In trump's America, women will have lots of kids, right? Hahahaha!!!

When discussing population dynamics, I have often asked students about the number of children of the recent US presidents.

Obama?

Two.

The president before him?

Bush. Two.

Before him?

Clinton. One.

I then ask them if they didn't have more kids because they could not afford too many children.

Of course not!

They didn't keep trying until they had a boy?  I mean, all girls?  A chuckle.

I would then ask them if they know how rich Bill Gates is.  We would laugh.  I would follow up with a silly question: Is he rich enough to afford to have, say, twenty kids?  But, he does not, right?

The point the exercise would lead to is this: Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, and Hillary Clinton, had careers independent of their husbands.  And almost always, the world over, as women get educated and start working outside their homes, well, they don't have too many kids.

I have stopped doing this routine. For an obvious reason.  President donald t. rump!  I don't ever want to talk about him or his children!

I am not sure if trump understands such things, and whether his base does either.  Because, if they did, they will seriously worry about their tough stand against immigration.  But then, 63 million voters for this guy.  I mean, this guy!

The latest reports are that fertility rates are continuing to fall in the US.

Fertility rates have been dropping for all race and ethnic groups, with the largest drop occurring among Hispanic women.

Yes, Hispanics, too, that trump and his base love to beat up on (literally?)

With such a trend, of course the white supremacists come out in full swing.  Iowa's steve king goes full blast white nationalist and talks about the "great replacement" of whites with, gasp, browns.  And that too Muslims.

He talked fearfully of falling fertility rates in the West and spoke at length about his belief that Europe and America are threatened by Muslim and Latino immigration.
“If we don’t defend Western civilization, then we will become subjugated by the people who are the enemies of faith, the enemies of justice,” King said.
The interview is remarkable, capturing a sitting U.S. congressman completely fluent in modern white nationalist talking points just weeks before an election he is favored to win

Yes, he is "favored" to win.  Despite, or because of, such white nationalist hatred in, you know, the heartland, where real Americans live!

king, who represents one of the reddest districts in America, has beaten his Democratic opponents by more than 20 points in the past five elections.

Like I have said for a while, trump's language of hatred directed at non-whites and non-Christians is not new; the GOP has been at it for a long time.  trump merely removed the euphemisms and mainstreamed it.

I suppose he has done his part to "save" the whites and his civilization by having five children that we know of, with three different women, of whom only one was born in America.

The brown-skin exclusion act of November 2016

The current administration in DC has come up with yet another scheme to restrict immigration by providing yet another phony story:

The Department of Homeland Security announced a proposed rule on Friday that would penalize immigrants seeking permanent status who use public benefit programs such as food assistance and housing vouchers. Under the new policy, those who seek financial help could risk losing their chance at a green card.

It is not about any evidence to back this up, obviously.  It is to merely feed into the false narrative that brown-skinned immigrants are lazy bums who are collecting welfare money paid for by hardworking (white) taxpayers.

Just for the heck of it, what are the facts on the ground?

[Research] shows that immigrants are far less likely to burden the federal government than native-born Americans; if anything, they bolster it.

Yep.  There is evidence that we normal people use, and then there are alternative facts that the current administration uses!

Keep in mind that this is the same administration that said it wanted to encourage immigration from Norway and not from shithole countries.  One doesn't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that it is all about restricting the browns from coming to America.

White nationalists and supremacists are having a glorious time thanks to this administration mainstreaming their views that have been unwelcome in the public space for a couple of decades.  Here's what the son of a big time white nationalist has to say about it:

unfortunately, I think we don't have to look very hard for examples of this kind of rhetoric now in our politics. You know, when you have someone in a primary position of power saying that we should be prioritizing European immigration, saying we need to build the wall - which is an idea that David Duke and the Klan spent a lot of time investing energy in in the late 1970s. When we have somebody in a huge position of power who's saying we don't want people from [expletive] countries - when you have somebody in a huge position of power who is constantly referring to his own genetics, which is a huge white nationalist talking point. They love to talk about eugenics and the false science of race. And so when you have somebody who's saying, I'm a credit to my great, tremendous, really wonderful genes - which, it turns out, some people might think maybe weren't so tremendous - that's furthering white nationalist talking points.

Source

Listen to that entire interview with Derek Black, the son of a grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.  The son has renounced the white nationalism that he was raised on, and is now an activist on the good side.  While the President might find it impossible, there is only one good side in this.  There are no good people on the other side.

The tightening of the immigration screws on non-Christian browns has had terrible effects already.  I suppose this is what 63 million "real" Americans voted for!