What is the Project 2025 truly about, and what does it consist of in regards to Trump being president again?

[Oliverlogan263]

[abc3643]

This is Project 2025. You can read it yourself, but it helps to have life experience and know history to fully grasp how nefarious it can be.

https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

I am not saying it is all bad, but, for most folks making under $200k/year, it doesn't help you.

It's Conservative Disneyland... fuck over regular people for the sake of business and the wealthy. Like this graphic:

However, it's very nuanced in some instances. You might not realize you are getting fucked, but you are.

Here's a case in point:

The US Military has had a drop in enlistment, so Project 2025 wants to help with recruitment efforts.

This is a verbatim copy (to the best of G@G's ability) from Project 2025 (document pages 102-103, PDF pages 135-136):

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DOD PERSONNEL
The men and women of America’s armed forces are the most critical component of our national defense strategy, but in recent years, they have been overextended, undervalued, and insufficiently resourced. Their families help them to carry the burden of service, but the assistance they receive is disproportionately less than the sacrifices they make. Young civilians who would thrive in a military environment are disenfranchised when educators and influencers discourage them from learning about military service and preparing for the honor of wearing America’s uniform.
The United States military is an extraordinary institution, staffed by exceptional people who have defended our nation and changed the course of history, but the Biden Administration, through word and deed, has treated the armed forces as just another place to work. We must restore our military to a place of honor and respect and recruit and retain the individuals who will meet the rigorous standards of excellence that are required for membership in the world’s greatest fighting force.

Needed Reforms
* Rescue recruiting and retention. Recruiting was the worst in 2022 that it has been in two generations and is expected to be even worse in 2023. Some of the problems are self-inflicted and ongoing. The recruiting problem is not service-specific: It affects the entire Joint Force.

1. Appoint a Special Assistant to the President who will maintain liaison with Congress, DOD, and all other interested parties on the issue of recruiting and retention.

2. Improve recruiting by suspending the use of the recently introduced MHS Genesis system that uses private medical records of potential recruits at Military Entrance Processing Stations (MEPS), creating unnecessary delays and unwarranted rejections.

3. Improve military recruiters’ access to secondary schools and require completion of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)—the military entrance examination—by all students in schools that receive federal funding.

4. Encourage Members of Congress to provide time to military recruiters during each townhall session in their congressional districts.

5. Increase the number of Junior ROTC programs in secondary schools.

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OK, it all sounds reasonable, right? But it pays to think about what they are saying... and what they are NOT saying...

Let's revisit #3 above...

3. Improve military recruiters’ access to secondary schools and require completion of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)—the military entrance examination—by all students in ...

... schools that receive federal funding.

First, this is likely unconstitutional, but I don't want to discuss that.

So, if a school receives money from the Federal Government (which is a large fraction of public schools), they want the kids in those schools to be required to take the military entrance examination. Why those schools? Well, first, they believe they can strongarm public schools with the Federal funding; kids don't take the test, school's don't get the money. This is likely unconstitutional. But notice they didn't mention private schools. Generally, private schools do not take Federal funding. Why? Because they have high tuition so the students in private schools come from wealthy families.

If The Heritage Foundation really believed in driving up enlistment, they'd require students in ALL schools to take the exam. But, they didn't say that. They only said "schools that receive Federal funding".

They are happy to have the middle and lower class kids join the military and fight their wars for them, but not THEIR kids.

I'll channel my inner Queen of Mean, hotel emoress Leona Helmsley and paraphrase her for this subject: "We don't fight wars; only the little people fight wars."

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That's just one example. Here's another...

This is a verbatim copy (to the best of G@G's ability) from Project 2025 (document pages 674-675, PDF pages 707-708):

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NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
Break Up NOAA. The single biggest Department of Commerce agency outside of decennial census years is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which houses the National Weather Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and other components. NOAA garners $6.5 billion of the department’s $12 billion annual operational budget and accounts for more than half of the department’s personnel in non-decadal Census years (2021 figures).

NOAA consists of six main offices:

• The National Weather Service (NWS);
• The National Ocean Service (NOS);
• The Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR);
• The National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS);
• The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS); and
• The Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and NOAA Corps.

Together, these form a colossal operation that has become one of the main
drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future
U. S. prosperity.

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In typical fashion, conservatives want to privatize everything which is usually the worst thing you can do. It's why the Founding Fathers wrote in the Preamble to the US Constitution:

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The Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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They knew better than to leave national defense in the hands of business...

