Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is getting some heat after video footage showed her in close contact with a male companion at a Beetlejuice musical from which she was booted after allegedly vaping in front of a pregnant woman. That companion is reportedly the owner of a pro-LGBT bar that has hosted a dra…
I mean, I’d argue this should be celebrated, not used as a burn. I get the angle on hypocrisy here, but framing LGBT support as a mistake or flaw, as unintentional as it may be, doesn’t really sit right, imo.
I really do wish the headline had pointed out the hypocrisy on her part and not with phrasing that reads as being pro-LGBT is bad.
I wouldn’t call it “support” with out learning more.
He owns a bar. He’s a businessman. Who makes profit of vice. And who, apparently, gets off groping tits at a family theater
Same deal with target- neither give a flying fig about lgbtq issues…. They just want to make money. Target by selling merch, this guy by selling a burlesque show.
LGBT support is framed in the context of showing how much of a giant lying cunt Boebert is. I didn’t at all take any inference to it being framed as a mistake or flaw in a negative context from this article or the title. People seem to get rabidly defensive on every position, everywhere, all of the time now.
This is my position, too. I’m pretty sensitive to social homophobia and transphobia, and this headline, to me, is calling out Bobo and not her boyfriend (although I would question his taste). Now admittedly, you’d have to know who Bobo is in order to get that. If it was about AIC’s boyfriend owning a gay bar, that’d literally be a different story. However, I don’t think you can squeeze too much context into a headline without using a queerty or the root style headline like “Fame-hungry homophobe Boebert caught publicly masturbating gay bar owner in children’s musical!”
Honestly, I’m never sure how much of their crap is performative and how much is serious, but honestly even the serious stuff is actually performative.
Plenty of conservatives make money off of progressives, just by targeting than doesn’t mean you are one
Never said they were.
I didn’t go past the paywall, but I’m not seeing anything against LGBTQ+ people in the headline. I read it like when some male “family values” politician is caught shaking up with another man - it really is the hypocrisy that’s the issue.
Like many of her ilk, Bobert doesn’t really give a shit about the things she screams about; it’s political theater designed whip up the base, and this situation makes that obvious to anyone paying attention.
Double-edged sword: The title is belittling to LGBT readers, but also Boobert’s simple-minded base will use this as reason to drop support for her.
I’m sure her political opponents are celebrating.
It’s almost like the culture war is completely manufactured and the people perpetuating it don’t actually give a shit because they’re just playing the grift for their own benefit.
Remember kids, the only solidarity is class solidarity and rich people understand that better than you.
EDIT: Autocorrect butchered my spelling.
100% this. Things won’t change until we drag out the guillotines.
Now I’m just picturing like an Irish Drag King called Gil O’Tien heading up the executions of billionaires.
How do we get this to be a thing? Because this is glorious
I’m sure she was giving him a handy in a theater to, ya know, punish him for enabling what she clearly thinks is a pedo grooming operation. She couldn’t be lying about her moral outrage surrounding drag queens at all, could she?
You’re not looking hard enough. She’s secretly in on the pedo cabal!
Like, literally.
As a victim turned enabler, going by her relationship with her husband.
At first, the story was just funny and pathetic, but it just got better.
Also, her “companion” should have higher standards.
I mean, probably the only thing she’s actually good for is groping in a theater. I believe in giving credit where credit is due.
Absolutely guarantee you she is fun in bed. She’s completely fucking bonkers and red flags make for great sex.
Not to mention her previous experience as a hooker.
Lock your bunnies up though.
Oh look, a Republican hypocrite…
Class traitor.
Or undercover hero.
It did occur to me that maybe he’s taking one for the team.
The hero we get and not the one we deserve?
Probably would’ve been a bit more discreet to get that handy under a cover.
overcover hero, then?
And their hipocrisy keeps coming…
That’s the whole point.
Say whatever will get the conservative people angry.
For decades stirring up fear and hatred for gay and lesbian people was a sure vote winner for the right wing.
Once gay marriage and relationships became acceptable (relatively, I am not dismissing the hardships LGB people still face) in much of the west, they needed a new group to focus that hate to rile up their supporters and suddenly all the hateful shit was shifted to trans people.
Most that spout this hatred to get elected, do not believe it.
And the most upsetting part of all this is that I cannot for the life of me decide who is more dangerous, but somehow I find the ones that the true believers less evil than these pieces of shit that are just doing it for power.
Don’t get me wrong, fuck the true believers too, but I can at least wrap my mind around why they suck. If you truly believe in your bones that abortion is baby murder I fully understand why you would want to stop it, it’s obviously not and believing so is fundamentally stupid just to be clear.
The Bobert’s of the world enable those people’s worst impulses because they don’t give a shit about the consequences so long as they benefit. And that’s just so much worse to me somehow, it’s the Henry Kissinger of it all
The true believers are misguided fools. That doesn’t make them any less contemptible, but the ones who do it for craven political reasons but don’t actually believe it are far worse.
Both need each other. And I don’t think the line is as clear as we’d like it to be. It’s a lot easier to be a true believer when you get something out of it, even if you would’ve believed regardless. And it’s rare someone is so bluntly sociopathic that they’ll hurt people for power without convincing themselves they’re doing what they believe in. The more power this gets them the more they believe in it. The other alternative would be to convince yourself if you don’t someone else will, and that’s more the never trump to defeatedly campaigning for him folks. So what does she believe in? What’s most convenient without being too far from what she’s recently believed?
Personally I think she’s a true believer about guns for sure, maybe about taxes on businesses, but everything else no. Maybe she’s uncomfortable with queer people but not more than she’s uncomfortable with not getting some fresh dick after her divorce. She’s unlikely to go full Anita Bryant, but she’s definitely willing to do a ton of harm
They haven’t shifted it to trans people, they’ve added trans people.
