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GeneUSMC
(1 post)You need to understand this warped throwback to Hitler and the Nazi party. Your future and that of the ones you love depend on it. Ive condensed their 900-page manifesto into the main points to be concerned about. It is only 12 pages, take 15-minutes and read this!
Reading Project 2025 was like stepping back in history to 1930. This 900-page document is saturated with bizarre and just plain weird ideology that the republicans have planned if *trump is elected. We can expect bone spurs and his followers to pull out all the stops and nothing they try should surprise us.
Thats why we need to be prepared.
(Before I begin - the notation *trump is not a typo, its my way of showing my utter contempt and total disrespect for this draft dodging, lying, cowardly con-artist and crook. I refuse to capitalize his name or depending on my mood I generally refer to him as bone spurs.)
*trump claims he has nothing to do with this document. But in April 2022 speaking at a Heritage Foundation *trump made this statement, This is a great group, and they are going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do. But *trump in typical Judas fashion when asked by the press he denied knowing anything about it, and still does. Their plan (*trump and the far right) is an ideology modeled after the NAZI party. I know that sounds bizarre but read on and you will see what I mean. His claims he knows nothing about it, that is just another *trump lie.
It sounds crazy I know, but the republic party has turned into a fascist ruled organization much like the NAZI party. Their latest published document of what their intentions are is all the proof one needs.
They call their manifesto - Project 2025
The tone of this pathetic, sick document is driven by cultural war politics using terms such as woke and radical. Written by the Heritage Foundation, which is a far right-wing republican, warped think tank. They commonly referred to as a Republican Government in Waiting.
Here is a quote from Kevin Roberts that sums it up, Roberts is president of the Heritage Foundation and like the organization Roberts is just another corrosive, crazed radical republican bent on revenge. He calls it a corrective to the liberal nonsense that has been so insidious in the executive branch for the last half-century.
And this statement should get everyones attention, as it certainly has mine
We are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.
Frankly, I feel that whether it is bloodless or not is up to the republicans, they are the ones suggesting a civil war. As far as Im concerned this can get as hot as needed, my message to Roberts, and clearly understand this Mr. Roberts. There are many of us well-armed veterans, I am a former U.S. Marine. We are not going to tolerate this.
We are not going to allow a second January 6 or another attempted coup.
I took the time and forced myself to read this garbage of what these Nazis have planned for us and the country that I love and served. I truly hope that my open and honest, unvarnished report of this Hitler inspired manifesto, and the impact it will have scares the HELL out of you. It is not an understatement to say if we do not stop them, it will mark the end of the United States of America we love.
We will stop them.
Their goal is to shut down multiple agencies they call the deep state starting with the complete abolishment of the Department of Education, purge the government of thousands of civil servants, and the largest mass deportation in history. *trump claims he has little knowledge of Project 2025 and yet many of his friends, supporters, and appointees have participated in the development of the manifesto.
You should be aware that not only do they have the Project 2025 document ready to implement, but they are also already trying to fix the election. They have been planning this for years and have quietly moved fanatic *trump supporters in places of control over local voting headquarters. These people are prepared to slow down or stop the election.
By slowing the vote processing and delaying the vote tally reporting, this in turn delays the state reporting vote counts, opening avenues (or excuses) for the republican party to declare abnormalities in the voting process, and then rush a court case to the kangaroo supreme court we have that will no doubt rule in *trumps favor.
Negating yours and my vote, sending the message Your vote does not count.
I never in my wildest dreams thought I would be writing such a document but as I see it we have two options:
1) A vote turnout so massive, regardless of what tricks, attempted delays, or how much they cheat they will not be able to derail it, and believe me they will try, *trump staying out of jail is his prime motivator.
2) In parallel, we need to marshal our forces and counter people trying to overthrow the election and our democracy, by force, if necessary, providing an overwhelming respond to Roberts, *trump, and the other crooks planning to steal the election, I mean this with every fiber of my being, whether it remains bloodless or not is up to the republicans. I didnt serve as a U.S. Marine during Vietnam while this sniveling coward avoided the draft to stand by now and watch a draft dodger destroy America.
Project 2025 will roll back our fundamental freedoms, undermine our democracy, and eliminate the checks and balances we have in place.
Project 2025 has four main pillars:
1. Policy Plan
2. Personnel Database
3. Online Academy
4. Playbook for first 180 days
Pillar One - The Policy Plan - dismantle the Administrative State and return self-government to the American People. In other words what republicans keep referring to as The Deep State, per *trump either the deep state destroys American, or we destroy the deep state. This means purging the civil workforce of tens of thousands of employees and replacing them with pre-vetted *trumps loyalist. He will fire people that have dedicated their lives and careers to civil service. This low life has no honor.
Per Roberts, regarding the Department of Justice, there are large swaths of the department that have been captured by an unaccountable bureaucratic managerial class with radial left ideologies who have embedded themselves throughout its offices and components.
