The amount of things that kid has done and has already faced like 0 repercussions is just sickening and sad. Really clear a two tier justice system.
Now now, he has a condition! Affluenza is a serious problem.
The party of family values and law and order
Of course they have family values!
As in “My family is valuable and everyone else can die in a hole”!
Child abuse is Jesus Approved! Otherwise her Voters would be FURIOUS!
“The child wasn’t injured.”
Yes they were, just like the abuser was, as a child. We live what we learn.
Part of his probation required Boebert to complete 80 hours of community service and he was banned from using controlled substances, Westword reported.
This isn’t the America I grew up in.
Sure it is! He has money. If he was poor or another race, his ass is grass.
“The child wasn’t injured” is categorically the stupidest excuse. Also, the child was 2 or 3.
As a severe child abuse survivor, I couldn’t be beaten daily or else I would’ve died or had serious and long lasting injury. You’re typically appeasing your abuser to get out of the beatings. The verbal abuse can still continue though. Please report your family and friends if you suspect child abuse; the child doesn’t deserve it and there are even physiological damages as a result of the anxiety of appeasement.
Holy shit, I didn’t know this asshole has such a long rap sheet. He’s a fucking career criminal. I know exactly how he’s stayed out of prison, but he should definitely be there. I would not be one bit surprised if he kills somebody one day.
Child abuse? Is this in relation to the minor he knocked up?
TBH I hate going after family like this, unless they’re explicitly inserting themselves in their parent’s politics. Feels gross.
So he should not have been charged with child abuse?
I’m not OP, but I’m guessing that they’re referring to the news story more than the law enforcement. I don’t think that this is newsworthy. Criminal charges happen all the time, but this one is only getting attention because his mommy is in Congress; I have no reason to believe that she’s involved in this crime in any way. I also didn’t give a shit about Hunter Biden’s drug addictions or gun crime or whatever else was going on with him. It would be newsworthy if these people weren’t charged because that would indicate that there are no consequences for family of politicians.
I think the child of a politician actually being charged with a crime is newsworthy.
You know what? You’re right. But it shouldn’t be. I’m wrong to assume that things are as they should be and that politicians’ families are not dodging consequences.
This ^ is what I meant.
If an adult family member of a significant political figure commits a crime, then there’s 2 big reasons why that case deserves extra scrutiny: 1) to check whether or not the family member is treated in a fair manner by the persecution and justice system (which could go both ways, they could escape justice because of their family connections, but they could also be extra persecuted for political reasons). 2) To keep track of whether or not the political figure their integrity remains intact.
If Tyler Boebert’s mother wasn’t a prominent republican politician, would he have escaped a prison sentence for his litany of crimes? Personally, I doubt it. And because he keeps escaping consequences, he keeps doing stupid things.
No.
If it’s like nepotism or fraud related to their position of power, yeah.
But this sounds like domestic trouble not instigated by the politician themself. Bad shit happens in families; I don’t feel comfortable looking at that with a magnifying glass unless they want to share (or, again, it veers into abuse of power), and that includes checking if they’re leaning on police.
To put it in another perspective, let’s say you are a wholesome politician with a daughter in an abusive relationship. Her partner gets her into drugs. You think that should be plastered all over daily beast or breitbart?
What if you had a younger kid in trouble? Would you want the entire world breathing down their neck and publicizing every single interaction with law enforcement under a microscope?
I don’t think stuff like that should be public, even if the cost is missing some political pressure; politicians are human, that’s just an unreasonable expectation of transparency. And if that is the expectation, the only candidates you’ll get are liars and crooks used to skeletons in the closet.
In your example the daughter has committed no crimes and made no victims, and she could even be considered a victim herself. Tyler Boubert has already made many victims and will continue to make new victims because his mother’s political clout is protecting him.
The morally right thing to do, would be to protect the victim(s) and bring the perpetrator(s) to justice. In the example of the daughter, the daughter is a victim and she and her family should get the time and space needed to heal. In Tyler Boebert’s cases, Tyler was never the victim, but always a/the perpetrator, with his mother enabling him. With the Boebert family, the morally right thing to do, is to decrease the odds of Tyler making new victims, which gives journalists a moral imperative to consider every new crime of Tyler, to be news worthy.
In Tyler Boebert’s cases, Tyler was never the victim, but always a/the perpetrator, with his mother enabling him.
Where are you getting that from!? The tabloid article, which lists off crimes like a wreck, a messy theft ring involving drug use, and an apparent case of abuse from his own father, which have plausible but lenient punishments.
In January 2024, Tyler called the police and said his father was assaulting him at their home. Jayson Boebert was arrested after he allegedly “pushed Tyler to the ground and pushed his thumb into his mouth,” according to a Garfield County arrest affidavit.
This isn’t some giant crypto con or insider trading from the Trump kids, it sounds more like a struggling young adult to me.
What if Tyler’s mom wasn’t a politician, but, I dunno, a high level, highly paid engineer? Should his screw ups be under a microscope with “a moral imperative to consider every new crime of Tyler, to be news worthy” just because of what his mom does? And the possibility she used her weight to try and help him? Attention like that is a great way to screw up a struggling adult’s life.
Your omissions and alterations are interesting.
The article doesn’t just mention “a wreck”, it says “In September 2022, Tyler flipped his father’s SUV while driving, leaving his passenger with multiple concussions and sever lacerations, according to reports.” If Tyler was driving recklessly (and he was), then the passenger was the victim and the driver the perpetrator. If you’re interested in hearing the story of the passenger: https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-car-crash/ The tldr: “If I did what he did, I’d still be in jail.”
The “theft ring involving drug use” doesn’t mention drugs in the article. And it being theft, means that there were victims of theft. Including apparently a broke woman with a brain tumor.
And also in the case of child abuse there was a victim (the child in case it isn’t obvious).
I don’t get how you can’t recognize the victims in these stories.
And what? Your idea is to just let these people do whatever the fuck they want? You’re gross for wanting to allow this gross piece of shit walk.
I think what the person meant was publicly attacking this dude, because we hate his mother. This wouldn’t even get a mention in the back of a newspaper if he wasn’t her son.
What he did was probably super bad, I don’t give enough of a shit to read the article about it. But the reality is that something equally bad happens literally everywhere all the time, but the only reason this gets any publicity is because his mother is a piece of shit.
As someone else commented on this thread. I believe the child of a politician actually facing repercussions is newsworthy.
Umm. Wow. That’s completely delusional.
Amazing how generous we are with our language when the criminal is Hitler-approved demographically.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, eh?
What about his laptop?
Well at least he wasn’t getting a handjob in a theater…that would have been embarrassing.
porn theater no less!
