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.
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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."
One of the chuds said "shame they missed."
One of the chuds said "shame they missed."
No shit? Wow, you really have to fuck up as an evangelical to lose them.
He closed his church door to people escaping the hurricane. I guess that's where they draw the line.
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.
Cops have practice that Civvies don't.
You sure? It's not that difficult. Remember... 
Like, its a funny story to recount in the abstract, but that kid's life was irrevocably fucked the Unification Church. I do not envy what he had to go through to end up where he did.
Ok I see... just next time, if you're a bad shot in action, you might as well approach point blank quietly to aim and fire on your INTENDED target....
yeah i guess they never tell you how many times right wing mass shooters miss in the process, and their politics have the benefit of it not particularly mattering who they hit.
If that fucking dummy at the baseball game had of actually practiced before hand it coukd have been the greatest day of American history in my life.
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)....
The person was also apparently trans. I haven't looked into any details because I fucking hate the discourse on this shit from the media.
Oh brother here we go with more trans people are dangerous bullshit.
yuuuup
Uncommon China foreign language propaganda W on this subject
I was talking with a trans comrade on this today and they are upset, rightfully so. But it's nice to see China at least doing actual reporting.
Now how many are men, then white.
each figure represents 4.4 shooters.
lmao.
Oh no
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.
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,"
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...
Yeah genuinely I’m mostly surprised this doesn’t happen more often
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.
Damn, this lady sounds kinda cool (if it's not an OP), even if she's really hurting the cause.
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.
That's what I'm saying. I hate conspiracies but this had everything it needed to piss off chuds.
Still no gun reform tho, they'll ban people not guns
$5 says it's a member of the church.
Tbh Joel olsteen does deserve death
If it seems too convenient it probably is.
We'll get an update within the week that the shooter was "on the FBI's radar".
You know what's weird about it? Why attack a church? If she was so anti-Semitic why attack a church and not a synagogue?
This all seems off to me. I think this is just meant to rile up christfascists, bc we know if a synagogue was shot up they wouldn't care.
Edit: just found out the shooter was trans supposedly. Oh they're gonna love that
She isn't a trans woman. She is cis.
Thanks for the correction
Is that the fbis music I hear? You can hear it in the ring folks!
🎶 she was known to the agency 🎵
Doubt it was an op, but Zionists will be using this event to illustrate why Israel isn’t committing a genocide and why the left is crazy or whatever
I don't think so, at least not for isn'treal. The govt doesn't need any sort of justification for what they've been doing for nearly a century
Sorry libs, but the truth is this shooter was based and has my uncritical support while she's up in heaven.
Yeah I just don't really give a shit anymore. No sympathy for right wingers and their rancid little grubs.
I'll stop when they do.
On the one hand maybe an op 
but on the other hand 
Something something Proud Boy psyop something shooter was cis something something false flag to take everyone's guns.