MAGA Scandal Explodes, Lauren Boebert Caught with Staffers and Speaks Out

21 Sep 2026 · 25 min · 9 chapters

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The episode argues that Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert embodies “MAGA Christian” hypocrisy: she publicly attacks LGBTQ people while allegedly engaging in sexual relationships with staffers. A complaint reported by The Colorado Times Recorder alleges Boebert had relationships with staffers Navarro Ratzlaff (2021–Jan 2025), plus two other aides (including “Clarice”), with encounters during/after office hours; it also alleges a $200,000 payout and that mileage/hotel costs were tied to her campaign committee. Boebert denies the allegations and says she is not a lesbian.

Guests

Josh, Jennifer (married with two sons), and “Poms” (college football fan). They also discuss Nancy Mace posting “go cox” and Beau French/college football racism and hypocrisy.

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Lauren Boebert's Allegations Unveiled

0:04 to 1:12

Discussion on the allegations against Lauren Boebert regarding her relationships with staffers.

“Turns out that anti-gay, big Bible-thumping Christian Lauren Boebert likes to do scissoring when she's not thumping her Bible and acting like a nut in Congress.”

Hypocrisy in Politics

1:12 to 2:55

Exploration of the hypocrisy among Christian politicians and their private lives.

“Now we've got Lauren Boebert scissoring with her aides.”

Impact of Hypocrisy on Society

2:55 to 5:41

Discussion on how the hypocrisy of politicians affects the LGBTQ+ community and societal norms.

“Nobody cares who you have sex with, but your party.”

The Consequences of Political Lies

5:41 to 11:34

Analysis of the lack of accountability among politicians and its effects on their constituents.

“Oh, he banged a porn star and paid her off.”

Public Perception and Political Rhetoric

11:34 to 13:20

Examination of a congresswoman's provocative statements and the reactions it elicits.

“But this complaint didn't contain any attachments.”

Response to Criticism of Politicians

14:00 to 16:46

The hosts discuss the provocative behavior of politicians and public figures and the reactions it prompts.

“So this post goes out to all the liberals, libtards, socialist, leftists and trolls.”

Racism and College Football

16:46 to 18:59

A discussion on the intersection of racism and college football, examining recent controversies and societal implications.

“Like Josh said, you looked pretty good in your outfit.”

Wealth, Race, and Sports

18:59 to 21:46

The conversation shifts to the complex relationship between wealth, race, and the world of sports, highlighting contradictions in political attitudes.

“I get so tired of make a football great again, make everything great again.”

Critique of Stadium Ownership

21:46 to 22:34

The hosts critique the ownership of sports teams by billionaires and the implications for social equity and community involvement.

“He used his platform to fight for social justice and for equality.”
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0:04Angie Sullivan:Well, well, well. Turns out that anti-gay, big Bible-thumping Christian Lauren Boebert likes to do scissoring when she's not thumping her Bible and acting like a nut in Congress. Pop this up. MAGA Christian anti-gay representative Lauren Boebert, Republican of Colorado, accused of affairs with two female staffers and one male aide. Colorado Times recorder reported that. So to me, this surprises me. Zero. Zero. Living in a Bible Belt state, the bigger the Christian, the bigger the secrets. It's true every single time. So now let's do a little roll call. We have, what's her name? Kristi Noem, dog killer and husband, big titty Brian.

1:05Angie Sullivan:And also she's banging Corey Lewandowski in the jet. Big Christians, big Bible thumpers. Always, always this. Now we've got Lauren Boebert scissoring with her aides. Let me get into the details of this and then I want to get each of your takes. Pop this up. The complaint alleges the relationship with Navarro Ratzlaff ran from 2021 through January 2025 while she worked under Boebert's supervision with encounters during and after office hours in the district office in a vehicle, which she collected mileage reimbursements and in hotel rooms paid for Boebert's campaign committee and make similar allegations about two other aides.

