Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Tuesday that his department would redirect $1.73 billion in Biden-era grants away from establishing “DEI bike lanes” to build roads and bridges instead.
So, what exactly is a “DEI bike lane?”
The Daily Wire pointed to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s claim that a series of 2021 grants funding bike lanes would serve to “improve infrastructure, strengthen supply chains, make us safer, advance equity, and combat climate change.”
Upon hearing “equity,” President Donald Trump’s goons can’t help but get triggered into attacking any federal spending that won’t benefit them directly. In reality, those Biden-era grants directed funds to build a new transit center in North Carolina, replace bridges in New Mexico, extend streets in New Hampshire, install traffic lights and crosswalks in Missouri, and install bike lanes in Seattle, among other projects. Now the financial status of these projects is unclear.
Had to make sure his hands are realistically sized.Photoshopping in hamster paws would be closer to reality.
You forgot the black mark of death on the rat paws
Here are the rat paws at least.
I fucking hate these people, and now as a cyclist I have even more reason to
Imagine being a conservative (moron) and being programmed to hate anything with the letters “DEI” inserted before or after it, regardless of whether it makes any sense or not.
I mean, duh. Inclusion for those that don’t or can’t drive. Diversity for… the same reason. Equity by providing a safe place for those without a car to be able to travel just the same. Turns out bike lanes ARE DEI and that isn’t a bad thing in the slightest.
This seems consistent with their worldview…
Gargle my hairy balls, Pat.
Wonder how they feel about home-equity.
They hate it. Hence “reverse mortgages”
Sean Duffy’s appointment was DEI
Nothing says diversity equality and inclusion like bikes 🙄. Ands what’s up with that?
Conservatives hate freedom. In this case they hate the idea that you’d have freedoms to travel without paying for the privilege.
Want to leave your home? Buy your car from the billionaires. Pay for gas to billionaires. Have your insurance from billionaires. What? You’d like to bike and no pay to a billionaire?!? Can’t have that freedom. Get back to work, serf.
I often think of the movie bugs life where the grasshopper says that the ants outnumber them 6 to 1, and if they ever figure that out, our way of life is over.
No particular reason, but there are more of us than them, by a lot.
And they don’t want the poors to be able to escape from their slums.
I think even more so, they think riding a bike somewhere is a “gay soyboy” activity and that people biking are “in their way”. Of course, bike lanes would get bikers out of their way, but they are too stupid to understand anything.
$1.75 billion for bike lanes goes much further, it’s around four miles of interstate.
Idk with the way Trump makes deals it’ll probably end up being less than a mile in a no bid contact to the company of some golf buddy from Mar-a-Lago.
Yeah going to work exposed to the elements nothing between you and the road but a frame and two wheels is really woke. Powered by your own muscles and diet.
Much tougher to be in an air conditioned cab with comfy seats on suspension. With an infotainment system sheltered from the real world off hurty noises and cold rain. Being pushed about by an engine with 0 effort.
WTF is a “DEI bike lane?” Does your bike need to be fabulous to use it?
Fucking bicyclicans
We’re witnessing the conservative playbook in action. The tactic is to undefine certain words or phrases. By purging a proper definition from peoples’ minds, you can then use that label to turn your base against anything you dislike.
Phase 1 is to create a label. Usually by misappropriating something else that your voting base is already going to dislike. Find something they dislike, and start the messaging about how evil {label} is. The goal is to constantly hammer home how {label} is awful. Every conservative news org needs to be running constant smear articles about {label}. Newscasters need to talk about how {label} is coming for you. {Label} is coming for your job. {Label} is coming for your kids. {Label} is coming for your friends and loved ones. The bot farms need to be posting about how much they hate {label}, how much {label} took from them, how {label} is a slippery slope, etc…
Phase 2 is to begin broadening the definition of {label}. You find things that are {label}-adjacent, and begin calling them {label}. As time progresses, {label} is such a broadly defined term that it can basically apply to anything. By the time phase 2 has ended, {label} has effectively been undefined.
Finally, phase 3 is to weaponize {label} by applying it to anything you want your followers to dislike. You have been primed to dislike {label}, and now a figure of authority is saying “this thing is {label}.” So you’ll be instantly turned against whatever they were talking about, because of the transitive property of disliking {label}.
“DEI” as a label is currently in phase 3, and it’s where this post came from. It seems ridiculous to anyone who hasn’t been primed to hate {label}, and hasn’t been propagandized to literally forget the original definition of {label}. As an outside observer, seeing something erroneously branded as {label} seems stupid and obviously wrong. But that’s because you weren’t the target of the dedicated undefining campaign.
Some other good examples are “communism”, “socialism”, “woke”, etc… The real definitions for those things don’t actually matter to conservatives, because they’re literally working with a different language that has redefined those labels to simply mean “thing I should dislike”.
Imagine loudly calling someone a pedophile to win an argument in a crowd. It doesn’t matter if they actually are a pedo. Your goal isn’t to make a credible accusation. All that matters is the entire crowd heard you yelling about it, and is now less likely to listen to whatever they had to say. Any previous argument they had is suddenly irrelevant, because now they’re surrounded by angry looking people. Their entire argument has gone out the window, and they’re entirely focused on defending themselves from the “pedo” label instead.
The entire tactic is basically another arm of the (also extremely common) semantic laundering tactic. Where conservatives will find friendly-sounding words to disguise their awful plans. It isn’t “blatant racism”, it is “anti-DEI”. It isn’t “giving billions of taxpayer dollars to rich people to make them even richer”, it is “trickle-down economics”. Etc…
Yes that’s the entire reason I no longer cycle. My bike has let itself get rundown, has not paid attention to its physical self, and looks like something that just hangs out in the garage all the time. I think it just gave up that it’s middleaged self can’t compete with newer flashier models
It’s just a Nazi dog whistle to get their base riled up as the midterms approach.
They have to make the DEI bike lanes more important than affordability or their leader’s rape and felonies. Just like they made Haitians eating non-existent pets more important than literally anything else heading into the last election.
I think it’s pretty obvious that only gay dudes ride bikes
They saw bi in the name and decided it must be banned.
Yes. My bike is super gay. It’s so gay it did three seasons of Broadway and did great at Cannes
Is DEI in the room with us right now?
Can you show me on the Epstein Files where the DEI touched you?
the fact you can make a comment on an internet site is DEI.
you were DEI all along.
