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Just to be clear: March 31 has been Trans Visibility Day for the past 15 years. Mike Johnson and others are saying it's outrageous that it occurred on Easter, and blames Biden for making it so. When offered that accusation during an Easter Egg Roll, Biden claims he didn't schedule TVD during Easter. Which is basically true as he inherited the day --- but he did sign the proclamation. Now we're supposed to clutch our pearls that this is either totally disingenuous, or classic Biden forgetfulness. So let's look at the choices: 1) Biden or a staff member notices that the 2024 TVD falls on Easter, and breaks the 15 year precedent by having the organization schedule it for another day. Because obviously............Christians would be offended? Because......trans visibility is anti-Christian? Because you don't want to alienate the people who already hate you in an election year? Hey, thanks for the support, Joe. 2) Biden refuses to sign any trans proclamation. 3) Biden just rolls with it as he did, thinking the Trans community deserves the recognition, and nobody would notice that in addition to it being Easter this year, March 31 was also: Anesthesia Tech Day Cesar Chavez Day - March 31, 2024 (Usually on March 31st) Dance Marathon Day Easter Sunday - March 31, 2024 Eiffel Tower Day International Hug a Medievalist Day International Transgender Day of Visibility National Baked Ham with Pineapple Day - March 31, 2024 (Same Day as Easter) National Bunsen Burner Day National Clams on the Half Shell Day National Crayon Day National Farm Workers Day National Prom Day National She's Funny That Way Tater Day Transfer Day - (U.S. Virgin Islands) World Backup Day

If Caitlynn has inspired others to be their true selves, that's great. If your true self happens to be a Republican on everything but trans acceptance......I can get that, too. But to my eye, Caitlynn Jenner has more in common with the vapid attention-craving Kardashian-spawning LA reality show world than she does with civil rights pioneers. Is that too catty of me?

Or maybe it's that Jenner has a history of being a pull the ladder up after themselves kind of person, a complete hypocrite, and they literally killed somebody.

FIFY

I agree with these: Exceptions to state abortion bans generally fall into four general categories: to prevent the death of the pregnant person, when there is risk to the health of the pregnant person, when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, and when there is a lethal fetal anomaly. https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/press-release/what-are-the-exceptions-to-state-abortion-bans/ I will add: I have know of situations where the mother did not abort the child that was a result of rape or incest. That should be her choice - good can come out of evil. Some people chose that possibility. The same could be true of fetal anomalies - we have known of individuals born with great handicaps/anomalies that have gone on to live productive and in many cases inspirational lives. Again - no one should be forced to 'chose' one way or the other. From a practical perspective - in a pluralistic society, there will never be 100% agreement on this. So, I think we have to look at this from a compromised position. No side gets all that it wants. The alternative is that we become authoritarian which is the opposite of who we are as a nation. 1. We can either be like China where the govt dictates the one child per family policy - forced abortions or like 2. Honduras where abortions are banned in their totality by the govt since 1985. The gray area for me is time limits. We've seen the draconian state laws that don't allow any abortions at all or limit them to 6 weeks. Time limits: I'm still torn on time limits - 6 weeks is to restrictive especially if they preclude any of the above and because - in most cases one does not know of a pregnancy until 6 weeks at the earliest. 12 weeks seems reasonable for me.

As the first openly gay candidate polling legitimate numbers, Pete Buttegieg had to pay for his own, and he had Buttegieg money, not Perot or Kennedy money. It's funny how RFK Jrs most ardent supporters are people who have no intention of voting for RFK Jr.

Why do you post Tweets without looking any of it up and/or sharing what you found? It took me about 2 minutes to find the first thing is just made up bulls#!t. You can see in the graph the household # is higher. (And it’s supposed to be higher because it includes farm related jobs, while the other doesn’t). https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/ces_cps_trends.htm

Biden did not pick the date of an international day. Nor could he move it to another date. All he did was recognize that it exists. The pearl clutching over this is partisan nonsense.

The one that got cheated on is SUPER hot...the other one is not. Totally weird that he would go bang the other one.

