Summary
Following Donald Trump’s election victory, Republicans are now openly embracing Project 2025, a policy agenda from The Heritage Foundation that outlines sweeping conservative reforms.
Despite Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the project during his campaign due to its extreme proposals—including expanded executive powers, a national abortion ban, stricter contraception limits, harsh immigration policies, and the elimination of agencies like the Department of Education—his allies quickly began celebrating its implementation.
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and commentator Matt Walsh publicly affirmed the agenda, signaling the GOP’s commitment to enacting these controversial policies in Trump’s second term.
In response to another post about Project 2025
Congratulations nzmaa, you won. You’re going to live in my mind 24/7 for the next four years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnEH9MAgSGA
There are trends - this video explains it well. Trump will reshape America, he will cement power and make sure it’s much easier for MAGA to succeed in future (making it easy, rigging the system, for them to be re-elected).
You are entering a new authoritarian regime in the USA.
Many folks voted Trump because they don’t trust politicians, they don’t trust Democracy, and now they get what they want - Democracy takes the biggest hit in history - and it’s not because of Trump, it’s a worldwide trend - there have been no new Democracies for a good many years already.
Project 2025 (which Trump laughably kept saying ‘I never heard of it, I never read it’ - he’s laughing his tits off, he loves the lower class working Americans, he loves Americans with low education… because they just signed him into power thinking he gives a toss about them - he doesn’t.
He hates them, he hates women, he’s racist, misogynistic, a criminal and a liar.
Project 2025 is a right wing manifesto - opposing abortion and reproductive rights, even outlawing FDA approved safe drugs used in medical abortion… reviving 19th century extreme right wing laws.
Also opposing LGBTQ rights, opposing immigrants’ rights, a racial manual for reorganising the entire federal government to serve a right wing agenda.
You will see now mass raids, deportations, an end to birthright citizenship, breaking up families and dismantling asylum.
Trump will also work to bring in power of warrantless surveillance - to be exploited to spy on Americans and their data… radically expanding executive power and making a mockery of American’s idea of having freedom.
Trump will also use executive authority to limit First Amendment freedoms, he will have power to mute the press, also damaging fair replresentation in the voting process (he said - you won’t have to vote again, with a wry grin on his face).
Watching Trump you can see he’s TELLING YOU what he plans to do, laughing at you for being stupid, because he knows you don’t take it seriously.
Basically, it’s the fascist’s playbook - and you voted this POS into power.
Can’t wait for every one of you fucks to realize what you’ve done voting for that scum. We’re all fucked.
they will not realize anything. they don’t believe what any of the news outlets say. we have been saying this for 8 years.
Maybe for a little while - until the department of education & a national abortion ban are completely wiped from society. All of us, not just the ones who made the right choice will suffer.
They’ll find some way to blame Dems for anything that becomes too unpopular, and their base will willingly buy into it to avoid responsibility - until something bites them personally. It’ll take far too long for it to affect enough of them personally to save the rest of us with some semblance of rationality, though.
You mean they didn’t write a 900 page manifesto for the lulz?
But Trump said he didn’t know anything about it! Are you saying he might’ve stated a mistruth?
My understanding is it was written by an individual or individuals, then passed around and got approval from other influential people before being declared the plan.
That’s how plans usually form, from what I understand.
I’m so fucking done with this country man, people make me so tired of living. I’m so disappointed, and the amount of lives this orange fuck is going to destroy is so immense it’s just so depressing. and I hate living in a red state surrounded by idiots who genuinely think this is a good idea, and think I shouldn’t even have basic rights.
Bad news
Trump is amplifying the rhetoric overseas too
So, he’s also ruining other countries too
its frustrating dealing with this overseas. i am as far from the us as you can get, and it’s worse dealing with it here. i wish i were back home at the moment with people who get it.
Yea, but at least the proportional representation systems in Europe were delaying them a bit to cut off a few hostile actors, create defenses…now it is coming from the most important ally the disinfo storm is going to reach cat 6 :(
Part of me wants average people to realize the Republican leadership isn’t on their side. The other part of me realizes once normal people take notice, it will be too late.
It’s already too late. It’s just a matter of time.
Those statements aren’t contrarian at all they will realize it will be too late. Leopards will have a feast of faces.
