Remember when Democrats cared about women's rights?
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Remember when Democrats cared about women's rights
I know I must be getting old because I can remember when Democrats actually cared about women’s rights. Once upon a time, they even promoted the idea of girls’ sports in schools and thought they deserved equal funding with boys’ sports. They even thought women deserved "safe spaces" from predatory males. Now, the only thing they seem to care about is forcing women to allow males into their sports and locker rooms. What else can one deduce from the fact that NOT ONE single House Democrat voted this week for the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act that limits school sports for girls to people who were actually born female?
It still passed 219-203, but it’s unlikely to pass the Democrat Senate. And even if a few Senate Democrats still believe in biological science, President Biden has vowed to veto it
College swimming champion (and woman) Riley Gaines blasted Biden for that threat, saying, "The President has declared that science, truth and common sense no longer matter. In opposing this bill, President Biden is catering to a radical minority at the expense of women, who are 51% of the population. Equal opportunity, privacy and safety in our sports shouldn’t be controversial. The women who once advocated for Title IX should be outraged as this goes against everything they fought for. Female athletes of all ages, levels and sports deserve better."
She’s right, and previous generations of Democrats would have been sane enough to agree. But today’s Dems are all-in on the “trans” propaganda, and those in the House not only voted unanimously against protecting women’s sports, they spewed some of the most hysterical, nonsensical rhetoric ever heard in justifying it.
Ohio Rep. Greg Landsman declared, “This bill is about bullying children. Stop bullying children." Rep. Robert Garcia of California echoed, “House Republicans are choosing to bully and belittle trans children. This is about attacking a small group of children, and it is shameful." (You can dismember children in the womb, just don't bully them.) Faaaaaar-left Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal spewed, "We should rename it the 'cancel kids trans hate' bill. This bill fuels a virulent hate campaign against kids who just want to play with their friends." Rep. Mark Takano of California said the bill would make school sports "less safe for women and girls" (less safe than forcing them to compete against males twice their size?) and claimed that even “this debate itself has been traumatizing."
Republicans responded that they don’t “hate” anyone, and this bill is about protecting both female students and girls sports. North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx said, "It is ridiculous that we have had to stand here today to defend the rights of women and girls to participate in sports against other women and girls, and (them) not being taken advantage of by biological males." Here are some more salient comments from Republican women about the betrayal of women by Democrats on behalf of the trans lobby.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2023/04/20/trans-sports-bill-capitol-hill-n2622191
But once again, leave it to Rep. Eric Swalwell to take the trophy for the most cluelessly stupid hyperbole. He unironically declared, “These creeps want to invade our kids’ locker rooms.” Imagine letting creeps invade girls’ locker rooms! If you can’t imagine the response to that on social media, click this link:
https://ijr.com/swalwell-female-6-letter-word-trans-sports-bill-backfires/
Related: For Democrats who can’t even tell us what a “woman” is but insist that they are at no disadvantage in sports to biological males, Terry Jeffrey at Townhall.com has a big cooler of cold, truth-flavored Gatorade to dump over their heads. He compares the relative stats of even the best female athletes in the world compared to their male counterparts. This is why males who can't cut it competing against other men suddenly start breaking all records when they begin "identifying" as female.
https://townhall.com/columnists/erickerickson/2023/04/21/can-biden-tell-a-boy-from-a-girl-n2622239
Good credit vs Bad credit
Have you worked hard, scrimped and sacrificed to pay your bills on time, so that you earned a good credit score? Well, congratulations! The Biden Administration is going to punish you for it! On the other hand, if you have a bad credit score, you’ll be rewarded for that.
A new federal housing rule set to take effect May 1 will hit homebuyers who have federally-backed mortgages via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with an extra charge if they have a FICO credit score of 680 or above. For instance, a 30-year loan of $400,000 at 6% will cost you an extra $40 a month, or $14,400 over the full loan term. It will also hit those who are refinancing mortgages. This will help pay for the cut in fees they’re giving to people with lower credit scores.
They claim this is being done to “lower the gap in home ownership opportunities” for minorities, first time buyers and others with lower credit scores. But is the best way to do that by punishing people who are responsible and subsidizing high-risk borrowers? Didn’t we learn what happens when you hand out high risk mortgage loans back in 2008? One former FHA commissioner under Obama told the New York Post that the Biden move is “unprecedented,” and his email is full of messages from people at mortgage companies telling him “how unbelievably shocked they are” by it.
How are they shocked by the government punishing responsibility and rewarding irresponsibility? Have they never heard of our income tax code?
Related: Whenever I see polls showing that some percentage of Americans larger than low single digits wants Biden reelected, I wonder just how much some people are willing to pay to keep imposing their crazy political views on the rest of us. Because that price is very high, and rising all the time. Maybe some of them don’t even realize how much it’s costing them, but here are some numbers that may clue them in. You might want to share these with your liberal friends and relatives and ask, “How’s the Democrat rule workin’ out for ya?”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/19/americans-have-taken-pay-cuts-each-month-since-biden-took-office/
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy laid out the shocking numbers. Since Biden took office, wages are up an average of 9%, which he is quick to pat himself on the back for. But consumer prices are up by 14.9%, meaning there’s been a 5.1% drop in real wages. A typical two-income family is making $200 more per month, but inflation has caused their actual pay to shrink by over $100 a month. That’s a pay cut every month he’s been in office.
Not only has the average family lost $5600 in purchasing power, but they’re also paying $1500 more per year due to higher interest rates. That represents a combined loss of $7,100 a year in annual income. That’s more than a month’s pay for half of all US households.
Joe Biden’s presidency is like those fancy restaurants that sprinkle flakes of gold on a hamburger and charge you $200 for it. Even if you actually like it for some unfathomable reason, is it really worth what it’s costing you?