Democrats passed the Equality Act in the House and Rand Paul grills a Biden nominee about whether government can overrule parents seeking to prevent their kids from transitioning.

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We'll get to all the news of the day with regard to the Equality Act and the transgender

propaganda that is now being put forth.

You are just expected to buy into the overt lie that men and women are exactly the same in

every way and that men and women are terms of art, and that subjective self-assessment

as your own sex actually matters more than, you know, actual biological reality. We'll get to all

that in just a second, because what we are living through is something that is completely upside

down. It's bizarre. It's upside down. It's ridiculous. Even the very notion that the people who are

being imposed upon here are members of the trans community, as opposed to, you know, religious institutions, everyday Americans who would like to operate their businesses as they see fit. All of this is completely upside down. We're going to get to that in just one second. First, the breaking news at this hour is that the United States has now bombed Syrian facilities used by an Iranian-backed militia. These would be the

first airstrikes under Biden. So quick note, bombing Syria is good again. Remember, if Trump does it,

it's very, very bad. And if Trump knocks out Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian terror regime,

that is super bad. But if Joe Biden fires a missile and an empty structure in Syria and hits a camel

in the ass, that is absolutely wonderful. It is good and it is useful. The same people in the administration, by the way, Jen Saki, who today will be out there defending this activity, was sending tweets just a couple of years ago talking about how Trump didn't have any sort of congressional authority to fire anything at anything in Syria. Syria was a sovereign country, according to Jen Sacki. Apparently, when a Democrat is president, all you have to do is slap a Black Lives Matter label on a missile, and suddenly the missile is good. That's basically the way this works. All you have to do is just stencil in. Trans Lives Matter on the front of a bomb, and you can drop it wherever you want. And that's how it was during the Obama administration, right? You just put a bunch of progressive slogans on the drones and everything is fine. So we are back to that, which is a lot of fun. According to USA Today, US airstrikes targeted bases in Syria used by Iranian militant groups suspected of attacking American and allied forces in northern Iraq last week. The Pentagon announced late Thursday. Now, as we talked about last week, it was pretty obvious. I mean, remember,

it is now Fridays. This means it's been over a week since that original attack that happened

in Iraq, right? Iraq. Syria and Iraq, different countries you may have noticed. But the Biden

administration said literally nothing about that attack on an American facility in

Iraq. Why? Because they were deeply afraid that if they mentioned this, that it might drive a wedge

between the United States government and the Iranian government. They were afraid that if they said,

hey, look, the Iranians are active in Iraq and they are pursuing terror against Americans

in Iraq, then that might end all of this Iran nuclear deal

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