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Project 2025

Loren Pechtel said:
From Reddit:

Project 2025 simplified.

The greediest billionaires will be in charge of your work life.
And the craziest Christan fundies will be charge of your sex life.
Everyone's good with that right?
Oh, and we'll be trashing the Constitution and ending American democracy.
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Well also they're just going to kill heretics, there's that part too.
 
(Same idea, two sources.)

www.rawstory.com

'Chilling': Ex-Trump insider issues warning about new Project 2025 revelations

Olivia Troye, a former homeland security adviser in the Trump White House, warned on Friday that the plans outlined in a secret recording by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought would likely come to pass should former President Donald Trump win another term.Reacting to the recording of Vought —...
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In other words, do what the strongman says. The law doesn't matter if nobody enforces it.
 
Watch this chilling video of the Project 2025 plan for education in the US.

 
See, they're not "anti-gay", that's just MSM propaganda. They only want to make it illegal to acknowledge the existence of their gay students in any way! That's not alienating at all! They're not anti-poor, that's just MSM propaganda. No, they're the best friends the proletariat ever had, because they want to prevent children from cruelly abandoning poverty. This will keep the prolies pure, untroubled by the stress of unaccustomed wealth, or the famously long hours of full time professional work! Everyone benefits on average when everyone knows their place.

May they all burn in the accidental fires of hell.
 
"Freedom cities" and a "Department of Life": It's too late for Trump to ditch Project 2025 | Salon.com - July 9, 2024 9:00AM (EDT) - "We can't forget what Donald Trump has been up to while Democrats have obsessed over President Biden"

Starting out with how DT brags about how "his" Supreme Court Justices overturned Roe v. Wade, but then jumping around on the details, trying to seem "moderate" and also to satisfy the hardline antiabortionists of his party's base.

Project 2025 sides with the hardliners:
Life begins at conception. They want to turn the Department of Health and Human Services into the “Department of Life.” They want the Food and Drug Administration to withdraw its approval for the two drugs used in most medical abortions, mifepristone and misoprostol (which the FDA ruled as safe many years ago.) They want their new “Department of Life” to require a record kept of how many abortions take place in all states, what was the reason for the abortion, where the woman lives, and what was the gestational age of “the child.” They want the rules requiring confidentiality of medical records lifted so that states can pursue criminal investigations of women who cross state lines to get an abortion. And they want the Trump Department of Justice to use the ancient and never-used Comstock Act to prosecute anyone using the mails to send or receive abortion pills. If the Comstock Act is enforced in the way advocated by Project 2025, it would criminalize the sending and receiving of medical equipment used in performing abortions, right down to face masks and medical scrubs.
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What DT himself wants is in Agenda 47, and it has a *lot* of overlap with Project 2025. In one of DT's videos,
In one, Trump goes beyond Project 2025 Hitlerian calls for having states keep records of abortions performed. Trump is asked if states should “monitor women’s pregnancies to make sure they are not terminated.” His answer is chilling: “I think they might do that. Again, you’ll have to speak to the individual states. Look, Roe v. Wade was all about bringing it back to the states.”
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Trump, Vance Have Backed States That Want to Surveil Pregnant Women - August 1, 2024 - "The former president and his VP nominee have said states with abortion bans should be able to monitor women’s pregnancies"

Not just abortion, of course.
Both Project 2025 and Agenda 47 want to end birthright citizenship, established by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. They want to allow the DOJ to appoint a special prosecutor to “go after” Biden and other Trump enemies. They want to purge the Civil Service of “disloyal” federal employees and replace them with Trump loyalists – which would involve firing thousands of federal workers protected by Civil Service laws passed by Congress. Naturally, both projects endorse rounding up, imprisoning, and deporting millions of undocumented immigrants, many of whom are awaiting court dates for hearings on applications for asylum. This operation would entail the deployment of up to 300,000 soldiers to get the job done. The Trump proposals would upend decades of laws intended to benefit minorities to compensate for decades of discrimination that goes back to slavery and turn the laws around to benefit white people.
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Trump also proposes founding "Freedom Cities": “These Freedom Cities will reopen the frontier, reignite American imagination, and give hundreds of thousands of young people and other people, all hardworking families, a new shot at home ownership and in fact, the American Dream.”

