Gee, a Sacramento paper in April made the anti-trans nutjob sound somewhat semi-respectful towards her NB child, and didn't mention all the crying about her son's penis getting cut off.
I live here and this exchange was all over the local news. The news coverage pissed me off when they interviewed the bigot and gave her a platform to spread her hate. I thought she was your normal, garden variety Ms. Niele bigot. But of course she was a Mom's for Liberty fuckface! That makes so much sense. I should have known when I saw her interview. Thanks for the info, Dok!
I called Hawaii News Now to say I didn't agree with them giving her a platform and the guy I spoke with was defensive and did the both sides thing. He was a jerk
Buckle up, buttercups! This woman is destined to be the head of the Department of Education under Dear Leader Trump 1, Trump 2, etc. It will be a keep your head down kind of world.
I know that I benefit from White privilege but I also look a bit unhinged and when I ask people like this if they want to go looking for their teeth they run away posthaste
She is mentally ill. I expect she'll rise in the ranks under an authoritarian government. She reminds me of the Montana lawmaker who said she would rather have her daughter commit suicide then come out as trans.
The real scandal is that UC Davis didn't fire this bitch the last time she was a public monster. And if ya wanna talk about California kinship, THIS California boy wants Bourne to fuck go fuck off to Asshole, Alabama or whatever. Although even they probably wouldn't want her.
UC Davis can't fire her. As a public university, there are some pretty strict rules about what people can get fired for; speech outside of work would have an incredibly high bar to count as a fireable offense. Plus, she absolutely wants to be fired so she can a) sue and b) go on the wingnut welfare circuit.
That said, this nonsense isn't going to win her many friends in her department, and they can (and probably will) certainly make life difficult for her. For instance, maybe they suddenly decide she can't work remotely because she needs closer supervision. Better not use university computing resources to print out Moms for Liberty stuff. And of course, now even more people on campus know who she is and what she looks like.
She said it herself: “I’m used to my colleagues thinking I’m a terrible person,” Moms For Liberty's Beth Bourne told The Bee in a story about Bourne & her estranged trans child.
Reminds me of someone who very much wanted to stop a peaceful protest I was participating in. He was approaching, carrying a young child, and complained loudly that our horrible noise had woken his baby. He saw me filming and then decided to ineptly make it look like I was assaulting him and sort of tried to swing the baby into me as I stepped backwards. He followed up with a swing that knocked my mobile phone across the road and finally tried to kick me. He then went off, in search of any witnesses who would support his claim that I had struck his baby. One or two by standers were heard to say "actually, you tried to hit the other guy," so that got nowhere.
The perp carried his baby off, loudly protesting that he was going to get the police and the protest was going to be shut down and we were all going to prison! Hilariously, the police actually arrived one or two minutes later(1), but our anti-hero was busy making himself scarce and was soon driving away. The police understood the stories they heard well enough that they were soon setting off in a squad car to catch up with the perp. I got to join them, so I was in a h̶i̶g̶h̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶e̶d̶ car chase, blue light flashing and all, at the legal speed limit, through the pleasant green English countryside, until the police actually hunted down the perp and convinced him to follow them to the police station.
Everyone gave their stories to the police, and nothing came of it (booooh!) other than me getting a phone cover replaced. I was very displeased that no cameras were surveilling the street, and unimpressed by the video coverage by my fellow protesters.
And that's my story of being in a police car, chasing a silly but violent man, who was running away from the police after loudly proclaiming that he was going to get me locked up for life.
(Oh, and who would do such a thing, you ask - as very much you may? A victim of the mind-fuck perpetrated by the criminal organisation known as the "church" of $cientology, that's who. This was in the town next to their English headquarter, East Grinstead.)
(1) and this is my favourite detail: The police only showed up at that time because - ahem - 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 had phoned them and excitedly reported that a bunch of masked individuals were massing across the street from the high street bank. The police didn't really think they were breaking up a robbery in progress, but they were very curious. I was just quiet delighted that the police had shown up, a minute or two after I had been assaulted, because of a false report of the type that was exactly one of the things were were protesting about.
How do you "grow" fake boobs? And why would you try when you can just put on falsies?
Ta, Dok. Yes, learning things is nice.
As a resident of Hawaii, I would like to say we don't need Christofascist performance art here.
If you're an out of state visitor, please be respectful of our culture. If you cannot do that, stay home.
Gee, a Sacramento paper in April made the anti-trans nutjob sound somewhat semi-respectful towards her NB child, and didn't mention all the crying about her son's penis getting cut off.
Saw or felling ax?
At the bar. He's had ENOUGH.
Paper whitewashing christofascist hate? You don't say.
If all those drag queens had stood up and started for her, she would have been out of that lobby so fast, you'd see Roadrunner jet trails behind her.
Why leave the house if seeing anything different upsets you that much?
Huge white spansules. I went into the men's room to eat mine. But only half at
first, I thought. Good thinking, but a hard thing to accomplish under the
circumstances. I ate the first half, but spilled the rest on the sleeve
of my red Pendleton shirt . . . And then, wondering what to do with it,
I saw one of the musicians come in. "What's the trouble," he said.