1:46Angie Sullivan:The other aide's name is Clarice, which I personally found interesting because Donald Trump is so obsessed with Hannibal Lecter. And so I have to say to Lauren Boebert, Clarice, have the lambs, stop screaming. And somebody got a$200 ,000 payout, allegedly. All right, let's go, Pumps. Okay, here's the thing. Lauren Boebert, this doesn't surprise me at all, like you. She's on the rooftop screaming and yelling about how pro-family, anti-everybody that's not white Christian is. But you know what I thought of? If I gave Lauren Boebert credit for being smarter, because I don't think she's smart, but one could argue the reason she was jacking that guy off in Beetlejuice was a cover.

2:33she was trying to prove that she liked boys when everybody knows she was out in the car scissoring. So that's what I thought. But then I thought, she's not that smart. But here, it's just another example of depraved behavior behind the scenes and then standing on your Bible and acting like you're so wholesome. Lauren, here's the deal. Nobody cares who you have sex with, but your party. So mind your own fucking business and nobody's going to care about what you're doing, but you're full of hate you're full of cruelty you're full of hypocrisy so what you need to do is own your and then maybe you won't be such a terrible person i just want to inject before we

3:15Angie Sullivan:go to josh her behavior is not depraved that hypocrisy the hypocrisy is depraved if she wants to hang make out with clarice and scissor and snorkel and all of that swing for the fences we We are not kink shamers here. The hypocrisy is what's so incredibly depraved because the hypocrisy causes suicides. The hypocrisy of all day that these gay people are sinners and they are horrible. The suicide rate is much higher in the LGBTQ plus community because of hypocrites like Lauren Boebert. Josh. You really can't make this kind of stuff up. I mean, for a while there, she was sort of the face of part of this family values, MAGA Christian movement.

3:58I mean, she was a big part of that. And so she's, I presume, bisexual. Is that based on this complaint? Is that right?

4:08Angie Sullivan:There's a video of her asking the press, why is everybody so horny? I think that was projection because she's horny AF, clearly. And then she, she, you know, she's been on various, whether it's Twitter or interviews talking about her religion and finding Jesus and all of this stuff, you know, just the whole thing. And then you see, and I don't know how people don't see this, but you peel this back a little bit and you see conduct like this that's in complete opposite to any of it and how it's just so blatant and transparent. Like the way that these people lie about not just who they are, but their values and how they live and so forth.

4:52They hide behind this thing of religion when they're the ones that are knee deep and all of this shit. You know, I think she was out front on the drag queen issue and all this other stuff. And, you know, there's a big passage of ethics rules about Me Too when when during the Me Too movement that she presumably has now violated. And she was a big advocate for that. The hypocrisy is just so rich. I don't want to sound redundant here, but I don't know what else you can say about that. Just like, wow.

5:19Angie Sullivan:I think what it is, is it helps answer the question that so many people have that aren't embedded in Bible Belt culture. How do these people support Trump? How is it these people that talk about Jesus and God and church and family values, traditional values, how do they support Trump? And this is exactly how, because they see themselves in him. They see a permission structure. Oh, he banged a porn star and paid her off. So if you're Lauren Boebert, it's like he did it. He's delivering the country to God as a Christian nation. So I can do it too. I'm going to bang Clarice and then ask her if the lamb stops screaming.

5:59Angie Sullivan:And then I'm going to pay her$200 ,000. And so this is the type of stuff that we have to understand. in MAGA Christian world, there's no honesty anywhere in family units or in churches. These people lie to each other as families because they have eliminated the accountability part of anything. So Saturday night, it can be poppers, banging hookers, pulling trains, doing gay stuff. Sunday morning, Jesus, please forgive me. All is forgotten. In the real world, You have to work to be forgiven. You have to prove yourself to the person for whom you're seeking forgiveness or the higher power that you're seeking forgiveness, that you are learning, that you are evolving, that you are self-reflecting.

