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[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 210 points 2 months ago (24 children)

From the v1 Project 2025 website:

  • End no fault divorce
  • Complete ban on abortions without exceptions
  • Ban contraceptives
  • Ban IVF
  • Additional tax breaks for corporations and the 1%
  • Higher taxes for the working class
  • Elimination of unions and worker protections
  • Raise the retirement age
  • Cut Social Security
  • Cut Medicare
  • End the Affordable Care Act
  • Raise prescription drug prices
  • Eliminate the Department of Education
  • Use public, taxpayer money for private religious schools
  • Teach Christian religious beliefs in public schools
  • End free and discounted school lunch programs
  • End civil rights & DEI protections in government
  • Ban African American and gender studies in all levels of education
  • Ban books and curriculum about slavery
  • End climate protections
  • Increase Arctic drilling
  • Deregulate big business and the oil industry
  • Promote and expedite capital punishment
  • End marriage equality
  • Condemn single mothers while promoting only “traditional families”
  • Defund the FBI and Homeland Security
  • Use the military to break up domestic protests
  • Mass deportation of immigrants and incarceration in “camps”
  • End birth right citizenship
  • Ban Muslims from entering the country
  • Eliminate federal agencies like the FDA, EPA, NOAA and more
  • Continue to pack the Supreme Court, and lower courts with right-wing judges
  • Denying most veterans VA coverage
  • Privatizing Tricare
  • Classifying transpeople as "pornographic"
  • Banning gender-affirming care
  • Ban all porn
[–] jettrscga@lemmy.world 82 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It blows my mind that anyone can be that wrong on all topics.

It's like the difference between choosing random answers on a multiple choice test versus knowing the right answers and actively avoiding them to get the worst result. It feels like they're trying to punish the US for something.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 38 points 2 months ago

Right? Like I've thought about how political decisions would be harder if the Republicans weren't reliably wrong on everything.

Like, if they were pro-gay-rights but anti-environment, that would be more of a thinker. But they're just wrong on everything.

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Fascism, baby.

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[–] frunch@lemmy.world 71 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're telling me all that is unpopular??! The "Don't Tread on Me" folks are falling over themselves to have this?

Sounds really non-tready, lol

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

This list just reads as "the billionaire list of punishments for the poor that think they're people" I say we craft the inverse list where literally everything the billionaires enjoy is legislated away, kind of like they want to legislate away our way of life we should legislate away their way of life or I guess legislative way their ability to have billions of dollars.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ban private jets

Ban megayachts

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

A conservative. Conservatives are the minions of the billionaires. We cannot regulate/destroy billionaires without first defeating conservatives.

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[–] grubbyweasel@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Classifying transpeople as "pornographic"

??

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

What's your question? Have you never seen conservatives scapegoat a minority group before?

[–] anytimesoon@feddit.uk 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I found that confusing too, but I guess it pairs well with

  • Ban all porn
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[–] snow_bunny@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't have to make sense. Just has to fit a narrative.

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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I always laugh when they say "ban contraceptives" because I guarantee that the men in congress voting for it have vasectomies. Are they going to reverse them?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

No, those with the means will still continue to get them, whether that's knowing a doctor who will perform it illegally, or by traveling somewhere it's legal. Same as abortion.

[–] aquinteros@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

ban IVF? why would they ban a safe and correct use of technology to help couples conceive what the actual fuck, I don't think there is a single nation on earth that does this, can you get IVF in the middle east? this is just mind-blowingly neardenthal

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As most have noted, the right has no objective, they are just against whatever the left is for.

[–] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

They're pretty consistent about cutting taxes for billionaires.

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[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 133 points 2 months ago (2 children)

the former president's campaign has disavowed the project and recently went so far as to say its "demise would be greatly welcomed," while Trump urged his supporters to boo it at a campaign rally.

You'll have to excuse me if I don't believe for a fucking second that this is anything but optics. It's not like conservatives have to explicitly say they're following the playbook, but they obviously already are – many Republican lawmakers are members of the conservative organizations that wrote the fucking thing (see eg. this bit of news from TN)

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 66 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Yeah for anyone really paying attention Project 2025 wasn't the smoke, or even the fire. It's just a picture of the fire that's been burning since Barry Goldwater irrevocably shifted what the Republican party was and should be.That event shifted everything to the right because Democrats are still operating under the assumption that the two parties are left and right, and that the general populace sort of exists between the two. We see all those graphs about how only 40% of eligible American voters vote, and I think a lot of people read those charts wrong. Those aren't voters who don't give a shit, those are voters living in places where their jurisdiction is so skewed they don't feel the need to vote, and people who look at the whole political system and see a massive shell game where everyone's fighting to wield power, but no one's really challenging if it's good to live in such a top down administrative landscape where corporations are allowed to do whatever without accountability, and they don't see much of anyone trying to do anything about that. Think about if you're a DC or Hawaiian voter with deeply held social convictions and who's running for office is a neo-fascist and a neo-liberal. How motivated are you to get to the polls when you know all your neighbors see the same thing you're seeing. Your whole community is going to half heartedly show up for the neo-liberal, so you stay home, and then your jurisdiction goes 70% for the candidate you wanted. Sure, the margin could have been bigger if you showed up, but you're broke and poor, and working those hours that day got you enough that you can celebrate with your kids tonight that the neo-fascist didn't win. It's been months since you had pizza. It would really make them happy watch the results roll in while you have a special treat.