"Well," I said. "All this white stuff on my sleeve is LSD." He said
nothing: Merely grabbed my arm and began sucking on it. A very gross
tableau. I wondered what would happen if some Kingston Trio/young
stockbroker type might wander in and catch us in the act. Fuck him,
I thought. With a bit of luck, it'll ruin his life - forever thinking
that just behind some narrow door in all his favorite bars, men in
red Pendleton shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never
know. Would he dare to suck a sleeve? Probably not. Play it safe. Pretend
you never saw it.
She could have saved $3K and just stayed home and harangued her husband and the Holy Trinity of Batshit that infests her noggin.
It's not her money anyway, it's her "supporters"
It is always about that grift.
Karen wanted the manager. What an awful person.
Her kids are hiding in their room – in Hawaii – because they’re mortified that she’s their mother.
That actually cheered me up! I guess my post-debate hangover is clearing! Thanks!
I live here and this exchange was all over the local news. The news coverage pissed me off when they interviewed the bigot and gave her a platform to spread her hate. I thought she was your normal, garden variety Ms. Niele bigot. But of course she was a Mom's for Liberty fuckface! That makes so much sense. I should have known when I saw her interview. Thanks for the info, Dok!
Yep, dumb call, local news. Shouldn't have interviewed her. WTF.
And then they kicked over some rocks and found a couple more bigots to interview. So irritating. "Gotta cover both sides"
I called Hawaii News Now to say I didn't agree with them giving her a platform and the guy I spoke with was defensive and did the both sides thing. He was a jerk
Buckle up, buttercups! This woman is destined to be the head of the Department of Education under Dear Leader Trump 1, Trump 2, etc. It will be a keep your head down kind of world.
I know that I benefit from White privilege but I also look a bit unhinged and when I ask people like this if they want to go looking for their teeth they run away posthaste
I read the piece this morning about this woman’s nonbinary child. This woman is mentally ill. Who behaves this way in reaction to one’s own child?
She is mentally ill. I expect she'll rise in the ranks under an authoritarian government. She reminds me of the Montana lawmaker who said she would rather have her daughter commit suicide then come out as trans.
The real scandal is that UC Davis didn't fire this bitch the last time she was a public monster. And if ya wanna talk about California kinship, THIS California boy wants Bourne to fuck go fuck off to Asshole, Alabama or whatever. Although even they probably wouldn't want her.
UC Davis can't fire her. As a public university, there are some pretty strict rules about what people can get fired for; speech outside of work would have an incredibly high bar to count as a fireable offense. Plus, she absolutely wants to be fired so she can a) sue and b) go on the wingnut welfare circuit.
That said, this nonsense isn't going to win her many friends in her department, and they can (and probably will) certainly make life difficult for her. For instance, maybe they suddenly decide she can't work remotely because she needs closer supervision. Better not use university computing resources to print out Moms for Liberty stuff. And of course, now even more people on campus know who she is and what she looks like.
She said it herself: “I’m used to my colleagues thinking I’m a terrible person,” Moms For Liberty's Beth Bourne told The Bee in a story about Bourne & her estranged trans child.
No lies detected, BeBo's colleagues.
What a fruitcake!
Story Time
Reminds me of someone who very much wanted to stop a peaceful protest I was participating in. He was approaching, carrying a young child, and complained loudly that our horrible noise had woken his baby. He saw me filming and then decided to ineptly make it look like I was assaulting him and sort of tried to swing the baby into me as I stepped backwards. He followed up with a swing that knocked my mobile phone across the road and finally tried to kick me. He then went off, in search of any witnesses who would support his claim that I had struck his baby. One or two by standers were heard to say "actually, you tried to hit the other guy," so that got nowhere.
The perp carried his baby off, loudly protesting that he was going to get the police and the protest was going to be shut down and we were all going to prison! Hilariously, the police actually arrived one or two minutes later(1), but our anti-hero was busy making himself scarce and was soon driving away. The police understood the stories they heard well enough that they were soon setting off in a squad car to catch up with the perp. I got to join them, so I was in a h̶i̶g̶h̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶e̶d̶ car chase, blue light flashing and all, at the legal speed limit, through the pleasant green English countryside, until the police actually hunted down the perp and convinced him to follow them to the police station.
Everyone gave their stories to the police, and nothing came of it (booooh!) other than me getting a phone cover replaced. I was very displeased that no cameras were surveilling the street, and unimpressed by the video coverage by my fellow protesters.
And that's my story of being in a police car, chasing a silly but violent man, who was running away from the police after loudly proclaiming that he was going to get me locked up for life.
(Oh, and who would do such a thing, you ask - as very much you may? A victim of the mind-fuck perpetrated by the criminal organisation known as the "church" of $cientology, that's who. This was in the town next to their English headquarter, East Grinstead.)
Scenic photos from that protest, not very many, at Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/aw4rCb
Same place, more peaceful protest: https://flic.kr/p/6ErXKZ
(1) and this is my favourite detail: The police only showed up at that time because - ahem - 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 had phoned them and excitedly reported that a bunch of masked individuals were massing across the street from the high street bank. The police didn't really think they were breaking up a robbery in progress, but they were very curious. I was just quiet delighted that the police had shown up, a minute or two after I had been assaulted, because of a false report of the type that was exactly one of the things were were protesting about.