In the gallery tonight are Sage Blair and her mother, Michele. In 2021, Sage was 14 when school officials in Virginia sought to socially transition her to a new gender, treating her as a boy and hiding it from her parents. Hard to believe, isn’t it? Before long, a confused Sage ran away from home. After she was found in a horrific situation in Maryland, a left-wing judge refused to return Sage to her parents because they did not immediately state that their daughter was their son. Sage was thrown into an all-boys state home and suffered terribly for a long time. But today, all of that is behind them. Because Sage is a proud and wonderful young woman with a full ride scholarship to Liberty University. Sage and Rachelle, please stand up. And thank you for your great bravery.

And who can believe that we’re even speaking about things like this? 15 years ago, if somebody was up here and said that, they’d say, “What’s wrong with him?” But now we have to say it because it’s going on all over numerous states. They’re not even telling the parents. But surely we can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents’ arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents’ will. Who would believe that we’re even talking about it? We must ban it, and we must ban it immediately.

Nobody stands up, these people are crazy. I’m telling them they’re crazy.
— President Donald Trump, State of the Union Address, 2/24/26

It was a true story. Yes it was politics, Trump Derangement Syndrome recognized as a mental illness, progressive performance art, justified criminal behavior, yet it’s a line that’s not hard to back up.

Just take a look at some recent headlines and judge for yourself who’s due for a visit from the guys in white coats….

Stalkers found guilty for following ICE agent home and livestreaming their act
Rashida Talib reportedly chants ‘KKK’ while Republicans cheer ‘USA’ during SOTU
CA Judge Steps in Allowing 20,000 Illegal Alien Truck Drivers to Remain on the Road
Brazilian Veterinary Student Isadora Borges Faces Decade in Prison for Saying Men Aren’t Women
Dems’ State of the Union counter-programming upstaged by lefty frogs
Suspect in NH shooting ambush on Border Patrol agent revealed to be trans nonbinary
Millionaire philanthropist allegedly gunned down by worker in female wig; ambushes Maryland trooper
Literal Sex Offender Running For Fresno City’s Council On ‘Safety’ Platform
Black ex-Vogue editor says she self-downgraded from first class on flight to Milan after realizing premium cabin was filled with white men
Woke School ‘Segregated’ Middle Schoolers By Race Without Parents’ Knowledge
Dems Object to GOP Rep Reading LGBT Propaganda for Pre-Teens, Claim It’s Not Appropriate for Adult Audience
‘Home of Queer Animals’: University of South Alabama operates ‘queer animal research’ lab
Idaho woman accused of attempting to set fire to DHS building with stolen ambulance
Hegseth says transgender wolf teacher was fired after Fort Bragg parents raised alarms
Two students BEAT a girl senseless after demanding to know whether she supports Trump and ICE
‘Scholar of the far right’ complains that move from US to Canada to flee Trump has backfired horribly
Transgender Pro-Pedophile ‘Minor Attracted Person’ Activists Publicly Campaigning in Seattle
Illinois Democrat tries to bleep her way through a tough Senate primary with a new expletive-laden anti-Trump ad
Sicko LI woman who ‘got off’ to ‘screams of babies’ gets 7 years for sharing tot-rape porn
US airman, husband allegedly stole $3M from government to fund lavish lifestyle, luxury cars and mansion
Accused pedophile’s chilling links to ‘764’ cult that wants to destroy the world by targeting CA children
Gen Z are scared of DRIVING: Car phobias are leaving youngsters terrified of basic tasks including parallel parking, hill starts, and merging onto a motorway, study finds
Mob of 10 unruly teens nearly KILLS MBTA commuter — Boston progressives say ‘they just need somewhere to hang out’
Non-binary activist wins compensation after taking year-and-a-half off work with stress because hair salon’s online booking form only offered male or female cuts
Blue State Justice: ‘Monster’ CA Child Predator to Be Released Because He’s Not a Threat at Age 64
Far-Left Activists Are Encouraging and Radicalizing K–12 Students In Nationwide Anti-ICE Walkouts
Robert de Niro Breaks Down in Tears After Mocking Trump’s Masculinity in Raving Interview with Nicolle Wallace
Minnesota Somalis hide female genital mutilation and get away with it in US
Zohran Mamdani Gets Ruthlessly Mocked for Requiring 5 Forms of ID to Be an ‘Emergency Snow Shoveler’: ‘This is Jim SNOW 2.0’
‘Wet Ass Pussy’ Rapper Cardi B Endorses Jasmine Crockett in Texas Senate Primary
CIA Yanks 19 Docs ‘Compromised’ By Leftist Activism, Including Threat Assessment Targeting ‘Traditional Motherhood’
Trump-Kennedy Center ice rink doused in ‘toxic chemicals’ in ‘targeted’ attack: officials
300 Virginia high school students who ditched class for anti-ICE walkout get suspended
Outrage After Florida Teachers Union Says Children Protesting ICE is ‘Required’
Rhode Island Hockey Game Shooter Identified as ‘Transgender’
AOC lampooned for claiming Venezuela is below equator — while trying to show off foreign policy chops
California ‘Teacher of the Year’ Finalist Busted for Allegedly Propositioning a Cop He Thought Was a 13-Year-Old Boy
Hillary Clinton Opens Girls’ Rights Panel by Interviewing… Transgender Lawmaker
Left-Wing Activists Ran Off the Normal People Who Knew How to Do Their Jobs
Affidavit reveals motive behind NH country club shooting: punish wealthy for not helping the poor
Any episode of The View….

