Project 2025:
Project 2025 is a proposed presidential transition project that is composed of four pillars: a policy guide for the next presidential administration; a LinkedIn-style database of personnel who could serve in the next administration; training for that pool of candidates dubbed the "Presidential Administration Academy;" and a playbook of actions to be taken within the first 180 days in office.
Wow!!! How devious. This is serious!!! Someone who has an organization plan! Why didn't the Democrats think about this?
Of course you'd think of it like that. But here is a PDF listing the top
10 nastiest environmental consequences of Project 2025, and here is a Snopes report:
Key Points of The Roughly 1,000-Page Document
Speaking to
Politico, Russell Vought, who served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump and is now a leading adviser for Project 2025, once described the effort as "more systematic than it is just about Trump," adding, "We have to be thinking mechanically about how to take these institutions over" in reference to federal departments.
Project 2025's document lays out in great detail how supporters want to do that. As of early June 2024, about 855,000 people had downloaded the document, The New York Times
reported.
Among its numerous recommendations, it calls for the following (in no particular order):
- Changing how the FBI operates. According to the plan, the agency is "completely out of control," and the next conservative administration should restore its reputation by stopping investigations that are supposedly "unlawful or contrary to the national interest." Also, the document calls for legislation that would eliminate term limits for the FBI's director and require that person to answer to the president.
- Eliminating the Department of Education. The plan explicitly proposes, "Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated." The report also calls for bans on so-called "critical race theory" (CRT) and "gender ideology" lessons in public schools, asking for legislation that would require educators who share such material to register as sex offenders and be imprisoned.
- Defunding the Department of Justice. Additionally, the document proposes prosecuting federal election-related charges as criminal, not civil, cases. Otherwise, the document says, "[Voter] registration fraud and unlawful ballot correction will remain federal election offenses that are never appropriately investigated and prosecuted."
- Reversing Biden-era policies attempting to reduce climate change. The document's authors call for increasing the country's reliance on fossil fuels and withdrawing from efforts to address the climate crisis — such as "offices, programs, and directives designed to advance the Paris Climate Agreement."
- Stopping cybersecurity efforts to combat mis- and disinformation. The document recommends the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to stop its efforts to curtail online propaganda campaigns, arguing the federal government should not make judgment calls on what's true and what isn't.
- Changing immigration policies. Authors want the federal government to deprioritize DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), the program that temporarily delays the deportation of immigrants without documentation who came to the U.S. as children; phase out temporary work-visa programs that allow seasonal employers to hire foreign workers; impose financial punishments on so-called "sanctuary cities" that do not follow federal immigration laws, and divert tax dollars toward security at America's border with Mexico. (While the Biden campaign claims Project 2025 calls for "ripping mothers away from their children" at the border, there's no explicit mention of separating families. Rather, it calls for stronger enforcement of laws governing the detainment of immigrants with criminal records and restricting an existing program that tracks people in deportation proceedings instead of incarcerating them. In some cases, those changes could possibly play a role in border control agents detaining a parent while their child continues with immigration proceedings.)
- Restricting access to abortion. The plan wants the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop promoting abortion as health care. Additionally, Project 2025 recommends the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to stop promoting, and approving, requests for manufacturing abortion pills. "Alternative options to abortion, especially adoption, should receive federal and state support," the document states.
- Removing LGBTQ+ protections. The plan calls for abolishing the Gender Policy Council, a Biden-created department within the White House that aims to "advance equity in government policy for those who face discrimination." Also, the proposal wants the federal government to remove terms such as "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" from records and policies, as well as rescind policies that prohibit discrimination on the basis of "sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, and sex characteristics."
- Cutting ties completely with China. For instance, the document advocates for restricting people's access to TikTok because of its China-based parent company; prohibiting Confucius Institutes, cultural institutions at colleges and universities funded by the Chinese government, and blocking other Chinese entities from partnering with U.S. companies.
- Reversing protections against discrimination in housing. The Biden campaign emails reference a portion of the document that calls for repealing a decades-old policy—strengthened under Biden—that attempts to prevent discrimination and reduce racial disparities in housing. Project 2025 also recommends making it easier to sell off homes used for public housing — a benefit to real estate developers — but result in fewer cheap housing options for poor and low-income families.
Here's a nonpartisan look at who's behind the initiative, what it includes — and so on.
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Trump's attempts to distance himself from
Project 2025 are all lies. What's new with this guy?
The climate denial bits are funded by you-know-how - dirty corporations with enormous turnover or who are of course big oil. What's new with these corporations?
Online users shared a rumor claiming leaders of the conservative Project 2025 initiative previously received some funding from the three businesses.
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They really ARE going to shut down the Department of Education. What's their alternative?
"My son is one of millions of disabled kids that will lose access to education when the Department of Education is destroyed," one user on X said.
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Big cuts to FEMA - because helping poor people hurt by the increasing natural disasters of climate change is ... robbery ... because "My taxes my money" or something. (A REALLY Christian and compassionate concept of the right!
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Project 2025's conservative agenda for the U.S. includes significant reforms and changes regarding the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Well, let's see. Trump has had three assassination attempts on him,
Appalling! Utterly irrelevant to what we are talking about - but appalling!
See - the subject is the best way to ensure a democracy is fairly representative, which from my Australian experience seems to be 3 simple ingredients I summarise as every Democracy needs a good
COP:-
Democracy COP
Compulsory voting: so politicians must appeal to the bored middle, not just the frenzied extremes who are so over-excited about their paranoid theories they've just GOT to get out and vote on an "Inconvenient Tuesday." Even if it cost's them a day's wages because so many people in America are casual employees with no time off to do something as trivial and unimportant to the country as "vote".
