Project 2025

[pipistrelle]

Anything they do, even the abysmal, I wish them luck. Huh.

Yeah, he never came up with “abysmal.”

[raison de arizona]

Trump: I don’t even know the people who drafted Project 2025!

Trump with his Director of White House Personnel and architect of Project 2025 John McEntee.

To be fair, tfg clearly has dementia and it is possible that he isn't lying about knowing his Director of White House Personnel John McEntee, in that he truly may not remember. Indeed, in reviewing tfg's speeches he has been known to forget the first part of a sentence and contradict it in the second part of the same sentence. I mean, maybe he his mind is just all muddled.

[raison de arizona]

Dementia Don gets full credit!

Here is Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts saying Donald Trump gets full “credit” for creating Project 2025 and will enact it if he wins

A desperate and lying Trump claims he knows “nothing” about his Project 2025 agenda, even though his top aides are the ones behind the plan

[raison de arizona]

lying liars that lie, no surprise

Busted! Trump shaking hands with the head of the Project 2025 parent group, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts.

Trump now claims he doesn’t know “who is behind” Project 2025.

[raison de arizona]

We need to have a nationwide talk about Dementia Don and his inability to recall simple policies.

Oh, look. Trump’s Super PAC is running ads promoting Project 2025, calling it “Trump’s Project 2025”

[raison de arizona]

Listen to the victim abused by a system
The basis is racist, you know that we must face this
It can't happen here (oh, yeah?)
Just take a look around at the cities and the towns
See 'em huntin', creepin', sneakin', breedin'
Fear and loathing with the lies they're speakin'
The knife, the gun, broken bottle, petrol bomb
There is no future when the past soon come
And when they come to ethnically cleanse me
Will you speak out? Will you defend me?
Or laugh through a glass eye as they rape our lives?
Trampled under foot by the rise on the right

https://x.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1809305692219597283

If you think a nightmarish, unconstitutional round up of innocent people, merely suspected of being enemies of the state, can’t happen in the U.S., then you’re forgetting that it already has.

I was among them, along with my entire family and community.

I weep.

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[bill_g]

Rolling Stone -

Heritage Foundation Exec Threatens ‘Gay Furry Hackers’ in Unhinged Texts

A newly released log of messages shows a director at the think tank spewing insults after a data breach.

[Rolodex]

The execrable McEntee also started a dating site for right wingers (although it's free for women bc it seems they can't get them to join, otherwise). Dating site AND Project 2025? Too disparate? Nope.

It's a schtick we've seen from Jordan Peterson to Andrew Tate to the Proud Boys. I call it the male insecurity-to-fascism pipeline and, from a purely sociopathic viewpoint, it's evil genius. Marketing toxic masculinity as self-help benefits both the authoritarian cause and the influencer pocketbooks. MAGA figureheads get to tear down liberal society and make money doing so. They simply don't care that, in the process, they aren't just hurting most Americans. They're doing real damage to the men who follow them by encouraging them to adopt attitudes and behaviors that will make life harder in every arena, from work to romance.

McEntee's goals of running a dating app and gutting American democracy might seem, at first blush, to be disparate interests — but they're tightly entwined. The policy agenda of Project 2025 couldn't be better designed to tear further into the already fraying social fabric of America. So many of their goals — from gutting public education to decimating reproductive health care access — will put more stress on communities and families. If Trump wins, their platform will make it harder for people to maintain social relationships, much less create new ones. Try dating without birth control, for instance. Or having children without access to schools. Or having a safe community without environmental protections. Or having a decent job without labor protections. Even if they achieve half of what they wish, the people behind Project 2025 will leave behind an American populace that is lonelier, more alienated, and angrier.

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/10/the-gr ... -maga-men/
Super props to author for her term "male insecurity-to-fascism pipeline"

Also, the authors of this excellent article were interviewed on WBUR's On Point (available on many NPR stations or as a pod or on their website). https://www.authoritarianplaybook2025.org/

[Rolodex]

So, apparently, Trumpers are screaming about Project 2025 being fake, so there's been pushback. I saw a post saying that it is a more searched term on the google than Taylor Swift, so I guess that's something. Of course, there are memes and it looks like some have incorrect page numbers so that the nuts can scream "see!!! it's fake!! (so obviously we know who's putting those messed up memes out).

I've been seeing posts about 2025 all over my book of faces, but it was a first yesterday when a friend irl posted that 2025 was not GOP. I didn't comment because it wouldn't matter (although I did report the post since it's false info). They know it's bad - but I have no idea where this person got the idea that it's not GOP. I mean maybe it's really MAGA (which it is), but that's the same as GOP these days. It'll be interesting to see if it comes up at the convention.

[bill_g]

New billboards explaining Proj 2025

[RTH10260]

Yeah - Pinochet is his wet dreams

[bill_g]

Yeah. Don't take any rides in Marine 1.

