Do NOT believe the Liar in Thief.....The serial rapist.......enemy of America and Putins Piss Boy......
Paul Weyrich.....main founder of Heritage right now is celebrating with Satan in the depths of Hades at the prospect of his wet dream coming true. The destruction of an America for the people.
Do not follow in Chamberilin's footsteps and believe a tyranical ,diaper claud.,feces stiniking, chiild rapist ,DICKtator in wating who lies with every breath.
The Blue wave picking up steam and must be a tidal wave in Novemeber.
Amen. I've read Project 2025. to say that is an existential threat to our country is an understatement.
Everyone should check out the first three chapters (about 80 pages), on "Taking the Reins of Government". This will give you a sense of what the plan has in store for you.
If you're going to read it, you'll want this. It's a list of 268 acronyms used in the plan.
Amen......Project 2025 is alive and well. As you know the prepartion for this has taken years of subversive work. My main question still is what forces that will go to the streets and without mercy, put down demostrations. I believe that the militas are on standby waiting for the call from Heritage. Would Trump actually order the National Guard to fire on US citizens? MAGA is a hate based cult that does not have the ability to reason and think clearly. They would blindly follow any orders.
Biden will not do this. BUT, he would within his power, utilize the Insurrection Act to the advantage of the American People. With the National Guard first, then and only then, if the military was required to quell domestic terrorism.
Priority No. 3: Provide necessary support to Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) border protection operations. Border protection is a
national security issue that requires sustained attention and effort by all
elements of the executive branch.
From page 107
Establish true alignment between DOD and DHS both to improve the
defense of critical U.S. infrastructure and national border integrity
and to develop vital information that enables defense against foreign
targeted disruptions.
From page 110
Transform how the National Guard is employed during extended operations short of declared war to preclude back-to-back federal and state deployments of National Guard soldiers in order to stabilize and preserve military volunteerism in our communities.
From Chapter 4 DHS
page 142
CBP’s established national standards of Transport, Escort, Detention, and Search (TEDS) have been widely interpreted and expanded by lower courts.
This has resulted in unrealistic and differing detention standards for CBP facilities based on the jurisdiction within which they fall, negatively impacting operations.
ICE has suffered similarly. A single nationwide detention standard should be codified that prevents individual states from mandating that federal government agencies to adhere widely expansive and ever-changing sets of standards. Such standards should allow the flexibility to use large numbers of temporary facilities such as tents.
The annual costs associated with establishing and maintaining temporary facilities to address the flow of illegal migration and associated care, transportation, and processing are prohibitive, and CBP’s budget is inadequate.
Page 143
Congress should mandate and fund additional bed space for alien detainees.
ICE should be funded for a significant increase in detention space, raising the daily available number of beds to 100,000.
Other structural changes should include reimplementation of the USCIS denaturalization unit—an effort to maintain integrity in the system by identifying and prosecuting criminal and civil denaturalization cases, in combination with the Department of Justice, for aliens who obtained citizenship through fraud or other illicit means.
Additionally, USCIS should create a criminal enforcement component within the agency to investigate immigration benefits fraud under Title 8 (perhaps requiring additional legislative and regulatory authorities for the officers themselves) and to prosecute cases through Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys (SAUSAs) with substantive knowledge in the field.
Page 144
To advance the national interest, the three core immigration agencies—USCIS, ICE, and CBP—should remerge and have immigration elements outside of DHS (such as ORR of HHS) included.
The fragmented immigration enforcement frame- work that developed in the wake of the Homeland Security Act has weakened each agency and should be remediated.
Combining these critical agencies would strengthen their capabilities, ensure cooperation, and promote information-sharing.
Training should be returned to Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC), which would underscore the enforcement role of USCIS as a vetting agency and be rebranded accordingly.
Page 144
Management Directives and policies should realign to ensure that the workforce, while adaptable and able to handle the bulk of the USCIS mission, is not allowed to be pulled off mission work to focus on unlawful programs (DACA, mass parole for Afghans, Ukrainians, Venezuelans, etc.), which divert resources away from nuclear family and employment programs.
Page 147
USCIS should be classified as a national security–sensitive agency, and all of its employees should be classified as holding national security–sensitive positions.
Leaks must be investigated and punished as they would be in a national security agency, and the union should be decertified. Any employees who cannot accept that change and cannot conform their behavior to the standards required by such an agency should be separated. USCIS’s D.C. personnel presence should be skeletal, and agency employees with operational or security roles should be rotated out to offices throughout the United States. These USCIS employees should live and work in the communities that are most affected by their daily duties and decisions.
Page 166ff
AGENCY RELATIONSHIPS
It is critical to the achievement of the President’s policy objectives that all agencies and departments touching immigration policy work in sync with one another. While there are numerous areas in which such cooperation is critical, immigration has proven to be the most difficult.
Accordingly, several objectives will be necessary for each of the following departments.
