With preparations for the 2030 census already underway, Trump said Thursday he has instructed his administration to start work on a “new” census.
According to a social media post by Trump, that census would exclude millions of people living in the country without legal status — an unprecedented change to how the country has conducted population tallies since the first U.S. census in 1790.
The 14th Amendment requires the “whole number of persons in each state” to be included in a key set of census numbers used to determine how presidents and members of Congress are elected.
Oh, yeah, I’m a big fan of the census when done properly. But they’re throwing integrity out the window for all the reasons you just stated. So I’m not going to let their racist census reflect reality. “But you’ll get less resources from the government” I live in Denver, they’ll find a reason to screw us over anyway. Like the Brazilian president, I will not humiliate myself by meeting with Trump where he’s at.
It’s just a very ineffective, if not completely counter-productive way to protest it. All you’d be doing by ignoring the census, is furthering the GOP’s goals. Why would you do that.
You know what’d be ineffective? Filling out a fascist census and sending it in unchallenged. I’d rather commit to malicious compliance than straight up compliance.
What you’re suggesting is completely self-defeating.
You do you, but it is just irrational. The logic is unsound, and you’re only helping the fascists.
So we hand over the data willingly? That’s not self defeating? Instead the right thing to do is give this regime quality data? They’re rewriting the data on climate change, I don’t expect them to use this data reasonably either.
The only reason he cares about a 2030 census is he still thinks he’ll be in power. If he is, I don’t think what I put on the census will really matter.