How about that?
2y 8mon ago by lemmy.ml/u/Kushia in memes@lemmy.ml from lemmy.ml
This fucking killed me. Holy shit. 😂 Thank you for that.
These always remind me of like 30ish years ago id take my sisters barbie coloring books and do 10yr old gross and mature young boy "humors" bubbles who woulda thunk this would eventually become a staple of memes over the years. I got in shit something about Skipper making pancakes and Kens bubble saying something like "those flapjacks are always as flat as yours!" Yeah I got pretty cuffed by my grandmother. Well deserved.
All the news keeps talking about her vaping as though that's the main problem here. Maybe don't engage in sexual activities in public. Like, actual sexual activities such as fondling genitals. Not conservatives' idea of sexual activities, which involves wearing skirts and makeup.
Wait what happened? I saw the vaping but what else did she do
She was caught on camera fondling a guy in the theater. It probably would have gone unnoticed if she hadn't called attention to herself by disrupting the show, vaping, and then denying that she was vaping.
The main problem is that people in Colorado voted for her. Vaping is harmful and it's a problem for her apparently and could potentially influence others. The pda stuff is icky but more of a social norms issue - so yeah, it's next on the list. I'm still just utterly repulsed by the main problem though.
You don't thing wanking people off in front of kids is a wee bit more than "problematic"?
I listed the problems in order. Why are you using quotations around words I didn't even use?
Ok then, you don't think wanking someone off in from of kids isn't a bit more than "icky"?
TIL that an over the pants handjob is PDA.
I mean, it's not not PDA lol
You should take a look at her district. She represents an area barely anybody lives in. The people of colorado by and large hate her.
Wow, that's a dismissive statement. So because this district isn't Denver they don't count as the people of Colorado? We have a diverse mix of people here--yes some of the stereotypical rednecks, ranchers, and resource extraction jobs, but also artsy types, old hippies, organic farmers, civil service for the public lands, and many members of the local tribes. People have moved here from all over the country (and in some cases the world) with many different experiences and perspectives on life. Lumping them all together as voices that don't matter doesn't help anyone.
So because this district isn’t Denver they don’t count as the people of Colorado?
Correct. 1,000 people from a very specific region of a state are not representative of "the people" of that state.
1000 is quite the hyperbole.
And yet, their actual representation is giving everyone fits. Do you want to get rid of Boebert or not? You can double down on your statement but you won't accomplish anything besides putting me in my place. The people of this region still vote and the way our government is set up means large cities don't get to dictate everything. If that were the case NY and LA would be ruling Denver and they could claim to be the "real people" of the U.S.
Also, where are you getting the number 1,000? That is no where close to the number of people in her district, which is also geographically fairly large (yes, because of the lack of population density). You can be just as dismissive towards everything I'm saying if you don't like it, but for those of you who have an interest in how Boebert and those of her ilk end up in government, I'm trying to give some insight into her district. Maybe it will be helpful to someone who cares.
The people of this region still vote and the way our government is set up means large cities don’t get to dictate everything
Quite the opposite. Pockets of people from nowhere have outsized control over our federal government. This isn't a constitutional issue either, but an agreement Congress made to stop apportionment.
We broke our government and we should fix it.
How would you fix it? If you want to address issues like gerrymandering I'm in complete agreement. Or maybe you meant something else?
I can't agree these areas count as "nowhere." That's where you lose people who might agree with some of your points. The local tribes have worked very hard to preserve their culture after their homelands were previously treated as "nowhere." Can you not see that belittling people's homes will make your goals that much harder? As much as you want to completely dismiss anyone outside your chosen sphere of existence, you are having to deal with their representative regardless of your personal opinion. Maybe someday you will get your dictatorship of the majority but that's not how it works right now if you want to change things.
Feel free to dismiss this next part if you don't care, but for those of you who would like to change areas like Boebert's district I'll make a few more points. Personally I think the politics of this region can be helped by better investment in education (my local school district is a mess), which can be helped with improved income levels so that tax money is there. I'd start with infrastructure to support that. High speed Internet would open up so many possibilities for people who can do skilled work remotely. The local Internet provider hasn't invested in infrastructure for the past decade. Some cities have run fiber... But then the new houses aren't actually hooked up to it??? This is an issue we are working on locally, but we are having a hard time even getting to these "luxuries" when we are battling poverty, drug use, and domestic violence. Some homes don't even have electricity. COVID exasperated all of the existing issues here. Local crime and drug use statistics since 2020 paint a bleak picture.
