# SOTU ~ Your unvarnished responses here

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**Created:** [March 5, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sotu-your-unvarnished-responses-here/1015144 "2025-03-05T02:22:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sotu-your-unvarnished-responses-here/1015144/81 "2025-03-06T14:58:33Z")

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> [@Babale](#):
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> And to be clear, _this is not hypothetical_. This is a _proven, winning strategy_. Slotkin is one of a number of Democratic senators who won state-wide elections that Kamala lost by appealing to these voters.

Agreed, and thanks. It’s nice to be backed up in my defense of Slotkin’s Dem response.

And RE: this:

> [@Babale](#):
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> > [@dougrb](#):
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> > $8 million saved from making mice transgender. NOT on my bingo card.
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> Did he mean transGENIC? Or animal trials for gender affirming care? Not sure what else that could refer to.

@Rebo posted this in the other ‘Address to Congress’ thread (full post contains a link to a Rolling Stone article):

> [@Who's watching trump's Address to Congress tonight (3-4-25)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-watching-trumps-address-to-congress-tonight-3-4-25/1015123/104):
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> The Idiot in Chief mistook cancer research in mice for fucking transgender mice. Link goes to the Rolling Stone. Even among the many lies and distortions in [President Donald Trump](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/donald-trump/)‘s never-ending [address](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-speech-congress-tariffs-disturbance-1235288729/) to Congress on Tuesday evening, one claim stood out. The chief executive of the United States told the country that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency ([DOGE](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/doge/)) had uncovered an outrageous expenditure authorized by the previous administration: a whopping $8 million “for making mi…

We are truly living in bizarro-world right now.

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