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The Bidens have thought about what the American public craves, and what they've decided is that America just wants more Biden Cowbell!

David Strom quotes NBC "News:"

WASHINGTON -- Former President Joe Biden has told some Democratic leaders he'll raise funds, campaign and do anything else necessary for Democrats to recover lost ground as the Trump administration rolls back programs the party helped design, according to people close to him.

Biden privately met last month with the new Democratic National Committee chairman, Ken Martin, and offered to help as the party struggles to regain its viability amid polling that shows its popularity has been sinking, the people said.

So far, Biden's overture seems to have fallen flat. Democrats find themselves adrift, casting about for a compelling messenger.

Whoever that is, it's not Biden, many party activists and donors contend. He's tethered to the 2024 defeat and, at 82, is a symbol more of the party's past than its future, they argue.

"Who's going to want Joe Biden back in the game?" said a major Biden supporter, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk candidly about him.

Strom also writes that transgender violence is a real and growing concern, and that we must no longer be silent about it.

Gay-coded deserter and Chinese Agent Tim Waltz also believes that the Democrat Party needs him, too. Here he argues that abolishing the Department of Education will bring back Jim Crow, the Democrats' favorite stupid thing to say.

Karolien Leavitt wants to know what American students have gotten out of three trillion dollars in DOEd funding.

UFC star Connor MacGregor officially announces his candidacy for president of Ireland. Ireland needs a hero.

John Sexton points out that "Obama's Brain" Ben Rhodes -- the man who created the leftwing media "know nothing" Echo Chamber to sell the Iran Nuclear Deal -- is now admitting that a lot of the Democrat Party's current problems stem from their constant lying about Joe Biden's mental fitness.

The hard truth is that the Democratic Party, in its current form, cannot lead the opposition that is required. Faced with a relentless onslaught from Mr. Trump, the party has lost touch with an electorate that sees it as emblematic of what they hate about politics, a polarized culture, overseas commitments and an economy where being middle class doesn't feel like enough to get by.

The party has a credibility gap rooted in its initial willingness to support Joe Biden's decision to run for re-election while warning that the stakes were existential. If that was the case, then why ignore the overwhelming majorities of Americans who believed that he was too old to run, and choose loyalty to a Washington stalwart over the country's appetite for drastic change?

We are living through the reckoning of defending the status quo.

Even CNN is tired of Gavin Newsom's lies as he attempts to distance himself from unpopular woke positions he's long championed, but now claims he never endorsed.

Since launching his new podcast two weeks ago, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken aim at a number of causes popular among progressives: He's rejected the term "Latinx," said he doesn't back trans women competing in women's sports, and suggested he opposes taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for prisoners and detained immigrants.

His more than 20-year political record in California tells a much different story.

Newsom has repeatedly used the term "Latinx," a gender-neutral term referring to people of Latin American descent. He's also supported a number of policies over the years expanding transgender rights, including those for undocumented immigrants and even signing into law a bill acknowledging prisoners' need for gender transition medical care.

Now, in the aftermath of the 2024 election, with the Democratic Party facing record low favorability numbers, Newsom appears to be disavowing some of these positions as he wrangles with conservatives on his new podcast, "This is Gavin Newsom."

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The problem for Newsom is that he's spent his career staking out progressive positions on a host of issues that are seen by some as part of his party's weakness. In 2004 as the mayor of San Francisco, Newsom notably defied court orders by issuing same-sex marriage licenses establishing him as a progressive standard-bearer.

As lieutenant governor in 2014, Newsom celebrated California's new law allowing trans student athletes to compete in sports that align with their gender. He then applauded the failure of a Republican-led campaign to repeal the law.

As governor in 2020, Newsom signed a landmark bill expanding rights for transgender prisoners, allowing inmates to be housed based on their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth and acknowledging their need for gender transition care.

California's Medicaid program, which now covers undocumented immigrants in the state through an expansion approved under Newsom in 2021, also provides taxpayer-funded gender transition surgery, according to a 2022 memo from the state-run health provider.

