David Hogg is one of the Parkland survivors who helped organize the March For Our Lives. Hogg has been one of dozens of incredibly effective voices in the wake of the Florida school shooting. He’s only 17 years old, and he and his fellow classmates/survivors/activists have been the victims of repeated and near-constant attacks by the right-wing. Deplorables are going after these kids HARD. The Deplorables’ arguments always fall flat, because these kids live online and the kids are owning every single one of their lunatic critics.
Anyway, Hogg chatted with TMZ yesterday about life beyond Parkland, because AGAIN he’s only 17 years old and he’s applied to multiple colleges. This was TMZ’s story:
David Hogg helped spearhead a movement in the wake of the Parkland massacre that has resonated around the world, and you’d think colleges around the country would be clamoring to snag him, but sadly that’s not the case. David has been rejected by the 4 University of California campuses where he submitted applications — UCLA, UCSD, UCSB and UC Irvine. He says the rejection letters came 2 weeks ago. He has a 4.2 GPA and an SAT score of 1270.
Schools claim extracurricular activities count, but if organizing the March For Our Lives wasn’t enough … it’s not clear what is. David is clearly disappointed. David got accepted at Cal Poly, Cal State San Marcos and Florida Atlantic University, but he’s not sure what he’ll do after graduating. And David says fellow leader Ryan Deitsch also got rejected from the University of California system. He says Emma Gonzalez will be going to the liberal arts school, New College of Florida. We’re thinking some of these admission committees are dropping the ball.
First of all, most of those admissions decisions were probably made weeks before the Parkland shooting and I bet a lot of those admissions’ offices are kicking themselves about rejecting these kids. Second of all, that’s life, especially for out-of-state college admissions. California universities are going to give California students a higher priority. Third of all, Hogg wasn’t really complaining, he was just talking about what’s going on in his life. But this story was reason enough for Laura Ingraham to try to “dunk” on him:
David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA…totally predictable given acceptance rates.) https://t.co/wflA4hWHXY
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 28, 2018
Again, Hogg wasn’t “whining.” Again, Laura Ingraham is a f–king a–hole. Go and read the comments on that tweet if you want to feel a little bit better, because it seems like criticizing a 17-year-old who just saw his friends and classmates die in a school shootout is maybe the wrong move yet again. And since these kids live on the internet, Hogg even responded:
Soooo @IngrahamAngle what are your biggest advertisers … Asking for a friend. #BoycottIngramAdverts
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 29, 2018
Pick a number 1-12 contact the company next to that #
Top Laura Ingraham Advertisers
1. @sleepnumber
2. @ATT
3. Nutrish
4. @Allstate & @esurance
5. @Bayer
6. @RocketMortgage Mortgage
7. @LibertyMutual
8. @Arbys
9. @TripAdvisor
10. @Nestle
11. @hulu
12. @Wayfair— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 29, 2018
Photos courtesy of Getty.
She and every other adult picking on these kids are completely vile. He’s perfectly normal to be sad about not getting into his top choice. College decisions are stressful. Heck I got into every school I applied except one and I was sad about that even though it wasnt my top choice! Leave him alone.
Tch. Where’s Melania when you really need her, with her Anti-Bullying platform? Oh, wait…
I know hardly anything about this Laura Ingraham person, but I do know she is utterly loathsome. What a disgusting, big-mouthed bitch.
She’s a RWNJ talking head. And an especially odious one, at that.
She’s one of the RWNJ talking heads who’s had a career boost because of the current political climate. She had peaked around the mid 2000s with a book contract, and as a Fox News commentator and started out as a speechwriter for the Reagan administration. She has been most successful on talk radio, which is how she spent most of the Obama years.
I remembered her from the latter years of the Baby Bush administration and wasn’t shocked that she came back out of the woodwork in the past year.
The UC schools are impossible, even for in-state kids. My younger nephew was in football for 4 years (captain for two), did Meals for Wheels every school break, school clubs, 4.35 GPA and a 33 (out of 36) for his ACT score, and still didn’t get into UCLA or UCSD (did get into UCSB and UCDavis, go figure). He did get into some out of state Unis, but he hasn’t made up his mind, as he’s waiting for his two top choices: Berkeley and USC in state, and U of Wisconsin (out of state). My older nephew got into NYU/Tisch right out of the bat, with only a 4.1 and an ACT score of 31, so go figure.
Any school should be grabbing this young man, and any of the kids that set this in motion. These are exactly the kind of kids that will make amazing future leaders, imo.
Their essays also count a lot. If it is out of the box type of essay then, they get notice and probably will get in.
It is challenging to go to one of the top Universities in the Cal system for out of state students. If he is set on it, the best thing to do is go to one school and transfer.
My brother (CA resident) told me five years ago when my nephew was applying to college how challenging admission was to the state schools. I was very surprised that it was so difficult even for in state residents.
Used to be, UC school admission was affected by students’ field of study. There were caps for each school within the University, and in-state applicants had an advantage in knowing to apply for majors that had lower application submissions, and then declaring their ‘new’ major after acceptance.
If that’s still the case than a rejection from a UC school is more likely due to a lack of space than a student’s ability.
The kid just gave a factual answer and she turned it into “whining”, nasty b*tch. She has 3 adopted children. Do they have shooting drills? Bulletproof backpacks? Metal detectors? She’s fine with all that? I know this is mean, but I bet her kids are going to give her hell when they are a little older. They will learn how to be rude and disdainful from her, and it will boomerang right back. They might even go search for their real mothers. I hope karma bites her in the ass, hard, for mocking this young man, who has suffered more than enough.
Hey Belle, I totally understand your rage and frustration, but to be clear….Adoptive parents ARE real parents….and as disgusting as Laura is, she IS their real Mom.
@carey. Please don’t distract the passion of this thread over adoptive v birth mothers. This is neither the time nor the place. Not everything has to be stated JUST SO, so as not to trigger folks such as yourself, who obv have a passion of their own.
Enough. I’ll be contacting every one of those advertisers to complain.
Seriously. I’m picking Wayfair and TripAdvisor to boycott since I use them most. I’m shocked they advertise with her show. Disgusting.
I targeted At&T, TripAdvisor and Wayfair, but will chime in on the rest as time allows.
Wayfair and AT&T for me.
Wayfair’s pulling their ads!
Man, these kids know how to use Social Media. I am in love with this!
I am going to write an email to each one and then boycott hulu and AT&T . I don’t use the other companies.
Sleep Number was long-time advertiser on Rush Limbaugh (I know because my dad listened to him growing up). It’s a big reason why I will never buy one. They since dropped him I think, but they clearly have an agenda.
Just posted on Tripadvisor and Wayfair’s FB pages.
Be aware that the posts will be moderated and won’t show. But if you copy your comment and paste it as a comment under their posts, you’ll see it blow up. There’s a ton of posts already!
I meant every word too. Done it before, and will do it again. Not my loss, it’s theirs. There’s plenty of alternatives for every one of these providers, folks.
