Summary
The Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a memo prioritizing federal funding for communities with marriage and birth rates above the national average.
The directive, which applies to grants, loans, and contracts, also prioritizes projects benefiting families with young children.
A congressional aide criticized the policy, saying, “Considering fertility rates when prioritizing federal grants? We obviously have no idea what the full impact of that will be… It’s absolutely creepy. It’s a little ‘Chinese government.’”
The memo also blocks mask mandates and requires compliance with immigration enforcement.
Remember how all the protest voters told us how Harris would have been the exact same? Something about the DNC not offering a candidate that would be any better than trump?
Yeah… Don’t believe them when they try to tell you that they didn’t go out of their way to help make this happen.
Yep. Quite a few of them have gone quiet, I’ve noticed. Not one of them has apologized for their cloying sanctimony before the election, no matter how wrong it was.
“I was told there would be a medal”.
Shamelessly clipped from History.com:
This Day In History: December 16
1938 Hitler establishes Mother’s Cross to encourage German women to procreate
On December 16, 1938, Adolf Hitler institutes the Mother’s Cross, to encourage women of “pure” German origin to increase the size of their families and grow the population of the Third Reich.
The Nazis started such encouragement early. When members the League of German Girls (a wing of of the Hitler Youth movement) turned 18, they became eligible for a branch called Faith and Beauty, which trained these girls in the art of becoming ideal mothers. One component of that ideal was fecundity. And so each year, gold medals were awarded to women with eight children or more, silver medals to women with six to seven, and bronze medals to women with five. The crosses were distributed between 1938 and 1944.
Is there some problem with underpopulation? The qons were always saying “America is full” when it comes to refugees.
Prioritize funding for places with higher birth rates, you say? So… Communities with loads of immigrants. Got it.
the “white” was implied
They don’t even have to imply it!
They can just define it with congressional districts or some arbitrary measure that clusters their desired groups and fragments their undesired groups.
Even if this wasn’t the actual, real end to even the charade of U.S. democracy, it would take at least a generation or two to “prove” those policies are hurtful in the courts.
What then? The damage is done. Infrastructure built. Certain groups given generational advantages, certain groups left behind.
They were removed from the calculation after Elon was given network access and privs to the US government.
I feel like they’ve buried the lead.
In addition to its directives related to marriage and babies, the Transportation Department’s memo blocks recipients of federal money from implementing “mask mandates,” a reference to requirements that transit agencies followed to limit the spread of infection during the height of COVID-19.
The memo also requires recipients to comply with federal immigration enforcement in order to receive funding — the latest effort by the administration to target undocumented immigrants, conduct mass arrests and deportations, and deny federal transportation funds to so-called sanctuary cities.
So (1) no ability for public transport systems to implement measures to stop pandemics (which will be important since avian flu is around the corner) and (2) no federal funding for transport to sanctuary cities (of which Washington D.C. is arguably one).
(just fyi, it’s “buried the lede”)
Both spellings are correct and do not impact the meaning. “Lede” has only this one meaning whilst “Lead” can mean a few different things.
Thanks. Just did a quick search and it seems that spelling is more prominent in the US than elsewhere, which is probably why I’m not familiar with it.
The right wingers are just so chock full of rage-filled idiots. Wearing a mask IS annoying, but you aren’t some kind of freedom-fighter to not wear one and go out of your way to disrupt public health, FFS.
But that’s how all of these assholes see themselves: vanguards of “freedom”. By completely ruining any chance of a sane response to a pandemic.
Not gonna fix old broken roads unless y’all fucking and making babies like rabbits. Florida? NO ROADS FOR YOU! Texas? NO ROADS FOR YOU!
The memos of this administration will go down in history as the dumbest shit ever penned. Even worse the nupties who wrote them will get cushy private sector jobs lobbying or something later.
dumbest shit since Bush
which was dumbest since Reagan
which was dumbest since Nixon
you’d better believe it can get worse.
Whoa! No fucking allowed, you sick fornicator. You better have those babies without any pleasure involved
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2069436850145993
50 States, 50 Protests, 1day
Feb 5 @ your downtown.
Pass the word!
For all those asking, the Facebook link didn’t even work for me, so I just searched and there looks to be an active r/50501 group.
