First Lady Jill Biden had a very gay weekend in Southern California that included lots of handshakes, speeches, fundraisers, appearances by Hollywood A-listers, and even a SoulCycle class.
On Saturday, Dr. FLOTUS flew to L.A. to attend the Human Rights Campaign’s 2024 Los Angeles Dinner at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel, where she gave a 10-minute speech about the Biden administration’s efforts to safeguard LGBTQ+ rights and warned that “the MAGA extremists are seeking to erase these hard-fought gains.”
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“History teaches us that democracies don’t disappear overnight. They disappear slowly, subtly, silently. A book ban, a court decision, a ‘don’t say gay’ law,” she remarked. “One group of people loses their rights, and then another and then another. Until one morning you wake up and you no longer live in a democracy.”
President Biden has the most diverse administration in U.S. history, including the most LGBTQ+ officials, with over 200+ out and proud appointees.
At the very start of his first term, he made a promise to “ensure that United States diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons everywhere.”
Since then, he has made good on that promise, and continues to do so, as he mentioned in his State of the Union address earlier this month.
President Biden spoke about LGBTQ people in the greatness of American diversity and the fight for fundamental freedoms. The vast majority of Americans who support us must use their voices and votes against the increasingly isolated fringe few. https://t.co/BdJrpPBISs
The morning after the HRC dinner, Dr. FLOTUS was up bright and early to attend a SoulCycle class in Brentwood, where she pedaled alongside her Secret Service entourage in the back of the studio. The first lady is an avid cycler and frequently attends SoulCycle classes whenever she’s on the road.
From there, she zipped over to the Getty Center, where she had a conversation with none other than Halle Berry about women’s health in front of a packed auditorium of Hollywood movers and shakers, before jetting down to Palm Springs for a quick late morning fundraiser.
Palm Springs Mayor Jeffrey Bernstein greeted her at the airport before a motorcade brought her to the Thunderbird Heights estate, where she spoke before an audience of about 125 people, including former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, singer Barry Manilow, and Will Rollins, the openly gay Democratic candidate running for California’s 41st Congressional District this year.
In her speech, she talked about her husband’s accomplishments as president and once again warned about Republican-led states passing “extreme anti-gay laws,” saying “MAGA Republicans are waging battles over our choices, our futures, and trying to drag us back to a dark and dangerous path.”
“We are the first generation in half a century to give our daughters a country with fewer rights than we had,” she said. “But we won’t let the MAGA Republicans win this fight.”
Dr. FLOTUS helped raise a ton of money for her husband’s campaign during her whirlwind visit to California. So far, the Biden campaign has raked in oodles of cash, recently hitting $155 million, compared to the less impressive $36.6 million the Trump campaign reported at the end of January.
Afterward her big gay weekend in SoCal, 72-year-old Biden hopped on a plane and headed back to Washington, D.C. to teach her regular English class on Monday.
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“President Biden has the most diverse administration in U.S. history”
Great, so run someone from his administration for President, and I’ll vote for him or her. But I’m not voting for a cognitively-impaired 81-year-old with a diverse collection of tokens stuffed in a cabinet.
When Biden glitches like Trump, who can’t read a teleprompter, than I’ll believe the “cognitively impaired” bit. Otherwise, do the right thing and vote for the team that wants to keep democracy, not install autocracy.
The choice is clear: Reason over Treason
The choice is a lunatic or a man who thinks dead people are European leaders and the President of Mexico is an Egyptian. Sorry, I’m 59-years-old, and I know both parties can do better. I’m not choosing between stupid stuff. If I vote in November, it will be for a 3rd party candidate.
FreddieW
At least with the Republicans they know how to get things done. They all definitely don’t love Trump but they’ll fall behind him like good soldiers while too many Democrats fail to show up because they need a candidate to fall in love with. As a gay man you should know better or at least care enough about your community but you don’t. It’s all about you.
Clearly you haven’t learned shit in your 59 years.
It’s astounding that someone can be 59 y/o and still have the 3rd grader attitude of “I’m taking my toys and leaving!” b/c making adult choices rationally is too hard to do.
What’s astounding to me is y’all are American adults accepting rigged choices from your political party as if you lived in China or Russia. They’ll keep doing this to you because you keep playing along.
“If I vote in November, it will be for a 3rd party candidate.”
Either of those choices are essentially voting for Trump without voting for Trump. And I’m willing to bet you understand that. Please provide proof that is not either a meme or snippet of a longer speech to support that Biden has any sort of clinical dementia, as Trump clearly does (compare public addresses from each and note which one has no control over their train of thought, exhibits clear aphasia, and cannot complete a proper sentence) Please provide proof that any third party candidate has anything substantive to offer (willing to be you like conspiracy mongers like Kennedy). Please address the legislative accomplishments of both in their first two years (I’ll give Trump a little handicap because of how his botched handling of Covid destroyed his ability to actually do anything).
