US Public Rapidly Sours on Project 2025 as Awareness Grows

I should fuckin well hope so

Wait until veterans learn that they want to take away their healthcare and disability pay in order to give tax cuts to the rich. This is not hyperbole, that's literally one of the ways they intend to save money. Also making it so you can get your pension or VA disability, but not both.
- i bet they'll still vote republican
  UPDATE: watch the apologists try to say that it's not that bad below. lol
- A lot of red voting trade workers need to understand how anti-union and anti-workers rights it is. And wave goodbye to overtime.
- Oh we know. That shit went through the grapevine faster than a bad southern idiom.
- I'm a Red Blooded Christ Loving Veteran and I'm TOTALLY OK WITH THAT as long as TRANS KIDS DIE TOO! #SaveTheChildren!
It’s just about time for a MASSIVE march on Washington. These clowns are way too comfortable.
The Supreme Court is out of hand with zero pushback.
- Hate to say it, but protests and marches do jack shit these days in terms of pressuring our leaders.
- Just about?
  The tolerance you all show will never not infuriate me.

Fuck Nazis

NAZI PUNKS FUCK OFF!
- Calling them punks is an insult to punks, they’re just scum

No one wants to be a part of your fascist religious cult! Humans want freedom, not oppression.

Humans want freedom, not oppression.
Hey! Republicans are human, too.
- Prove it!
- [Citation needed]
- Scientists are unable to verify your sentence.

I think its funny that the more shit like this they push on me the further away from their ideologies I want to be. Vote blue and be done with leadership provided by conservatives, they only want to control us and I'm sick of it

Because every page is insane bullshit. Here's one I saw a post about and looked up, where they want to just straight up fire everyone in the Treasury Department who's participated in a DEI initiative:

I'm pretty sure that these idiots who wrote this will only be happy once everyone in this country is miserable and dead. They hate everything about this country.
The issue is that people don’t appreciate that DEI etc. are not about race per se, but about the problems and conflicts which happened (and still do) because people have different skin colors.
You cannot create ideology based on racial supremacy, and then complain when other people want to block degenerates like you from acting on that ideology.
2226?
- Long term plan...

US public rapidly sours on turning US into fundamentalist shithole

Its not surprise they want to ban books and sites that give people a chance to learn that their normal aint normal

When the public pays any attention to conservative policy.

That's the issue is most people don't even do the most basic level of research, they just tune in to whatever news network they've listened to for their life, and do whatever they say, and its pathetic.
It's funny. When you laid out the individual points of Obamacare and ran some polls without the context of the name, they were quite popular. When they're bundled together and called Obamacare, the popularity plunged.
In this case, you drop an 922 page pdf full of conservative agenda items, people will largely ignore it, because who the fuck has time to wade through a 922 page pdf? But somebody reads it, and its agenda items start to be laid out individually, and everyone hates it.
So basically, progressive policy is popular until conservatives give it a nickname and pretend it says something else. Conservative policy is not popular, and they can only get it through by obfuscating it.

cuz a christian theocracy regime plan doesn't sound like much fun

When was the public ever in favor of this?

Never was. Their goal was to sneak it past the voters, that's why they keep lying about what's in it and concealing Trump's connection to it.
At no point in time. But it seems the public was largely ignorant, and thus apathetic, of it. The more knowledge, the more resistance.
The perfect plan for a Judge Dredd universe. But the public just HAD to be all, "oh, we don't LIKE that plan. It prevents us from staying alive!"

Tie that shit to Trump and his weasel running mate. He is already trying to back away from it.

It's very much so tied to him already.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/trump-allies-project-2025/index.html

No shit, the vast majority of the public hates republican policy. Most people are too lazy to vote or vote against their best interests because of stupid reasons like racism or wanting to hurt others.

Because it fucken sucks and its plain to see even through the legalese.

How am I going to lock down my eighteen year old trad wife now?

