At a casino bingo hall in southwestern Colorado, Lauren Boebert, a Republican congresswoman, bounced her 6-month-old grandson on her knee.
Reminder: This woman is 36 years old.
Now now, let's not shame young mothers. Let's shame her hypocrisy.
Doesn't that hypocrisy include abstinence until marriage? Because that's sure not what happened with her son.
Don't forget being a part of the party that works to remove social nets and support systems for young parents.
In general, I don't think it's rational to judge people for the choices their offspring make.
I think it's very rational to judge people's parenting ability.
Do I judge her because she's a 36 year old grandmother, generally no. Do I judge her because of her consistent stream of poor choices and hypocritical bullshit that has led her to becoming a 36 year old grandmother? Absolutely.
Look shit happens, you're not necessarily a bad person if your kid makes a poor choice and now has their own kid. You are a bad person if you can do all of those things and then try to pretend like you are some pious Christian that gets to lord over everyone else. She can get fucked. I hope she gets demolished in the election and fades into obscurity.
That's a red herring. She's not an awful person for being a grandmother at 36. She's an awful person for being a hypocrite.
To simplify even further, she’s just an awful person.
She's just awful.
that's sure not what happened with her son
Or her in a crowded theater full of children.
I'm not going to shame her for being a grandmother at her age. I will absolutely blame her for using her 6-month-old grandkid as a political prop.
The classic platform of begging for mercy whilst giving none.
Mercy my ass, she does nothing but lie and makeup crazy s*** 24x7 to further her agenda. She needs to be removed from society for our own safety.
Yeah. She could give hand jobs all day and I couldn't care less, but I can't forgive her for constantly lying out of her ass, before, during, after this event. She learns nothing from it.
I wanted to refer to Boebert as "first date handjob in a movie theater" lady but that discounts all her incredibly racist, offensive, terrible shit she said and did for the past five years.
How am I to interpret this sound bite that includes bouncing a six month old baby on your knee offered in a... checks notes... casino bingo hall?
Let's stop with the overused "checks notes" redditism.
That's what you took from that. Neat.
Incidentally, it's the first time I've ever used it. See my username, put it into present tense, and carry on with your miserable day.
I like it. It adds character when appropriate. It's fine if you don't, you're entitled to your opinion. Just don't ruin it for everyone else.
You just said it. When appropriate. It's kind of annoying when people use it in an * checks notes * unimaginative way.
^ See, now that's the spirit! 😘
lol!
What’s a redditism? Is that like some sort of augmented reality porn bot?
Scrolling through the article - then suddenly a proud eagle holding a table top with his mighty penis…
Hahahaha No
and i kinda want to see her do porn, but life's not always fair... well i mean this case she's gotten away with far more than most folks would... so yeah maybe its not fair in that regard either.
Honestly, since conservatives are probably the biggest consumers of porn, she could start a new Conservative politician-themed genre, and "ride" (pun intended) her celebrity and be groped by all the people she wants all the way to the bank.
Wait, wasn't it that any kind of sexual act that doesn't have the purpose of procreation is a sin?
Only if you get caught, are having fun, or are queer, of course (/s). But the two core rules of Conservatism are:
I do find it hilarious that of all the reprehensible things this woman has said and done over the past few years, she's probably gonna be taken down because she copped a quick feel.
If she hadn't nearly lost in the last election, the sudden concern for her character wouldn't be here now, even as a party disruptor.
so many echos of that terrible human being from alaska with an uncanny resemblance to tina fey
If it were a male politician he'd be relentlessly hounded out of politics by his peers with no mercy even considered. Boebert is unfit to represent anybody.
Um, so there’s this guy named Donald Trump who still got elected president even after a tape of him bragging about grabbing women by their, um, yeah, was made public.
I don’t expect people would hold men to a similar standard here either tbh
I mean, not if he was Republican. Remember, Matt Gaetz literally trafficked teenage girls and he's still in power.
I forgot this was US politics for a minute.
I just want bobo out of politics!
The handjob is an excuse, not a reason. The reason is that she came a hair's breadth from losing a seat the GOP is counting on and her numbers have gotten worse since then.
Optimus Prime thought she was made of sterner stuff.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The month before, Ms. Boebert, then in the midst of finalizing a divorce, was caught on a security camera vaping and groping her date shortly before being ejected from a performance of the musical “Beetlejuice” at the Buell Theater in Denver for causing a disturbance.
Pete Coors, the brewery scion, former Senate candidate and 2016 Trump fund-raiser, announced his endorsement in a statement provided to the Times, describing Mr. Hurd as “a principled leader of character whose conduct and behavior will never make us regret our support.”
Then a 33-year-old owner of a gun-themed, pandemic-lockdown-defying bar and restaurant in the small town of Rifle, she was an immediate sensation in the right wing of the party, which had transparently longed for its own answer to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the social media-savvy young left-wing Democratic congresswoman from New York.
The son of a local medical clinic director, he attended the University of Notre Dame and was planning on becoming a Catholic priest when he met his wife, Barbora, at an American Enterprise Institute seminar in Bratislava.
Mr. Hurd appears only peripherally in his first campaign ad, in which Barbora describes her journey to American citizenship after a childhood in Communist Czechoslovakia and warns that “we can’t take this freedom for granted” — a Reagan-revivalist pitch that also nods toward his concern about the risk of authoritarianism within his own party.
For some Colorado Republicans, the primary contest for her seat has become a proxy battle in the ongoing conflict within the party between an old guard of politicians and donors and the right-wing grass-roots activists that have come to dominate its state and county organizations — a fight in which 2020 election denial is a major dividing line.
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