Department of Health and Human Services: Agree to move the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to DHS or, alternatively, implement an aggressive and regular effort by the Secretary of HHS to ensure that ORR is fully pursuing presidential objectives in support of DHS.
Department of Defense: Assist in aggressively building the border wall system on America’s southern border. Additionally, explicitly acknowledge and adjust personnel and priorities to participate actively in the defense of America’s borders, including using military personnel and hardware to prevent illegal crossings between ports of entry and channel all cross-border traffic to legal ports of entry.
Department of Justice: Agree to move the Executive Office for Immigration Review and the Office of Immigration Litigation to DHS and/or, alternatively, to treat the administrative law judges (immigration judges and Board of Immigration Appeals) as national security personnel, decertify their union, and move to increase hiring significantly to enable the processing of more immigration cases.
Department of State: Allow DHS to lead international engagement in
the Western Hemisphere on issues of security and migration. Additionally, quickly and aggressively address recalcitrant countries’ failure to accept deportees by imposing stiff sanctions until deportees are in fact accepted for return (not just promised to be taken).
Department of Housing and Urban Development: Ensure that only U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents utilize or occupy federally subsidized housing.
Department of Education: Deny loan access to those who are not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents and deny loan access to students at schools that provide in-state tuition to illegal aliens.
Department of Labor: Eliminate the two (of four) lowest wage levels for foreign workers.
Department of the Treasury: Implement all necessary regulations both to equalize taxes between American citizens and working visa holders and to provide DHS with all tax information of illegal aliens as expeditiously as possible.
Intelligence Community: Cooperate in the shrinking or elimination of the I&A role in the IC while replacing it with CBP and HSI representation to the IC.
From Chapter 17 DOJ
Page 562ff
Ensure that the DOJ spearheads an initiative demonstrating the federal government’s commitment to nondiscrimination.
The department should also lead a whole-of-government recommitment to nondiscrimination and should be working with all other federal agencies, boards, and commissions to ensure that they are both complying with constitutional and legal requirements and using their authorities and funding to prevent discrimination not only internally, but also at the state, local, and private-sector levels.
This will require particularly close coordination with several key agencies, including such obvious candidates as the
1. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; the
2. Departments of Defense,
3. Department of Education, and
4. Housing and Urban Development; and the
5. Securities and Exchange Commission.
It will also require enforcing contractual requirements that prohibit discrimination on federal contractors.
Bob, this crap is scary. Thanks for popping it in here. It sounds in some ways as though they are trying to streamline things when what they are really doing, if read correctly, is consolidate agencies so they are more easily controlled by a single entity and permit them to militarize so they can "better control" immigration, including dumping unions and anything else that protects workers and if those workers don't like it, tough sh*t! So immigrants are just people to fill prisons even in tents because, well, that is probably cheaper. And killing them if they try to come into this country should be OK too. The inhumanity of this crap is startling and I bet every single one of those sycophants for Baby Donnie call themselves christians. Well, I must inform them they are a cult for Trump that is using the wrong name for itself. Gag!
Barbara B., the hate, anger, fear, and resentment are palpable and they want to spread it out onto this country that has given every one of those Project 2025 writers privilege beyond what any of them deserve and they turn on this nation to get even more they don't deserve. Our best weapon is this document and getting it out to the public, even Trumpers and Trumpettes, then keep it up until the American people see what is being done to them, not for them!.
Bob, Thanks for the list of Acronyms. Yesterday when my Democrats Abroad Project 2025 book club met, we discussed who was the audience for this document and did they understand that by publishing it people would read it who would have a problem with it. Most of the people in my group feel that The Heritage Foundation is out of touch with mainstream Americans so much so that they might not understand how we would see what they want to do as a problem. We are not reading straight through, but jumping around and reading the parts that we want to. We see themes to what they are writing even though each section has a different author. Also, looking at the authors we often see people writing their own job descriptions in the next Trump administration. We also see that the references are not serious sources mostly, but junk right wing news. What we want to do with what we learn, is put together information sheets for the events that we attend in our countries that have a lot of Americans and recruit them and inform them and help them to vote abroad.
Yes yes yes. But what I can only pray for (if I had religion) is for us to lay low on the divisive issues that lessen our support base. And you know what they are I don’t want to go there again.
Paul M. Weyrich, the conservative thinker and strategist whose iron principles, articulate fervor and organization-building skills were instrumental in propelling the right wing of the Republican Party to power and prominence in the 1980s and ’90s, died Thursday. He was 66 and lived in Fairfax, Va.
Lee Edwards, a friend of Mr. Weyrich’s for four decades and a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative research group that Mr. Weyrich helped found, confirmed the death, ... but Mr. Weyrich had many health problems, including diabetes. His legs were amputated at the knee in 2005, and he had broken his back in a fall some years earlier.
A writer, a lobbyist and an organizer on behalf of conservative causes and especially social conservatism, Mr. Weyrich (pronounced WY-rick) was one of the far right’s most unbending ideologues. He was widely credited with coining the phrase “moral majority” as a rallying label for social conservatives. It became the name of the religion-based political organization that was led by the Rev. Jerry Falwell.