Eighteen? Have you SEEN how hard they push to drop the age of consent?!
To the Gilead crowd, if she's not on her 2nd child by 18 then they send the council around to find out why.
- I think states with 18 is already a minority
You misspelled fourteen.
Eighteen year old? Really?
Edit: like the other replies, I was also going for a joke about how 18 was too old for them, but nobody bit on my two-part misdirection setup so they beat me to it. : (

My kids are all IVF. We spent a lot of money on that. Money comes from countless work hours. On the sentimental side, it was a horrible rollercoaster ride of having to follow an injection schedule, going to the doc for check-ups or for removing eggs or for jacking off into a cup right next to the doctor's office. Lots of embarrassing moments. My kids are awesome and I would do it all over again. Fuck these project 2025 assholes. If I want to be gay and get IVF done, I will. I don't need to ask others for permission or legality. That's what freedom is about. That's what American is about.

I was with you until that last sentence. You guys need to cut that shit out and get real.
- That's what American is all about? LOL 😂. I just tossed that in like salt on a dead cow 🍔 burger. Or a salad 🥗.
- Sorry that you still have a king. American exceptionalism is alive and well, trust me.

i bet hexabear mods have the proj2025 tattoo.

Nah, those guys want an entirely different flavor of authoritarian regime.
- If you can trust their words at all, they want 2025 to destabilize the US so China and/or Russia can expand more.
- why is that flavor cum?
I'm all about freedom of expression, freedom to be who you want to be, etc..
But Jesus Christ on a cracker scrolling all and sorting through the hexbear bull shit just got so old.
I blocked the entire instance lol
Hated to do it. But man.

Was it actually popular? No one I know of even has heard of it.

Even Trump had the awareness to first implicitly write off Project 2025 by having these Black Americans For Trump meetings that no one showed up for - not even him). When that [obviously] didn't work he then explicitly said he wasn't part of this nonsense.

Yeah, but a bunch of people from his administration were involved in writing it, including Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller his deportation and immigration guy.
Project 2025 is focused on replacing public servants, with 'Trump Loyalists"... Such terms associated with Trump are laced throughout the document, showing up over 300 times... And JD Vance has also talked about this idea.
... Clarence Thomas has based his whole career on this idea, which he calls "Destroying the Administrative State", and Trump has always used the phrase "draining the swamp" and "destroying the deep state". It's also very much like his Fake electors plot that he was already involved with last election.
The whole idea behind Project 2025 is that a bunch of the legal documents to create a dictatorship (otherwise called "unitary executive theory") - where the powers of the executive branch would be greatly expanded - have already been written up, and Trump just needs to sign them on day one. After that, his unique powers would be legal.
....and he keeps saying "I'll only be a dictator on day one". Which seems to be in line with the Project 2025 plan.
Project 2025 was written by the Heritage Foundation, who often writes and recycles these plans. They wrote one for Reagan, which is why he cut the corporate tax rate, and one for bush suggesting invading Kuwait. So they often get what they want.
In 2018, they bragged on their website that two thirds of the previous "Mandate for Leadership" they wrote for Trump had been passed into law. So The Heritage Foundation is no small operation. They're a large part of how GOP candidates adopt a policy agenda.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 for details.
- Thank you for all of this info. I didn't reliaze this Heritage Foundation is so old. Still, it really does feel like the same old Regean era stuff they always put out. I guess that's the reason why the alarm isn't going on in many people's heads.
When that [obviously] didn’t work he then explicitly said he wasn’t part of this nonsense.
Yeap but Trump then went on to name JD Vance as his VP. JD Vance wrote the foreword for a book about this garbage project by one of the authors and all but jizzed all over it in praise.
They cannot truly disassociate from it; not that their base would care, or be able to read this project, or understand it
- I get what you mean. It's all the same Republicans at all of these different clubs. We really need to start forcing education in conservative areas. A war against stupidity is required. Otherwise, we just loop through the same stuff, every election cycle.

First time I've ever said this but thanks, Heritage! You showed your hand :)

This is getting people in my life who aren't even active in politics to go, "wtf?" in the biggest shake-up since Roe's reversal.

rapidly souring implies that they liked it at one point

They didn't know the details. Now that people are learning more about it, they're souring on it

Like realising you are sawing off your good leg mid-way.

Good for you that it "only" took you this long?