We need this election to be a total shit show for the republicans. Like totally painting the canvas with them kinds of beat down. And then, come January, when the Democrats take office, we need to show up in the streets and show them we don't like them either. Our politicians are so beholden to financiers and so isolated from our needs that I don't even think they realize we don't like any of them. Think about this. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, according to her positions, and according to polls of Americans, is completely aligned with American interests. She wants to do what we ALL want to do. And how many people see her as an evil virus from Satan because that's what Fox told them she was. How many people see her as a naive idealist who doesn't understand the full picture because that's what NBC and CBS told them she is. She's painted as a radical leftist when really... She's a centrist. She's the exact middle of America.

That's the fucked up political reality we live in.

[–] hohoho@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I appreciate your comment, keep it up!

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This seems to support your ideas.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 79 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I said this in another thread and I will keep repeating it because I think it's important: if you know anyone who is a veteran or has a loved one who is a veteran, make sure they know that veteran's benefits will be severely cut if Project 2025 is implemented.

[–] AquaTofana@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As someone currently serving, it fucking boggles my mind that anyone who has ever served could be in favor of the Republican party. Even without Project 2025 threatening veteran benefits.

So many of us have been to actual locations where the Church has a stranglehold on the government/is the government. My husband has stories from Afghanistan. I went to Qatar, which, is a "progressive" middle eastern country. I could wear tshirts and knee length shorts, but I was also not allowed to ride in an elevator with the opposite sex, and I was heavily questioned when I tried to buy cigarettes until a male coworker intervened and assured that I could. Not to mention the FUCKING INSANE wealth disparity. Palaces gilded in gold for the government/rich/churches and literal shacks made out of whatever material could be cobbled together in the rural areas outside of Doha.

Why the fuck would anyone who has seen that first hand want to support anything that could even remotely resemble a world like that?

[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Then they'll get out and pay attention to how much the GOP hates funding the VA and veteran programs in general.

Republicans as a party are generally "Support the troops but fuck the veterans!" just like always. It blows my mind that there are veterans that are also working class that are MAGA because they are getting fucked over twice as much from the very party that they support.

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[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If it doesn't work out this election.... They won't stop. They have been planning this for over 40 years. They have NI INTENTION of stopping. They will try again unless they are stopped

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Of course not. The heritage foundation has been doing this since the 70s. Reagan LOVED them.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everything wrong with this country is basically just a game of 6 degrees from Reagan.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I blame everything on the failure of Reconstruction. Nowhere near enough traitors were hanged.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The candidate of the Face Eating Leopard Party swears he does not like, and will not use, the face eating manual for leopards.

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[–] JimSamtanko@lemm.ee 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

~~Americans~~ Humans don’t like Project 2025.

FTFY.

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[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unfavorable views of the project rose the most among Democrats, for whom the plan's net favorability dropped by a whopping 36 percentage points, but it also became less popular among the smaller share of Republicans who had heard of the project: Net favorability for Project 2025 dropped 9 points among those who identified as MAGA supporters and 17 points among other Republicans.

I would love to be a fly on the wall when these Republicans finally come to realize who and what they have been supporting all of this time.

[–] KimjongTOOILL@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

They will just double down for a while. Eventually, they will pretend they never supported any of it.

[–] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I just want the government to leave me and my rights and my property alone... is that too much to ask???

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's crazy that your comment was the purported Republican platform for a long time, and they transmogrified into the fascist trash party that Orwell wrote about, that the Empire was in films, and that the Nazis were in real life. All because a bunch of US-based domestic terrorist fundies are running a theocratic "war" against freedom, democracy, and choice. How Orange DonOld the Weird, the rapist with 34 felonies is their figurehead makes even less sense.

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

"Mind your own damn business."

- Tim Walz

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[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Americans want affordable housing, affordable health care, better gun regulations, a true ceasefire, and many other things that the establishment politicians don't give AF about.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have to wonder what their point is. trump supporters pretend to not like it and it is the literal roadmap for what they're 100% going to vote for. Most probably don't care.

And saying Democrats don't like it is like saying there'll be a Tuesday next week.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's probably like in many religions: they respond on what their priest is saying and want their side to win, but never really studied the scriptures.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At this point the only reason to vote for Trump is if your brains have been replaced with a yogurt or you're a monster

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I can forgive the 2016 Trump voters, Hillary campaigned with Kissinger after all, but America needs to wake up to the realization that a third of the country are actual monsters.

[–] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Who's got a shocked Pikachu face...

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 17 points 2 months ago

My instance's custom emojis got you, fam.

Surprised Pikachu

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[–] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dipshit Donald will never lose this albatross around his neck no matter how hard he tries.

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