OK, it's that last paragraph where The Heritage Foundation and conservatives want to fuck you and your generation...

[NOAA is the main driver] of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future

No, it's not harmful to U. S. prosperity... It's harmful to YOUR prosperity in terms of your profit margin. WORSE, climate change is real and has to be addressed. They don't want that. The oil industry has tried to gaslight us that this was not real for decades when even their own scientists knew.

However, as one so young, here's the important life lesson I want you to take away from this. It's one I learned around your age and why I realized the GOP is full of shit:

This is human nature: People who are older, like me, and who are pretty much running the world, often don't want to make sacrifices for later generations. The problems are real, yes, and they may realize that privately, but they also think "I'll be dead when the shit hits the fan, so I'll let somebody else worry about that then. But don't take my money which I want now to enjoy what time I have left in this world."

Frankly, I am furious about that and seeing your generation get fucked. Even when I was your age, I was pissed about. I could see the shit hitting the fan 40+ years ago. This is why I chose not to have kids. I knew I couldn't protect them from this, so I didn't have them. Instead, I try to protect YOU and future generations... the generations that have been fucked over by the GOP for over 50 years.

[abc3643]

Just to be clear, Project 2025 is published by The Heritage Foundation which is a conservative think thank. The Project 2025 document was written with contributions by many dozens of people including about 140 who were in the Trump Adminstration and many who will be in the next Trump Administration.

The ACLU, which does not endorse candidates, sums up some of the impact of Project 2025.
https://www.aclu.org/project-2025-explained

[Syntosi]

In simple terms, Project 2025 is created by a far right wing think tank with the help of A LOT of republican strategists and politicians. Including over 100 people formerly part of Trumps administration from his first term as president if I remember correctly.

Project 2025 really has two parts of it. The first part is to find as many ways to give the president the legal right to do whatever he wants as if he was a king which includes a long list of things they specifically want to do and plans for how they would push that through any obstacle, constitutional or otherwise. The second part is basically how to manipulate Trump into doing what they want.

Strictly speaking Project 2025 is not written by people who likes Trump. Its by people who previously were trying to use Trump as a tool but found it very difficult because he kept changing his mind and refused to work together for petty reasons. Project 2025 tries to streamline this into making Trump more easily to manipulate into doing the things that the people behind Project 2025 wants out of his Administration.

In other words, they are trying to make a plan for how to govern the country by going through Donald Trump as if he is their puppet.

[jasmine453luv]

Project 2025 is fake. Stop worrying about it; it's not even real. If you want to find out what Trump is going to do, search up Agenda 47. Although Trump opposes abortion, his primary concern is illegal immigrants and politicians that overlook the constitution and the bill of rights. For instance, Kamala Harris made the decisions when Joe Biden gave our weapons and supplies to the Taliban, which is against the constitution because he supported a foreign adversary and violated the first amendment by attacking Christians and proposing a bill to alter the Bible.

[Anonymous]

It's a fantasy created by left wingers. Why shouldn't students pay off their loans rather than taxpayers? Under the Biden regime it's never been more difficult to buy a home. Social security is going to be cut or taxpayers will have to pay more as Biden spent that money in Ukraine.

Biden/kamala spent the whole run up to to the election telling working and middle class people they never had it better, obviously they disagreed with the statistics.

[Shiprex]

Why should students HAVE loans for education when they are more trained, prepared, capable of better higher quality work to MAKE THE RICH RICHER?
Why is it more difficult than ever to buy a property? Is it because property is being hoarded as "investment" by individuals and corporations while next to none of that "investment" is being used to BUILD houses to house PEOPLE? Profit before people is a f@kin inhuman concept.

[Opinion Owner]

@Shiprex lol the idea of going to college and getting a degree is to get a higher paying job, why should taxpayers pay for that? A large percentage of these coming out of colleges are unemployable so not making the rich richer.
It's difficult to buy property espicially in liberal cities because of high property taxes and block buying of neighbourhoods. Farmers are also being put out of it.
This all happened under the Biden regime.

[Shiprex]

Why should taxpayers pay? Well having an EDUCATED and more productive citizenry, the nation benefits from people better able to DEVELOP, build and create improvements more readily. It's an added benefit that they will also pay MORE taxes toward roads, infrastructure, defence, and everything else society benefits from. Why should ONLY the wealthy and not the most capable be entitled to access to education? Surely meritocracy is best for everyone and not just the born with silver spoons in their mouths?