Normal people don’t act this way and do these things.

People who were used to getting their way or getting away with it, do.

Depending on a friendly CNN to not air inconvenient clips, as they would probably have at the ready if they were interviewing a Republican criticizing a Democrat, Pelosi failed to mention her politically correct denials early on as well as statements made by others in her party….

When the president declared a travel ban, specifically to those coming from the China coronavirus epicenter, he was called a hysterical xenophobe by Democrats all the way up to their presidential candidate. Speaker Pelosi herself went to the Chinese enclave in San Francisco, blowing off suggested precautions like “social distancing”, to prove her sensitivity and embarrass those whose logical decisions may have saved more lives than she’ll ever admit.

To be fair, Pelosi was not alone. She just joined the Democrat pile-on and while she publicly praises Trump coronavirus task force advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci as a scientific level-head, he doesn’t always agree with her assertions.

Dr. Fauci: Trump China Restrictions Slowed Spread of the Wuhan Flu

If we actually had a media whose job it was to fact-check ALL and not just the president, Democrats may have shown responsible restraint in making reckless statements. But politically correct leftists had their backs.

Democracy Now!: The racist U.S. response to coronavirus “has nothing to do with the epidemic”
PolitiFact: Biden has not directly said that the restrictions were xenophobic.
The Nation: Republican Xenophobia Is Going to Make the Pandemic Much Worse

If this really is a time to shelf politics, then it should start at the top. If politics is going to be played, then those in the game should be ready to defend their words and actions to the media and the American people.

Then again, one out of two ain’t bad.

Tension between Trump and Pelosi, beginning with a snubbed handshake
Trump snubs Pelosi, she tears up his speech
Pelosi extended her hand to Trump. He didn’t take it.
The handshake that wasn’t | Trump snubs Pelosi by refusing handshake
Trump Avoids Handshake With Pelosi at State of the Union
The Trump-Pelosi non-handshake: A snub or a slip-up?
Trump Does Not Shake Nancy Pelosi’s Hand at the SOTU
Trump appears to avoid handshake with Pelosi
Trump Ignored Nancy Pelosi’s Handshake At The State Of The Union

We say “lazy” because IF you really watch the video of the incident in question, you’ll see that President Trump handed the manuscript of his speech to Vice President Mike Pence (who didn’t offer a handshake) and handed another copy of the manuscript to Speaker Pelosi and said “Thank you” before turning away….

Business Insider was one of the few who put things in proper context.

Trump snubbed Pelosi as she tried to shake his hand before his State of the Union address — nearly 2 months after the House impeached him

Seriously, despite the pomp and circumstance associated with political events like the State of the Union where all partisanship is supposed to be sidelined for appearances, there are realities at play here and Democrats and their media tried to bury the actions that prompted a possible reaction.

