[thread] Project 2025
GOP Removes Anti-Gay Language f. RNC Platform
Republican hostility to LGBTQ rights in state legislatures
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/republican-convention-2024-lgbtq-party-platform
* a small group of powerful/connected Republicans leverage political/financial influence to keep opposition to same-sex marriage on GOP platform
[thread] Weaponization of language
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110781650540586495
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* Heritage Foundation president/Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts
* Tony Perkins, president of anti-LGBT hate group Family Research Council
* comment (mine): it appears that the GOP is trying to soften/distance itself and it's extreme policies from Trump/campaign
* see also thread
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112878174077140013
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GOP’s Corporate Agenda Masquerading as Working Class
UAW Region 9a leader Brandon Mancilla and his union are not impressed with Republicans’ supposed pro-worker turn
Explains what a real progressive, working-class agenda looks like
https://jacobin.com/2024/08/gop-vance-obrien-uaw-teamsters
* GOP falsely rebranding f. plutocracy to workers
What Is the Heritage Foundation & Project 2025?
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/08/06/what-is-the-heritage-foundation-and-project-2025
Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is latest action plan f. group w. >50-year history of steering GOP lawmaking
Conservative think tank is influential because of its people, more than the money
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/08/06/what-is-the-heritage-foundation-and-project-2025
I Read Project 2025 Head Kevin Roberts’ Book and Was Terrified by It
https://shows.acast.com/the-new-abnormal/episodes/i-read-project-2025-head-kevin-roberts-bookand-was-terrified
* book incl. forward f. Donald Trump’s VP pick JD Vance
At the time people probably should have read Mein Kampf as well ...
Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America
https://www.amazon.ca/Dawns-Early-Light-Burning-Washington/dp/0063353504
Project 2025 Secret Training Videos
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election
Watch: Videos f. Project 2025 Presidential Administration Academy
https://www.propublica.org/article/video-project-2025-presidential-training-academy-trump-election
* train army of political appointees for future Trump administration
* Project 2025 videos provided to ProPublica/Documented
* Advice Given: “If the American people elect a conservative president, his administration will have to eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere.”
Leaked Project 2025 Training Videos: Former Trump Officials Detailed Plans to Dismember U.S. Government
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/8/12/project_2025_training_videos_propublica_documented
* effort by Heritage Foundation think tank/others to remake U.S. federal government
* replacing civil servants w. 1000s partisan political appointees who would help carry out the extreme policies envisioned by Project 2025
* undoing climate policy
* combat diversity efforts
* denying freedom of information requests
4 U.S. Supreme Court decisions that quietly jump-started Project 2025
Donald Trump’s authoritarian playbook on Christian nationalism is already in motion
https://www.salon.com/2024/08/12/4-decisions-that-have-quietly-jumpstarted-project-2025
[Britain] Project 2025: Tory Candidates Have Ties to Group Drafting Dangerous Trump Agenda
Heritage Foundation’s plan includes policies to turbocharge fossil fuel production
https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-tory-candidates-ties-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-robert-jenrick-priti-patel
* Tory figures delivered high-profile speeches to Heritage Foundation in recent years
6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankroll Project 2025
$120+ million f. ultra-wealthy families powering Heritage Foundation to remake American gov.