In addition to the Department of Justice, they plan to dismantle:
The Department of Homeland Security
And transform the FBI into a political task force accountable only to the president. In other words, *trump would have his own Schutzstaffel, his own NAZI SS!
Thank about that for a moment not only will he have immunity thanks to the kangaroo supreme court, but he will also have his own gestapo!
Again, per Roberts, The leadership of the FBI has been awful, rotten, not transparent, arrogant, and an increasingly lawless organization. An interesting point to note, the FBI has never been run by a democratic. The FBI is a very conservative organization ran by republicans, but obviously those republicans running the FDI are not far right or crazy enough to suit these criminals. Per the Project 2025 doctrine the president should be the one directing the activities of the Department of Justice. As stated in the 2025 document the President shall issue guidance to ensure that litigation decisions are consistent with the Presidents agenda and rule of law.
What does that really mean?
*trump will not pay for his crimes and *trumps investigations will simply vanish, and he will have the power to direct the DOJ to investigate his political enemies, which he has already promised to do.
Do you still think he has nothing to do with the Project 2025 document?
Other atrocities include
Cut funding for Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security will be next. By the time youre old enough for social security *trump will have gutted it so he can fund more tax cuts for his rich friends.
Reject Abortion as health care, eliminate emergency contraception under Obamacare, and prosecute those who send and receive contraceptives. These people claim they care so much for the health and safety of the unborn, but after the child is born, they could care less and they show that by reducing social benefits, housing assistance, unemployment assistance, school meals, etc. For you religious people reading this Is that what Jesus would have done?
Terminate DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and Affirmation Action programs
Remove legal protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender ID
Pillar Two - The Personnel Database the database was designed and built by Oracle. I used to admire Oracle, but not now after they sold out to this crazed group, anything for a dollar doesnt fly with me.
Im sorry to report that over 11,000 *trump fanatics have applied to work in the trump administration. As soon as these right-wing supporters are vetted and approved by *trump, these will be the far-right wing *trump supporters charged with running our government.
And get this - all applicants must fill out a form stating their loyalty to *trump.
Just like Hitler did with his Oath to Hitler (sourced from Wikipedia)
Between 1934 and 1945, Nazi Germany civil servants and Wehrmacht officers and soldiers swore an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler called the Hitler Oath. The oath was also known as the Solders Oath in English. It pledged loyalty to Hitler instead of to the countrys constitution. The oath began with, I swear to you, Adolf Hitler, as Fuher and Chancellor of the German Reich, that I will be loyal and brave. It also included a promise of obedience to Hitler and those he appointed to lead, unto death.
Make no mistake, we are reliving the 30s in Munich, Germany when Hitler was forming his NAZI party. *trump is doing the same and modeling his plans for his next term after Hitler and the NAZI party.
We are in a civil war, and if we allow this to continue more than your freedom is at stake.
Pillar Three - The Online Academy (what? another *trump university?) it is an education system taught by *trump supporters to explain to *trump new hires how the government will work and how to function in the government. Imagine, thousands of newly trained, unexperienced crazed *trump fanatics, whose primary goal it is to please their dear leader regardless, unleased on agencies that we depend on. All thoroughly indoctrinated with bizarre maga ideology.
Below are more departments they plan to gut with *trump loyalist in charge taking partisan control of each agency:
Department of Energy
Environment Protection Agency
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of the Interior
National Institute of Health
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Communication Commission
and the Military
Project 2025 will focus on many of the right-wing agenda topics such as:
Abortion bands, per the 2025 document it states, Stop promoting or approving mail-order abortions. Their words, not mine.
Repeal spending bills such as the Infrastructure Investment, Jobs Act, and Inflation Reduction Act. They want to shut down the renewable energy development and increase the support of gas and oil.
End the focus on climate change and green subsidies!
Then there are the immigration policies, again per Roberts Number one, we have to close the border and initiate the largest mass deportation project in the history of this country.
They plan to build internment camps to house these people, does that sound familiar? Just like the Nazis did.
Pillar Four - The Presidential Playbook - the first 180 days of a conservative presidency.
First up is Schedule F, an executive order *trump will sign allowing him to turn thousands of career civil servants into political appointees that he can then fire and replace in any way he chooses with one right-wing loyal *trump fanatic after another. *trump has demonstrated many times a willingness to fire people he felt were not loyal enough. To give you an idea of how sick this is, recall trump and Musk chuckling during their interview over firing people. Do you really believe his presidency will focus on making your life better?
President Biden reversed this order in 2021, but *trump has vowed to bring it back if he is reelected.
Next would be something even more terrifying, under Project 2025s policy proposal is a legal principle called the Unitary Executive Theory. This policy is based on a clause in the constitution, Article II, Section 1 that says, The Executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States. Based on this statement from the constitution Project 2025 Unitary Executive Authority will give *trump enormous untested power to do whatever he wants plus it reduces the power of congress to check those powers.
