• spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    A report from the staff of Denver Arts & Venues says three people complained at intermission and included this tidbit about what Boebert said as she left the building: “stuff like ‘do you know who I am,’ ‘I am on the board’ (and) ‘I will be contacting the mayor.’ ”

    Boebert is not on the board of Denver’s Center for the Performing Arts.

    Boebert is the queen of the Karens.

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        It’s too bad another, less common label didn’t come into common usage. I’ve known a number of Karens (and a couple of Chads) that were just people.

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          Chad is a name I had never heard before rhe memes is it common in the US?

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          The majority of all names are good people, but if there is one name that has a higher percentage of assholes than others it is probably Karen

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            Totally unscientific, but I work in 911 dispatch and I’d say that off the top of my head probably the most common name I get for Karen-type calls is probably Carol, the male equivalent in probably Alan

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              Solid boomer names. I’d say Karen’s are more gen-x names. Like I’d think it was a popular baby name in the 60s through 80s.

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        I know exactly one Karen, and she’s a beautiful person, inside and out. I’m still gonna laugh at the Karen memes though.

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        Given how naming entitled women Karen is an insult to women actually named Karen, I propose we replace “Karen” with Boebert.

        For example: “She asked to see the manager because I wouldn’t honor this expired $1 off coupon for our competitor. Then she said ‘do you know who I am?!!!’ She’s such a Boebert.”

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    It is just a case study, as plain as plain can be, that all you need to have is confidence, to dupe a significant portion of the population into making you their leader.

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    She’s very pro-life.

    Boebert didn’t care if she ruined the musical “Beetlejuice” playing at the Buell Theatre for anyone else, and she certainly didn’t care if the pregnant woman sitting behind her had to breathe her second-hand smoke from a vape pen.

    “These people in front of us were outrageous. I’ve never seen anyone act like that before,” the woman, who lives in Denver and is in her 30s, said. It wasn’t until later during the play that someone informed her that the misbehaving theatergoer was, in fact, Boebert, a member of Congress.

    The woman says Boebert took multiple long videos during the first half of the performance. When she asked Boebert to stop vaping, the congresswoman simply said “no,” the woman said. Boebert was also kissing the man she was with, and singing along loudly with her hands in the air, the woman said.

    “At intermission, I asked, ‘Are there any other seats available? Can we sit somewhere else?’” the woman said. “The usher said, ‘You’re not the first complaint we had.’ ”

    When the woman returned with her husband to their seats, she said Boebert called her a “sad and miserable person.”

    “The guy she was with offered to buy me and my husband cocktails. I’m pregnant!” she said.

    But the behavior continued, with Boebert using her phone to record several segments of the second half of the show.

    https://www.denverpost.com/2023/09/13/lauren-boebert-beetlejuice-musical-denver-opinion/

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    How many times does she get off scott-free after these incidents before it stops being entitlement and becomes reality?

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      There is a very good chance she will lose next year. This kind of thing just increases those odds so hopefully more of it will be caught on camera.