• ConspiracySeries@lemm.ee
        6·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • Drusas@kbin.social
    1386·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world
        18·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee
      437·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • natebluehooves@pawb.social
        52·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • dilithium_dame@startrek.website
          33·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • SCB@lemmy.world
            52·
            1 year ago

            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.

            • dilithium_dame@startrek.website
              21·
              1 year ago

              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.

              • SCB@lemmy.world
                1·
                1 year ago

                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.

                • dilithium_dame@startrek.website
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  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?

      • UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world
        12·
        1 year ago

        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

        • imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

    • OldPain@lemmy.world
      640·
      1 year ago

      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.

          • john_zorn@lemmy.ml
            332·
            1 year ago

            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.

              • teamevil@lemmy.world
                41·
                1 year ago

                Can I get a video? Just for research… gross research. We’ve all probably acted a fool when younger but as an adult in a mixed environment you shouldn’t need to told to keep tits covered and not to touch genitals. That’s how you end up on a list.

                • OldPain@lemmy.world
                  31·
                  1 year ago

                  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.

  • Xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink
    993·
    1 year ago

    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

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    931·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Afghaniscran@feddit.uk
      1161·
      1 year ago

      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.

          • MartinXYZ@lemmy.ml
            4·
            1 year ago

            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.

      • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.mlEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        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?

      • Titan@beehaw.org
        211·
        1 year ago

        While tugging on the guy who was fondling her.

        Everything these conservatives accuse others of is just projection

      • Doubletwist@lemmy.world
        164·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
          61·
          1 year ago

          “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.

          • root_beer@midwest.socialEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            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.

        • UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml
          4·
          1 year ago

          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.

        • UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world
          62·
          1 year ago

          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.

      • ConspiracySeries@lemm.ee
        4·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • AssholeDestroyer@lemmy.ml
        11·
        1 year ago

        The guy she’s with is a democrat who owns a bar. The bar is lgbtq+ friendly and has hosted a drag show.

    • Max_Power@feddit.deEnglish
      371·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Mothra@mander.xyz
        8·
        1 year ago

        Sorry, I wish I could help you with a vote. Don’t worry the comments here told me everything I needed to know…

  • Max_Power@feddit.deEnglish
    75·
    1 year ago

    Sometime in the past I must have accidentally switched into the stupid dimension, how else can this amount of idiots in politics be explained

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      30·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • PreviouslyAmused@lemmy.ml
        4·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚐@lemmy.world
        7·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

    • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • dilithium_dame@startrek.website
        131·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • dilithium_dame@startrek.website
          1·
          1 year ago

          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!

  • joneskind@lemmy.world
    784·
    1 year ago

    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

    • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.mlEnglish
      491·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Gadg8eer@lemmy.caBEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        You know those horror stories about kids being tricked or kidnapped and put in some twisted social experiment? That actually happened. Normally I’d say fuck the rich but in this case it would be in more than just bad taste; in the southern states there was a “school” where rich families were “sending” their kids to. Why? Some were spoiled brats that were making their family name look bad to their rich parents’ rich friends, others were “too soft” and the bastard and bitch who raised them wanted to “toughen them up”.

        The place was straight out of something like those edgy novels that teenagers read but, well, real. There was emotional and social manipulation up to and including gas lighting, they drugged the kids to keep them from escaping, and yes, there was rape. If the place had been discovered recently rather than being shut down years ago, I would be demanding some level of legal autonomy for children because it’s gotten to the point where kids can’t trust anyone to protect them from forced confinement and cruelty.

        I would know, I was illegally taken from my family at age 10 by government officials and it took my parents two years of fighting in court to get me back. There’s a difference between grounding a kid or preventing them from going to a cherished event because they screwed up, and being cruel because you can get away with it or being homophobic towards someone who depends on you for survival.

  • Fazoo@lemmy.ml
    393·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • kamenLady.@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • fiat_lux@kbin.social
    19·
    1 year ago

    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.