The old saying “timing is everything” apparently also applies to corruption.
On June 6, mere hours after Elon Musk started his tweet war with the president, Trump’s Commerce Department released its long-awaited revisions to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (“BEAD”) program.
This $42 billion broadband-deployment plan was part of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“IIJA”) that Congress passed in November 2021. As expected, the Trump administration’s revisions radically overhauled what had been a rural broadband-deployment plan focused on building fiber networks — and turned it into a free money dispenser for Elon Musk’s satellite-broadband company, Starlink.
Had this billionaire bromance fallen apart a few weeks earlier, we might have seen a less sweeping revision of this once-in-a-lifetime infrastructure program. But now that this revised plan is out there, analysts everywhere — operating on the premise that Trump-administration corruption is a given — are trying to predict how and to what degree the Trump team will enforce these changes designed to unjustly enrich Musk … a man the president reportedly called “a big time drug addict” as the two traded barbs.
Rural America voted for this.
In fairness, rural America probably didn’t entirely understand the implications of said vote.
As I’ve pointed out on here before, I feel like a lot of people in mostly-Republican-voting rural American are going to be even more disappointed when they discover agricultural subsidies ending, healthcare subsidies ending that disproportionately benefit poorer, rural areas, illegal immigrant agricultural workers that farms rely on becoming unavailable, counter-tariffs that tend to target agricultural output from rural areas, etc.
I don’t fucking care.
They’re gonna have the day they voted for. I am completely out of any fucking sympathy for idiots who vote against their own interests and well being. Entirely fucking done.
With you. These are people who didn’t “accidentally fall for the propaganda trap”. No they voted for this, not once, not twice, but 3 times.
In fairness, rural America probably didn’t entirely understand the implications of said vote.
That’s not the point. They voted for this, so they are responsible for this.
The right realized a long time ago that propaganda is way more interesting to the common folk than education. I don’t know how to turn that ship back. It naturally evolved into the cult that you see today.
At this point I hope Trump fucks them all so hard their grandkids feel it and they can never retire, just toil away on the farm every day until they die.
Realistically if the Cheeto in chief doesn’t fuck it up the big telco vendors will just take it and provide nothing like all the previous attempts.
Lol fucking idiots! America doesn’t have a future hahaha loser fucking disgrace of a nation!
As a current US citizen, you are correct.
Soon to be a former US citizen.
