Etiquette Tips for Lauren Boebert at the 2023 State of the Union

At the last State of the Union, Representative Lauren Boebert singled herself out with some less-than-stateswoman-like behavior when President Joe Biden was in the middle of a statement of support for U.S. veterans with cancer diagnoses directly linked to “burn pits” in the wars in the Middle East, “a cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin,” he intoned. “I know…”

“You put them in!” Boebert interrupted with a screech. “Thirteen of them!” Her outburst was met with audible gasps and general shock and chastisement from the chamber, including vocal boos (though the folks at NewsMax might have suggested that people were simply chanting “Boo-bert! Boo-bert!“).

Biden chose to just finish his thought, adding “…because one of those soldiers was my son.”

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