6:51Angie Sullivan:But for me, when I'm around these MAGA Christian families, it is very much if something bad happens, nobody talks about it. A rug is lifted up, it is swept under, and it is rolled back down. People would rather believe their lies about family members than know the truth because they don't have the skill set to do it. And so, of course, Lauren Boebert's horny. Of course, a lot of people are horny. There's nothing wrong with that. If she likes to scissor, I'm all for her being able to do that. What disgusts me so much is the hypocrisy. because in rural towns all over red state america are young queer gay kids and the people that bully them are the lauren boberts and the mike johnsons and look at mike johnson's private life look at lauren bobert's private life they bully them the lindsey grahams bully them a lot of people their first bully is their parents in rural america their parents are the first people that bully them for being gay.

7:54Angie Sullivan:And all of this just exacerbates this. And again, I mentioned to you, the suicide rates, when you get to trans, people are astronomically high and all for what? Because these people do all this shit too, and try to project all this shame onto it's disgusting. And then let's remember, you know, Lauren Boebert gave a dry hand job at the Beetlejuice, as Pumps mentioned, play the clip. So there she is, you know, vaping away, slap and tickle in public. It's just, you know, this is, and then these people are talking about drag queens and kids. Are there any kids in that movie theater? It's just the hypocrisy.

8:37Angie Sullivan:Josh and I had a policy a long time ago when we were raising our kids. And I've noticed a lot of people in the comic session, yes, Josh is my husband. We have two sons together. We had a policy. If somebody was overtly religious, like we're a big Christian family. We knew not to let our kids go over to that person's house. And we joked about it. It was like, they're not going over there. And words probably being thrown. That was an automatic ban. And I do want to say, God, how awful is a dry hand job? That's the worst. It's just a matter of. I mean, yeah, you're going to do all that shit in public for a dry hand job.

9:13I mean, that's like the worst of the worst. But Jennifer, you raise a good point. So these leaders in Congress, when they spew this hate about trans or gay or they create this fear, it trickles down to these kids in small towns and what their family members think and what they see if they see it on Fox News. And that has a huge impact on their lives and how their parents treat them. And then it creates this rhetoric and dialogue and you see other kids picking up on it and it creates this culture. And so this goes beyond just her own hypocrisy. It reaches kids all over the country that are shamed basically by their own government.

9:53They're taught that they're second class citizens because we must be different. We're weird. And everybody sees us that way. And there's something wrong with us. And that starts with people like her that are doing this shit. And it's disgusting. And another thing is it relates to Trump people. There's two things that is a thread with why their conduct never changes. Number one, there's never any consequences. There's never a consequence. And number two, there's never accountability. And when you have accountability, then you go through this morphing process of having some contrition and humility and you learn something because I've made a shitload of horrible, horrific mistakes.

10:32And if I came up here and preached about being this great person and doing this and doing that, I would be lined with hypocrisy. But I have atoned for the things I've done. I've tried to wake up every day and be a better person. These people never, never do that. They lie with impunity. They're never held to any sort of consequence. And there's zero accountability in morphing into a better person. Sorry. Just to add to that, Josh, not only do they lie about it, then they make themselves the victim against the people that are telling them the truth. They're like, not only are they lying, I am a victim.

11:08And it's like, are you kidding me? And I just want to point out one thing. Lauren Boebert is notoriously broke. I mean, can't pour piss out of a boot because she doesn't have a boot. Where did she get$200 ,000? Is that coming from the taxpayer slush fund?

11:25Angie Sullivan:No, I think I read and want to ask Ryan, but I believe that I read that it was possibly campaign funds. Don't quote me on that. OK, but I have that question. I'll have that fact check. But this complaint didn't contain any attachments. There's no financial docs. I don't think that were associated. This complaint was made by a third party to Congress. So it's not clear if they're going to formally open an investigation or not. I mean, I can see them not just because it would typify the hypocrisy of their party. But I think that remains to be seen. And Lauren Boebert has denied allegations. She put out some batshit video to the journalist and she also said she is not a lesbian.