Post if companies respond, I’m hoping they start dropping this chick
Word on Twitter is that Rachel Ray’s Nutrish has dropped her show.
Trip Advisor dropped
I targeted them and Wayfair.These alt rights are thick,these kids actually witnessed a traumatic event and are just trying to make sure it never happens again and not accepted as normal in our society.Laura Ingrahm needs to be removed from the air.
Expedia dropped her just now.
Nestle is gone.
update: I see that CNBC reported that Tripadvisor is dropping her!
She just apologized! LOL Oh man this is so great. All she did was increase the power of these amazing kids! Now everyone is like, whoa. Yeah.
Even bigmouth bully Barr backed down so fast and deleted her post about Hogg. Then claimed she was the victim of a hoax.
Oh I am loving it alright. The Sandy Hook generation – GO GO GO!
She apologized and he did not accept. She has been so thoroughly out-played by this “whiner.” My God I love it.
They don’t seem to realize we are going through a cultural shift. The sun is setting on their nasty bullying. They can’t get away with it anymore.
These kids woke up the world and inspired people to begin to take back our power. A young black girl asks if police shooting can be included. She asked will people please support us too. Maybe this movement will start the move on this issue also. It is a seed now, but it could grow huge.
The politicians criticizing these students are ridiculous, do they not hear theirselves? Criticizing these well spoken, smart survivors of a terrible tragedy….in what world do they think they live. It’s baffling
+1
Trash talk from garbage people will not stop this movement.
Agree. She does not realize she just handed him ( and them, by extension ) *more* currency.
Kitty – Sadly, their own.
The GOP and the Deplorables must be really scared of these kids to be attacking them to this degree
I think they are. These kids have announced, they are going to be voting in the next election, or will be in the following election (so soon), and they WILL be voted out of office if they don’t take some real action to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
I loved hearing the ex-SCJ John Paul Stevens calling for repeal of the 2nd amendment. It IS an 18th century “rule” that is completely outdated for the 21st century: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-john-paul-stevens-second-amendment-20180327-story.html
This amendment, in my opinion, needs to be amended to reflect that while it can be acceptable to own a gun (GUN…NOT automatic weapons! But a pistol or single shot rifle for hunting/protection), there is NO NEED FOR ANYONE OUTSIDE A MILITARY SITUATION to own an automatic/multi-firing weapon!). *stepping off my soapbox now.
Clapping for imqirious2
It is time to update reasonably. Unless these fools are part of a well regulated militia they aren’t even protected by it anyway..
I got into with one of them and stopped him in his tracks when I said Ok then what is the name of your unit?
He asked what the hell I was talking about. He added insults of course.
I said You know the name of your regiment or well regulated militia.
*silence*
Thank you, Magnoliarose! HUGS!! And bravo to you for taking on one of those idiots.
Automatic guns have been illegal/banned since the 80’s…
I’m not sure why everyone goes on about how we need to stop allowing them. They’re not allowed and they are pretty much military only. Even before they were illegal getting them was such a hard process it wasn’t worth it.
@llamas, there are so many loopholes to that law. Yes, automatic weapons for civilian use were banned in the 80’s – sort of. The law actually says the manufacture of automatic weapons for civilian use is illegal after 1986. If you want to buy or sell an automatic made before that date, it’s not technically against the law.
Although, as you’ve said it’s so much trouble, it hardly seems worth it when there is also a whole industry dedicated to making semi-automatic assault weapons into what is essentially an automatic. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/4/16412910/automatic-guns-las-vegas-shooting
Magnoliarose- Exactly. The problem isn’t the Second Amendment, it’s the crazy non-historical interpretation these guys are giving it.
The 2nd Amendment was put there because the former colonies did not want to have only a centralized military. They wanted to be able to raise their own individual militaries (militias) as well. It has nothing to do with individual gun ownership at all, that wasn’t even a problem at the time. Those guys were still wearing swords into battle. They used cannons, for corn’s sake. Bows and arrows. The only guns they had were big clunky things that took time to reload for a single shot. They certainly never imagined the kind of weaponry available today. Individual gun ownership was a non-issue.
They did eventually ban duels because guys were just as stupid then as now about taking King of the Mountain too far. But otherwise, they simply did not have our problems with such guns as the AR-15.
That’s why it’s perfectly appropriate to pass laws at local, state, and federal levels about what guns can be available to civilians now and rules about who can buy them after what procedures and where exactly they can be carried within the jurisdiction, open or concealed.
Follow the money to figure out why certain forces in our society are dead set against any restrictions on guns. It certainly is not and never has been a Second Amendment issue. It has nothing to do with the Constitution.
Wow. Just…wow.
Wow is right. I would have been screwed-at my high school (granted, years ago so they may have changed) the highest possible gpa was 4.0. They gave extra credit for AP/honors courses, but it didn’t count towards your gpa. For example, I finished the year with a 108 in European history but it only counted as a 4.
These kids are going to be okay. More than most of the population, no matter what college they go to.
Side note-I was accepted at New College where Emma is going, and while I chose to go elsewhere, it’s a fantastic place and perfect for someone self motivated like her.
Another soulless and empty white woman.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if you are a grown-ass adult who is criticizing children for being passionate about this country’s future, YOU ARE NOT A PATRIOT.
And not only is he passionate, involved, and incredibly organized for a kid his age – he also has an amazing GPA. If there’s anything to criticize about this situation it’s “WTF is this kid not getting more impressive acceptance letters”.
Because quite honestly – there’s something wrong when a teenager this impressive is being shot down. He should have SO many options. He’s done everything ‘right’. He’s done exactly what ‘adults’ like Laura Ingraham tell kids. Work hard and you won’t have a problem. Oh, the people who are struggling just aren’t working hard enough – they don’t want to improve their lives. Yet, here is this perfect example of a high school kid turned down from some of his choices.
I’m hoping this kind of exposure will make another University reach out to him. There’s no reason that they can’t scout kids like this if they’re all so worried about scouting athletes.
He’s a perfect example of what’s wrong with American universities. As a nation we are making our colleges and universities more exclusive and more expensive.
I blame the Boomers.
That’s what I was struck by too. When I saw his GPA and realized he had still gotten rejected with such a high GPA, I was somewhat shocked (only somewhat since I figure some Jared Kushner-wannabe-in-the-making might have taken his spot.)
He will thrive.
The adults involved here are so pretty and filled with hate. The kids and young adults are poised. Everything is reversed lately. Idgi but I’m feeling like the future adult generation will be better. There’s hope.
I have links to several of her supporters and ashamed enough to call them and leave messages.
The UC schools are really competitive. While his GPA is good, his SATs are below the average for admitees–1270 vs 1400. A school may have grade inflation thus SATs are really important.
i’m actually reeling. like – do you really need OVER A 4.0 GPA and a perfect SAT to get into a decent school these days? christ.
