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    These are the same dipshits who think that “asylum seekers” are literally people from insane asylums.

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      I genuinely didn’t realize that was the reason they said they were coming from insane asylums.

      Like, I legitimately didn’t even consider the possibility because it was just that stupid. I’m simultaneously kicking myself for not figuring it out, but also glad my brain isn’t stupid enough to quickly make the same connection they did.

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      Clearly, if anyone has the resources to march across a desert and navigate the countless hoops of an immigration application, it’s someone suffering from debilitating mental illness.

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      I think Mike Judge is actually a time traveller and came back to warn us with Idiocracy. Now I just need to find out who is building the machine so I can go back and do… stuff.

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        Idiocracy was a better timeline than this. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho may have been a bit lacking in the patience department, but he honestly wanted what was best for his people, and he fucking listened to “the smartest man in the world,” and did what he was told to do to fix the problems. Then he actually abdicated because he thought Not Sure could run the country better than he could.

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    “The Fake News losers at CNN to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual).”

    Welcome to Costco I love you

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    lol: ‘biden spent less on medical research for transgender care during 4 years than trump spends on hookers in a year. news at 11.’

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    The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual).

    That’s real. That’s a real life quote from the real life, official white house website. “Wtaf” is an understatement here.

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    “They also spent millions on transgender cars!”

    “That says transmission repair”

    “TRANS.”

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    Transgender… Animal Experiments? What the fuck are you even talking about?

    Edit: These are just experiments showing if changes in hormones effect asthma and reactions to the HIV Vaccine, this is a clear case of “I’m counting on you to get mad and not read the article”

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      “Transgenic” is the actual word from those studies. As in, genetically altered. Because they were researching genetic causes and treatments for diseases.

      But fuck it, transgender mice, whatever.

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        The first couple links they provide are for studying immune responses of mice that have undergone hormone replacement or gonadectomies.

        Still it’s not the same as their claims. There’s not even close to a trillion dollars there.

        They’re expecting people to see buzzwords and jump on their hate bandwagon. Sadly, they are.

        Why shouldn’t we do medicine for all humans to protect the whole herd and safeguard the core of society?

        From the times of India article: “studies referenced in the document had no connection to gender identity alterations in animals.”

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      Trump got mad that people tried to fact check his claim that Biden spent millions on turning the mice trans. Then the Whitehouse officially released this at a rebuttal of the fact checks.

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    I find it hard to believe that even the most ardent Trump supporters don’t cringe at seeing something like this posted on the official website of the whitehouse.

    Even if someone (somehow) doesn’t know that human drugs and treatments are tested on mice (or other animals) before being tested on humans, they must at least feel some kind of shame/embarassment/humiliation at seeing a headline so petty and childish right under the whitehouse logo.

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      they do feel some sort of shame, by remaining silent on it. then again i dont think conservatives can self-reflect.

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      They do feel shame. A lot of their issues come from inferiority complex and their way of dealing with it is by trying to bring everybody else down to their level.

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      Muhahahahahahaha, aw man! I can’t believe that you figured it out! You really suck ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed.

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      I think what I find the most upsetting (not really, but that’s just the phrase), is just how unhinged it all is. If you sat me down, made it my job to come up with content like this, and gave me a full think tank of people… I could never come up with something this stupid.

      You think you know right? You think there are limits to stupidity. You’ve met many people in your life, some smarter than others. You’ve read the news, you see what people do, you see how they react. You’re able to see just how stupid people can be.

      There has to be a bottom. Then, oh look, a new and deeper hole.

      It’s just absolutely wild that anyone could look at something like this and go, “Yeah, a well functioning human adult put that together.”

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      well, we created a system of social cohesion and coordination so strongly based on obedience to authority and staying in your lane that the authority doesn’t actually have to make sense or serve us for us to obey.

      in fact, they don’t even need to acknowledge material reality. they can live completely, entirely, in their delusional ketamine fueled fantasy worlds, and we will still be killed for disobedience, no matter how mad and irrational their commands get. such a shame there’s no alternative.

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    this message comes out 40 days late as we were too busy with all this lib owning and maga winning. but just so you know.

    civil law has been suspended, clown law is now in effect.

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    The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual).

    Sounds very official and professional. Everyone at the white house is required to talk like Trump now?

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    Non-human animals literally can’t have gender to us as it is a social construct for humans.

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    transGENIC - meaning they were able to modify cells in mice to more resemble human to be able to develop new medications that were difficult to develop, but I guess anything that has word “trans” is woke. The transportation secretary should be on a lookout.

