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trump still thinks that asylum seekers are people who came to this country from mental asylums.
He’s as dumb as a pile of rusty spoons.
He also thinks stealth fighters are invisible planes. And that injecting bleach is a covid treatment. And...
...and that nuking a hurricane is a thing.
Let him try, there will be enough hurricanes coming this season, even if the NOAA will be no longer around to warn people. And they are mostly heading to red states, so they would make a perfect testing ground.
No, no. That’s what the real leader of the country (Musk) thinks.
Oh no, he exposed the extreme left's secret plan for... checks notes ...creating an army of transgender mice for evil reasons beyond anyone's comprehension!
Transgenic/Transgender...it's all TrAnS!!
-- maga
For the life of me I cannot understand why America elected such a dim witted, racist misogynistic twat ... twice ffs!!!
A lot of us didn’t.
Also a lot decided to not vote at all. That’s really what sank us. Only 63% of eligible voters voted, and of the popular vote, trump won 49.8%. So basically 1/3 of Americans actively elected trump, and whoever in the remaining ~40% that decided to not at least vote against trump ensured we got him.
This is not strictly true, even if it's repeated a lot. Because of our voting system, a large number of people likely didn't vote because they didn't need to vote. For instance, you pretty much know how things will end up in California or Idaho even before the votes are tallied. People who didn't vote in swing states on the other hand...
Strongly disagree. There's local shit to vote for, which usually has a much more direct impact on the average voters' day to day.
Because of our voting system, a large number of people likely didn’t vote because they didn’t need to vote.
Sadly, many people think they only need to vote for Presidents, so you are probably right, although it's that they felt they didn't need to vote...even though down-ballot probably matters just as much.
Yeah, obv state and local elections are very important as well, although in some cases even those elections don't really require people to vote due to district composition. Generally, I agree with you though. I was mainly pointing out that the popular vote for the presidential election basically does not matter.
Nothing I said is untrue, strictly or otherwise.
https://www.cfr.org/article/2024-election-numbers
I did not get into the debate about the EC because the discussion is about the people that voted or did not vote for trump, not how he won.
My entire point was that the popular vote basically does not matter (and tbh shouldn't matter since FPTP is terrible, although the EC is also terrible), so you saying that Trump being elected because people didn't vote isn't necessarily the issue here. Even if literally everyone in the country voted, as long as the states ended up the same way, Trump would still have won.
You’re not listening. I can’t tell of you’re being obstinate or just trying to force a different perspective to make yourself right or something.
The entire point of the conversation is Americans, not electoral votes, therefore the popular vote, those who voted, and those who did not vote are the germane factors to the discussion. The EC is not relevant in this context.
Whose votes lead to the EC results? Americans. The arbitrary distinction you are trying to make here is ridiculous.
Obstinacy. Got it.
Your original comment said: "Also a lot decided to not vote at all. That’s really what sank us."
Clearly, the popular vote is not what sank us. The one trying to argue something different so you'd win the argument is you.
Hate to say it, but he was actually right on this one. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36484619/
$455,000: “A Mouse Model to Test the Effects of Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced Immune Responses”
$2,500,000: “Reproductive Consequences of Steroid Hormone Administration” “These mice manifest defects in ovarian architecture and have altered folliculogenesis.”
$299,940: “Gender-Affirming Testosterone Therapy on Breast Cancer Risk and Treatment Outcomes” “We will compare the incidences and tumor specific survival in female mice (intact) and oophorectomized female mice receiving TT with their respective counterparts that do not receive TT.”
$735,113: “Microbiome mediated effects of gender affirming hormone therapy in mice”
$1,200,000: “Androgen effects on the reproductive neuroendocrine axis” “Aim 2 utilizes transgenic mice to test whether male-level androgens acting via AR specifically in kisspeptin neurons are necessary and/or sufficient for androgen inhibition of in vivo LH pulse parameters, including pulse frequency, and the estrogen-induced LH surge.”
$3,100,000: “Gonadal hormones as mediators of sex and gender influences in asthma” “We will study the contributions of estrogens to HDM-induced asthma outcomes using male and female gonadectomized mice treated with estradiol…”
Testing Gender and Transrelated Medicine is not "Making Mice Transgender".
But yes, the spending was to test a medical treatment, the same way how many medical treatments are tested. He is opposing this specific research for ideological reasons, of course.
Either way the numbskull and his lackies clearly don't understand medical science or the testing/research that is required for any medical treatment before it is applied to humans.
Goddamn. Those funding levels are absolute peanuts. Crumbs. Scraps of budgets.