Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

How stupid are these people?

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

T R E 4 5 O N

Let me file that under fuck it.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

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Lookit the big guns on MEEEEEEEEE!!!

Pretty good idea why she named her salmonella shack ‘Shooters’.

There are genuinely dangerous Republicans in Congress, but Boebert is dangerous only to those with range (and then mostly incidentally). To be catty, since all she really seems to want is to stand in the spotlight while awed spectators stare at her, rhinoplasty / chin work / lasik surgery would’ve been more cost-effective than running for election…

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  2. 2.

    Original Lee

    If Boebert is being called a firebrand, my guess is that the wildfire-scarred West has found a new synonym for dangerous idiot.

  3. 3.

    West of the Rockies

    Toxic femininity?  Is that a thing?

    Stupid woman contributes to typically stupid male behavior, details at 11.

  7. 7.

    Mart

    @West of the Rockies:  A hundred years ago surrounded by old white guys, I said Sarah Palin is dangerous. The first response is she’s got my vote, I’d hit it. Everyone else chuckled agreement. Sorry for the gross story, but it is a thing.

  9. 9.

    Punchy

    The $100K+ Go Fund Mes really seem to be the goal with some of the seditionists. The grifting from each other just continues non-stop.

  10. 10.

    West of the Rockies

    @Mart:

    I heard the same basic thing.  Weird.  Some Republican men will vote for a guy if they can picture having a beer together.  They’ll vote for a woman if they would like to have sex with her.

  11. 11.

    Dan B

    She doesn’t strike me as directly dangerous. She’s a posture. There may be brave hero-men who will act to defend her. Therecare also the rage addicts who could snap.

  12. 12.

    Anne Laurie

    @West of the Rockies: Weird. Some Republican men will vote for a guy if they can picture having a beer together. They’ll vote for a woman if they would like to have sex with her.

    Humans are social primates.  Would I trust this other primate for a mutual grooming session?  Would I attempt to copulate with it?

    Some of us have evolved, slightly.  The Republican party, increasingly, rewards those who haven’t.

  13. 13.

    Dan B

    @Mart: Gross story but the reality is neither Palin or Boebert would let these guys within 50 feet.  It’s the same with Trump and so many other vaingloriius GOP who loathe most of their base.  The joke (con) is on the base.

  15. 15.

    Elizabelle

    I love that someone here dubbed her “Qbert.”

    She’s a lunatic.  Some of the voters of her Colorado district sent her to DC to “own the libs.”  They’ve got a new Democratic US Senator (bye bye Corey Gardner) and a gay-married governor.  They’s mad.

    So, they elected a walking, talking Fox chyron.  I think a lot of her district had no idea how thinly skilled and poorly educated their new Member of Congress is.   Maybe they didn’t vote. They’s learning.

    Can you imagine the prime committee assignments this whackaloon will draw?

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    and then get some show on OANN become heir apparent to LaPierre

    The lady is nearly a caricature. She has all the depth of an oil slick.

  18. 18.

    trollhattan

    Colorado should require her to smoke pot. Y’all legalized it so folks would chill the fuck out but she slipped through the cracks. Do this now.

  19. 19.

    trollhattan

    File this under Well, that didn’t take long.

    The member of the Proud Boys elected to Sacramento County’s Republican Party Central Committee has been told by GOP officials to resign his post or face expulsion.

    Jeffrey Erik Perrine, whose election to the committee post was revealed Monday in The Sacramento Bee, says he was told by country GOP Chairwoman Betsy Mahan after the story was published that he had to resign because he had not sufficiently disavowed past statements he has made regarding immigration and other issues.

    “They’re not even willing to allow me to be in the party because I’m a Proud Boy,” Perrine said in an interview with The Bee. “Betsy and the executive committee emailed me and immediately demanded my resignation.”

    Perrine said the demand came despite Mahan’s statement to him Friday – after she learned of his association with the far-right group from The Bee – that he could still serve in the unpaid position.

    Mahan declined Monday to discuss her conversation with Perrine.
    GOP initially defended his right to serve

    “I’m not going to be making any more public statements,” she said. “I can confirm that the executive committee of the Republican Party has called for his resignation and I’m preparing a statement.”
    https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article248753490.html#storylink=cpy

    Don’t get to say this often: good job, Republicans.

  21. 21.

    Brachiator

    Handguns! Not just for sexually inadequate males…

    So, are conservatives trying to depict the Pistol Packing Chipmunk as their version of AOC?

    It’s not working.

  22. 22.

    ian

    Still wish I understood why Colorado Democrats took Pueblo out of its old High plains district with the Eastern third of the state and Fort Collins.  Now the people living there get to enjoy having this … thing… as their representative.  I think the Dem’s have only won that seat once out of five times since then.

