'There's just no excuse': Lauren Boebert blasts John Fetterman's uber-casual attire



Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado criticized Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania for the extremely casual attire he opted to wear on Thursday.

While other senators at a Thursday press conference sported suits and ties, Fetterman, clad in a hoodie, shorts, and sneakers, offered a jarring visual contrast.

Fetterman is known for wearing hoodies, but Boebert took issue with senator's appearance.

"John Fetterman redefined Casual Friday on a Thursday morning. It's truly unbecoming for someone to show up like that to any job, let alone a job that only 100 people are elected to do. There's just no excuse for it," she declared in a tweet.

\u201cJohn Fetterman redefined Casual Friday on a Thursday morning.\n\nIt\u2019s truly unbecoming for someone to show up like that to any job, let alone a job that only 100 people are elected to do.\n\nThere\u2019s just no excuse for it.\u201d
— Lauren Boebert (@Lauren Boebert) 1684499028

Others also sounded off about Fetterman's duds.

"Incompetent John Fetterman wearing a hoodie and cargo shorts while speaking at a press conference on the debt ceiling. An absolute disgrace," Alana Mastrangelo of Breitbart tweeted.

Logan Hall tweeted, "It should honestly be illegal for a sitting senator to appear in front of the general public dressed like this."

\u201cit should honestly be illegal for a sitting senator to appear in front of the general public dressed like this.\u201d
— Logan Hall (@Logan Hall) 1684433355

Fetterman returned to the Senate last month after an extended absence while he was undergoing treatment for clinical depression.

The left-wing lawmaker took office early this year after defeating Republican candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania's 2022 Senate contest. Oz had been backed by former President Donald Trump.

Fetterman suffered a stroke last year shortly before winning the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary.

Boebert announced earlier this week that she is getting divorced.

"It is with a heavy weight on my heart that I have filed for divorce from my husband," Boebert reportedly said in a statement. "I've always been faithful in my marriage, and I believe strongly in marriage, which makes this announcement that much more difficult. This is truly about irreconcilable differences."

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Amid BRUTAL war, Ukraine President Zelenskyy and wife find time to pose for Vogue magazine



Between courageously defending their nation in the face of Russia’s brutal invasion and the non-stop rigors of cashing in on all those billions of U.S. aid dollars, it's a wonder that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena Zelenska were able to find the time for a little photo shoot with Vogue magazine.

The magazine shared a few photos from the upcoming October 2022 issue on social media Wednesday.

\u201cFirst Lady Olena Zelenska and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Kyiv, Ukraine, July 2022 / For @voguemagazine To Be Featured In Vogue Magazine, October 2022\u201d
— Annie Leibovitz (@Annie Leibovitz) 1658935119

People on Twitter seemed duly impressed:

\u201cNothing screams genuine struggle more than a wartime Vogue photoshoot.\u201d
— Avi Yemini (@Avi Yemini) 1658898217
\u201cwartime vogue photo shoots. very serious. let\u2019s keep sending ukraine weekly billion dollar aid packages to protect \u201cdemocracy.\u201d don\u2019t question it.\u201d
— Logan Hall (@Logan Hall) 1658862926
\u201cWhy did we send $54 billion to Ukraine, so Zelensky & his wife could pose for Vogue? \n\nYou\u2019re at war & you\u2019ve got time for photo shoots?\u201d
— #ThePersistence (@#ThePersistence) 1658928049
\u201cWhile we send Ukraine $60 billion in aid Zelenskyy is doing photoshoots for Vogue Magazine. \n\nThese people think we are nothing but a bunch of suckers.\u201d
— Lauren Boebert (@Lauren Boebert) 1658922931
\u201cWhen your people are dying in a #NATO proxy war and you pose for Vogue you are not a leader, you are a morally bankrupt NATO-controlled parasite who sends his own people to death while dressing up & prostituting himself to Western warlords.\n\n#Zelensky #Ukraine\u201d
— vanessa beeley (@vanessa beeley) 1658890017

On "The News & Why It Matters" Wednesday, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales, BlazeTV host Elijah Schaffer of "Slightly Offens*ve," and head writer and researcher for Glenn Beck Jason Buttrill discussed the "portrait of bravery" and asked, "How many billions of dollars did the U.S. send Ukraine again?"

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Joe Biden's new chief of staff, Ronald Klain, in 2014 said elections are 'rigged'



Former Vice President Joe Biden selected Ronald Klain as his White House chief of staff on Wednesday. Within hours of Klain being named to the new position, a 2014 tweet by Klain saying that elections are "rigged" resurfaced and raised eyebrows.

Klain's tweet was a reply to a Vox.com post on Twitter linking to an article titled, "68% of Americans think elections are rigged." Klain reacted to the article by declaring, "That's because they are."

The article, which was written by Vox founder Ezra Klein, argues, "Elections are rigged in favor of incumbents. And they're basically right."

The article claims election fraud isn't the problem.

"Incumbents get a voice in gerrymandering — meaning that the politicians, in an inversion of the normal rules of democracy, get to choose their voters," Klein wrote.

The article highlights that "very few congressional elections are seriously competitive" because "reelection rates for incumbents tend to hover around 90 percent — and they occasionally get perilously close to 100 percent." Adding that the "powers of incumbency are so strong that overall congressional approval ratings barely affect congressional reelection rates."

The Vox article cited a 2014 Rasmussen poll with the headline, "68% Think Election Rules Rigged for Incumbents."

As of Thursday morning, Klain's tweet was still up, and Twitter had not slapped a warning label on it.

hello twitter i have a claim about election fraud that I want to dispute https://t.co/rbcSuihcP2
— Logan Hall (@Logan Hall)1605152046.0

Klain was the general counsel to Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore during the Florida recount in the 2000 election against Republican George W. Bush. He argued against counting overseas absentee ballots, which would have "potentially thrown out the votes of hundreds of military members stationed overseas," as reported by CNN.

"The idea that people were going to vote after the election and have those votes count, that's a pretty irregular idea," Klain said in 2000.

Following a machine recount, Bush's lead stood at 327 votes. Klain called Florida a "Third World banana republic" for its handling of the 2000 recount.

Klain served as chief of staff to Gore when he was vice president between 1995 and 1999, as well as to former Vice President Biden from 2009 to 2011.

On Wednesday, Biden issued a statement on selecting Klain as his White House chief of staff:

"Ron has been invaluable to me over the many years that we have worked together, including as we rescued the American economy from one of the worst downturns in our history in 2009 and later overcame a daunting public health emergency in 2014. His deep, varied experience and capacity to work with people all across the political spectrum is precisely what I need in a White House chief of staff as we confront this moment of crisis and bring our country together again."

Biden undermined Trump administration in leaked phone call with Ukraine leader

Evidence has surfaced showing then Joe Biden and then Ukrainian President Poroshenko had a phone call just before now president Trump was to take office.