I'm actually optimistic that the new free school lunch program will be a small step in the right direction. I think that's an example of the sort of statewide program people can get behind to improve all of Colorado. Isn't it better to lift people up than steamroll over them?
So first off, I live in a rural suburb not unlike her district, and my wife is from a town of 300 people. I used to live in Eastern Kentucky. I am not belittling rural people or rural living. However, ask people from there and they'll say, "small town in the middle of nowhere."
I'm sorry, but I do not believe rural people getting "steamrolled" because there are fewer of them is a bad thing. Quite the opposite. Your town has infrastructure challenges, so who do they elect? Someone who fights against improving their own area
A tyranny of the majority is infinitely preferable to a tyranny of the minority.
Ok, then that will have to be our fundamental disagreement. I don't think either is a good thing. The Constitution tried to find a balance between the two. Whether it is successful or not is another good debate.
It's fine if the people of Kentucky want to call themselves middle of nowhere. Other areas may not view themselves in that way.
Unfortunately for us the Democratic candidate also didn't care about infrastructure. That actually frustrates me more than Boebert. The same candidate is running again. He sucks but it was close enough last time maybe he can give her the boot. I'm not convinced he'd be an actual improvement, more of a status quo placeholder.
You should run! If Boebert can win, hell anyone can
Ha! Yes I realize I should put my money where my mouth is. But isn't armchair politicking more fun :-)
Lol, right. The main problem is the people who voted for her. Definitely worse than giving a handy in a theater full of children. /s
Like there weren't warning signs before? She was even re-elected. Colorado is getting what they asked for with this idiot, and yeah, I kind of feel like they deserve it. The most foolish are the ones that didn't even vote. I hate bad politicians, but if she betrayed your expectations you're just not even remotely paying attention. Voters need to bear some of the responsibility for their own mistakes.
Most people have been a little frisky with their date in a movie theater. It's what teenagers do when there's nowhere else to go.
But shes a grown ass woman, cant take it to the hotel
True, but I mean...I'm not going to throw stones when I've done similar.
You pulled down a grown woman's dress in a theater, while vaping after being asked not to, let her give you an over the pants handie, while she sings loudly and waves her arms around, in front of kids?
All of this as a silly teenager? Stones ready, big boy.
Yes exactly. That's exactly what I said I did. Word for word.
True without question or dispute! But the fact that it happened doesn't surprise or really outrage me at all. I hope it doesn't seem like I'm excusing it. Someone in her position should not be doing things like this in public no matter how discrete they may have been.
But I've also worked in movie theaters, so I know for certain this is not uncommon behavior. Every person who works at a theater rotates between jobs, one of which is a theater checker. You've probably seen them come in sometimes with flashlights. And yeah...Forgot where I was going with that but I think you get it.
Definitely good behavior for a congresswoman who makes "ALL T PEOPLE ARE PEDOPHILES AND GROOMERS" her rallying cry.
BBBBBBUT FOX NEWS SAID THE TRANS DRAG QUEEN COMMUNISTS WERE GOING TO EAT MY KID'S BALLS OFF?!?
this does not fit with my world view so I must ignore it
/s
Am I the only one out of the loop? I don't recognise anybody in this picture, and I don't know what happened. All I can see is some guy waving a hand in front of someone with a very nice cleavage.
If you're not a yank then you probably won't know but basically one of their republican morons who shouts about trans people being a sexual danger to children and calling them rapists etc was caught having her very nice cleavage fondled in a theatre full of children.
And giving the guy a little hand action
Oh, and she's a grandma. That's not super important information, but you should know
Wow. If these replies are correct, I'm speechless
They are sadly.
The man she gave a jobby to also happens to own a pro LGBT club too despite her cries in public about it...
She's not divorced yet, so an adulterer as well.
Bet she had sex before marriage with this guy as well
Really? Did she have a kid when she was very young? She doesn't look that old...
