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Rhiannon12866

(232,692 posts)
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 03:05 AM Yesterday

Trump signals support for 'baby bonuses' to convince women to have children - The 11th Hour - MSNBC



The Trump administration appears poised to pursue another major goal of the conservative policy blueprint, Project 2025 — restoring traditional families. And it may start with convincing women to have more children. Author David Graham joins The 11th Hour to discuss his new book, "The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America." - Aired on 04/22/2025.


When I visited the USSR back in the late '80s (with my grandmother's peace group), this was the policy in the USSR, ethnically Russian mothers who had more than five children were honored and got a bonus.
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rpannier

(24,695 posts)
2. Ooooh a bonus. Which will not offset the amount it costs to raise a child
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 03:19 AM
Yesterday

He's flailing and most people know it.
This bonus will go the way of felon musk's 5k to every american from savings due to his purges

Cha

(309,836 posts)
4. What's that No IQ pushing this for? Who would
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 04:54 AM
Yesterday

want to bring a kid into the America Mump is working on Destroying?

Trying to change the subject from his Fascist Failures to ... I need more Lives to Ruin?

Rhiannon12866

(232,692 posts)
5. And what if these pregnancies go wrong? It could happen. Where's the emergency health care??
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 05:16 AM
23 hrs ago

Will these women be left to die as some already have? Or accused of attempting an abortion and criminally charged? As you said, this is a no win situation...

Cha

(309,836 posts)
7. Precisely! TY for listing all of those Reasons to Not... Anyone would be crazy
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 05:35 AM
23 hrs ago

to have a baby because Mump told them to do it.

It seems like he throws shite out there to see if he can get his cult to go for it.. like a Demented Jim Jones clone.

Rhiannon12866

(232,692 posts)
9. That's exactly who he needs to be compared to, the danger he's putting us in is similar to the Kool-Aid
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 05:41 AM
23 hrs ago

And too many are still following him blindly - believing his lies.

Botany

(73,901 posts)
8. Hitler and the Soviet Union had similar programs
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 05:39 AM
23 hrs ago

Have enough babies and mommy gets a medal.

Rhiannon12866

(232,692 posts)
11. I didn't know about Hitler, but as I said, I remember hearing about this policy in the USSR
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 05:47 AM
23 hrs ago

And this was before Putin, in those days it was Gorbachev who tried to institute more progressive policies. But he got a lot of pushback from the Soviet hardliners - because of all the pressure he was getting from then-U.S. President Reagan - a Republican.

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