  23. 23.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    @Brachiator: Below-the-belt thinking seems to be evolving into a Republican value, more and more, and it leads to stupid decisions and awful results, as the last four years have proven.

  25. 25.

    Mary G

    She’s a grifter with a gimmick, also a liar:

    Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert claimed she “didn’t know” the anti-government extremists she posed with on the steps of the Colorado Capitol in 2019. Turns out, that’s not true. #coleg https://t.co/F9Ho6LqVhh— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 25, 2021

    (Coloradotimesreporter.com) has a bunch of photos in their story:

    Jacqueline Anderson has posted numerous photos of herself and Boebert to her own Facebook page. And it appears the two have known each other since at least September of 2019. Anderson shared an image of herself with Boebert and the Congresswoman’s longtime friend Sherronna Bishop, laughing together at Shooter’s Grill, the restaurant owned by Boebert and her husband. Boebert “loved” the image.

    Apparently, the photos posted of her giving a Capitol tour weren’t taken in DC, so she would have had points except she then denied knowing these III@%ers and Bikers for Trump.

  26. 26.

    bjacques

    @Elizabelle: 

    “Qbert”? Now imagine her hopping diagonally across the House floor going “Poink! Poink! Poink!”. If she identifies with a different video game character, she’s one pistol short.

    Pity “Seditionaries” was already taken 45 years ago. Curse you Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren!

  27. 27.

    Tony Jay

    While you have to commend Lacey Chabert for inhabiting the Boebert role so completely, I don’t envy her agent having to tell her that Hallmark have cancelled shooting on ‘Pistol on the Potomac‘ due to new Covid restrictions.

  28. 28.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Imagine the freak out if James Clyburn or Hakeem Jeffries were carrying a gun into the chamber.

  29. 29.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    I wish Bernie would walk in with two bandoliers across his chest and an AK-47, looking like Ernest Borgnine in “The Wild Bunch”, just to freak out the frauds.

  33. 33.

    Amir Khalid

    Is there even a point to Boebert’s gun-toting, beyond 2nd-Amendment chic? Most of her carrying methods don’t strike me as safe or secure.

  34. 34.

    NotMax

    Crème de la crud.

    In August 2019, Brandon Straka spoke to thousands of people at the start of a packed Cincinnati Trump rally, the line-up of which included Donald Trump Jr., then-Vice President Mike Pence and then-President Donald Trump.

    On Monday, prosecutors alleged that Straka was just the latest high-profile figure to have attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6.

    According to a criminal complaint released Monday, Straka urged the crowd surrounding him to “take the shield” of a Capitol Police officer who’d held the armor aloft near an entrance to the Capitol.
    [snip]
    Straka was arrested in Omaha Monday by agents from the local FBI field office, the office said. Source

  40. 40.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Dan B: There you go thinking like a dude, sure it will be all posturing to get attention from the guys, but if she shoots anyone, it will be another woman. She’s thinking with her pluming and with that type other woman are ether her friend or The Enemy and must die.

  42. 42.

    Ripley

    “I’m not like other girls – I like steak. And whiskey!” That’s great; we’re all very impressed.

    There’s a Family Guy bit that touches on that over the top “one of the guys!” attitude; coffee hasn’t kicked  in, so I can’t give you a link just now.

    I was raised by a very strong, very intelligent (fairly conservative) woman and have a couple of very strong, very intelligent, very independent and very beautiful sisters. This lady is a punter.

    Probably the 2nd most dangerous place in DC is between Boebert and a camera crew.

  43. 43.

    p.a.

    Despite its contempt for the left, the Republican Party is in some respects a massive performance-art event. With guns & treason.

  44. 44.

    RSA

    You lost in Pueblo.

    I work for the people of Pueblo, not the people of Paris.

    This is a Trumpish viewpoint.

  46. 46.

    evodevo

    @Elizabelle: If her voters are anything like my Trumpy-loving neighbors/local acquaintances, Boebert’s lack of qualifications/eddication is a plus in their books…

  47. 47.

    Danielx

    Oh meow, AL!

    Sexy and psycho are not mutually exclusive…until you figure out the psycho part. Then it’s run as far as you can as fast as you can.

    ETA this can apply to either gender, if it needs to be said.

  48. 48.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    @briber: annndd thanks for the ear worm. Not your fault though, I played too much Fallout 4 recently and the sound track is stuck in my head. Boebert is dangerous in my opinion just like Trump and Palin. They may have too much sense of self preservation to put themselves in danger but both Trump and Palin were more than willing to whip their fans into a frenzy and point the at someone. Remember Palins mock-ups of Gabby Giffords with cross hairs over her face?  And Trump campaign speeches in 2016 about 2nd amendment solutions? These cultish assholes are dangerous.