12:05Angie Sullivan:But I really want to stick with this point for just a second, because there are so many people in these Bible Belt states that are queer, that are lesbians, that are trans, that are gay. And those states are set up to bully these kids. It is institutionalized bullying from every front, from these hate academy Christian schools. Now they're doing it in public schools in certain states. And then you have the churches that are absolutely the worst messengers of all of this, and then their own governments. and the suicide rates of these young kids is unacceptable unacceptable and to have politicians that want to legislate sexuality and legislate morality tells us more about that person than it does any queer person anywhere and i just want to remind you these are the these are the group of people that get triggered by somebody that's dyed their hair blue right they go to starbucks and they see somebody that has blue hair and it is 911 houses on fire.

13:12Angie Sullivan:These are the biggest bunch of pussies on the planet. Blue hair triggers these people. Mind you, the person they worship does their hair orange. All right. Speaking of just crazy Christians, Nancy Mace goes to college football game this weekend and pop this up. She says, go Cox. And there she is on the field. She then puts out this video after the go Cox thing. Right. And this is, this is a person. She's a representative in Congress. Okay. And then she puts out this shit, play the clip. I've had some time to reflect on my attendance at a college football game last night and then had the nerve to tweet about it.

14:02So this post goes out to all the liberals, libtards, socialist, leftists and trolls. I don't think women should attend football games or cheer for their team with their college football. Chant, I want you to know that I've unpacked your lived experiences.

14:19Angie Sullivan:OK, so, you know, here she is, the libtards, the leftists, blah, blah, blah. I want everyone to know this triggers me zero. I don't care. Call me whatever you want to. But this is the same political party when we call them fascists, when we call them cold-blooded killers, when we say they are acting like Nazis that has stage five meltdowns. And there's a lot more veracity behind the claims I just made about the people that she goes to bat for. But as a sitting congressman, she did that intentionally to be provocative with her cleavage, which I don't give a shit. I'm not a prude. I don't care where whatever you want.

14:54Angie Sullivan:You want to say go cocks do it. But again, you're saying go cocks. When the people that you are trying to get to vote for you are the abstinence only purity culture freak shows. I'll jump in first. I thought the video for sure was going to be her follow up for announcing an OnlyFans account. For sure. For sure. So I'm shocked. I'm shocked that it was this bullshit about libtards. I thought for sure there was going to be a link. We could all go sign up and so forth. But I think this goes back to the Lauren Boebert thing. Again, you morph all these people into the Christian MAGA family values, Republican cult that they're in.

15:37And it's just all the same shit. I mean, she knew what she was doing when she posted that picture with her tits hanging out saying, go Cox. And we don't give a shit. I don't care. I mean, she looked pretty good in it. If you want just kind of a guy's perspective, I mean, she's pretty attractive. So get it. Let's go. But I mean, to then be so offended to be such as Jennifer would say, such a titty baby about out what liberals say and do. I mean, it's amazing. Like, come on, get over it. And I'm still waiting on that OnlyFans. I'm going to keep tracking that because she didn't get reelected. So she's going to be on the hustle here pretty quick.

16:20At least cameo. I just, I mean, here's the thing. I go back to all, first of all, it's MAGA that doesn't want women in sports, at sports. They want them in fitness and in the delivery room, but that's not what I was going to say. The point that I wanted to make is, if you're going to be a politician, Nancy Mace, you put go cocks out there, you know, it's on purpose, whatever. Why do you give a fuck what anybody says? Like Josh said, you looked pretty good in your outfit. You're saying go cocks. You've lost every election you've run for of late. Nobody likes you. Nobody's going to vote for you.

16:54Fucking own it. Put your shit out there. Why are they so thin skin? If you're going to be a public figure, You don't get to cry about how your feelings are hurt all the time and you're under attack.

17:06Angie Sullivan:Shut the fuck up and ignore it like everybody else. Well, and she just she has to go back to and we're going to hear this a lot more now until November is the libtards, the leftist, the socialist, the communists. I mean, that's all they have are insults for the adults, the children who are running the government. All they have are childlike insults for the adults that want to take back over the government. All right, Poms, I want to get your take on this because you're really into college football. You're really into college sports. And you had Beau French who ridiculed University of Texas football fans that were celebrating because some of them had brown skin.

