Boebert also made her own mother a grandmother at 36.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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[Walleye]

1. Hank done it this-a way

https://m.

[Meadowoak]

2. White trash!

[malaise]

3. It's OK if you're white

that is all

[TheRealNorth]

6. Exactly

[Freethinker65]

4. Breed, babies, breed

[3catwoman3]

5. At this rate, she will be a great-grandmother by the time...

...she is 53.

She has been a not-so-grand mother, so I'll call her a not-so-grand grandmother - NSGGM

[hunter]

7. I'm not gonna go there.

My grandma was sixteen years old when my mom was born.

That wasn't anything extraordinary then in the U.S.A. rural Wild West and my grandma had all skills she needed to run a household and get on with life. And that she did.

She was a welder in World War II, building and repairing ships for the Merchant Marine. When the war ended most of the women were sent home to become ordinary housewives but she refused. And they still needed her.

[JI7]

8. This wasn't during WWII and the bigger issue is hypocrisy

and her position on issues.

So we do need to go there.

[hunter]

10. It's always about the hypocrisy.

Even their Bibles say so.

[Torchlight]

9. Her sanctimony casts a large shadow over both her own actions as well as their consequences.

A 36 year old grandmothers chiding others about sexual morality reminds me of Wile E. Coyote hosting a gun-safety retreat.

[Sympthsical]

11. My mother had me at 17

She then gave me up for adoption (met her as an adult, lovely woman).

I don't think this line of commentary slaps nearly as hard as people seem to think it does.

A lot of the comments I've been reading full of judgement and shaming could be applied to her.

Empathy doesn't count if it's only extended to people you like.

[BlackSkimmer]

12. Not unlike the threads where posters make silly, sniggering remarks about Graham.

Because hypocrisy, you see.

That means they can let out all that homophobia they have and still seem to be a good Dem.

[Sympthsical]

13. Hypocrisy is ever the greatest crime

The way I see it, if the thoughts and words are in your mind and mouth, and you're just waiting for a suitable target, then you are that thing, be it racist, homophobic, sexist, etc.

You've simply learned just enough about where to target it so that ugliness can be regarded as socially acceptable.

I don't ever really see how it's any better.

Anyway, haven't been thrilled with the commentary. Boebert is a terrible person. We all know this. But circumstances - and comments about the kids especially - have not been great. People need to do better.

[femmedem]

18. I'm with you. n/t

[BlackSkimmer]

24. You nailed it.

[JI7]

15. Did she oppose sex ed ?

[Sympthsical]

22. Her parents were deeply Catholic

I'm sure they had their thoughts on the matter, and I'm sure those thoughts played a role in my being given up for adoption.

"They do it, too" is never a good excuse to let the ugliness out. It just means the ugliness is there to begin with.

[JI7]

17. Minorities are attacked for this all the time

[StevieM]

25. She probably wanted to keep you.

People in deeply religious communities are often pressured into giving up their out-of-wedlock children in order to "redeem themselves." Most birth mothers love their children and grieve their loss for the rest of their lives.

Lauren Boebert's "vision," as some are calling it, is most definitely not the vision of the GOP for America's future. What Republicans really want is a society where there is no sex outside of heterosexual marriage and EVERY SINGLE CHILD born out of wedlock is given up for adoption. They want a return to the Baby Scoop Era.

[Sympthsical]

27. Oh, for certain

In fact, they had another child 18 months after me and subsequently ran away with him from their parents. They didn't want to give another child up. I understand the circumstances completely and hold no resentment or ill-feeling about the decision.

I abhor Boebert about as much as I can abhor a politician. She is all insincere slick opportunism and virtuous exploitation. She's a loathsome creature of public life. And there's no part of what my biological parents dealt with I want inflicted on anyone else.

However, there's a lot of splash damage in the commentary. In the effort to get at her, other people in similar situations get swept up in the commentary, shaming, and mockery. I haven't been a great fan of what I've been reading.

Go after her, absolutely for certain. Just wish people would keep an eye out for who else might be getting hit.

[StevieM]

29. That is not at all uncommon.

A woman who loses a child to a coerced adoption will often get pregnant again shortly after. And having experienced the pain of losing the first child, she is determined not to suffer that fate again. The second time around she is a little more prepared to fight off the coercion.