Later, in 2022, Newsom praised Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox's statement vetoing a trans sports ban.

"Your governor said it right when he said, 'Never has so much fear and anger been focused on so few people,'" Newsom said of Cox's statement vetoing the bill.

Now, facing a shifting political landscape, Newsom is distancing himself from those progressive policies he once recently championed -- though not acknowledging his own role in supporting and advancing them.

In response to questions from CNN, a Newsom spokesperson declined to comment on the record but defended the governor's record on transgender youth, citing his past efforts to expand protections for transgender individuals.

On the first episode of his podcast Newsom proclaimed, "Not one person ever in my office has ever used the word Latinx," he said, dismissing the term as an "out-of-touch fixation."

"Where did that even -- I just didn't even know where it came from," he added.

In fact, someone in his office repeatedly used the term: Newsom himself.

As governor, Newsom invoked "Latinx" in press briefings in 2020, and social media posts from his personal and official X accounts when highlighting issues affecting Latino communities.

"I hope we can really paint a picture in terms of our consciousness of how impactful this has been on the Latinx community," Newsom said at one Covid-19 briefing.

In 2023, he attacked Republicans for "banning the word 'Latinx'" instead of focusing on gun control. In 2020, he warned that COVID-19 was disproportionately impacting the "Latinx community" and announced $52 million in state funds to combat rising cases.

A 2024 poll by the Pew Research Center found the term Latinx to be broadly unpopular among Latino adults in the US. Only 4% say they use the term to describe themselves, and 75% of Latinos who have heard of the term say it should not be used to describe the Hispanic or Latino population.

A spokesperson for Newsom told CNN that Latinx is "not a term that is regularly used by the Administration.

Just as Newsom has tried to distance himself from "Latinx," he is now trying to cast taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for prisoners as a political loser.

Also on the first episode of his podcast, Newsom dismissed the issue as a "90/10" debate--suggesting it was overwhelmingly unpopular.

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Yet the policies Newsom is condemning are currently the law in California. Legal challenges and a court order made California in 2017 the first state to provide a state-funded transition surgery for an inmate, when Newsom was the state's lieutenant governor.

Later in 2020, Newsom signed the landmark Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, which further cemented those rights -- requiring that transgender prisoners be housed according to their gender and acknowledged their need for access to transition-related healthcare.

"Some transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people experience gender dysphoria that requires medical treatment, while others do not experience gender dysphoria," the law states. "Due to safety concerns, inconsistent medical and mental health care, insufficient education and resources, and other factors, incarceration often serves as a barrier to gender transition."

At the same time, California extended taxpayer-funded gender-affirming care to undocumented immigrants in the state because of the state's Medicaid expansion that was signed by Newsom's predecessor, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown in 2015 and then-expanded under Newsom in 2021.

Newsom's spokesperson declined to comment on the state's transgender policies, saying, "The Governor's comments speak for themselves."

That is true. That is true.

Shock -- BLM radical Cori Bush's husband engaged in fraud.

BLM radical? Fraud? This cannot be!

Head AFT childless lesbian non-teacher political hack Randi Weingarten is once again lying about having fought to open schools in April 2020.

She actually pressured the CDC to change its reopening guidelines to make them almost impossible to meet -- to keep schools closed indefinitely.

And she has a long, remorseless history of fighting to keep children uneducated so that fatassed teachers could skip out on work and do "Zoom classrooms" in their pajamas.

Karol Markowicz @karol

CDC was going to change idiotic 6 foot rule to only slightly less idiotic 3 foot rule, largely allowing schools in blue areas to reopen. CDC met with Randi, were convinced to keep it at 6 feet. Kids still haven't recovered. You're not going to get to lie about this.

Leftist terrorists are going to start catching hands -- or catching something worse.

Why do leftwing AWFLs believe they can put hostile hands on men and not get the entitlement slapped out of them? Legally, if you commit an assault, your victim has the right to use physical force in return.

posted by Ace at 04:20 PM

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