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Summary

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] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

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

Honestly, a lot of centrist are. They also don't expect any of it to actually be implemented. Cue those leopards

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Did NBC do any of the sane washing that helped trump get elected?

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

Why should Palestinians have all the genocidal fun?

[–] [email protected] 207 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 week ago (5 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 week ago (6 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....

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (2 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] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

his dad read it because he was a fucking Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Exactly what I was getting at.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

holy shit. well that explains quite alot

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (2 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.

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

What? The mental gymnastics on these people...

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 week 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 week ago (3 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

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 week ago (9 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] 9 points 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

In which state did 3rd-party voters tip the presidential election results there?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Your reading comprehension skills suck. The original commenter mentioned TWO types of idiots. 1) the morons that voted third party, and 2) the defectives that ABSTAINED from voting.

I guess your brain only came equipped with 8GB of RAM, because you acted like OP gave you some clever GOTCHA moment by only mentioning 3rd party voters, while you completely disregarded OP including group #2 as well.

In the future, I recommend you avoid complex tasks, like, say, chewing gum and walking at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Correction, they mentioned 3 types of idiots not 2.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Present some evidence or shut the fuck up already.

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 week ago (14 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.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week 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 week 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] 48 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (8 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] 2 points 6 days ago

no this is not idiocracy.

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