Edit: Okay, yeah she had her first child when she was 18. She's 36 now and has 4 children.
Imagine going to school the next week and all the other kids have heard about what your grandma did this time.
Somebody should really think about what this is doing to the children!
So I trust that she's been arrested, fired from her position in government and barred from returning, jailed, and put on the sex offender list for life right?
...right?
fondled in a theatre full of children.
Let's not stoop to their (the right/GOP) level with the misinformation. While there may have been children present in the theater, most of the people there were adults.
There's plenty enough wrong with what they were doing without trying to demonize them with additional lies.
"Full of kids" doesn't mean all of them need to be kids.
Even 1 kid in the theatre is enough to not do sexual acts around. But even according to you there were a tons since only "most of the people were adults".
Especially if she thinks people in drag are sexualising kids. Since that makes her a hypocrite.
Man, even if there were no kids there, that’s still not the place to do it. I’d have been there to see Beetlejuice, not to see the “beetle” get juiced.
Also it was Beetlejuice? That's not exactly a clean show
I hate the "think about the children" line being applied to everything, even places where children aren't expected. It's such a pearl clutching tactic.
Do the semantics matter? It's a public theater regardless.
You can't demonize more if the situation is already bad. If you want a full sentence, then "fondled in a theater full of children and adults" which is equally as bad.
Exactly end of story.
The truth does matter, yes. We can't sit around and complain about liars while also spreading misinformation.
It's like when will good smart people learn there is no good/right side only common people with supportive good communities where we uplift positive attitudes and as long as no one is causing damage as in actual harm; mentally or physically to others then live and let live. Currently we are all part of an existential blob of shit. There shouldnt be sides.
The guy she's with is a democrat who owns a bar. The bar is lgbtq+ friendly and has hosted a drag show.
If you do not know who she is -- do yourself a favor and do not research it. Unless you are a voter in her district or you are a US citizen, then by all means, do it and make her go away.
Sorry, I wish I could help you with a vote. Don't worry the comments here told me everything I needed to know...
Boebert and her guy got kicked out of a theater for heavy petting.
Wait until the GOP says children need to watch heterosexual cis porn at kindergarten to « un-groom » them from wokeness.
Those bastards have no sense of shame
You joke, but the gay/trans conversion "therapy" industry, which people like these no doubt support, is rife with cases of sexual abuse against children and teens. The stories from victims are honestly nauseating.
See also Joe Vs. Elan School
At this point I wouldn't be too suprised if they started doing this.
Troll-B-Gon™
What does Her Royal Majesty Cardi B have to do with Republicans being weird as fuck about kids?
Sometime in the past I must have accidentally switched into the stupid dimension, how else can this amount of idiots in politics be explained
I think the simulation ended on December 21, 2012.
We're in the "one more turn" phase and they're just screwing with the sim.
That or the system is trying to wake us all up from hyper-sleep by throwing increasingly impossible scenarios at us in order for our brains to wake up naturally.
Except we keep looking at everything and going, “yeah, that makes sense, fuck it” and just not waking up.
The machines are going mad trying to figure us out.
We did. The mass Hardon Collider was built for a reason, technically in this case 2.
Yep, threw us into the 'most unlikely' universe because everything was supposed to be destroyed except for the active observer, e.g., you, because paradox.
Or at least that is the version I like to believe.
Or, this is our best universe and the rest just get even shittier. That’s my rainbow and unicorn fantasy / no kink shaming pls.
Or, what if hell is simply consciousness during all the shitty outcomes: the teacher runs out candy when it’s your turn, the bus drives off just when you show up, etc.
It would mean as we approach the hellspawn timeline, each one of us made it into the angel timeline too.
Odds are very high we only have one universe because multiple dimensions can be reduced via transformation, but it is progressively more difficult to transform from a lower dimension to a higher dimension: that straight 2d line is probably a straight 2d line in 3d and 4d space.
Also le boobies in class were always fun I am not sure what the hubbub is all about.
They're in politics as a sock puppet to serve other wealthy people's interests not because they have great ideas for improving the lives and wellbeing of people.
