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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has spoken out after video emerged appearing to show House Republican Lauren Boebert engaging in what the New York congresswoman described as "sexually lewd acts" in a Colorado theater on September 10.

Boebert and a male companion were thrown out of the Buell Theatre in Denver after repeatedly vaping, using a cell phone and "causing a disturbance" during a performance of musical Beetlejuice.

Surveillance footage from inside the theater appeared to show Boebert's male accomplice groping her breasts, and then being groped in turn by the Republican firebrand. In a statement, Boebert apologized for her behavior, which she claimed "fell short of my values," but made no reference to the alleged sexual acts.

Ocasio-Cortez responded to the controversy in a one-minute video posted to her 323,000 TikTok followers on Thursday, in response to a viewer's question.

She commented: "All I gotta say is I can't go out to lunch in Florida in my free time, not doing anything, just eating outside and it's wall-to-wall Fox News coverage and then you have a member of Congress engaging is sexually lewd acts in a public theater and they got nothing to say.”

"I danced to Phoenix once in college and it was like all over the place. But putting on a whole show of their own at Beetlejuice and there's nothing? I'm just saying be consistent. That's all I'm asking for. Equal treatment. I don't expect it, but come on."

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[–] [email protected] 187 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Living has gotta be tough when you know Ben Shapiro is updating your Wikifeet entry daily. Keep up the good work AOC. One day Ben will be gone and you'll be able to wear strappy shoes and sandals in peace once again.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Wikifeet is...real? Yup, we don't deserve the internet. Or earth.

Also, why are the feet fetishists some of the creepiest? I don't like kink shaming but why are they so weird?

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Dude, how long have you been online if wikifeet is what you think puts us over the edge of deserving internet?

You could honesty find at least 300 more taboo fetishes in under an hour without even getting into the dark web.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The tabooness of the fetish isn't what he's talking about but rather the personality of the person with the fetish.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

It's one thing to have weird kinks, it's another to be including non-consenting strangers into it

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My theory is that some of the men who really enjoy sucking girls' big toe are sublimating their desire to show oral affection to an entirely kind of blunt roughly thumb-thickness object.

I am talking, of course, about cigars.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If it is as real as you suggest, they really missed an opportunity to call it "Wikifeetia"

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[–] [email protected] 156 points 1 year ago (39 children)

I love her, downvote me if you must.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Say what you will about pronouns, sometimes they aren't clear.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Wait, what? I've just reread my comment like 50 times trying to figure out what you mean.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Her" could refer to AOC or Boebert. It is technically unclear.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

lotta people are going to be real mad about their upvotes when op follows up with "...and that's why Lauren Boebert is great" or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you referring to Boobert or AOC?

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember how much pearl-clutching there was over AOC. Dancing. In college. Oh, the horror! Imagine it! Dancing! All of a sudden every con became a town elder with a stick wedged in their posterior in the movie Footloose.

(By the way - I love to use those gifs of her dancing when replying to cons when the discussion is AOC.)

And now that Qbert is caught in a grope session, with children present, the cons seem to be mum. Weird.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AOC dancing in college, Vivek Ramaswamy rapping to Eminem like 2 weeks ago.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Shaka, when the walls fell.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Do they really have to say alleged sex acts? I mean, there's video. Are they suggesting that maybe the groping and fondling wasn't sexual in nature?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You’re right, the uh “activity” was definitely getting her boobs groped and flashed about- and giving a handy in return (both of which looked incredibly uncomfortable, just saying.)

That said, what the video shows is a crime, and there’s fairly strict ways they can write about potential criminals which more or less mandate tacking on qualifiers- like “allegedly”, at least until they can tack on the “convicted” qualifier.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A journalistic org will always say alleged until someone is convicted, even if the crime is "obvious"

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Thats a good point. She already apologized for getting caught as well. I think at this point its "verified exhibitionist sex acts"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe she lost a popcorn down in her titties and he was helping get it out. And to thank him she... gave him an OTPHJ? I got nothin'.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

gave him an OTPHJ? I got nothin'.

The kids are now referring to that as a Boebert.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe she was vigorously trying to get a stain ~~in~~ off his pants...

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Obviously she's completely correct. But she should realize at this point that it's a waste of time to ever expect conservatives to be consistent. It's not in their nature.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, but that's also where it's up to us to help call it out.

AOC's fighting exactly our fight, and the minute we get complacent, I say that's where we suck.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Right. Use these kind of hypocritical acts as ammunition with conservative supporters. They'll fight you. They'll get angry and defensive. They'll say it's not the same.

Don't let them get away with it. It is the same. Just keep saying that. Call them delusional. Call them out of touch.

Embarras the fuck out of them. They might not change their minds, but they will shut the fuck up and maybe even have second thoughts when voting.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

She literally said “I don’t expect it.”

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

God wants you to feel up people in public places, clearly.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why he gave us 10 fingers and only two legs (obviously dancing is less important).

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Didn't those weirdos also go on about AOC's boyfriends feet at some point? The right wing media and the GQP have absolutely no substance. Their whole existence is a huge drain on our society.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article really is just about how she responded to a thing. Not even mentioning in title if she did it in a noteworthy way or anything, just that she responded. Amazing

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I wish we had an AOC in the UK

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wish we had NHS in the U.S.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wish becoming a billionaire made your head pop like a party balloon releasing glitter and little "Winner!" paper notes.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

The lady has a point.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

AOC has a point. There is a double standard here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has spoken out after video emerged appearing to show House Republican Lauren Boebert engaging in what the New York congresswoman described as "sexually lewd acts" in a Colorado theater on September 10.

Boebert and a male companion were thrown out of the Buell Theatre in Denver after repeatedly vaping, using a cell phone and "causing a disturbance" during a performance of musical Beetlejuice.

In a statement, Boebert apologized for her behavior, which she claimed "fell short of my values," but made no reference to the alleged sexual acts.

She commented: "All I gotta say is I can't go out to lunch in Florida in my free time, not doing anything, just eating outside and it's wall-to-wall Fox News coverage and then you have a member of Congress engaging is sexually lewd acts in a public theater and they got nothing to say.

Boebert's team had initially denied she was vaping during Beetlejuice, but after footage emerged contradicting this, the congresswoman admitted she had been, but insisted there had been no deliberate attempt to deceive.

Boebert's male companion at the musical was later identified as 46-year-old Quinn Gallagher, co-owner of the Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar, which has previously hosted drag shows.


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