@FreddieW: China and Russia are one-party. A better comparison is practically any parliamentary country where, guess what, they still tend toward two main parties anyway. Voters in Canada or the UK, for instance, don’t even get to “choose” the party leaders in primaries; the party leaders are chosen for them.
Is there any country you consider a good example? Or do they all suck?
@still_onthemark
This country’s political system was perfectly acceptable until 2020. 2016 wasn’t great, but there was a plausible candidate from the Democrats that year. They’ve both gone straight to hell now, and y’all are rushing after one of them because it’s better than the other by the same margin that senility is better than insanity.
@Den
If you haven’t kept up for the past 3 years, I’m not going to catch you up. I’ve been participating in online discussions since 2000. Spare me the “please provide proof” crap. That tactic isn’t as clever as you think it is. Go to The Washington Post or CNN and do some searching.
”perfectly acceptable”………………………………….fred do you even hear yourself. You’ve been asleep for a long long time and what’s strange is you’re not even afraid to admit it.
@abfab
Sorry, I don’t even know what that means. And what’s not strange is that you’ve afforded me no reason to care since I first encountered you here. Buzz off.
You’d risk Trump winning just to make a point about Biden? I guess if you’re trying to show us that wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age, you’ve succeeded.
Presidential elections around about the talking head, they’re about the party.
Den, you are smart enough to know that voting is a personal issue and your vote is YOUR vote, not something owned by the DNC or RNC. Saying that a vote FOR someone you actually like is wrong, is insaine.
Don’t give your vote to politicians who don’t earn it by being decent people. Biden killed 31,000 Palestinians. Trump is an asshole. I don’t want more of either… why should I reward them for NOT doing the right thing?
“President Biden has the most diverse administration in U.S. history….”
Pete Buttigieg
Karine Jean-Pierre
Kamala Harris
Janet Yellen
Lloyd Austin
Alejandro Mayorkas
All diversity hires and all gross incompetents. The mere fact that none of these diversity hires has been fired or asked to resign shows the depravity and incompetence of Joe Biden and his administration.
“All these people stand behind Biden.
Literally none of Trump’s former cabinet officials have endorsed him for his second run.”
And it is important to note that a significant number of them have described Trump as a mental and emotional train wreck, extraordinarily self absorbed and childish, and a danger to democracy and the rule of law.
As for Mayorkas, he was impeached as part of the plan to keep the border as an election issue rather than find solutions. The republican party is the apotheosis of depravity and incompetence! Just look at the actions of their universally useless (and thankfully shrinking) majority in the House.
Hey, Pete finally showed up to the disaster. He has learned. We should be proud that our boy is able to do something other than ride his bike and spread McKinseyian disaster capitalism.
Dementia Joe says he took the train across the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge “Many Times” – that’s odd, considering the bridge does not have a rail line!
Joe Biden: “About 1:30 a container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge which I’ve been over many, many times commuting from the state of Delaware either by train or by car.”
That’s odd, considering their is no rail line on the bridge. The bridge was built for automobiles and trucks. Another in a long line line of Joe Biden lies.
His address was much more cogent than anything Trump would have said…he’d be grasping to find a way to make it about himself and his “loss” of the 2020 election. And as for lies, I guess you lack the mental acuity to tell the difference between a mistake made in the midst of a tragedy and the kind of intentional mendacity we see in both Trump and you.
As for the idiotic “dementia Joe” bull, perhaps it is time for you to see a neurologist.
May you never really come to know or care for someone suffering from dementia.
The only odd things here is this republican plant going by Wiseman and a looney independent from Memphis named Fred, who relish and take joy in couching the president’s existance in dementia.
We’re all glad you can both humor yourselves in an extremely devastating disease. How awful you people are.
There are so many bridges and screwing them up sometimes is what humans sometimes do. They screw up. How odd.
I’m not sure who here has the capacity to understand the difference between believing your lies and spreading lies. One has malicious intent and the other is just terrifying. We are screwed either way.
Our best hope. sadly, is two funerals. The USA is one banana peel away from a banana republic. Where are the deep state actors who usually engage in regime change? Could we please ask them to end the DNC/RNC monopoly of politics?
Maybe someday he can volunteer, explore and share his humanity by volunteering in an elder care community. Fred could sure use a bit of mind-opening too. Grow up people.
We really should not call them conservatives (even if they call themselves that). They’re MAGAts: radicals bent on undermining good governance, unable to actually compromise with each other let alone the adult party.
They call themselves “patriots” yet hate the constitution, our history, the rule of law, honesty, integrity and most of our citizens. They refer to themselves as “America First” and yet try hard to undermine our world standing and make us a laughingstock!
“Trophy wife” is so misogynistic. Women are people – not objects. Seems that bigots can’t see their own bigotry… even good people can be better than this.