If you killed political donations, cushy job prospects post politics and the crazy idea that corporations are somehow people deserving of representation it might go a long way to purging these cookers from the system.
How do we keep voting these people in?
I don't know if you want an actual answer but this particular idiot's opponent was a millionaire whose entire campaign strategy was spamming people with mail pointing out he is not Boebert...so vote for him on that merit? He couldn't even make any statements on how he would help voters of this district or take a stand on any issues. He's running again so we'll see if he has learned anything.
This area (like so many around the country) is struggling. Outside of the die-hard Republicans who are a lost cause, people don't appreciate a rich outsider talking down to them. The frustrating part is during the Democratic primary there was another candidate who had a great, progressive platform that included healthcare, taxing the rich, environment, etc. He came in last 😭 So Democrats chose the status quo, and their candidate struggled to get people excited to vote FOR him rather than AGAINST Boebert.
I think this is a problem that plagues the Democrats on a national level and isn't a direct reflection of "stupid" rural voters.
I know they won't read this comment, but I'd really love to hear from the people who down vote! What do you disagree with? I've lived all over the U.S. and even overseas, but I haven't been everywhere in the world so the great thing about a board like this is people with different experiences can share them. I can speak to my own observations but if I'm missing something please tell me!
Money
My theory is that the internet makes people dumber.
Party of family values yall
No drag queens, just a pathetic drama queen
attention whore.
The groper dude owns a bar that puts on drag shows. Also, he's apparently a ^Democrat
This redefines "reaching across the aisle" :)
Yeah, I guess they both swiped right just looking at the pix without reading the profile.
Source?
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Reee ree ree reee!!
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Boebert got kicked out of Beetlejuice because she and her date were feeling up groping each other.
Omg! I assumed this was years ago and was about the beetle juice movie from the 80s. I had no idea that it was so recent.
How does an elected official think they can do that and not get caught?
How does an elected official think they can do that and not get caught?
She's a Republican. They think they can get away with anything.
They in fact do get away with everything.
Also vaping while sitting inside in front of a pregnant woman. Also taking flash photo selfies during the show.
And that pregnant woman seemed so done with life, my condolences to her.
I'd be pretty pissed too if I had to sit behind Boebert
I saw this show on Broadway and would not classify it as family friendly or aimed at kids. 90s cartoons were more subtle in their cussing and sexual comments. Fantastic show I would recommend again and again.
That does not justify what they did though. She may rock the dress, but take your horny selves home. Classic GOP hypocrisy.
Ok, teens then? It’s Beetlejuice, not Chip ‘n’ Dales.
Chip 'n' Dale are a pair of animated chipmunk rescue rangers that are absolutely for kids.
Chippendales are exotic male dancers that are not.
TIL, lol. Honestly, now I’m just thinking about chipmunk strippers.
Stripmunks
Stripmonks
Look at that smirk. Goddam sociopath. Public servant, folks!
She is absolutely a sociopath. All Republicans are. You have to not have a conscience to think that way.
Even in that one pixel pic of just blurry faces, you can exactly recognize the kind of smirk she's wearing on her shameless face.
I don't know, there's a lot of drag happening in that picture. Breasts don't just lift themselves like that, and those heels look painful to walk in.
No royalty, just drag.
We're all born naked. The rest is drag.
Drag of the vape queen amirite?!
Vape drag queen*
It never was a drag queen
Drag always reminds me of Ru Paul on Jimmy Fallon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eGRYr0_wBg
lol I love that clip! I can feel his anxiety through the screen
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Lauren B( . Y . )bert
The shitty thing is, she's still smokin hot.
If you go by the crazy/hot matrix you should not stick your dick in that one.
Usually I'm all about the grandmas.
Hot apple cream pies
But she really isn't. There is nothing special about her in a world where you see 30 of her simply going out for groceries.
Not that special at all, agreed. But in the USA , I'd generally expect to see many more chronically obese people also in their 30s at the same grocery store.
It is Colorado though, being obese there is still pretty unusual.
Good point, only 25%ish of the population there. I'm not being sarcastic either, that's similar to places like Switzerland.
I'm gonna be honest, as soon as Brandi Love professed her backing for Trump, she was done in my bank
Shame about that personality tho at least.
