Project 2025 - Presidential Transition Project

[Jarhyn]

Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data

A politically-oriented cybercrime group carried out the attack in response to Heritage’s Project 2025.

cyberscoop.com

An established cybercrime group with a track record of attacking political targets posted on Tuesday roughly two gigabytes of data from the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.

Self-described “gay furry hackers,” SiegedSec said it released the data in response to Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a set of proposals that aim to give Donald Trump a set of ready-made policies to implement if he wins this fall’s election. Its authors describe it as an initiative “to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right.”

The data, reviewed by CyberScoop, includes Heritage Foundation blogs and material related to The Daily Signal, a right-wing media site affiliated with Heritage. The data was created between 2007 and November 2022.

That seems kind of worthless.

Well, it's funny as hell. Also, you should read the self-pwn associated with it.

Granted all the gay furry hacker collectives im associated with are slightly less political and more Australian.

 

[Janice Rael]

Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data

A politically-oriented cybercrime group carried out the attack in response to Heritage’s Project 2025.

cyberscoop.com

The data, reviewed by CyberScoop, includes Heritage Foundation blogs and material related to The Daily Signal, a right-wing media site affiliated with Heritage. The data was created between 2007 and November 2022.

That seems kind of worthless.

Why? The data is out there, and they want to delete it. The pdf on their site, everything.

SO, WHY is it "worthless" to encourage everyone who cares to take looks and download docs and learn the literal plans and actual articulated secret strategies?

How is having this information worthless, @Jimmy Higgins ? Did you dislike my post? Do you dislike planning or fighting back against fascism?

I change my mind often, please, persuade me, how worthless is this trove of information?

Should I delete this infographic? It's comparing Donald Trump's Agenda 47 to the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025.



"Worthless" to know one's enemy or fight back? Sit down and type out all of your talking points, please; I would love to hear this. Talk us into it?

 

[ZiprHead]

Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data

A politically-oriented cybercrime group carried out the attack in response to Heritage’s Project 2025.

cyberscoop.com

An established cybercrime group with a track record of attacking political targets posted on Tuesday roughly two gigabytes of data from the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.

Self-described “gay furry hackers,” SiegedSec said it released the data in response to Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a set of proposals that aim to give Donald Trump a set of ready-made policies to implement if he wins this fall’s election. Its authors describe it as an initiative “to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right.”

The data, reviewed by CyberScoop, includes Heritage Foundation blogs and material related to The Daily Signal, a right-wing media site affiliated with Heritage. The data was created between 2007 and November 2022.

That seems kind of worthless.

I think it's too early to determine whether it is worthless or not. Two gigs of data is a lot to go through.

 

[ZiprHead]

Video shows Trump cheering on Heritage Foundation 'plans' he claims he didn't know about

Former President Donald Trump has been caught on video praising a think tank whose plans he now says he didn't know existed. The right-wing Heritage Foundation brought together several MAGA thought leaders from Trump's orbit to craft their "Project 2025," a plan to radically expand the powers of...

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Former President Donald Trump has been caught on video praising a think tank whose plans he now says he didn't know existed.

The right-wing Heritage Foundation brought together several MAGA thought leaders from Trump's orbit to craft their "Project 2025," a plan to radically expand the powers of the executive branch under a second Trump administration.

The plan promises, among other things, to oust career civil servants in the federal government and replace them with people who are staunch loyalists of the president.

However, in a video unearthed by NBC's Vaughn Hillyard, Trump's speech to the Heritage Foundation reveals he knew that they were crafting the plan for him.

 

[lpetrich]

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead | Salon.com

When Project 2025 was released, a number of progressives expressed surprise that Donald Trump's army of authoritarian schemers would boldly publish their plan to destroy American government as we know it. The over 900-page document, commissioned by the people expected to run another Trump White House, is a laundry list of the far-right's most politically toxic ideas, from banning abortion nationwide to mass firing federal officials who believe in protecting public health and safety. One would think that Trump and his allies would try to keep their sinister plans out of public view. Instead, Team Trump published their fascistic blueprint on a website for anyone to read,. They even proudly display the menacing "Project 2025" label on the front page.

But really, it's not that surprising. The MAGA right learned years ago the value of hiding their wicked plans in plain sight.

