{"id":1061367,"date":"2021-11-28T08:29:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T13:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1061367"},"modified":"2021-11-28T08:29:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T13:29:22","slug":"department-of-transportation-blasted-for-posting-cringey-meme-some-suggest-it-may-violate-law-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/department-of-transportation-blasted-for-posting-cringey-meme-some-suggest-it-may-violate-law-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Of Transportation Blasted For Posting \u2018Cringey\u2019 Meme, Some Suggest It May Violate Law: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdepartment-of-transportation-blasted-for-posting-cringey-meme-some-suggest-it-may-violate-law-reports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1061367&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden\u2019s Department of Transportation, led by Secretary Pete Buttigieg, was widely mocked online and even faced ethics questions over a meme that the department posted to its official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>The meme features a man and a woman texting the following exchange back and forth:<\/p>\n<p><em>WOMAN: What are you thinking about?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAN: I\u2019m thinking about how the new infrastructure law is going to make getting from place to place so much better over the next decade and how when combined with the Build Back Better Act, it will create millions of new jobs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WOMAN: Same.<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude0a\ud83d\ude4c\ud83d\ude4c\ud83d\udc69\u200d\u2708\ufe0f\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83c\udfed\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\udd27\ud83d\udc77\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\ud83d\udc77 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vBVanOBCuK\">pic.twitter.com\/vBVanOBCuK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TransportationGov (@USDOT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USDOT\/status\/1464255125170442245?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress has enacted federal laws on the use of federal funds that prohibit agencies and employees from \u2018lobbying\u2019 the Congress or the public in favor of legislation that is pending in Congress although it is unclear if the tweet from the Department of Transportation violates that law,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dot-slammed-over-meme-with-some-saying-violates-law\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which typically investigates Hatch Act violations, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chuck DeVore, vice president of national initiatives and the policy director for the Election Protection Project at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, suggested that the meme could be some sort of violation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis appears to be lobbying,\u201d DeVore said. \u201cI didn\u2019t think federal agencies were allowed to be so blatant in promoting specific legislation. The Secretary of Transportation can, of course, but the DOT\u2019s official website? Seems unusual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This appears to be lobbying. I didn&#8217;t think federal agencies were allowed to be so blatant in promoting specific legislation. The Secretary of Transportation can, of course, but the DOT&#8217;s official website? Seems unusual.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck DeVore (@ChuckDeVore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckDeVore\/status\/1464632898355666945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notable responses to the tweet included:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spike Cohen<\/strong>, Libertarian Party: \u201cYou are being robbed to finance cringeposting.\u201d<strong>Dean Cain<\/strong>: \u201cHoly s**t. \ud83e\udd28\u201d<strong>Andrew Kloster<\/strong>, former White House official: \u201cThey found Chasten a job he\u2019s qualified for. Great job!\u201d<strong>Stephen Miller<\/strong>, political commentator: \u201c38 state wipe out.\u201d<strong>Omri Ceren,<\/strong> national security adviser for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): \u201cA lot of you are dunking about how cringey this tweet is, and totally running past how the meme is almost hilariously The Left Can\u2019t Meme awful. \u2026 Check me on this because it\u2019s been a while. But as I remember the summer and fall of 2020, the conventional wisdom in DC \u2013 all the way from the hard left to the center right \u2013 was that whatever other concerns one might have about a Biden admin at least adults would be in charge.\u201d<strong>Geoffrey Miller<\/strong>, psychology professor: \u201cHow many miles of high speed rail will this actually build? How many new metro\/subway systems in cities that don\u2019t have them? How many new airports?\u201d<strong>Frank Fleming<\/strong>, The Babylon Bee: \u201cIt\u2019s some of the trillions in Build Back Better going to go toward teaching the left to meme?\u201d<strong>Mark Krikorian<\/strong>, Executive Director of Center for Immigration Studies: \u201cWhoever did this should look for a new line of work.\u201d<strong>Logan Hall<\/strong>, Director of social media at The Daily Caller: \u201cThe absolute state of liberal memes.\u201d<strong>Ian Miles Cheong<\/strong>, writer: \u201cButtigieg said he was going to go after racist roads but so far all he is doing is posting s****y memes of white people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s Department of Transportation, led by Secretary Pete Buttigieg, was widely mocked online and even faced ethics questions over a meme that the department posted to its official Twitter account.The meme features a man and a woman texting the following exchange back and forth:WOMAN: What are you thinking about?MAN: I\u2019m thinking about how the new infrastructure law is going to make getting from place to place so much better over the next decade and how when combined with the Build Back Better Act, it will create millions of new jobs.WOMAN: Same.\ud83d\ude0a\ud83d\ude4c\ud83d\ude4c\ud83d\udc69\u200d\u2708\ufe0f\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83c\udfed\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\udd27\ud83d\udc77\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\ud83d\udc77 pic.twitter.com\/vBVanOBCuK\u2014 TransportationGov (@USDOT) November 26, 2021\u201cCongress has enacted federal laws on the use of federal funds that prohibit agencies and employees from \u2018lobbying\u2019 the Congress or the public in favor of legislation that is pending in Congress although it is unclear if the tweet from the Department of Transportation violates that law,\u201d Fox News reported. \u201cThe U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which typically investigates Hatch Act violations, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News.\u201dChuck DeVore, vice president of national initiatives and the policy director for the Election Protection Project at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, suggested that the meme could be some sort of violation.\u201cThis appears to be lobbying,\u201d DeVore said. \u201cI didn\u2019t think federal agencies were allowed to be so blatant in promoting specific legislation. The Secretary of Transportation can, of course, but the DOT\u2019s official website? Seems unusual.\u201dThis appears to be lobbying. I didn&#8217;t think federal agencies were allowed to be so blatant in promoting specific legislation. The Secretary of Transportation can, of course, but the DOT&#8217;s official website? Seems unusual.\u2014 Chuck DeVore (@ChuckDeVore) November 27, 2021Notable responses to the tweet included:Spike Cohen, Libertarian Party: \u201cYou are being robbed to finance cringeposting.\u201dDean Cain: \u201cHoly s**t. \ud83e\udd28\u201dAndrew Kloster, former White House official: \u201cThey found Chasten a job he\u2019s qualified for. Great job!\u201dStephen Miller, political commentator: \u201c38 state wipe out.\u201dOmri Ceren, national security adviser for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): \u201cA lot of you are dunking about how cringey this tweet is, and totally running past how the meme is almost hilariously The Left Can\u2019t Meme awful. \u2026 Check me on this because it\u2019s been a while. But as I remember the summer and fall of 2020, the conventional wisdom in DC \u2013 all the way from the hard left to the center right \u2013 was that whatever other concerns one might have about a Biden admin at least adults would be in charge.\u201dGeoffrey Miller, psychology professor: \u201cHow many miles of high speed rail will this actually build? How many new metro\/subway systems in cities that don\u2019t have them? How many new airports?\u201dFrank Fleming, The Babylon Bee: \u201cIt\u2019s some of the trillions in Build Back Better going to go toward teaching the left to meme?\u201dMark Krikorian, Executive Director of Center for Immigration Studies: \u201cWhoever did this should look for a new line of work.\u201dLogan Hall, Director of social media at The Daily Caller: \u201cThe absolute state of liberal memes.\u201dIan Miles Cheong, writer: \u201cButtigieg said he was going to go after racist roads but so far all he is doing is posting s****y memes of white people.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}