I agree with the points that you have made. Well said.

I am curious as to the time period of your adoption, if it is OK to ask. Was it before 1973? Roe vs. Wade didn't just mark the beginning of legal abortion. It also marked the end of the Baby Scoop Era. That was also the point when it started to become much harder to bully women and girls into giving up their children. Until that point there had been intense pressure to relinquish. Of course, even after that point there remained certain pockets where the old ways carried on. That was especially true in devoutly religious circles. Ironically, it is much less common today among Catholics than it is among evangelicals and Mormons, even though the Catholic church was the most aggressive participant back in the day.

[Kingofalldems]

14. Looks like MAGAs don't like the critcism of her hypocrisy.

[WarGamer]

36. Do you have a link where she criticizes under age pregnancy?

To me it looks like scolding Karens on the warpath.

[Kingofalldems]

37. Her hypocrisy is self evident.

No links necessary.

[WarGamer]

38. Generally, I think she's a full on hypocrite.

I just don't like THIS line of attack...

Maybe because in MY family tree... we have TONS of teen moms.

Personally I'm happy that I'm nearly 60 years of age, and my Mom is still active and healthy and happy.

[bigtree]

16. why is this an issue?

...there was a time in the U.S., a generation or so ago, when young, unwed mothers would be forced by the stigma to abandon their children or place them in foster homes.

An earlier age in history would have them committed to institutions.

Today we mock them on Twitter because their mother, politics.

[JI7]

19. It's an issue becsuse Republicans made it an issue by legislating

issues related to women's health issues .

It's an issue because it's something they attack minorities for and want to deny help to entire groups.

It's obvious why it's an issue.

[bigtree]

20. this is harrassing children

...to get at their mother.

I'm not going to bother to say how I feel about her. This shouldn't be an issue against any mother, or their child. Not my mother, not her children, not anyone elses.

Find better ways to politic than attacking families.

[ZonkerHarris]

21. this. GOP polices are the opposite of the lives they choose to live while attacking others for their

same choices.

[yonder]

23. Agree.

[Torchlight]

26. I think the issue is her sanctimonious harangues against the sexual behavior of others

while simultaneously praising the very thing she criticizes-- an "ungodly and unchristian pattern of choices destroying the integrity of the traditional American family"

[WarGamer]

28. Lots of people in my generation and community were born to under young women, under 20

I don't see the big deal here...

There are PLENTY of legit reasons to go after LB and this is weak.

[niyad]

30. The soon-to-be "teen mother loving life" (direct quote from granny) is 15 or 16.

And granny is bragging about how absolutely wonderful it is.

[WarGamer]

31. And my Mom was pregnant at 17.

She said a big group of Senior girls were pregnant.

Anyways... not something I'd focus on when there are SO MANY legitimate nasty things she is responsible for.

[niyad]

32. Like voting against sex education? This is not about teen mothers. This is about

her lying, her sanctimony, her hypocrisy, and HER using that child to score political points with the reichwing.

[WarGamer]

34. I'm not going to be a "scolding Karen" on this topic...

She has said/done many things worthy of criticism and this ain't one.

[liberal_mama]

33. I can't stand Boebert, but I don't understand why this is so shameful

I made my mother a grandmother when she was 39 and my dad a grandfather when he was 38. They only had 2 kids, me and my sister, no sons, so they were thrilled when I gave them a grandson, even though I was a unmarried teenager.

And this was back in the 1980s! They were never ashamed or embarrassed and were very eager to help raise the baby.

I think we're moving backwards if having a baby while young is stigmatized so much now.

[WarGamer]

35. "Scolding Karens" gotta scold.

[niyad]

39. Fascinating. Pot, kettle.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

40. For this thread

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[GenThePerservering]

41. The "my mother" stories are irrelevant here

What IS relevant is that Bobo is a hypocrit. She legislates against commonsense sex ed, her son impregnates an under-aged teen but it's OK. They also have the resources to raise the kid, which many do not. Just like the welfare she supposedly was on as a kid but wants to deny others, she pulls the ladder up behind herself.

That's what matters.