Project 2025 states that a lot of things are to be left to the states. " They want to leave it to the states regarding the teaching of history that would include bans on teaching about slavery such as those Texas and other states have passed." for instance. Left unstated is what to do about states that don't do what that project's authors want, states that declare themselves abortion sanctuaries, for instance.
Leaving it up to the states was at the center of segregation laws in this country that were overturned by Brown v. Board of Education and other landmark federal civil rights decisions and the Civil Rights Act. What is to prevent the Trump Supreme Court from revisiting Brown to leave it up to the states to pass whatever laws they want regarding racial equity and opportunity? Do you think either the Trump Supreme Court or a new Trump administration would have any trouble with new state laws allowing segregated housing and schools? If you don’t, you’re dreaming.
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Voters Have a Right to Know What Kevin Roberts’s Disturbing Book Says | The New Republic - "J.D. Vance wrote the foreword to “Dawn’s Early Light.” The rest of the book outlines an even more troubling vision."
Kevin Roberts styles himself as a modern Prometheus, and thinks he’s here to bring the fire. The president of the Heritage Foundation’s forthcoming book, Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America, opens with metaphors about fires, claiming that in 2020 “our country went up in flames” and now it’s time to “fight fire with fire.” Using the massive California forest fires of 2020 as a stark, vivid metaphor, Roberts argues that America’s institutions have become “deadwood in a forest,” and that conservatives “can’t merely continue putting out fires”; they must be “brave enough to go on the offense, strike the match, and start a long, controlled burn.”
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He originally wanted the title Dawn's Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America (MP3 CD) | Skylark Bookshop

"Trump went so far as to deny ever having met Roberts (before photos of them smiling on a private plane emerged)." What a bad liar.
Dawn’s Early Light has all the misplaced confidence of a movement that’s mistaken a 6–3 Supreme Court and an easily played New York Times op-ed page for some kind of mandate. The party that has won the popular vote in a presidential election exactly once in the last 35 years is not popular, and people do not want what they’re selling.
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I checked the numbers, and that is correct. Using FDR's Presidency as a reference point, Republican Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush I all won popular-vote victories. The next Republican President to win, George Bush II, lost the popular vote in his first election, but won it in his second one. The most recent one, Donald Trump, also lost the popular vote. It looks likely that if DT wins again, he will lose the popular vote.
 
When your only path to power consists in gerrymandering and shaving tight victories in a few key swing states while the opposition runs up the margins nearly everywhere else, you might try for some soul-searching about why people don’t like you, but Roberts and his Heritage Foundation have instead opted for violent threats, claiming a “second American revolution” is coming that will remain “bloodless” only “if the left allows it to be.”
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They justify that by talking about the US being a republic and not a democracy, as if those attributes are mutually exclusive, and they moan and groan about the tyranny of the majority, as if they never called themselves the silent majority.

The US is in decline from what KR calls “pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros-funded police abolitionist district attorneys, [and] hipster trust fund socialists.” KR thinks that these are some of the “least impressive people in the history of the world,” but they are secretly controlled by the "Uniparty", something that KR implies is, from the article, "a loose, fungible cabal of neoliberals, corporate bureaucrats, hedge-fund managers, public school unions, antifa activists, and George Soros." What a collection of villains.
This Uniparty has been poisoning the minds of good, upstanding, ordinary Americans, conditioning them to dye their hair, get dogs, develop nasal voices, and work in advertising.
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KR wants to destroy a large number of governmental and cultural institutions: “Every Ivy League college, the FBI, the New York Times, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Department of Education, 80 percent of ‘Catholic’ higher education, BlackRock, the Loudoun County Public School System, the Boy Scouts of America, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum, the Chinese Communist Party, and the National Endowment for Democracy.”

KR plans to do that with big government, and though he makes some nods to Ronald Reagan, he derides small-government conservatives as “wax-museum conservatives.” He wants a right-wing administrative state.

He wants a new America of "Faith, Family, Community, and Work", and though he defines them, he does not make much of a case for them. He states that they are “the enduring record of human flourishing stretching back into the mists of history,” though currently under attack from "the Uniparty and its many Skittle-haired minions," as the article puts it.

About family, the “nuclear family is the foundation of the human order”, rather unhistorical, and about faith, humanity “is made to worship, and our republic depends on the moral strength and habits of heart brought about by piety.”

"Made to worship"???

But if that's so, then why act as if that is to be maintained by force?
 
A man’s religious tradition is a matter of his conscience, but that we have a faithful people is a matter of public concern. Accordingly, the state must not discriminate against religious organizations in government programs, and freedom of religion should take precedence over the enforcement of other rights. Policies that encourage religious observance, such as Sabbath laws and voucher programs that include religious schools, should be encouraged. American society is rooted in the Christian faith—certainly public institutions should not establish anything offensive to Christian morals under the guise of “religious freedom” or “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
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He wants Sabbath observance -- Sabbath on a Sunday, the usual Christian day. But Judaism and some Christian sects have Saturday instead.