LIke Christopher Rufo, Steve Bannon, and this:
Biden-Harris HQ on X: "Trump's Project 2025 leader: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be” (vid link)" / X

Trump himself regularly employs this strategy, giving speeches where he declares that his goal is "retribution" against political opponents, promises pardons for the January 6 insurrectionists, and characterizes anyone who objects as "vermin" who need to be eliminated.

... We saw this strategy with the Supreme Court's recent presidential "immunity" decision. It's factually correct that it gives Trump a license to kill, but anyone who speaks this fact is accused of "Trump derangement syndrome" and "madness" by Republicans.

Taraji P. Henson Warns BET Audience About Trump Reelection
Saying “It’s time for us to play chess not checkers. It’s about making decisions that will affect us as human beings, our careers, our next generations to come.” and “I’m telling y’all you better show up and show out with them ballots,” and “I’m being serious now, I know I look good, but it’s a serious time, I need y’all to listen. Show up and show out when it’s time to vote because it’s not just about the presidential election you guys.”

Then “They are trying to bring the draft back. Who do you think they’re going to draft first?” and “Our careers, our next generations to come. Did you know that it is now a crime to be homeless? Pay attention. It’s not a secret, look it up. They are attacking our most vulnerable citizens,” and The Project 2025 plan is not a game. Look it up!”

Then “I’m not trying to scare us, I’m trying to inform us. We’ve got three Supreme Court seats up you guys, we need those seats, or we have no protection,” and “OK, I got it out my system. I’m talking to all the mad people that don’t want to vote. You’re going to be mad about a lot of things if you don’t vote.”

From The Tennessee Holler on X: " @tarajiphenson: “You better show up and show out when it’s time to vote… it’s about making decisions that will effect us as human beings… Project 2025 is not a game.” #BETAwards (vid link)" / X

 

[lpetrich]

The grift behind Project 2025: Leader John McEntee made an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA men | Salon.com - a dating app, "The Right Stuff". However, it's mostly men who have signed up for it.

Amanda Marcotte:

McEntee appears to be yet another one of the seemingly endless stream of masculinity "influencers" who have created a perfect grift cycle for themselves. First, identify alienated men and promise them a path out of loneliness and into the heterosexual relationship of their dreams. Second, encourage those men to adopt even more repugnant behaviors that make it even harder for them to attract women. Then, when those men become even more frustrated, push them further to the right, blaming all their problems on feminists, liberals and LGBTQ people.

It's a schtick we've seen from Jordan Peterson to Andrew Tate to the Proud Boys. I call it the male insecurity-to-fascism pipeline and, from a purely sociopathic viewpoint, it's evil genius. Marketing toxic masculinity as self-help benefits both the authoritarian cause and the influencer pocketbooks. MAGA figureheads get to tear down liberal society and make money doing so. They simply don't care that, in the process, they aren't just hurting most Americans. They're doing real damage to the men who follow them by encouraging them to adopt attitudes and behaviors that will make life harder in every arena, from work to romance.

"Alt-right" women are upset that "alt-right" men are treating them terribly | Salon.com and "Screws up female brains": MAGA leaders are conditioning Republicans to back birth control bans | Salon.com and It's a good thing most women don't want to date Trump voters | Salon.com

 

[lpetrich]

Donald Trump's fake rejection of Project 2025 has angered his biggest fans | Salon.com - July 11, 2024 6:01AM (EDT) - by Amanda Marcotte - "Far-right trolls Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes don't seem to get Trump is only pretending to be more moderate"

Nice to see them feeling so hurt and betrayed and backstabbed.

"They are scared": Trump runs from Project 2025, claims not to know what it's about | Salon.com

Many central figures behind Project 2025 aren't just Trump supporters—they also worked in the top echelons of his administration. One of them, Trump's former White House personnel director John McEntee, said that Heritage and the Trump campaign plan to "integrate a lot of our work" later this year. Another, Trump's former budget chief Russ Vought, is both advising Project 2025 and sitting on the Republican National Committee's platform committee this year.

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Trump's own Super PAC is promoting the project as "Trump's Project 2025" while the GOP nominee himself has repeatedly declared his support for key parts of the agenda, including the implementation of a rule that would allow the president to remove civil servants at will and set the rest of Project 2025 in motion.

"I will wield that power very aggressively," Trump said in a campaign video last year.

