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The ACLU transgender lawyer for transderism-for-children, "Chase" Strangio -- the last name fits -- argues that 2-year-olds know when they're transgender and if a 2-year-old tells you he or she is a transgender, it's time to start transitioning.

"He" says so right here, in "his" strangely high-pitched, womanly voice.

By the way, it's "outsized role," not "outside role," "Lawyer."

Shock: Biden's advisors considering a flurry of pardons for themselves, their cronies, the Biden family -- and Joe Biden himself.

Note his advisors are debating this.

Where is the vegetable?

Politico spins this as Biden's people suddenly moved to defend themselves against Trump's threats.

But note that when Biden prosecuted his rival, and when Democrats ran for office promising to prosecute Trump, Politico assured us that all of these decisions were insulated from politics and it was an anti-American, Republic-destroying smear to claim that politics would ever play a part in prosecutions.

President Joe Biden's senior aides are conducting a vigorous internal debate over whether to issue preemptive pardons to a range of current and former public officials who could be targeted with President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House, according to senior Democrats familiar with the discussions.

Biden's aides are deeply concerned about a range of current and former officials who could find themselves facing inquiries and even indictments, a sense of alarm which has only accelerated since Trump last weekend announced the appointment of Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel has publicly vowed to pursue Trump's critics.

The White House officials, however, are carefully weighing the extraordinary step of handing out blanket pardons to those who've committed no crimes, both because it could suggest impropriety, only fueling Trump's criticisms, and because those offered preemptive pardons may reject them.

The deliberations touch on pardoning those currently in office, elected and appointed, as well as former officials who've angered Trump and his loyalists.

Those who could face exposure include such members of Congress' Jan. 6 Committee as Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Trump has previously said Cheney "should go to Jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee!" Also mentioned by Biden's aides for a pardon is Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who became a lightning rod for criticism from the right during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The West Wing deliberations have been organized by White House counsel Ed Siskel but include a range of other aides, including chief of staff Jeff Zients. The president himself, who was intensely focused on his son's pardon, has not been brought into the broader pardon discussions yet, according to people familiar with the deliberations.

The conversations were spurred by Trump's repeated threats and quiet lobbying by congressional Democrats, though not by those seeking pardons themselves. "The beneficiaries know nothing," one well-connected Democrat told me about those who could receive pardons.

LOL. The Democrats who are going to get the pardons are already claiming "We know nothing about this, we didn't ask for these pardons."

Then, um... how do you know you're on the list?

Cat ladies voted for... Harris, it turns out.

What a shock.

The lead-up to the 2024 election was all about cat owners -- but in the end, the dogs had their day.

President-elect Donald Trump won slightly more than half of voters who own either cats or dogs, with a big assist from dog owners, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters. Dog owners were much more likely to support Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris. Cat owners, meanwhile, were split between the two candidates.

About two-thirds of voters said they own a dog or cat, but pet owners don't usually get much attention from politicians. That is, until this year, when then-vice presidential candidate JD Vance's old comments about "childless cat ladies" briefly became a campaign issue -- and Taylor Swift signed her Instagram endorsement of Harris in September as "Taylor Swift Childless Cat Lady."

Harris did end up decisively winning women who owned a cat but no dog, but those voters were a relatively small slice of the electorate. And pet owners as a whole did not seem to hold Vance's remarks against the GOP ticket.

Jemelle Hill, a talentless DEI hire who reports daily on her own racism and rage, has figured out why Kamala Harris lost the election, and the answer may surprise you.

Well, not really. It's racism and sexism.

During a recent podcast episode, Hill delivered a scathing critique of the election, noting that she had predicted President-elect Donald Trump's victory. "So clearly, I did see this coming, but I still don't think that makes it any more difficult to accept," she told her viewers.

Hill suggested that Harris' treatment in the media and by voters somehow reflects deep-seated societal biases that disadvantage women of color in leadership. She compared Harris' experience to her own professional journey.

"Yes, I take the reelection of Donald Trump quite personally because of the person themselves, but also as a Black woman," she explained. "And that is because I think for a lot of Black women, we can relate to Kamala Harris just in the sense of some of us have been in that position before where we felt qualified, if not overqualified in many respects."

That's right, folks. Hill believes that she and Harris were "overqualified" for the positions they wanted. More on that later.

Hill went on to argue that Harris' loss shows that Americans are unwilling to embrace female leaders -- especially Black, female leaders who wash their collard greens in a bathtub.

"For a lot of Black women, even though we should not internalize it this way, it felt like a particular rejection of some of the things that we've been fighting for," she said.

Predictably, the podcaster went on to trot out one of the left's favorite narratives: The role misinformation allegedly played in influencing voters' perceptions on the campaign trail. "I think it was particularly evident how racism and misogyny were driving a lot of the coverage, the opinions, and even how the electorate saw Kamala Harris," Hill said.

Real Media Outlet Axios, home of the sunken chests and floppy wrists, say the real problem with Biden endlessly lying about the pardon he always intended to grant to Hunter was just that it makes it harder for Democrats to claim "the moral high ground."

"Disinformation expert" makes up two fake sources to buttress his position.

He'll get a promotion for this.

Note, again, that NBC "News" reported that Biden had discussed pardoning Hunter with his aides as late as June of this past summer.

CNN entertains leftwing crackpot who claims that Trump and Pete Hesgeth will send out the military to shoot Democrats. Other members on the panel agree that this is a real possibility.

They base this on the call to use the National Guard to stop Black Lives Matter arson sprees and riots.

"Real reporter" Abby Phillips says that Scott Jennings is taking this too far in rebutting these lunatic claims.

posted by Ace at 06:35 PM

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