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Trump's transition team turns to Project 2025 after disavowing it during the campaign
(www.nbcnews.com)
Lying liar lies again. We're all horribly shocked.
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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....
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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.
Actually, his wife and his friends said they've only seen him actively read one book, which is a book of Hitler's speeches.
That's just what he wanted them to think. Inside the book, he had hidden a single Bazooka Joe comic that took him 5 years to read. And then he didn't get the joke so he had to take another 5 years to read it. And he still didn't get the joke so... basically he's going to put anyone with a Bazooka Joe comic in their possession in front of a firing squad when he gets in charge.
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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.
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.
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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.
stupid Americans can’t discern fact from fiction.
It's almost as if all the attacks on education over the last 4-7 decades are bearing fruit.
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In which state did 3rd-party voters tip the presidential election results there?
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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.
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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.
By its nature it'll vary in each community, political parties are always a safe bet, most areas will have socialists or communists and whether or not you identify as one of those they'll likely have resources for labor organizations in the area. I'm not suggesting that everyone has to be a leftist, but just that leftists have been doing this work for decades and tend to organize.
The IWW union is an international union that provides support to people looking to organize their workplaces.
On the topic of unions, I'm sure most unions in your city would be willing to help answer your questions and give you guidance. They might have websites where you can reach out to ask for advice.
Your city's pride parade or other socially conscious events like demonstrations will also see participation from these kinds of groups. It can be a good way to see what groups are operating in your city. For example your city might still have student protest encampments for Palestine on university campuses. Unions and political groups go to these and put material up at these.
Do that Google search! Looking for leftist, socialist, communist, anarchist, or labour unions based on trade in your city is actually not a bad way to get started.
I'm new to direct action myself and others might have better suggestions.
It's ok to start small, like a community garden even. These are all part of a broader network that you'll have exposure to once you are looking.
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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.
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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.
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.
America is just experiencing a case of all-time stupid. There's no excuse that I can find that says Americans didn't know about Project 2025.
If we're in a 'golden age' of anything, it's the golden age of ignorance and stupidity for America. Where's my Brawndo?
When I was a kid it was a common belief that americans were just way more stupid than the rest of the world. Turns out it was worse, but that we were also really stupid for copying a lot of their dumb shit.
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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.
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In other news, water is wet.
Nobody should be surprised by this.
Trump's TRANSition team
Trump was the one turning kids trans in schools all along
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This is exactly what they said they would not do... trump stated several times that he would not go forward with this project that he had never ever in a million years heard of.... You people were played like a cheap russian fiddle.
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This can’t be happening he told me otherwise. /s
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