Thank you M]/b for your comment about Project 2025, and what the Heritage Foundation is trying to accomplish. It was on my mind to post this next, so your comment was very timely.
Project 2025 is also known as the Presidential Transition Project. If you don’t already know, The Heritage Foundation is closely aligned with Trump and coordinates the initiative with a constellation of conservative groups run by Trump allies. Project 2025’s advisory board initially consisted of “a broad coalition of over 80 conservative organizations”—mainly conservative think tanks, as well as several universities and the magazine The American Conservative. By February 2024, the project had over 100 partner organizations.
Below is a little more info from BBC.com:
Project 2025: A wish list for a Trump presidency, explained
2 days ago
By Mike Wendling, BBC NewsShare
President Joe Biden’s Democrats are mobilising against a possible governing agenda for Donald Trump if he is elected this November.
The blueprint, called Project 2025 and produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation, is one of several think-tank proposals for Trump’s platform.
Over more than 900 pages, it calls for sacking thousands of civil servants, expanding the power of the president, dismantling the Department of Education and other federal agencies, and sweeping tax cuts.
The Heritage Foundation unveiled its agenda in April 2023, and liberal opposition ramped up as former President Trump has taken a lead in polls after President Biden’s poor debate performance.
Early this July, Heritage president Kevin Roberts raised the prospect of political violence during a podcast interview.
“We are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” Mr Roberts told the War Room podcast, founded by Trump adviser Steve Bannon.
The remarks prompted the Biden campaign to accuse Trump and his allies of “dreaming of a violent revolution to destroy the very idea of America”.
The comments have refocused attention on Project 2025.
It is common for Washington think-tanks to propose policy wishlists for potential governments-in-waiting. The liberal Center for American Progress, for example, was dubbed Barack Obama’s “ideas factory” during his presidency.
What has Trump said about Project 2025?
In early July, Trump said on his social media platform that he knows “nothing about Project 2025”.
“I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” he wrote.
“Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”
However, several people linked to the project worked in Trump’s administration or as allies in his re-election campaign.
- Project 2025 director Paul Dans was chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management under Trump
- Associate director Spencer Chretien was a former special assistant to Trump and associate director of Presidential Personnel
- Adviser Russell Vought worked in Trump’s Office of Management and Budget.
What is Project 2025?
The Project 2025 document outlines four main aims: restore the family as the centrepiece of American life; dismantle the administrative state; defend the nation’s sovereignty and borders; and secure God-given individual rights to live freely.
It is one of several policy papers for a platform broadly known as Agenda 47 – so-called because Trump would be America’s 47th president if he won.
Heritage says Project 2025 was written by several former Trump appointees and reflects input from more than 100 conservative organisations.
Here’s an outline of several key proposals.
Government
Project 2025 proposes that the entire federal bureaucracy, including independent agencies such as the Department of Justice, be placed under direct presidential control – a controversial idea known as “unitary executive theory”.
In practice, that would streamline decision-making, allowing the president to directly implement policies in a number of areas.
The proposals also call for eliminating job protections for thousands of government-employees, who could then be replaced by political appointees.
The document labels the FBI a “bloated, arrogant, increasingly lawless organization” and calls for drastic overhauls of this and other federal agencies, including eliminating the Department of Education.
Immigration
Increased funding for a wall on the US-Mexico border – one of Trump’s signature proposals in 2016 – is proposed in the document.
However, more prominent are the consolidation of various US immigration agencies and a large expansion in their powers.
Other proposals include increasing fees on immigrants and allowing fast-tracked applications for migrants who pay a premium.
Climate and Economy
The document proposes slashing federal money for research and investment in renewable energy, and calls for the next president to “stop the war on oil and natural gas”.
Carbon-reduction goals would be replaced by efforts to increase energy production and security.
The paper sets out two competing visions on tariffs, and is divided on whether the next president should try to boost free trade or raise barriers to exports.
But the economic advisers suggest that a second Trump administration should slash corporate and income taxes, abolish the Federal Reserve and even consider a return to gold-backed currency.
Abortion
Project 2025 does not call for a nationwide abortion ban.
However, it proposes withdrawing the abortion pill mifepristone from the market.