In this case I'm honestly not 100% sure that they didn't catch a drag queen t
Wasn't the trouble some people had with the drag queen shows the dances? I don't know the situation in the US(?), but that's what some people disliked about some of the shows in Germany.
Here is a video of one of these shows that was a program for kindergarden kids: https://youtu.be/p2zsZHb_Y7E?feature=shared
It's dishonest to leave it out of the discussion when people didn't have a problem with the clothing in the first place.
I am no pro in pedagogy or whatever. Not sure if that's super harmful or whatever tale the alt right tried to spin. But it's definitely not just some people with a cleavage or other types of sexy clothes.
Slow down there, you'll get a speeding ticket moving the goal post that fast.
What do you mean? Sorry, I don't understand how I am moving the goalpost.
What? The theater was not filled with kids. There were adults sitting around Lauren, not just kids only. Can you imagine how weird that would be if Lauren and her boytoy were the only adults in that theater. I am not saying there were no kids when it happened, but it definitely was not filled with kids. That is stupid
Wouldn't this fit better in political memes?
Is Lemmy really that big that it honestly matters?
I also think you might be confused about what instance you're on.
Keeping things in their respective communities does help people filter what they want to see.
I, for one, like to see "haha that's funny" posts more than "oh look the bad guys are bad" posts, which is why I peruse this community and not political memes.
I'm not trying to minimod and create rules that don't exist in the community, though. I'm just expressing my opinion. You don't have to listen.
Also, what does this have to do with instance? Nothing's stopping you from posting on another instance's community, right? Federation is nice like that. Or did you mean that lemmy.ml is a political instance? If so, I didn't know that.
Just scroll past it, its not hard. Lemmy is already struggling with content, we don't need people feeling some type of way about how it's posted.
I mentioned instance because they're from Lemm.ee and the community they are referencing isn't a relevant thing on the instance where they're commenting and where this is posted.
Lemmy is already struggling with content
People not being able to filter their content is just going to cause users to leave, making the issue worse. If I wanted to be bombarded by political virtue signalling I'd just go back to Twitter.
I'm going to start blocking you little babies complaining about stuff being political. Good lord you people need to grow up.
Just like how every homophobic person is gay?
In front of an audience of kids? Nobody knew until footage was combed through. Ironically, the news of this is the only reason anybody knows about it at all. Nobody in person saw a thing. Not exactly the same thing as sex in front of an audience of children.
Nobody gets asked to leave a theatre unless people complain. She was bothering people so they had the theatre remove her and her date.
People were complaining about her for other things. Nobody said anything about anything sexual, because nobody saw anything. Only the surveillance camera.
I'm the only one or i find really creepy to have a surveillance camera with night vision pointed to the audience? This is DDR level of paranoia.
It's because people keep doing shit like this - security cameras in public venues isn't exactly unusual
I have a different ethic ( i'm european ) , but i find less disturbing people having sex in public that security cameras pointed to the crowd.
American of European descent and share your sentiment exactly.
You do realize this is standard for every theater including movie theaters right? And it's for exactly the reason they were kicked out
Really scary standard. I don't know if it is possible in my country, but this is a good reason to avoid movie theaters.
Dude, I couldn't agree more. I've worked in movie theaters and still didn't know there's cameras on the audience.
No one saw the women blowing big vape clouds while giving a over the pants rub & tug while getting felt up? R
That's a loaded question. Nobody saw anything sexual. Only the surveillance camera. And now the people who watched the footage.
Doesn't change how fucked up that was in the first place. There being no witnesses doesn't make it better
There were people sitting right next to her! And apparently she was singing and dancing along. So not like she was trying to keep it on the DL
Not exactly the same thing as sex in front of an audience of children.
It's the closest we've had to it so far, and it's from the person who was apparently sooooo concerned about people doing sexual acts around children.
Unless you think it's all good to do something like this as long as nobody notices in the moment , you should be able to spot the naked hypocrisy and understand why it's notable.
Can you give sources for that?
And one of those examples that definitely exists is...?
What drag queen did this? Or are you just pulling the boogeyman out and showing it here? Drag queens are performers, and they show the same audience respect to other performers they expect during their performances.