A deacon in the ultra-conservative Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Mr. Weyrich openly fused his faith and his politics.
“Defense is a moral issue,” he told The Washington Post in 1983, before the fall of the Soviet Union, adding that he considered the Communists to be godless oppressors. “There are some things worse than war. One is surrender the moral consequences are such that the nation would be destroyed. Since I believe in eternal life, if it became necessary to sacrifice my life for my country or my beliefs, well, then I’m willing to do so. The people who have come up with the better-red-than-dead idea are not believers.”
For more than a quarter of a century, Mr. Weyrich was one of the Republican Party’s leading antagonists from the right. President Ronald Reagan, he said, had overemphasized economic issues and kept social issues “on the back burner,” as he wrote on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times in 1984.
Perhaps more than anything, Mr. Weyrich was a nondeviator in his unswerving faith in small government, free-market economics, the right to life and the sanctity of the family.
“Paul Weyrich fought tirelessly for three decades to protect the preborn, preserve traditional marriage and ensure that people of faith had a voice in shaping the public policy that affected their lives,” James C. Dobson, the founder of Focus on Families, said in a statement on Thursday. “Had there been no Paul Weyrich, there would be no conservative movement as we know it.”
Richard A. Viguerie, the conservative direct-mail pioneer, said in a telephone interview that Mr. Weyrich was the least known of the four pillars of modern conservatism, the others being Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald Reagan. (NYTimes by Bruce Weber)
As we speak right now, Heritage is following in the footsteps of Joe McCarthy.
Thomm Hartman just reported today they are funding a group that is activly researchng all government employees. They want to know NOW who is loyal to Trump and who is not. These guys are serious and look no further than Venezuala to see what will happen if Orange steals the election somehow.
Weyrich's efforts set the stage for star wars..... watered down acid rain legislation......climate deniers.....fueling the destruction of choice, freedom, putting democracy in limbo and the dream of America. The truth of his legacy.
The next step on the former president's agenda. After Project 2025:
'Have babies for Russia: Putin presses women to embrace patriotism over feminism.' (WAPO, excerpt)
Follow the leader. 'All aboard', shouts Vance!
'MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin, who has long cultivated an aura of machismo as Russia’s strongman leader, is enlisting women to grow Russia’s population through childbirth and to rebuild his nation as a great power steeped in traditional family values — a campaign that is eroding equal rights and protections, human rights advocates and Russian feminists say.'
“Many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had seven or eight children, and maybe even more,” Putin declared to an audience of ultraconservative religious and political figures who had convened in the State Kremlin Palace in November. “We should preserve and revive these wonderful traditions.”
'Putin, who spoke by video link from his office in Sochi in southern Russia, appeared on a massive screen flanked by two images of the “Icon of the Savior, Made-Without-Hands,” suggesting godlike status as he urged Russian women to give birth to very large families. Russian officials, echoing their leader, are telling women to start young — at 18.'
Fern, spoken by a stupid old man who will never be pregnant. I hope the women refuse and maybe castrate any men who want to force them to become pregnant.
Amen! Anyone who believes a SINGLE word which comes from Donald Trump's mouth deserves what they get! Let's not give Trump the opportunity to "prove us wrong" in TWENTYTWENTYFIVE!
Ok then….. I’m not going to ask how you know about herpes flair ups and how they come roaring back. Just saying’…… 😉
Btw I agree with you. It’s a feint. Nothing this clown does is honest especially when it comes to a something that will make him “look bad”. He’s all about optics not substance. If a truth makes him look bad he’ll disavow it, he’ll (dare I say!) lie about it. Whoa, what a surprise! We all know behind the scenes he’s embracing Project 2025. Even if he now it calls it “Agenda 47”.
If anyone believes tfg's statement about this, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell you. However, it does show the power of the people who are not MAGAs, and who began talking about the dangers of Project 2025 and who have kept up the drumbeat of criticism.
Barbara B. the problem, anyone who would work for those people has not realized they would become slaves to Trump and Kump and any ability to think that might be left for them would have to be gone. Maybe they will have a bit of empathy after that for the Black Americans who were enslaved for centuries and treated like crap after supposed freedom by white Americans, people just like them. Republicans need to step back and be really careful what they wish for; if we're all not careful, they might get it.
We are preaching to the choir here. It’s important that we tamp down the divisive issues that often lessen out support base. But hay we’re democrats we like to lose support
Bill, Republicans seem to be working hard to beat us in the “losing support” category,don’t they? Nominating JDVance is certainly their recent high in low points.
When Joe dropped out i thought the Democrats would engage in a fatal fight over the nomination. Instead—THIS! An epidemic of unity and JOY
You are right that we need to be out there— the igniting of a new force of volunteers is as exciting as anything else. But it’s also true that light shines into darkness and darkness has no answer.