That also does not take into account Islam or any non-Abrahamic religion or tradition.

That's a rather dangerous position for a Catholic like KR to take, given the US's history of anti-Catholicism, a history that goes all the way back to the colonial era. Would KR enjoy being suspected of being a lackey of the Vatican?
 
But someone whose goal is the destruction of “every Ivy League college” and who repeatedly cites the “great Renaissance scholar and classicist” James Hankins (who is faculty at Harvard) cannot be expected to be a particularly thorough or rigorous thinker.
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Instead he pines away for some supposed Good Old Days.
“Men and women,” he explains, “should marry (and do so younger than most do today). They should marry for life and should bring children into the world (more than most do today).”
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But why isn't this happening? Economics? He thinks that it's a conspiracy.
“The birth control pill,” he tells us, “was the product of a decades-long research agenda paid for by the Rockefeller Foundation and other eugenicist and population control-oriented groups.”
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As a result, he claims, childless became “natural” and having children “unnatural.” A result of “a society remade according to a research agenda set by the Party of Destruction,” another name for the Uniparty, blaming the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In vitro fertilization he says is bad, because while it “seems to assist fertility,” it “has the added effect of incentivizing women to delay trying to start a family, often leading to added problems when the time comes.”

What a dumb argument.
 
KR grumbles that “video games, huge high-definition TVs, social media, pornography, and more. These technologies aren’t thought of as contraceptive, but that’s what their effect is in American life: they make young men lazier and more impotent (literally) and less inclined to be husbands and fathers.”

What would he have said about entertainments of previous decades and centuries?

He states that the biggest difficulty with having children “is not this or that government policy but prosperity itself: the wealthier a society is, the greater the opportunity cost involved in raising kids.” Implying that one should be prepared to go into poverty to do so. Given that many his ideological compatriots, even if not he himself, claim that one should not have children that one cannot afford, one suspects a contradiction.

He earns some $675,000/year as the president of the Heritage Foundation, so a large family is easier to afford for him than for most other people.
 
Why are conservatives so obsessed with what other people do in the bedroom and how many new people come out of it? Simply put, because Roberts’s America hungers for more bodies, and more labor.

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It makes sense that he thinks people should be pushing out as many kids as possible, living on poverty wages if need be, if we’re going to bring back low-skilled manufacturing to the heartland. An Adderall-popping dog mom can only produce so many iPhones in an hour by herself.
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But workers are also consumers, and that exactly balances out. Increasing the number of workers only works when one gets some economies of scale out of their greater number.

Roberts wants to “recover the republican tradition of confronting globalist corporatism exemplified by the Boston Tea Party and Teddy Roosevelt,” thus saving “our” way of life—and he seems to think that with enough isolationist government intervention, we can defeat the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, undo globalization, and put the manufacturing genie back in the bottle.
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He gets that right about the Boston Tea Party; the British East India Company was a multinational big business that was supported by the British Government.

But given that the Heritage Foundation is a pro-capitalist think tank, that's a strange position to take, unless he is willing to argue that only some kinds of capitalism are good.
That “our” is a conscious, repeated tic throughout Dawn’s Early Light, alongside words like “shared”—the assumption is that all Americans hold these values in common, thus he has no need to argue for them, and he can dismiss the tens of millions of actual Americans who hold different values as Uniparty dupes.
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How to fight the Chinese Communist Party and the Uniparty? "... widespread prominent public prayer." Football games, schools, political events, ...

Would he like "There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet"?

But he does not have much faith that God will zap the people he dislikes.
He spends pages extolling the Korean shopkeepers of the 1992 Rodney King riots: When the LAPD abandoned Koreatown, the “good guys” fought back, grabbing guns themselves and organizing ad hoc patrols of the neighborhood to protect their property. Roberts wants more of this—in his future America, we’re kept safe by armed bands of men who keep order through intimidation and extrajudicial violence.
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He attacks the FBI, and he seems to dislike even local law enforcement.
He’s also correct that, as most progressives have long understood, the attitudes of the Uvalde police “prioritizing compliance over competence, legalese over liberty,” are widespread in police departments across the country.

... or Dawn’s Early Light puts vigilantism well above law enforcement. But whatever the reason, somehow Roberts has come around to agreeing with antifa that the cops aren’t here to save us.
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His alternative is to arm everybody, so that everybody can be a vigilante.
 
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