TimHauck

Strike thinks the civilians deserved it

OK

Do you think her appearance has changed drastically in at most 4 months? It’s not like she really looked feminine in the interview or something

No. I never said anyone got beat up here, I was just making fun of Weepaws. You don’t have to take everything so seriously

Jussie Smolett

She gave an interview about the incident https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14997895/teen-gerika-mudra-buffalo-wild-wings-proof-girl-gender-minnesota.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_mailonline

Was the waitress @weepaws? I remember when he said he was going to beat up men that tried to use women’s restrooms

Did you read the thread I bumped where @Horseman fell for fake news then told us to leave him out of it? Lol

Florida: don’t say gay! Also Florida: We’ll pay for you to go to Christian school to learn about Jesus lol

100 arrests in 6 days. You fell for fake news again, shocker

Lol

So do you think this was a hate crime against liberals?

Which random person on YouTube said this?

Over/under on additional posts in this thread by GC righties (I’ll count @easilyscan’s): 5

Lol gerrymandering is not just a tactic of the left

Do you think it’s bad when either side does it? And yes, this is bad.

It “never works out” because righties here refuse to admit when they’re wrong. People like you and @BrahmaBulls are such snowflakes that apparently you put me on ignore because you can’t admit you were wrong, lol.

Shooter was MAGA https://meidasnews.com/news/austin-target-shooting-suspect-shared-slew-of-right-wing-memes

Random, according to police. https://apnews.com/article/austin-texas-target-stshooting-f657a80f997ee7d2c78ebf61f0c58008 Good guess! Was carrying a bible and said he was Jesus.

Some interesting background here (and the second link within): https://thespacecoastrocket.com/bps-rejects-rehiring-of-teacher-cleared-to-teach-despite-allowing-educators-with-more-serious-misconduct-to-remain-in-classrooms/ TL/DR: -Student in question used the preferred name as far back as 8th grade, but the Mom did not file the complaint until a couple months before they were set to graduate high school and turn 18. Mom never brought the matter to the teacher, other teachers, or school administrators. (And yes, that is a photo of the mom wearing a poop hat) -Teacher taught student since 2022, this law didn’t come about until 2023 -Article notes that the district has been much more lenient with teachers charged with other criminal acts, even including child neglect. And notes that one of the most outspoken board members about Ms Calhoun, fought the firing of a different teacher who refused to take a drug test -Teacher says she never discussed gender topics with the student, and when informed of the complaint, immediately told the student she would have to call them by their birth name -During the course of the investigation, other students in the class were interviewed by HR about the teacher’s use of the other student’s preferred name and required to give written statements, without parental approval and thus likely in violation of the same law. -Due to the teacher’s spotless prior record and willingness to abide by the law, the initial investigation recommended only a “Letter of Reprimand.” But instead her contract was not renewed.

