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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
People were complaining about her for other things. Nobody said anything about anything sexual, because nobody saw anything. Only the surveillance camera.
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.
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.