It is nearly impossible as it is for California residents to get into one of those schools and harder still if a person is out of state. I have some young relatives attending Berkley and UCLA. The other is headed to Stanford but it is not a state school, and the tuition is obscene. They have very high SATs, grade point averages and loads of activities and volunteer work. But they knew what was needed years ago, so they had time to plan it all out.
They are becoming involved with these kids to support their efforts. One emailed me today and wants to try to organize some way to help these kids come out there to school. They would fit right in and find fellow activists and kindred spirits. They think they would be happy out there and find state level political support. Florida is a joke, so I don’t blame them for wanting to leave.
These kids are an inspiration, and they have ignited the country to get active and not take their crap anymore. They know how to be allies, and they are tough and articulate. Fearless in ways I have never even seen from adults.
We all need to support them. My husband follows them on Twitter, my parents do and young and old relatives, friends, etc.
Lizzie, yes and no. It depends on what you consider a decent school. The elite universities — Ivies, Stanford, Duke, etc — are nearly impossible to get into but there are so many choices, even for a student who was less than perfect. My son got into a number of very good universities and he was an overall B student with pretty average test scores. He also never took an AP class and is on the autism spectrum. I think there’s a school for everyone if people look beyond the very top.
More shocking to me than admittance rates were the costs. My son will be attending a Big 10 public school, out of state, and even with a little grant he received we will be paying nearly $50k for tuition and room and board. An academic superstar like Hogg would likely pay a lot less because they would offer him decent money to attend.
Nah, just means there is healthy competition. Don’t get me wrong, college needs serious reform in the United States, especially where access and cost is concerned, but where you go isn’t as important as people think as long as it has a decent reputation and accreditation. Unless you’re going to one of the Ivy Leagues, it really doesn’t make that much of a difference where name dropping is concerned. It’s more about what you’re willing to put into the education. I went to a community college for my first two years of credits, and I outperformed all of my classmates to graduate top of my program, even among students who’d gone university the full route.
There just are a limited number of slots and state residents are given priority. Nothing odd about it. This was just as true decades ago when I was applying for grad school.
We had a lot of good foreign students because it was even worse in their countries. They were typically much better educated than most Americans at the undergraduate level, but there simply were not enough graduate programs with enough slots for them back home.
When I taught at the college level at a good school, I ran into freshman in shock – they were stars of their high school classes, but now they were just one little star among many, including a lot of stars that burned brighter than they did. And the work was much much more difficult and there was a ton of it. The competition is simply greater because you’re looking at mostly the best from a large number of schools.
Pick out a mediocre school if you want to get in easily, as I accidentally did (I just went to the school a few blocks away….). It really doesn’t matter, what you learn depends on your own effort by college. You just need decent resources, which even we had in the library and today students have the entire internet. A few good teachers is nice, but you’ll survive a few mediocre ones if you know how to read and study on your own.
Shout it from the rooftops, Kitten! I’ll join you. Excellent point.
This! So much this.
@kitten; please explain to me how the Boomers are to blame for this.
Try the Google. There have been a million think pieces written about what the Boomers have done to higher education.
Aw hell you have “cat” in your name so I’ll do you a solid and start you off with this piece from WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/12/baby-boomers-and-the-end-of-higher-education/?utm_term=.f7f88011afa1
Boomers aren’t the only reason, but their generation certainly contributed to it to some extent by: a.) upping the demand for college participation (not really anyone’s fault, per se, but…) b.) contributing to a culture that degrades the service industry and blue collar trade work (the ones that traditionally have union power behind them – curious that), c.) significantly slashing the federal subsidiaries for higher education and failing to put caps on those colleges that receive funding, d.) creating the worst wage-to-debt ratio in recent history.
Please. I’m a Boomer. We’re not all on the platinum gravy train. I wish I were.
Wow, I’m amazed. I’m a Boomer, and I was the first in my family to get a college degree. I worked my way through undergrad and law school. Those were personal goals, not part of a generational strategy. To the extent my generation (and the Boomer years cover a long period) has done damage as described here, it’s the same pig-through-the-python effect it’s had on everything it touches. Sheer numbers have had huge effects in many areas. Unintended consequences, really, not a vast conspiracy.
@ C-Shell-So did my Boomer father. Grew up dirt-poor and was the first in the family to work his way through college. You guys don’t know how lucky you were to be able to afford tuition on a part-time salary because that is literally an impossibility for the average college student these days.
*whispers* thanks to BOOMERS
She is one of the vilest pieces of garbage on the right. I have always disliked her from 9-11 to now.
You are right. Boomers created this mess for Millenials like me, Gen Xers and the younger to solve.
Yup. Boomer don’t wanna hear it though. This is the generation that still believes they eradicated racism; the generation that gave us Trump.
And I say that as a daughter of two Boomers that I love dearly but man, did that generation f*ck sh*t up.
Blaming an entire generation for the sins of some is lazy and unfair.
Making sweeping generalizations about millions of people helps no one. I judge people on their own merits, not by their age, color, sex, etc.
Let’s see:we have the highest level of income inequality since the Gilded Age,we have a country that in the next eighty years will experience catastrophic weather conditions from climate change,except for Michigan,and we have kids that have to take time out of school work to have drills to prep for possibly being shot,and we have Trump:Yeah I would say we Boomers and maybe Gen Xers have done a great job!
Ah yes I expected the defensive knee-jerk responses instead of much-needed inner-reflection.
Because the Boomer generation absolutely cannot stand to be criticized.
To summarize: It’s Baby Boomers who voted for Brexit. It’s Boomers who created an economic environment plagued with unfounded asset and real-estate bubbles and collapses. It’s Boomers who expanded the US defense budget to an absurd level. It’s Boomers who left the United States reliant on coal while eroding the advanced nuclear energy infrastructure built by their parents. It’s BOOMERS who gave us Trump. And it’s Boomers who thought putting carpet over hardwood floors was a great idea.
Sure, like every generation, the Boomers did some things right but it’s time for them to take responsibility for the ripple effect of their generation’s string of selfish and short-sighted decisions.
Because those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.
You’re on fire Kitten. Agree with some of your rationale. However, a percentage of boomers didn’t go to college, unless mommy and daddy had money because they were sent to a country they never heard of before, Viet Nam. I don’t have a pony in this race, but do you know how many thousands of 18 and 19 year old boys who didn’t have the right to vote died over there. A lot of dead boomers. I had an uncle who was one of them.
@Nancy-My dad was in bootcamp but thankfully, was never called to fight. The Boomers got saddled with an unconscionable war that should have never happened–that’s true–but that doesn’t erase the fact that post-war Boomers were all-too-happy to enjoy their economic opportunity without bothering to preserve much for the generations to come.
