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Hey, Senator. When's your next townhall ? Asking for someone who wants to rush the stage and ask a question. .

Good.

Stick to 'Geology' Hank.

UPDATE

Can Democrats escape the corner they painted themselves into on gender ideology? Survey says: "No!" At least not until the paint dries out completely, and this is slow-drying paint. That reality was demonstrated again on Wednesday, when the Supreme Court ruled that states have the power to ban "gender affirming care" (sterilizing and mutilating) procedures on children in the case U.S. v. Skrmetti. Americans are tolerant when it comes to sexual nonconformity, and there is a long history of tolerance for drag shows and transvesticism among adults, within reason. Drag shows are harmless when children are excluded from watching them, and have been a part of burlesque for decades. One of the more popular TV shows features drag queens. Gay marriage is legal, and hostility to homosexuality is relatively low, although hardly nonexistent. But compared to, say, Democrats' hostility to MAGA, it barely registers. Leftists hate Jews far more than anybody hates homosexuals, and you can't find any conservatives bashing gays as harshly as MSNBC hosts regularly bash Republicans. But Democrats can't accept victory on this issue, because for them victory is transing the kids. So when the Supreme Court ruled that transing the kids could be banned by states under their police powers, the left has gone absolutely insane. Alphabet ideology has become a core component of the left's worldview, and the left sets the agenda for the Democratic Party. {snip} Alphabet ideology is non-negotiable. Every deviation from the chanting points is harshly punished. Seth Moulton tried to break out of the ideological box and was swatted down. Gavin Newsom dabbled a bit with moderating on the issue, but he is now changing the subject and moving hard left again. Alphabet ideology is a key part of the larger civil religion of Critical Theory that forms the ideological foundation of the modern left. Critical Theory is a mutation of communism that arose as the "inevitable" proletarian revolution failed to materialize. Politicians in heavily "Blue" states or districts can't deviate from the Critical Theory scripture, even if they intellectually understand that their positions are political poison with normies. Democrats are in a terrible bind on this issue; some actually believe this dangerous nonsense, and others are forced to mouth the mantras lest true believers replace them. There likely would never have been a major political issue if "transgender rights" activists hadn't gone after our kids. The transgender flags in schools, men entering women's sports, "sanctuary states," the vast push to propagandize for and create clinics to "transition" kids, and the tuck bathing suits at Target all raised the issue to national importance. By adopting the transing of kids as the "civil rights issue of our time," Democrats not only divorced themselves from Americans' common sense on the issue, they also made retreat especially difficult. How do you compare an issue to slavery and segregation one day and then drop it the next? It's a conundrum, on the same level as the Democrats' adopting the cause of MS 13 and Tren de Aragua deportations as a moral atrocity? Democrats are so far out on these ideological limbs that it's hard to see how they climb back down the tree. Over time, they could remain silent, I suppose, and try to drop the issue, but they created a band of ideological shock troops who could turn their fire on the Democrats if they do so. Corporate America, after a long time, has finally realized that this issue is toxic. Even Target, as woke a mainstream company as exists, is giving up on Pride and transgenderism. https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/06/20/democrats-gender-ideology-bind-n3803970 Democrats face the same problem the Labour Party in Great Britain faced in the late 70s. They are so far outside the mainstream--for similar reasons--that it may take well over a decade to recalibrate and a new generation of politicians to do it.

Gee, I wonder why. Fulton County withholds 2020 ballots despite Georgia law seeking disclosure https://www.ajc.com/politics/fulton-county-refuses-to-provide-all-2020-ballots-despite-new-georgia-law/MGUAISQTAFDPXCUB7XSS33Z47A/

Supreme Court Deals Blow To Deep State Control In Ruling Against EPA by Breccan F. Thies The U.S. Supreme Court took a major step in helping dismantle the federal government’s stranglehold on public policy on Wednesday. In an 8-0 decision, the court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could not defend itself against a lawsuit from Oklahoma and Utah in its rubber-stamp home court, the D.C. Circuit. The case arose from the EPA’s 2023 decision to deny the state implementation plans (snip) submitted by 21 states in order to comply with the 2015 “good neighbor” revision to the Clean Air Act, (snip),the thrust of the Supreme Court appeal has to do with the venue at which the case could be heard. https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/18/supreme-court-deals-blow-to-deep-state-control-in-ruling-against-epa/

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I DON’T KNOW, I CAN IMAGINE QUITE A BIT: Democratic Party Disarray Far Worse Than You Can Imagine. The Democratic Party is struggling. In every way a political party can be dysfunctional, the Democrats are careening toward an implosion. Riven by poisonous factionalism, running out of cash, and devoid of purpose and plan, the oldest political party in the Western World is falling apart right before our eyes. How bad is it? When the New York Times gives space to a 1,800-word, five-alarm article giving excruciating detail about your party's travails, you know it's not time to pop the champagne cork and celebrate. To make matters worse for the Democrats, on the same day the Times aired the party's soiled panties for all to see, the other Democratic Party house organ, Politico, laid 1,600 words of criticism on party chairman Ken Martin. The media couldn't be quiet about it. With 17 months to go before the 2026 midterm elections, the Democrats find themselves in an existential crisis. Half the party wants to abandon the radical left, while the radical left wants to give the heave-ho to anyone to the right of Karl Marx. Let's start with Ken Martin as a point of contention. Barely four months into the job, he's already made plenty of enemies. Worse, those enemies aren't going quietly into that good night. They are sniping at him from the sidelines, drawing blood with criticisms no party chair has ever heard before. More at the link: https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/06/19/democratic-party-disarray-far-worse-than-you-can-imagine-n4940946 .