Ex Army officer strips at anti-war burlesque show

We talked about this Brittany DeBarrows way back in 2018. At that time she was a US Army Reserve Civil Affairs captain and using her position as such to make political statements. Our very own ninja sends in an update. ninja says,

Well, guess what.

SHE’S BACK!

*Warning about the New York Post story. The video shows the women bare breasted doing a Strip-Tease in an Anti-War Burlesque Show*

I truly wished I’d listened to the warning. So consider this your second warning not to click through the New York Post link. I was thinking, “Burlesque shows are pretty hot…but it’s anti-war and they’re usually not…ah, it can’t be that bad. I’ll just take a peek.” DON’T repeat my mistakes. Learn from my failures.

Anyways, DeBarros is back, she’s less dressed, she’s still a socialist, and of course she’s running for Congress. From the Post;

Conservative Staten Island voters might take issue with this captain showing her privates.

Ex-Army officer Brittany Ramos DeBarros, a socialist looking to replace GOP Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis, bared more than her soul at an anti-war burlesque show at a Brooklyn bar, video obtained by The Post shows.

“In Staten Island where you have a disproportionate number of police, corrections officers and other law enforcement personnel who have served in the armed forces, this burlesque making fun of the armed forces will not go over well,” Hank Sheinkopf, a veteran Democratic strategist told The Post. “In the era when Democrats are seen as disorderly and out of control, all this does it make it more difficult to elect Democrats.”

The wild evening took place at Starr Bar in Flatbush, during which the retired captain and Afghan war veteran stripped off her camouflage uniform to nothing but red lingerie, as she gyrated to Edwin Starr’s iconic protest song, “War.”

Three women in pasties thrusted and heaved against DeBarros during the December 2019 performance, where the now candidate went by the stage name “Captain Unbecoming.”

After an extended twerk, she went fully topless — to the Disney tune, “Let It Go.”

DeBarros, who deployed to Afghanistan in 2012, became a fierce critic of the conflict and claimed she was almost court-martialed for “posting facts” about the war while still in uniform.

“I was a captain in the army. I was deployed to Afghanistan. I was like, ‘This is bulls–t,’” she told the Brooklyn audience, adding that after her return to the US she became committed to “anti-war, anti-imperialist [and] anti-racist work.”

DeBarros posted video of the performance to her Instagram page, using the hashtag #dropbootiesnotbombs.

“When you see me pause and cover my face in the first video it’s because I’m actually overwhelmed with emotion and how liberating it felt to angrily tear that uniform off in front of an audience,” she wrote.

“I’m proud of this show and it still brings me so much joy to watch myself step into long under-nourished pleasure and passion.”

DeBarros has raised more than $350,000 since January, according to FEC records — the majority of it coming from out of state donors. She is a card-carrying Democratic Socialist and wants to tap into the same energy which helped power Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Jamaal Bowman to their upset victories.

One of DeBarros’ fundraising appeals sparked backlash as she attempted to raise money after Hurricane Ida, citing the storm which left at least 13 New Yorkers dead as she pushed President Biden’s infrastructure bill.

Still, the cash will likely make her a formidable challenger in the Democratic primary, where she will face the district’s former Rep. Max Rose — also a military veteran and decorated first lieutenant.

DeBarros did not return a message seeing comment.

Most shocking is the Post’s inclusion of an official photo of DeBarros when she was a fresh faced second lieutenant. The transformation has been dramatic to say the least.

And for those wondering, here’s the kind of stuff that she “almost” got court martialed for. There’s no doubt this is against Army and DoD policy, but I guess she got a pass.

I really have to wonder what she thought the Army was doing when she signed up for her commission. According to her bio, she received an Army scholarship to attend the University of Miami when she was 18 and graduated in 2011. She signed on with the Army in 2007 then for classes that started that fall. She voluntarily took Army money to become an officer mere months after The Surge began in Iraq. She was a pre-teen on 9/11, so during all of her formative years we were at war. Not just one war, but two. Her particular brand of stupid would fit right in with some of the legendary mental giants of the New York Congressional Delegation like AOC.

 

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