What is Project 2025?
But the flyer I got attached to my door said Trump totally disavowed it! Would a flyer attached to my door lie?
Would this face lie to you?
OH MY GAWD WHATS WRONG WITH UR FACE??!
Blood soaked Nazi face… Let us all fear it I’m the form Trumpie.
Don’t forget: replacing nonpartisan government experts with Trump appointees, defending and reclassifying public media and banning pornography.
What? No tiddies?
Not tiddies? Where will be our stress busters?
Cave paintings.
Granted, you’ll have to travel to see them since they’ll be banned on the internet.
Just grab 'em by the pussy, I guess?
I wish Biden has the balls to label them as traitors and use his SC approved powers to jail them for treason.
They’d be right back out on Jan. 20th. Have to do something more permanent.
Have to do something more permanent.
Trump’s lawyers argued successfully in front of SCOTUS that a president could assassinate their political opponent.
…As long as the courts decide it’s an “official act,” ending with the SCOTUS itself. Nothing Biden did would ever be deemed an official act by them.
What would he have to lose at this point?
He isn’t even candidate Biden, in this case, so it’s an official act. The law is so fucking bad.
I agree! But he’d never do it even if he knew for a fact there would be no consequences for him from it.
I sure won’t be holding my breath expecting him to, especially not after the speech he just gave.
I just looked up the gist of it. My reaction:
got a link for a non mercan?
Navy seals then.
This is probably more valid than some think. Trump and his cronies are a clear threat to the country and must be eliminated before the damage is done.
The problem being that the majority of voters want fascism. Defeating it requires more than just removing the leaders because more will just take their place.
I’m not so sure. I think these people genuinely do want to wriggle out of any sense of societal responsibility and want to ensure that there is an underclass ripe for extortion.
But I don’t think many of them would catch a bullet for those ideas.
Yea, secret voting can be a way to launder your responsibility, by contributing to make someone else responsible for what you want to do.
We all knew this as did everyone who voted him in. When you look at your neighbours never forget who they are.
Is this news? They presented their plan to destroy America, and are going to implement it. What did people expect?
When someone tells you they are a fascist, believe them the first time.
The “admit” part is the news.
If I make plans for a holiday, put down deposits on hotels, and print an itinerary for my time abroad, it’d be a bit pointless to “admit” I was going on holiday.
Yeah, that’s how sane people operate. But we’re dealing with a different breed here.
Anyone who thought different, who thought “Project 2025” was off the table because Trump said so!: You are idiots who should not be allowed to touch anyhing that could break, and you better not breed.
I fully believe Trump when he says
“I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it purposely. I’m not going to read it.”
Note, he didn’t say he would stop other people from executing the plan.
Unfortunately it always seems to be the dumbest that breed most.
Idiocracy wasn’t supposed to be a documentary.
Honestly, I’d take it over what we have now, or are about to get. Those people were at least smart enough to elect the best candidate.
Idiocracy is the most unrealistic movie ever made. President Comacho has a problem, finds the most qualified person to solve it, listens to them (reluctantly) and then dosent take credit. That would never happen in any political reality.
This is why Project 2025 intends to ban abortion and limit contraceptives. They want to proliferate their voter base.
Get sterilized while you still have the chance
My wife was de-uterized a few years back (mostly for other reasons), but it’s been the best.
I’m not sure I understand why they’re getting rid of the department of education? Why not change it? Why get rid of it entirely.
If someone could ELI5 that shit, I’d be grateful.
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I didn’t see this in the other replies: they genuinely don’t believe in government.
Yarvin, Thiel, Musk, Trump all believe the country is best run as a business. By which they mean they can fire you from the country and you have to leave if they don’t like you. It also means that if you make a bad decision and destroy the country because you want to you should be allowed to. However they also believe that because they are rich and powerful it stands to reason, ipso facto, that they got there because they are good at their jobs, therefore it follows any decisions they make are good decisions and thus are the right ones. Those who disagree or would have made different decisions are wrong and bad at their jobs because they are not the president and the president is correct because he’s the president.
once services are privatized, it is very difficult to make them public again. the damage is pretty much permanent
Basically this. They’re all neofeudalists with a thin coat of “but it’s business and not a divine mandate” on top. Thiel specifically has made no secrets of his desire to destroy federal power, and effectively just reimagine the country as a bunch of feudal city-states, loosely linked by something resembling a monarch (who isn’t Thiel because he’s actually terrified of being in the public eye for anything).