Also, we have to make sure that those votes are counted accurately and the proper process is followed from start to finish so all voices are counted, heard, and recorded.
Exactly right, Swbv!! I don’t know is there is anything in Pr2025 about the plan to get 34 state legislatures to call for a constitutional convention, @ which permanent changes to-the Constitution could be proposed. But it’s another plot that needs to be broken up. See conventionofstates.com
@ least as of yesterday the banner on their home page touted JDVance’s endorsement.
The States Project is working on state legislative races.
Agree with all of you. For me, it wouldn’t matter what he does or doesn’t do. He is a big fat liar. I will never trust him on anything. He will go to his grave saying “I didn’t do it”. He should be in prison right now for ALL he has done. 🤬
With the understanding that we can't believe trump due to his propensity to lie every time he opens his yap, this is simply a dodgy move on the Heritage Foundation and the trump team. To be clear, trump will screw America over to enrich himself and to hurt anyone he perceives to be his enemy. That's how it is, nothing has changed today and we need to vote them out of our lives! I yield back my time.
Just imagine - the US Gov't reshaped to be for the glorification and enrichment of the Trump family. Above all other priorities. Not sure why so many senior members of the former GOP are down with this.
That's true, especially after thir initial 4 yrs. Panhandling for everything their grubby hands could steal. I read earlier today how a guy from Louisiana has bought into trump's social truth to probably gain favors from trump if he gets elected. The grifting never stops, but the grifting only helps trump.
I gave up trying to figure that out a long time ago....I used to think it was all the uneducated but it isn't just them. It's all the wealthy that want whatever he can give to them. It's just all very sad. I hope everyone will vote to defeat trump...
It’s altogether possible Trump has no plans for some of Project 2025. He knows nothing about education and eliminating the Dept of Education is pretty radical. His stance on the EPA was more anti Obama than any real understanding of the issues. He will ignore anything about the VA unless another crook wants to see what he can get out of it. There’s a lot of $$$ flying around the VA after the toxic fire pits law went into effect. Ripe for a scam.
This is true. But the term "Project 2025" has rightfully gained such opprobrium that whenever it shows up again in whatever incarnation, we need to keep pointing out that "This is Project 2025 all over again."
The few promises that Trump does keep involve rewarding those who have supported him. Should Trump regain the White House, Paul Dans and all of the folks behind Project 2025 would find a place in the administration.
It is NOT gone, just hiding!
Do NOT believe the Liar in Thief.....The serial rapist.......enemy of America and Putins Piss Boy......
Paul Weyrich.....main founder of Heritage right now is celebrating with Satan in the depths of Hades at the prospect of his wet dream coming true. The destruction of an America for the people.
Do not follow in Chamberilin's footsteps and believe a tyranical ,diaper claud.,feces stiniking, chiild rapist ,DICKtator in wating who lies with every breath.
The Blue wave picking up steam and must be a tidal wave in Novemeber.
Amen. I've read Project 2025. to say that is an existential threat to our country is an understatement.
Everyone should check out the first three chapters (about 80 pages), on "Taking the Reins of Government". This will give you a sense of what the plan has in store for you.
If you're going to read it, you'll want this. It's a list of 268 acronyms used in the plan.
https://ki6mnk.substack.com/p/project-2025-glossary-of-acronyms
And the plan itself./
https://www.project2025.org/policy/
Amen......Project 2025 is alive and well. As you know the prepartion for this has taken years of subversive work. My main question still is what forces that will go to the streets and without mercy, put down demostrations. I believe that the militas are on standby waiting for the call from Heritage. Would Trump actually order the National Guard to fire on US citizens? MAGA is a hate based cult that does not have the ability to reason and think clearly. They would blindly follow any orders.
I believe trump would invoke the Insurrection Act. He wanted to shoot the protestors in Grant Park.
Biden will not do this. BUT, he would within his power, utilize the Insurrection Act to the advantage of the American People. With the National Guard first, then and only then, if the military was required to quell domestic terrorism.
I am more worried about the electors refusing to certify, purging the rolls and suppressing the votes.
I have every confidence the United States military can take on some militias.
https://www.project2025.org/policy/
From Chapter 4 DOD
page 92
Priority No. 3: Provide necessary support to Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) border protection operations. Border protection is a
national security issue that requires sustained attention and effort by all
elements of the executive branch.
From page 107
Establish true alignment between DOD and DHS both to improve the
defense of critical U.S. infrastructure and national border integrity
and to develop vital information that enables defense against foreign
targeted disruptions.
From page 110
Transform how the National Guard is employed during extended operations short of declared war to preclude back-to-back federal and state deployments of National Guard soldiers in order to stabilize and preserve military volunteerism in our communities.
From Chapter 4 DHS
page 142
CBP’s established national standards of Transport, Escort, Detention, and Search (TEDS) have been widely interpreted and expanded by lower courts.
This has resulted in unrealistic and differing detention standards for CBP facilities based on the jurisdiction within which they fall, negatively impacting operations.
