. During a House hearing last week, Boebert tried to paint federal workers as “lazy” by revealing information from a leaked report that the witness had to point out was the PREVIOUS Trump administration, not Biden’s people. Farron Cousins explains what happened. Link – https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-accidentally-accuses-trump-administration-being-lazy-1786822 Don’t forget to like, comment, and share! And subscribe to stay connected! Connect with Farron on Twitter: https://twitter.com/farronbalanced *This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos. Folks, math is hard. Math is hard, and memories fail, which I guess is why so many Republicans this year have basically attacked President Biden for things that actually happened during the Trump administration. They just can’t, can’t seem to remember who was president in the year 2020 first. Of course, it was Marjorie Taylor Green who said that a a a pair of overdose deaths that happened in 2020 were somehow then private citizen President Biden’s fault. Um, that’s not what happened. Biden mocked her po uh, publicly during a speech and got raus laughter from the crowd. But this past week it was Lauren Bobert who just couldn’t for the life of her, remember who the president was in the year 2020 during a house hearing where she was, uh, grilling, uh, health and Human Services director, or actually, that’s US Office of Personnel Management. Kieran, uh, uh, uh, [inaudible] I believe that’s how you pronounce it. My apologies if it’s not. But anyway, Lauren Bobert brought up a leaked report that was reported on by the Washington Free Beacon, a right wing website, uh, last summer that showed that from March of 2020 through December of 2020, roughly 25% of the personnel at Health and Human Services who were working from home because of the pandemic, they didn’t log into their VPN on a daily basis. So Bobert says you’re not aware of any employee taking something that one would consider a vacation time and bringing their computer and maybe logging in just a portion of that time, or not at all. We have more than 25% of federal employees not logging into work, and they’re Teleworking, personnel management chief said, Congresswoman, I, I do take issue with the characterization that 25% of individuals are not logging in. Bobert responds. It’s in this league document right here that we just submitted into the record. So she says, uh, you’re basing that from 2020, which is in the last administration, and I can’t speak to that. So Bobber, who’s like, ha ha, we got you. I’ve put it into the record. That was, that was the last guy that, that was the guy that you liked. Like that’s the guy that you’ve put up on a pedestal, because it was from March to December of 2020 when Donald J. Trump was in charge. So Bobert accidentally, of course, accused the Trump administration of being a bunch of lazy, just lazy buffoons, I guess, taking vacation time. They’re out at the beach, but they’re logging in 75% of ’em, I guess, you know, to make it look like they were working. At that point, not only was Bobert made a fool of by not knowing who was present in 2020, but then Katie Porter did what Katie Porter does best and actually explained things so that everybody could understand, because what the leaked report showed wasn’t that people weren’t logging into work, it’s that they weren’t logging in specifically to a VPN n to access their internal computers. Here’s what Katie Porter pointed out. I just wanna flag for everyone here that VPN and using VPN n login as a way to measure employee engagement and productivity is notoriously inaccurate and misleading. It does not necessarily reflect an employee’s access to their email internet. They can be working on Microsoft Word drafting a document. They can be in Excel, putting in data without being connected to the internet at all. So Porter’s pointing out like, okay, people may not have been connected to the internet, but guess what? I, I know it’s hard for, for some of you youngsters to, to know this. Computers actually work without the internet. They, they worked without the internet for a very long time. You can do lots of things without the internet, including taking physical documents and digitizing them by typing in the data while not connected to the internet. That’s a thing, and that is also, by the way, a thing that federal employees have to do. So not only was Bobert wrong about who was president at the time, but she was also wrong about what this leaked data from the Washington Free Beacon even showed us.
