A Little Bit Slutty and A Little Bit Nutty

Fresh on the heels of her vaping, groping, crotch grabbing and general bad behavior that got her thrown out of a Denver theater, Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has been outed by the Fact-Checkers over at The Washington Post over a wacky claim about payments to undocumented immigrants - which also happens to be almost a couple of decades old and irrelevant to the US.  According to Boebert:

Biden is giving each illegal family $2,200 per month plus a free plane ticket and free medical care.  If you come to this country illegally, you get everything handed to you on a silver platter.  If you're a struggling American citizen, you get nothing.  You actually just subsidize this foolishness. 

Of course all of this is made-up.  Under US law, documented migrants who have made a valid and successful claim to have fled persecution or war receive a one-time payment of $2,375, of which $1,275 may be used for critical direct assistance such as rent, food, clothing and furnishings.  That's it.  If you are undocumented you get nothing.

As it turns out, variations of this hoax have been circulating on social media for more than seventeen years; originating with immigrant policy in Canada.

Alas, this is what passes for intelligentsia in the GOP nowadays.  I suppose if you are a little bit slutty, being a little bit nutty gets you more clicks and a thumbs-up amongst the performative politics crowd.