As more and more details are being revealed about Rep. Lauren Boebert’s wild night out in Denver last weekend — having been kicked out of “Beetlejuice” the musical for vaping and just generally being a public nuisance with her male companion — a full picture is coming together of what the other theater patrons around her that night had to endure.

Newly released footage of the night in question appears to show Boebert’s exposed breasts being fondled by her date for an extended period of time while she, in turn, dawdles around in his lap with her hand. As many have pointed out on social media, having seen this footage, children were seated all around the couple that night, within viewing range of what they were up to.

“Laurent Boebert was jerking her date off in public while he gropes her in a theater where children were present and yet she continues to attack LGBTQ people as ‘threats to children,’” writes journalist and clinical instructor Alejandra Caraballo on X, sharing the footage of Boebert in the act.

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What is this country coming to when you can’t even go to a production of “Beetlejuice” and jerk your date off a bit while you get your hooters groped? Everyday our traditional American values of vaping indoors and being loud and unpleasant to those around us are being stripped away by cultural Marxists and the nanny state. How are our children going to meet their future husbands as minors at bowling alleys, when said husbands can’t even publicly expose their genitalia without fear of the woke mob?

America isn’t even half of what it used to be anymore! It’s barely even Amer! That isn’t even enough to guess the full word without the i, and soon enough we’ll lose the r, and then none of us will ever get our tits wrenched in public again!

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All jokes aside, you’re quite a good writer 👏

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Ame.

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This is all Consitutionally protected behavior.

The 1st Amendment riight of Freedom to Press the Button om the vape.

The 2nd amendment right to bare titties and arms.

The 4th amendment right gauranteeing freedom to sieze the cock.

And thos people that reported the vape should be arrested if they said “Fire” in a theater when mentioning the smoke.

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sieze the cock

Oh coctain my cocktain 🫡

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Carpé deez nuts

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Birth of a Pasta

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Read this in the TF2 soldier voice

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Can you imagine the outrage if a Democrat did something like this? It would be front page news across the country, but this kind of vile behavior in front of children is just another day in GQPLand.

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Al Franken resigned for way less.

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Yeah…

Yeah.

But we can’t stop holding our guys to a certain standard just because their guys have no standards.

That said Franken deserved better, and it’s pointless to claim the higher ground here because they’ve made it clear that they don’t have a bottom. They can always go lower. They have no shame. Like… pathologically. They are incapable of experiencing shame as a normal person understands it.

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A-fucking-men to that. It still irritates me that Democrats are made to adhere to a standard that Republicans openly laugh at. Franken is a near-perfect example of that.

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Yeah, but she’s a white cishet Republican gawdly woman. Know your place!

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Can you imagine the outrage if a Democrat did something like this?

Now that Hunter’s up on charges I’d love it if Biden went to twitter and posted some crazy rant about witch hunts complete with EMPHASIZED POINTS in ALL CAPS and then ended the tweet with something like “lol jk can you imagine if I were as unhinged as the orange spray tan?”

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Already happened:

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/burbank-mayor-fires-back-after-drag-queen-spanking-video-prompts-vile-hate-speech/

*Edit: I guess I pissed off a bunch of people here without context, I was simply pointing out the absurdity of this story being pushed by the media and the GOP. I honestly could give two shits about what the Mayor did. I live in his city!

I wanted to show how far these right wing fucks have to reach to get any sort of credibility with their constituents.

The Mayor can do whatever the fuck he wants at a private event. IT WAS A PRIVATE EVENT. Why the fuck is him spanking a drag queen a big deal?! The only people that gave a shit are the people I really don’t want to be around. And now I’m feeling pretty alienated because of my lack of clarity here. The amount of anger that has been displayed here is actually disheartening. What happened to asking a simple question to get some explanation or debate going? Why is every political post so violently responded to REGARDLESS of political leaning? THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT! They want us to rip each other apart. No questions asked. A political sports contest with no winner other than the venue owners.

I guess I’m going stop posting for a while and just lurk. I can’t say shit without having a chance to explain. I automatically get labeled with extreme prejudice.

My fault for saying anything. Sorry to those I triggered. Sorry for trying to get some semblance of an intellectual conversation/debate going.

The hate is strong on both sides. I’m just trying to co-exist.

Have a good one everyone. Hope your days go well.

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Huh. I searched that article for anything resembling a Democrat getting into a public groping session with someone in the middle of a crowded theater, and couldn’t find it. Could you specify which paragraph I can find that in?

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Yeah, I read it all, and they even went out of their way to say that no children were present. I’m sure OP will respond, though. There’s no way they were just sending GOP talking points blasted on far right social media without verifying their validity, right?

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That’s the point. It’s what the GOP calls ammunition for their shitty campaign. Whatever this Mayor did at a private party is his business.

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Not even remotely the same, but whatever.

