Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) was given a fast geography lesson on Twitter after she tweeted a U.S. map with some very notable omissions.
Boebert, who has embraced some QAnon conspiracy theories and known as for the church to direct the federal government, wrote “typically a meme says it greatest” as she shared a contorted picture of a map displaying the Decrease 48 states on a globe with nothing else however ocean.
“Map displaying the one place my taxes ought to go to,” the picture says:
Leaving apart the numerous methods U.S. {dollars} spent abroad can profit the nation and allies in addition to ship humanitarian reduction, the map itself leaves out tens of millions of precise Individuals. The map omits two U.S. states ― Hawaii and Alaska ― in addition to a part of Michigan and U.S. territories comparable to Puerto Rico and Guam.
Boebert’s critics chimed in: