A video of Rep. Lauren Boebert has gone viral and prompted widespread disgust online. Yesterday, activists distributed pins in Congress to commemorate Maite Rodriguez and to call for action against gun violence.
Maite was one of 21 people killed in the May mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Authorities identified Maite initially because she always wore her favorite green Converse sneakers. She was otherwise unrecognizable. The pins distributed feature a pair of green sneakers.
Activists want Congress to enact a ban on assault weapons, such as the AR-style rifle that killed Maite and her friends. Maite’s mother is among those leading the campaign.
Today, we’re passing out pins of the green converse that Maite Rodriguez was wearing when she was killed by gun violence at Robb Elementary School to members of congress.
The activists approached Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert as she marched through the corridors of Congress. They attempted to give her the pin and implored her to vote for some gun control measures. Boebert appeared to take the pin and then throw it straight in the trash.
Lauren Boebert is an asshole. She was handed a pin honoring the victims of Uvalde’s mass shooting & she THREW it in the trash. No acknowledgement. Just threw it in the trash. This is how a sitting Congresswoman treats gun violence victims. Beneath contempt.pic.twitter.com/7uN98DVmzh
Chasten Buttigieg, husband of Pete Buttigieg and a leading LGBTQ+ advocate, was among those to register their disgust.
“Ghoulish and unbecoming of a congressperson,” he said in a tweet. “So sorry you had to experience this. There are good people here focused on solving real problems. Then there are folks who have abandoned the idea of making your life safer and better because hate is much easier than work.”
Ghoulish and unbecoming of a congressperson. So sorry you had to experience this. There are good people here focused on solving real problems. Then there are folks who have abandoned the idea of making your life safer and better because hate is much easier than work.
— Chasten Glezman Buttigieg (@Chasten) July 19, 2023
Elijah Pelton, the man who handed Boebert the pin, also spoke out.
my name is Elijah. i’m the one who handed Boebert the pin, which was a design of Maites green converses. i became involved in the GVP movement after Parkland. Lauren Boebert has 0 respect for the hundreds of thousands of gun violence victims and should NOT BE IN CONGRESS. https://t.co/N1ZVZO1yUg
I always assume that there is a floor to how miserable a person like @laurenboebert can be. However, Lauren again shows what a miserable ass she is. Trashing a card and pin that honors a victim of gun violence shows just who she is. https://t.co/ylWW7ylbi9
Boebert has not responded to the video going viral.
She did, instead, find time to post a transphobic tweet, misgendering and dead-naming Assistant Secretary of Health, Dr Rachel Levine.
Boebert called the widely-respected pediatrician, “sick and disgusting” for advocating for gender-affirming care for kids. She said Levine “shouldn’t be allowed to discuss children and CERTAINLY should not be allowed anywhere near them.”
UPDATE 07.25.23
Lauren Boebert posted a video over the weekend offering an apology for giving “the appearance” of disrespecting the child victim of a mass shooting.
Lauren Boebert apologized for “the appearance” of “disrespecting a child” killed in the Uvalde school shooting after a video of her throwing away her memorial pin went viral.
Boebert partially blamed throwing the pin away on wearing AirPods and claimed the man was “aggressive.” pic.twitter.com/otyk9XPaxa
The gay-hating, gun-loving congresswoman was quickly told her “thoughts and prayers” weren’t wanted.
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I have heard as have many that she was an escort and actually had to have sex with ted cruz. I do hope it is true and this pos who is so enamored of guns. because of her penis envy that she would show such disrespect to a child of gun violence who was BLOWN apart at her school that the only way she could be identified Is by her shoes. I pray NO ONE else is ever a gun violence victim but I am hard pressed to not wish it on her and all the other sick gun obsessed perverts who fight common sense. gun laws
Dr Levine is an excellent example of someone who has successfully and happily transitioned, but we will never hear DeCrans single her out for this. She only cherry picks the extreme cases and then preaches that no one should be permitted to transition.
