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Lauren Boebert Hit With Defamation Suit By Group Who Said Worked As Escort (Original Post)
Quixote1818
Oct 2022
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I don't care if she was a sex worker or not. I care that she is fucking maniac.
marble falls
Oct 2022
#2
I know what youre saying... but honestly, we Democrats ran Franken out of the senate...
bsiebs
Oct 2022
#5
Tue, but because of the incessant and impotent need to show that we are above the fray.
Mike_in_LA
Oct 2022
#9
Doesn't that feed botherism? That both parties are the same? If the only way she can be put ...
marble falls
Oct 2022
#6
I mean, you can play the supposedly "above it all" principled position, but....
Mike_in_LA
Oct 2022
#8
Rather sexist you read that into what I said. This seems to be getting personal, have a nice day.
marble falls
Oct 2022
#12
GreenWave
(6,754 posts)1. Should have paid the $130 grand!
marble falls
(57,083 posts)2. I don't care if she was a sex worker or not. I care that she is fucking maniac.
Mike_in_LA
(187 posts)4. If Republicans are allowed to run Franken out of the Senate....
....then we need to run their actual loonies out of Congress until they cry "uncle".
Sex work is work. Fine. Whatever.
Run Boebert out on a rail nonetheless.
bsiebs
(688 posts)5. I know what youre saying... but honestly, we Democrats ran Franken out of the senate...
Mike_in_LA
(187 posts)9. Tue, but because of the incessant and impotent need to show that we are above the fray.
I'm not about that. This has had real consequences.
marble falls
(57,083 posts)6. Doesn't that feed botherism? That both parties are the same? If the only way she can be put ...
... out of office is because she was an escort - we're in trouble.
Mike_in_LA
(187 posts)8. I mean, you can play the supposedly "above it all" principled position, but....
...I exist in reality.
marble falls
(57,083 posts)10. Or you can be just like them ...
... Because I am not just not like them. I don't slut-shame, it's misogynistic - just like they are.
Mike_in_LA
(187 posts)11. Rather sexist of you to assume all sluts are female.
At any rate, it's not her sex work at issue. It's her hypocrisy. And she should be run out on a rail for it. Her sex work just so happens to be the vehicle that exposes her hypocrisy.
marble falls
(57,083 posts)12. Rather sexist you read that into what I said. This seems to be getting personal, have a nice day.
Mike_in_LA
(187 posts)13. You said "misogny"
Unless there is some alternative definition, there's no reading into your comment. It's evident.
TeamProg
(6,131 posts)3. Ha hah! nt
orangecrush
(19,555 posts)7. I have respect for sex workers
They provide a service and make an honest living.
They go home, take a shower, and are clean again.
Boebert can never wash the stink off.