Summary
Despite disavowing Project 2025 during the campaign, Trump’s transition team is now using its extensive database of vetted conservative candidates to help fill over 4,000 government positions.
Project 2025, criticized for its extreme policy proposals and links to Trump’s first administration, created a “conservative LinkedIn” of 10,000 candidates.
While some contributors are being tapped for key roles, others face rejection due to controversial stances.
Democrats, who used Project 2025 in campaign attacks, are warning of its influence on Trump’s agenda and planning policy responses.
And why should anyone be surprised?
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Rumor of shitty thing republicans are planning
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Republicans deny shitty thing is being planned, that was just (insert republican official here) brought up, claim it’s just the official on their own.
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Months later republicans are trying to officially enact shitty thing they denied planning.
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Most of America doesn’t give a shit about California women’s right to an abortion, or that transgenders should be allowed in whatever bathroom they want, or that Trump is “weird”. They care about “am I better off now than I was last year?” And the answer for a lot of people is “no”. They look at the democrats brag about unemployment rates being low and that is inflation is brought under control, while most of America is still paying $5 for eggs that used to be $2. Everyday middle Americans can no longer afford simple things and their kids are worse off than they are. I know this problem wasn’t wholly created by Biden, Harris, or even Trump, but Americans felt like Harris didn’t care about their plight and that her upper class California woman self was really unrelatable. Then Harris spends a lot time trying to get celebrity endorsements and she is so out of touch that she didn’t realize celebrity endorsements actually lose you votes. People don’t care what Beyonce and Cardi B think about politics, well not the smart people or the people’s vote you actually need.
transgenders
Not much of an LGBT ally, I presume? It’s pretty dehumanizing to call transgender individuals that, as though they’re not people.
The dominant forces in the Democratic party are more likely to abandon trans people than to shift left.
A big part of the problem is that Democrat supporters are overwhelmingly politically inactive. Instead of shushing anti-genocide voices, climate protestors, etc. they should be joining and amplifying those voices not just around election time but always, constantly.
The DNC will always fast-track a centrist candidate and suppress progressive candidates if there’s no political pressure outside of election time. They get their money from the same people that the Republicans do.
“Vote blue no matter who” and voting as the only political action guarantee the ratchet effect.
Celebrities aside they were parading Cheney and Bush around… These were the “vote blue no matter who” enemies of 20 years ago. Who wants to vote for a party that’ll brag about Barron Trump’s endorsement in 20 more years?
You can’t run on not being your opponent. You can’t fight a status quo disruptive candidate from the far right with bland centrist positions. People wanted change, only one party offered change.
Yes people are dumb, yes their faces will be eaten, yes to all of those things. But Democrats still lost. Trump didn’t win, Harris lost.
Now they’ll go even more right and wonder why nobody is excited to get out to vote.
The right wing already had a good candidate. Where’s the left wing candidate?
Idk about this. I think most people care if their partners, sisters, daughters, and themselves can get healthcare that may involve an abortion. I think a lot of people do vote on vibes, and being “weird” is damaging. The Republicans are the party that won’t stop talking about transgender people; I don’t recall Harris mentioning transgendered people once.
I kinda agree with most of your other points. Economic well-being is what people vote on first and foremost. Dunno if celebrity endorsements actually hurt though. A thing to note is that, barring a tech advancement, recession, or depression, prices don’t generally decrease. I.e. wages (and government assistance) needs to rise at about the same rate as inflation (preferably more than).
Harris lost because she was seen as not going to change much of anything from Biden. She even conceded to false narratives of the right (such as immigration), instead of providing an alternative narrative that could inspire people. The economic changes she ran on were uninspiring, and I’m not sure they would’ve helped most people (mostly people don’t start small businesses, or even really have a desire to; not sure if downpayment assistance wouldn’t just increased prices and fees).
Who pays $5 for eggs? Ok, the organic ones at Whole Foods near me are, but I live in a high cost of living area.
I don’t believe these red staters do any of;
- live in a higher cost of living area
- go to Whole Foods
- buy organic eggs from Whole Foods
Nobody should be surprised by this.
When an individual tells you they are crazy, It’s best to trust them on that judgement
Hope everyone is ready to suffer.
I’d say blame it on conservatives. But you can also blame it on the absolute idiots that voted 3rd party, were single issue voters, or abstained from voting. They’re just as much to blame and just as stupid as Trump supporters.
But genocide joe or some shit
“Genocide Joe” passed more meaningful legislation for average Americans then most presidents. But the conservative propaganda machine won and made him seem like the devil incarnate because stupid Americans can’t discern fact from fiction.
stupid Americans can’t discern fact from fiction.
It’s almost as if all the attacks on education over the last 4-7 decades are bearing fruit.
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Oh you’re one of those idiots, got it.
In which state did 3rd-party voters tip the presidential election results there?
They are just angry and trying to blame other people for their shitty candidates loss. If they can scapegoat other voters they can feel superior, it’s basically all to protect their fragile feelings.
