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Despite disavowing Project 2025 during the campaign, Trump’s transition team is now using its extensive database of vetted conservative candidates to help fill over 4,000 government positions.

Project 2025, criticized for its extreme policy proposals and links to Trump’s first administration, created a “conservative LinkedIn” of 10,000 candidates.

While some contributors are being tapped for key roles, others face rejection due to controversial stances.

Democrats, who used Project 2025 in campaign attacks, are warning of its influence on Trump’s agenda and planning policy responses.

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[–] [email protected] 207 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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....

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Same, red county-district-state. I would hope the same but they won't attribute it to their dear* leader. His Tariffs and GOP policy will fuck them too, but fox and podcasts will tell them it's the deep state Democrats keeping them down. They all were doing the "this is Biden's America" posts in 2020. GOP can do no wrong in their eyes. Used to be child rape was a deal breaker but even that is A-OK now, as long as the Democrats lose.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

All the policy goals are the same as what's been in the Republican platform for decades. The only thing Project 2025 adds is how to get there. Is Trump a useful idiot? Maybe, although it would be silly to operate under that assumption rather than believing he's just as committed as the rest of them. Either way, the idea having seeped into the popular consciousness of the American voter that Project 2025 is something other than a serious plan for a Republican administration is an astonishing bit of doublethink. Orwell spins like a turbine in his grave.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I don't know how so many people against project 2025 still voted for the party supporting it.

Can you be truly against something if you cannot even be bothered to have the slightest idea what it is?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Actually, his wife and his friends said they've only seen him actively read one book, which is a book of Hitler's speeches.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What? The mental gymnastics on these people...

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No mental gymnastics are needed when they straight up don't know how their own government works.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure 50 years ago, doctors would be calling it mental retardation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

You don't even have to go back that far. It was still the accepted term in at least the 90s.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (17 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I hate trump voters, but I hate the people who know how awful he is but stayed home even more.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

But genocide joe or some shit

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (11 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago

And why should anyone be surprised?

  1. Rumor of shitty thing republicans are planning

  2. 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.

  3. Months later republicans are trying to officially enact shitty thing they denied planning.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fox and Friends didn't report on it.

When Trump and his team were effectively forced to respond by a deluge of other outlets covering it, Trump literally just got in an interview and said "I never read it". He didn't say he didn't know about it, he didn't say he didn't agree with it, just "I never read it, I don't know what it's about" - which I believe because the guy barely reads anything according to all the sources I can find.

Remember that really ever since 2000, a LARGE amount of voters have checked out entirely. They get their politics third-hand from people who watched Fox or read an article and many don't even do that, just going into a polling station and checking whoever's name they've heard more in the last month or two. They're not even low-information, they're zero-information, and some, like my mother, are even negative-information, digesting objectively untrue facts and regurgitating them onto their personal political canvas (mom got deep into the Qanon panic because "parts of it felt true").

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Told and told and told by everyone with half a brain but as usual the nitwits wanna listen to the "entertainer"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They knew. They wanted this. The denying just gave them "plausible" deniability.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Trump's TRANSition team

Trump was the one turning kids trans in schools all along

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Nobody should be surprised by this.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

This can’t be happening he told me otherwise. /s

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago

In other news, water is wet.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I'm shocked, SHOCKED! ... Well, not that shocked.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh so its ok for trump to transition?!?! I see how it is....

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When you're a rich prick, they let you do it

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Lying liar lies again. We're all horribly shocked.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

When an individual tells you they are crazy, It’s best to trust them on that judgement

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