Dbmcvey is on the path; but, is going the wrong direction with blind bigotry of abfab, den and bosch. Inherent bigotry is as bad as selective bigotry.
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FreddieW
“President Biden has the most diverse administration in U.S. history”
Great, so run someone from his administration for President, and I’ll vote for him or her. But I’m not voting for a cognitively-impaired 81-year-old with a diverse collection of tokens stuffed in a cabinet.
ZzBomb
When Biden glitches like Trump, who can’t read a teleprompter, than I’ll believe the “cognitively impaired” bit. Otherwise, do the right thing and vote for the team that wants to keep democracy, not install autocracy.
The choice is clear: Reason over Treason
FreddieW
The choice is a lunatic or a man who thinks dead people are European leaders and the President of Mexico is an Egyptian. Sorry, I’m 59-years-old, and I know both parties can do better. I’m not choosing between stupid stuff. If I vote in November, it will be for a 3rd party candidate.
Chrisk
FreddieW
At least with the Republicans they know how to get things done. They all definitely don’t love Trump but they’ll fall behind him like good soldiers while too many Democrats fail to show up because they need a candidate to fall in love with. As a gay man you should know better or at least care enough about your community but you don’t. It’s all about you.
Clearly you haven’t learned shit in your 59 years.
ZzBomb
Choice is Clear:
Reason over Treason
bachy
Hope you’ll still have the freedom to vote 4 years from now, Freddy.
abfab
Provincial Freddie is 59 year old. That must mean something!
ZzBomb
It’s astounding that someone can be 59 y/o and still have the 3rd grader attitude of “I’m taking my toys and leaving!” b/c making adult choices rationally is too hard to do.
FreddieW
What’s astounding to me is y’all are American adults accepting rigged choices from your political party as if you lived in China or Russia. They’ll keep doing this to you because you keep playing along.
Den
“If I vote in November, it will be for a 3rd party candidate.”
Either of those choices are essentially voting for Trump without voting for Trump. And I’m willing to bet you understand that. Please provide proof that is not either a meme or snippet of a longer speech to support that Biden has any sort of clinical dementia, as Trump clearly does (compare public addresses from each and note which one has no control over their train of thought, exhibits clear aphasia, and cannot complete a proper sentence) Please provide proof that any third party candidate has anything substantive to offer (willing to be you like conspiracy mongers like Kennedy). Please address the legislative accomplishments of both in their first two years (I’ll give Trump a little handicap because of how his botched handling of Covid destroyed his ability to actually do anything).
still_onthemark
@FreddieW: China and Russia are one-party. A better comparison is practically any parliamentary country where, guess what, they still tend toward two main parties anyway. Voters in Canada or the UK, for instance, don’t even get to “choose” the party leaders in primaries; the party leaders are chosen for them.
Is there any country you consider a good example? Or do they all suck?
dbmcvey
This is going to bring out all the right wing trolls.
abfab
The China-Russia analogy is dear.
FreddieW
@still_onthemark
This country’s political system was perfectly acceptable until 2020. 2016 wasn’t great, but there was a plausible candidate from the Democrats that year. They’ve both gone straight to hell now, and y’all are rushing after one of them because it’s better than the other by the same margin that senility is better than insanity.
FreddieW
@Den
If you haven’t kept up for the past 3 years, I’m not going to catch you up. I’ve been participating in online discussions since 2000. Spare me the “please provide proof” crap. That tactic isn’t as clever as you think it is. Go to The Washington Post or CNN and do some searching.
abfab
”perfectly acceptable”………………………………….fred do you even hear yourself. You’ve been asleep for a long long time and what’s strange is you’re not even afraid to admit it.
FreddieW
@abfab
Sorry, I don’t even know what that means. And what’s not strange is that you’ve afforded me no reason to care since I first encountered you here. Buzz off.
abfab
It’s clear. You know little of what anything means. Fred, retreat into the loving arms of your family.
Bosch
You’d risk Trump winning just to make a point about Biden? I guess if you’re trying to show us that wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age, you’ve succeeded.
Presidential elections around about the talking head, they’re about the party.
Ronbo
Den, you are smart enough to know that voting is a personal issue and your vote is YOUR vote, not something owned by the DNC or RNC. Saying that a vote FOR someone you actually like is wrong, is insaine.
Don’t give your vote to politicians who don’t earn it by being decent people. Biden killed 31,000 Palestinians. Trump is an asshole. I don’t want more of either… why should I reward them for NOT doing the right thing?
ZzBomb
“We are the first generation in half a century to give our daughters a country with fewer rights than we had,” she said.
No lie detected. Republicans and their Project 2025 should scare even straight people.
Baron Wiseman
“President Biden has the most diverse administration in U.S. history….”