You actually got me thinking on this rainy depressing afternoon. Hillary, Bush, Clinton and asshat were all boomers. From the little I’ve read, there is good and bad to the scenario of the boomer. They have a huge age range, war babies, and are senior citizens now, leaving you and I probably without SS. I don’t blame that generation for that particular woe. They saw both Kennedy’s and MLK die…..I will stop. I get it. I just know that every generation is a piece of the puzzle and before I make judgement, have to do some homework. Have a cocktail, because in a couple days, you’re going to have satiny beautiful hair!! I want you to be happy, and I can sense by your posts the last few days, you have shit on your mind. I care about you. Love, your Internet girlfriend Gemma, a/k/a “Nancy”
You can’t blame an entire generation for just being born at a certain time. And you can’t blame the whole generation for what a few have done. Every generation has people who cause damage, usually because they’re already rich and they don’t care about anybody else. My brother is Trump’s age and thinks Trump is a four year old digging his way to the US Mint every evening. How can you blame an unemployed and disabled 71 year old Vietnam vet draftee for what 71 year old President Bone Spurs is doing? They grew up in entirely different worlds.
And how exactly are we responsible for the current costs and trashing of college programs? My brother was in such heavy debt from a relatively inexpensive college in the mid-1970s and dealing with illness that made keeping a job difficult, that he ended up hounded by debt collectors (the school sold the debt, and those weren’t Boomers). I escaped only because a scholarship covered tuition at a school a few blocks away (my brother had to walk a mile to get to his college), my mother let me (and my brother) mooch off her, and she also held on to a pathetic job at the school in case I didn’t get and keep the scholarship.
Both my brother and I were born within 1-3 years after the end of WWII. Our father got married in his Army uniform because he couldn’t afford a nice suit.
I didn’t trash school programs (thanks, Reagan) and I didn’t push up school costs (which are indeed ridiculous now). They got ridiculous a few years after I graduated. My brother was drafted into the Vietnam War unwillingly once he graduated from college. I put myself in a financial hole later trying to stop other stupid wars.
The whole idea of trashing a whole generation for the actions of some who share birthdays has always been stupid and just a distraction and a way to keep us fighting and blaming each other. Focus on who really did and are doing the dirty deeds and figure out how people can learn how to change that, regardless of birthdate. And why people of all ages have such trouble spotting the con men like Trump and keep voting against their own interests. Our big problem as a species has always been that we tend to cling to bad situations for fear that a change will be even worse. The non-rich are typically stretched enough just dealing with everyday difficulties, and need ideas for things they can do regardless. Not everybody has much energy at the end of the day, and it is up to the more energetic to think about how to facilitate change and resistance regardless. This has nothing to do with when you were born, it’s about being human and we see it in every generation. Just like racism and sexism, which I can assure you are alive and well across generational lines.
jwoolman: I realize your post was for Kitten, but I applaud you. Well said. I think every generation tends to blame the prior for the state of the nation, but as you said, it’s not all, it’s a minority. I think everyone wants to better their time on Earth for themselves and their children. VN is what I think about, since my mom lost her brother there in 1969. He was 18. She said before then, a lot of the guys never even heard of Viet Nam, but he was a patriot and enlisted in the Marines. I’m sorry for all of the hardship you and your family went through. I think people think they are unique, when we all go through our own personal Hell on Earth. I further don’t want to “scold” Kitten. She is entitled to her views and has always been such a lovely person on this little site we all visit. Thanks jw, such an educational day. I’ve got the feels.
Boomers have had the power since the 70s. Gen Xers are just now emerging as a force, and they are very different in their outlook. Gen Xers and Millenials are far more progressive as far as percentages. They pushed for gay marriage rights, clean energy. They didn’t send us to Iraq and destabilize the Middle East. Didn’t cause the market crashes. The Housing scandal. The insane tax rates geared toward the wealthy. The rise of the insane right and Evangelicals. It is by no mistake Obama was born at the beginning of that generation. First year Xer.
45 is a Boomer. Bush is too.
It isn’t about individuals, but it is about what happened during the years Boomers ran the world. And a lot of it is terrible.
I love my parents, and they aren’t supportive of any of those things, but it is their generation.
magnoliarose: you might want to check out a book that was published back in the 90’s – The Fourth Turning.
Like Obama, I am Gen-X as well and the authors of that book stated that Gen-X’s main job was to hold things together and keep society/the world from flying apart, if they could.
Looks like the generation following us will be the ones to lead the resurgence of sensible, progressive thought and change.
@Kitten, I completed agree. Boomers are the first generation who didn’t have to build this country, instead they were really handed everything with no appreciation. We are a society of people who just want to appear like we have it all together, while ignoring serious issues (mental illness for example) and putting those issues away hoping they will work out naturally. As my husband says, “Move along. Nothing to see here.”
Slightly OT, I wish we could get rid of the stigma of mental illness.
They’re young. They will make mistakes, or possibly say the wrong thing at some point because that’s just what people do. But their lives and everything they do is now under a microscope. I hate that these kids have been put in this positions. And the reason they are is because the adults failed them. We should all be ashamed.
As for Laura Ingraham, she’s always been a nasty piece of work. She’s probably enjoying that Roseanne reboot though!
You are being kind calling her a nasty piece of work.
I call her a Nazi.
Yep. Like I said the school is heavily Jewish, like 40 percent or more. So they have swarmed the internet with antisemitic BS and they are pissed that these kids reached out to Black kids. They can’t understand the concept of ally and inclusion.
They hate him because in an interview he complained that media weren’t showing their black classmates. They hate that they won’t back down. They hate that attacking them is ineffective. They hate that they aren’t going away.
About their privilege:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/24/politics/march-for-our-lives-students-checking-privilege-trnd/index.html
Why? Just because she espouses Nazi ideals and gives a nazi salute?
Should probably add “sarcasm, ftr.”
Ann Coulter’s less relevant evil sister is a heartless pig. All these bible thumpers at Fox taking on children. She tried to go one on one with Lebron James and it didn’t work out so well for her. Cold hearted idiot.
I look at her picture above and have a fantasy of grinding peanut butter into her hair. Or throwing balloons filled with used motor oil at her. Or soaking her with a firehose. I know it’s shallow of me, but it helps me deal with my anger. Those kids are our future leaders and she will just be a hateful footnote.
LMAO! A dunk tank. What’s infuriating is that she is given a forum to spew her hatred and try to come off as an intellect. Once the trump regime marches out of town, maybe if there is someone watching over us, Fox will go the way of the dinosaurs and disappear, with this trick at the front of the line, no Hannity first!
But peanut butter would likely improve her dry, brittle, over-bleached hair because of the oils. I like your idea of used motor oil….best reuse and recycle action ever, because of the smells, and the number of times she’d have to wash it to get the oils out LOL !!
You are kinder than I am. I imagine slapping the smug off her face.
After the bitch slap, you all can join me with your supplies to make sure she gets the message. Cover her head toe with liquid materials and foodstuffs. lol
Femifa. Yes, we are called Femifa, and we are radical and dangerous. Oh yes we are, and we have motor oil and peanut butter, and we aren’t afraid to use them.
You’re a badass magnolia. A woman after my own heart.
@Nancy 😃
If this is how Laura spends her time she’s a sad excuse for a human being.