It doesn’t seem like an organized thing, just be at your state capital. Here’s a few posters from the reddit:
I didn’t know anything either. I just got overly pissed this morning because they removed Transgender from all government websites. Like dude, that’s us! Who’s next? Who will protest when there’s no one left to speak up?
They are really going full speed on the destruction of near everything. I thought it would be more methodical, but it seems scorched earth is what they’re going for.
My heart goes out to you, it seems like trans rights were just starting to catch on and now it feels like you’re in more danger than ever. But none of us that do support you did so just because the gov told us it was ok now, so we won’t stop just because of crap like this. Millions are still on your side.
I get it’s still more popular than Fedi apps but using Facebook kind of feels like we’re asking the King permission to revolt.
Meta can suck all the ass, but you have to admit that abandoning it entirely will just enforce the echo chamber. I think we should at least try to continue the fight inside. I almost never use it, and have disabled all the settings and tracking that allow it to make the most money off of me.
I feel like there’s at least some importance to meeting people where they are.
I just feel like hosting the info on Facebook is a bad move. Sure, pass notes about unionizing at work but don’t have a meeting at the loading dock.
I feel like I gotta make a new account and nuke my old one if I want to do this at all. I have been thinking about this too.
Is there a non-Meta link for that?
Lol. Nothing. I was pissed I wanted to see if anyone was organizing something and it looks like there is such a thing happening. Feb 5 at your downtown.
That looks important. Too bad I can’t read or upvote it because it’s a link to a fascist platform.
Make your own link in here and pas the word so it happens! Yeah I got no Facebook or reedit account. I’m just not gonna ignore it when the government wants to ship my mom off to India or Quebec.
WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, TRUMP?
Why are you giving the guy a hard time? He’s just doing all the awful stuff he said he was going to do plus maybe a little bit of extra awful stuff that he should have been expected to do.
What are the legal consequences of ignoring an executive order?
Ive heard they force you to convert all your holdings to dogecoin.
Sounds like something drafted by President Musk
I know we like to shit on Trump for his dumb ideas, but why is this idea bad? I would remove the marriage rates, but prioritizing communities with many children, especially families with young children seems to me like a sane idea, this is where help is needed the most and where you make the most impact for the future generations or am I missing something?
I mean why not just say higher population density and leave room for abuse? because they want room for abuse.
To summarize what everyone else is saying: It can (and therefore will) be abused to only benefit “the right people”.
Gay marriage will be used against areas. Fertility rates are higher in rural and conservative areas because of a lack of access to proper sex ed and contraception. Everything about this screams punish blue states, funding only for maga.
Who has marriage and birth rates higher than the national average? White evangelicals. This is a gift to the religious right.
Who’s that weird family with a ton of kids? They get all the money. Also, Utah.
Off the top of my head, it makes it desirable to cook the stats to get money, whether by banning abortion or simply prioritizing births vs children. Every funding metric is gamed, that’s why there’s arcane rules to enact change by hoping for a certain game strategy. In this case every strategy leads to misery.
Will it be implemented fairly across zip codes? Or are “Some pigs are more equal than others?”
Probably cause those are richer communities. If i had to guess.
Thank you for taking the heat of the hive mind, I genuinely didn’t understand the problems either.
If the criterion is to prioritise funding to areas that need the most why not just say higher population density? We already know republicans use “traditional family values” as a propaganda tool. Can you seriously not see how this can be abused by Trump administration after news like ordering to retract the word “gender” from medical articles published by CDC:
https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction
🤦
Can you explain that reaction to me? OP posted a question that I also had about this thing, it didn’t seem disingenuous to me.
I forced some pushback on me by attacking the reactions as “hive mind”, which is lazy and combative, I understand that, fair enough.
What I fail to understand is the push back on the original question.
I think it is because for many, these tactics seem very thinly veiled and obvious, and so when someone says something like, “actually, I don’t see why eugenics is bad” the community, who knows history and to whom the answer seems obvious, can often assume that the person asking the question is disingenuous. We have all been on the internet long enough to have seen trolls and Nazi apologists pretend to be clueless to try to waste everyone’s time only to eventually just admit they hate everyone that isn’t an able bodied straight white man so the community just want to stop it in its tracks rather than engage cuz it just isn’t worth it.
