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[–] [email protected] 179 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The listed excerpts are actually quite tame compared to what the actual plan is.

slashing U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) funding, dismantling the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security

invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement and directing the DOJ to pursue Trump adversaries

create a federally funded "American Academy" that would deliver online courses and grant free degrees that excluded "wokeness or jihadism". The plan would also be funded by taxing the endowments of major universities

every state report exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother's state of residence, and by what method

I stopped looking, not because there was any shortage of further crazy shit. There’s plenty more.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Yeah, and there's a fair amount of money behind this push.....which like....I'm not American, don't live in the States, but my sister and her wife do...and I've gotta figure out how to get them the fuck out if things go Trump again....

Edit: also, living in the UK I run into loads of people who go "Well, if Trump gets in again, that's not really our problem..." but like....the USA makes they're problems everyone's problem. And another Trump presidential term would be a huge problem for the rest of the world....

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

also, living in the UK

Yeah, I've been following UK politics by way of TrashFuture podcast and I gotta say... your immigration plan is to deport people to Rwanda and your government just endorsed a Trans-Panic Committee to decide whether teenagers can consent to gender-affirming care.

And these are the moderate Labour Party positions. Liz Truss wants to do worse.

God damn, dude. Finding the worst people to run the country is not a competition. You can just let the Yanks have this one.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago (43 children)

Over in [email protected] I got banned for posting about Project 2025. They claim it breaks rule 2 which is to only post pro-conservative or anti-liberal posts. Fucking echo chamber over there.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same as r/conservatives was.

Projection is the game. You see these wackos all over YouTube bemoaning “my comments keep getting deleted” (which doesn’t seem true), yet go on their turf and they’ll happily silence you as that’s different.

Reminds me of “the only moral abortion is mine”. The only people being silenced is us, what we’re doing might look the same but trust me bro it’s not.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (10 children)

"I literally can't tell either side apart. Both sides are the same!"

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (9 children)

What’s even worse, is that there are people dumb enough to think you’ll actually believe them when they try to tell you that both sides are the same thing.

Vote like lives depend on it. Because many do.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If the democrats hold "civility" and "precedent" more highly than outlawing a candidate who, by their own admission, would plunge the country into fascism, then democrats are complicit.

Dog, take a look at what has happened this week alone (under a dem president): arguing in favor of unprecedented levels surveillance to any president, sending billions of dollars to a genocidal regime, the revelation that like 40% of democrats are in favor of mass deportations...

Fascism is already here. Just because it is being formally codified in Project 2025 doesn't mean it has yet to arrive. Democrats, and liberalism in general, are unable to stomp fascism.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (24 children)

While I agree, it's still important to vote Democrat just to keep things from getting worse even faster while we drum up support for a better solution.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Finally, gender is now illegal. We did it bo- I mean people

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Without genders, isn't all sex homosexual?

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (34 children)

Pornography should be outlawed

I mean, it's quite a departure for a party that whinges about the First Amendment to straight up move to the government controlling what can be published, i.e. actual literal censorship. But hey, conservatives aren't very logical.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Always remember that if the conservatives who claim to love the US, had been born in 1750, they would have been Loyalist Redcoats.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Literally nothing to actually help the nation or solve problems.

Just culture war, and only culture war.

And unfortunately by the looks of this comment section, it works. It forces people to focus on the culture war aspect of it and not the lack of actual progress, or the changes behind the scenes while we all fight over the culture problems and the real dismantling happens out of view.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

I mean, this is beyond culture war. This is tyranny of the state. We're not exaggerating when we say they want to put us in the camps.

This is important shit we're talking about, not a distraction.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"This shit has to be fake..."

2016 Trump flashbacks

Ah shit. It's not fake. Please vote.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Ohhhh taking away my gender and rights as a transgender American protects my rights, I see I see.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

No it protects their rights. Gotta remember we aren’t real Americans

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

If the term Abortion isn’t allowed to exist in any possible law then does that make it legal?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tbf I don't trust the FBI any more than I trust the CIA or the NSA or the ATF, I'm on board with looking at those agencies and their activities.

That's about it though, and I don't really trust the republicans to do it either, so..

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Yes, but "unlawful or contrary to the public interest" is the language the 2025 drafters have used in the past to argue that people involved in a literal violent insurrection should not be prosecuted. In this case we're not talking about forming a more equitable justice system, we're talking about celebrating the attempted overthrow of the government.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

"Delete and prevent the use of these terms to protect ~~freedom of speech~~ my fragile and extremely traumatised psyche"

Fixed that for them

[–] RamblingPanda 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

We're gonna need it

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no good conservative alive today. Conservatism is a plague long overdue for a cure.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They call the good ones Liberals now

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Protect free speech by censoring free speech"

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Terminate those not in the national interest?

I bet any investigations of republicans are immediately terminated, meanwhile any “leftist” under investigation is pushed through a kangaroo court.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this project 2025? Like policies for the voter minorities that mentally liven in the 1950s.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have a feeling that the 50s were far more progressive than the plan outlines.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is more of an "Iran 1979" kind of plan.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Nah, they wanna take us even farther back to the likes of the Spanish Inquisition.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Why do conservatives hate free speech and freedom so much?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Merriam-Webster

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm interested, but can someone provide more context? What is this document, who wrote it, who is actually pushing it, etc.

Like if you went to the RNC and a presenter said "here's the plan" and everyone in the room erupted in applause that's one thing, but if one crazy person wrote this up wearing a tin foil Nazi maga hat and said "LISTEN THIS IS THE PLAN" to himself and posted it on Twitter then that's a whole different deal.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration. 

This is the goal of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. The project will build on four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative administration: a policy agenda, personnel, training, and a 180-day playbook.

The project is the effort of a broad coalition of conservative organizations that have come together to ensure a successful administration begins in January 2025. With the right conservative policy recommendations and properly vetted and trained personnel to implement them, we will take back our government.

The 2025 Presidential Transition Project is being organized by The Heritage Foundation and builds off Heritage’s longstanding “Mandate for Leadership,” which has been highly influential for presidential administrations since the Reagan era. Most recently, the Trump administration relied heavily on Heritage’s “Mandate” for policy guidance, embracing nearly two-thirds of Heritage’s proposals within just one year in office.

Paul Dans, former chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) during the Trump administration, serves as the director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. Spencer Chretien, former special assistant to the president and associate director of Presidential Personnel, serves as associate director of the project.

It's every right wing "think tank" at work and combining forces into fascist-voltron. The Discovery Institute, the Eagle Forum, the Heartland Institute, the Heritage Foundation, Moms For Liberty, Pro-Life America, Turning Point USA and many others. It's basically the playbook for the next conservative government.

The Heritage Foundation is once again facilitating this work, but as our dozens of partners and hundreds of authors will attest, this book is the work of the entire conservative movement.  

In his last term Trump enacted or tried to enact two thirds of the policy recommendations of the last Heritage Foundation Playbook.

Analysis completed by Heritage determined that 64 percent of the policy prescriptions were included in Trump’s budget, implemented through regulatory guidance, or under consideration for action in accordance with The Heritage Foundation’s original proposals.

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