[Shiprex]

Farmers are put out because grocery stores are pushing for cheaper materials to put on their shelves to get their shareholders more profit. Surely that's not news to you?
Property is expensive in cities of all sorts and the fact that the biggest ones aren't backwards (opposite of progressive) leaning is because infrastructure to support those cities COSTS and the treatment of those who are employed to provide the services that achieve that is no longer slavey. The employees deserve to be paid a proper wage which is hard for conservatives to accept even though they wouldn't do it themselves but expect others to do it for free,

[captain_voidwalker]

I've seen what comes out of college these days, frankly what a waste of money tax payers or otherwise.

[Opinion Owner]

@Shiprex why shouldn't taxpayers buy people's houses for them too. Why doesn't everyone just go to college. How do all these kids with gender studies degrees help the economy?
youtube.com/shorts/h_OhKvgTgEw?si=3rvNdgaFEw8EnIes

[Opinion Owner]

@Shiprex farmers are being put out due to bad banking practices and John deer

[Shiprex]

How are banks (businesses meant to make profit) doing bad business with farmers when it's farmers not making 6 figure income from growing food (or flesh) that's competing with others doing the same thing in a capitalist hellscape that cares more about the profit margins and INCREASES in profit that the massive corporations selling the stuff to ignorant and cash strapped citizens who are being ripped off by other capitalists (raping them of their labour while profiting through the nose) who can't afford to progress up the least socially mobile society in the developed world (the Americant dream) unless they get a financial leg up by having a degree in Engineering, Medicine, Teaching, Law, Ophthalmology, Chemical Engineering, Radiography, Pharmacology etc. like most people aim for but nah the right only see with their eyes closed the mythical stories of social media they rely on as "factual.

[Shiprex]

@captain_voidwalker I've pushed kids to college and university and they're a hell of a lot better than the fukwits posting on social media in their understanding of the world and people about them but heck I live in a country where we believe an educated populace provides a citizenry that are informed and can make smart choices. Not pick failed TV star criminals with a penchant for sexual abuse into office.

[Opinion Owner]

@Shiprex learn how banks in America operate. They can and often do call in loans with no warning or reason. The objective is to get your property.
If you can get a degree in Engineering, Medicine, Teaching, Law, Ophthalmology, Chemical Engineering, Radiography, Pharmacology etc then you can take out a small student loan to pay for it and easily pay it back with your earnings.

[Shiprex]

They're a business who LOAN money at a risk. When THEY decide that risk is too great they take the necessary action to prevent further loss. It's Economics for dummies.
If you can get a degree in something worthwhile FOR SOCIETY then society shouldn't force you to take out commercial loans (the US way not the way in UK where interest is based on inflation instead of profit for the loanshark companies) because then society will benefit far more from the contribution and educated individual who HAS shown they have the capacity to do so instead of rely on dumb fukrs from the wealthy ruling classes (see aristocracy) being handed scholarships and degrees because daddy paid for them.

[Opinion Owner]

@Shiprex nonsense. So let the banks loan students money, let them treat them like the farmers. If you can get a degree in something worthwhile it will pay for itself very easily. There's nothing wrong with parents helping their children, lord knows most of them worked hard 20 years to put their kids through college.
US banks operate immoral practices, it's an issue in many countries. Remember who bailed the banks out.

[captain_voidwalker]

Yeah this the same educated populace that claims men can have periods and get pregnant? Also many genders are you up to? 32,000 or something? How did Havard have to deal with election nights outcome? Canceling classes and distributing chocy milk and cookies right
Yeah college sure is churning out some real gems there.

[Twalli]

It's a long document listing an lot of changes to be made to the government essentially making the president a lot more despotic. Strictly speaking it's all legal, but would be violating common sense and customs (Trump cares about neither).

For example thereare career government employees. Such things as the FD, justice department, etc. A plan in Project 2025 is to fire all of these qualified people and replace them with cronies regardless of qualifications.

I won't list all of the plans, because there's a character limit here and it's 90 pages. I've read it and understood it, scarier thsn any horror novel, because it's all legal and Trump can do it, and might.

[Joshydavid25]

It's basically just a long document written by a lot of Conservatives about all the useless Government agencies in crazy detail and either eliminating them or reestablishing them. I actually wish that Trump was apart of Project 2025, since it has a lot of actual good ideas.. The media as usual is taking things out of context to vilify Trump.. Trump is not apart of Project 2025 nor is it some evil project..

[sawno]

Its just an unrelated thinktank project that Trump isn't even on board with. The left keeps promoting it as if he's actually going to do it.

