Summary
Despite disavowing Project 2025 during the campaign, Trump’s transition team is now using its extensive database of vetted conservative candidates to help fill over 4,000 government positions.
Project 2025, criticized for its extreme policy proposals and links to Trump’s first administration, created a “conservative LinkedIn” of 10,000 candidates.
While some contributors are being tapped for key roles, others face rejection due to controversial stances.
Democrats, who used Project 2025 in campaign attacks, are warning of its influence on Trump’s agenda and planning policy responses.
You know who else disavowed what he wrote publicly to pacify his critics? Hitler with Mein Kampf. He kept repeating he wrote Mein Kampf in 1925 but had changed his views since. Guess what: he hadn’t.
And surprise-surprise, the Orange Utan hasn’t either. It’s almost like we didn’t see that one coming from a mile away…
And don’t think for a second that I’m the only one to see the striking parallel.
I have a friend who says things like “oh that project isn’t real its just a think tank”.
Nobody writes a document that long and detailed just as a little thought experiment. It was obviously a manifesto and I don’t know how so many people against project 2025 still voted for the party supporting it.
It had a 4!!! Percent approval rating. 4!!
And yet… he won the popular vote.
I’m an American in a poor red state. I really hope the FO portion of fafo hits us SUPER hard.
It’ll suck for me… but man it’ll be great to be that smug asshole reminding folks who they voted for.
In my county 23% voted Harris. So odds are good that dude in the lifted Ford is a trumpkin.
Fucking idiots…
he won the popular vote
Conspiracy theorist nonsense debunked by snopes.
All the policy goals are the same as what’s been in the Republican platform for decades. The only thing Project 2025 adds is how to get there. Is Trump a useful idiot? Maybe, although it would be silly to operate under that assumption rather than believing he’s just as committed as the rest of them. Either way, the idea having seeped into the popular consciousness of the American voter that Project 2025 is something other than a serious plan for a Republican administration is an astonishing bit of doublethink. Orwell spins like a turbine in his grave.
I thought it was considered unique in detailing how to get rid of checks and balances, ergo terminate democracy.
Trump has never read Project 2025. Or Mein Kampf. Or The Art of the Deal. Or any book in his life.
He might have listened to the audiobook version of Mein Kampf, but probably not in the original German like his dad would have.
I’ve run into some trump voters who aren’t worried about project 2025 because “i’m going to vote against it in 2025” and it’s like… goddammit, why did the republicans get so good at propaganda so fast (hint: Russian money)
What? The mental gymnastics on these people…
No mental gymnastics are needed when they straight up don’t know how their own government works.
yeah. these are people who think the new president takes office election night, think the federal government does ballot measures, and haven’t ever really voted in a national election that wasn’t for president. it’s not mental gymnastics to not know things
I’m pretty sure 50 years ago, doctors would be calling it mental retardation.
You don’t even have to go back that far. It was still the accepted term in at least the 90s.
Hope everyone is ready to suffer.
I’d say blame it on conservatives. But you can also blame it on the absolute idiots that voted 3rd party, were single issue voters, or abstained from voting. They’re just as much to blame and just as stupid as Trump supporters.
But genocide joe or some shit
“Genocide Joe” passed more meaningful legislation for average Americans then most presidents. But the conservative propaganda machine won and made him seem like the devil incarnate because stupid Americans can’t discern fact from fiction.
That’s not what happened. The slice of America that turned hard against Harris was uninformed voters, not engaged leftists. That is absolutely clear in the exit polls. There was also a massive spike in google searches about whether Biden was still in the race ON ELECTION DAY. If you just have to blame someone other than Biden and Harris, that’s who you must blame. All the evidence says your terminally online theory is flat wrong.
I hate trump voters, but I hate the people who know how awful he is but stayed home even more.
Same.
I hate self important douche bags who are so used to basking in their own fart clouds that they can’t see how sanctimonious they are and can’t come to terms with the fact that maybe their fart sniffing ideology doesn’t work for all 300M other people in this country.
Especially when they turn around and call their political opposites sanctimonious fart sniffing hypocrites without acknowledging their own hypocrisy. It annoys me.
See the nation is healing already!
In which state did 3rd-party voters tip the presidential election results there?
Your reading comprehension skills suck. The original commenter mentioned TWO types of idiots. 1) the morons that voted third party, and 2) the defectives that ABSTAINED from voting.
I guess your brain only came equipped with 8GB of RAM, because you acted like OP gave you some clever GOTCHA moment by only mentioning 3rd party voters, while you completely disregarded OP including group #2 as well.
In the future, I recommend you avoid complex tasks, like, say, chewing gum and walking at the same time.
Correction, they mentioned 3 types of idiots not 2.
Present some evidence or shut the fuck up already.
They are just angry and trying to blame other people for their shitty candidates loss. If they can scapegoat other voters they can feel superior, it’s basically all to protect their fragile feelings.
Kind of sad really
Crows got to straw man I guess
“their candidate”
Goes on to describe themselves and project it. Classy
Oh, they’re not angry. They’re just dismayed to learn how many C.H.U.D.s there are in this country who had no problems voting for a narcicistic, low IQ rapist after watching him fuck up for 4 years, and after attempting a coup. Like, seriously, out of all the Republicans to choose from, ya’ll decided Trump was your best and brightest TWICE. It’s like watching the fall of the Roman Empire in real-time.
You know what’s just as productive as blaming voters? Masturbating into a Kleenex. Unless you have a plan to nominate better voters next cycle (yes, if there is one) then your attention is better spent on how we fix a Democratic party that’s so pathetic that it lost to Trump twice.