Dr. Levine still looks like the gender assigned at birth. That’s not a successful transition. It shows what the vast majority of ‘trans people’ will have to put up with. The airbrushed messaging from LGBTQ media? Nope. Levine offers a dose of realism.
Right? And I was a socialist for years. All that needed to happen? Move to California and see the paper tiger of gender ideology for what it really is.
Crickets on Gavin Newsom’s hypocrisy. Just childlike insults. Abs, you exist in the same realm as Trump supporters. They lack debate skills and lob childlike insults, too. Look into Truth Social, Abs. You can type at a third-grade level over there and call people ‘poopface’ til your heart’s content.
Also: Dave Matthews. Why do you have two handles to troll? Is it to look like more people are agreeing with your statements? You say something similar to other Queerty commenters.
And she, it, thing or whatever they are calling themselves today has NOTHING to say about Lauren Boebert. He’s too busy jack ing off to her full size poster in his daddy’s basement. Creep.
@Decrans. So……Once you realized socialized medicine in California would not/could not/ transform you into a “beautiful” young woman, you determined socialism and transitioning is worthless. Just like the previous story about Lauren Beibert, you continue to amaze me with how low you can sink. People like you are exactly what the radical GOP wants to publicize as an example of all queer folks, much to the detriment of this community.
Is anyone else beginning to think that this is Caitlyn Jenner? She needs a place to verbally vomit anonymously all over Gay men so that her crazy bitch head won’t explode all over Malibu. Filled with regrets. Okay, I know it’s a stretch but the personalites are remarkably similar.
Laurie Bobert is hot. She’s too crazy for my liking. Kind of like these idiot leftists who piss and moan about sanctuary cities while their favorite governor engaged in the same behavior. Same levels of idiocy and insanity.
Ab, seek help for your delusional thinking. Your mental illness is on full display with that comment. I did meet Caitlyn Jenner’s personal assistant recently, though.
Right, Open-minded. And your comment perfectly illustrates why the LGBTQ community needs to have serious conversations with children as opposed to presenting glossy images of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Thirty percent of trans people live in extreme poverty in California. This community is scared of having these serious conversations with children because it pokes holes in their trans narrative and other cards start to tumble over.
I agree. They’re hypocrites. Just the same as Democrats cutting food stamps benefits to working-class children just this past year. And a certain segment of Democrats not caring that autistic teenagers are swept up in trans medicalization. (The lawsuits are increasing by the week.) The liberals care about children so, so much.
What concerns me most about her is that there are enough people in her state that think it was okay to elect this unintelligent facist leaning bit of filth. There is something wrong with the mind set of the sector of the public that think facism is the way to go but are so uninformed they don’t recognize it is facism and not making America great again. This is how the NAZIs came into power
I’ve never watched one movie or listened to one album from that person. And abs, I leaned into bisexuality and became primarily heterosexual. I’m a right-wing fever dream!
Lauren Boebert is a far right, not very bright RepubliCon/RepubliQanon ideologue. She has zero concern for those victims of the Uvalde massacre or, I would imagine, any.
This is the same woman whose own child had to call police begging for help because the child’s father had apparently “thrown him” across the room and allegedly done this before. Boebert also seemed rather blithe about the fact that this same husband also allegedly exposed his genitals to underage girls at a bowling alley!
If this is how she’s responding with her own child AND with other children in her community, why should anyone be surprised this soulless, horrible excuse for a Congressperson would throw away a pin commemorating one of our most recent, horrific national tragedies?
Interesting. Yes, I have too much time on my hands this week, but take a gander at this kids! For more, GOOGLE Decrans:
KALITOWSKI, Judge.
Appellant Thomas A. DeCrans claims the award of custody of six of the parties’ seven children to respondent Mary E. DeCrans is not supported by the required findings or the law. He also claims the trial court abused its discretion in setting support and maintenance, dividing property, and not receiving certain evidence. We affirm.
it goes on……
Appellant claims that the trial court’s findings do not adequately address the children’s health or respondent’s alleged history of physical abuse of the children. See Minn. Stat. 518.17, subd. 1(a)(9) (1994) (court must consider “mental and physical health of all individuals involved”). We disagree.
