{"id":87269,"date":"2024-04-03T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87269"},"modified":"2024-04-02T08:23:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T13:23:31","slug":"what-a-difference-48-hours-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87269","title":{"rendered":"What A Difference 48 Hours Makes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“President” Biden, last Friday<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI, Joseph R. Biden \u2026 do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility,\u201d said the White House<\/a> proclamation issued Friday and signed by Mr. Biden.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Biden, Sunday<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As he left the 144th annual White House<\/a> Easter Egg Roll, Mr. Biden was quizzed by reporters about House Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s denunciation of the transgender proclamation as \u201coutrageous and abhorrent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSpeaker Johnson called it \u2018outrageous\u2019 that Easter Sunday<\/a> was Transgender Day of Visibility. What do you say to Speaker Johnson?\u201d asked a reporter, according to the White House<\/a> pool report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Biden replied: \u201cHe\u2019s thoroughly uninformed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When pressed for details, the president responded: \u201cI didn\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The “observance<\/a>” has been on March 31 for about 15 years, now – it was going to coincide with Easter someday, one way or another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which, of course, doesnt’ explain why the White House gave it equal billing with the holiest day of the faith the President throws about as a prop when it suits him (or, more likely, his comms staff). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, if it coincided with Ramadan, or May Day? That’s a needle I look forward to seeing the “President” try to thread. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I’m sure he will get his chance, as just about every other day<\/a> is some sort of LGBTQ+ observance or another. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“President” Biden, last Friday: \u201cI, Joseph R. Biden \u2026 do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility,\u201d said the White House proclamation issued Friday and signed by Mr. Biden. Biden, Sunday: As he left the 144th annual White House Easter Egg Roll, Mr. Biden was quizzed by reporters about House Speaker Mike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87270,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87269\/revisions\/87270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}