The rest of Project 2025 includes proposals to dismantle the Department of Education, restrict access to birth control, strip away workers' protections, terminate clean energy incentives and grant tax cuts to large corporations and wealthy Americans. Much of it seems eerily familiar to Heritage's "Mandate for Leadership," a policy blueprint for Trump's first term that the former president embraced.

Alex Jones Turns Against Donald Trump Over Project 2025 | The New Republic

“Trump gets told by his advisers and people who really just don’t want competition in his new White House.… ‘Oh God, these are radicals, sir. You’ve got to come out and distance yourself,’” Jones said, according to Newsweek. “It’s the Heritage Foundation, Trump. And again, Trump’s really smart; he’s got good instincts. He doesn’t understand Republican machinery,” Jones continued.

 

[excreationist]

CBS Chicago video says:

The Project Suggests:
- Scrapping Medicare
- Getting rid of social security
- A ban on pornography
- A block on access to abortion pills
- Taking aim at federal agencies like NOAA

 

[Loren Pechtel]

And reportedly Facebook has been "fact checking" claims about Project 2025 because the document doesn't actually spell out all the evil it obviously intends.

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[Loren Pechtel]

A whole bunch of P2025 stuff:

Project 2025 (@project2025.bsky.social)

The Plot Against America Text: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf Also posting on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@project2025

bsky.app

These are mostly presented to look fairly benign, but so many of them have loopholes you could drive an 18-wheeler of evil through them.

 

[Bronzeage]

Project 2025 reads like someone passed around a clip board with the instructions, "Write a policy that will lose more votes than it gains."

There's a good reason Social Security has long been called the third rail of American politics. It's kind of a weird metaphor, since US electric rail transportation infrastructure is miniscule and most people in this country have never been anywhere close to a third rail. I can imagine the panic among Trump's campaign professionals when Pj20205 suddenly came back into the news. They have no defense and don't dare go on offense.

The only strategy is to stay silent, or risk losing votes by endorsing it, or donors by rejecting it.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Project 2025 reads like someone passed around a clip board with the instructions, "Write a policy that will lose more votes than it gains."

There's a good reason Social Security has long been called the third rail of American politics. It's kind of a weird metaphor, since US electric rail transportation infrastructure is miniscule and most people in this country have never been anywhere close to a third rail. I can imagine the panic among Trump's campaign professionals when Pj20205 suddenly came back into the news. They have no defense and don't dare go on offense.

The only strategy is to stay silent, or risk losing votes by endorsing it, or donors by rejecting it.

While most people have never been near a third-rail system the name stuck.

Unlike modern designs the third rail is an exposed high voltage conductor down at ground level where it poses a very real hazard to people who go where they shouldn't.

 

[bilby]

Unlike modern designs the third rail is an exposed high voltage conductor down at ground level where it poses a very real hazard to people who go where they shouldn't.

My late uncle David, who worked for British Rail, was an advocate of third rail electric traction as a way to reduce trespass on the line.

Fewer repeat offenders.

 

[Angry Floof]

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data

A politically-oriented cybercrime group carried out the attack in response to Heritage’s Project 2025.

cyberscoop.com

An established cybercrime group with a track record of attacking political targets posted on Tuesday roughly two gigabytes of data from the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.

Self-described “gay furry hackers,” SiegedSec said it released the data in response to Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a set of proposals that aim to give Donald Trump a set of ready-made policies to implement if he wins this fall’s election. Its authors describe it as an initiative “to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right.”

The data, reviewed by CyberScoop, includes Heritage Foundation blogs and material related to The Daily Signal, a right-wing media site affiliated with Heritage. The data was created between 2007 and November 2022.

That seems kind of worthless.

Yeah. How do hundreds of thousands of pages of Whatever help distill and articulate the problems with Project 2025 and those involved in its creation and implementation?

"Here's a bunch of stuff... um, now go ahead and stick it to them!"

 

[lpetrich]

Opinion | What I Learned When I Read 887 Pages of Project 2025 - The New York Times - Feb. 29, 2024
Author Carlos Lozada took the trouble to read that entire document.

There is plenty here that one would expect from a contemporary conservative agenda: calls for lower corporate taxes and against abortion rights; criticism of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and the “climate fanaticism” of the Biden administration; and plans to militarize the southern border and target the “administrative state,” which is depicted here as a powerful and unmanageable federal bureaucracy bent on left-wing social engineering. Yet what is most striking about the book is not the specific policy agenda it outlines but how far the authors are willing to go in pursuit of that agenda and how reckless their assumptions are about law, power and public service.

