A New Government Memo Feels Like It’s Straight Out Of 'The Handmaid’s Tale'
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The memo also said recipients of federal transportation dollars must cooperate with immigration enforcement, a hit to so-called sanctuary cities.

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.

  • crusa187
    725·
    5 hours ago

    Ok well keep blaming voters and shouting down voices of logic and reason, and enjoy your new dictatorship, ya dick. Liberalism still won’t save you from this mess, you’re either going to have to wake up and accept that reality or lose again.

    • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      142·
      4 hours ago

      I don’t blame just third party voters. I blame people that entrenched themselves within their blind stupidity and refused to try and stop a tyrant felon and ignored him when he told them what he would do.

      • I blame people that willfully plugged their ears from the months and months worth of warnings of what would happen if they didn’t stop their entitled stubborn bullshit.\
      • I blame the idiots that spread propaganda freely to one ignorant child to another.\
      • I blame the idiot children that believed the propaganda.\
      • I blame the people who stayed home with folded arms while the rest of us tried to do everything we could to save the a lot of American citizens from becoming political targets- from becoming less-than.

      I don’t give a fuck that the DNC propped up a lame duck. I don’t give a fuck what they thought was going to happen. They were warned by people that know better what will happen if trump won. And they were told what they could do to stop it.

      They didn’t.

      So they can take a bow. They fucking did this.

      • crusa187
        26·
        1 hour ago

        Do you realize that compared to 2020, Dems lost more voters than the total amount of third party voters in ‘24? By about 3 times. It made 0 difference. Those voters exercised their constitutional right to vote for the party they thought best represented them. What right do you have to demand they vote democrat instead?

        It is the responsibility of the party to win the votes, not the responsibility of the voter to support “their team.” You coming on here and attacking people for not wanting to further entrench the oligarchy’s grip on our society is precisely the divide and conquer effect I’m talking about. I get that you’re upset because of how things are going, but you have to realize that demanding something different is our only way out of this mess.

        • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          23 minutes ago

          No amount of side-stepping your refusal to do a simple thing like voting is going to absolve you of your responsibility in helping get trump elected.

          Regardless of how you twist things around, you’re not the victim here. You’re the cause.