If Rahm Emanuel or another establishment clone is the next DNC chair, get ready to see this happen again. That’s where the focus belongs for anyone who wants to fix this shit.
Voters saw Trump fuck up four years straight. He’s not wrong about that.
But voters have seen the Democratic Party slowly devolve into a cesspool of corrupt crony capitalism and campaign donor money for the past 50 years.
People don’t give a fuck anymore, and I don’t blame them,
Harris was a trash candidate.
I get it, blah blah blah, Trump is worse.
Harris is a trash candidate.
Just because Whoopi Goldberg and friends try to tell you what a good friend she is doesn’t change this fact. I hope you realize all the talk and news show hosts are in the millionaire class and are so far removed from the realities of everyday Americans… they also get the tax cuts for the wealthy Trump is going to pass, which is why they have no skin in the game.
Harris was a trash candidate. If you can’t see this simple fact, there’s probably less hope for you than for maga.
Americans are struggling.
You know what the democrats did? They tried to tell us that Biden is fucking FDR 2.0
The juicy turd I just dropped flushed down the toilet while typing this is closer to FDR 2.0 than Biden will ever be, by a long shot.
Yea that’ll get those ppl to vote with you lmao
I appreciate the optimism about being able to vote in the future
Told and told and told by everyone with half a brain but as usual the nitwits wanna listen to the “entertainer”
They knew. They wanted this. The denying just gave them “plausible” deniability.
And that’s what makes them nitwits
That’s what makes them traitors.
So what are you going to do about it America?
It seems like everyone is waiting for another chance to vote. Voting isn’t the only political action.
If you want to prevent this agenda you still have options. I don’t just mean protests and riots, but organized labor.
A general strike would cripple them. Start organizing your workplaces, join unions, join community groups. The time for voting is over the time for direct action is now. You don’t have to wait until the whole project is implemented, you don’t have to wait for a disappointing Democratic candidate to gaslight you in 2028. Take action now, join a movement now. The more you do now the better off you’ll be in the future.
How does one go about looking for movements to join? Honestly asking. I’m assuming I can’t just type “labor movements near me” into Google maps, but I honestly don’t know where to start looking for trustworthy resources on this stuff.
don’t know where to start looking
Ergo first order of business, construct such list.
So what are you going to do about it America?
Nothing. We’re fucking pathetic.
A big part of the problem is those most impacted by these policies cannot afford to take time off to strike or protest. And I’m not sure if it’s as bad in America as it is in Canada but if there was a general labour strike, our Canadian politicians would just solve it by importing cheap labour.
That’s why organization matters, it has to be big and it has to be sudden. “Importing” labor isn’t immediate.
More likely they’ll use back to work legislation and deploy the police, but then they’ll remember why we have labor protections.
If they’re going to tear up the social contract and take everything away from us then they’ll see violence.
These laws exist because workers fought actual battles. Actual battles, domestically. If it must happen again it will.
Either way, most people aren’t willing to risk being fired/missing pay/being arrested because they need that money to pay rent and feed themselves. You can be as organized as you want, the system has pushed most of us to being wage slaves that have very little say in the matter. Even if importing labour isn’t immediate, i wouldn’t put it past governments to still let the economy collapse while they import labour just to prove a point about who makes the rules and has the control.
What role can systems of mutual aid among the organized play to address the risk and encourage continued participation (e.g. voluntary distribution of food to those who need it, temporary housing/boarding of siblings of the cause by those with room, etc.)?
I 100% don’t have an answer, this is just what comes to mind first when I read this.
Thats what I thought too. If we cared about each other enough we’d be able to feed and house ourselves while we demand better, but a lot of us are divided (which is their goal) and so we’d rather blame minorities or whatever group your politician told you ro hate.
And why should anyone be surprised?
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Rumor of shitty thing republicans are planning
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Republicans deny shitty thing is being planned, that was just (insert republican official here) brought up, claim it’s just the official on their own.
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Months later republicans are trying to officially enact shitty thing they denied planning.
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Nobody should be surprised by this.
That’s always been his plan. And it’ll happen because these Heritage Foundation ghouls will run the government off-camera while Trump and his reality TV cabinet distract us with fights and absurd sound bites in between his golf rounds.
Project 2025 is and has always been a right wing conservative wishlist the GOP has maintained since forever.
The idea the conservatives were ever disavowing conservatism was laughably stupid.
Project 2025 was considered unique in detailing how to get rid of checks and balances, ergo terminate democracy.
Heritage Foundation has been working on that since the 1970s, but yeah, it is the most updated and calibrated plan of action.
yet the biden administration still won’t pass the equal rights amendment that would help protect us from project 2025.
They never came up with any other plan, so they’re just going with what they’ve got. They haven’t been able to govern for more than a decade. They’re so fractured and have done nothing more than shit talk and blame, so no nobody is willing to try to get republicans to form a group capable of planning anything other than who to point fingers at.
They never came up with any other plan
The guy said he had concepts of plans in a debate designed as a platform for candidates to let America know what their plans are.
And then we elected him anyways.
Americans are fucking stupid.
Take politics and politicians out of the equation and you’re still left with stupid fucking Americans. And THAT is why we’re doomed in the long run.
Oh so its ok for trump to transition!!! I see how it is…
When you’re a rich prick, they let you do it
Trump’s TRANSition team
Trump was the one turning kids trans in schools all along
Headline next year: Trump Administration Bans the Word ‘Trans’
In other news, water is wet.