https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors
Enabling fascism:
Coors Family
Charles Koch
Richard & Elizabeth Uihlein
Scaife Family
Barre Seid (also gave $1.6 BILLION to Leonard Leo)
Bradley Family
Shell Oil Nonprofit Donated to Anti-Climate Groups Behind Project 2025
Shell USA Company Foundation funnels $100k's to right-wing groups
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112994809140765750
Tim Walz talks Project 2025: It is an agenda that serves nobody except the richest
When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook they're going to use it
https://www.salon.com/2024/08/22/tim-walz-talks-project-2025-at-dnc-it-is-an-agenda-that-serves-nobody-except-the-richest
[Project 2025] 1970 Kent State Shootings Show Danger of Trump Plan To Deploy Troops To Crush Legal Protests
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-1970-kent-state-shootings-show-danger-of-trump-plan-to-deploy-troops-to-crush-legal-protests
Kent State Shootings, Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pwro3vCUdU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvXUVDPfNt0
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young "Ohio"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCS-g3HwXdc
#Trump #Trumpism #MAGA #GOP #conservatism #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation #fascism #FarRight #extremism #militarism #authoritarianism #PoliceState #Nazism
Project 2025 Would Fuel the Assault on Election Officials
The plan threatens to revive and expand attacks on election officials, turning the full weight of the Justice Department against already beleaguered public servants
https://msmagazine.com/2024/08/28/project-2025-election-officials
Project 2025 Coming After LGBTQ Americans
Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 reveals potential major setbacks for gender-affirming care, workplace protections, same-sex marriage
* 2025 Presidential Transition Project
JD Vance Praised Dark Report by Project 2025 Architects
People going hungry good thing/access to IVF isn’t
https://newrepublic.com/post/185536/jd-vance-report-hunger-abortion-project-2025
* 2017 Heritage Foundation report
* restricting reproductive rights
* hunger “great motivation” for Americans to work
JD Vance Champions 2017 Heritage Foundation Report
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/us/politics/vance-heritage-report.html
* 29 essays opposing abortion; instructing Americans on how to raise children
#GOP #Trump2 JDVance #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #EnablingFascism #FarRight #WomensRights
Vance praised "admirable" report f. Heritage Foundation criticizing women who prioritize careers
Donald Trump's V.P. pick endorsed 2017 report on families f. the right-wing Project 2025 authors
https://www.salon.com/2024/09/03/vance-praised-admirable-report-from-project-2025-authors-criticizing-women-prioritize-careers
* proposed sweeping restrictions on abortion, in vitro fertilization, reproductive rights
* Vance called proposed reforms admirable
* was keynote speaker at the report’s release event
Misogynist Manifesto: Project 2025 Says Yes to ‘Biblically Based Marriages’ and No to Reproductive Rights
https://msmagazine.com/2024/09/09/misogynist-manifesto-project-2025-marriage-women-abortion-bible-divorce-men
Project 2025 Provision Would Supercharge Wealth Inequality
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/project-2025-tax-provision-universal-savings-wealth-income-inequality
* calls for Trump government to create universal savings accounts
* var. retirement subsidies = federal gov.’s largest tax expenditure
* projected to deprive Treasury of $2.5 trillion over 5 years (2023–2027): bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #GOP #Trump2 #Trumpism#EnablingFascism #capitalism #billionaires #WealthInequality #libertarianism #WealthTax #TAXtheRich #taxation
Project 2025 Contributor Corey DeAngelis' Gay Porn Past
Public statement after videos of him in gay adult films resurface
https://newrepublic.com/post/186560/project-2025-contributor-corey-deangelis-gay-porn-past
* 2014 adult film videos of Corey DeAngelis
* right-wing school privatization advocate; transphobe
* affiliations: American Federation for Children; Cato Institute (Ch. Koch)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Federation_for_Children_Growth_Fund
Project 2025 Architects Weaponize State Superintendents in Culture War
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/10/01/project-2025-architects-weaponize-state-superintendents-in-culture-war
Trump Just Took His Project 2025 Promise a Step Further
Donald Trump managed to make his education policy more extreme than Project 2025
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113238641075876108
Heritage Foundation Floods Federal Agencies w. 1000s FOIA requests
Attempting to find employees for Trump2 administration purge
https://www.propublica.org/article/have-government-employees-mentioned-climate-change-voting-or-gender-identity-the-heritage-foundation-wants-to-know
* conservative think tank filed 1000s public-information requests
* employees a potential Trump administration would want to purge
@persagen I love how the voting booths are set up so they can ‘see’ them voting.
@persagen Regardless of country or party, fear of hunger and desperation are core to conservative ideology. Usually, though, they use terminology like 'incentive.'
Well, if this becomes laws then I will invoke the Roman right under English common law. This gives right to kill my daughter's rapist. It also gives me or my daughter the right to abort the child at any time. Even after the child is born.