Colorado lawmaker, who pushed for Epstein files release, points to bill’s unanimous passage through US House and Senate

Colorado lawmaker, who pushed for Epstein files release, points to bill’s unanimous passage through US House and Senate

Republican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado district, implying the president was playing at political retaliation.

The bill was aimed at funding a decades-long project to bring safe drinking water to 39 communities in Colorado’s eastern plains, where the groundwater is high in salt and wells sometimes unleash radioactivity into the water supply.

Boebert criticized the move, calling the bill “completely non-controversial” and pointed out that it passed the House and Senate unanimously earlier this year.

  • quantumfoam@lemmy.world
    28·
    5 days ago

    I have a theory that Lauren Boebert doesent actually need glasses but wears them to seem smarter. It isnt working.

    • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 days ago

      We can check fairly easily.

      Prescription glasses cause refraction changes.

      Kind of like how if you put a straw in a clear glass of water. The straw will look bigger and shifted off to the side.

      Prescription glasses do the same. If person is near sighted or myopic. It will shrink the eyes.

      If far sighted then it will magnify them.

      Most people are near sighted until they get older (50 ish). At which time they become far sighted and need “readers” or if they are also myopic, they get bifocals.

      So let me Google some pics …

      I found multiple side profile photos that were perfect for checking this.

      There is zero distortion. None. Her face curves line up behind the glasses to the parts that are not.

      She’s wearing clear non prescription glasses. 100%

        • bus_factor@lemmy.world
          7·
          4 days ago

          All of these people are extremely nearsighted. I’m just a little bit farsighted, and wouldn’t need glasses if I didn’t also have astigmatism. The refraction in my case is barely visible. People with an even subtler prescription with astigmatism would possibly have no refraction at all in that direction.

          I wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprised if Boebert was actually wearing non-prescription glasses, but she could have legitimate reasons to wear glasses which still would look like that. You’d need to also check refraction in the other direction to know for sure.