Project 2025

[ZiprHead]

I can be in Canada in a good bit under two hours. Spent a lot of childhood vacations in Canada and absolutely loved it.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Medicare is useless overseas. You would have to make your own insurance arrangements. Do not expect US-level medical care!

Most first world countries, you should very definitely expect US-level care, or better, certainly for urgent care/ER visits.

Yeah, but such places are pretty hard to get into. Most places you can actually hope to live permanently aren't first world.

Most such places have insurance automatically for taxpayers, so if you're allowed to work, you're probably covered - but the rules vary a lot from country to country.

If you're not covered in that way, insurance is typically FAR cheaper than it would be in the US. Typically healthcare is covered by travel insurance, (as long as you're not going to the USA).

Travel insurance normally only covers emergent situations, not chronic ones.

 

[Worldtraveller]

I always had to buy Global insurance supplement (I could deduct it on my taxes, but I think my employer should have covered it) in order to have insurance when I travelled. I did a lot of international travel for work, and occasionally still do.

 

[southernhybrid]

I'm starting to see Project 2025 mentioned in a lot more articles over the last few days. I can only hope that people read about it and maybe it will motivate some to vote a straight Dem ticket, who were planning on sitting out the election or voting third party.

My neighbor across the street voted for Trump last time but he can't stand him now. Unfortunately, he can't stand Biden either, so maybe he won't vote. What will it take to convince people like him to do the right thing? If only there were more Liz Cheney's out there to help explain the dangers of a 2nd Trump term, especially if the Republicans control Congress. She was bashing Mike Johnson this morning on Face the Nation, after Mikey was on, telling all kinds of crazy lies.

 

[ZiprHead]

We should all be terrified of Trump’s Project 2025 | Robert Reich

The presumptive Republican nominee has promised to give rightwing evangelical Christians what they want – and more

www.theguardian.com

“Project 2025” is nothing short of a 900-page blueprint for guiding Donald Trump’s second term of office if he’s re-elected.

After the Heritage Foundation unveiled Project 2025 in April last year, when Trump was seeking the Republican nomination, he had no problem with it.


But now that the nation is turning its attention to the general election, Trump doesn’t want Project 2025 to draw attention. Its extremism is likely to turn off independents and moderates.

So Trump is now claiming he has “no idea who is behind” Project 2025.

This is another in a long line of Trump lies.

The Project 2025 playbook was written by more than 20 officials whom Trump himself appointed during his first term. If he has “no idea” who they are, he’s showing an alarming cognitive decline.

 

[Patooka]

I wonder how many totally-not-Trump-supporters are going to claim ignorance with regards to Project 2025 around here, despite this thread being almost a year old.

 

[ZiprHead]

Holy Fuck!!!! Don Jr's fiance look like a ghoul from Supernatural.

 

[Patooka]

Trump on Truth social;

I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.

Yep, totally sounds plausible. I always disagree with groups I know nothing about whilst simultaneously wishing them well.

 

[robnisch]

Holy Fuck!!!! Don Jr's fiance look like a ghoul from Supernatural.

I have heard of beer googles, are there cocaine googles?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Trump's vow to only be a dictator on 'day one' follows growing worry over his authoritarian rhetoric

Donald Trump's assertion that he would only be a dictator on “day one” comes as he is facing scrutiny over his increasingly authoritarian rhetoric.

apnews.com

"After that, I'm not a dictator".

In other words, he intends to be a dictator.

 

[Person19960]

These doofuses, sheesh. Laughable if not for the "we march at 'So help me God'" promise.

Page 14 (page 47 of pdf https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf )

Left to our own devices, the American people rejected European monarchy and colonialism just as we rejected slavery, second-class citizenship for women,mercantilism, socialism, Wilsonian globalism, Fascism, Communism, and (today)wokeism. To the Left, these assertions of patriotic self-assurance are just so many signs of our moral depravity and intellectual inferiority—proof that, in fact, we need a ruling elite making decisions for us.

But the next conservative President should be proud, not ashamed of Americans’ unique culture of social equality and ordered liberty. After all, the countries where Marxist elites have won political and economic power are all weaker, poorer, andless free for it.

