A network of conservative groups is gearing up for the potential reelection of Donald Trump, actively enlisting an "army" of Americans to come to Washington with a mission to disassemble the federal government and substitute it with a vision that aligns more closely with their own beliefs and ideas, according to The Associated...
Donald Trump is a dictator in waiting. Like other dictators, he is threatening to put his "enemies" in prison – and to do even worse things to them. These are not idle threats or empty acts of ideation: Donald Trump is a violent man who is a proven enemy of democracy and freedom....
@GottaLaff
It's all a part of the Heritage Foundation "Project 2025", which is al long list of fascist ideals. Here's a quickie summary, plus a Wikipedia link:
• Replace federal civil service employees with party loyalists.
• Eliminate the FBI, and departments of Homeland Security, Education, and Commerce.
• Place the military in charge of law enforcement.
• Ban the drugs used for medical abortions.
• Require all states to report statistics on abortions, including gestational age and method used.
• Eliminate all laws providing civil rights protections to LGBT+ people.
• Criminalize production of "pornography", and imprison people who create it.
• Define all media that support trans rights as "pornography".
• Require teachers and librarians who support trans rights to register as sex offenders.
Trump raised a record-breaking $34.8 million the day after being convicted of election interference. That's nearly double their previous largest single-day online donation amount.
29.7% were new donors.
This is not a drill. He will get reelected unless people on the left step up to oppose him. And #Project2025 makes it clear how much worse things can get, both domestically and abroad. #VoteBlue
Via Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast
3:50 PM · Mar 30, 2024
"I spent a lot of time reading about project 2025 and now honestly I’m kind of completely freaked out."
Via @rilkeanhearts (?)
7:43 PM · Mar 30, 2024
"I recommend at least reading the Wikipedia page. Share it with friends and family. There was a poll which found 80% of Americans were ignorant of Trumps authoritarian plans and intentions."
I'm telling y'all. You need to be terrified of #nikkihaley
Talking to my buddy who is absolutely a #NeverTrumper voted for Obama twice and is so worried about #Biden's age he'd vote for #Haley.
I'm trying to convince him Haley will gleefully implement #Project2025 (which he's never heard of--if I told you his job title you'd shit, he's swinging a big stick) but he's a prime example of why she's so dangerous.
More detail from the WaPo re #Project2025, Trump's planned Nazification of the U.S. Keep in mind that ANY Republican president could do this, not just Trump. No paywall. https://wapo.st/49mZXWU
🚨 If you’re unaware of #Project2025, it’s a literal playbook to take permanent control of the entire US government—and Trump and the GOP are following it.
Trump and team have been systematically dismantling all checks and balances on the presidency—and are being blunt about their violent, vengeful plans for day one.
People need to stop saying that #Project2025 was written in #Trump's image. That is not true.
Believe it or not, Trump is a pawn for the conservative far right who wrote the mandate. Trump couldn't care less about Project2025. All he cares about is money and power.
Project2025 will exist with or without Trump. It was written for the NEXT conservative President. That is one of the first sentences in the mandate. Trump's name is mentioned less than a dozen times in all 962 pages. 1/6
Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the house, is just another in a line of followers direct from the Project 2025 playbook.
For those unfamiliar, Project 2025 is a conservative manifesto designed to consolidate direct Presidential control of all assets in the Executive branch of the US government, using Unitary Executive theory. This "logic" is based on the vesting clause of Article 2 of the US Constitution. It will eliminate all checks and balances on the office of the president.
This playbook includes replacing all personnel with pro-Trump supporters, banning gender-affirming care and language (even the term gender affirming), gay marriage, abortions, and anything not white, Christian, or conservative.
It would turn the US into a Christian theocracy. A place where AFAB women are breeding stock, and homosexuality becomes a criminal offense again. It would turn the office of the President into a dictatorship.
Johnson has voted against Gay Marriage, against certifying the 2020 election, and is a threat to what's left of this so-called country. His election as speaker of the house is a direct attack on freedom.
We can no longer bury our heads in the sand. We can no longer stand idly by and watch as fascism returns to power. This looks more like the Weimar Republic in 1923 than the United States in 2023.
For any who doubts that this playbook exists, or views this as some Right Wing conspiracy, I invite you to read this document for yourself. This is real. This is a threat. This is not a test.
Since MSM is asleep at the wheel 😡, it is incumbent upon we who are more plugged into to what’s happening to assist the #Biden campaign and make friends and family aware of what will ensue if TFG gets elected and implements #Project2025.
A good starting point is sharing this Media Matters Project 2025 guide, which offers a good overview:
Not American myself, but cause for concern because what #ChristianNationalism does first, the European #farright reuses.
#HeritageFoundation#Project2025 aims to concentrate all power in the executive branch, allow discrimination based on religion, erase all gender and equality not based on their interpretation the bible, and more..
But why you should take them seriously? 50000 absolute loyalists trained to take over all levels of administration, for starters.
Do you have a friend or family member who works for the fed government in any capacity? Do you know someone who owns a business or works for a business that has government contracts that are its main source of revenue?
If Trump makes it back to the White House, GOP #Project2025 intends, within 1st 120 days, to purge most government agencies. The agencies that remain open will be staffed ONLY w/conservative loyalists. Detractors will be fired.
Lisa Needham notes that Republicans pushing Project 2025 are now out and proud about their plan to make Trump president for life:
"Republicans want to permanently enshrine their minority policies into law despite the fact that what they want is broadly unpopular. … Project 25 is all about enacting minority rule in America immediately upon Trump’s election."
Thomas Zimmer on what's at stake in the 2024 election"
"This isn't actually about Biden versus Trump. It's basically a referendum on whether or not an effort at achieving a democratic pluralistic multiracial society should be continued or abolished altogether. It's basically thumbs up or down on, on democratic self government and the civil rights order."
And this is not a MAGA agenda: it's an establishment Republican agenda:
"Project 2025 is not coming from Trump. It's not coming from the Trump campaign. This is as conservative establishment as it's as it gets, right? So this is not the MAGA fringe. This is not the Trump weirdos. And so we're looking as a kind of a fusion between those forces in a very dangerous, very threatening way."
[News] “Dark” right-wing network recruits MAGA “army” to replace 50K federal workers Trump plans to purge (www.salon.com)
A network of conservative groups is gearing up for the potential reelection of Donald Trump, actively enlisting an "army" of Americans to come to Washington with a mission to disassemble the federal government and substitute it with a vision that aligns more closely with their own beliefs and ideas, according to The Associated...
[Opinion] Trump's plans to become a dictator: It's time to get real about Project 2025 - Chauncey DeVega - Salon (www.salon.com)
Donald Trump is a dictator in waiting. Like other dictators, he is threatening to put his "enemies" in prison – and to do even worse things to them. These are not idle threats or empty acts of ideation: Donald Trump is a violent man who is a proven enemy of democracy and freedom....
[News]Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump’s vision (apnews.com)