Idk, plenty of people are at the end of their proverbial rope, barely hanging on. Osteen is a real evil fuck, someone was going to take a shot at him eventually.
My highly scientick barometer of eavesdropping on the chuds at work says they know about the shooting, but also think Joel Osteen needs to die. He's widely hated in Houston among everyone who doesn't actively go to his church. Even everyday Christo-fascists hate him. One of the chuds said "shame they missed."
He's widely hated in Houston among everyone who doesn't actively go to his church.
Other than to periodically find his grandstanding annoying, I barely notice that the guy exists 99 days out of 100. And I think you underestimate exactly how many Houstonians gloom on to his vaguely Christian themed self-help ministries. He's far more popular than unpopular, if you edge out the people who find him mildly annoying but mostly aren't bothered by him one way or another.
Guy isn't even the worst preacher in town, either. If you really want a soulless blood-sucking chud, go check out Ed Young at Houston Second Baptist. That freak is at the heart of Trump-flag waving, Proud Boy marching, cop worshiping, O&G fetishizing far-right community.
Joel Osteen's greatest sin was realizing you could fleece dipshit liberals by making Barack Obama noises from the old Houston Rockets basketball stadium. Ed Young is the guy calling for Trans kids to be tortured back into their original genders and migrants to be shot on sight.
Ngl as far as targets for domestic terrorism go a Joel Osteen church is a pretty justifiable one
My dead Christo-fascist grandma looooved Joel Osteen. He’s a dangerous psycho who 100% deserves to be shot, and most of his followers aren’t far behind him on that list.
I can’t say it surprises me that a trans woman at the end of her rope would try to shoot some of those vile people. If I had to guess she had some amount of religious trauma stemming from those people being transphobic genocidal freaks.
swing and a miss to do it when they're having spanish language service
what is it with people shooting at rightwingers and not going to the range? this lady, the baseball guy, hinkley jr., several anarchists not named leon. folks if you're gonna snap do it with a bigger gun and get in some practice time first.
what is it with people shooting at rightwingers and not going to the range?
Talking about killing people is easy. Firing downrange at a black and white target is easy. Actually ending someone else's life is incredibly difficult, especially if you've never done it before.
What's wrong with Joel Osteen necessarily though? I mean, compared to other televangelists, like Kenneth Copeland, he seems pretty soft (don't get me wrong, his pro-Israel and anti-gay stance is bad)....
I think that was wrong, or at least the reporting on this is muddled. My understanding now is that this person was assigned female at birth and never actually transitioned - the male name was because they used a fake guy's name in some theft or something in the past. Also, she didn't have "free palestine" on her gun, but just "palestine". Also seems like they were notorious in their neighborhood for making wild threats and brandishing guns for years and the local cops didn't ever do anything about it.
Calling it an op (not an acronym) is like online right-wingers calling January 6th people Antifa. It isn't unthinkable that someone really wouldn't like some right-wing psycho...
Just to be clear to everybody it is not confirmed that the shooter was trans or what her identity was. According to police, the shooter was AFAB, she was the biological mother of the child killed by pigs, and spent her entire life using she/her pronouns. She did use a male name in court a few years prior, but was still referred to using she/her
police statement
"She utilized both male and female names, but through all of our investigation through this point, talking with individuals, interview, documents, Houston Police Department reports, she has been identified this entire time as female. She, her,"
All the fedposters, is it really so surprising someone would snap and try to take out the most proximate christofascist ghoul? We've known since the Narodniks that stochastic terrorism doesn't lead anywhere, but the impulse is understandable without conspiracy hand-wringing.
Trans, South American, and had "Free Palestine" written on her rifle, the rightwing media is gonna have a field day. If she hit her intended target then it was a win, but she didn't even come close.
That's what had my at this because she ticked all the boxes for things fascists hate and the ongoing consent their trying to manufacture that all trans people are murderers.