calls digital equity program “racist and illegal”

I don't see why he would kill anything over that. Those are like his two favorite things.

Did he just look at the word "equity" and assume it somehow helped minorities? That's the only reason I can imagine him calling it racist.

I suppose this means he hates the Rural Electrification Act and wants to retroactively rip out the bumpkins' power lines. I should probably shut my pie hole before I inadvertently give these malicious assholes ideas.

Giving rural old white farmers broadband is racist?

The goal seems to be to keep people in rural areas ignorant and/or sell more starlink terminals

In Canada, we just give them the money, they twiddle their thumbs for a few years then say they're abandoning the project and keep the money. Then we wait a few years, and decide to give them more money for the same thing again.

His boyfriend must be complaining because it doesn't benefit Starlink or something

This is the guy who just recently, through overt, barely coded dog whistles, called Buttigieg a "f@**0t," riding with his husband on a bike, and Crockett a "uppity n1@883r b1%&h" from the Oval Office. I'm a 53 year old white male from the rural South. The message was loud and clear. Believe what I'm telling you. I've heard this garbage my entire life, and hear the shit that's said when it's just us white males. The real hateful shit.

This is real. This is serious. They're starting with "Illegal Immigrants," and to them, deviant "Transsexuals." RFK Jr. is reported to be compiling a database of Autistic people. Before that, it was the homeless. Remember what the Nazis did to those "Undesirables."

Just like the Nazis of 80 years ago, they're starting with the defenseless, and the poorest.

But... but... rural is white Trump country. They need the interweb tubes.

So it went from socialist to racist to offer incentives to companies to put broadband in rural areas. Boy sure I'm glad there's somebody at the top to tell us these things. Here I thought it was just a sensible thing to do all this time. Silly me.

Have fun watching diabetes commercials on cable while the rest of us enjoy what we want on streaming platforms.

Not even going to bother addressing the veteran stuff. Trump hating the military and its personnel is old news and his voters couldn't give a flying fuck.

It must literally just be the word "equity".

Probably shouldn't have called it Digital Equity Internet. I could see where the confusion comes in.

This is without a doubt to benefit daddy musk…the true president.

This will be just great for the Appalachian region J.D. Vance was playing up as his homeland.

They could have really used that money to get some broadband deployed and a workforce trained up: https://communitynetworks.org/content/connect-humanity-project-aims-bring-broadband-rural-appalachia

Just a couple weeks ago, with the announcement of orders being opened to the public, people in my (pretty red) area were celebrating the expected arrival of broadband from these grants,

Wonder if its going to happen now. 🤦

internet access is woke too now 😎

All those red counties can keep enjoying paying over $100 a month for terrible local cable company "100mbps" (20mbps in reality) download speeds with 56k upload. That's the great America they wanted after all. Meanwhile in my very blue city I pay $60 a month for symmetric gigabit.

Does this create communication blund spots? Because that's dangerously good preperation for gulags or something

I really hope that someone is collecting all the laws that Trump is making up on the fly so that we can compare the documents; at least do a word count of Trump's collected laws and covfefe vs the Constitution.

Internet access is racist and illegal! Thanks conservatives!