Has getting kicked out of the Beetlejuice musical for vaping, talking loudly, and doing hand stuff caused a moment of reflection for Lauren Boebert?
Nope! If anything, she’s gotten worse since her public humiliation.
The gun-toting Colorado congresswoman proposed an amendment on Wednesday to reduce the salary of Shawn Skelly, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness, to one dollar. Why? As a punishment for Skelly being trans. During her tirade, Boebert made a show of misgendering Skelly, who she accused of “failing at his job and the basic responsibilities.” She added, “This delusional man thinking he is a woman, embodies and espouses the wokeism that that’s causing significant harm to our military readiness and troops’ morale.”
Boebert is being called a “transphobic idiot” on social media for her comments. Another X user wrote, “We all like to make fun of Boebert for the Beetlejuice incident, and for generally being a messy disaster. But it’s easy to forget- she’s also a deeply hateful bigot.” Here’s more:
She’s disgusting https://t.co/O8NfMIUIX3
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) September 27, 2023
girl what lowers my morale is people trying to take a moral high-ground after giving handies at the local all ages welcome beetlejuice play https://t.co/OSRekv2nZF
— e. (@whodathomo) September 27, 2023
Shawn Skelly served this country in uniform for 20 years in the United States Navy and has a wealth of high-level management experience in the federal government. https://t.co/eu1QxU6ann
— Craig Harrington (@Craigipedia) September 27, 2023
Rep. Boebert should be viewed as an embarrassment by Colorado, and Congress.
She shames Americans at large and women in particular. https://t.co/vG85gPHMar
— CaptainGarrett (@spclifton) September 27, 2023
She is the lowest scum imaginable, wtf https://t.co/nCmOa7o46C
— KING TUCK MVP SZN (@theorangethrone) September 27, 2023
Christ, what a selfish, performative bigoted fuck. https://t.co/fKRfwi90P7
— One Who Walks Among the Dead (@NitsuaSetab) September 27, 2023
This isn’t the first time that Boebert has made her hateful views towards the LGBTQIA+ community known. GLAAD reports that she “introduced legislation in the House to block research into gender-affirming treatments for transgender youth, claiming that trans youth are ‘sexualized and used for horrific sexual research’ when given life-saving puberty blockers.”