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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Warn, shit.

    Get your shit together and do your fucking jobs and put an end to this.

    Edit: A lot of comments pointing out the problems with Congressional powers vs. Presidential. All good points. However, (at least up until Musk changed the passwords) Congress can refuse to provide funding for stupid or harmful executive orders, including tariffs. And yes, to put that through, they’d need a majority. Unless it only works if they do it secretly, there ought to be a way to convince red-state corporations to bring some pressure to bear on their representatives and gather the necessary votes - at least for this bs.


  • “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.