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Buy, Buy, Baby
The “fertilization president” offers a $5000 bonus for a “baby boom” in our near-dystopian world
The all but completely dystopian absurdities of the Trump administration just keep adding up. If it’s not crazy 245% tariffs on China, it’s plans to invade Greenland and Panama. Or to make showers great again, as I’ve described here.
And now, here’s the latest. As a father of five children from three different women, Trump wants to be the). So along with JD Vance and Elon Musk, he is “birthing” new schemes for women to have more children. Trump wants to hand out not only $5000 to every American mother who gives birth but also a “National Medal of Motherhood” to women with at least six children — a medal that might have been
You see, the unholy trinity of Trump, Vance, and Musk are concerned that birth rates have hit a low of 1.62 per woman in 2023. Not that this lamentation is entirely surprising in their ideological circle. Others, namely the disgraced former Representative and Attorney General Matt Gaetz, just recently levied at single women — no doubt to…
