Trump And Project 2025

Back in February of this year I wrote about the ‘Plan’ that the Heritage Foundation came up with as a blueprint for Trump and his transition team….all 900+ pages…..but now bloggers are all over this ‘Plan” they would not be so shocked if they would visit IST….this is for those that missed my analysis of Project 2025……

Project 2025

If for some reason if you need other motivation….

Donald Trump has made no secret of his determination to govern as a “dictator” if he regains the presidency, and that’s got his critics warning that his reelection would spell the end of democracy. But Trump and his allies are too smart to go full Kim Jong Un. Rather, the former president’s enthusiasm for the authoritarian regimes of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s Tayyip Erdoğan, and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán suggests the models he would build on: managing elections to benefit himself and his Republican allies; gutting public broadcasting and constraining press freedom; and undermining civil society. Trump, who famously demanded that the results of Georgia’s 2020 presidential voting be “recalculated” to give him a win, wants the trappings of democracy without the reality of electoral consequences. That’s what propaganda experts Edward Herman and Frank Brodhead once described as “demonstration elections,” in which, instead of actual contests, wins are assured for the authoritarians who control the machinery of democracy.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-democracy-fcc-fec/

I once again bring up the subject for there is a story that Trump is trying to walk back his support for this disastrous plan for his administration….

Project 2025 (and its auxiliary Trump’s “Agenda 47”) are a plan by right-wing extremists and other authoritarians to end America’s multiracial democracy and to replace it with a White Christian nationalist plutocracy.

A conspiracy is a plan by two or more people operating in private to advance their interests and goals above those of some other person(s) — or in this context the American people. Project 2025 is not a conspiracy. These plans are exhaustively detailed in a book titled “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” and are regularly discussed at conferences, in interviews, and in other public forums. Project 2025 and its related plans, like Agenda 47, were not hatched overnight. As author and journalist Anne Nelson and other experts have been extensively documenting, Project 2025 and the other right-wing extremists’ and neofascists’ plans to end America’s multiracial democracy have been years and decades in development:

But ignore it at your peril. The massive tome is the latest iteration of a four-decade-long process of crafting right-wing policies to dismantle the federal government, deregulate industry and eliminate consumer protections and public health measures, while installing a regime controlled by fossil fuel interests and the Religious Right. Not coincidentally, the members of its advisory board have been making headlines attacking American institutions at a grassroots level, in preparation for the big takeover—ranging from Moms4Liberty’s assaults on local public schools, to the Koch-founded Institute on Energy Research’s war on climate initiatives.

Project 2025 lays out specifics for hundreds of policy objectives affecting every area of public life. Many of them affect three primary areas: first, the dismantling of environmental regulations, clean energy measures, and climate policy; second, a rollback of civil and political rights for women and LGBTQ populations and the elimination of public health measures; and third, a massive purge of career civil servants and the concentration of power in the Executive branch in the White House, to consolidate an entrenched authoritarian regime.

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/30/is-now-trying-to-downplay-project-2025/

A good sign right?

I think not.  I think they are just trying to play the election game and shy away from controversy before the election….if you bother to read the ‘Plan’ you will see that it is right up Trump’s alley.

Any thoughts on this situation?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

‘Revenge Can Be Justified’

From the lips of Donald the Orange….

It is nothing new for Trump to voice his desire to punish anyone that goes against him….these days that means mostly Dems with a sprinkling of Repubs in there.

His most recent statement should send shivers up American’s spines….

Former President Trump is threatening revenge for his fraud conviction while asserting that the country is worse off after he became the first US president convicted of a felony. Trump sat down Thursday with Dr. Phil McGraw, who suggested the presumptive Republican presidential nominee didn’t have time to “get even” with his critics, echoing Trump’s own claim from January that he’ll be too busy for retribution. “Well, revenge does take time, I will say that,” Trump replied, per the Hill. “And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest. Sometimes it can.” Trump has been making similar comments of late.

“It’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to, and it’s very possible that it’s going to have to happen to them,” Trump told Newsmax‘s Greg Kelly on Tuesday, per the New York Times. And on Wednesday, he told Fox News‘ Sean Hannity he had “every right to go after” Democrats “based on what they’ve done.” “And it’s easy, because it’s Joe Biden, and you see all the criminality, all of the money that’s going into the family and him,” he added. In another interview that aired Thursday, Trump told Phoenix TV station KNXV he was considering prosecuting his opponents. “I thought it would be a horrible thing to do to Hillary Clinton,” Trump said of the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee. But “the world is different now.”

Trump told Dr. Phil that “the country is really worse for what they’ve done.” But “the people of our country get it,” he said, claiming his campaign had pulled in about $400 million—”numbers that nobody’s ever heard of in politics before”—since his conviction. Even months before his conviction, Trump and his allies were plotting to use the federal government to target, investigate, and prosecute his critics and opponents, should he be elected to a second term as president, according to reporting by the Washington Post. “Donald Trump is so consumed with personal grievance that he does not care who he hurts so long as Donald Trump benefits,” a Biden campaign rep said Wednesday, per the Post.

Is this feasible?

If Trump wins in 2024 could he actually go after those that have ‘wronged’ him?

Should Trump win reelection in November, would he truly pursue punitive reprisals against his political foes? And if he does make good on his many longstanding threats, what would that look like?

https://theweek.com/politics/donald-trump-prosecute-enemies-reelection

Will he make good on his threats or is he just stroking his wanker like some crazed baboon?

Personally I think, if he wins, that he will get his DOJ to start lots of investigation and for him to ramp up the verbal attacks by his sycophants most notably FOX News.

How successful he will be will be just a waiting game for the country and in the end a waste of time….but is that not what DC does best?  Waste time and resources?

Thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”