Tech and education
Under the proposals, pornography would be banned, and tech and telecoms companies that facilitate access to such content would be shut down.
The document calls for school choice and parental control over schools, and takes aim at what it calls “woke propaganda”.
It proposes to eliminate a long list of terms from all laws and federal regulations, including “sexual orientation”, “diversity, equity, and inclusion”, “gender equality”, “abortion” and “reproductive rights”.
Jared Huffman, a Democrat congressman from California, has launched a Stop Project 2025 Task Force.
He described Project 2025 as “a dystopian plot that’s already in motion to dismantle our democratic institutions”.
Mr Huffman said the project would “abolish checks and balances, chip away at church-state separation, and impose a far-right agenda that infringes on basic liberties and violates public will.
“We need a coordinated strategy to save America and stop this coup before it’s too late.”
Heritage has previously said Mr Biden’s party was scaremongering with “an unserious, mistake-riddled press release”.
“House Democrats are dedicating taxpayer dollars to launch a smear campaign against the united effort to restore self-governance to everyday Americans,” said Mr Roberts in early June.
“Under the Biden administration, the federal government has been weaponized against American citizens, our border invaded, and our institutions captured by woke ideology.”
The Heritage Foundation is one of the most influential of a number of think tanks that has produced policy papers designed to guide a possible second Trump presidency.
Since the 1980s, Heritage has produced similar policy documents as part of its Mandate for Leadership series.
Project 2025, backed by a $22m (£17m) budget, also sets out strategies for implementing policies beginning immediately after the presidential inauguration in January 2025.
In his speeches and on his website, Trump has endorsed a number of ideas included in Project 2025, although his campaign has said the candidate has the final say on policy.
Many of the proposals would face immediate legal challenges if implemented.
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Of course, tRump has said he doesn’t know anything about Project 2025. The lies just keep coming from him. He knows the Dems are rallying around this issue.
The tRump does publicly support Agenda 47, the formal policy plans for tRump’s campaign to be the 47th president:
The plans include constructing “freedom cities” on empty federal land, investing in flying car manufacturing, introducing baby bonuses to encourage a baby boom, implementing protectionist trade policies, and over forty others. Seventeen of the policies that Trump says he will implement if elected would require congressional approval. Some of his plans are legally controversial, such as ending birthright citizenship, and may require amending the Constitution.[9][3]
Many of the proposals are contentious. One Agenda 47 proposal would impose the death penalty on drug dealers and human traffickers, as well as place Mexican cartels on the United States list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Trump also suggests deploying the National Guard to inner cities with high crime
Project 2025 and Agenda 47 both support returning to Schedule F appointments, which destroys civil service protections:
A Schedule F appointment was a job classification in the excepted service of the United States federal civil service that existed briefly at the end of the Trump administration during 2020–2021. It would have contained policy-related positions, removing their civil service protections and making them easy to fire. It was never fully implemented, and no one was appointed to it before it was repealed at the beginning of the Biden administration.
The purpose of the provision was to increase the President’s control over the federal career civil service. While proponents stated this would increase flexibility and accountability, it was widely criticized as providing means to retaliate against federal officials for political reasons. It was estimated that tens or hundreds of thousands of career employees could have lost their civil service protections, increasing the number of political appointments by a factor of ten.
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
PrP:
You’re very welcome. Thank YOU for creating this a post, and including detailed information on this incredibly important issue that will change the face of America if implemented. Your graphics are spot on.
I am so grateful for the time you put into this post. I only hope that you are not just preaching to the choir, but to those that really need to read this because they certainly won’t get it on FOX news. These are scary times that are on target to getting much much worse unless people vote to stop it.
Yes, agree, scary times!
I was just told about a Prime Video documentary called “Bad Faith” about Christian nationalism, including with the history of all the major players who constructed 2025.
I haven’t seen it yet but its on my list.
Has anyone reading this watched Bad Faith on Prime Video?
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Having some fun with it.
This was sent to me. The People’s Guide to Project 2025: https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-05_Peoples-Guide-Pro-2025.pdf
From Robert Reich:
We’ve just seen the MAGA Supreme Court justices normalize authoritarianism.
