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Via the Washington Examiner,

President Joe Biden made good on his promise to host TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney at the White House Thursday.

"I get to sit down with Joe Biden with Now This News, and I get to ask him a few questions surrounding trans issues in the United States," Mulvaney said in a TikTok marking the 222nd day of Mulvaney's gender transition.

Mulvaney, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, said the purpose behind the interview was to represent the transgender community and wore the transgender flag colors, white, blue, and pink, to honor the community.

. . . The interview is set to air on Sunday.

The odd thing is Mulvaney's utter lack of gravitas (photo above). According to the web,

Mulvaney is well-known for chronicling her firsts as a woman in the “Days of Girlhood” series.

In the meantime, Mulvaney stated in the podcast of the cosmetics company Ulta, “The Beauty of…” with gender fluid celebrity hairstylist David Lopez, that she “wants to be a mom one day and I absolutely can, the narrative still has a long way to go.” she added.

Following the interview, a writer at Red State commented,

Sincerely, after watching Joe Biden’s latest interview, I could only come to the conclusion that our society is in a dark place, and it’s getting darker by the minute.

While people across the country are struggling with their bills and facing increases in violent crime, the President of the United States defended the mutilation of children while being interviewed by a man who believes he’s an underage “girl.”

Well, OK, whatever, but the writer misses an even bigger point, that we're in the home stretch to the November election, and even more critical for right now is that Russia is threatening escalation in Ukraine -- isn't that worth discussing? Transgenderism is a boutique issue even for Biden's base, but beyond that, with many ethnic groups abandoning the Democrats, Dylan Mulvaney rubs Latins in particular, but also many Asians, the wrong way -- just before they vote in key areas like Los Angeles, which may flip, if not specifically Republican, pro-social order and anti-woke.

You'd think that with the US Republican right threatening defection from the administration's Ukraine agenda following the election, Biden might take that on as an issue. It's almost a cliche, an easy call, but why can't Biden apostrophize Putin and the ultra-MAGA types with some tough-guy Ukraine talk? But it's plain that Secs Blinken and Austin have told him to stay out of it. So instead, he interviews with the most unserious, divisive figure possible two weeks before a key election. The story that's been put out is he'll make up his mind about 2024 after the results come in, but I think he's already been told.

But speaking of Ukraine, Kos at Daily Kos cites Russian milbloggers who point out a conundrum there:

GreyZone, the Telegram channel managed by Wagner mercenaries, is really frustrated. It doesn’t understand why, while Ukraine systematically uses HIMARS and artillery to degrade Russia’s military infrastructure, Russia would rather terrorize civilians with drone attacks. “This, by the way, is about the fact that the enemy stubbornly hit the bridge for three months, while we rejoice at the arrivals of [Iranian drones] that do not affect absolutely anything [in the war],” they wrote.

We’ve noted that from the beginning of the war—how key Ukrainian military infrastructure remains inexplicably intact (like the Ministry of Defense building in Kyiv!) while Russia lobs expensive missiles at civilian apartment complexes and playgrounds.

. . . Russia’s refusal to systematically hit key military targets, even [though] it clearly has the ability to do so, is one of the greatest mysteries of this war. What kind of perverted honor code spares some of the most important military targets, yet hits civilian bus stops, busy intersections at rush hour, and shopping malls?

The people in charge in both places are working against their own interests. Or at least, some of them. One faction of lizard people seems to be pursuing the only logical poiicy in Ukraine, and they've successfully cut another faction out of that process -- so the other faction has got Brandon playing footsie with Dylan Mulvaney. On the other hand, I can't remotely conceive of what might be going on in Russia.