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It wasn’t the same. I was trying to point out that this is the stupidity of the GOP and their cohorts. They want you to believe that the Mayor was in the wrong here… Which honestly, who really gives a shit what he does at a private party?

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Yes, being spanked as part of an 18+ drag show performance is equal to doing actual sex acts in an all-ages theater performance when you think no one is watching.

/s if needed.

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False equivalence, a Maga specialty.

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Brother…this would be the first time someone has called me a MAGA specialistt. I’m far from it. This is what MAGA wants you to be angry at. In reality, who gives a shit what this Mayor did? There are more pressing matters at hand.

The GOP is shit. It has been shit. It will always be shit. But this is the bullshit they’re peddling to keep the those nazi fuckers angry, and the ultra conservatives frothing at the mouth with dollars bills toward their complete and utter bullshit oroganda machine.

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So this was an all ages event with children present?

Interesting party of the article. Maybe this isn’t the equivalency you want it to be. “While the account correctly pointed out that people 15 and older were allowed to attend, the organizer of the Drag Queen Bingo event, the Santa Clarita Valley Democrats, released a statement explaining that no one under the age of 18 was present.”

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And yet we know the answer. The Democrat resigns, the Republican moves the goalposts or ignores they ever were against it.

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  • Total felony charges brought against Republican presidents - 91.
  • Total felony charges brought against Democratic presidents - 0.
  • 100% of presidents found to be rapists in a court of law are Republican.
  • 100% of presidents who “grab them by the pussy” are Republican.
  • Number of presidents who have been listed as “unindicted co-conspirators” - 2 - both Republican, of course.
  • 100% of congressional representatives who are on video having their bare breasts fondled while they jerk off their date are Republican.
  • “It’s all the same shit.” - @librechad@lemm.ee
  • Total number of active brain cells of @librechad@lemm.ee - 0.
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We don’t have to imagine. Al Franken did some inappropriate stuff and when it came to light the Democrats forced him to resign.

Oh, but tell me more about how both sides are the same…

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Don’t forget, people. It’s always projection with conservatives. Next time you hear one scream about pedos, might as well start looking at their hard drives :)

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do you guys not have an idiom for that?

in Hungarian we have (literally translated) : How one lives, thus they judge.

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A classic that kind of means the same thing is “me thinks he doth protest too much” from Shakespeare to indicate someone who brings up a topic they are guilty of.

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Oh, this reminds me of “whoever smelt it dealt it”

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Basically the term projection serves the same duties. They accused people of the things they do. Projecting their behaviors on to others.

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“Methinks the lady doth protest too much”

Context: The Queen in his play-within-a-play is going into this really overwrought excessive speech about how much she loves the husband she is about to kill.

In this usage “protest” is not about publicly opposing something like the modern usage, it’s more like “profess”. A good modern equivalent might be “she’s laying it on a little thick”.

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We have acronyms

Gaslight Obstruct Project

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“Suspicion haunts the guilty mind.” in Ireland. Don’t know if it’s an Irish saying translated to English like many others.

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Danish equivalent: Thief thinks each man steals

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We do, but it is mostly used by children. “Takes one to know one.”

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Them having an itch and that’s all what they preach in Russian as well.

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Lefties sometimes say “every accusation is a confession.”

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Oh, IOKIYAR.

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We have (very loosely translated) ‘the innkeeper trusts his patrons as much as he trusts/knows himself’ in Dutch. Or semantically more accurate would be ‘an untrustworthy innkeeper distrusts his patrons’.

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We just call them “republicans”.

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In Mexico it’s exactly like that “Como vives, juzgas”

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GOP: Gaslight Obstruct Project

(Alternatively: Greedy Old Paedophiles.)

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“If you smelt it you dealt it”

(A reference to flatulence)

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There are a few specific Republicans I can think of where I’d love to have their computers/phones looks into…and not just to find their involvement/support of the coup for donnie.

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They probably have illegal things on their computers/phones. Wouldn’t be surprised as no Republicans are calling out Boobert (yes, with a o) or voted for people with questionable history.

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At Beetlejuice the Musical

Man, you know what really gets me going? A corny zombie hit man singing showtunes.

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“Nice fuckin’ model!”

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Hey, watch the friendly fire there.

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Yeah but I’m sexually inappropriate for existing according to her

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Yeah but she’s straight white and cis so it isn’t icky.

/S, obviously

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Yeah but that is their justification. She was having a whirlwind romance after a divorce, which is understandable. The in group can violate boundaries and so long as it’s insufficiently grievous to the level of in/out group division and context they get away with it. The out group is incomprehensible and must be thought of within their framework. Homosexuality is a sexual sin in their framework so gay love is grossly displaying unacceptable sexual behavior. Existing as a trans person is extra gay in their framework so it must be a fetish or something sexual and sinful. And with no in group protection…

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