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Boebert's bold battle to be a bathroom boss backfires badly. [1]
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Date: 2025-01-31
The nice people over at electoral-vote.com have a running shtick every Friday they call “This Week in Schadenfreude,” wherein they, well, highlight a political happening that exposes some political figure, or event, to joyous and just derision.
This week is no different:
There are three Republican members of the House who share two important commonalities. First, they very desperately want to send out tweets and do Fox interviews about those horrible trans people (particularly their new colleague, Rep. Sarah McBride, D-DE). Second, they are women, and so are in a position to patrol the women's restrooms, in hopes of catching McBride breaking the newly established "only people assigned female at birth can use the women's restroom" rule. The three Republican members we speak of, of course, are Nancy Mace (SC), Lauren Boebert (CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA).
That’s a bit to unpack. Last fall, Nancy Mace (R-SC) proposed a House bill restricting in federal buildings transgender people from using bathrooms aligned with their gender identity. The bill has not passed a final vote, but, of course, has generated a lot of debate and controversy. True to their high school mean girl form, the Drei Dipsticks are actually hanging around bathrooms to see who goes in. Which is not creepy and weird. At all.
And the plot thickened last week:
…. while watching the women's restroom nearest the Capitol chamber like a hawk, Boebert "saw" McBride enter, and was so joyous, she damn near soiled herself. The Coloradan promptly ran to get Mace, so they could confront McBride together. Bloomberg reporter Billy House, who recognized what was going on, watched the bathroom in the interim, and noted that only four people came out of it, none of them McBride. Eventually, Boebert and Mace burst in, ready to lay down the law, only to discover that McBride was not there, and that it was a case of mistaken identity. Oops!
Oops indeed. Looks like we have the winner for a new politically-inspired word: “boebert”, defined as "the frothy mixture of shamelessness and stupidity that inevitably results from not minding your own damn business.”
And it couldn’t have happened to anyone more shamefully shameless. Boebert really, really cares about what people do with their genitals in the bathroom, just not so much about what they do with their genitals in public —like, say, a theater in Colorado.
I’m old enough to remember when most the fools, grifters and scumbags on the right were at least minimally competent. These days they can't even suss out who someone is and is not. Must be all that transgendering. So confusing!
Anyways, newsflash: Boebert is dumb. Real dumb.
She hasn’t even figured out that because each member of Congress has a bathroom in their office, that is where McBride in all likelihood takes care of her business because there is a near zero chance that McBride would use the restroom while the Three Torquemadas in no way creepily nor weirdly stake out the public bathrooms.
Well, no way until she is damn well ready to.
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