The current Kangaroo Supreme Court has shown itself to be very open to the concept of the president having Unitary Executive Authority. Recall that in July 2024 the Supreme Court granted *trump immunity for any official act while in office. *trump would be looking at a Supreme Court that would be very open to his claims that he has exceptional executive powers far more than previous presidents and would allow him to do things that previous Supreme Courts would have checked with previous presidents.
Remember, the Germans voted Hitler into power, lets not repeat history.
And now the deed will be done, he will stay in office as long as he wants, and by then the republicans will have conjured up a method to pick the next successor and eliminate elections all together.
If you think that is bizarre, would you have thought we would be discussing immigrants eating cats and dogs in Ohio?
This election is the potential end of America, for you, and your family.
Project 2025 will destroy America! This document is a fascist authorism dictators dream.
Military Impact
Section 4 of the document.
Here is a comment from Project 2025, The Department of Defense is also a deeply troubled institution. Historically, the military has been one of Americas most trusted institutions, but years of sustained misuse, a two-tiered culture of accountability that shields senior officers and officials while exposing junior officers and soldiers in the field, wasteful spending, wildly shifting security policies, exceedingly poor discipline in program execution, and most recently the Biden Administrations profoundly unserious equity agenda and vaccine mandate has taken a serious toll.
All that frustration because we asked them to get a Covid shot and wear a mask.
More from their 2025 document
Reduce the number of Generals. Rank creep is pervasive. The number of O-6 to O-9 (the O for you civilians means officer, the number designates level of rank) officers is at an all-time high across the armed services (above World War II levels), and the actual battlefield experience of this officer corps is at an all-time low. The next President should limit the continued advancement of many of the existing cadre, many of whom have been advanced by prior Administrations for reasons other than their warfighting prowess.
Another typical unfounded and delusional observation by a gutless draft dodger. We have the strongest military in the world. Obviously, China thinks so, else they would have already invaded and annexed Taiwan.
As one of my favorite YouTube podcasters put it this way, this gentleman was an esteemed weapons officer who flew F-14s. This is more populous nonsense from people clueless about the military and sounded like ramblings of Tuberville. Like most GOP chickenhawks and chairborne warriors, Senator Tuberville has no military experience. I please to add, that Tuberville comment came from me.
Back to Project 2025 sub-paragraph four, it says
Build a fleet of more than 335 ships. Here is a question for you, what kind of ships? Nothing in the document specifies what kind of ships. How many aircraft carriers, submarines, or destroyers. On average, it takes 2-3 years to build a ship. The U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier took 12-years to complete. Again, they are clueless about what it takes to outfit the military. Build 335 ships? I suppose that responsibility will fall on *trump mini-me, Elon.
More the Navy must be prepared to expend large quantities of air-launched and sea-launched stealthy, precision, cruise missiles against targets both at sea and ashore. Additionally, modern air defense requires the use of high-performance surface-to-air missiles.
There is something woefully missing in their analysis, and that is no mention of direct energy weapons. If we find ourselves in a war with China, it is an industrial power than can decidedly outproduce us missile for missile. We gave them that edge over us. The China Navy is already larger than ours and a continued effort to try to match their capacity with missile to missile is a fools errand. We need to use high power energy weapons such as lasers and microwave weapons. There is none of that in the document. Supposedly written by knowledgeable military experts.
Special Operations Section. They define Irregular Warfare as a means by which the United States uses all elements of national power to project influence abroad to counter state adversaries, defeat hostile nonstate actors, deter wider conflict, and maintain peace in great-power competition.
Sounds good, doesnt it? The only problem is this is exactly how President Bidens administration already defines Integrated Deterrents. Clearly the review process of this section of Project 2025 document is lacking. I doubt their incompetent people even realize they restated what Biden is already doing.
As if anyone needed more reason to dispel this document, missing oversights such as this erodes the entire documents assessment of what needs to be changed with the military.
The Nuclear Deterrent section throughout section four the document said our priority must be to focus on China and missile defense, but there is only one place in the entire 900 pages of the Project 2025 document, page 125, where the word Hypersonic appears. Given the gravity of such weapons, one would expect to see more focus on weapons to counter hypersonic missiles. In this document it seems missile defense is an afterthought. Again, clueless, frustrated republicans hell bent on being in control, regardless of whether they are capable, qualified, or not.
It reminds me of how they repeatedly damage the economy. Check the facts, you can google this as well. Republicans claim they do a better job managing the economy, but the facts do not agree. For you fact checkers - this graph is from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Like the rest of this pile of garbage, their military assessment and plan is an unfounded, ill-prepared, disastrous collection of faulted ideas. This is what these delusional. misguided, pathetic *trump followers plan to unleash if this treasonous dictator returns to office.
JoseBalow
(5,138 posts)Strange choice for a first post, no?
KS Toronado
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