17:47Angie Sullivan:And now the very Department of Education is basically endorsing Beau French's racism. Pop this up. Make college football great again. and it shows Texas and it looks like it shows a bunch of white people. And this is directly related to Beau French. And in a really shocking turn of events, Karl Rove came out against Beau French, which I guess I say welcome to Karl Rove, but I will always hate Karl Rove forever because of what he did in 2004. in 2004 john kerry was running against liar and ward criminal george w bush and he got the gay marriage gay marriage amendment on a lot of state ballots and he drove up homophobia all across the united states of america and now all of a sudden he wants to say oh this is too far brother you incubated this right you you incubated this you were huge all the george w bush people that are now all of a sudden like, oh, this is going too far.

18:53Angie Sullivan:Y 'all incubated this shit. Well, here's the thing. I get so tired of make a football great again, make everything great again. Everything they say they're going to make great again immediately turns to shit. And the irony with college football is they now, the players are getting paid. They don't like it. So they want to put a cap on the players. The players in college football are predominantly African American. So people like the person that posted this and all around the country, especially in the SEC, which is the Deep South Bible Belt for the most part, they want their schools to profit off of Black people playing in sports.

19:38They want to control what's going on. They want to attend. They want to cheer on. They want to celebrate these Black athletes, but yet they hate diversity. They want to take rights away. They don't want people of color to vote. So, I mean, it's just the hypocrisy is really, really stark in college football. And I'll, I mean, a lot of sports for that matter, but particularly here. And I just thought with that French post, I thought, you know, we're all shocked by it. And we're just like, people in Texas were like, that's my guy. And I'm a little bit. I wasn't shocked by it.

20:18Angie Sullivan:Growing up in Oklahoma, that shit doesn't surprise me one bit. Yeah. I'm a little bit confused. What people can you take money from like in Saudi Arabia and it's okay. And then if they're students at the university of Texas, it's not okay. So I'm a little bit confused about how these Republicans sort of view this ethnicity issue. It's this, you guys, it's that all of a sudden, it's kind of like what Shaq did. At some point, you become rich that that is your identifier. And that's the group you belong with, multimillionaire and or billionaire. And being black or brown and all of those things take a back seat.

20:55Angie Sullivan:This is why the Trump regime and other American administrations, previous administrations have played patty cake with the Saudis. And the Saudis funded 9-11. The Saudis killed Jamal Khashoggi. Why didn't George, Why didn't Donald Trump go after Jamal Khashoggi or put sanctions on Saudi Arabia? Because Jared was BFFs with MBS. And so if you're rich and you're Muslim, then you're not a jihadist, even though, I mean, the evidence that I've seen, it seems like the Saudis are pretty big into all that shit. But if you're rich, then that's fine. Bomb our towers, do what you want. But as it pertains to sports in particular, a lot of the most racist people I've ever or Met are also huge, huge sports fans.

21:40Angie Sullivan:And Colin Kaepernick, what he did is going to age so incredibly well. He used his platform to fight for social justice and for equality. And all of those owners, and the fact that they're called owners is really disgusting to me, but they all colluded together to silence him. And if the players at some point that we're all reaching a boiling point here. They have a lot more power than these collectively, than these owners do. And I just want to throw this out there too. I'm so tired of giving billionaires assists with taxpayers paying for all these stadiums. Yeah. You know, and then they own these teams.

22:24Angie Sullivan:It's bullshit. It's total bullshit. We need some socialism with these sports teams. The cities that they're from are the cities that should own them and not some billionaire that's a dick racist. And then we see the stadium owners controlling content like we did in the, in the sheer Ed, um, sharing debate, you know, because they basically were the ones that put their foot down and said that Macklemore couldn't perform, you know, he got a coalition of the owners. And so that's scary when they're controlling the content of what performers can say in, in those venues. That's frightening. I completely agree.

22:56Angie Sullivan:All right. That's all we have. Like, subscribe. We'll be back later.

23:06Thank you.

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