This is why college admissions as a sign of worthiness is BS. God knows how these schools choose but it has nothing to do with the ability of the kids because most of them are very strong candidates. I think this kid has a 4.2 gpa.
Very unfortunately his SAT is below competitive level. He should reapply, though, after his horrific Parkland experience.
http://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/UCSB-SAT-scores-GPA
This. Go to one of the lesser schools for a semester and apply to transfer to a more prestigious school.
I also think they should do this if they still have Unis they wish to attend. Excel in your first year and reapply to transfer.
However, I have a hunch that depending on the major they want, some top schools might be thinking in offering them scholarships…
Santa Monica College is a feeder school to the larger system. They should consider that.
Or he could just go a community college, get his first two years out of the way for cheap (even better – complete an Associates on the way so you have a backup skill), and then reapply to complete the Bachelors. That’s what I did. My SAT scores weren’t too great because I struggle with standardized tests, but I smashed it out of the ballpark with my college GPA because I thrive in that kind of less structured environment.
Universities DNGAF about SAT scores if you’ve already proven yourself in a college classroom. A lot of those schools also have transfer scholarships as a benefit. I went to one of the most expensive private schools in my state and only came out of it with $30,000 in total debt because I’d paid for the first two years out of pocket AND got half of the tuition paid for because I transferred.
He applied to 7 or 8 schools, most of them out of state. This is entirely normal, and if he’d gotten in everywhere he applied, it would have been a signal he could have shot a bit higher. Maybe he’ll take a year off, or maybe he’ll go to a UC and transfer up in a couple years, or maybe he’ll go to one of the schools he was admitted to and enjoy it there. All good outcomes for them.
@magnoliarose You are 100% correct. Santa Monica College is a public 2 year community college. If one of the kids attended they would establish residency AND per their PR, SMC has the highest rate of acceptance for transfer to UC schools of any community college in the state. If it’s on the radio it must be true, right?
Absolutely! 🙂
My friend did it that way and ended up a very successful journalist. We aren’t close anymore for no reason other than just life paths going in different directions. But I remember how much she loved the school and had no regrets.
Agree with all this. I get annoyed when people think the end-all be-all is where you get your undergrad degree. If your chosen career path requires a graduate degree, my two cents is to try for a more economical, but still respected school for undergrad, and save what you can for grad school.
It is annoying and it discourages people from finding their own way to make it happen.
I’ve already pulled my “Hulu” subscription and my family and friends uses “Wayfair” A LOT! That won’t be happening anymore until I see that they’ve stopped supporting Laura…anyone THAT despicable who would REJOICE in the pain of a kid who has already gone through hell doesn’t deserve to be supported…
The Nestle pr ppl are constantly countering on Twitter. Tweets aren’t a great way to reach a company, but they are very responsive and invest often to promote.
I bet she WISHES she was this accomplished when she was his age.
She was too busy infiltrating gay campus groups and outing the members in the school paper.
Exactly. And what about the cognitive dissonance between taunting him as not college worthy and the right’s narrative that college is only for “libtard haterz?”
Guys, help me. My normally sweet husband says this kid is a crisis actor?! I can’t convince him he isn’t. We can’t even talk about it anymore because It got so heated. He is just drinking the koolaid from these scumbag adults!!!
Oh FFS. Is he watching Info Wars or something?
I wish I could give you some worthwhile advice but I’m at the point where I feel like I just have to write these people off as lost causes. Obviously, I realize that is harder to do when you’re married to one.
*hugs* and sorry you’re dealing with this BS.
Thank you, kitten. I’m just like “WHO ARE YOU?!” to my own husband. We can’t talk about Dump, or politics because I get pretty heated fast. It’s me getting upset because I do not understand how my amazing, thoughtful, kind, gentle partner can drink this toxic koolaid!? It hurts my heart. We solve it but not talking about it. Someone on Facebook(I don’t do Facebook) posted a video of the kid above saying he was at home and rode his bike to the school…then in another interview he says he was in class when it happened. I keep trying to remind him how much is at stake and that people can doctor videos/films really well. So, yeah, we just don’t talk about it and I slowly die inside.
The students and school have all confirmed he is a student there. They’ve pulled out their yearbooks showing his pics and as TMZ pointed out, his FB has had him “checked in” at events and different locations at the school for the past several years. All your husband has to do is check google and find any fact checking site and he will see the truth. But it’s scary because once some one has drunk the Kool-Aid they seem to willfully ignore and shut their minds off to the facts no matter how obvious they are.
Stage an intervention!
Take one two-by-four, apply vigorously. Then tell him that you were trying to expel the demons that have entered his body.
Seriously, I’m so sorry. Maybe look online for high school pictures showing the kids at school before the shooting. Appeal to his logic and common sense. Tell him how disappointed you are at his lack of critical thinking. Buy two-by-four.
Giddy…thanks for the laugh! It’s so, so frustrating. I told him if these kids didn’t know who he was they would out him as a who-the-heck-are-you vibes. I’ll have to look into some basic facts on David. Husband is smarter than this! It is next level frustrating. Thank you to everyone who sympathizes. He can have ten accurate facts but one sketchy one, and he goes for the sketchy one.
Ask him what a crisis actor is. Where do they train? Where is their website? Why would anyone do that? Do you believe the conspiracy about Sandyhook being faked? Show him the fact checks on these statements.
Then ask him If he would like to see the big beautiful wall Mexico will build that 45 promised. 45 sent out a fake tweet about the start of the wall. Then find the original from the Obama administration.
Ask him to explain. Then say if they are capable of that then a lie about crisis actors is also true.
You have to wear them down with facts and tell them over and over again about the promises 45 hasn’t kept. Show him Anne Coulter’s scathing takedown of 45 especially the one where she spoke the other night.
Then show him how much money wealthy people will make from this tax plan.
If all else fails, you may need to call in a deprogrammer who can reverse the brainwashing.
HeyThete! Smack him repeatedly while hollering “The power of Patty compels you!” 😉
Can someone please tell me how this crisis actor story got started?? To me this is something that can be fact checked quickly and I don’t know how anyone can actually believe these students are actors.
It started really fast — I think the whole notion began with Sandy Hook and Las Vegas so it was ready to be deployed for Parkland really quickly. It is such an easy thing to fact check but the right wing nuts count on the fact that their audience does not check the facts. It’s really scary and enraging to me.
I put this post below, but the “crisis actor” claim has a long history–way before Parkland. Its like there’s a reservoir of bullshit just waiting for the right demagogue
jesus, does he also think all 3million people around the country/world who marched are ALSO “crisis actors”?
DTMFA.
sorry, that was harsh, but I have no sympathy, tolerance or patience for people who are that deliberately ignorant.
