I’ve never seen something as unhinged as Project 2025. I mean it, it sounds like a shitty “evil plan” cooked on 4chan, but it’s fucking real. Insane.
It’s not just real it’s their actual political strategy. This isn’t fringe shit, this is what they will do when they take office.
it sounds like a shitty “evil plan” cooked on 4chan
4chan has several porn and LGBT boards. this is on conservatism.
Yeah, but a lot of conservatives, and by extension fascists, are extremely hypocritical on the surface, except they like to use "hypocrisy" as a tool against their opponents, and by "hypocrisy", I mean not following the strawman version of your ideology. I personally call this as "rulebending", they're manipulating their opponents rules to be even higher and thus choking them with it.
On a deeper level they just want a lot of power, which includes them being above the law, as long as they're loyal to the dictator/king. If project 2025 succeeds, expect one of them getting caught on live with real CP, maybe even raping a child, then will just go "so what? I can do this, you are not allowed to!".
If we're talking about American politics in our lifetime, yeah this is tops. But it's not history's craziest politics by a long shot
Hear that everyone, it could be worse
Thanks for the enlightening framing. When they’re rounding up people they don’t like we should tell them it’s ok, it’s been worse
Nobody fucking cares. This isn’t some academic exercise to rank crazy times. This is the very real political strategy of a party about to take power in the US. This view from nowhere shit is so exhausting.
Project 2025 wants to:
- Outlaw pornography
- Outlaw abortion
- Outlaw homosexuality
- Eliminate all major checks on presidential power. Say goodbye to the system of checks and balances
- Replace many federal workers with those who are loyal only to the president
www.defeatproject2025.org breaks it down by topic, also highly suggest John Oliver's segment on it
Replace many federal workers with those who are loyal only to the president
This is the key point that actually makes all this possible. From the wiki
It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of merit-based federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with loyal conservatives to further the objectives of the next Republican president.
"Tens of thousands". There is absolutely not enough young republicans in the nation to replace that many federal workers. The outcome if they fired them anyways would be orders of magnitude worse than the De-Ba'athification of Iraq. Its declaring class war on Northern Virginia and its a fight the GOP would lose.
I grew up in Northern VA, and so many of my childhood friends still up there work in low to mid level jobs for the Federal government or doing IT grunt work for DoD contractor, and “lean Libertarian”.
Trying to figure out how they don’t realize that they’ll be the first to be culled after the political opposition is a complete mind fuck. Some of them claim the Libertarian label because they’re gay but otherwise Republican. Bro. Some of them claim the Libertarian label because they smoke weed but are otherwise Republican. Bro. Some of them claim the Libertarian label because they support reproductive rights but are otherwise Republican. Bro.
I’ve tried gently talking sense to a lot of these people for an over decade at this point. It’s slowly built to a point where I’m writing off friendships.
Dictatorship ftw
Delete terms that deprive of first amendment rights.
Bit of an oxymoron isn't it?
For fascists, freedom of speech equals saying slurs.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
In this case, the law being freedom of speech, the protection being to say what they want and the binding being to prohibit others from curtailing that. Naturally, the push for inclusive language is part of a movement to curtail that freedom and needs to be reversed and pushed back against.
That's called doublespeak
Without the oxy
No because every conservative either doesn’t know about it or pretends it isn’t as bad as it is, which they rationalize by making sure not to look at it too closely.
"It only hurts the people I don't like" and "I would be exempt from this".
I have no idea why any immigrant or Hispanic would want this. He's directly targeting all of them. There are no exceptions, there's no points you get. This is his stated platform
Devout Christianity is a common reason. Specifically, the kind that believes abortion is murder and is the number 1 topic that can supersede all others. If one candidate vows to outlaw it and the other vows to protect it, the conservative Christian brainwashing machine gets these out-groups to vote against all of their interests to "protect babies".
Taxes is another I hear. People actually beleive Republicans are fiscally responsible and going to help these out-groups, many of whom are lower middle class, get ahead by reducing tax. Ignore the part where reducing everyone's taxes increases everyone's gains, increasing everyone's budget, and therefore not actually increasing anyone's purchasing power because the market will adjust sales price higher.
Obviously, this works on the majority demographics too. But they're closer to the in-group than who you asked about
Literally just yesterday I posted about it in my family’s political group chat and my older sister said, and I quote:
“even though I lean left, I'm actually glad that conservatives have a playbook! Why? because Trump's first term presidential transition (2017) was totally bungled... he needs a list of people that he can appoint from, so that these agencies don't just fall apart… Don't kid yourself, Biden's team and Obama's team and the democrats overall definitely have their own playbook and their list of potential appointees. They just don't have to crowdsource theirs!”
cue insane Charlie Kelly screams
Narrator: She did not actually lean left, but instead very far right.
She just likes weed.
Hate to crowdsource appointees in my democracy
Is your sister Roseanne Barr, what the fuck is she saying
We are so fucked
Ok ok ok....the porn is going too far and we all know that you all will be the ones suffering..so you need to work on your blatant lies.. Your own president paid to sleep with a porn star for heaven's sake
He's not our president anymore! Yet!
I pray to you Jeebus, Buddha, Allah, Satan, Giant sketti monster....PLZ HALP. I mean your own as in the Republican party's president.. sorry for the funky wording teddy brosavelt
The US ruling class has been trying to do all of these things for decades. I’ve been treated like I’m insane for calling this out since well before Project 2025 was formulated. It’s honestly frustrating to see the amount of people finally coming around now that all their ducks are in a row and a second Trump term is looking more and more certain every day. Biden’s been literally doing Republican policies for his entire presidency and we haven’t heard a fucking peep from the liberal “activists” in my area about it.
but biden said umm. i can't tell the difference /s
already happening
I'm not a capitalist but glad the free market regularly aligns with DEI. Thought the company I work at would back off a bit to the news coverage of outraged hysterics but they've doubled down.
Is this a joke? The only reason the “free market” pretended to align with DEI in the first place was for regulations and public relations purposes. The capitalist class has never and will never give a fuck about DEI. You know that HR departments are not our friends, right? Their job is to execute the will of the capitalist class upon the working class.
- AP, Jan. 2024: As diversity, equity and inclusion comes under legal attack, companies quietly alter their programs
- Bloomberg, Feb. 2024: Why Companies Are Scaling Back DEI in America
- Morningstar, Mar. 2024: Companies are pulling back on DEI. What will be lost in the process?
Why would it be bad to terminate investigations that are unlawful or contrary to national interests?
Because "contarary to national interests" means "any investigation that targets friends of mine"
Think about how many times in the last few months Trump has complained about the rigged trials. Now imagine him being able to unilaterally decide which investigations are lawful and which aren't.
The FBI shouldnt be investigating the executive branch... The only way it should happen is if the congress calls for it, and that is what they are trying to do.
