Well, we’re only about a week into the second Trump Administration, and Joy Reid and the View are still on the air, free to say whatever it is they say. We are still a democratic republic. And I have not heard a word about Project 2025.
Even some democrats have had to admit that all the fear they were being sold by the Kamala Harris campaign was based on lies.
Some people are still full of fear and anger over the election. But until I have evidence that President Trump is “dangerous,” I’m going to remain optimistic.
Meanwhile, here’s what happened on the podcast last week (SUBSCRIBE!!):
Liberation Day in America
During his Inaugural Address, President Donald Trump called today “Liberation Day.” As Joe Biden and Kamala Harris looked on, 47 didn’t hold back on his criticism of the last four years. Indeed, it was liberation day for the entire Biden family, all of whom were preemptively pardoned by the outgoing president just moments before he left office. I thought no one was above the law...
Since all we get now from The Heritage Foundation about Project 2025 is:
"The Left has spent millions fearmongering about Project 2025, because they’re terrified of losing their power. And they should be. Project 2025 offers a menu of solutions to the border crisis, inflation, a stagnant economy, and rampant crime. It shows how we can take on China, fix our schools, and support families. But most importantly, it dismantles the unaccountable Deep State, taking power away from Leftist elites and giving it back to the American people.
Project 2025 is a historic movement, brought together by over 100 respected organizations from across the conservative movement, to abolish the Deep State and return government to the people. Project 2025 is not partisan, nor is it secret. Project 2025 does not speak for any candidate or campaign, in any capacity. It was stood up in 2022, before any major candidate announced a campaign, to assist the next conservative president.
We are an open book, with our materials available online.
Project 2025’s policy book is nothing new. Mandate for Leadership has been published regularly since the 1980s. In it, respected conservative authors espouse conservative policy ideas for incoming administrations to consider. Progressive organizations do the same thing. As just one example, the far-left Center for American Progress prepares policy recommendations for liberal presidents, including President Obama in 2008. We will not stop offering ideas to reverse America’s decline. Our aim is to restore American democracy “of, by, and for the people,” not of, by, and for the elites who currently control Washington...
If you go down further on the Project 2025 website, it will lay out some policy objectives, like securing the border, education reform, etc, but it won't tell you how Heritage and its MAGA allies would accomplish that. So I had to get "what is Project 2025" from Wikipedia:
"Project 2025 envisions sweeping changes to economic and social policies and the federal government and its agencies. The plan proposes taking partisan control of the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Commerce (DOC), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), dismantling the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and abolishing the Department of Education (ED), whose programs would be transferred or terminated.
It calls for making the National Institutes of Health (NIH) less independent, stopping it from funding research with embryonic stem cells, and reducing environmental and climate change regulations to favor fossil fuels.
The blueprint seeks to institute tax cuts,[25] but its writers disagree on protectionism.
The project seeks to cut Medicare and Medicaid,[27][28] and urges the government to explicitly reject abortion as health care.[29][30] It seeks to eliminate coverage of emergency contraception[27] and use the Comstock Act to prosecute those who send and receive contraceptives and abortion pills.
It proposes criminalizing pornography and imprisoning those who produce it,
Removing legal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs while having the DOJ prosecute anti-white racism instead.
The project recommends the arrest, detention, and mass deportation of illegal immigrants living in the U.S.
It proposes deploying the military for domestic law enforcement. It promotes capital punishment and the speedy "finality" of those sentences. It hopes to undo "[al]most everything implemented" by the Biden administration."
From Wikipedia
During the summer, Project 2025 was available to the public. But then Democrats and the mainstream media actually read the damn thing and reported on it. And it became so unpopular that Donald Trump ran as fast as he could away from it (you know, politically) that he could've lost 50 pounds (you, know politically) and Heritage took this document offline and have acted like they never wrote it.
So, yeah, Michele Tafoya, (who I used to have a crush on when she worked for CBS Sports, ESPN, and later NBC Sports and to a certain extent I still do physically have a crush on) she can now say since she's nothing more than a MAGA cheerleader at this point, that Project 2025 no longer exists. At least not the unpopular, big government, authoritarian aspects of it:
Like putting every Federal agency under the control of the President
Going past Congress to even amend the U.S. Constitution, etc. Which is what President Trump has been doing in his first nine days back at The White House by trying to end birthright citizenship, which is in the 14th Amendment.
Unilaterally, freezing Federal funds without Congressional approval, and now paying Federal employees off (without actually paying them) to retire, so he can replace them with either MAGA loyalists, or just eliminate those positions all together.
And I guess Michele Tafoya could now say, or anyone (for that matter) that what President Trump has been doing for the last 9 days, is what he ran on and all these proposals are his. He simply just dreamed them all up. Perhaps Steve Bannon and Steve Miller were part of those American nightmares. But if you know anything about Donald Trump, you know he's not a visionary and a big fan of facts and details. Except when he needs to sleep. So someone obviously has given him these ideas that he's now trying to implement all by himself. The safe bet is that this is part of Heritage's Project 2025.
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