Yes, we’re all crisis actors. Everyone got their sag card after the match. /s
I don’t know if he would accept it, but dismissing protestors by calling them “crisis actors” has a long history in the US. Particularly in the Civil Rights era. Some sources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/02/23/the-racist-roots-of-the-crisis-actors-label/?utm_term=.e51f4ba9cba2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/us/crisis-actors-florida-shooting.html
But I don’t know if this would help because no one wants to admit that they’ve swallowed a talking point whole. Maybe ask him, what it means to say that to you–that you don’t have to talk about the issue? Even if Hogg was a “crisis actor,” Kids were murdered at Parkland and gun violence is epidemic in this country.
1. Have him medically evaluated. Seriously, if this is out of character and he’s smarter than falling for that trash, maybe, god forbid, he’s had a stroke or has a tumor.
2. If he’s well, marriage counseling. I’ve seen close and personally a few marriages where one of the pair has taken a dramatic turn to a political side. It does not improve with time. Good luck.
There are also videos he recorded when they were hiding in one of the classrooms during the shooting. All this information is easy to check. Check his facebook page, then show all to your husband. If he still chooses to believe alternative facts , then… 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Meghan McCain also went after these kids. Whoopi usually babysits Meghan during panel discussions (yeah, I watch The View), but even she stepped in at that point. Conveniently Meghan is now out sick.
Yeah Meghan was upset that the teens used strong language or something? What a joke
Please that is the least of those kids’ worries. Don’t tell me Meghan never swears.
She is a hypocrite and curses regularly. Her new husband is a cheating piece of trash so her energy might be better spent looking into it. It won’t be pretty. I have no sympathy for her when it happens.
@magnoliarose Tell me moar about it!!I really can’t stand Meghan. In my books she is actually worse than Coulter and Ingraham. These two are just purely and recognizably evil, while she considers herself “progressive conservative”, holier-than-thou and a part of of a “political dynasty” or whatever. She is loud, obnoxious and much less intelligent than she believes herself to be.
Oh really magnolia?! I am so mean, I am actually happy to hear this. I cannot stand her. Oh, I go off on twitter on her all the time. She is so vicious, and she has NO class. None.
Is this the same lady that tried to come for Lebron? She’s a vile woman. And an idiot. Thank god these kids are so strong and poised. I can’t imagine dealing with people like Ingraham after everything they’ve been through.
I think that might have been Anne Coulter? I’m not typing her name in a search engine so maybe fellow commenters will confirm…
But isn’t it weird how Ingraham and Coulter are basically the exact same long-faced, blonde white lady?
And both happen to be vile bottom-feeders.
What are the chances?
Right?! Someone upthread said she was like Ann’s less relevant evil sister. I totally see it.
Kitten, it was Ingraham.
Ingraham is the one who told LeBron to shut up and dribble.
While you’re contacting Ingraham’s sponsors, also go on Twitter and report her tweet against David as targeted harassment. If enough people do so, her account will be suspended until she is forced to take it down.
In other Deplorables Attack Kids News, Rep Steven King of Iowa is now being investigated by the House Ethics Office for his racist tweet against Emma Gonzalez
Thanks, guys. Although, I’m not sure the distinction matters all that much as they are basically the same person.
@LP- My BF is from Iowa so I know a LOT about Steve King–more than I want to know, honestly. He’s one of the most racist sh*tbags in Congress and he needs to resign.
LeBron’s response to her was priceless.
That woman is just all sorts of lovely, ain’t she?
I just unfriened a long time friend on FB for posting and sharing articles and memes attacking and smearing these kids. Interesting enough he used to be harmless, cool and more of a liberal. Now in his older age (he’s close to 50), still and living with his mama, never married, no kids but likes to blame women for “always looking over the nice guy” lol, always living in the past and obsessed with WWE I can see why he’s miserable and has become more aligned with the conservative mindset.
I also unfollowed another. Her and her ilk yesterday were like infantile children posting immature memes making fun of and making false claims about these kids.
I have absolutely no patience for any of these small minded folks
I’ve also had to unfriend a few people on Facebook who I never would have guessed could be so judgemental and cold. Ever since trump became president, I think I’ve unfriended at least ten people, it’s been a strange year. And I’m not even an American
Whoa, there JeanGray…..I have a 35 yo son and I am constantly wondering why young women are not lined up to be with him. He is a burly guy who is kind, honest, funny and incredibly loyal. He lives with his mother…..because otherwise, she’d be homeless. I’m getting really frustrated with folks who shite on men living with their moms. Does it never occur to people the moms may very well NEED their son’s help? Please, please please Everyone who may read this, stop using ‘living with their moms’ as an insult, as if the men are some kind of troll. I’d have lost my home if my son hadn’t come back to help … which, by the by was only afforded because my Dad passed and left me a small sum of money I used as the downpayment. My mom had very little, so left very little when she passed. Without my son, I’d have lost my inheritance entirely AND be homeless.
No offence Plantpal, but the reasons a man lives with his mother aren’t going to overcome the baggage of the mere fact that he lives with his mother for (I would hazard a guess) the vast majority of women. Most women would be reluctant to spend significant time with him at your home, and certainly not overnight, and it would be natural to be concerned about what happened if the relationship progressed – would the three of you live together? It may seem unfair, but most women want to forge a relationship with a man independent of his mother and that’s likely why the young women aren’t lining up to be with your son.
I think living with parents is more common in other non USA countries. Like italy, I read people might live with parentals until they are married.
While plantpal’s son is a special case, in most other cases of sons living with moms in the US I wonder: does she do everything for him? Does his mom respect his privacy and he hers? Is the living situation permanent?
Part of getting to know someone in dating is hanging out in their space and seeing, does this person cook, clean, budget and maintain similar living standards as I do?? And it is hard to know that if someone lives with their parents.
Plantpal
You wrote “I’d have lost my home if my son hadn’t come back to help”
So I’m gonna assume he moved out at one point and was on his own and shown the ability and responsibility to take care of himself and pay his rent/bills.
This man I’m talking about has NEVER left his parents home and is about 2yrs shy of 50. Neither of his parents are in need of help physically or financially as I’ve personally known his family for decades. He has a union job so he doesn’t need to stay at home either. He just never left the nest and been on his own two feet. He posts stories of quietly “stalking” women from afar that he sees on the Subway, but never actually having the nerve to go to them and talk to them, yet he is one of those men who loves to blame women for never giving him a chance, but never takes himself to task as to why he may still be alone and living at home.. All he does is post WWE videos, 80’s cartoons or pics of his toys (no not a car and devices- he’s never owned a car – actual toys), and since 2016, has been posting stupid Right Wing conspiracy stories and memes.
Your son seems like a great son who loves his mom and is doing a wonderfully noble thing. I hope he finds a good person who appreciates him. He’s 35 so he’s still young. Many of my guy friends started to want to settle down at that age and are doing well as opposed to some of my other friends who got married in their early 20’s and are now all divorced. I don’t doubt he will find someone soon unless he likes being single which is ok too,
Plantpal,
Your son sounds so sweet!! I don’t know why women arent interested. He is being loyal to his family and it’s clear how much he loves you. Those are great qualities! I think your situation/his situation is very different than a 35 year old who has no aspirations and just wants to play computer games and loaf about while mooching off the parents.