I guess I’ll be the one to ask the question that everyone wants to know……Are the sister hot?

Hmmmmm……not very sanctuary city’ish of them.

I feel like this is not really a big deal it is just giving people something to b!^@h out. Had he moved it, people would have b!^@hed about that. I was at an easter gathering yesterday with like 40 people. No one mentioned it at all. We did find out that a friend found out her live in boyfriend banged her sister. Not sure if there is a day for that.

The establishment Dems asked both Pete and Amy Klobuchar to drop out prior to Super Tuesday so the party could coalesce around Joe Biden and defeat frontrunner Bernie Sanders. They didn't learn on Elizabeth Warren figuring she would take votes from Sanders. Biden only became viable after he won the South Carolina primary. I think if Buttegieg had broken out of that pack, the Dems might have run with him. But Pete wasn't running circles around anyone, otherwise he would have polled better. He did surprisingly well given his liabilities -- probably less around being gay than his resume as a small city mayor. The establishment Ds most definitely wanted to squash Bernie Sanders. The source of my RFK Jr. observation? Well just click on the Tweets and memes and links of the folks advocating for his candidacy, and within seconds you'll find their true leanings. It shouldn't be surprising that Republicans want Democrats to vote for RFK Jr.

We know why.

What the GOP is becoming under trump is a racist organization as trump and his team concentrate on 'reverse racism' - basically any law that allows access to minorities is racist against whites. https://www.axios.com/2024/04/01/trump-reverse-racism-civil-rights

There was a big protest at the Club. They were going to switch from Beluga to Ossetra caviar for the Sunday brunch. Lots of members picketed and signed petitions. I was pretty upset but didn’t protest. Thankfully they stayed with the Beluga.

How exclusionary!!!! He doesn't even say anything about the other religions that don't celebrate Easter. How horrible is this guy?@!???

Isn't it a good thing to treat people as individuals and not give them a pass because they belong to a certain group? Surely you're not advocating for identity politics.

Farming corn, sorghum, milo, beans or wheat is nothing compared to the money folks can make farming right-wing rage.

And they were both there! Both sisters! I guess they are just acting like it didn't happen.

That always makes the holidays exciting.

for #1) this kinda is how I view it too. For #2) he coulda maybe possibly just took ownership of it instead of denying it. He coulda also said “hey, in honor of the upcoming Easter Holiday, we are gonna proclaim this day on Saturday this year while also remembering the 25 other days of remembrance coming up later in the year. For #3) if we are gonna make a funny, then It’s not very inclusive of him to deny a press release about all the other days of remembrance if we are going for inclusiveness.

Oh man.

The whole thing is just weird. Jenner becomes transgender and does quite a bit to try to educate people on the issues and the process. MAGA shows that they are extreme anti trans. Jenner then sides with them on the issue. It's like she's caught in this weird black hole of MAGA and is totally sold on Trump so she has to go against everything she's worked for since coming out. Then, you have MAGA and right wing media that love her.....even though they detest trans people...because she saying all the things they want her to say. They always have that token black guy standing behind Trump and rallies. Well, this is very similar. She's their token transexual so they can be at parties and say...."I have a friend that's tran".

Walkon TE Caden Becker seems to not be with the team anymore

Roster Updated Players Left Caden Becker (Sophomore TE) New Positions Gage Wager- P to DB Taveon Thompson- WR to LB Maverick Noonan- DL to LB Janiran Bonner- FB to WR Number Updates Demitrius Bell - #11 WR Danny Kaelin - #12 QB Rex Guthrie - #12 DB Dylan Raiola - #15 QB Roger Gradney - #15 DB Willis McGahee - #17 Jack Isaiah Neyor - #18 WR Taveon Thompson - #19 LB Maverick Noonan - #22 LB Dante Dowdell - #23 RB Blye Hill - #23 DB Mario Buford - #29 DB Gage Wager - #34 LB Evan Taylor - #37 DB Larry Tarver #41 DB Riley Van Poppel - #44 DL Izaac Dickey - #45 RB Ian Flynt - #47 TE Vincent Shavers - #51 LB Stefon Thompson - #56 LB Micah Mazzcua - #56 OL Ashton Murphy - #57 DL Grant Brix - #63 OL Gibson Pyle - #72 OL Jason Maciejzak - # 76 OL Jahmal Banks - #80 WR Dae'vonn Hall - #83 WR Keelan Smith - #86 WR Jacory Barney Jr - #89 WR Conor Connealy - #98 DL