[MN-Skeptic]

Project 2025, as well as Trump, call for a mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.

Supporters of this action have no concept of the massive disruption to the lives of every one in the U.S. if that happens. Roughly 40% of farm workers, which also includes those working in the plants processing farm products, are undocumented immigrants. You'll find undocumented immigrants in the building trades. How many are up on roofs right now replacing shingles? And if you thought long term care facilities were understaffed right now, try removing all the workers who are undocumented!

The other thing is that undocumented immigrants contribute greatly to our GDP. Much of what they earn is spent locally on housing and food and clothing, etc. They earn it, they spend it. That's the exact opposite of wealthy folks. You give a rich person a tax break and all they do is take it out of the spending pool and buy stocks which does absolutely nothing for the GDP!

Trump and the MAGAs are just so stupid.

[AndyinPA]

They also pay into Social Security, but get no proceeds from it, supporting the program for the rest of us.

[keith]

Seen on a sidewalk in Heathcote Victoria (small country town - great wine subregion hub):



https://photos.fife.usercontent.google. ... authuser=0

I can't figure out how to make image work. This is on google photo storage - is there some special way I need to hold my tongue?

[RTH10260]

Seen on a sidewalk in Heathcote Victoria (small country town - great wine subregion hub):



https://photos.fife.usercontent.google. ... authuser=0

I can't figure out how to make image work. This is on google photo storage - is there some special way I need to hold my tongue?

Seems to protected under your (or the originators) account.

Save to your computer and include as a attachment to you rpost.

[shannon]

I'll be honest, if trump gets a second term and "Project 2025" comes into play (and I don't believe for a microsecond he didn't know anything about it), then in a few years I will be:

1) In exile somewhere, or

2) Dead.

Project 2025 specifically calls out transgender people, defining the very act of being transgender as "pornography" and labeling us as "child predators".

And later calls for the death penalty for "child predators".

It reinstates the ban on transgender people in the military, demands they be "purged" from the military, and specifically bars gender affirmative care for ALL ages from any government funded insurance or medical program. Which would include health services at any college that gets federal money.

In effect, it's forced detransitioning at best, death at worst.

And for many of us, detransitioning might as well be a death sentence.

I socially and medically transitioned last year. In that year, I have been medically, emotionally, mentally, and physically healthier than I have been in decades. My doctor has noticed how much better I am now. I've been tapered off of anti-anxiety and antidepressant medication. My blood work is coming back at levels that would be healthy for someone 20 years younger than I am. By every single metric, I'm far better now than I was a year ago.

And my son has blossomed with his transition as well.

Every single one of my trans siblings have said something along the lines of "Transitioning didn't solve my problems, it made my problems worth solving".

And these fucking fascist ghouls in the GOP and at the Heritage Foundation want to make our very existence criminal.

For anyone who cares about this country, Project 2025, it's sibling Agenda 47, and all those who wrote, support, and benefit by it, should be a wake up call to cast out the people involved with it. The Heritage Foundation should be classed as a hate group, no different than the KKK or actual nazis.

For anyone who is LGBTQ+, Project 2025 should scare the SHIT out of you.

For anyone who is Trans, Project 2025 is a virtual - if not literal - death sentence.

[Slim Cognito]

I fucking HATE those bastards.

[p0rtia]

Thank you, Shannon.

The unflagging hate, ignorance, cruelty, and insanity of those behind Project 2025 and the MAGA movement is a cancer on this country and the world. The Overton Window has fallen off a cliff.

Someone on twitter suggested a hat for Kamala: Make America Laugh Again. This resonates with me.

[shannon]

Thank you, Shannon.

The unflagging hate, ignorance, cruelty, and insanity of those behind Project 2025 and the MAGA movement is a cancer on this country and the world. The Overton Window has fallen off a cliff.

I am not one to wish ill on people, even when they do "the cruelty is the point" crap.

But I personally would not cry buckets if everyone involved in Project 2025 and Agenda 47 had to spend the rest of their lives being forced to use LEGO blocks for toilet paper.

[Rolodex]

This woman has done some heavy lifting on P2025. She literally applied the adage, "follow the money." She looked up every accessible connection of who is supporting this financially. yes this is from a religious publication, but she is a Christian fighting Christian Nationalism, a lot of which informs P2025. You'll see some familiar names.

https://um-insight.net/perspectives/wan ... oney-thro/

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[neonzx]

Lee County, Fort Myers/ Cape Coral front page.

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Lee County, Fort Myers/ Cape Coral front page.

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Haven't been back to Lee County in 40 years. How does the News-Press skew these days?

[neonzx]

Lee County, Fort Myers/ Cape Coral front page.

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Haven't been back to Lee County in 40 years. How does the News-Press skew these days?

It's owned by Gannett/USA today. (like many local papers which were bought out by them around the USA). Limited local reporting/journalists. Sucks.