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This Week in Schadenfreude: Boebert Tries to Be a Hawk, Ends Up as a Goat

There are three Republican members of the House who share two important commonalities. First, they very desperately want to send out tweets and do Fox interviews about those horrible trans people (particularly their new colleague, Rep. Sarah McBride, D-DE). Second, they are women, and so are in a position to patrol the women's restrooms, in hopes of catching McBride breaking the newly established "only people assigned female at birth can use the women's restroom" rule. The three Republican members we speak of, of course, are Nancy Mace (SC), Lauren Boebert (CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA).

Last week, while watching the women's restroom nearest the Capitol chamber like a hawk, Boebert "saw" McBride enter, and was so joyous, she damn near soiled herself. The Coloradan promptly ran to get Mace, so they could confront McBride together. Bloomberg reporter Billy House, who recognized what was going on, watched the bathroom in the interim, and noted that only four people came out of it, none of them McBride. Eventually, Boebert and Mace burst in, ready to lay down the law, only to discover that McBride was not there, and that it was a case of mistaken identity. Oops!

You already knew Boebert was a hypocrite, deeply concerned with policing people's genitals in the bathroom, and yet unconcerned about what goes on, genitally, in a public place—like, say, a theater in Colorado. You also knew that Boebert wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, and this serves as yet another reminder. Even if she can't figure out who is Sarah McBride and who is not, there is NO WAY McBride is ever going into that restroom, and risking humiliation plus handing the Witches of Itsadick a talking point they can flog for the next 6 months. For readers who are unaware, each member of Congress has a bathroom in their office, and that is where McBride handles her business.

In any event, Boebert (and Mace) ended up humiliated while in the process of trying to humiliate someone else for cheap political points. If that's not schadenfreude time, we might as well just shut this feature down.

Also, while we are on the subject, allow us to note something. To a greater or lesser extent, (Z) is the gatekeeper of the comments e-mails. Many e-mails on trans issues address legitimate questions, like "Can a sports ecosystem built around two genders be re-jiggered to accommodate trans folks?" or "What should the Democrats do, if anything, about the anti-trans attacks being wielded against the Party?" Some e-mails, on the other hand, boil down to "trans people bad." (Z) has very little patience for those, and what little patience he did have has shrunk considerably in the last few months, such that yesterday was the first time a correspondent was banned specifically for transphobia.

We have this item today, and will likely have another pretty big item on trans Americans and politics next week. So, it seemed a good time to remind folks of our expectations in terms of decency and civility (which, it should be clear, 99.5% of readers adhere to). That concludes this public service announcement. (Z)



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