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**lineygoblue** · June 7, 2022, 10:03 AM

Abortion advocates interrupted one of Joel O'Steen's church services by removing their clothes and shouting pro-abortion slogans.

Pro-choice activists strip during Joel Osteen church service: 'Overturn Roe, hell no'

https://www.foxnews.com/us/abortion-activists-interrupt-joel-osteen-lakewood-church

Pro-choice activists stripped to their underwear and shouted "my body, my choice" during a Sunday church service at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas.

Its probably the most excitement in one of Joel's services in years, .. but alas, the ladies were escorted out of the building, and joined more abotion advocates outside shouting more slogans.

Not sure why they targeted O'Steen and his church. He's one of the most wishy-washy preachers I've ever heard. I'm surprised anyone would consider him offensive.

**lineygoblue** · June 7, 2022, 10:07 AM

ESPN reporter Sarah Spain says that the Tampa Bay Ray players who did not wear the "pride" patch are 'bigots'. She goes on to rant against people who oppose homosexuality based on religious grounds. Which, reveals her own intolerance and bigotry.

ESPN's Sarah Spain calls Rays players ‘bigots’ for not wearing gay pride patch

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/espn-sarah-spain-rays-bigots-gay-pride-patch

ESPN's Sarah Spain scorned Tampa Bay Rays players for choosing not to wear gay pride patches during the team's pride night.

And, who is Sarah Spain? Has anyone heard of her?

ESPN seems to be adopting the methods of their sister show on ABC, "the view". I used to watch the afternoon ESPN shows, but lately, I've stopped. Too political.

**THE_WIZARD_** · June 7, 2022, 10:16 AM

Spain is a big lez. Has been open about it for years and is a big LBTGQ freak.

**iam416** · June 7, 2022, 11:03 AM

The thing about the "we're gonna need a bigger flag" inclusion policies of the LGBTQ+AjAJKFJ!_!@++++++++ community is that whatever the symbol the Rays were wearing it wasn't just about gay folks -- it also surely included "trans rights" including the right for men to dominate women's sports as well as host of other shit that a lot of rational folks would at least question and perhaps not want to openly endorse.

And, in fact, the proposed Rays symbol wasn't just the "pride flag" -- it was some other almagamation of colors that almost endorses some sort of "support this wild ass position or you're a bigot" nonsense.

**Tom W** · June 7, 2022, 11:16 AM

It doesn't matter how big they make the flag- or how many attention seekers want to bring their own crayons to draw on it.

It's all pure idiocy, and we all know that. Laughing at them brings at least a bit of comic relief (at least until July 1st) from the reality that we've been sucker punched with $5/gallon gas, a completely disfunctional supply chain and are about to get the bill for Progs that can't pay off their student loans.

**Dr. Strangelove** · June 7, 2022, 11:27 AM

The Rays players who refused to wear the patch made it pretty clear (to me, anyway) that it wasn't JUST because they dislike trannies

"So it's a hard decision. Because ultimately we all said what we want is them to know that all are welcome and loved here. But when we put it on our bodies, I think a lot of guys decided that it's just a lifestyle that maybe — not that they look down on anybody or think differently — it's just that maybe we don't want to encourage it if we believe in Jesus, who's encouraged us to live a lifestyle that would abstain from that behavior, just like [Jesus] encourages me as a heterosexual male to abstain from sex outside of the confines of marriage. It's no different."

If there were no such things as transgender folks, I'm pretty sure these 5 guys would've still refused to wear the patch. For better or worse.

Five Tampa Bay Rays players decline to wear LGBTQ+ logo on uniform during Pride Night celebration - CBSSports.com

**Mike** · June 7, 2022, 11:34 AM

Maybe some of them are just tired of being used as props to signal MLB's virtuosity.

**THE_WIZARD_** · June 7, 2022, 11:36 AM

WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!!

**Mike** · June 7, 2022, 11:44 AM

Originally posted by lineygoblue View Post

Maybe he should stop doing stupid stuff that targets the average American.

Start prosecuting lawbreakers again, and support the Police when they arrest bad guys.

On this point: Remember the NYC lawyers who threw Molotov Cocktails at police cars in the early days of the George Floyd riots? The DOJ just stepped in to reverse their previously agreed to plea deal in which they could have received up to 10 years in prison. The new deal... 18-24 months.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/...owing-rioters/

Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman were well-compensated attorneys in their early thirties when they joined the protesting mob in May 2020. Rahman was caught on tape throwing the firebomb into an unoccupied police car, and Mattis was arrested with more such improvised explosives in his car and was videotaped trying to hand them out to others. These are gravely serious crimes, more so than those committed by all but a tiny handful (at most) of the people charged in connection with January 6. An unapologetic Rahman told reporters later, “The only way they hear us is through violence.”

