The backlash has continued against Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert after she tweeted about the Club Q tragedy.
Saturday night’s shooting took place in Colorado Springs. The district neighbors Boebert’s. Five people were killed and 25 injured in the LGBTQ club. Patrons managed to overpower the suspect, later named as 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, who is now in custody.
Boebert tweeted “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.”
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The gay-hating, gun-loving congresswoman has consistently attacked LGBTQ rights and drag brunches. She used to run a gun-themed restaurant called Shooters Grill and has spoken against gun control measures.
Here’s just one of her tweets from earlier in the year:
Twitter users were quick to remind Boebert of her attacks on drag queens and LGBTQ people. Now, some big names have also joined the chorus of disapproval.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “@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.”
.@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
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 20, 2022
AOC’s tweet has had almost a quarter of a million likes at the time of writing.
Chasten Buttigieg tells Boebert to get the hell off Twitter
Chasten Buttigieg told Boebert quit tweeting and do some soul-searching instead.
“You encourage this type of hatred. Get off Twitter and start looking inward.”
You encourage this type of hatred. Get off Twitter and start looking inward.
— Chasten Buttigieg (@Chasten) November 20, 2022
Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims also did not hold back.
If you think for even one single moment that the entire nation, and all of the LGBTQ+ people in this country, don’t know that you, your rhetoric, your bigotry, and your hatred incited this attack, think again. You are an accomplice to these murders.
— Brian Sims (@BrianSimsPA) November 20, 2022
Related: Heartbreaking tributes to Club Q bartenders killed in Colorado shooting attack
Colorado state Rep. Brianna Titone called on Boebert, who appears to have narrowly won her midterms re-election, to resign.
“Thanks for the “thoughts and prayers” but that does nothing to offset the damage that you directly did to incite these kinds of attacks on the LGBTQ+ community. You spreading tropes and insults contributed to the hatred for us. There’s blood on your hands. Just resign.”
Thanks for the “thoughts and prayers” but that does nothing to offset the damage that you directly did to incite these kinds of attacks on the LGBTQ+ community. You spreading tropes and insults contributed to the hatred for us. There’s blood on your hands.
Just resign. https://t.co/W35IxKGtya
— Rep Brianna Titone – COHD27 (@BriannaForCO) November 20, 2022
Marjorie Taylor Greene uses Colorado attack to push her own agenda
Meanwhile, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a MAGA cohort of Boebert’s, used the Colorado Springs tragedy to bash President Biden about… um, fentanyl?
Tragically, 300 Americans die of fentanyl poisoning everyday in America and Biden says and does nothing.
Tragically, 5 people were killed in a shooting in Colorado and Biden immediately demands a ban on assault weapons.
1/2
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 20, 2022
She went on to suggest the tragedy might have been avoided if more people had the right to bear arms against “killers who could care less about laws.”
Meanwhile, a tweet from the veteran LGBTQ activist and commentator Dan Savage, saluting the heroic, unarmed patrons who overcame the attacker, has gone viral.
Unarmed queers in a gay bar in Colorado Springs were able to do what hundreds of armed men couldn’t do in Uvalde.
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) November 20, 2022
Two main fundraisers are collecting money to help those impacted by the attack. Colorado Gives has a dedicated site for helping those killed in mass shooting tragedies: Colorado Healing Fund.
Also, GoFundMe has verified this fundraiser set up by a former employer: At the time of writing, it has taken over $300,000 in donations.
LumpyPillows
Boebert is everything wrong with the US right now. She is, in one nasty, not-too-bright person, everything twisted about us. If you voted for her, you are part of the problem.
Eternal.Cowboy
Seriously? You spew transphobic rhetoric and spend the past several months rooting for the red wave because the left had gone too far by supporting trans rights. And now that the none your hysterical rhetoric panned put you want to act like you aren’t some GOP stooge? You and Boebert are cut from the same cloth.
barryaksarben
You are a not lumpy you are messy. A complete mess that needs to be cleaned up and thrown out. Go away you pos Your phony gay act is not believed by any of us
Ronbo
Eternal Cowboy, acknowledging both male and female sexes is not transphobic. Most educated people understand that gender is an equally scientific and VALID arena. One does not cancel out the other – in fact, they are both part of science and our lived reality.
Actual bigotry is the problem with transphobia. Our community needs to stop the relentless attacking and start accepting that we can best continue to make change thru education and acceptance. Hate is never a family value.
DCguy
Violent bigots always pretend to be sorry when what they want to happen actually happens. The longer they can hide their glee the longer they can push for more of this violence.
garmo98
Ms. Boebert is the stuff you have to scrape off your shoe after a walk in a dog park.
