Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Let's go Brandon! Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 09:22:28 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 62 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:22:28 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="063ea0b658a1ac6b51e979dc5f177e55"; logging-data="1478549"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18/XIRbUs8vUKh7igQJt8uU" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:8JpoHxae1vR29GiYHbyrXnIHoa0= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 4120 On 4/4/24 9:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article , > shawn wrote: > >> On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:54:07 -0700, The Horny Goat >> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 07:04:57 -0400, FPP wrote: >>> >>>>> While Biden did officially acknowledge March 31 to be TDoV, he also did >>>>> so in 2021 when Easter fell on April 4 that year. >>>>> >>>>> The day was set by a Michigan-based advocate to raise awareness of the >>>>> plight of transgender people and to celebrate their achievements. >>>>> >>>>> The first TDoV was celebrated in 2009 when Easter occurred on April 12. >>>>> Since then, the two dates coincided only twice: in 2013 and in 2024. >>>>> >>>>> Biden did not invent TDoV, nor set the date to deliberately clash with >>>>> Easter, which is on a different date every year. >>>> >>>> What do you disagree with in that? >>> >>> No one has suggested Biden invented TDoV nor the date - the comment >>> was based on which event he CHOSE to promote. Nobody would have raised >>> eyebrows had Biden promoted the White House Easter Egg hunt which has >>> gone on for years and is at least tangentially related to Easter. >>> >>> Promoting TDoV the way he did is equivalent to promoting "National >>> Fireworks Day" as the main event going on on July 4th - though TDoV >>> isn't JUST what you suggest ('to celebrate their achievements') but to >>> promote their status at the event of THE major religious date of the >>> year. >> >> He promoted the day on the day that was chosen by members of that >> group as their day of recognition over a decade ago. To suggest that >> Biden (a long term Christian) chose to recognize TDoV as some sort of >> slap at Christianity is... I just don't see how anyone can even >> suggest it. > > Biden's not choosing much of anything anymore. He doesn't even choose > the flavor of pudding he gets while he watches the squirrels outside the > window. > > However, it's certainly plausible that the radical left-wing staffers > that have infiltrated the administration and who are the ones actually > running things at "White House at Bernie's" very much did intend a slap > at Christianity. > Yeah, sure. We all saw Biden dodder along at the State of the Union... meanwhile old Donnie is busy winning his own golf tournaments that he puts on at his own golf courses. -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0