Objective & Impartial Federal Commission: is responsible for administering fair and consistent election processes across the nation to limit charges of corruption or unfairness in different States and districts. We don't let State legislatures administer voting because it creates an incentive to corrupt and bias the processes to favour the incumbents or allies of incumbents. EG: Gerrymandering is RIFE in America, but Australia's Electoral Commission creates large 'blobs' of amalgamated suburbs that are drawn up to meet constitutionally defined statistics as the populations shift. Sydney lost a State electorate Seat recently as our population had not grown as much as Western Australia's - so there was a redrawing and shifting of some boundaries. But there are no crazy "Salamander Monster" seats like Gerry's!
Polling Places everywhere: I've seen Current Affairs shows on electoral booths in America where black neighbourhoods had to queue in the sun for 6 to 8 hours just to vote! That is an obscene abuse of the electoral system! In Australia everyone has abundant pre-polling booths open in the weeks up to the election, abundant mail options and ads across the media and in the mail, and abundant polling booths on the Saturday election. It's a fun community outing at your local school or town hall - and you WILL meet people you know, smile, wave, and maybe enjoy a Democracy Sausage.
Attempted Shootings of Trump
This cannot happen
as easily in Australia because we have vastly stricter gun laws! See - when we had a horrific gun massacre - we banned huge categories of guns. As a nation we watched in horror as stories from the Port Arthur massacre unfolded - and the government said "No more Guns!" and we said, "Yeah, fair enough - that massacre thing was rubbish - let's not do that again!" But in America - with your founding myths of Revolution and needing (muskets?) to cast off the British - it now seems any teenager or 20's something can drive around in a pick up truck carrying submachine guns! What happened to a 'well organised militia'? Why is it individuals keeping it in their homes and not some local neighbourhood gun club and militia with a Sergeant at Arms locking them away after drill?
You want guns to protect you in case "that their guv-ern-myant goes bad!" Hitler, or something. But what about the fact that you lose 30 to 40 thousand people a year to gun violence - 18 times more than the OECD average? Putin's funding seperatists in Eastern Ukraine from 2014 to 2024 across a decade
'only' cost an estimated 14,000 lives. And that's a foreign power trying to destabilise a region through a 'proxy' funded 'civil war'! You guys manage to kill TWICE THAT ANNUALLY by bowing to national gun lobby's. After all, corporations gotta make money right?
Gun laws in Australia are predominantly within the jurisdiction of
Australian states and territories, with the importation of guns regulated by the
federal government. In the last two decades of the 20th century, following several high-profile killing sprees, the federal government coordinated more restrictive firearms legislation with all state governments.
Gun laws were largely aligned in 1996 by the
National Firearms Agreement. In two federally funded
gun buybacks and voluntary surrenders and State Governments' gun amnesties before and after the
Port Arthur Massacre, more than a million firearms were collected and destroyed, possibly a third of the national stock.
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A person must have a
firearm licence to possess or use a firearm. Licence holders must demonstrate a "genuine reason" (which does not include self-defence) for holding a firearm licence
[2] and must not be a "prohibited person". All firearms must be
registered by serial number to the owner.
In December 2023
National Cabinet agreed to implement a national firearms register within four years.
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a sham trial in which he wasn't allowed to call any witnesses
Really? Which trial? He's had so many lately.
and then fine $435 million dollars for paying hush money to keep it quiet from his wife,
Oh - and the little detail that it's illegal to keep it from the American people in an election. But then - wrestling with the real world of laws and democratic norms isn't really Fox territory, is it?
constant badgering from others lawyers (that often are thrown out), and a slanted media coverage.
Of course! We must all go back to watching Fox - the only 'unbiased' news source! That's why they had to pay over $787.5 million rather than claim innocence and push forward. Rupert knew they’d done the wrong thing, knew they'd lose the case - and even acknowledged the FACTS - and said “he believed the 2020 election was fair and had not been stolen from Trump.”
https://apnews.com/article/fox-news...l-trump-2020-0ac71f75acfacc52ea80b3e747fb0afe
But have we heard Fox state this repeatedly and clearly so Republicans can finally have a chance to "Believe" in their electoral system?
That's why I don't think of Fox as a "news" channel. They're Trump Agit Prop. That's all.
The Russian hoax came from the Hillary campaign. FBI, CIA, and NSA directors that deliberately lied to Congress about their role. And some continue to perpetrate this hoax. I'm sure your ABC friend didn't spend much time looking into this. Ho-hum. It just another instance of bias reporting.
Assertions are not evidence.
Meanwhile, you have Russia, China, and Iran all endorsing Harris, all the while Harris is receiving 50% more in funds, much from sources unknown (dark money).
First - every nation pretty much has the political line of "We'll work with whoever our new 'friend' in the Whitehouse is." That's just realpolitik when you have the biggest economy and military in the world.
Second - assertions without evidence. I've submitted actual proof that you have NOT managed to dismiss with your conspiracy
assertions. Assertions are not evidence, no matter how much you click your ruby slippers together and chant 3 times. We can all see the magic-hand-waving for what it is. You attempting to make Inconvenient Truths just go away.
And you want to tell me Trump is receiving money from Russia.
No - I was telling you Russia had a vested interest in Trump being elected because Trump loves dictators. So Russia didn't pay Trump - they paid Alt-right youtubers. And I'm not telling you - countless investigative journalists and ultimately the DOJ are telling you. But you have these to just wish it all away.
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