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But what if they did??? I wouldn't be such an idiot then, eh? So the only difference is that it was not real? Well so much for the tolerance of the so-called 'frogs gay-makers'.
out of all that speech, this was the most hurtful one? Really?!
Remember - these people heard him say "they're eating the cats and the dogs" and was like "hmm yes, he's sound of mind"
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The rest of the world is laughing at us.
You are 100% right.
As they should be. Only 1/3 of us tried to stop putting the biggest fucking clown in charge again, knowing how awful he was and was planning on being. The rest either gladly voted for it or could t be bothered to care
The US is officially a joke and a failing nation. Even if we somehow managed to get someone like Bernie in in 2028, I don't see our country ever coming back from this. We were already on our way out, but now we're going to become a pariah state.
You’re right. The lack of media literacy and feeling of political apathy have totally fucked us. People are so beaten down they can’t even be bothered to try to do the bare minimum to get people who will actually advocate for change into office. Really disheartening to see for those of us who are paying attention and saw all the warning signs coming for years.
Sometimes, but we honestly don't laugh as much as we should, since many of us have our own fascism problem. See the rise of AfD in the recent German elections.
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So what like under a buck per trans person in this country?
You’d think the republicans would want this. If they can make something transgender, then they can probably also make something not transgender.
The only way to stop a bad guy with transgender research is with a good guy with transgender research
Nobody expects a trans mouse army.
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Am I the only one who was mildly upset that they weren't? Like shit, we somehow got to bio-transhumanism before techno-transhumanism, that's rad. By all means, let's research new ways of being transgender, I wanna see what people come up with next.
Europe and Asia will gladly absorb the brain drain from the US in the coming years.
I heard Paris is lovely in the spring.
Moved to Taiwan during the first Trump presidency. I helped 3 other friends come here. The brain drain has been happening.
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Next, Grok has decided to end trans-port, can’t have them boats with all them lgbtqiasgrguch immigrants!!
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An 8 million dollar research program? Wow, that's so efficient! We should honestly be asking their PIs how to deliver on that kind of budget to learn from them.
Edit: I'm listening to AOC talk about that speech, and she is, of course, one million percent right. Not once did he mention Medicaid. They're bringing up this other bullshit to distract us. They distracted me. If you upvoted my comment in its original form, you were probably distracted, too. We should be focused on what they're REALLY doing: Gutting Medicaid.
I listened to his address. He listed off some 19 items where they slashed the so-called "waste, fraud, and abuse." The first thing was like 22 billion and the next eighteen added up to another 2.5 billion. So all in, they saved 24.5 billion.
Trump's requested 2018 budget (pre-pandemic, pre-inflation spike) was 4.094 trillion. Adjusted for inflation, it'd be 5.247 trillion today, which means they've saved basically nothing.
Well, 0.47% to be more precise. Another way of putting it, if the government was spending $100.00 in 2018, now it's spending $99.53. And if most people saw a thing that costs $99.53, they're probably gonna tell you, "That thing's a hundred bucks."
Meanwhile, a dozen of the bottom shelf eggs I bought this morning cost me six dollars. Four weeks ago, these were $1.89. My favorite brand isn't even available anymore. Also, the store limits you to two cartons at a time. They do sell packages up to five dozen, though. Those cost $42. And yes, that is a worse deal. Much worse. But if you need 60 eggs at once, that's probably how you're go about it.
Not to mention the planes falling out of the sky right now. But at least I still have my freedom, I guess?
The fuck is the driving factor of egg prices in the us? It is not just a meme?
tl;dr: price gouging sparked by bird flu. Shame their ticker isn't $SCAM
Bird flu running rampant with little oversight or control of the problem. Or, it is using that as an excuse to constrict supply and make $$$. Take your pick.
Little bit of A, a fuckload of B.
iirc, the Biden admin threatened to step in last time this happened. We all know Trump is gonna do fuck all to alleviate the problem.
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You're also assuming he was truthing about the savings amount. He wasn't. lol
Oh, I absolutely made the assumption in my calculation that he wasn't lying. He can't even lie a meaningful amount his administration has supposedly saved.
But you and I both know the dopes who voted for him ate. that. shit. up.
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A while back he claimed one amount was 8 Billion USD and it turned out to be 8 Million. Their total savings at that point was $6 bn usd after correcting for errors. One Republican Congressman took the time to print out charts about how abso-fucking-lutely nothing that amount was. He then proceeded to vote yea on the tax cuts for the rich later on.
Rep. David Schweikert gave a speech on the floor in the beginning of february regarding the federal debt. He pointed out that 52 billion in spending cuts only covers about a week of the borrowing we're planning to do for the budget.
All these cuts to critical infrastructure and we're only shaving off the very tip of our federal debt, while adding a mountain more of it.
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But at least I still have my freedom, I guess?
Guess again, shit-butt!
Seems like it'd be a lot cheaper to buy a chicken farm in the long run 😅
Are you sure? I thought a lot of what he listed was actually millions, not billions.
What in the actual fuck!! Your store allows TWO cartons of eggs at a time?!?
Moneybags over here can probably bake a cake.
What's the truth of this btw?
They were not "making the mice transgender".
From the Whitehouse's 6 evil studies list:
Three of them were studying the long-term effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy on the growth of the skeleton, how it affects fertility, and if it changes your breast cancer risk. These are all things that people who are against transgender care use as reasons to stop transgender care. So they were potentially a way for the government to say "no" to this kind of hormone therapy and have some scientific backing for why. (Note: the results of these studies weren't going the way anti-trans numpties would have liked. I'm sure that has nothing to do with it though.)
One is studying (as best I can determine) how GA therapy works, I guess because we don't really fully understand it. This one used "transgenic" mice (scary!) to help isolate the processes. That means they were genetically modified.
There was a very scary one about how such hormone therapy affects the effectiveness of the HIV vaccine. (They made sure to list this one first with its homophobantitransantivax trifecta).
One study they claimed in their list was actually just a comparison of asthma between men and women (nothing about transgender, but it mentioned "gonadal hormones" which is like, so gross).
Edit to add: This one also accounts for over 1/3 of their claimed savings and is only tangentially related to transgender women because of the estrogen they take. It was mainly focused on laying a basis for future therapies for everyone with lung disease.
A bunch of the info came from here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/white-house-scared-of-trans-mouse/
I also read through the abstracts from the studies listed and linked in the Whitehouse press release.
and is only tangentially related to transgender women because of the estrogen they take
Good point, estrogen is related to trans women. We should ban estrogen and force everyone to take antiestrogens, so nobody can be a trans woman. Also, vaginas. We should make vaginas illegal.
America's halfway there already.
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Transgenic, not transgender.
Damn I literally heard this perfectly in their voices.