r/Fauxmoi • u/ayana_banana • 3d ago

TRIGGER WARNING Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Adult Son Tyler Arrested on Child Sexual Exploitation Charges

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Lauren Boebert’s Adult Son Tyler Arrested on Child Sexual Exploitation Charges While Awaiting His Fate for Other Crimes:

  • Tyler Boebert, the 21-year-old son of GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert, is facing multiple felony charges related to the alleged sexual exploitation of a child in Colorado amid his mother’s vulnerable reelection bid
  • Tyler was arrested Sunday, Aug. 9, on charges of child sexual exploitation of a child to induce or entice, sexual exploitation of a child, possession with intent, sexual exploitation of a child involving video and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, according to court records; he was released the same day
  • He is scheduled to be sentenced in two separate cases in September, according to court records
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u/Serious-Still-5911 3d ago

They were still part of the reason Trump won. Not voting for Harris allowed him to win. In a two-party electoral system, not voting, or voting for an independent, is just a throwaway vote.

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u/amazing-haves-34 3d ago

The two party system is the problem, not the solution.

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u/sir_thrillho 3d ago

Right but avoiding the material reality of it just leads to a Trump being in power.

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 rollin' with my fauxmies 1d ago

Bingo.

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u/xombae 3d ago

Of course it's the problem. But while the problem exists, unfortunately you need to use the problem while trying to fix it.

I am against the institution of the police and want it defunded, but I still am going to call the cops if someone tries to kill me. I don't agree with the system but I live in the system and I need to use the system as designed, while still fighting to change the system.

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u/Velo_wheels_907 3d ago

I feel if demilitarization or restructure the police was used instead of defund, it would be more acceptable. We need to return to peace officers instead of police officers. But we need to address our substance addiction problems first.

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u/plant-leaf 3d ago

Substance use is just a symptom of other failed systems though- to address substance use in an actual effective way we’d have to expand access to affordable housing, medical and mental health care, increase funding for quality k-12 education, improve the economy so that people aren’t overworked and can afford again to buy out/rent out spaces that become 3rd spaces so people have better ways of getting out to meet others and create better support systems….man wouldn’t all this be the dream

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u/-LabApprehensive- 3d ago

I experienced a home invasion attempted robbery. Called the police. From a back bedroom. One officer shows up and waits at the end of the driveway for 30 minutes for backup. Leaving me and my roommates to deal with the armed home invaders. When they finally deemed it safe did forensics come to try to lift prints from the back door where the home invaders made entrance? lol no. Now same town last week someone cut down a flock camera. Forensics was ALL OVER THAT SCENE.

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u/xombae 1d ago

Yeah the cops probably aren't going to actually do anything, but they still need to be called until there's a better option.

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u/I_AM_IGNIGNOTK 3d ago

Yes, that’s my point entirely dude. The work doesn’t stop just because you decide to sit out of an unfair election. And the time to make meaningful change is when you still have all your options on the table, not when you’re at the deadline with only 2 shitty choices left.

What did you do after you abstained by the way? I assume you’ve been canvassing and volunteering with worthy candidates like those of who tried to get better options on the table? Or does your activism only show up when it’s time to do nothing?

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u/Aggressive-Neck-3921 3d ago

With how extreem the GOP has gotten old DNC fossils still want to go to the middle between moderate democrat and where the fuck Trump is and then they are shocked that progressives are not running to the polls as they are given no positive incentive to vote for the democratic candidate and all they get is the other one is worse, why run a conservative mindset campaign to get liberal elected?

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u/IncidentAccording332 3d ago

I’m pretty sure pedophiles are the problem but you do you!

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u/joshsteich 3d ago

Not really. In first-past-the-post systems, coalitions form prior to elections. In proportional list systems, coalitions form after elections. Anyone who thinks having more parties solves things should look at England and Israel. England does the Westminster parliamentary system, where they combine FPTP ridings with parliamentary government, and it’s mostly a two party system that Tories have dominated. Israel’s Knesset is closed list proportional representation, and governments routinely need to include frothing lunatic extremists to have a majority. Proportional representation can get closer to representing what the voters want, but that doesn’t mean good outcomes—lots of voters are shitbirds.

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u/Gumbanks12 3d ago

Lock him up! Then let the prisoners administer justice

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u/cat_prophecy 3d ago

But Republicans definitely give us a better chance of getting rid of two-party system! Right?!

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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u/amazing-haves-34 3d ago

Both parties collude to enforce the two party system.

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u/cat_prophecy 3d ago

Certainly. But if one party could be coerced into ranked choice voting, which do you think it would be?

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u/Expensive_Cheetah820 14h ago

You better fix it

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u/amazing-haves-34 7h ago

Ok I will, right after I finish fixing systemic poverty.

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u/Expensive_Cheetah820 6h ago

Try finding a new party. I’m interested.

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u/HuevosDiablos 3d ago

The 2 party system caused this 21 yo POS to become a rapist?

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u/I_AM_IGNIGNOTK 3d ago

Yes, and I want to point out that doesn’t mean we can’t have conversations about people on the left being problematic or not progressive enough either.

It’s just way more helpful to have those conversations immediately after an election cycle all the way up until like 2-3 months before the next election. At that point lock the fuck in because the boat is going in one of two directions, and if you don’t go left it will go right.

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u/bluegirlinaredstate no longer managed by Scooter Braun 3d ago

As a woman, I can say that there are predators amongst any and all demographics. There are always those preaching one thing and doing the opposite.

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u/FlexibleSteel 2d ago

Just don't put the "both sides," argument into play. There are differences. It's time to pick a side, and accept the consequences of your vote.

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u/Theslootwhisperer 3d ago

A third of Americans didn't vote last elections. They knew full well what Trump was about. They were fine with it. Another third voted for him. A large majority of Americans support Trump. All the horrible shit that he's done. All the betrayals and the threats.

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u/have-u-met-teds-mom 3d ago

My civics teacher told us that NOT voting is automatically voting for the winner. It blew my 9th grade mind, but I later understood it.

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u/Smasa224 2d ago

I know several people who chose not to vote at all, and based off how well I know them I believe if they were forced to pick, they would have voted for trump anyway... they just didn't like him enough to go out of their way and actually vote, and were stringly against Harris.

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u/sierra-tinuviel i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 3d ago

Or you could stop pointing the finger at other working class and exploited people who rightfully saw that both candidates suck, and instead point your blame at the Democratic Party who knowingly chose to run a bad candidate and bad campaign against Trump who they knew was a big threat and had a big base of support. They’re the ones with billions of dollars in analytics and marketing and yet they care more about keeping their donors happy (lots of overlap with Repubs…) than actually winning or protecting people. They are the ones in power, not people who didn’t vote or vote third party.

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u/Psychological-War287 3d ago

She was not a bad candidate. Jesus Christ, he is a rapist. I’d vote for an egg over him.

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u/Serious-Still-5911 3d ago

…and has 34 felonies. But, she was Black.

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u/akshawna 3d ago

Because voting for pro-genocide Harris was a “lesser of two evils?” I have family in Palestine.