Bill Maher’s latest news-and-comedy shtick (8½ minutes) deals with “Trump Devotion Syndrome”: the sycophancy that imbues the cowards of America who don’t want to offend the Orange Man. Lots of Presidential rump osculation here! Putting his image on Mount Rushmore and on American currency? But of course!
Oh, and there’s the “transgender mice” he mentioned. (“We were splicing their genes, not making them compete in women’s sports.”) All in all, this bit is what the kids say is a “sick burn” for MAGA. And Maher is peeved!
John McWhorter and journalist Rikki Schlott are there, too.
This is a good one; don’t miss it.
Some people were saying the dum-dums thought “transgenic” meant “transgender”. I think Colin Wright and others presented results on that notion (including what they describe as “silly science” – e.g. Ig Nobel Prize stuff). I’m still unclear on what the dum-dums did exactly. Here’s something I just found now (bold added):
“For this project, we will develop a mouse model of [cross sex hormone therapy] that recapitulates clinical hormone therapy for male-to-female transition in humans. We hypothesize that mice and humans share sets of immune-related genes that are impacted by a feminizing hormone regimen, and that mice undergoing XHT will exhibit altered immune responses to a HIV vaccine compared to control male mice.”
Source : reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10849830#description
There are more examples.
I’m not arguing anything here except that yes, there is clearly experimental research using mice with – effectively – “sex-change” treatment – here, for HIV infection which itself is of course a legit research topic, IMHO.
Make of it what one will….
[Maher ]:”Don’t get any in your hair”
LOOOOOLLLLL!!1!
Yes, this one is BOOM – good.
That is a good one. The people surrounding Trump now aren’t colleagues or politicians, they’re just courtiers, and mostly court jesters. Those among the lickspittles who are elected should never be allowed to forget the depth of their shame.
I agree. The Trump sycophants should take their places in the Hall of Shame alongside those who assured us that Joe was sharp as a tack and who hailed the anointing of the world salad chef as an exercise in democracy.
No Doug. The responsibility of Biden’s acolytes is indeed a heavy one: that they helped prevent a more viable candidate from emerging who might have beaten Trump. But none of them were trying to subvert the Constitution by demanding a third term, or threatening sovereign nations with invasion, or proposing ludicrous commemorations of a kind that have never before been attempted for a sitting US president. You can’t just smudge the lines with both-sides blather and just-as-bad-as-each-other excuses. There is a clear bright line between them.
As it is my Hall of Shame, Jonathan, I may induct into it whomever I choose! Others can argue about which party at the federal level is “more dead” to the principles of honesty, excellence, sound governance, reasoned consistency, lack of hypocrisy, and broad representation. Where you see a clear bright line, I smell the stench of two corpses. I’ll let the partisans bicker over which stinks worse and which had more organs worth preserving.
Political parties, as well as “the principles of honesty, excellence, sound governance, reasoned consistency, lack of hypocrisy, and broad representation”, all exist within the framework of a constitution. But one of those parties is actively trying to destroy that constitution, while the other is not. Does that distinction mean nothing to you?
He summed it all up right at the start.
“I don’t want to live in North Korea.”
Neither do I. It’s amazing and sobering and depressing and downright alarming that millions of our fellow Americans apparently do.
AIUI, not a few North Koreans do too, thanks to NK’s extensive intensive propaganda.
I heard Steve Bannon mention a third Trump term when he was interviewed by Chris Cuomo on NewsNation on March 19.* He just threw it out there as if it’s a natural next step. Cuomo didn’t even know how to respond.
Trump and his people have a way of distorting reality in a manner that is truly scary. The way that Trump is moving against Greenland is an example. He and his acolytes just keep marching ahead as if the imaginary has become the inevitable. After annexing Greenland, we elect Trump to a third term? This is scary sh*t, and I don’t think it’s going to go away.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/cuomo-show/steve-bannon-trump-2028/
Excellent, but concerning.
Maher is a double hater. This country needs double haters. I wish he could run for president for being brutally honest.