In response to the club Q shooting many politicians have been responsible
in their messaging, Joe Biden put out a good statement.
Not everyone has though.
Lauren boebert does not represent Colorado Springs, but
her district is very close by and she had a message that on its face not too bad.
It said, the news out of Colorado Springs is absolutely awful,
this morning the victims and their families are in my prayers.
This lawless violence needs to end and end quickly.
Most of that is okay.
And if you don't think too much about it, it might be fine.
I mean, the fact that she is oddly vague about who was being targeted,
who the violence was against.
That's a little bit weird.
The fact that she tries to turn a targeted act of terroristic violence against
a particular group into just lawlessness generally is opportunistic politically.
But then you also have to bear in mind what she has said in the past when it
comes to the LGBTQ plus community.
AOC, very quickly pointed that out saying Lauren Boebert, 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.
And she also zoomed out and showed how frequently these links can be found
saying, after Trump elevated anti-immigrant and anti-Latino rhetoric,
we had the deadliest, anti-Latino shooting in modern history.
After anti-Asian hate with COVID, Atlanta.
Tree of life, Emanuel Buffalo, Colorado Springs,
connect the dots you can see these.
And here are some dots that we can connect when Lauren boebert is using her platform
to tweet out things like sending a message to all the drag queens out there.
Stay away from the Children, Colorado's third district pitching people who
are just living their lives participating in an art form and
a culture as natural predators against your Children.
But don't worry, Lauren boebert is trying to ward off these predators.
She tweeted take your Children to church, not drag bars okay.
And then she also used the fact that in the north Carolina
preschool they had flag flashcards.
She said we went from reading rainbow to randy rainbow in a few decades.
But don't dare say the left is grooming our kids because as we all know if you
have a flash card then you are trying to have sex with Children.
But again the message is always the same.
These people are predators.
They're coming for your kids.
They want to rape your Children.
What are you gonna do about it?
And we know what she would like to be done because she can't go five minutes without
posing with her and her family holding assault weapons of the sort that so many
of these shooters just love now posing all of your kids with assault weapons,
don't call that grooming them towards anything like a life of being obsessed
with firearms or anything like that.
But again, it is convenient for
her to in a very vague way pretending that she has a problem with this violence.
She has been actively stoking this hate all along.
And what do you think?
Yeah, and just as conservatives might go, well john when you look at that photo of
Lauren boebert with their family and all those firearms, it's not grooming,
it's just teaching them to understand what firearms look like,
what firearms safety is.
Just like how teaching kids about what L G B T.
Q. Plus people are and
what the community is like and how the experience is helping them understand.
It's not necessarily necessarily saying, hey, you need to do this for
the rest of your life.
It's giving you an understanding and like a knowledge base for this.
Now again it goes fetishization in every different way because parents want
to see their kids do whatever they want to do.
But I don't think like this whole,
again, this whole grooming kids narrative is dangerous because it's wrong.
It's just flat out there.
The whole mutilating kids narrative is wrong.
Everything they actually point out to when you actually get down to what people like
matt Walsh arguing about, it's just conflating statistics, conflating
arguments and stuff that you know, if you actually had to be done by a fact check or
you know, done in court just wouldn't hold up because it's all ridiculous.
So the only problem with that is that is the court of public opinion and
these lives can cost people's lives.
So that's where we are today, unfortunately.
Yeah. By the way,
when it comes to those statistics and misunderstanding things and everything,
that was a great, I'm gonna do the thing that I always do on monday.
It was a great episode of john Oliver months ago about this matt Walsh does not
like for a guy who has, who decided like a year and a half ago, he woke up one day
and he was like, we're anti trans now, okay, I guess that's my whole identity.
I don't care if people die like actively, you can kill as many people as you want.
I think this will help me with my audience and
I think maybe it will help republicans get elected, that our taxes can stay low.
Okay, fine.
Let's start killing trans people.
He doesn't know a damn thing about this argument and
john Oliver breaks it down very well.