James
Boebert is a nazi.
peacefulruffneck
As Representative Titone said, if you want to do anything to help in this tragedy, Lauren Boebert, resign. The little troll won’t of course but she is going to have an icy next two years in Colorado because every other major politician in that state with any influence is a Democrat.
And as for Governor Polis, this is a defining moment for you to shine. Stand up and use your influence and the all blue Colorado legislature to lobby Congress make what the Club Q murderer did an act of domestic terrorism because that’s exactly what is is. Terrorism. Update Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act to include hate crimes against the LGBTQIA+ community.
GayEGO
Chasten Buttigieg is right! Lauren Boebert needs to get off of Twitter and should be expelled from Congress as she does not keep church and state separate!
Huron132
She is the forked tounge snake we are always warned about. A truely bold face example. She needs to rot here on this planet.
seven5tx
Remember Anita Bryant? She’s back………..
Only worse, much, much wors
One good thing about aids; at least it kills the right people. quote from an episode of designing women.
It just boggles my mind that people actually say the things they say about any other human being.
barryaksarben
I think you have that quote from Designing women wrong as that show was very gay friendly. Maybe one of its villains said something like that but not one of the main characters
PhillyProud
I just looked it up. It’s season 2, episode 4. It’s the one where the gay designer asks the Women to design his funeral. The quote you’re mentioning comes from a nasty friend of Julia’s; “This disease has one thing going for it. It’s killing all the right people”. Julia goes full Julia on her after that; “Ima Jean, I’m afraid I’m going to have ask you to move your car”. I just watched it. It brings tears to my eyes. I remember watching when it was first on and feeling supported.
One thing that brings a huge smile on my face is the pie to the face Anita Bryant got. Does a heart to watch that.
fur_hunter
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bachy
It’s astonishing that more can’t be done to kick Bofart and the rest of these sick, traitorous sh|tweasels all the way down the steps of Congress.
RoyM
Does anyone actually believe that the vast majority of Republicans wouldn’t like to see us exterminated? If so, you obviously didn’t live through the early days of the AIDS crisis. I did and absolutely nothing has changed – Republicans want us all put 6 feet under.
SDR94103
fact.
PhillyProud
Remember how they talked about quarantining us? Reagan did nothing. I remember seeing gay men, most I didn’t know, and just being thankful I was looking at them. Good, I’d think! They’re still here. It was devastating. It’s one of the reasons that I find gay republicans more repulsive than Boebart and MTG. I’m not saying democrats are our saviors, but they’ve done more for us than any republican. I got into an argument with a 25 year old gay man, who refused to believe me that republicans were that awful.
charlieeod74
You are absolutely correct. I live in the panhandle of Florida where the prevailing attitude of Bubba is, the only good queer is a dead queer. And with the state under DeSatan, I don’t see anything changing.
Fname Optional Lname
Lauren Hobert and Margarine Taylor G are foaming at the mouth because they want to applaud but they feel it’s a little premature since they were hoping the number of deaths would have at least reached double digits.
Possibly we are not screaming loud enough. “Pedo/Grooming” comments are in the media daily – You would think it would be easy to silence this hatred, especially since we’ve heard it all before—decades ago- difference being today it is getting people killed. Anita Bryant is back but this time she has an army of Trump supporters.
We are facing evil at it’s core and it’s only getting started.
ShiningSex
If you are gay and republican, you should be ashamed of yourself. You support a group that condemns us and wants to take away our rights. Shame on you.
RoyM
Ashamed of themselves? Yes they should be but that would require that they possess the ability to feel shame. Gay Republicans are beneath contempt. If Republicans are ever able to get the entire LGBTQ community thrown into death camps, Gay Republicans would gleefully and joyfully be the ones to help shove us into gas chambers or ovens.
PhillyProud
That is so true. I find them more repulsive than Boebart and MTG. They’re either too young to know what republicans did to us at the beginning of the AIDS crisis or they’re suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. They’re disgusting. I walked out on a date in 2004 when Bush was running for reelection because my date couldn’t decide who he was going to vote for. He claimed he had difficulty making a choice. A gay couple next to us said, “you have only one choice”. Dinner hadn’t come, I just left.
Jimmynj
Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are two of the most repulsive people to walk the planet. Their anti LGBTQ rhetoric has stoked attacks like this. They can take their thoughts and prayers and shove them.
Richpontone
Where is Buffoon Boebert’s husband?
No Drag Brunches for him when he can assault young girls at Bowling Alleys.
By the way, can Old Roy Moore join in the young girl fun?
Salacious1
So much for promising to “lead with grace” after squeaking out a narrow recount. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow.
Are you telling me the DNC couldn’t run a few more ads to turn the corner? There should have been a priority on defeating her and MTJ. The House was a foregone conclusion & they should have though what would happen if these two Mean Girls were given power, as they soon will.