ICE has suffered similarly. A single nationwide detention standard should be codified that prevents individual states from mandating that federal government agencies to adhere widely expansive and ever-changing sets of standards. Such standards should allow the flexibility to use large numbers of temporary facilities such as tents.
The annual costs associated with establishing and maintaining temporary facilities to address the flow of illegal migration and associated care, transportation, and processing are prohibitive, and CBP’s budget is inadequate.
Page 143
Congress should mandate and fund additional bed space for alien detainees.
ICE should be funded for a significant increase in detention space, raising the daily available number of beds to 100,000.
Other structural changes should include reimplementation of the USCIS denaturalization unit—an effort to maintain integrity in the system by identifying and prosecuting criminal and civil denaturalization cases, in combination with the Department of Justice, for aliens who obtained citizenship through fraud or other illicit means.
Additionally, USCIS should create a criminal enforcement component within the agency to investigate immigration benefits fraud under Title 8 (perhaps requiring additional legislative and regulatory authorities for the officers themselves) and to prosecute cases through Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys (SAUSAs) with substantive knowledge in the field.
Page 144
To advance the national interest, the three core immigration agencies—USCIS, ICE, and CBP—should remerge and have immigration elements outside of DHS (such as ORR of HHS) included.
The fragmented immigration enforcement frame- work that developed in the wake of the Homeland Security Act has weakened each agency and should be remediated.
Combining these critical agencies would strengthen their capabilities, ensure cooperation, and promote information-sharing.
Training should be returned to Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC), which would underscore the enforcement role of USCIS as a vetting agency and be rebranded accordingly.
Page 144
Management Directives and policies should realign to ensure that the workforce, while adaptable and able to handle the bulk of the USCIS mission, is not allowed to be pulled off mission work to focus on unlawful programs (DACA, mass parole for Afghans, Ukrainians, Venezuelans, etc.), which divert resources away from nuclear family and employment programs.
Page 147
USCIS should be classified as a national security–sensitive agency, and all of its employees should be classified as holding national security–sensitive positions.
Leaks must be investigated and punished as they would be in a national security agency, and the union should be decertified. Any employees who cannot accept that change and cannot conform their behavior to the standards required by such an agency should be separated. USCIS’s D.C. personnel presence should be skeletal, and agency employees with operational or security roles should be rotated out to offices throughout the United States. These USCIS employees should live and work in the communities that are most affected by their daily duties and decisions.
Page 166ff
AGENCY RELATIONSHIPS
It is critical to the achievement of the President’s policy objectives that all agencies and departments touching immigration policy work in sync with one another. While there are numerous areas in which such cooperation is critical, immigration has proven to be the most difficult.
Accordingly, several objectives will be necessary for each of the following departments.
Department of Health and Human Services: Agree to move the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to DHS or, alternatively, implement an aggressive and regular effort by the Secretary of HHS to ensure that ORR is fully pursuing presidential objectives in support of DHS.
Department of Defense: Assist in aggressively building the border wall system on America’s southern border. Additionally, explicitly acknowledge and adjust personnel and priorities to participate actively in the defense of America’s borders, including using military personnel and hardware to prevent illegal crossings between ports of entry and channel all cross-border traffic to legal ports of entry.
Department of Justice: Agree to move the Executive Office for Immigration Review and the Office of Immigration Litigation to DHS and/or, alternatively, to treat the administrative law judges (immigration judges and Board of Immigration Appeals) as national security personnel, decertify their union, and move to increase hiring significantly to enable the processing of more immigration cases.
Department of State: Allow DHS to lead international engagement in
the Western Hemisphere on issues of security and migration. Additionally, quickly and aggressively address recalcitrant countries’ failure to accept deportees by imposing stiff sanctions until deportees are in fact accepted for return (not just promised to be taken).
Department of Housing and Urban Development: Ensure that only U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents utilize or occupy federally subsidized housing.
Department of Education: Deny loan access to those who are not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents and deny loan access to students at schools that provide in-state tuition to illegal aliens.
Department of Labor: Eliminate the two (of four) lowest wage levels for foreign workers.
Department of the Treasury: Implement all necessary regulations both to equalize taxes between American citizens and working visa holders and to provide DHS with all tax information of illegal aliens as expeditiously as possible.
Intelligence Community: Cooperate in the shrinking or elimination of the I&A role in the IC while replacing it with CBP and HSI representation to the IC.
From Chapter 17 DOJ
Page 562ff
Ensure that the DOJ spearheads an initiative demonstrating the federal government’s commitment to nondiscrimination.
The department should also lead a whole-of-government recommitment to nondiscrimination and should be working with all other federal agencies, boards, and commissions to ensure that they are both complying with constitutional and legal requirements and using their authorities and funding to prevent discrimination not only internally, but also at the state, local, and private-sector levels.
This will require particularly close coordination with several key agencies, including such obvious candidates as the
1. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; the
2. Departments of Defense,
3. Department of Education, and
4. Housing and Urban Development; and the
5. Securities and Exchange Commission.
It will also require enforcing contractual requirements that prohibit discrimination on federal contractors.