Pelosi omitted the customary language about it being a “high privilege and distinct honor” to introduce the president.
— USA Today, 2/5/20

Putting things in historical context, that may have been a first.

President Trump, thanks to a hostile Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, has been forever marked as “impeached”. Many congresspersons have declared this goal from the moment Trump was elected president in 2016. Speaker Pelosi not only allowed but led the impeachment going forward despite the lack of formal crimes Trump was neither charged with or found guilty in a court of law, unlike Bill Clinton prior to his impeachment.

Should President Trump have acted all palsie with Pelosi like the impeachment never happened? How would any of us act publicly towards someone who not only tried to get you fired, but banned from ever trying to get another job in your field? Some of us may have chosen two different words….

Speaker Pelosi is receiving progressive justification in tearing up President Trump’s “manifesto of mistruths” that included historic employment achievements, a long overdue military promotion, tearful reunion, lifetime achievement acknowledgement and award, victim of illegal alien crime, medical ailment survivor, and postmortem honors while she was clearly conducting “mic check” Democrats when and when not to clap, when or when not to stand like she was at Occupy Wall Street.

The optics were terrible for Democrats and they know it, the responses from Republicans, Independents AND Democrats following the SOTU reflect the near-universal outrage for Pelosi and her party’s actions. Trying to deflect on the president is a lame attempt, but after the last three years, it’s par for the course.

The opportunistic and timely #MeToo movement was ramped up to new hysterics when President Trump responded to Gillibrand.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who has called on Trump to resign over allegations of sexual misconduct, was the subject of a Trump tweet on Tuesday in which he called her a “lightweight” who “would do anything” for campaign contributions — a comment some have interpreted as sexual.

“Well certainly that was how I and many people read it,” Gillibrand said on NBC’s “Today.” “It was certainly just a sexist smear intended to silence me.“
— The Hill, 12/13/17

It appears mostly liberal Democrats are the ones who interpreted a commonly used phrase as sexist.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday pushed back on the claims that the language was a sexual reference, telling those who took it as such to that their minds were “in the gutter.”

But this isn’t the first time Senator Gillibrand has exploited the sexual abuse card and then fleeing when details don’t fit her desired political conclusion….

To add to the confusion, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren added to the conversation in a way that was also open to gutter interpretation.

In her attempt to utilize social justice terminology, did Senator Elizabeth Warren imply Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is a slut?

Slut-Shame
When you shame someone for the way they act sexually.

“She’s such a slut. I heard she’s slept with like 43 guys”

“Okay??? We don’t Slut-Shame. Who cares how many people she has slept with
— Urban Dictionary

Politicians can slander anyone they want with impunity under the Constitution. Senator Gillibrand has done so on several occasions, she will persist in doing so in the future and is too high and mighty to admit when she’s wrong.

Is this what the latest iteration of the women’s movement has in store for the United States?

UPDATE

As is usually the case, Democrats blatantly accuse others while knowing what’s been shoved in back of their own closets.

“Congress has a sexual harassment problem — and isn’t taking it seriously,” Gillibrand wrote in Fortune magazine. “If we can’t clean up our own act, how can anyone expect Congress to do the right thing for victims and survivors in the rest of the country? Congress has to do better. I believe that elected officials should be held to the highest ethical standard — not the lowest.”

You know what’s coming next….

Just a few months later, when a woman in her own office reported that a married male staffer was making repeated, unwanted and increasingly aggressive sexual advances toward her, Gillibrand did not do the right thing and fire him. Politico reported that “less than three weeks after reporting the alleged harassment and subsequently claiming that the man retaliated against her for doing so, the woman told chief of staff Jess Fassler that she was resigning because of the office’s handling of the matter.”

Gillibrand’s office defended her inaction, saying in a statement that the senator’s office had conducted a “full and thorough investigation” that included “multiple interviews with relevant current employees who could potentially corroborate the claims” but did not find cause to fire the male staffer.
— Boston Herald, 3/14/19

And the timing couldn’t be worse.

New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand officially entered the ever-growing pool of Democratic presidential hopefuls Sunday, ending the two-month-long exploratory phase of her campaign saying she’s running for the White House to make “big, bold, brave choices.”
— NBC News, 3/17/19

Like a small matter of sexual harassment would stop her.