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[–] Laser@feddit.org 11 points 10 hours ago

This is so stupid, it'd be hard to make up. Confusing transgenic with transgender. Holy shit. But probably par for the course for the guy who has trouble differentiating mental asylums and political asylum

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Also transgenic, not transgender.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

they are going to ban transatlantic flights next.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Then they come for the trans-portation, and trans-ition of power.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 hours ago

Try to find a transistor radio in the White House. You can't.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Very on-brand for these idiotic transphobes.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 48 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The vast majority of "hormone blockers" are prescribed for non-gender affirming care. It's used across medicine for a plethora of things like moderating growth plate fusion in pediatric orthopedics, or slowing down breast cancer.

This is why it should be illegal for legislators to be involved in any form of medical care, they're just complete illiterate morons on the subject.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I agree, legislators and insurance companies need to stay out of medical decision making

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

They did it while the mice were at school too. Didn't even contact their parents or anything. The mice school nurse just ran around kidnapping all those poor mice students and making them transgender!

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 42 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I wondered what he was on about

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 25 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

He stood on stage with gobs of horse shit flying from his mouth at record pace and media outlets are like "based on the smell of this shit, we think this is where it came from".

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 5 points 18 hours ago

Citation needed. He definitely holds the record for spewing shit, but nearly every literal thing that comes out of his is a lie and I think he used to talk a lot faster

Although if we account for how shitty the shit is, I could believe it

[–] NimdaQA@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

I wondered what he smoked and where would I be able to get some.

[–] Chessmasterrex@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

This is an old trick politicians use in regards to science. Strip the context out and make it sound ridiculous.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Transgenic, potahto

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago

Ratatouille part 2, transgender and spaghetti boogaloo.

[–] elatedCatfish@lemm.ee 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I couldn’t help but laugh out loud when he brought up the kid with cancer during his speech. The dumbass is literally cutting cancer research funding. Way to use that kid as a prop to pretend he cares in any way…

[–] fan0m@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

How about the transgender kid’s mom who came alone? lol

[–] elatedCatfish@lemm.ee 4 points 17 hours ago

Oh god yeah that was cringe. The lady looked like a total Karen too

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Maybe people shouldn't legislate on matters they don't understand. Only politicians who understand the concepts being presented should be allowed to vote on laws that affect entire industries?

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago

They were just making little outfits and flags for them. I think it's important research and should be allowed to continue!

We already saw a 40% happiness and morale boost in the researchers!

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 14 hours ago

what the fuck now. some gay mice? gay mice is the thing? oh shit you said they were trained mices who were actuallyh rats, like...?