Bob, this crap is scary. Thanks for popping it in here. It sounds in some ways as though they are trying to streamline things when what they are really doing, if read correctly, is consolidate agencies so they are more easily controlled by a single entity and permit them to militarize so they can "better control" immigration, including dumping unions and anything else that protects workers and if those workers don't like it, tough sh*t! So immigrants are just people to fill prisons even in tents because, well, that is probably cheaper. And killing them if they try to come into this country should be OK too. The inhumanity of this crap is startling and I bet every single one of those sycophants for Baby Donnie call themselves christians. Well, I must inform them they are a cult for Trump that is using the wrong name for itself. Gag!
It's worse than you think. It's not hyperbole to say our country is on the line.
I've read it a bunch. Mostly locating things for folks.
This site has a good digest with plenty of nauseating details: https://www.stopthecoup2025.org/
Cool, the more resources out there the better.
It’s also worth reading the FOREWORD. Look for what they assert “the Left” and “conservatives” think. Lots of projection and mudslinging.
Barbara B., the hate, anger, fear, and resentment are palpable and they want to spread it out onto this country that has given every one of those Project 2025 writers privilege beyond what any of them deserve and they turn on this nation to get even more they don't deserve. Our best weapon is this document and getting it out to the public, even Trumpers and Trumpettes, then keep it up until the American people see what is being done to them, not for them!.
That is what we plan on reading for next week.
Bob, Thanks for the list of Acronyms. Yesterday when my Democrats Abroad Project 2025 book club met, we discussed who was the audience for this document and did they understand that by publishing it people would read it who would have a problem with it. Most of the people in my group feel that The Heritage Foundation is out of touch with mainstream Americans so much so that they might not understand how we would see what they want to do as a problem. We are not reading straight through, but jumping around and reading the parts that we want to. We see themes to what they are writing even though each section has a different author. Also, looking at the authors we often see people writing their own job descriptions in the next Trump administration. We also see that the references are not serious sources mostly, but junk right wing news. What we want to do with what we learn, is put together information sheets for the events that we attend in our countries that have a lot of Americans and recruit them and inform them and help them to vote abroad.
Sounds like a great idea. Glad you found the list useful.
Yes yes yes. But what I can only pray for (if I had religion) is for us to lay low on the divisive issues that lessen our support base. And you know what they are I don’t want to go there again.
Dec. 18, 2008 (NYTimes, obituary, excerpts)
Paul M. Weyrich, the conservative thinker and strategist whose iron principles, articulate fervor and organization-building skills were instrumental in propelling the right wing of the Republican Party to power and prominence in the 1980s and ’90s, died Thursday. He was 66 and lived in Fairfax, Va.
Lee Edwards, a friend of Mr. Weyrich’s for four decades and a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative research group that Mr. Weyrich helped found, confirmed the death, ... but Mr. Weyrich had many health problems, including diabetes. His legs were amputated at the knee in 2005, and he had broken his back in a fall some years earlier.
A writer, a lobbyist and an organizer on behalf of conservative causes and especially social conservatism, Mr. Weyrich (pronounced WY-rick) was one of the far right’s most unbending ideologues. He was widely credited with coining the phrase “moral majority” as a rallying label for social conservatives. It became the name of the religion-based political organization that was led by the Rev. Jerry Falwell.
A deacon in the ultra-conservative Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Mr. Weyrich openly fused his faith and his politics.
“Defense is a moral issue,” he told The Washington Post in 1983, before the fall of the Soviet Union, adding that he considered the Communists to be godless oppressors. “There are some things worse than war. One is surrender the moral consequences are such that the nation would be destroyed. Since I believe in eternal life, if it became necessary to sacrifice my life for my country or my beliefs, well, then I’m willing to do so. The people who have come up with the better-red-than-dead idea are not believers.”
For more than a quarter of a century, Mr. Weyrich was one of the Republican Party’s leading antagonists from the right. President Ronald Reagan, he said, had overemphasized economic issues and kept social issues “on the back burner,” as he wrote on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times in 1984.
Perhaps more than anything, Mr. Weyrich was a nondeviator in his unswerving faith in small government, free-market economics, the right to life and the sanctity of the family.
“Paul Weyrich fought tirelessly for three decades to protect the preborn, preserve traditional marriage and ensure that people of faith had a voice in shaping the public policy that affected their lives,” James C. Dobson, the founder of Focus on Families, said in a statement on Thursday. “Had there been no Paul Weyrich, there would be no conservative movement as we know it.”
Richard A. Viguerie, the conservative direct-mail pioneer, said in a telephone interview that Mr. Weyrich was the least known of the four pillars of modern conservatism, the others being Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald Reagan. (NYTimes by Bruce Weber)
As we speak right now, Heritage is following in the footsteps of Joe McCarthy.