Donald Trump’s lawyers recently told the Supreme Court that presidents should be able to murder political rivals or stage coups—and multiple Supreme Court justices acted like it was a serious argument.
This is how democracies die and dictatorships arise. I’m outraged. I’m disgusted. And I’m motivated to fight like hell to save our democracy. I hope you are, too, because time is short, and it’s going to take each and every one of us.
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It happened at a New York Airport. This is hilarious. I wish I had the guts of this girl. An award should go to the United
Airlines gate agent in New York for being smart and funny, while making her point, when confronted with a passenger who probably
deserved to fly as cargo. For all of you out there who have had to
deal with an irate customer, this one is for you.
A crowded United Airlines flight was canceled. A single agent was re-booking a long line of inconvenienced travelers.
Suddenly, an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk. He slapped his ticket on the counter and said, “I HAVE to be on this flight and it has to be FIRST CLASS.”
The agent replied, “I’m sorry, sir. I’ll be happy to try to help you, but I’ve got to help these folks first; and then I’m sure we’ll be able to work something out.”
The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that
the passengers behind him could hear, “DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO I AM?”
Without hesitating, the agent smiled and grabbed her public address microphone. “May I have your attention, please?”, she began, her voice heard clearly throughout the terminal. “We have a passenger here at Gate 14 WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him with his identity, please come to Gate 14”.
With the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically,
the man glared at the United Airlines agent, gritted his teeth, and said, “F*** You!”
Without flinching, she smiled and said, “I’m sorry sir,
you’ll have to get in line for that, too.”
Life isn’t about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
Here are all of the conservative organizations involved with Project 2025:
1792 Exchange
American Accountability Foundation
AAPLOG – American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs
Alabama Policy Institute
Alliance Defending Freedom
American Center for Law and Justice
American Commitment
American Compass
American Cornerstone Institute
The American Conservative
American Council of Trustees and Alumni
American Family Association
America First Legal
American Juris Link
American Legislative Exchange Council
The American Main Street Initiative
American Moment
American Principles Project
The American Family Project
The American Redistricting Project
Americans United for Life
AMAC Action – The Association of Mature American Citizens
The Bull Moose Project
California Family Council
Calvert Task Group
Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University
Center for Equal Opportunity
Center for Family & Human Rights
Center for Immigration Studies
Center for Military Readiness
Center for Renewing America
Center for Secure Free Society
Citizens Against Government Waste
The Claremont Institute
Coalition for Liberty
Coalition for a Prosperous America
Committee for Justice
Concerned Women for America
Conservative Partnership Institute
Consumers Defense
Defense of Freedom Institute
Eagle Forum
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Fairer America
Family Policy Alliance
Family Research Council
Feds for Freedom
First Liberty
ForAmerica
Forge Leadership Network
Foundation for American Innovation
Foundation for Government Accountability
Freedom’s Journal Institute
The Frederick Douglass Foundation
Gun Owners Foundation
The Heartland Institute
The Heritage Foundation
Herzog Foundation
MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates
Hillsdale College
Honest Elections Project
Independent Women’s Forum
Institute for Education Reform
Institute for Energy Research
Institute for the American Worker
The Institute for Women’s Health
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Dr. James Dobson Family Institute
The James Madison Institute
Job Creators Network
Keystone Policy
Leadership Institute
League of American Workers
Liberty University
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
The Malone Institute
Middle East Forum
Media Research Center
Mississippi Center for Public Policy
Moms for Liberty
Mountain States for Policy Center
National Association of Scholars
National Center for Public Policy Research
National Religious Broadcasters
National Rifle Association
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Native Americans for Sovereignty & Preservation
Nevada Policy
Noah Webster Educational Foundation
The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
Project 21
Pacific Research Institute
The Palm Beach Freedom Institute
Palmetto Promise
Patrick Henry College
The Patriot Foundation Trust
Personnel Policy Operations
Public Interest Legal Foundation
Protect Our Kids
Recovery for America Now Foundation
Republican Overseas Foundation
SAVE – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
STARRS – Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services
Students for Life of America
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America
Tea Party Patriots
Texas Public Policy Foundation
Teneo
Turning Point USA
Young America’s Foundation
The Coors family (beer), the Walton family (Walmart) and Exxon Mobile have contributed to the Heritage Fund. Please BOYCOTT!