Pete Buttigieg
Karine Jean-Pierre
Kamala Harris
Janet Yellen
Lloyd Austin
Alejandro Mayorkas
All diversity hires and all gross incompetents. The mere fact that none of these diversity hires has been fired or asked to resign shows the depravity and incompetence of Joe Biden and his administration.
FreddieW
I wouldn’t match wits with Janet Yellen, if I were you.
Chrisk
I’ll take them over Donnie’s Nepotism hires. Plus I don’t think any of them have been convicted of any crimes unlike most of Trump’s associates have.
ZzBomb
All these people stand behind Biden.
Literally none of Trump’s former cabinet officials have endorsed him for his second run.
Says everything you need to know about the candidates.
Den
“All these people stand behind Biden.
Literally none of Trump’s former cabinet officials have endorsed him for his second run.”
And it is important to note that a significant number of them have described Trump as a mental and emotional train wreck, extraordinarily self absorbed and childish, and a danger to democracy and the rule of law.
As for Mayorkas, he was impeached as part of the plan to keep the border as an election issue rather than find solutions. The republican party is the apotheosis of depravity and incompetence! Just look at the actions of their universally useless (and thankfully shrinking) majority in the House.
dbmcvey
Yep, almost all the right wing trolls heard from now.
Bosch
“All diversity hires and all gross incompetents”
Lol have you seen today’s republican party? Of course you have, you’re just stupid.
dbmcvey
Barren really keeps up with Fox News.
still_onthemark
@db: But Baron says he never watches Fox News! I wonder how he manages this Vulcan mind-meld so consistently, every single time!
Ronbo
Hey, Pete finally showed up to the disaster. He has learned. We should be proud that our boy is able to do something other than ride his bike and spread McKinseyian disaster capitalism.
Mister P
FLOTUS went on a tour. Sharon Wise is on a troll.
Baron Wiseman
Dementia Joe says he took the train across the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge “Many Times” – that’s odd, considering the bridge does not have a rail line!
Joe Biden: “About 1:30 a container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge which I’ve been over many, many times commuting from the state of Delaware either by train or by car.”
That’s odd, considering their is no rail line on the bridge. The bridge was built for automobiles and trucks. Another in a long line line of Joe Biden lies.
still_onthemark
Self-described “Honest Don” has never told a lie!
He did chop down a cherry tree once, however, and blamed it on Eric.
Den
His address was much more cogent than anything Trump would have said…he’d be grasping to find a way to make it about himself and his “loss” of the 2020 election. And as for lies, I guess you lack the mental acuity to tell the difference between a mistake made in the midst of a tragedy and the kind of intentional mendacity we see in both Trump and you.
As for the idiotic “dementia Joe” bull, perhaps it is time for you to see a neurologist.
abfab
May you never really come to know or care for someone suffering from dementia.
The only odd things here is this republican plant going by Wiseman and a looney independent from Memphis named Fred, who relish and take joy in couching the president’s existance in dementia.
We’re all glad you can both humor yourselves in an extremely devastating disease. How awful you people are.
There are so many bridges and screwing them up sometimes is what humans sometimes do. They screw up. How odd.
Bosch
“Saudi Arabia and Russia will reeebeedooo gaaaaahhhh…”
Ronbo
I’m not sure who here has the capacity to understand the difference between believing your lies and spreading lies. One has malicious intent and the other is just terrifying. We are screwed either way.
Our best hope. sadly, is two funerals. The USA is one banana peel away from a banana republic. Where are the deep state actors who usually engage in regime change? Could we please ask them to end the DNC/RNC monopoly of politics?
dbmcvey
All the trolls are coming out! There’s no one under any bridges anywhere!
still_onthemark
Baron usually sleeps under the Francis Scott Key Bridge, where’s he gonna go now?
abfab
Maybe someday he can volunteer, explore and share his humanity by volunteering in an elder care community. Fred could sure use a bit of mind-opening too. Grow up people.
dbmcvey
Conservatives only like the First Lady when she’s a trophy wife.
abfab
He’s had several trophys but he always comes in last place. Alone. They all leave him.
Den
We really should not call them conservatives (even if they call themselves that). They’re MAGAts: radicals bent on undermining good governance, unable to actually compromise with each other let alone the adult party.
They call themselves “patriots” yet hate the constitution, our history, the rule of law, honesty, integrity and most of our citizens. They refer to themselves as “America First” and yet try hard to undermine our world standing and make us a laughingstock!
abfab
And many are jumping ship. They’ve had it!
Bosch
You say trophy wife, I say ex-hooker full of regret.
abfab
Gold-plated.
Ronbo
“Trophy wife” is so misogynistic. Women are people – not objects. Seems that bigots can’t see their own bigotry… even good people can be better than this.
Dbmcvey is on the path; but, is going the wrong direction with blind bigotry of abfab, den and bosch. Inherent bigotry is as bad as selective bigotry.
Sexism is wrong.