{"id":2700125,"date":"2026-11-06T09:09:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-happened-to-affordability-victorious-dems-brag-dei-is-back-that-they-have-gayest-congress-ever\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T09:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:13:40","slug":"what-happened-to-affordability-victorious-dems-brag-dei-is-back-that-they-have-gayest-congress-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-happened-to-affordability-victorious-dems-brag-dei-is-back-that-they-have-gayest-congress-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Affordability? Victorious Dems Brag &#8216;DEI Is Back,&#8217; That They Have &#8216;Gayest Congress Ever&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhat-happened-to-affordability-victorious-dems-brag-dei-is-back-that-they-have-gayest-congress-ever%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2700125&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Maybe Americans backed Democrats expecting cheaper bananas, but if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-brags-about-gas-prices-falling-10-cents-with-another-misleading-graph\/\" title=\"White House Brags About Gas ... ...ing 10 Cents With Another Misleading Graph\">prices fall<\/a> it won\u2019t be because of them &#8211; at least not in the way implied.Meanwhile, the triumphant Democrats are touting the return of DEI and claiming they have the \u201cgayest Congress ever,\u201d reports The Western Journal. Do you want a speedy fact-check, a short summary, or a deeper explanation\/analysis? I can also rewrite the line in a different tone (neutral, skeptical, humorous, etc.). <\/p>\n<p>Quick take while you decide:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Banana prices: Very unlikely to fall (or rise) directly because of which party controls Congress. Prices are driven mainly by supply-side factors (harvests,crop diseases like Panama disease,weather in producing countries),global shipping and fuel costs,import tariffs\/regulations,and retailer\/wholesaler pricing strategies. Congress can influence trade or supply-chain policy, but that\u2019s indirect and slow &#8211; not a simple cause-effect from election results to cheaper bananas at the supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; DEI and \u201cgayest Congress ever\u201d: Democrats generally support restoring or expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs; Republicans had reduced or restricted some DEI initiatives while they controlled the House. The claim that this is the \u201cgayest Congress ever\u201d is a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >political\/celebratory phrasing &#8211; multiple nonpartisan<\/a> and LGBTQ advocacy groups have reported that the current Congress has a record level of openly LGBTQ members, but I can pull exact numbers and sources if you want.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me which follow-up you prefer. <br \/> <br \/>\n    Read more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Americans may have voted for the Democrats because they were promised lower banana prices. If they get them, it won\u2019t be from the Democrats, or at least not through [\u2026] The post What Happened to Affordability? Victorious Dems Brag &#8216;DEI Is Back,&#8217; That They Have &#8216;Gayest Congress Ever&#8217; appeared first on The Western Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters backed Dems for cheap bananas; not via Dems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18297,4402,16574,3685,75059],"class_list":["post-2700125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-affordability","tag-congress","tag-dei","tag-democrats","tag-lgbtq-rights-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700128,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700125\/revisions\/2700128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}