35 year old dude living with mom is a deal-breaker for me. I get that sometimes it’s because of extenuating circumstances but nah. Deal-breaker.
Your son sounds like a good guy, though.
Your son is living with you because he’s taking care of YOU. It’s a completely different situation if the roles are reversed.
But beyond that, like Kitten said…it’s a deal breaker for some regardless of the situation because it adds an extra layer of complications of the relationship dynamics. I’m 31 and living with two friends and helping them raise their children due to a combination of a.) them living near my college and my working a job that requires constant travel and basically turns my place of residence into a glorified storage facility, b.) their youngest son being born with a serious heart defect and needing the help, c.) my mother having enough on her plate dealing with my mentally ill brother.
I could easily afford to move out on my own, but I’m choosing to do this out of personal preference. This being said, I well recognize that my living situation is NOT appealing to most single men and women out there. I respect their refusal to get involved in somebody whose house they can’t crash out, with whom they’d be dealing with schedule conflicts where kids are an actual issue. Not everybody wants that, and that’s the compromise for doing what I think is right by people I care about.
I agree with Nicole completely.
I’m always on board with justified boycotts… except don’t use a single one of these C+ companies for anything in my life.
These kids, literal kids, are the face of our future and I couldn’t be more proud!!!! I keep telling my husband that of course they are mad and want guns gone! We are the only country that has mass school shootings! Something has to change! It is way to easy to get a gun. It’s more difficult in the state I live in but very easy in states around me for their citizens. It it’s time the gun laws catch up with the times! I’ll be emailing/calling complaints to these companies!
Other countries have had mass shootings too but they cracked down immediately on public gun access, as opposed to the U.S.
I wonder how many of the schools that turned him down have major donors (majorly rich alumni) that have associations with the NRA? It seems everyone is bought and paid for.
Doesn’t David Hogg want to be a journalist? He’s passionate, actually gives af. He’s be great.
I don’t think that’s the case although I did read an article about how you should check where universities invest their funds. With Hogg, he likely applied way before the shooting. My son applied in early fall and for the most part he got all his acceptances (and rejections) by January.
These kids have amazing futures, and you are right, these schools are kicking themselves now. But it won’t matter to their futures. We are watching leaders in the making.
What a for shit swamp dweller.
But they mock what they fear.
They tear down the good because they have none.
So she’s making fun of this kid’s perfectly-respectable 1270 SAT score and 4.2 GPA … and *liberals* are the elitists? Oh please.
The UC system was unusually difficult to get into this year. https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/03/26/reports-circulate-even-more-difficult-year-be-admitted-leading
My first attempt at applications to grad school (while I was still in a semester program at a national lab) was to several big name schools. They all said they would ordinarily have accepted me, but the job market for physicists was so awful that they were focusing on supporting their recent Ph.D.’s with post-doc appointments rather than accepting the usual number of students. So definitely timing can be bad.
But also they can just be full up for normal reasons. It’s very normal to get rejections because of that, not because you’re not qualified. The same is true for academic or research job applications after you get your degree. You can send out dozens and like me, get only one or two interview offers. When I later quit my academic job to go freelance as a scientific translator, we were deluged with at least 100 applications. Most just weren’t what we happened to need, nothing against their qualifications.
If he was organizing anti-abortion rallies, Laura would think he’s the greatest person that was ever born. She dislikes him purely because of his politics. I’ve tried (honestly, I have) to watch her show on Fox. She cannot make a coherent argument, and it’s depressing. I thought she was a lawyer, so she should be able to construct an argument. She is one of those cross-wearing Christians who likes to tell us over and over again how perfect her religion is. If this is who is going to be in Christian heaven, I’ll take hell.
Your last sentence, yes, yes!
Funny how it’s always the most aggressively devout “Christians” who have absolutely no idea what Jesus actually preached about – when he wasn’t feeding the masses, not refusing carpentry services to the LGB community and doling out free healthcare – whilst also seeming completely unaware that it’s not God who offers you power and riches for the price of your soul (and your vote for Trump). That’s the Devil’s job.
Still, once the Rapture wipes them off the planet I look forward to a more heavenly Earth.
Preach it, Elkie.
These faux Christians have NO IDEA when it comes to “what would Jesus do?”.
and it’s always these types that have to tell you, OFTEN, that they are a Christian…
…because they sure as HELL don’t act like one.
1. I have zero idea who Laura I. is.
2. Pretty sure I’m a better person for not knowing who she is She sounds like a negative bitterA fool.
When she was at Dartmouth, she worked for a right-wing newspaper that outed gay kids and haraassed a black professor. (Her attitude toward gays changed when her own brother came out as gay and HIV+. As Bill Maher said, these monsters are incapable of empathy unless it happens to someone they know.)
During the first Obama administration she wrote a satirical book called “The Obama Diaries” that included watermelon and fried chicken jokes.
She is a monster.
If Steve scalise didn’t change his mind about gun control after he was shot…it feels hopeless
That’s the definition of privilege: not caring about what happens unless it affects you.
He should feel lucky not to be accepted by the UC schools. The classes are overcrowded. You are basically learning on your own. There is little or no interaction with your own professor. You have to work with a TA. Small universities are so much better. The students thrive and they get to explore and express themselves more. Plus, private schools give a lot of scholarships and grant for deserving students. For example, David is way qualified for merit scholarships.
I picked Arby’s and Wayfair to boycott. Just went on FB and wow! Multiple pro-boycott comments are being posted by the second!
This is just VILE. First of all, like you said, UC universities are VERY VERY hard to get into if you’re out of state. Unless you’re on the way to finding a cure for cancer and a Nobel prize, it’s just not going to happen.
And any adult who attacks kids doesn’t deserve to be called an adult. THIS _____ can SIT DOWN.
Wow, I’m so happy I’m not applying to colleges right now. I went to a UC and my GPA/SAT was not that high. I did get rejected by the top two UCs, but was accepted to others. And even if he doesn’t go to his top choice doesn’t mean he won’t get a good education. When I didn’t get into my top choice I always thought “Well, I’ll start at this UC and transfer to that one.” I found a great niche and wonderful mentors at my UC and never looked back after that. And while I feel like most undergraduate degrees aren’t really worth it (I’m going back to school now to get one that will provide me more professional opportunities), I hope some schools reach out to him after reading about this.
First of all those applications were due either at the end of the year or early this year which means whatever those kids organized after the tragedy didn’t count. Second, it is easier for out of state kids to get in UC schools because UC is all about making money at this point and us local yokels do not pay that sweet extra out of state fee. Third, it is none of our business what schools these kids get into. That’s a decision between them and their folks. We should be happy with whatever they choose to do. Final comment, the school doesn’t make you who you are. It’s what you do with yourself post education that defines you.
These NRA parasites should go suck it. Would they like people to go after their kids like they are doing with the Parkland kids?
