Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has spoken out after video emerged appearing to show House Republican Lauren Boebert engaging in what the New York congresswoman described as “sexually lewd acts” in a Colorado theater on September 10.
Boebert and a male companion were thrown out of the Buell Theatre in Denver after repeatedly vaping, using a cell phone and “causing a disturbance” during a performance of musical Beetlejuice.
Surveillance footage from inside the theater appeared to show Boebert’s male accomplice groping her breasts, and then being groped in turn by the Republican firebrand. In a statement, Boebert apologized for her behavior, which she claimed “fell short of my values,” but made no reference to the alleged sexual acts.
Ocasio-Cortez responded to the controversy in a one-minute video posted to her 323,000 TikTok followers on Thursday, in response to a viewer’s question.
She commented: "All I gotta say is I can’t go out to lunch in Florida in my free time, not doing anything, just eating outside and it’s wall-to-wall Fox News coverage and then you have a member of Congress engaging is sexually lewd acts in a public theater and they got nothing to say.”
“I danced to Phoenix once in college and it was like all over the place. But putting on a whole show of their own at Beetlejuice and there’s nothing? I’m just saying be consistent. That’s all I’m asking for. Equal treatment. I don’t expect it, but come on.”
Living has gotta be tough when you know Ben Shapiro is updating your Wikifeet entry daily. Keep up the good work AOC. One day Ben will be gone and you’ll be able to wear strappy shoes and sandals in peace once again.
Wikifeet is…real? Yup, we don’t deserve the internet. Or earth.
Also, why are the feet fetishists some of the creepiest? I don’t like kink shaming but why are they so weird?
Dude, how long have you been online if wikifeet is what you think puts us over the edge of deserving internet?
You could honesty find at least 300 more taboo fetishes in under an hour without even getting into the dark web.
The tabooness of the fetish isn’t what he’s talking about but rather the personality of the person with the fetish.
It’s one thing to have weird kinks, it’s another to be including non-consenting strangers into it
You sound like fun…the kind of fun that gets people killed and no one believes the survivors because their testaments read like scifi fiction. where do i sign up?
hmm, don’t think this is true anymore. the internet is too consolidated. I’m thinking like 3 big ones at most these days.
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Feet, regular sex, and eating a meatball sub in bed without dropping so much as a crumb.
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The unholy trinity.
My theory is that some of the men who really enjoy sucking girls’ big toe are sublimating their desire to show oral affection to an entirely kind of blunt roughly thumb-thickness object.
I am talking, of course, about cigars.
TIL I have small thumbs - I guess.
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If it is as real as you suggest, they really missed an opportunity to call it “Wikifeetia”
My mind automatically makes “tia” into a “sha” sound, so I read that as Wikifeesha first time.
Idk. With Wikifeetia I am intrigued enough to click with but with WikiFeet I know enough to stay away.
Ben just needs to let AOC peg him once really well. Help him get the ‘poison’ out. 😏
They could do it nice and discreetly, for instance at a Beetlejuice musical.
I love her, downvote me if you must.
Say what you will about pronouns, sometimes they aren’t clear.
Wait, what? I’ve just reread my comment like 50 times trying to figure out what you mean.
“Her” could refer to AOC or Boebert. It is technically unclear.
lotta people are going to be real mad about their upvotes when op follows up with “…and that’s why Lauren Boebert is great” or whatever.
Are you referring to Boobert or AOC?
AOC, WTF? Who in their right mind? Like I might hate fuck Booberry, but she’s horrible.
I’m glad I’m not the only one whew
I kinda dislike her, but anyone dancing to Phoenix is alright.
I remember how much pearl-clutching there was over AOC. Dancing. In college. Oh, the horror! Imagine it! Dancing! All of a sudden every con became a town elder with a stick wedged in their posterior in the movie Footloose.
(By the way - I love to use those gifs of her dancing when replying to cons when the discussion is AOC.)
And now that Qbert is caught in a grope session, with children present, the cons seem to be mum. Weird.
AOC dancing in college, Vivek Ramaswamy rapping to Eminem like 2 weeks ago.
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campaign spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to US media: “Vivek just got on the stage and cut loose.”
Desperately trying to make a Republican sound hip 😄🤦
Narcissists like Vivek would just say, “what does Eminem know?”
He’s probably excited for the possibility that he will end up in a future song, which he’ll take as a compliment (you only roast the ones you love), instead of the diss that it actually is.
Shaka, when the walls fell.
Lauren, her chest touched.
picard and dathon at el adril
Data, his lower circuits overheated.
Kermit, drinking coffee.
Do they really have to say alleged sex acts? I mean, there’s video. Are they suggesting that maybe the groping and fondling wasn’t sexual in nature?
You’re right, the uh “activity” was definitely getting her boobs groped and flashed about- and giving a handy in return (both of which looked incredibly uncomfortable, just saying.)
That said, what the video shows is a crime, and there’s fairly strict ways they can write about potential criminals which more or less mandate tacking on qualifiers- like “allegedly”, at least until they can tack on the “convicted” qualifier.
You’re correct. As annoying as it is allegations are just that. Unlike the court of public opinion, you are innocent until proven guilty.
A journalistic org will always say alleged until someone is convicted, even if the crime is “obvious”
Yes, but this was a minor offence and there will be no trial or conviction. So entirely different if you can call something alledged that has video evidence I don’t know. And I doubt someone went to the length of deepfaking that video. Although it IS surprising that someone with no ethics or concience like her didn’t claim that. Too many witnesses I guess.
Maybe she lost a popcorn down in her titties and he was helping get it out. And to thank him she… gave him an OTPHJ? I got nothin’.
gave him an OTPHJ? I got nothin’.