Mattis and Rahman pleaded guilty last year to one count of possessing and making an explosive device, a charge carrying up to ten years in prison. Both of them will quite properly be disbarred. Federal prosecutors sought to charge them with still more serious offenses for distribution but, in a shocking reversal, have now agreed to recommend a prison sentence of 18 to 24 months for charges carrying a maximum of five years. Even for a Justice Department that has bent over backwards to be lenient towards left-wing protesters while throwing the book at right-wing protesters, a retreat from a previous plea agreement is a dramatic display of favoritism for left-wing political violence.

EDIT: Mr. Mattis went to Princeton so it all checks out.

**Dr. Strangelove** · June 7, 2022, 11:50 AM

I'm sure this will get cut out of the eventual bill but JFC.

Ohio transgender sports ban would require medical evaluations (wlwt.com)

Also the below

Indeed, there is only one trans girl participating in high school sports in Ohio, and there never has been more than one in any year in the past seven, Equality Ohio and the Ohio High School Athletic Association pointed out.

All this freaking out over ONE HIGH SCHOOLER in the entire state. But hey, let's allow parents to baselessly accuse any large or tomboyish girl of being a dude and require her to get a full body exam and a hormone test before she can play again.

Genital Exams Could Be Required Under Ohio Anti-Trans Sports Bill (advocate.com)

**Mike** · June 7, 2022, 12:01 PM

Better to get some rules in place before the inevitable, and exponential, increase in that number.

**Obi-Jon** · June 7, 2022, 12:14 PM

Originally posted by Tom W View Post

... and are about to get the bill for Progs that can't pay off their student loans.

Riiiiight. And all the pure and virtuous conservative students that are eligible for the $$$ will turn it down. I have some oceanfront property in Nevada for you.

But there is hope to stop that nonsense.

Thune, Burr, Braun, Cassidy, Marshall Introduce Legislation to Protect Taxpayers From Outdated Pandemic Policies

https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=E2537855-FF90-402C-834F-32968A3C22AB

U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) today introduced the Stop Reckless Student Loan Actions Act, legislation that would end President Biden’s untargeted, budget-busting suspension of repayments on qualifying federal student loans, following 24 months of non-payment and six executive actions extending the payment pause. The bill would still allow the president to temporarily suspend repayment for low- and middle-income borrowers in future national emergencies and would prohibit the president from cancelling outstanding federal student loan obligations due to a national emergency. “As Americans continue to return to the workforce more than two years since the pandemic began, it is time for borrowers to resume repayment of student debt obligations,” said Thune. “Taxpayers and working families should not be responsible for continuing to bear the costs associated with this suspension of repayment. This common-sense legislation would protect taxpayers and prevent President Biden from suspending federal student loan repayments in perpetuity. Any future suspension of federal student loan repayments should be left to Congress, not the Biden administration.” “The Biden Administration continues to call for a return to normalcy from the pandemic, while simultaneously extending emergency relief programs like the student loan repayment freeze,” said Burr. “They can’t have it both ways. Resuming student loan repayments is long overdue, especially in today’s strong job market. That’s why I’m proud to work with my colleagues on this important bill, which will end the repayment moratorium that has exacerbated the existing moral hazard against borrowers and cost taxpayers an estimated $5 billion per month.” “The majority of Americans do not have college degrees,” said Braun. “Why should they be forced to pick up the tab for college degrees in the name of pandemic relief? This transfer of wealth is not a move to ‘advance equity,’ but rather a taxpayer handout to appease far-left activists.” “If the administration wants to follow the science regarding COVID, we must also follow the facts,” said Dr. Cassidy. “Unemployment is not at pandemic levels and a student loan repayment pause benefits those who are high income and able to pay their bills. The administration is spending without congressional approval. That should be considered unconstitutional.” “Early in the pandemic when millions were out of work it was understandable to provide temporary relief for borrowers,” said Marshall. “Two years removed, this White House and Democrats in Congress continue to pursue the fiscally unsustainable policy of suspending payment, and ultimately canceling, student loan debt, nearly two trillion dollars owed to the federal government. Following the costly response to the pandemic, we must focus on implementing a fiscal strategy that will address the unsustainable path we’re on, not compound it.” “The moratorium on federal student loan repayments has cost American taxpayers over $100 billion and will cost $5 billion every month it remains in place,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. “Continuing this reckless policy will make surging inflation worse, at a time that we have seen it hit a 40-year high. Less than 17 percent of U.S. adults have federal student loans, and that group is disproportionately wealthy, white, and highly educated. It is unsustainable and unfair for working families to fund this indefinite giveaway to progressive elites. Senators Thune, Burr, Braun, Cassidy, and Marshall should be commended for introducing legislation to end this moratorium and protect taxpayers in the future by narrowing the president's authority to defer loan repayments.” “The student debt repayment pause will add $120 billion to the deficit through August, offer a massive handout to doctors and lawyers, and feed more inflation. It’s time to end ongoing COVID relief, or at least fully offset any further extensions,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “We applaud Senators Thune, Burr, Braun, Cassidy, and Marshall for introducing the Stop Reckless Student Loan Actions Act, which would put an end to the pause and limit a president’s ability to unilaterally cancel student debt.” The current suspension of federal student loan repayments disproportionally benefits higher-earning borrowers and has cost American taxpayers billions of dollars. For example, medical doctors with student debt, on average, have received the equivalent of approximately $50,000 in forgiveness as of May 1, 2022, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. According to the Federal Reserve, the net worth of households led by college graduates soared during the pandemic by $23.4 trillion. Meanwhile, the approximate two-thirds of households that are not led by a college degree holder only saw a net worth increase of $3.5 trillion. Each repayment extension has cost taxpayers $5 billion per month, which is in addition to the more than $100 billion Americans have already spent on this repayment moratorium, according to the Department of Education. Prior to the pandemic suspension, upper-income borrowers made three-quarters of the student loan payments, according to the Brookings Institution. According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, individuals who are bachelor’s degree holders or higher hold 70 percent of education debt – a population with an unemployment rate of only 2.2 percent. On April 6, 2022, President Biden announced his fourth extension of the suspension of qualifying federal student loan repayments through August 31, 2022. He also announced that when repayments do resume, all borrowers whose federal student loans are delinquent or in default would be made current. Prior to this extension, the repayment of these federal student loans was scheduled to resume in May 2022. Notably, nothing in this bill would prohibit the U.S. Department of Education from continuing to work with individuals who may be struggling to make timely payments, like helping struggling borrowers enter into income-driven repayment plans.

