Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was reminded of her many hateful anti-LGBTQ tweets Sunday after she expressed sympathy for the victims of a mass shooting at the Club Q nightclub that left five dead and 18 injured.
“The news out of Colorado Springs is absolutely awful. This morning the victims & their families are in my prayers. This lawless violence needs to end and end quickly.”
The news out of Colorado Springs is absolutely awful.
This morning the victims & their families are in my prayers.
This lawless violence needs to end and end quickly.
Club Q, it should be noted, is a gay and lesbian club that has hosted drag shows. Such shows have been repeatedly attacked rhetorically by Boebert and other right-wing Republicans who have wrongly accused the LGBTQ community of “grooming” children for sexual purposes.
Boebert was quickly hit with reminders of the disgustingly bigoted things she’s posted on Twitter in the past about LGBTQ Americans.
Lauren, you can't call LGBTQ+ people and their supporters groomers, warn drag queens to "stay away" from your district and take family photos of your kids holding guns and still talk about how sorry you are about the attack in Colorado Springs. That blood is on your hands.
You are to blame. LGBT+ people like me are less safe in this country because of the rhetoric and hate spewed by people like you. Keep your thoughts and prayers.
.@laurenboebert you have played a major role in elevating anti-LGBT+ hate rhetoric and anti-trans lies while spending your time in Congress blocking even the most common sense gun safety laws.
You don’t get to “thoughts and prayers” your way out of this. Look inward and change. https://t.co/mxt6wFMVEv
With the 6-3 ruling in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court has completely eliminated a right that women have had for five decades: The right to make her own reproductive and family planning decisions.
But in his concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas made it clear that this is only the beginning of what the right-wingers on the high court have planned for the United States in the future.
Specifically, Thomas wrote:
“In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous’ … we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents … After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated.”
Yes, the Supreme Court is now coming for other rights, meaning that millions of same-sex couples will suddenly find that their marriages declared null and void.
Also, the right to contraception will be curtailed, especially in states ruled by Republicans. Both men and women will no longer able to purchase birth control pills or condoms. There will be an explosion of unwanted pregnancies and births in the United States, driving us ever closer to Third World status.
There is, however, a way to counter what the court has done today: Democrats, Independents, and Republicans who value the Constitution must vote in November so that legislation can be passed that will guarantee all of these rights and place them beyond the control of the extremist judges on the Supreme Court.
Every single time he opens his mouth these days, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) only manages to completely humiliate himself and prove that he’s little more than a brainless simp who should remain silent rather than repeatedly reinforcing what an idiot he is.
Last week, Cawthorn alleged that he had been invited to “cocaine orgies” by fellow GOP members of Congress, but he refused to provide any names, probably because he made the whole thing up.
And now the North Carolina Republican is taking to the House floor to offer his definition of what the word “woman” means, an obvious dig at the transgender community and Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, who said she wouldn’t define “woman” during her confirmation hearings.
Here’s what Cawthorn said earlier today:
“The left has ripped away the pin of truth from the author of life. They’ve exchanged natural science for party platform and declared war on biology.
“I never imagined that one of my sacred duties in this hallowed chamber would be explaining to the House Speaker the difference between a man and a woman. Take notes, Madame Speaker, I’m about to define what a woman is for you.”
The congressman then offered up his definition of womanhood:
“XX chromosomes, no tallywacker.”
He then added this bit of inanity:
“It’s so simple. And yet, today, this proclamation of fundamental scientific fact will cause the woke liberals in Silicon Valley to strip you of your voice and ban you until you bow at their altar of falsehoods.
“Perhaps it will click when you hand the gavel to Republicans.”
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (@RepCawthorn): "You might amend a bill, but you'll never amend biology. Science is not Burger King. You can't just have it your way…take notes Madame Speaker, I'm about to define what a woman is for you." pic.twitter.com/kPlUV2FALi
No tallywacker? Is this asshat still in the damn fifth grade? Can you believe someone actually agreed to marry this douchebag?
However, while Cawthorn did indeed get married in 2020, in 2021 he announced that he and his wife would be getting a divorce, which makes you wonder if perhaps the congressman couldn’t satisfy his ex with his tallywacker. That, or maybe she got tired of him talking like a child and dumped him for a real man.