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Lauren Boebert: No American Should Be Allowed To Come Out As LGBTQ Until They Turn 21

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has said some incredibly stupid, bigoted, and absurd things during her two years in Congress, but something she suggested Friday may well be a new low for her.

According to Boebert, no American should be allowed to come out as LGBTQ until they turn 21.

“We require people to be 21 to purchase alcohol beverages, and 21 to purchase tobacco products.

“Why is it so unreasonable to require people to reach a certain level of maturity before making life-altering decisions about their sexuality and identity?”

If we’re going to impose such a restriction on people’s sexuality, wouldn’t it also be reasonable to insist that you can’t own a gun until you’re 21? Boebert would no doubt be opposed to such a measure because she thinks we should all carry weapons of mass murder everywhere we go.

Twitter quickly reminded Boebert just how utterly moronic her suggestion was.

https://twitter.com/EsqJoanwayne/status/1509912580751507457?s=20&t=hlm5tM4w72hdXowadAf3AQ

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Former Prosecutor: New Court Filings In Florida Are ‘Not Good’ For Matt Gaetz

New court filings in the state of Florida are bad news for Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who is accused of sexually trafficking an underage girl and could potentially be facing a sentence of life in prison.

Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance ran across a reference to a status report on the case of Florida tax official, Joel Greenberg, who is cooperating with prosecutors.

Here’s the tweet Vance was referring to:

Vance noted that, “This can mean other things, but most often, it means work with a cooperating witness is proceeding & it is productive. Not good for Gaetz.”

Gaetz has denied that he broke any laws, but financial records seem to indicate that he used a Venmo account to pay at least one young girl for sex and took her across state lines, which puts the investigation under the purview of federal authorities.

Vance’s tweet drew comments from others who noted that it certainly seems that Gaetz is indeed in very hot water.

 

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Capitol Insurrection Congress GOP WTF?!

Marjorie Taylor Greene Whines That Removing Her From The Midterm Ballot Will ‘Destroy Democracy’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is angry that she may be kept off the midterm ballot for being an insurrectionist, so she’s blaming everyone but herself and whining that if she isn’t allowed to run, it will “destroy democracy.”

Speaking with right-wing host Jeremy Herrell of Real America’s Voice, Greene remarked:

“I need people’s support. They’re coming after me. They just filed a lawsuit against me last week to try to actually remove my name off the ballot! You talk about destroying democracy, these Democrats, they are seriously trying to destroy democracy by filing a lawsuit to remove my name off the ballot and taking away my district’s ability to vote for me again.”

What Greene neglected to mention is that a clause in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution allows for anyone who has engaged in an insurrection or rebellion against the United States to be excluded from running for office.

Greene then added:

“That is destroying democracy! And that is the most evil thing these people could do. They’re so arrogant. They want to take away my district’s right to vote for me. That’s how much they hate the people of my district and look down on them because they’ve tried to shame me in the media and make me into someone I’m not.”

The congresswoman also proved that she’s all about the grift, begging for donations to her campaign “because I’m going to have to pay attorneys to fight for this.”

Boo freaking hoo! Margie should have thought of all that before she urged on the rioters and defended them in the months after the attack on the Capitol. To hear her tell it, no one did anything wrong and the Justice Department is persecuting the rioters simply because they’re Trump supporters.

Much like the failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president Marjorie Greene is so full of shit that her eyes must be brown.

 

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Georgia Voters File Suit To Kick Marjorie Taylor Greene Off The Ballot For Being An ‘Insurrectionist’

A group of voters in the state of Georgia filed a lawsuit Thursday that would disqualify Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from running for reelection in November as a result of her actions on January 6, 2021.

Charles Bethea of The New Yorker reports:

“The suit argues that Greene’s statements and activities related to the attack on the Capitol on January 6th make the congresswoman an insurrectionist A clause of the Fourteenth Amendment specifically prohibits those who have ‘engaged in insurrection or rebellion’ against the United States from holding public office. The suit, citing this clause, contends that Greene ‘is constitutionally disqualified from congressional office and, as such, ineligible to run as a candidate under state and federal law.’”

The lawsuit was filed by the nonprofit Free Speech For People, which has also filed a similar suit against Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC).

The suit against Greene cites “numerous instances in which Greene, on social media or in person, has ‘advocated for political violence, up to and including, her encouragement of the insurrectionists on January 6.'”

One of those instances was a tweet Greene sent out on January 5, 2021 in which she referred to the next day as “our 1776 moment!”

Additionally, in a video Greene posted on Facebook, the Georgia Republican remarked:

“You can’t allow it to just transfer power peacefully like Joe Biden wants and allow him to become our President because he didn’t win this election.” 

Greene has recently drawn criticism for suggesting that the United States shouldn’t arm the Ukrainian freedom fighters, commenting:

“If we truly care about suffering and death on our television screens, we cannot fund more of it by sending money and weaponry to fight a war they cannot possibly win! The only effect of more arms and more money from America will be to prolong the war!”

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Anonymous Warns Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘History Will Not Be Kind To You, Nor Will We’

The international hacker group Anonymous has just put Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on notice, and that could prove to be a big problem for the Georgia Republican.

Newsweek reports that Anonymous relayed their message to Greene on Twitter in response to comments she recently made:

The threat comes a day after Greene released a nearly 10-minute video in which she stated that Ukrainians are fighting “a war [against Russia] they cannot win.” Her video—posted on Facebook Live hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to the U.S. Congress—also criticized President Joe Biden for “saber-rattling” and “dragging America into World War III” by offering financial and military support to Ukraine.

While Greene’s comments echoed those of other conservative pundits, they likely angered the hacker group, since the collective has actively pursued Russian cyber targets since Russia invaded Ukraine.

In her Facebook Live video, Greene also attacked President Joe Biden, who has vowed to help the Ukrainians defeat the Russian military:

Greene also referred to Biden as a “weak dementia-ridden fossil in the White House” and said that Biden’s sanctions wouldn’t work against Russia because they hadn’t worked in the past against Cuba, North Korea or Iran.

“Every move the Biden administration has made has hurt Americans and helped Putin,” she continued. “Hardworking Americans, living paycheck-to-paycheck, don’t care about foreign wars or foreign borders. They care about gas prices back home. They care about runaway inflation,” she continued.

Russia has already felt the wrath of Anonymous, which has been active since Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his troops into Ukraine:

Anonymous has likely hacked 92 Russian databases belonging to retailers, Russian internet providers and intergovernmental websites. Data of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which includes Russia and other former Soviet nations, was also breached, cyber security expert Jeremiah Fowler told CNBC. The databases included hundreds of thousands of names and email addresses, passwords, encrypted data keys and other deleted files.

Now just imagine what a group of dedicated hackers can do to a simpleton like Marjorie Taylor Greene. Her emails and other communications in the days before the January 6 Capitol insurrection might suddenly be posted on the internet. Or she might find herself locked out of her bank accounts and unable to access her cell phone.

Sounds like Marge pissed off the wrong people.