A father passing by his son’s bedroom
Noticed the room unusually clean and saw an envelope propped up prominently on the pillow. It was addressed, ‘Dad’. With the worst premonition, he opened the envelope and read the letter, with trembling hands.
Dear, Dad. It is with great regret and sorrow that I’m writing you. I had to elope with my new girlfriend, because I wanted to avoid a scene with Mum and you.
I’ve been finding real passion with Stacy. She is so nice, but I knew you would not approve of her because of all her piercing’s, tattoos, her tight Motorcycle clothes, and because she is so much older than I am.
But it’s not only the passion, Dad. She’s pregnant. Stacy said that we will be very happy. She owns a trailer in the woods, and has a stack of firewood for the whole winter. We share a dream of having many more children.
Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that mari*juana doesn’t really hurt anyone. We’ll be growing it for ourselves and trading it with the other people in the commune for all the cocaine and ecstasy we want.
In the meantime, we’ll pray that science will find a cure for AIDS so that Stacy can get better. She sure deserves it!
Don’t worry Dad, I’m 15, and I know how to take care of myself. Someday, I’m sure we’ll be back to visit so you can get to know your many grandchildren.
Love, your son, Josh
P.S . Dad, none of the above is true. I’m over at Jason’s house. I just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than the school report that’s on the kitchen table. Call when it is safe for me to come home
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This is my second try.
This is my third try
I, too am from that MS.
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Why we are accepting the food’s designations is acceptable because ¨ has given in to the seduction.
I was told to try it again.
The name and the email has to be filled out.
I was told to try it again.
Idiot you used my address P]5. Use your own P[5.
We suggest that only the ones you have now be allowed to address you.
Did You Know
Contronyms are words with multiple and opposing meanings. For example, the word “dust” can indicate removal (you dust your furniture to clean it) or addition (you dust some powdered sugar onto confections).
noun and verb too – you can dust the dust away
No need for concern. Guam wasn’t the only area exposed. That was just an exercise played out on the South Pacific island nation of Palau, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and at sea across the US Navy’s Marianas Island Range Complex.
Should Guam be targeted, we will implement Á7ÏÅ Í. Your position is commended for its prompt precautionary move. These humans are very deceptive.
“BREAKING: Google searches for Project 2025 are now surpassing Taylor Swift and NFL football!”
People need to know what the republicans are planning.
If you think you know all about how bat shit crazy some white people can be check this out.
Ammunition vending machines come to southern grocery stores
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/11/nx-s1-5033748/ammunition-vending-machines-grocery-stores
Tiny dicks, big guns at work.
You can walk pass 36 serial killers in your lifetime. Which means they are pretty much everywhere. You go about your life and you don’t think twice about what is out there in the streets. But if you are a woman you can’t let your guard down, not even for a second.
What a male will do to be able to mate.
Lions’ record-breaking swim across channel captured by drone camera | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2439061-lions-record-breaking-swim-across-channel-captured-by-drone-camera/
Off by hair. Bummer
Yeah, not quite kismet, but close.
No weapons check needed at my rallies he said. Let the guns in. They are not going to shoot me. It’s the other side that has to worry. Ha, ha, haaa.
LOL, so the Crooks shoot the crook.
Wanna bet, the bullet didn’t come close to the creep? He got his ear cut when he was forced to the ground. But he will lie and claim it was a bullet that missed that big dyed head and hit his tiny ear.
Now watch the gutless democrats stop calling the lucky creep what he really is, a danger to democracy.
This hateful grifter got a taste of what he has been advocating for others he disagrees with.
The similarities between Biden’s ear and the immortal are that they both are phlegmatic and without conscious concern when they decide upon action.
While I don’t think they are one and the same, I do feel that they are somehow connected. The aliens seem to fear angering the immortal, and we humans should feel the same way about the Ear. At least as long as he has the power to do whatever he wants without checks and balances on his actions.
It is reported that his recent trip to the Middle East and Africa resulted in hundreds of deaths and he left both places poised for more violence. Was the shot at tRump a message from him that since POTUS gave him a free hand to murder whomever he chooses that no one is safe?