They also want to turn universities into PragerU types.
They want dumb, obedient people they can convince to give up their rights.
Over halfway there!
It all makes sense when you realize they have no intention to actually run the country in good faith. They intend to do two things, plunder everything they can, and irreparably destroy the country’s future to get revenge for having the audacity to try to move forward.
Job #1 has always been to loot the treasury. It’s a class war and they just scored a major victory.
This is why I don’t even think Trump really cares all that much about immigrants, or trans persons, or abortion rights. All of it was campaign rhetoric to keep him out of jail, and otherwise they are all in the same basket of people he doesn’t spend a second thinking about. The problem is that also means he also doesn’t care about what the white supremacists and the evangelists in his party will do.
getting rid of it means they can redirect funds to private schools which indoctrinate kids into being conservatives
Also wage slaves don’t need education that might make them strive for a life better than creating excess value for their owners.
Right. So it’s about breaking the public school system and ultimately replacing them with private institutions?
Okay. Yeesh.
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Read Project 2025. They are doing this with every regulatory agency. And the ones that they actually do replace, will be filled with Trump sycophants instead of career experts in their respective fields.
Say goodbye to the EPA and the FDA.
Fucking goddammit. I guess people decided to wait until AFTER the election to inform themselves of the implications of one of the parties winning.
You fucking knob. You realize people who aren’t American are on here, right?
Grow up.
I said “people.” Not everything is about you
Then why on the fuckin’ green earth would you write the words you did directly under my post?
🙄 You’re not retconning your way out of that, pal. Pot calling the kettle black here.
English can be a weird language sometimes. The royal “you,” mannn
Not retconning anything.
I post comments with other readers in mind. I did mean you, but also everyone else.
Turns out I was wrong about you, but it is still targeted at others
Just like the constitution, states can add to, but not take away from federal department of education regulations. For example, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children. Changing laws if difficult and no one wants to go on record voting against special needs. So they can just get rid of the department that enforces laws and say they are leaving up to the states.
As someone who lives in a red state and has a child with special needs, the IDEA law is the only reason my child gets any support in school. If they get rid of the department of education then states like Texas can reduce their special education services even further, so they can build more multi-million dollar high school football stadiums.
No one alive now really remembers what life was like for the disabled before civil rights laws passed. It was bad. Disabled people were hidden and locked away in tiny secret rooms their whole lives.
And that’s if you were lucky and your Mom or Dad didn’t just either give you up for adoption or leave you in the fields one night and wash their hands of you.
They don’t want there to be a tool to undo what they’ve done. If there’s no watchdog they can privatize education without worry that losing an election means a quick stop to what’s happened. The very first court argument against a democrat run government in 2028 would be that only the Dept of Ed had the statutory power to stop them.
Because stupid masses voted him in. Stupid masses are easier to control.
Can’t get an educated mind to work readily against their best interest…or to work down in a mine.
Are we witnessing the extinction of mankind?
The hastening of it via increased climate change, yes.
Earth is already past the critical point tempurature… No matter how much we clean up now (which we won’t), the earth is already heading down the global warming path
Sure, but we could at least slow it down. Not happening now.
I’ve been watching since 2016, buddy.
We were already witnessing that.
You had to live inside your own asshole to not know this was always the plan
Which is a grave offense with this new regime, because that means you’re gay with yourself.
auto-gay
Sounds like a really bad transformers opponent.
There’s some talented fanfic writers out there who could probably make it work.
You just described like 38% of voters
52%
I’m assuming some of those voters believed project 2025 was real and very much supported it.
The majority I know when voted R, are totally for it. But always see themselves as exceptions or think they won’t be effected.
There’s plenty that thought he wouldn’t do it.
Yup, I’ve looked into it. Seems they were all born yesterday.
Trying to envision that physically but seems like a recursive paradox. If you lived inside your own asshole then your asshole would be in your asshole, etc. You need 4 dimensional vector space to solve it.