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      I’m kind of torn on this one. I’ve seen the “transgenic” explanation in several other places, and as I normally do, my initial reaction was “Ha ha, stupid Trump.” (And also a deep underlying sadness that doesn’t ever really go away)

      But I clicked the link on this post. They listed the grants referenced in their $8 million total. One did mention transgenic mice, though others could use transgenic mice and not specifically mention it. But if you click through to the grant proposals (which I assume DOGE did not write), every entry does indeed involve research on the effects of gender-affirming medication, even the one that mentions transgenic mice. To be clear, the other claim from media reports is also true - that these are grants for cancer and HIV research. But specifically, for things like the interaction between HIV vaccines and gender affirming meds.

      To make my position clear, I support these studies. I think it’s important to study how asthma and cancer medications may affect the trans population differently than those not on gender-affirming meds. And you never know what additional discoveries will be made along the way. But I think that the response that MAGA got confused about transgender vs transgenic is disingenuous at best, if the information from this link is true (who knows if the 8 mill is the full contract or remaining values, etc).

      I think diversity, equity, and inclusion are exactly what we need, and historically, a lot of harm has been caused by treating white male as default in medical studies. It is a truly terrible thing that they are canceling studies like these. But I think we need to recognize that when they say things like, Biden spent 8 million dollars trying to make mice transgender, what we’re dealing with is bait. They want us fighting over whether or not we made mice transgender. The point here is that this is yet another example of this Federal government usurping the power of the purse without being checked. They will always try to use small lies to hide the Big Lie.

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        Gender affirming does not mean Trans.

        Testosterone creams and pills would be gender affirming medications. It’s probably important to know how those medications are going to react with other medications and conditions. 9 Mil for a study is a drop in the bucket.

        Doge is chasing fragments of pennies, at a time where there are glaringly obvious actual loopholes and waste in the government.

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          I agree. I saw a point brought up elsewhere that the asthma study included research on whether there is a difference with asthma rate before and after MTF participants took estrogen. The reasoning being that the prevalence of asthma among females compared to males tends to double by the end of puberty, so having trans participants in the study allows them to isolate the effects of estrogen in an ethical way. Very cool happenstance.

          But no, the point here was not whether the science is good or bad, as you and I both full well know. The point was to Ctrl+F “transgender” in government-funded study abstracts and cancel all of them you can find so you can tell your base you’re hurting the people they wanted you to hurt. While you rob the nation blind with the other hand. MAGA doesn’t care that the research might have helped them. They don’t care that 9 million bucks is only a drop in the bucket. They have centered their lives around how important it is to win. All they care about is that they feel like they’re winning.

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            The point was to Ctrl+F “transgender”

            I think they are literally doing a Ctrl+F on “trans”. I can’t wait to find out how much the military spends on transmissions. It’s probably why they are so keen on getting rid of trans service members.

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        Thanks for sharing this thought. I had the same feelings and was disappointed to see that many of us are falling into the same headline clickbait trap that we accuse the other side of. Thankfully, you’re getting plenty of upvotes.

        Yes, the word transgenic was used in the description of the one of the funded studies. However that same cited study is intentionally attempting to study the effects of androgen treatment on reproductive health for the benefit of transgender individuals.

        I do not condone this ridiculous writing from an official Whitehouse press release. I also fully approve of every single study listed. But the “haha they’re dumb” rhetoric is not helpful. What’s helpful is encouraging people to demand sources, think critically, and hold authority figures accountable when they lie.

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      … transgenic mice to test whether male-level androgens … are necessary and/or sufficient for androgen inhibition of in vivo LH pulse parameters

      They used the transgenic mice to test if hrt works. And the others have nothing to do with transgenic mice, most are explicitly about hrt and one is testing if asthma differences in sex is actually caused by hormones.

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        Thanks for the hint. Also CNN added context to their article.

        The morning after Trump’s speech, the White House provided a list of $8.3 million in federal grants to health studies that involve mice receiving treatments that can be used in gender-affirming health care. The White House list made clear what Trump, in the speech, did not: The studies were meant to figure out how these treatments might affect the health of humans who take them, not for the purpose of making mice transgender.

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      Oh my god, I looked at the Rolling Stone article and this is the real explanation? I expect them to be stupid, but this is the basis for their talking point?

      I am accurately using the word “literally,” when I say I literally can’t keep up with how stupid they are. I genuinely lowered my expectations as far as I could, and it wasn’t low enough.

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          Which is such an easy strategy to counter if the dems could just grow up. All you have to do is some outrageous act or make some outrageous claim and the zone will get more flooded pushing out the gop shit. It’s not a good way to do news but we have to stop trying to counter bullshit with plain reason. It’s not effective. We need to first get the bullshit out of the lime light then tackle it in smaller settings where facts can be agreed on. The “zone” is better suited for cat memes and what ever else, not political shit.

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      What will they publish when they wind out that the government transcribes speeches and so on?

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      Yeah, they want to make genes trans now. The woke are out of control!

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    It is slowly becoming globally known how absolutely stupid the current administration is.