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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump and Musk are trying to destroy America.

This is designed to drive a wedge between the First Amendment and the practical need for the truth.

They are “Flooding the Zone with Shit” which either corrodes our ability to communicate or causes people to embrace curbs to free speech.

Either way it destroys America.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait you mean they're filling the swamp?!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Filling the swamp?

No. They are the swamp.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Article didn't link to the website they set up but yup, pretty much checks out https://progress2028.com/ for those that didn't read the article, none of these are actual Harris policies.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Some of this Progress 2028 stuff sounds based as fuck though. If only she was running on that.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

For real. The fact that all of these are just more Republican lies is extremely disappointing:

“She’s committed to banning fracking, phasing out internal combustion engines, and rolling out the most progressive Green New Deal yet,” another section of the Progress 2028 plan reads.

“will support a nationwide gun buy-back program that will take dangerous weapons off our streets"

“Let’s remove barriers for undocumented immigrants who are undocumented!” one ad states, adding, “Access to affordable housing, driver licenses, and fair wages creates a stronger America for everyone.”

Republicans are so detached from the American people that they think these ideas would scare us. It's no surprise they suck at parody, but by putting these words into Harris's mouth they run the ironic risk of pushing undecided Independents or seemingly-ignored Progressives to vote for her.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

The goal isn't to scare progressives or even the democrat base. This is to split voters who are center right to vote against the progressive version of Project 2025.

They literally saw how bad Project 2025 hurt them and instead of coming out against it, said "We should put a fake libder version of it together! That'll show em!"

The sad thing is that it might work.

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

This all sounds fine, wtf.

And I love guns. Buybacks do nothing and dont take away my rights, so go nuts!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I could see this working if targeted towards never Trump Republicans, but they're risking accidentally motivating people to actually vote for her based on something she was never planning on doing.