  49. 49.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    @Ripley: a yes the Chill Girl crap where anything coded as female is denigrated as girly, and worthless. “Oh I’m just one of the boys, I prefer video games and beer and belching and football” not like those other girls. And the ever popular Don’t be a Pussy.  As if a person can not enjoy both nail polish, football, shopping,scrapbooking and beer. Or not, you like what you like. Rant over. I just hate that shit. Liking certain activities does not make one special.

  50. 50.

    Geminid

    Last summer Lauren Boebert surprised incumbent Republican Scott Tipton with an 8% primary win. She went on to beat Democrat Diane Mitch Bush by 6%, virtually the same margin by which trump carried the CO 3rd. Some strong Democratic candidates are already lining up to challenge her.                                              But no one has jumped in yet, probably because the CO 3rd will be redrawn for 2022. Colorado stands to gain an eighth seat. The independent commission in charge of redistricting is supposed to act neutrally, but I’m hoping they will see a way to screw Boebert. If Boebert is not in prison by then, the CO 3rd election will be a barnburner.

  51. 51.

    Matt McIrvin

    @EmbraceYourInnerCrone: Worse, that attitude becomes the price of admission to boys’-club spaces. Sure, we’ll let you play video games with us… but only if you perform being a Chill Girl, be sexy and like all manly stuff and don’t try to change things or object to anything we do.

  52. 52.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    @Matt McIrvin: yup, along with being interrogated in depth about your knowledge of, depending on the venue: video games, sports, comic books, computers, etc. The flip side being that anyone who presents as male risks being made fun of for expressing an interest in anything seen as “feminine”. Some days I find it hard to believe it’s 2021 and humans are still this petty.

  53. 53.

    Anya

    I don’t find her sexy at all but maybe I am not the right audience or maybe I don’t know what makes someone sexy. She just seems fake, like she’s trying too hard. Nothing authentic or natural about her at all. It’s sad that thousands of Americans elected this poseur,  who’s basically what happens if a Youtube commenter was a Congresswoman.

  58. 58.

    brantl

    I think “gunbag” is the appropriate term, given both the practical nature of the appellation, and the “psycko-logical” backdrop…….

  59. 59.

    Geminid

    @Anya: It is sad that so many CO 3rd voters came out for Boebert. Her votes closely tracked trump’s CO 3rd total. Boebert’s criminal record and poisonous pork sliders were fairly well publicized during the general election (although incumbent Scott Tipton had ~$300,000 left after the republican primary that might have been put to good use). But the days of voting “for the person, not the party,” are gone. Republicans especially are caught up in tribalism. Political scientists have labeled this phenomenon “negative partisanship.” A good exposition of the concept can be found in Rachel Bitecofer’s article in the February 2019 New Republic, titled “Hate is on the Ballot.”

  60. 60.

    WaterGirl

    Boebert looks like she is trying to be the cute youngest girl on Party of Five, only with a gun. (Lacey Chabert)

    edit: written before I saw Tony Jay’s comment.

  61. 61.

    Mr. Prosser

    Saw this on another blog, “Do you like Sarah Palin but find her too intelligent and eloquent? Ask your doctor if Lauren Boebert is right for you.”

  62. 62.

    Miss Bianca

    Sigh. Remember how we all talked about how great it would be not to have to be reading about Trump every day? Well, now I don’t have to read about him, but I do have to read about my idiot “representative”. I remember when we had Scott Tipton, who was bog-standard Republican evil, but actually got a few useful things done. Before that, we had John Salazar, a Democrat, brother to Ken Salazar, who again made few waves and got a few useful things done.

    I miss those days.

  65. 65.

    Feckless

    I would pay good money to see any national reporter on television ask her if she would be responsible for the Carnage if somebody came up behind her punched her in the head took that gun off her hip and shot a bunch of people.  This person is just walking stick of dynamite, and not in a good JJ Walker kind of dynamite either

  66. 66.

    LeftCoastYankee

    Western Sassy — always requires jeans, boots, a toothy forced smile, and a shirt 1 size too small (none of this eastern establishment cleavage here — I might have to go hunting bears or pick up the grandkids).

  67. 67.

    J R in WV

     

    She looks to be another example of one who is “Not Responsible for Anything, Ever!” Which is how 80 or 90 customers of her food booth at the rodeo got bloody diarrhea.

    It’s in her eyes, to me. Scary, not cute.

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