I read that he was offered a job on Capitol Hill for a gap year and that he’s thinking of accepting. Not sure how true this is, but it would be PERFECT for him. I admire these kids so much…all of them! It’s amazing to think of what they’ve accomplished in little more than 6 weeks.
As for that vile bitch…no words. The right-wing is all about protecting a fetus, but once they get to be school-age? Y’all on your own.
Ingraham is disgusting.
I hope nobody will side with her vile tweets.
Well, Ingraham, anything for publicity. You need it, as your useless propaganda has finally run its course. These kids don’t know who you even are. And anyway, we’ve all moved on without you long ago–I am about your age, and the first D.C. rally I attended was the gay march 30 years ago. Where were you?? It was important what we did, and it fueled a civil rights movement that led to me finally being able to get married and raise my family in peace. You’re really, really behind the times, girl… You’ll have to make money some other way soon, or just do us a favor and retire on the fat pile of cash you’ve made from marketing Hate. Bye.
That’s funny. I know who David Hogg is … but have no clue who Laura Ingalls-Wilder here is.
I just closed my TripAdvisor and Hulu accounts. I can’t believe they would advertise on Fox news or with Laura Ingraham! What the fricking heck?
I also went online to look at Tripadvisor’s company CEO & top staff—almost all WHITE men at the top. There was only 2 white women, and they were way below the men. Now, I know why they love Fox news so much. I can’t believe that I’ve never noticed this before…what’s wrong with me…smh at myself…
Guess it’s too late to change your headline? lol It’s completely inaccurate. Not surprising.
How is it inaccurate? I’m coming late to this story.
I was saying that “Parkland Survivor” was actually inaccurate seeing as he only “survived” the shootings because he wasn’t there at the time. He was at home. Google it. I’m not excusing HER behaviour in the least (ugh), but that his being a “survivor” is only because he wasn’t there during the actual shootings.
Wait, are you trying to say she didn’t send that tweet? Or are you referring her non-appology apology? The one where she bragged about being the first to interview him after the shooting?
Now that she’s lost a few advertisers, Ingraham’s issued an “apology” for “any upset or hurt” that follows the predictably Sorry-Not-Sorry playbook by NOT acknowledging & taking responsibility for her ad hominem attack. And she includes an obligatory, gratuitous religious reference as if that makes it all good. Sure, whatever.
I read a really good point the other day. The amount of damage an assault rifle does to a human being and classroom doors, walls, etc. is significant. These kids (KIDS!!) have seen humans blown to bits and incredible structural damage. For this reason alone they should be treated with kid gloves. I am impressed by what they’ve accomplished and agree with their stance but we need to remember that these are kids who have suffered a severe trauma. Fine if you disagree but at least be respectful.
Where is Melania? Isn’t her platform cyberbullying. She has stood by in silence as grown men and women have attacked these kids. For all of those people who felt sorry for Melania, this is a true test of her nature. Melania is just as cruel, unkind, and self centered as her husband. This is the state of our country now? Grow adults revert to attacking children instead of the grown man who tweets insults at them from twitter. The GOP have become just like the Dotard. Why hasn’t twitter banned these people and bots attacking the kids? Why won’t twitter ban the Dotard, who continues to attack people?
I love all the tweets that call Melania out every time there is bullying like this.
Melania….? You there…? Helllloooooo.?.?
Incorrigible that they do this. I hope she loses all of her sponsers!
a 54 years old making fun of a teenager. That’s great! I want to tell you to grow up! BTW, If you’re still looking for the line and can’t find it it’s because you’ve crossed it…. long ago.
Go find some spiritual retreat will you, and see if they can help you to let go of that attack dog persona you feel works so well for you when in fact it’s a personality defect.
This is Trump’s America. Like it’s a bad thing for these kids to feel empathy and not want other kids to go through what they did. And adults for bullying them after they’ve survived a massacre. My god. We’re doomed as a country. I remember a Trumper cousin saying to me well before the election “Trump says what most of us think” and I replied to her “If most of us think what he says, then human decency in America is doomed.”
Hogg’s twitter suggestion to boycott Ingraham’s sponsors frightened her into some sort of apology. Nicolle Wallace praised the Parkland kids for “flipping the script on the NRA and its right-wing supporters”, and suggested they have met their match in David Hogg.
This happened in less than two days. It’s amazing. Apparently, four of her advertisers have abandoned her.
The pope has voiced his support of Parkland. The pope!
Hogg refused her apology unless she denounces Fox for the way they’ve treated the Parkland survivors.
Yes, she’s had to apologize, albeit “in the spirit of Holy Week” whatever. LOL! these children are owning them!! They don’t take it personally, they go for what matters to people like them, the money.
LOLOLOL!
I love it. Some advertisers are bailing. And after her so-called apology, David called her out on the reason for it, loss of advertising revenue, not upon reflection as she states. And her apology ended with Laura patting herself on the back. Ugh.
I know to out of staters, it seems like the UC system gives preference to in state students, but to California residents, it seems like the opposite. UC prefers out of state and foreign students because they get to charge more. In fact, there was a state audit that found that UC harm local students by admiting so many out of state students. And that “enrollment of students from other states and countries has grown to 15.5% of UC’s total undergraduate enrollment, up from about 5% eight years ago.“
Anyway, UCs have become increasingly hard to get into. Even if he was an onstage student, with those SAT scores, it would have been difficult to get into a good UC. He could appeal though. My sister appealed and got in and a lot of my friends did the same. I got into my choice of UC, but went to Stanford instead. If the appeal doesn’t work, then community is the way to go.
I’m in Illinois and the University of Illinois at Champaign is the same way. When I was in college decades ago most state residents with decent grades had a good chance of getting in. Now it has become a really world class school lots of out of state and foreign students. It’s much more prestigious than it was 30 or 40 years ago. My son went to U of I in Chicago which is very good… but Champaign outranks every school in the state except Northwestern and University of Chicago.
Whoops meant instate not onstage. 😂
I have a feeling that it’s like this in many states. When I applied, less than ten years ago, it was difficult. I can’t imagine how hard it is now or how hard it will be when my little cousin applies in three years.
Souless Demon
I think that “Laura Ingraham is a f–king a–hole” is really being too polite. Way too polite.
And lest anyone doubt we live in a country gone mad…
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/29/enough-is-enough-police-violence-plagues-america/
I have personally phoned every single one of these advertisers that does business in Canada to advise that this issue DOES cross borders and that I will no longer be dealing with their companies because of their affiliation with assholes like Ingraham.
Awesome she has lost multiple advertisers.
First of all, Laura, if anyone has the right to “whine” about anything, it is these kids. They have been through a horrific (and that is not strong enough of a word) experience that I really hope no one else has to go through again. Second, instead of “whining”, they got angry and, in an articulate yet passionate manner, called out the lawmakers and adults who were supposed to protect them. Third, they got organized and staged a peaceful march of hundreds of thousands of people nationally. And fourth, they have done it all while being bullied online and in the media by people like you. Shame on you, Laura. And shame on the advertisers who continue to support you.