The trial court awarded custody after addressing each of the statutory best interest factors and specifically finding that: (1) it received “significant testimony” on the mental and physical health of the parties and the children; (2) respondent is in therapy; (3) the children are in therapy to address the parties’ dysfunctional relationship and its impact on the family; (4) many of respondent’s psychological problems resulted from her trying to raise seven children while her relationship with appellant was “severely strained”; (5) respondent’s condition and her ability to care for the children have improved since the parties separated; and (6) respondent, “although not without flaws, has adequate mental and physical health to be the primary legal and physical custodian of the six youngest children.” We conclude the trial court’s findings are adequate.
Appellant claims that the trial court erred in awarding respondent custody because of her alleged history of physical abuse and because of her psychological condition.
Good God, you’re insane. I guess we can thank God you didn’t post random song lyrics this time. You need to ask your doctor about Depakote. It’s time to make the switch, Abs.
No matter what happens in this country the GOP will deflect with something anti-LGBTQ. These tactics are so transparent that any conservative should be embarrassed and call them out for it but Trump seemed to turn back the clock on progress and so many follow his playbook by getting down and dirty. It will now take decades for us to go back to a time where progress is a possibility and the playground antics are not tolerated. Lauren seems to have memory issues…. wasn’t that long ago that one of her own children cried out for help when feeling unsafe at home. The fact that she is pretending to stand up for children is laughable.
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abfab
She’s very familiar with trash cans.
kish
She has no interest in American citizens. Like MTG, she has an agenda and uses her platform to promote herself.
barryaksarben
I have heard as have many that she was an escort and actually had to have sex with ted cruz. I do hope it is true and this pos who is so enamored of guns. because of her penis envy that she would show such disrespect to a child of gun violence who was BLOWN apart at her school that the only way she could be identified Is by her shoes. I pray NO ONE else is ever a gun violence victim but I am hard pressed to not wish it on her and all the other sick gun obsessed perverts who fight common sense. gun laws
Mister P
No clue and no class.
Mister P
Dr Levine is an excellent example of someone who has successfully and happily transitioned, but we will never hear DeCrans single her out for this. She only cherry picks the extreme cases and then preaches that no one should be permitted to transition.
DBMC
Unfortunately, that person is just stupid enough to post something disgusting.
decrans
Dr. Levine still looks like the gender assigned at birth. That’s not a successful transition. It shows what the vast majority of ‘trans people’ will have to put up with. The airbrushed messaging from LGBTQ media? Nope. Levine offers a dose of realism.
decrans
What my conservative dad told me was correct. “Chances are you will still look like a man.” Levine is Exhibit A.
abfab
The rotten apple does not fall far from the tree.
decrans
Right? And I was a socialist for years. All that needed to happen? Move to California and see the paper tiger of gender ideology for what it really is.
dbmcvey
Called it! Ernst Rohm really outdid himself showing what a nasty POS he is.
decrans
Dave Matthews, Care to comment on your boy Gavin Newsom shipping immigrants to Riverside County during his mayoral days? Very Abbott-esque!
abfab
If only your daddy wore a condom that night you were….produced. Not much of a conservative, was he.
decrans
Wow. Abs’s sick mind on full display. Like I told Bosch, if you want to see my chunky dong that badly, I can direct you to my FetLife profile, Abs.
decrans
Crickets on Gavin Newsom’s hypocrisy. Just childlike insults. Abs, you exist in the same realm as Trump supporters. They lack debate skills and lob childlike insults, too. Look into Truth Social, Abs. You can type at a third-grade level over there and call people ‘poopface’ til your heart’s content.
kish
@Decrans,
You are trash.
decrans
Also: Dave Matthews. Why do you have two handles to troll? Is it to look like more people are agreeing with your statements? You say something similar to other Queerty commenters.
dbmcvey
Oh No! Ernst Rohm is upset that no one cares about his stupid comment!