Kind of sad really
Crows got to straw man I guess
Oh, they’re not angry. They’re just dismayed to learn how many C.H.U.D.s there are in this country who had no problems voting for a narcicistic, low IQ rapist after watching him fuck up for 4 years, and after attempting a coup. Like, seriously, out of all the Republicans to choose from, ya’ll decided Trump was your best and brightest TWICE. It’s like watching the fall of the Roman Empire in real-time.
You know what’s just as productive as blaming voters? Masturbating into a Kleenex. Unless you have a plan to nominate better voters next cycle (yes, if there is one) then your attention is better spent on how we fix a Democratic party that’s so pathetic that it lost to Trump twice.
If Rahm Emanuel or another establishment clone is the next DNC chair, get ready to see this happen again. That’s where the focus belongs for anyone who wants to fix this shit.
Voters saw Trump fuck up four years straight. He’s not wrong about that.
But voters have seen the Democratic Party slowly devolve into a cesspool of corrupt crony capitalism and campaign donor money for the past 50 years.
People don’t give a fuck anymore, and I don’t blame them,
Harris was a trash candidate.
I get it, blah blah blah, Trump is worse.
Harris is a trash candidate.
Just because Whoopi Goldberg and friends try to tell you what a good friend she is doesn’t change this fact. I hope you realize all the talk and news show hosts are in the millionaire class and are so far removed from the realities of everyday Americans… they also get the tax cuts for the wealthy Trump is going to pass, which is why they have no skin in the game.
Harris was a trash candidate. If you can’t see this simple fact, there’s probably less hope for you than for maga.
Americans are struggling.
You know what the democrats did? They tried to tell us that Biden is fucking FDR 2.0
The juicy turd I just dropped flushed down the toilet while typing this is closer to FDR 2.0 than Biden will ever be, by a long shot.
I responded to the guy below you instead of to you post oops
“their candidate”
Goes on to describe themselves and project it. Classy
Your reading comprehension skills suck. The original commenter mentioned TWO types of idiots. 1) the morons that voted third party, and 2) the defectives that ABSTAINED from voting.
I guess your brain only came equipped with 8GB of RAM, because you acted like OP gave you some clever GOTCHA moment by only mentioning 3rd party voters, while you completely disregarded OP including group #2 as well.
In the future, I recommend you avoid complex tasks, like, say, chewing gum and walking at the same time.
Correction, they mentioned 3 types of idiots not 2.
Present some evidence or shut the fuck up already.
I hate trump voters, but I hate the people who know how awful he is but stayed home even more.
Same.
I hate self important douche bags who are so used to basking in their own fart clouds that they can’t see how sanctimonious they are and can’t come to terms with the fact that maybe their fart sniffing ideology doesn’t work for all 300M other people in this country.
Especially when they turn around and call their political opposites sanctimonious fart sniffing hypocrites without acknowledging their own hypocrisy. It annoys me.
See the nation is healing already!
Yea that’ll get those ppl to vote with you lmao
I appreciate the optimism about being able to vote in the future
Even if you can’t, I’ll still be able to.
I was talking about “those ppl” you mentioned. nothing to do with me.
That’s not what happened. The slice of America that turned hard against Harris was uninformed voters, not engaged leftists. That is absolutely clear in the exit polls. There was also a massive spike in google searches about whether Biden was still in the race ON ELECTION DAY. If you just have to blame someone other than Biden and Harris, that’s who you must blame. All the evidence says your terminally online theory is flat wrong.
Why should Palestinians have all the genocidal fun?
This can’t be happening he told me otherwise. /s
Lying liar lies again. We’re all horribly shocked.
Honestly, a lot of centrist are. They also don’t expect any of it to actually be implemented. Cue those leopards
Told and told and told by everyone with half a brain but as usual the nitwits wanna listen to the “entertainer”
They knew. They wanted this. The denying just gave them “plausible” deniability.
And that’s what makes them nitwits
That’s what makes them traitors.
Yes indeedy, speedy
That’s always been his plan. And it’ll happen because these Heritage Foundation ghouls will run the government off-camera while Trump and his reality TV cabinet distract us with fights and absurd sound bites in between his golf rounds.
I’ve run into some trump voters who aren’t worried about project 2025 because “i’m going to vote against it in 2025” and it’s like… goddammit, why did the republicans get so good at propaganda so fast (hint: Russian money)
What? The mental gymnastics on these people…
No mental gymnastics are needed when they straight up don’t know how their own government works.
yeah. these are people who think the new president takes office election night, think the federal government does ballot measures, and haven’t ever really voted in a national election that wasn’t for president. it’s not mental gymnastics to not know things
I’m pretty sure 50 years ago, doctors would be calling it mental retardation.
You don’t even have to go back that far. It was still the accepted term in at least the 90s.
Oh so its ok for trump to transition!!! I see how it is…
When you’re a rich prick, they let you do it
He certainly grabbed this country I live in right in the pussy.
Did NBC do any of the sane washing that helped trump get elected?