Thomm Hartman just reported today they are funding a group that is activly researchng all government employees. They want to know NOW who is loyal to Trump and who is not. These guys are serious and look no further than Venezuala to see what will happen if Orange steals the election somehow.
Weyrich's efforts set the stage for star wars..... watered down acid rain legislation......climate deniers.....fueling the destruction of choice, freedom, putting democracy in limbo and the dream of America. The truth of his legacy.
The next step on the former president's agenda. After Project 2025:
'Have babies for Russia: Putin presses women to embrace patriotism over feminism.' (WAPO, excerpt)
Follow the leader. 'All aboard', shouts Vance!
'MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin, who has long cultivated an aura of machismo as Russia’s strongman leader, is enlisting women to grow Russia’s population through childbirth and to rebuild his nation as a great power steeped in traditional family values — a campaign that is eroding equal rights and protections, human rights advocates and Russian feminists say.'
“Many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had seven or eight children, and maybe even more,” Putin declared to an audience of ultraconservative religious and political figures who had convened in the State Kremlin Palace in November. “We should preserve and revive these wonderful traditions.”
'Putin, who spoke by video link from his office in Sochi in southern Russia, appeared on a massive screen flanked by two images of the “Icon of the Savior, Made-Without-Hands,” suggesting godlike status as he urged Russian women to give birth to very large families. Russian officials, echoing their leader, are telling women to start young — at 18.'
Look what's coming down the pike folks!
In case anyone's in doubt about what these red-state abortion bans are about . . .
And we all know how much the bloviating slug LOVES Putin.
Fern, spoken by a stupid old man who will never be pregnant. I hope the women refuse and maybe castrate any men who want to force them to become pregnant.
Like ALL COCKROACHES do in avoiding getting CAUGHT!!!!
Amen! Anyone who believes a SINGLE word which comes from Donald Trump's mouth deserves what they get! Let's not give Trump the opportunity to "prove us wrong" in TWENTYTWENTYFIVE!
Agree. Trump is a liar who secretly embraces P2025!
Not hiding. Not gone. Just giving an opportunity for Trump to say [lie] that he just learned about this and it will not happen under his watch.
That's right. You can never put the Genie back into the bottle.
It's not even hiding.
As I’ve commented elsewhere, this is a feint. It’s “stand back and standby”. If Trump gets back in it will come roaring back like a herpes flare up.
Good analogy - on so many levels
I’m laughing at the herpes flare up, not your statement.
What would be the antiviral needed to extinguish that flare?
🤣🤣🤣
Ok then….. I’m not going to ask how you know about herpes flair ups and how they come roaring back. Just saying’…… 😉
Btw I agree with you. It’s a feint. Nothing this clown does is honest especially when it comes to a something that will make him “look bad”. He’s all about optics not substance. If a truth makes him look bad he’ll disavow it, he’ll (dare I say!) lie about it. Whoa, what a surprise! We all know behind the scenes he’s embracing Project 2025. Even if he now it calls it “Agenda 47”.
Craig, and it will be just as painful and disgusting, and it will infect a whole lot of people.
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain “
“You’ve no power here! Begone, before someone drops 'The House' on you too!”
If anyone believes tfg's statement about this, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell you. However, it does show the power of the people who are not MAGAs, and who began talking about the dangers of Project 2025 and who have kept up the drumbeat of criticism.
My guess is he resigned to start working on Trump administration staffing.
Good point. I think we need to keep an eye on his name and see where he ends up next week.
Excellent idea!
The good news is that he will NEVER come near the White House. Americans are finished with this B.S.
Yeah, right. This is an outsource gone bad.
Sounds like heritage isn’t stopping building their resumedatabase ??
Barbara B. the problem, anyone who would work for those people has not realized they would become slaves to Trump and Kump and any ability to think that might be left for them would have to be gone. Maybe they will have a bit of empathy after that for the Black Americans who were enslaved for centuries and treated like crap after supposed freedom by white Americans, people just like them. Republicans need to step back and be really careful what they wish for; if we're all not careful, they might get it.
BINGO!!!!
John, and just the kind of person one would want working on anything that involves power! Disgusting!
They think Americans are SO dumb. This will just intensify interest in it and cement opinions that they support it in every way.
@God. I understand you will have no other gods before you!
That orange antichrist says you're on his side. Has suckered disciples, has a cult of personality.
I don't know whether the Dominionists and white nationalists respond to exorcism, but some Catholics practice it.
Here in Baghdad By the Sea, sales of Trump dolls are brisk, both voo doo and Santeria varieties.
The Amish would hex their enemies. Some Iraq War veterans tell me that they were met with the evil eye by mufti when they took territory.
We need Democratic exorcists..... TV preachers to have epiphanies.
Anti antichrist Jesus freaks for Harris. https://www.votecommongood.com/
In the alternative, fund FT6 to sweep out the barbarians. .https://www.fieldteam6.org/fund-the-mission
Amen.