An expected response, but from an unexpected source ... but thanks for your pov. You evidently didn't read the thousands of replies to any X user that posted an Easter vs TDV

Pete can and did run circles around Biden (and the rest) but establishment Ds wanted no part of that so they squashed him. Any sources for the quoted above?

And among an Easter Morning vomit of 41 unhinged Truth Social posts, billionaire con man and Roman Emperor admirer Donald Trump compared his plight to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Yes thanks. We discussed this before. Exceptions can and have been made. I do find it weird that 3rd party candidates are held to a higher standards than Ds or Rs

Because they don't want to actually think. Just get the feels.

I guess “we know why” you would back provide this excellent source of information to provide context into the other post you thoughtfully shared. good stuff and I learned a bit from the article. Thanks.

It only took me 5 minutes to read the article and find these nuggets. For this reason, the household survey reports higher employment levels than the payroll survey. As of this January, the household survey estimated that 161.1 million Americans were employed; the payroll survey estimated 157.7 million The household survey, however, tells a different story. The chart below depicts month-to-month estimates of total U.S. employment based on surveys of consumers and employees. According to that survey, employment actually fell by 31,000 workers from December to January, and by some 700,000 over the two-month period from November to January, compared to the 353,000 and the 686,000 increases respectively reported in the payroll survey. That adds up to a difference between the two surveys of some 1.4 million jobs between November and January. Over the past year, the household survey reported that the economy added 1 million new jobs—2 million fewer than the payroll survey’s estimate. According to these estimates, full-time employment fell by some 1.6 million workers from December to January, compared with the 353,000–job increase reported in the payroll survey. Between July 2022 and January 2024, the economy added just 600,000 new full-time jobs, or 33,000 per month, compared with the payroll survey’s 5 million–job expansion estimate for the same period. The gap between the payroll survey’s employment estimates and household survey’s full-time employment estimates are largely explained, of course, by part-time workers. The household survey estimated 100,000 new part-time jobs in January and an impressive 900,000 new part-time jobs between November through January. Therefore, according to the household survey, the increase in total employment over this period was due to increases in the number of part-time employees. Over the full year, from January to January, part-time employment grew by 600,000—about 60 percent of all job gains made during the course of the year.

Great job politicians of all stripes! And people to this day still don’t think the national debt is a problem

Happy 20 dollar an hour minimum wage day in California!

*Easter

I dunno man...but it's hilarious they dog Jenner, on Trans Visibility Day, cuz Caitlin is conservative. Those same folks were spewing vitriol in the Easter vs Visibility day...lol

Meanwhile...

Shocked pikachu face that nobody disapproving of Biden's trans visibility day message also felt behoven to share his easter remarks, but here they are:

At the moment it appears that it's Nebraska vs the state of Texas. If he leaves, Nebraska is the destination.

She took half of Iowa's shots. Iowa fans will be sad next year.

Haha! This is the perfect amount of cattiness! I mean, Jenner clearly knew that tweet would get a bunch of buzz.

No, I get the vitriol aimed at Jenner and aggrieved defenders of Easter. I'm just saying that it all started with trumped up Easter vs TDV outrage against Biden, spread by Jenner among others. Doesn't seem fair to stick one side with the vitriol label. Is this hilarious and hypocritical because you think liberals would be so conflicted over Caitlyn Jenner's trans status that they would abandon their position on the actual issue?

Not sure you have the irony in the right place. If the issue is trans representation, and one of the most prominent trans spokespeople reverses their position to pump a debunked partisan meme, it's entirely reasonable to ask Jenner why she's carrying water for a party that would prefer she remain invisible. Just want to be clear who you think was spewing the vitriol in this hilarious situation.