The United States remains the most innovative and upwardly mobile society in the world. Government should stop trying to substitute its own preferences for those of the people. And the next conservative President should champion the dynamic genius of free enterprise against the grim miseries of elite-directed socialism.

The promise of socialism—Communism, Marxism, progressivism, Fascism, whatever name it chooses—is simple: Government control of the economy can ensure equal outcomes for all people. The problem is that it has never done so. There is no such thing as “the government.” There are just people who work for the government and wield its power and who—at almost every opportunity—wield it to serve themselves first and everyone else a distant second. This is not a failing of one nation or socialist party, but inherent in human nature.

Nighttime satellite images of the Korean peninsula famously show the free-market South lit up, with homes, businesses, and cities electrified from coast to coast.By contrast, Communist North Korea is almost completely dark, except for the small dot of the capital city, Pyongyang, where a psychotic dictator and his cronies

"The promise of socialism—Communism, Marxism, progressivism, Fascism, whatever name" -- yeah, ya don't say.

 

[Elixir]

WTAF?

"The promise of socialism—Communism, Marxism, progressivism, Fascism, whatever name it chooses—is simple: Government control of the economy can ensure equal outcomes for all people. The problem is that it has never done so."

And that's a bad thing??? We're supposed to believe you fucking WANT "equal outcomes for all people", and that unbridled capitalism will produce it???

What a bunch of clowns.

Nighttime satellite images of the Korean peninsula famously show the free-market South lit up, with homes, businesses, and cities

Like the Democratic NE and CA coast of the United States

By contrast, Communist North Korea is almost completely dark, except for the small dot of the capital city, Pyongyang,

Like the bible belt and rural midwest! (Trump Country)
'Splain that!!

 

[Person19960]

"In Pillar IV—the Playbook—we are forming agency teams and drafting transition plans to move out upon the President’s utterance of “so help me God.”"



THEY MEAN IT literally.

 

[Elixir]

"In Pillar IV—the Playbook—we are forming agency teams and drafting transition plans to move out upon the President’s utterance of “so help me God.”"


THEY MEAN IT literally.

It will be The Greatest Shitshow on Earth, with 70+ million suckers born since PT Barnum, cheering it on.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

He's denying Project 2025--but has Agenda 47. Everything and then some.

Project 2025 Is Bad, But Trump’s Agenda 47 Is Worse

Don’t lose sight of what a second term with that asshole might be.

www.wonkette.com

And some truth about it from Biden:

PROJECT 2025 - Joe Biden for President: Official Campaign Website

Project 2025 is the plan by Donald Trump’s MAGA Republican allies to give Trump more power over your daily life, gut democratic checks and balances, and consolidate power in the Oval Office if he wins. Trump’s campaign advisors and close allies wrote it - and are doing everything they can to...

joebiden.com

 

[Patooka]

 

[Jarhyn]

And that's a bad thing??? We're supposed to believe you fucking WANT "equal outcomes for all people", and that unbridled capitalism will produce it??

The goal was and has never been never equal outcomes, but equal opportunities.

The outcomes will be more equal, all things told, given equal opportunities, but that's not the actual goal.

The goal is just to see those who are qualified for roles get a chance to fill those roles, rather than seeing nepotism, racism, or cronyism degrade our society with incompetent managers' sons and daughters and other children clogging up all our bureaucracies.

 

[Elixir]

The goal was and has never been never equal outcomes, but equal opportunities.

Yeah, liberty and justice for all would be nice too.
Of frickin' COURSE the trumpsters misrepresent the "goal" of democratic society - that's what they do.
And I don't care about that except that they are using their misrepresentation as an excuse to try to install a fascist government.
But I do think it's funny that they would represent that THEY WANT "equal outcomes for all", and the incredibly stupid implication that unregulated free market capitalism will produce "equal outcomes for all" when they know it is designed for exactly the opposite.
What they really want is equal outcomes subservience for all except the ruling oligarchs.

 

[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.

 

[Person19960]

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.

I LOL'D SO HARD omg wait, I took an edible