The kids are now referring to that as a Boebert.
How about a Qbert, or a Qubie?
Maybe she was vigorously trying to get a stain
inoff his pants…She was trying to get something off
In America yes. Unless someone has literally been convicted of something in court, you’re better off just saying allegedly and not leaving yourself open to lawsuits.
I’m America, yes.
So America is a false god? Or a farcical one at best?
That checks out.
I did fix my mistake, but I’m enjoying your interpretation. Thanks.
Thats a good point. She already apologized for getting caught as well. I think at this point its “verified exhibitionist sex acts”
Considering how litigious the US is: yeah, they do.
Obviously she’s completely correct. But she should realize at this point that it’s a waste of time to ever expect conservatives to be consistent. It’s not in their nature.
Right, but that’s also where it’s up to us to help call it out.
AOC’s fighting exactly our fight, and the minute we get complacent, I say that’s where we suck.
Right. Use these kind of hypocritical acts as ammunition with conservative supporters. They’ll fight you. They’ll get angry and defensive. They’ll say it’s not the same.
Don’t let them get away with it. It is the same. Just keep saying that. Call them delusional. Call them out of touch.
Embarras the fuck out of them. They might not change their minds, but they will shut the fuck up and maybe even have second thoughts when voting.
That isn’t how anything works though. The Backfire Effect and Confirmation Bias are the reason they dig their heels in harder the more you go to facts and figures. They don’t care about reality. Even worse, when you engage them, it gives them an audience for the slapfight so they can show off to others how good they are at “debating,” which in this context means “saying Ben Shapiro lines then looking smug”
She literally said “I don’t expect it.”
Conservatives have turned being inconsistent into a sport. They’re the world champs!
I get a lot of mileage out of this Sartre quote
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
The article really is just about how she responded to a thing. Not even mentioning in title if she did it in a noteworthy way or anything, just that she responded. Amazing
God wants you to feel up people in public places, clearly.
That’s why he gave us 10 fingers and only two legs (obviously dancing is less important).
But you can only feel with your fingers, no hands! Only got two of those.
Me specifically? God can get bent. I’m busy.
Didn’t those weirdos also go on about AOC’s boyfriends feet at some point? The right wing media and the GQP have absolutely no substance. Their whole existence is a huge drain on our society.
The republican party is an existential threat to the United States and the rest of the world. We should treat them as such.
Come and take it motherfucker talk is cheap.
The lady has a point.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has spoken out after video emerged appearing to show House Republican Lauren Boebert engaging in what the New York congresswoman described as “sexually lewd acts” in a Colorado theater on September 10.
Boebert and a male companion were thrown out of the Buell Theatre in Denver after repeatedly vaping, using a cell phone and “causing a disturbance” during a performance of musical Beetlejuice.
In a statement, Boebert apologized for her behavior, which she claimed “fell short of my values,” but made no reference to the alleged sexual acts.
She commented: "All I gotta say is I can’t go out to lunch in Florida in my free time, not doing anything, just eating outside and it’s wall-to-wall Fox News coverage and then you have a member of Congress engaging is sexually lewd acts in a public theater and they got nothing to say.
Boebert’s team had initially denied she was vaping during Beetlejuice, but after footage emerged contradicting this, the congresswoman admitted she had been, but insisted there had been no deliberate attempt to deceive.
Boebert’s male companion at the musical was later identified as 46-year-old Quinn Gallagher, co-owner of the Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar, which has previously hosted drag shows.
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The ugly inside Boebert really shows on her face
They are hypocrites and liars. Republicans don’t believe in shit other than “rules for me, not for thee,” and fear-mongering hate.
ETA: Dems too, just not nearly on the same scale.
Libs asking for the media to be consistent now that’s some fucking poetic justice right there. Downright comical.
The umbridge and resentment is so ingrained, you can’t even see double standards you live by.
Two sides to that coin smarty pants.
So what?! I responded a lot. Where’s my article?
So democrats are the prudes now? I get the point of the article, hypocrisy, but Republicans don’t come off in these stories as the bad ones
Why is asking for equal treatment prudish?
Read what she said again. She doesn’t spend time talking about how disgusting Boebert is, she doesn’t call her names, she doesn’t call for her resignation, she doesn’t spend time whinging about the children, she doesn’t do any of the things that would be done to her if she did something like this.
She simply noted that the reaction to this is less than what she has endured over lesser actions.
I’m having a hard time grasping how that amounts to being a prude, so please help me understand.
So tone deaf. You don’t have to be prudish to disapprove of adults fondling each other in an all ages theater.
“You don’t have to be prudish to disapprove of adults fondling each other in an all ages theater.”
Yes, yes you do have to be prudish to get mad at people making out in public. Like I said before though, hypocrisy doesn’t work when it comes to sex, saying these people you hate like doing it isn’t going to make them seem like the bad ones, and pointing out FOX not covering it isn’t a news flash
Why did you phrase it like this “Yes, yes you do have to be prudish to get mad at people making out in public.”? (Edit: Lol your profile explains it all real well but I still want to hear you say it) Because flashing her tits and giving a handjob with kids around while blowing vape smoke at a pregnant women are a little different than “making out in public”
I had a gf when I was younger that loved banging in public places. But you don’t actually do that in a place with children, especially when you are vocally encouraging people to terrorize LGBTQ+ folks as groomers.
Wow. You just down graded heavy petting to making out and acted like I wouldn’t notice. Tell me you know you’re wrong without telling me you know you’re wrong.
Read the quote again. She’s calling out Fox and conservative media for cherry picking what they are outraged about.