I have 2 handles because one is on my laptop and the other is on my cellphone. I’ve always been open about it.
Why do you have at least 2 handles? Is it because of your two faces?
abfab
He has the memory of a fruit fly and he’s got just the one face. He’s sitting on it.
abfab
And she, it, thing or whatever they are calling themselves today has NOTHING to say about Lauren Boebert. He’s too busy jack ing off to her full size poster in his daddy’s basement. Creep.
Openminded
@Decrans. So……Once you realized socialized medicine in California would not/could not/ transform you into a “beautiful” young woman, you determined socialism and transitioning is worthless. Just like the previous story about Lauren Beibert, you continue to amaze me with how low you can sink. People like you are exactly what the radical GOP wants to publicize as an example of all queer folks, much to the detriment of this community.
Bosch
“They lack debate skills and lob childlike insults, too.”
Check out the self-awareness of this clown.
abfab
Is anyone else beginning to think that this is Caitlyn Jenner? She needs a place to verbally vomit anonymously all over Gay men so that her crazy bitch head won’t explode all over Malibu. Filled with regrets. Okay, I know it’s a stretch but the personalites are remarkably similar.
decrans
Laurie Bobert is hot. She’s too crazy for my liking. Kind of like these idiot leftists who piss and moan about sanctuary cities while their favorite governor engaged in the same behavior. Same levels of idiocy and insanity.
decrans
Ab, seek help for your delusional thinking. Your mental illness is on full display with that comment. I did meet Caitlyn Jenner’s personal assistant recently, though.
decrans
Right, Open-minded. And your comment perfectly illustrates why the LGBTQ community needs to have serious conversations with children as opposed to presenting glossy images of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Thirty percent of trans people live in extreme poverty in California. This community is scared of having these serious conversations with children because it pokes holes in their trans narrative and other cards start to tumble over.
abfab
Including RuPaul. At least you know how to use your pawns. crans…………split.
DBMC
Republicans care SO much about children that they don’t mind that the number one cause of death for them is gun violence.
Also, they’ve now started pushing them into the Rio Grand where there are also razor wire traps!
Republicans REALLY care about children.
decrans
I agree. They’re hypocrites. Just the same as Democrats cutting food stamps benefits to working-class children just this past year. And a certain segment of Democrats not caring that autistic teenagers are swept up in trans medicalization. (The lawsuits are increasing by the week.) The liberals care about children so, so much.
DBMC
It’s like a remake of “Pink Flamingos” with Lobobes and Marge competing for Worst Person Alive.
abfab
With Matt Gaetz winning the Baltimore Foot Stomper competition.
Mr. Stadnick
What concerns me most about her is that there are enough people in her state that think it was okay to elect this unintelligent facist leaning bit of filth. There is something wrong with the mind set of the sector of the public that think facism is the way to go but are so uninformed they don’t recognize it is facism and not making America great again. This is how the NAZIs came into power
Kangol2
She won by barely 500 votes last time. So she’s defeatable. Let’s hope (and donate so that) her defeat and ouster from Congress happens in 2024!
abfab
And those 500 are probably so out of touch with reality by now. Like all of the GOPTROLLS here from the Log Cabin Society and QAnon.
decrans
Out-of-touch with reality, abs? You thought I was Caitlyn Jenner and Google-d random info about a doctor. The mirror has two faces, Barbara.
abfab
It’s Barbra, you fuking asshole. You’re def not a gay man….that’s just been confirmed.
decrans
I’ve never watched one movie or listened to one album from that person. And abs, I leaned into bisexuality and became primarily heterosexual. I’m a right-wing fever dream!
Bosch
“I leaned into bisexuality and became primarily heterosexual”
Someone here doesn’t know how sexual orientation works.
“I’m a right-wing fever dream!”
Because you lie a lot? Yeah.
decrans
Bosch, do you? This generation of leftists claimed that gender and sexuality are fluid. You reap what you sow, baby boy.