I don’t know where Lemmy users are getting it from that the Republicans have reduced their hatred for LGB people over the last 10 years, I’m seeing literally the opposite. Teachers in Florida aren’t even allowed to make statements to target the bullying of gay students without breaching a (probably unconstitutional, but who the f— knows what the current SCOTUS will do?) law passed only a year ago.
Honestly, my observation isn’t that trans people have been picked as an alternative set of victims, it’s that they’ve been swept up as part of the anti-gay agenda.
Hypocrisy is a tool for the GQP.
Is no one else going to say it? Okay, fine I’ll say it.
He kept coming from that handy during the musical too.
At this point, the conservative wing of North America is caught up in its own “gotcha” moments where they think uncovering hypocrisy is how you win elections. The left seems sort of preoccupied with that as well. I say, fuck hypocrisy, all politicians are going to exhibit it at some point. Let’s focus on dismantling bad policy and educating people about class consciousness.
The public face a politician puts forth is often very different than the actual person, and it’s been that way since forever.
They’re pretty much just political evangelicals
Pretend to be someone to take your money, get power, and laugh as they get to lie to you
100% of the time.
That excuse only goes so far, though. Some aspects of her public image may just be an act, but she’s doing real harm.
Okay but there’s a bit of a gap between “He’s extra polite to the waitstaff when he thinks there are cameras watching” and “she publicly decries drag queens as child sex criminals but commits sex crimes in front of children with someone who owns a drag bar”. I agree that it’s a difference of degree rather than kind but differences of degree matter.
So recently Bobo said she was done with MAGA, and now the BF owns a pro-LGTBQ bar… Could it be that he is bringing some (and I mean a little bit) of sanity to trailer park barbie? Maybe this is a good thing and we get a less radical – but still idiotic Bobo
I think you’re being far too generous. She’s only done with MAGA because it’s getting less popular and her seat is in danger. She has to appeal to a broader group of people to get elected. She never believed the crap she said (look at her personal life before going for office), she was just using it. He didn’t make her see any light - she remains as self-serving as ever, and she never gave a crap about LGBTQ+ issues in the first place.
The only way that anything gets done in politics is compromise, so I guess we shouldn’t be too surprised that politicians are willing to compromise their values as well? Politicians that don’t aren’t very successful, so most people in these positions are flexible and moldable, like bags of clay…or shit.
The first part of your sentence is true, but I reject the second. Compromise is essential to getting things done in any group venture. I’ve worked in a large aerospace engineering organization for almost four decades, with a third of that as a manager, and we have to make compromises to reach consensus all the time, but we don’t compromise on our values. For instance, on a program with tight funding or schedule, we might be willing to go with a riskier solution (with program concurrence), but not if that program is human rated or has safety concerns. We also don’t venture into areas that are unethical.
And besides, this isn’t Bobert compromising her values (if she, in fact, has any). Do you really think she honestly cares about the LGBTQ+ stuff? She only cares about it to the extent that it’s a MAGA boogie man. It’s a tool to whip up the base. It’s amazing anyone takes her family values schtick seriously given that her husband’s exposed himself to her and some other girls at a bowling alley when they were underage and he wasn’t, she went on to marry him, had a kid as a teenager, and that kid knocked up a girl as a teenager too, so now she’s a grandmother. “Values.”
So this isn’t some change in values; the Bobert that is rude to the people around her in a theater, pulling her boobs out, and groping a club owner is the real Bobert - the MAGA family values persona is just an act.
Is it a compromise if you don’t even really believe -thing- to begin with?
politicians are willing to compromise their values as well
98% of American voters compromise their values every two years by voting for political parties who, as a rule, vote against their constituencies.
No. She just wanted to get a piece of ass in public and couldn’t find a repressed evangelical to do public stuff. She’s still batshit insane and honestly that dude needs to learn not to stick his dick in crazy.
Yea but…. Crazy is the best sex.
You aren’t wrong but the less people know about this the better off humanity as a whole will be.
Well, like most women, she thinks conservative men are undatable
This isn’t just funny; it’s a good point. Maybe the fact that he’s completely unlike her ex husband is part of the attraction.
My initial reaction is “nah”, but stranger things have happened. Just taking the edge off somewhat would be nice. Every little bit helps.
Now this, this might do damage: supporting the people they’re supposed to be against
Not to her. Most Republicans don’t give a single shit about any amount of hypocrisy from their own. The guy that owns the bar is going to be in some shit though. His LGBTQ+ and ally customer base cares.
I won’t be going to his bar, but it’s not like I ever go all the way to fucking Aspen anyway. There are lots better places that are lots less full of ultra-rich douches.
This just makes denouncing her easier and can be used as an example of the dangers of the gay
Free hand jobs for everyone!
Free public hand jobs for everyone!
Is this the new “a chicken for every pot” campaign slogan? “A handjob for every lap”.
At least we finally know what values she was referring to
Came here to say this. The statement finally makes sense, since everything else about this situation is core beligerant right wing hick values.
Okay, are they putting me on here?
First, the headline:
Lauren Boebert’s Beetlejuice scandal could hand Democrats control of the House: report
Matthew Hand, a Denver-based criminal attorney, says that the law ‘is vague and overreaching.’"
Ba dum TISH.
Hand? The guy they find for the quote has the name HAND? And he gives a quote about “overreaching”? Oh. My.
A member of the UK Parliament recently resigned over sexual misconduct allegations, including groping. His name? Chris Pincher.
Things are getting out of hand now
I’m waiting for someone to say that Qbert has things well in hand.
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