This hysterical meme makes it seem like Republicans (presumably men) are imposing their draconian dress standards on women. But it leaves out some key context that makes this almost entirely a non-event.
▪️This change was pushed by two female legislators. All it did was clarify the prior dress code for women which was:
🔹“Proper attire for women shall be dresses or skirts or slacks worn with a blazer or sweater and appropriate dress shoes or boots.”
https://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills211/rules/rules.pdf
And changed it to:
🔹 “Proper attire for women shall be business attire, including jackets worn with dresses, skirts, or slacks, and dress shoes or boots. For the purposes of this rule, "jacket" shall include blazers, cardigans, and knit blazers.
https://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills231/hlrbillspdf/0785H.02P.pdf
▪️The dress code for men remained the same:
🔹”proper attire for gentlemen shall be business attire, including coat, tie, dress trousers, and dress shoes or boots.”
▪️Yes, this tiny, insignificant procedural change really spawned multiple media stories and this breathlessly absurd meme.
https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/missouri-house-adopts-new-dress-code-for-women/
It’s bizarre to see them seesaw back and forth that Trump is totally clueless and aloof, just golfing all day, then all of a sudden he’s a dangerous king/dictator who’s diligently plotting to seize absolute power.
▪️This one is frustrating because, while it’s nice to see the vigor and speed that DOGE is acting with, they’re also sloppy with some of their findings. This is not some bombshell, millions of dead people’s SS numbers aren’t being paid out to fraudsters.
▪️This problem has been known for some time, you can read an inspector general’s report from 2015 about millions of names on the SS “numident” not being correctly annotated for deaths, even though they were older than 112 (the oldest known American at the time).
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
▪️There are innocent explanations for some of these. Expatriates that died outside the country, for example. Or immigrants given temporary work permit who returned to their country, people issued new numbers for various reasons, etc. However, most are simply due to the govt not diligently keeping track of deaths.
▪️It’s embarrassing that the govt has millions of numbers on the numident that are ...