... It calls for a relentless politicizing of the federal government, with presidential appointees overpowering career officials at every turn and agencies and offices abolished on overtly ideological grounds. Though it assures readers that the president and his or her subordinates “must be committed to the Constitution and the rule of law,” it portrays the president as the personal embodiment of popular will and treats the law as an impediment to conservative governance. It elevates the role of religious beliefs in government affairs and regards the powers of Congress and the judiciary with dismissiveness.

And for all the book’s rhetoric about the need to “dismantle the administrative state,” it soon becomes clear that vanquishing the federal bureaucracy is not the document’s animating ambition. There may be plenty worth jettisoning from the executive branch, but “Mandate for Leadership” is about capturing the administrative state, not unmaking it. The main conservative promise here is to wield the state as a tool for concentrating power and entrenching ideology.

In effect, a right-wing administrative state.

 

[lpetrich]

"The book’s existence is an implicit admission that the Trump administration’s haphazard approach to governance was a missed opportunity."

Project 2025's authors want to “assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day 1 to deconstruct the administrative state.”

A lot of agencies will have to go, like the White House’s Gender Policy Council and Office of Domestic Climate Policy, and the Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, and the E.P.A's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, and all of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), because it is “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.”

The Department of Health and Human Services's Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force will be replaced by an anti-abortion task force to insure that all HHS divisions “use their authority to promote the life and health of women and their unborn children." They even propose renaming HHS the “Department of Life.”

No states' rights about abortion in this document.

Not only will DEI initiatives be shut down, and employees involved with DEI are to be purged.

Every U.S. state should be required by Health and Human Services to 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.” By contrast, the government should prohibit the collection of employment statistics based on race or ethnicity, and the Centers for Disease Control should discontinue gathering data on gender identity, on the grounds that such collection “encourages the phenomenon of ever-multiplying subjective identities.”

So government agencies are to collect data that will be convenient for right-wing administrators, but will bury their heads in the sand about anything inconvenient for the right wing.

The portion of the book dedicated to the Census Bureau warns that the Biden administration’s data collection “could be skewed to bolster progressive political agendas,” yet “Mandate for Leadership” does not seem to grasp how its own proposals could prompt the same concerns in the opposite direction. It doesn’t take a conspiratorial mind to wonder about this; the document states its goal forthrightly: “Strong political leadership is needed to increase efficiency and align the Census Bureau’s mission with conservative principles.”

 

[lpetrich]

Heritage Foundation Makes Plans to Staff Next G.O.P. Administration - The New York Times - "No matter the Republican, the effort has set a goal of up to 20,000 potential officials in a database akin to a right-wing LinkedIn."
The Heritage Foundation is the publisher of Project 2025 and its predecessors all the way back to the Reagan years. It was also a prominent present at the Republican National Convention this year.

"... virtually every chapter calls for additional appointees to wrest power from longtime career staff members in their respective departments." saying that “Large swaths of the State Department’s work force are left-wing and predisposed to disagree with a conservative president’s policy agenda and vision,” and about the Department of Justice that “Large swaths of the department have been captured by an unaccountable bureaucratic managerial class and radical left ideologues who have embedded themselves throughout its offices.”

"The book calls for the reinstatement of Schedule F, a Trump-era executive order that would allow the president and political appointees to convert many career civil service positions into appointed roles, thus making those people easier to dismiss and replace with loyalists"

Seems like bringing back the  Spoils system where politicians appoint their friends and relatives and supporters to government jobs. This was done over the first century of the US, and it was brought to an end by the  Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883. "The act mandates that most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage."

Also, it must be noted that lovers of checks and balances in government ought to love a government bureaucracy that is at least somewhat insulated from politics.

At the E.P.A., for example, the document calls for a new science adviser and at least six new appointees charged with reforming the agency’s scientific research; qualifications for those roles should stress managerial skills rather than “personal scientific output.” Throughout the book, descriptions of new research agendas are often paired with the explicit findings that such research should yield, whether on the mental and physical damage that abortion inflicts on women or the pernicious impact of taxes and regulations on minority-owned businesses.

A new administration also ought to insure that “any research conducted with taxpayer dollars serves the national interest in a concrete way in line with conservative principles.”

Except that that's not what research is all about. It's not about justifying preconceived ideas but about testing hypotheses and learning new things.