Bosch
What you believe “this generation of leftists” claim should not affect how you experience your own sexuality, decrabs.
I’m sure I’m not sowing anything in your country.
Mister P
She is living as she wants to live. Be happy for her.
Kangol2
Lauren Boebert is a far right, not very bright RepubliCon/RepubliQanon ideologue. She has zero concern for those victims of the Uvalde massacre or, I would imagine, any.
This is the same woman whose own child had to call police begging for help because the child’s father had apparently “thrown him” across the room and allegedly done this before. Boebert also seemed rather blithe about the fact that this same husband also allegedly exposed his genitals to underage girls at a bowling alley!
If this is how she’s responding with her own child AND with other children in her community, why should anyone be surprised this soulless, horrible excuse for a Congressperson would throw away a pin commemorating one of our most recent, horrific national tragedies?
abfab
And her haute cuisine bistro in the middle of nowhere. A triumph!
RIGay
I would expect nothing less from Taliban Bobbert.
abfab
Did she choose the kids or the arsenal in the divorce?
Kangol2
Taliboebert! I like it!
mildredspierce
Hard little bitch. Wish Marge would kick her ass already.
abfab
On the East facing steps of the Cap Building, from the top….all the way down to the bottom. PLACES! ACTION!!!!
Would that be a cat fight or a mama bear fight?
Kangol2
Abfab, it would be two bytches fighting like dogs!
abfab
Like the ending, in The Exorcist.
abfab
Interesting. Yes, I have too much time on my hands this week, but take a gander at this kids! For more, GOOGLE Decrans:
KALITOWSKI, Judge.
Appellant Thomas A. DeCrans claims the award of custody of six of the parties’ seven children to respondent Mary E. DeCrans is not supported by the required findings or the law. He also claims the trial court abused its discretion in setting support and maintenance, dividing property, and not receiving certain evidence. We affirm.
it goes on……
Appellant claims that the trial court’s findings do not adequately address the children’s health or respondent’s alleged history of physical abuse of the children. See Minn. Stat. 518.17, subd. 1(a)(9) (1994) (court must consider “mental and physical health of all individuals involved”). We disagree.
The trial court awarded custody after addressing each of the statutory best interest factors and specifically finding that: (1) it received “significant testimony” on the mental and physical health of the parties and the children; (2) respondent is in therapy; (3) the children are in therapy to address the parties’ dysfunctional relationship and its impact on the family; (4) many of respondent’s psychological problems resulted from her trying to raise seven children while her relationship with appellant was “severely strained”; (5) respondent’s condition and her ability to care for the children have improved since the parties separated; and (6) respondent, “although not without flaws, has adequate mental and physical health to be the primary legal and physical custodian of the six youngest children.” We conclude the trial court’s findings are adequate.
Appellant claims that the trial court erred in awarding respondent custody because of her alleged history of physical abuse and because of her psychological condition.
decrans
Good God, you’re insane. I guess we can thank God you didn’t post random song lyrics this time. You need to ask your doctor about Depakote. It’s time to make the switch, Abs.
abfab
You pretending to be a pharmacist. Nice. Funny how you always make a bee-line to the drugs.
decrans
Because it’s painfully obvious you need them. Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed about, abs.
Bosch
I reiterate:
“They lack debate skills and lob childlike insults, too.”
Fname Optional Lname
No matter what happens in this country the GOP will deflect with something anti-LGBTQ. These tactics are so transparent that any conservative should be embarrassed and call them out for it but Trump seemed to turn back the clock on progress and so many follow his playbook by getting down and dirty. It will now take decades for us to go back to a time where progress is a possibility and the playground antics are not tolerated. Lauren seems to have memory issues…. wasn’t that long ago that one of her own children cried out for help when feeling unsafe at home. The fact that she is pretending to stand up for children is laughable.
abfab
We are one of their scapegoats. We’ve been here before. We will survivie. These are super dumb people.
scotty
obvious skank is obvious.