We are preaching to the choir here. It’s important that we tamp down the divisive issues that often lessen out support base. But hay we’re democrats we like to lose support
Bill, Republicans seem to be working hard to beat us in the “losing support” category,don’t they? Nominating JDVance is certainly their recent high in low points.
When Joe dropped out i thought the Democrats would engage in a fatal fight over the nomination. Instead—THIS! An epidemic of unity and JOY
You are right that we need to be out there— the igniting of a new force of volunteers is as exciting as anything else. But it’s also true that light shines into darkness and darkness has no answer.
Always appreciate your comments !!
We like to differ even when we should be unified.
Nice name you have there.
Well 1/3 of the country doesn't vote and the other 1/3 voted for someone whose brain capacity is questionable. So I'd say yeah, 2/3 are dump.
I don’t believe a word! The only way to shut down Project 2025 is to vote BLUE. Plain and simple.
Also, we have to make sure that those votes are counted accurately and the proper process is followed from start to finish so all voices are counted, heard, and recorded.
Exactly right. All the way down the ballot.
Exactly right, Swbv!! I don’t know is there is anything in Pr2025 about the plan to get 34 state legislatures to call for a constitutional convention, @ which permanent changes to-the Constitution could be proposed. But it’s another plot that needs to be broken up. See conventionofstates.com
@ least as of yesterday the banner on their home page touted JDVance’s endorsement.
The States Project is working on state legislative races.
statesproject.org.
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Agree with all of you. For me, it wouldn’t matter what he does or doesn’t do. He is a big fat liar. I will never trust him on anything. He will go to his grave saying “I didn’t do it”. He should be in prison right now for ALL he has done. 🤬
Let's see what happens on Sept. 18 when Judge Merchan issues his sentence in the NY criminal fraud convictions.
We are not going to be fooled. They have done this to us way too often.
Will Lucy really hold the football this time? No.
Lucy for Harris!
He'll just buy a new couch.
With the understanding that we can't believe trump due to his propensity to lie every time he opens his yap, this is simply a dodgy move on the Heritage Foundation and the trump team. To be clear, trump will screw America over to enrich himself and to hurt anyone he perceives to be his enemy. That's how it is, nothing has changed today and we need to vote them out of our lives! I yield back my time.
Just imagine - the US Gov't reshaped to be for the glorification and enrichment of the Trump family. Above all other priorities. Not sure why so many senior members of the former GOP are down with this.
That's true, especially after thir initial 4 yrs. Panhandling for everything their grubby hands could steal. I read earlier today how a guy from Louisiana has bought into trump's social truth to probably gain favors from trump if he gets elected. The grifting never stops, but the grifting only helps trump.
To prove a point that really needs no proving. Get a load of this BS from the Gonif in Chief:
https://gettrumpsneakers.com/products/the-victory-by-trump-cologne-for-men
Just imagine how all the crap he hawks will drop to rock bottom prices after he loses.
Knowing Trump, that’ll be someone else’s problem
I gave up trying to figure that out a long time ago....I used to think it was all the uneducated but it isn't just them. It's all the wealthy that want whatever he can give to them. It's just all very sad. I hope everyone will vote to defeat trump...
Once a liar, always a liar.
Most definitely!
They'll just hide it behind closed doors, they have no intention of actually not going through with it.
It’s altogether possible Trump has no plans for some of Project 2025. He knows nothing about education and eliminating the Dept of Education is pretty radical. His stance on the EPA was more anti Obama than any real understanding of the issues. He will ignore anything about the VA unless another crook wants to see what he can get out of it. There’s a lot of $$$ flying around the VA after the toxic fire pits law went into effect. Ripe for a scam.
I don't think he has any real understanding of any of the issues. He's too lazy to pay attention to that kind of thing.
He lets others do the dirty work!
Sports alert: in Olympic games news the Trump team was recorded running away from Project 2025 at record-breaking speed.
Betting they’ll find ways to resurrect it…
It's never going away.
Nope
This is true. But the term "Project 2025" has rightfully gained such opprobrium that whenever it shows up again in whatever incarnation, we need to keep pointing out that "This is Project 2025 all over again."
The few promises that Trump does keep involve rewarding those who have supported him. Should Trump regain the White House, Paul Dans and all of the folks behind Project 2025 would find a place in the administration.
I thought tfg said that anyone associated with Project 2025 would be barred from his administration? Not that I think he would keep that promise…
The thing is the "GOP" Platform - ALL IN CAPS - is this. And now that I've gone to their website I fear the emails I'll get. I did this for the greater good! https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-party-platform
Thank you! It's clearly a turdly work, as it is incoherent. How does one "renew" a pillar of civilization? Mixed metaphor and gobbledy-gook.
Wonderful word, "turdly." May we all use it?
Oh, PLEASE DO!!!
Thank you for this. Saved.
Interesting. We should all sign up!!
Will we be bombarded with nonsense? I only looked bit AI will track it.
I have so many nonsense emails already so what’s another 100 a day to delete 😂