The world’s anti-Trump press are awash with laughter over the trans-mice / transgenic mice gaffe from the US President during his address to Congress.
‘…$8 million for making mice transgender. This is real.’
The audience laughed and it wasn’t long before the foot soldiers of the Swamp saturated the narrative, insisting that the whole thing was fake news and example of an unhinged Trump doing unhinged things.
Who can blame Trump for the mistake?
So far, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk has uncovered – not millions – but billions in wasted taxpayer money on projects so ridiculous that even the Babylon Bee refuses to touch them.
Projects that are real…
$2 million for sex change surgery in Guatemala and to strengthen trans-led organisations. $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia. $70,000 for a DEI musical in Ireland (apparently a State Department grant). $520 million for ESG consulting in Africa. $40 million to improve the inclusion of sedentary migrants. $42 million for social and behaviour changes in Uganda. $10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique. $21 million for improving voter turnout in India.
Stop me if any of this sounds reasonable, or even real.
Besides, Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer-Funded Animal Cruelty is a real subcommittee hearing with Rep. Nancy Mace.
In the video, Rep. Mace says:
‘…exposed more than $10 million in taxpayer funds that were spent creating transgender mice, rats, and monkeys. These DEI grants funded painful and deadly transgender experiments that forced lab animals to undergo invasive surgeries and hormone therapies at universities across the country … the Biden-Harris Administration spent $2.5 million to study the fertility of transgender mice. Let that sink in.’
The story did not end there.
‘$1.1 million was spent to find out if female rats receiving testosterone therapies to mimic transgender men were more likely to overdose on a party drug commonly used in the LGBT community to induce what is called chem sex.’
Not only are there publicly funded projects creating transgender mice, they are making them high to see how horny they get.
Transgenic mice, which the collective media are championing for the simple reason that it became the convenient corner of a joke, are not particularly moral either. There are some woefully fine lines being stumbled along when it comes to the corruption of mouse DNA, including the creation of humanised mice which combine human genes with mice.
While there are arguments to be made about the trade off between animal suffering and the medical value of transgenic mice, it is hard to imagine that there would be widespread public support for transgender experiments and party drug trials on mice.
And if those experiments are going to be done, they should not occur on the public dime.
Who is laughing at Trump now?
This evening, I came across a Time headline: Scientists have bred woolly mice on their journey to bring back the mammoth.
It comes with a video of some rather adorable extra-fluffy mice.
Cute they may be, but mice are living creatures, not fodder for human experimentation.
Even if you cannot bring yourself to care about the life of a mouse, what about the purpose of the experiment, to resurrect the extinct woolly mammoth – and to what end? What sort of suffering will this resurrected species have as a curiosity project for a species with a god delusion?
These little mice did not only inherit the coat of a woolly mammoth, they also received their ‘accelerated fat metabolism’.
Resurrecting lost species is part of the de-extinction ideology where scientists want to bring back species such as the Dodo and the Tasmanian Tiger. (A bit like MSM trying to cross-breed Democrats with sanity.)
Sometimes de-extinction thinking stems from a type of environmentalism that believes two things: first, that the world is a museum and that its species should be kept alive; second, that something like half of Earth’s species will be extinct by 2050 and nothing will replace them.
These assumptions are, we know, wrong. We would not be here if the dinosaurs had been operating a de-extinction program.
Being careful not to actively destroy the natural environment is not the same as seeking to manipulate the natural world into a state of stagnancy or reaching into the genetic grave and raising zombie species.
In any case, Trump was making a wider point about the use of public money on non-urgent, and often unpalatable projects.
Taxpayers elected Donald Trump to stop this sort of thing and start living by the well-worn mantra: just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should.