[exitseven]

Some of Trump's former staffers were among the people that created this. It has a lot of good policies but President Trump had no hand in this and is not affiliated with the Heritage Foundation who created it.

It contains some good policies but it is not Trump's to do list for his administration.

[Anonymous]

Nothing.. Considering Trump doesn't support it or endorse it. He literally didn't know what it was until someone told him about it. Those that believe it's going to happen are just plain stupid. Like if they threw a rock at the ground they would miss levels of stupid.

[Anonymous]

It’s already happening. I was out at lunch downtown and I saw two fellow employees wearing handmaids tales costumes. I thought it was a joke and told them it’s not Halloween anymore and they told me they all have to wear it because of Project 2025.

[Anonymous]

Trump has nothing to do with Project 2025

either way I want Trump to protect free speech, dismantle the deep state and get rid of woke liberalism from our businesses, academia and entertainment

[Dargil]

Read the Constitution lately? Ever?

The Heritage Foundation wrote a monograph. The writers agreed with themselves. What did President-Elect Trump say about it?

[phraseology]

You still don't realize you lost. It's hilarious.

[Oliverlogan263]

And you still don’t realize you don’t got an ounce of a life to live, that’s hysterical now fuck on somewhere

[phraseology]

Nice projection. You're pushing propaganda against a candidate that controls everything. In fact we knew we controlled everything 6 years ago, yet you still have not caught on yet... You spent the past 6 years of your life pushing propaganda in a game you could not win. We knew you were in check checkmate in 2018.

[phraseology]

We told you that you already lost, yet you kept spending year after year pushing that propaganda for nothing. 6 years down the drain. Imagine what you could have accomplished in 6 years if you focused on something more useful.

[CarolinaGirl5]

Taxes are higher under kamala as they are taking money out of our checks for illegal immigrants and section 8 people. Do you not see that? And the cost of groceries high.

[Ladsin2]

Nothing. Trump's never read it and will do what he wants regardless of what is in it.

[captain_voidwalker]

Why are you idiots still trying to link trump to project 2025. He has nothing to do with it. At best you could say his border polices are similar to what's outlined in project 2025 but that's it.

[Oliverlogan263]

You dumbass, it’s whoever is president whether be trump or Harris I’ve seen that this project would take effect under and I didn’t know what it was about at first is why I asked now shut up with the whole linking with trump. Don’t call nobody idiots or name call on none of my questions again

[FunkyMonkee]

That has absolutely nothing to do with Trump. He didn't write it, he has no idea who did, he never read it, he has no plans of ever reading it!

[Penelope79]

It’s Very Scary times. Trump has history of ripping people off.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Project 2025 is the first step towards American Fascism.

[onedarkcloud]

And that movement is being led by THE DEMOCRATIC COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

[DrPepper12]

You can't convince MAGA it's terrifying and will come for them too.

[Anonymous]

I am in favor of this agenda provided it is done at the appropriate level of goverment.,

[Anonymous]

It’s about training new fighters to be the heavyweight champion of the world

[FunkyMonkee]

So they can beat Mike Tyson.

[Opinion Owner]

@FunkyMonkee yes

[FunkyMonkee]

You're tired of it, too, hunh?

[Opinion Owner]

@FunkyMonkee who are you rooting for next Friday Tyson VS Jake Paul

[FunkyMonkee]

Nobody! I ain't the LEAST bit interested in such shit. I didn't even know there WAS fight until you mentioned it! watching 2 grown men beat the piss out of each other for money is NOT my idea of entertainment! It's about the same reason I don't waste my time with football or hockey.

[Oliverlogan263]

@FunkyMonkee nah it’s a 58 year old man fighting a 27 year old man

[FunkyMonkee]

What's the difference?

[Opinion Owner]

@FunkyMonkee I love boxing

[Opinion Owner]

I was a fighter

[FunkyMonkee]

I'm sorry.

[Opinion Owner]

@FunkyMonkee ok

[seeyounexttuesday]

It mean nothing. It has nothing to do with Trump. But there are some good ideas in it.

[Anonymous]

Yeah liberals were saying it so it must be true. 🤦‍♂️🤡

[NamerOfStars]

Go back to NAMBLA.

[Pterodon]

It’s been debunked many times

[jimmy2]

Well don't worry Republicans got it all now

[JasonGrad09]

According to Trump he hasn’t even heard of it! 😂

[PsychicBoobs]

Soon find out, eh?