Good article from conservative Emily Jashinsky about how Israel is losing support even from people on the right. Jerry and Strike think this isn’t happening. Or maybe we’ve moved onto it’s not widespread. https://unherd.com/2025/08/israel-is-losing-the-us-front/?lang=us The year is 2014, and you’re attending one of the conservative movement’s many annual conferences. Rubber chicken has been served at a dinner honoring some think tank’s aging Cold Warrior. As coffee is poured, conversation at your table turns to President Barack Obama’s dust-up with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid the latest Gaza flashpoint. Everyone agrees Obama is undermining a key ally, but you, a mainstream Hannity-watching conservative, disagree. “What has been happening to innocent people and children in Gaza is horrific,” you contend. “And the United States should not be involved in fighting nuclear-armed Israel’s war with Iran.” Yeah, no. That would go over about as well as calling for 35% tariffs on Canada. The year is 2014, remember? There’s a reason Pat Buchanan didn’t get an invite to the event, and the staunchly isolationist libertarian Ron Paul was mocked as a crank during the keynote. You’d probably already be in the parking lot — or a shouting match — by the time your tablemates tucked into their slices of mediocre cheesecake. The quips you made at the table are real quotes, however. They come directly fromRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s X account this summer, as the Gaza war approaches its two-year mark and “food supplies in Gaza have dwindled,” per a headline in The Wall Street Journal. Greene, one of President Trump’s staunchest supporters in Congress, shattered another GOP taboo last week by describing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in Gaza as a “genocide.” A similar trend is afoot on the Left, meaning that Israel now faces a bipartisan pincer movement of disapproval and alienation. Greene is far from alone on the Right. Steve Bannon, the former Trump political consigliere and one of the most popular Right-wing podcast hosts in America, recently argued, “Netanyahu’s government is out of control.” On Bannon’s show, former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince accused the Israeli military of intentionally targeting a Catholic church in Gaza and declared: “The time of subsidizing the IDF as the American taxpayer must end.” After that church was hit, Daily Wire host Michael Knowles addressed the Israelis in lament: “You’re losing me. You’re losing me, when you strike churches, the only church in Gaza, even if accidentally, but especially if not accidentally, you’re losing me.” At Turning Point USA’s summer student conference, the group hosted a debate on the subject between comedian Dave Smith and columnist Josh Hammer that exposed the movement’s divide. Smith, who’s called Ron Paul “the greatest living American hero,” was greeted with cheers from many attendees for criticisms of the Jewish state that would have fallen on deaf ears — if not hostile ears — before Oct. 7. Florida’s Rep. Randy Fine — perhaps Israel’s most vociferous defender in the House of Representatives, who even earned a rebuke from the American Jewish Committee over his enthusiasm for starving Gaza — has a GOP primary challenger in Aaron Baker. “I do NOT support starving children,” Baker postedrecently, adding: “I do NOT support punishing [Gazan] citizens for having the worst government in existence.” Tucker Carlson, another of the country’s most popular broadcasters, released an episode of his podcast on Wednesday with University of Chicago scholar John Mearsheimer, titled “The Palestinian Genocide and How the West Has Been Deceived Into Supporting It.” Carlson and his guests have been consistently critical of Netanyahu’s government for months. That isn’t even to address the outright anti-Semitism of other fringe voices with significant social-media followings. Of course, the horror in Gaza now is not an apples-to-apples comparison with the 2014 clash between Israel and Hamas. But that’s kind of the point. The war since Oct. 7 has claimed the lives of at least 18,500 children, according to a new Washington Post analysis of the Gaza Health Ministry figures. According to the Post, that means “Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during the war.” The deaths included 953 babies who never made it to their first birthday; another 943 never made it to their second; 972 never made it to their third. The sheer scale of the misery, as Israel now controls a wide swath of Gaza and starvation mounts, challenges modern definitions of proportionality — even as Americans are horrified by the evil tactics of Hamas and continue to sympathize deeply with hostage families. Recent attacks on Christian communities in Gaza and the West Bank are further incensing many in the United States. Speaking of 2014, the Obama administration veterans at Pod Save America are issuing their own mea culpas from the Left. “Barack Obama signed a 10-year [Memorandum of Understanding] for $3.3 billion a year. So we are part of the problem here. Let’s correct it,” said co-host Tommy Vietor this week. Vietor, who served under Obama as a spokesman for the National Security Council, added, “When the war ends, we are not going back to the pre-October 7 status quo.” Challenged on X by a critic who accused him of exacting a grudge against Netanyahu from the Obama years, Vietor replied, “Or … stay with me here … the entire world is horrified by what we’re witnessing in Gaza, which is why this conversation is happening now and not back in 2015.” There’s little insight about the Right to be gleaned from Pod Save America. But in this case, Vietor is correct that revulsion at the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is no longer limited to progressives. This nationwide movement is so sweeping that it’s dragging people on the Right away from Israel, even as some conservatives triple down on support for the war. What’s eroded on the Right, above all, is the stigma that used to surround criticism of Israel. Gallup has been tracking public opinion on the Gaza war since its earliest weeks. On Tuesday, the firm released stark new findings. “American approval of Israel’s military action in Gaza has fallen 10 percentage points since the prior measurement in September, and it is now at 32%, the lowest reading since Gallup first asked the question in November 2023,” read the report. “Disapproval of the military action has now reached 60%.” To be sure, Gallup’s survey found a stunning gulf between Democrats and Independents on one side and Republicans on the other. 71% of Republicans still approve of Israel’s military action in Gaza, but that number is only 25% among Independents and 8% among Democrats. For what it’s worth, that same poll found Trump’s approval rating has declined 17 points among Independents since the start of his second term, and only 27% approve of his handling of the conflict. While that number means less to Republicans in red states and primary elections, in swing districts, battleground states, and nationwide races, it’s enormously significant. Independents split evenly between Trump and Kamala Harris last November, but that was itself a gain for Trump, because he erased Democrats’ nine-point advantage from the 2020 election. Back in 2022, before the war, Independents fell at 71% when it came to favorability for Israel, squarely between Republicans at 81% and Democrats at 63%. It’s true that even in 2024, Israel rankedlow among voters’ priorities when choosing between candidates, but it’s also true that Republicans counted for years on reflexive support for the Israeli government from moderates and the party faithful. Now the incentive structure has been transformed. And for the GOP, that fissure looks poised to get much worse. A Pew survey this spring found that “Republicans under 50 are now about as likely to have a negative view of Israel as a positive one (50% versus 48%). In 2022, they were much more likely to see Israel positively than negatively (63% and 35%, respectively).” That’s a shocking change, especially as younger generations begin to comprise more of the electorate. Bannon himself put it best when he toldPolitico this week, “It seems that for the under-30-year-old MAGA base, Israel has almost no support.” Bannon further believes it’s not just Young MAGA but that “Netanyahu’s attempt to save himself politically by dragging America in deeper to another Middle East war has turned off a large swath of older MAGA diehards.” It’s precisely the Israeli hard-liners’ awareness of this generational problem that impels them to act in a maximalist fashion in Gaza and beyond. Better to strike big now, the thinking goes, before the generational turnover empowers Israel-skeptics on both sides. The problem for Jerusalem is that the harder they go, the more they intensify the sense of alienation in America, the one country whose public sentiments are downright existential for the Jewish state.

Thanks for confirming it was stupid of you to bring that up in that thread.

Any news on Epstein today?

Why am I not surprised the guy who thinks someone who allowed a 3 year old to play outside by himself with an uncovered pool then ignored said child for 9 minutes shouldn’t be punished at all, also thinks a teacher should be fired with no progressive discipline for calling someone a name they wanted to be called.

That’s fine. My point in posting this thread is that based on what I’ve read she seemed like a good teacher (for example, there have been numerous protests from folks demanding she be re-hired). She apparently had 10 years of excellent employment reviews. I’m fine if she gets some sort of punishment for this, but firing seems harsh. Especially for a profession like teaching that has been hard to get quality people to want to do. I think she mentioned in her speech that her school was getting 73 new teachers? That seems like a lot, no? Not sure if that was just for the school or the whole district though.