**Mike** · June 7, 2022, 12:31 PM

Rules vary depending on political affiliation, example #1,265,279,356:

Georgetown law school dean, Ilya Shapiro, resigned his position after being reinstated after a 4 month investigation into his Tweet criticizing Biden's race/gender-based SCOTUS nomination. He went out swinging in his resignation letter but this glaring double standard is just to rich not to share:

Shapiro also notes the egregious double standard applied by Georgetown to belligerent, malicious, and bigoted tweets by faculty on the left side of the political spectrum:

• In 2018, Georgetown protected this tweet from Professor Carol Christine Fair during Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation process: “Look at this chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogated entitlement. All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes.” When Prof. Fair advocated mass murder and castration based on race and gender, Georgetown did not initiate an investigation, but instead invoked Georgetown’s free-expression policy.

• In 2020, Georgetown took no action when law professor Heidi Feldman tweeted “law professors and law school deans” should “not support applications from our students to clerk for” judges appointed by President Donald Trump. “To work for such a judge,” Prof. Feldman continued, “indelibly marks a lawyer as lacking in the character and judgment necessary for the practice of law.” These comments have the potential to threaten the careers of all of our conservative and libertarian students, or indeed anyone who clerks for duly confirmed Article III judges.

• Just last month, law professor Josh Chafetz tweeted: “The ‘protest at the Supreme Court, not at the justices’ houses’ line would be more persuasive if the Court hadn’t this week erected fencing to prevent protesters from coming anywhere near it.” He added, “When the mob is right, some (but not all!) more aggressive tactics are justified.” Later, he tagged Georgetown Law in a tweet saying that the law school was “not going to fire me over a tweet you don’t like.”

Oh, those crazy right-wingers.

**Tom W** · June 7, 2022, 01:05 PM

Originally posted by Obi-Jon View Post

Riiiiight. And all the pure and virtuous conservative students that are eligible for the $$$ will turn it down. I have some oceanfront property in Nevada for you.

Of course they won't. Not everything is partisan. Some ideas are just stupid.

This one is REALLY stupid.

**Obi-Jon** · June 7, 2022, 01:38 PM

No - this one is REALLY, REALLY stupid.

Our two main parties have devolved into sub-human troglodytes as exampled by 2016. Hillary vs Trump. Two turds drawn from the same cesspool. We as a nation couldn't do better than that? But so long as both parties let brain dead knuckle draggers run the show, it will never change. We are a nation of sheep, with our so-called leaders encouraging/enforcing herd mentality.

I have lost all faith in the American population's ability to select it's leaders. We deserve the shit show we have.

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