Who was responsible for naming that group? Didn’t they realize that the abbreviation would be interpreted as Toilet Paper USA?
How did they not see that coming?
It was revenge for their hoses getting TP’d so much when they were kids because they were fuckin’ NERDS /s
Get lost you ghoulish, fundamentalist attention whore.
Oh, so that’s why they’re trying to pass laws against that
Parents raised their own alarms, with several pointing to the political division Kirk’s presence would inevitably import onto campus
Peeve: it’s not the division that’s the problem. It’s the hate and lies.
Sooo the dumb bitch failed at impressing adults so she moves to more impressionable minds and they won’t have any of her nonsense?
Good on them kids.
Cigarette ads knew this decades ago.
ok, so the headline makes it sound like a bit more than what it was, but:
A Phoenix-area high school pulled the plug on a planned on-campus appearance by Erika Kirk after a wave of student and parent complaints forced administrators to reconsider hosting the Turning Point USA chief during school hours, according to a new report.
Pinnacle High School principal Jeremy Richards sent families a notice Thursday announcing the event would be relocated off school grounds and pushed to after the final bell, saying the visit had the potential to create serious problems for the school day, The Daily Beast reported Friday.
still, glad to hear that some people at the school had the sense to stop this crazy bullshit before it started
Students were blunt about their objections.
“It’s a little crazy because I would never have expected someone like her to show up at a high school,” one senior said. Another told local news the ideology she promotes had no place in a classroom setting and that the school could find far more appropriate guest speakers.
“I think the topics that she talks about are too extremist for a school. I think there are better representatives we can have,” said Francisco Sanchez, also a senior.
“Sense” seems to be responding to backlash in this case. They are still supporting TP’s extreme right-wing anti-education propaganda, by a school of all places!
there was a Christian prayer club that had really obnoxious meetings and pray sessions at my high school. There’s a lot of leeway from clubs in schools.
seems to me like TP reached out to maybe some neo-nazi district admin that made a short-term booking with little-to-no notice (so they couldn’t stop the nazis) to the actual school admin (except maybe the principle through some super-vague email, designed to hide the nazis) about some “district-mandated school assembly” (of nazis).
Some state/county/local law must have kicked in, requiring some sort of disclosure to some series of people the ended up in people being informed they were about to be mind-pissed by a bunch of christo-nazis, and, clearly, lots of people - included very not-stupid children - had a major fucking problem with that.
proud of those kids!
these aren’t just American values… I hope these are HUMAN values!
if you don’t believe this, I don’t think you should be considered human
I’m very proud of these kids.
The kids are alright. And they rock.
They might be illiterate but at least they aren’t down with fascism.
I’m going to have to watch the doc. I very much have my doubts, too. People love to dunk on boomers, but, FFS, that’s the generation known for the hippies. And now the term “boomers” has flipped into shorthand for people sitting around watching Faux “News” vs. people sparking up a joint and tending to their pot plants…
If they are supposedly the worst now that they are reaching old age, just imagine what having no media filter/gating (as right wing as the corporate “liberal media” was and is - sure, that filter of the MSM is a two-edged sword, but fuuuuuck, if you let YT send you down the Nazi rabbit hole long before you’ve ever developed any kind of media literacy and/or critical thinking skills, it is going to cook your brain) and being given something like a tablet/phone from a very young age…
People love to dunk on boomers
It’s just thinly veiled ageism.
Nah. Boomers actually just suck.
Nah, you suck for being a bigot.
If people get to say all Americans suck for not standing up to Facism well enough and all men suck then I can say all boomers suck. Is it literal? Not really, but the sentiment remains.
Honestly, most of the boomers that I knew/know were/are some of the best people I had the pleasure to know. Dismissing an entire generation is really quite…something.
Yeah, the article basically says, “the parents also had problems” without really elaborating too much lol
hosting the Turning Point USA chief during school hours
I find it horrifying that this is even an option. I don’t think political parties/organizations should be allowed to recruit in schools at all. Let alone America’s Hitlerjugend.
What a cesspool this countries institutions institutions are becoming. I bet she is getting taxpayer dollars to do this talk too.
It’s a public high school for fucks sake.
Who from the school administration endorsed this visit in the first place? Never had to deal with political bullshit like this when I was in school.
I remember Al Gore came to my high school during his run at the presidency, it was such a pain in the ass.we had cops at every enterance for weeks
Parents? Intervening in college? Seriously?
College Republicans are insufferable losers. Can you imagine the kind of kids who show up for a high school level TPUSA event?
Like I dont get it. If women like Kirk want women to be totally subservient to men, why don’t they fuck off and live in Afghanistan?
why don’t they fuck off and live in Afghanistan?
Or Iran
Iran seems a little too progressive for their tastes…
If only the headline were literally true. She was just blocked from speaking on campus.
That headline just barely captured the facts lol
Honestly though
Oh, no! But MAH FREEZED PEACH!
I, as a conservative grifting anti-American asshole, have a right to being heard by a captive audience!
