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Boebert, Trumped [1]

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Date: 2023-09-20

For all the strife lately unleashed by White-washed, un-American neo-fascists, ain’t bipartisan love grand (at least, once in a while)? Take Ann “In Trump [As In God] We Trust” Coulter. (Please.) If memory serves, several years back she raised more than a few eyebrows by dating and dwelling with a dude she pegged “liberal.”

Didn’t pan out. Stuff happens. Oh, well.

Fast forward. In the throes of divorce, enter self-styled moral icon Lauren Boebert. Who needs no introduction. Except, in the present context, to note how, last year, she honked “Take your children to CHURCH, not drag bars.”

Or bowling alleys. For instance, the one where, in 2004, her then boyfriend/now estranged husband was arrested, soon to be charged with and convicted of public indecency and lewd exposure.

Nearly two decades on, you’d have thought that moving from tenpins to prosceniums (for instance, to catch the stage musical “Beetlejuice”) would bespeak a wiser, saner, more grounded woman. Both it and the film on which it’s based are well-reputed. If a 36-years-young, hard-right granny takes a somewhat older Dem to see it, and starts feeling (mutually) frisky, well, fine.

Just one caveat: WAIT TILL YOU GET HOME! (Or get a room! Or find a secluded spot! Or something!!!)

One might love to scold “a pox on them both!” (Wouldn’t that feel delightfully non-partisan?) After all, both ignored two YUGE facts. One, the show was billed as kid friendly. Two, at the venue they turned into their makeshift boudoir, children as young as 7-or-so were present.

So, both sides were equally culpable, right? Nope. Not only is Boebert a self-anointed moralist, she’s also a federal lawmaker/troublemaker. Four points. One, along with her swain (Quinn ‘Not The Eskimo’ Gallagher), she looks to have run afoul of state laws against public indecency. Two, beyond that, she was caught on tape illegally vaping. Three, she denied having done so, thereby striving to cover up a crime. Four, while vaping and frisking, she loosed potential harm on the very demographic whom she and her party claim to be bending over backward to “save” from liberal/Democratic pedophilic cannibals, groomers, and teachers of fact-based history.

Not to mention: she belongs to a cult whose Leader admits (on tape) to a history of habitual carnal assault. Who stands accused of such evil by at least 26 women. Who’s been found (in civil court) to have defamed a woman who called him out for raping her. And who (for crying out loud, let it be said) has been credibly accused of repeatedly raping a 13-year-old.

Going forward, Boebert effectively vows to eschew blue tomcats and switch to red ones. While bemoaning her ‘slip’ from her profess, weaponized, supposedly pristine “values,” she looks to be re-mounting her holier-than-thou high horse- to the point of resuming her smearing of our sole non-despotic major party all to hell. (Literally.)

Here’s the thing. In an online photo- displaying a version of the Confederate battle flag that invaded our Capitol on J1/6/21- she shows her true colors to be a far cry from red, white, and blue. If we believe that she and the rest of Trump’s troop is just fooling around, so to speak, we fool only ourselves. Not for naught does Matt Gaetz seek “force” of arms. MTG, “secession.” Rudy G, “trial by combat.” Donnie T, “fight[ing] like hell.” And on toward what looks like the crack of doom.

Driving home just how keenly the once-proud “Party of Lincoln” now seeks civil war, pol/pastor/provocateur Mike Huckabee effectively vows to beat ploughshares into swords and “ballots” into “bullets.” To say the least, those across the aisle have yet to keep pace. At best, we’ve been clasping our cheeks (a la Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”). And letting GOP libertines (from Boebert to Trump to Gaetz to the now accused-in-writing groper Rudy-Gee-We-Hardly-Knew-Ye) Lord it over us by claiming that, for them, all is fair-and-free in love and/or war.

But naught for you and not for me. Alas, that’s not just blowing smoke. (Or vape.) And it doesn’t bode well at all.

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