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dalton99a

(87,121 posts) Fri Feb 14, 2025, 09:57 AM Feb 14

What Musk and Trump are doing is worse than Project 2025 (Reuters)

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-02-14/analysis-with-blitz-of-policies-trump-goes-beyond-project-2025s-goals

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/with-blitz-policies-trump-goes-beyond-project-2025s-goals-2025-02-14/

With Blitz of Policies, Trump Goes Beyond Project 2025's Goals
Feb. 14, 2025, at 6:00 a.m.
By Brad Heath and Mike Spector

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s early actions in office have in many cases expanded upon proposals from Project 2025's conservative policy blueprint that the Republican tried to distance himself from on the campaign trail, a Reuters review found.

From actions halting U.S. aid abroad to fortifying the southern border and restrictions on transgender athletes, Reuters identified more than a dozen Trump executive orders or other policy moves that exceed in ambition or scope what Project 2025’s 900-page “Mandate for Leadership” book advocated in a series of detailed policy proposals.

The conservative initiative caused an uproar on the campaign trail, with Democrats calling it a set of extremist ideas that would form the basis for Trump's potential second-term agenda if elected. Trump, however, repeatedly distanced himself from Project 2025 during the presidential campaign, saying he had not read the policy blueprint.

While Trump has so far not adopted some of Project 2025's most aggressive ideas, his blizzard of more than 50 executive orders and series of other policy moves during his initial weeks in office have gone beyond some of its other proposals.

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What Musk and Trump are doing is worse than Project 2025 (Reuters) (Original Post) dalton99a Feb 14 OP

The blitz found the beaches empty... Hugin Feb 14 #1

Maga and GOP sheeple do not read this kinda stuff kerouac2 Feb 14 #2

They still believe Trump will only hurt other people. sop Feb 14 #4

Why do people keep calling something that radical "conservative"? Crunchy Frog Feb 14 #3

100% correct... Elon is following a techno facism playbook JCMach1 Feb 14 #5

+1 Hugin Feb 14 #6

Not mainstream, it's part of the freaking administration JCMach1 Feb 14 #7

Anything that isn't Democratic is conservative and good for America. Septua Feb 14 #10

NOT CONSERVATIVE AT ALL. elleng Feb 15 #12

Of course. He is -- as he himself said -- their "retribution". Nevermind the KPN Feb 14 #8

Because everything Elon is doing is a vendetta Owens Feb 14 #9

NOTHING CONSERVATIVE about ANYTHING they are doing and planning. elleng Feb 15 #11

Hugin

(35,811 posts)

1. The blitz found the beaches empty...

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2025, 09:59 AM

Feb 14

Coal was applied.

kerouac2

(1,082 posts)

2. Maga and GOP sheeple do not read this kinda stuff

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2025, 10:01 AM

Feb 14

They watch fox, listen to rw radio, and base their opinions on the memes and misinformation they get from their bubble and what the social media algorithm feeds them based on their bubble and what zuck and musk want them to believe.

Everything is hunky Dory to them.

sop

(12,975 posts)

4. They still believe Trump will only hurt other people.

Reply to kerouac2 (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 14, 2025, 10:05 AM

Feb 14

Crunchy Frog

(27,442 posts)

3. Why do people keep calling something that radical "conservative"?

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2025, 10:02 AM

Feb 14

JCMach1

(28,438 posts)

5. 100% correct... Elon is following a techno facism playbook

Reply to Crunchy Frog (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 14, 2025, 10:07 AM

Feb 14

Everyone needs to be taking a serious look at Curtis Yarvin's BS to know what's headed our way.

Hugin

(35,811 posts)

6. +1

Reply to JCMach1 (Reply #5)

Fri Feb 14, 2025, 10:15 AM

Feb 14

Overt white supremacy has overtaken the covert white supremacy of the Turner Diary days. It’s gone mainstream.

JCMach1

(28,438 posts)

7. Not mainstream, it's part of the freaking administration

Reply to Hugin (Reply #6)

Fri Feb 14, 2025, 01:03 PM

Feb 14

The three main ideologies playing out in the Trump Administration are

Techno-fascism
Christian Dominionism
Alt-Right

Alt-Right is the 'normal' racists we think about mostly, but the other two groups have echoes of it as well.

Septua

(2,724 posts)

10. Anything that isn't Democratic is conservative and good for America.

Reply to Crunchy Frog (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 14, 2025, 07:50 PM

Feb 14

Some of the mouthy MAGAs at X tout anything Musk or Trump says or does...when Musk claims, without supporting data, that he uncovered $millions of fraud in a particular 'investigation', they rejoice over it. When Trump does stupid sh!t like renaming the Gulf of Mexico, it was a brilliant idea. When Trump says Canada will be the 51st state, outstanding move...

49.9% of the people voted for him, 46% thing he's doing a good job. Go figure...