We Need to Talk About Trump's Project 2025 & Trump's Manifesto "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise" (1 Viewer)

[LA - L.A.]

I think Trump's Project 2025 needs it's own thread to make as many people as possible aware of it, how Trump and the people he's surrounded himself with are dead serious about making it happen, and how devastating it will be if we allow Trump to make it happen. These are the various pages on his website which should show Trump means business. Trump's not just wishing or theorizing, he's planning and implementing.

Trump and his minion's home page (the bolding is their's, not mine):

Project 2025 | Presidential Transition Project

Presidential Transition Project The 2025 Presidential Transition Project paves the way for an effective conservative Administration based on four pillars.

www.project2025.org

"It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on Day One of the next conservative Administration.​

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This is the goal of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. The project will build on four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative Administration."​

Trump's policy agenda page:

Policy | Project 2025

This book is the product of more than 400 scholars and policy experts from across the conservative movement and around the country. Contributors include former elected officials, world-renowned economists, and veterans from four presidential Administrations. This is an agenda prepared by and for...

www.project2025.org

"This book is an invitation for you the reader—Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith, and Ms. Smith—to come to Washington or support those who can. Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State.​

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The next conservative President will enter office on January 20, 2025, with a simple choice: greatness or failure. It will be a daunting test, but no more so than every other generation of Americans has faced and passed. The Conservative Promise represents the best effort of the conservative movement in 2023—and the next conservative President’s last opportunity to save our republic."​

Trump's personnel (recruitment/application) page, bolding is mine:

Personnel | Project 2025

Please fill out the questionnaire below and upload your resume for inclusion in the Presidential Personnel Database if you would like to be considered for positions in a presidential Administration. Project 2025 is the effort of a massive coalition of conservative organizations that have come...

www.project2025.org

"Please fill out the questionnaire below and upload your resume for inclusion in the Presidential Personnel Database if you would like to be considered for positions in a presidential Administration.​

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Project 2025 is the effort of a massive coalition of conservative organizations that have come together to ensure a successful Administration begins in January 2025. With the right conservative policy recommendations and properly vetted and trained personnel to implement them, we will take back our government. Project 2025 is being organized by The Heritage Foundation."​

Trump's training page:

Training | Project 2025

The Presidential Administration Academy is a one-of-a-kind educational and skill-building program designed to prepare and equip future political appointees now to be ready on Day One of the next conservative Administration. This academy provides aspiring appointees with the insight, background...

www.project2025.org

"The Presidential Administration Academy is a one-of-a-kind educational and skill-building program designed to prepare and equip future political appointees now to be ready on Day One of the next conservative Administration. This academy provides aspiring appointees with the insight, background knowledge, and expertise in governance to immediately begin rolling back destructive policy and advancing conservative ideas in the federal government."​

Trump's first 180 days playbook page:

Playbook | Project 2025

The fourth pillar of Project 2025 is our 180-day Transition Playbook and includes a comprehensive, concrete transition plan for each federal agency. Only through the implementation of specific action plans at each agency will the next conservative presidential Administration be successful...

www.project2025.org

"The time is short, and conservatives need a plan. The project will create a playbook of actions to be taken in the first 180 days of the new Administration to bring quick relief to Americans suffering from the Left’s devastating policies."​

Trump's playbook, bolding mine (I've downloaded the pdf of their playbook for when Trump eventually pulls it from his website once the backlash really kicks in):

https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

"This book is an invitation for you the reader—Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith, and Ms. Smith—to come to Washington or support those who can. Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State.​

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This is an agenda prepared by and for conservatives who will be ready on Day One of the next Administration to save our country. The Heritage Foundation is once again facilitating this work, but as our dozens of partners and hundreds of authors will attest, this book is the work of the entire conservative movement.​

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The next conservative President will enter office on January 20, 2025 ... The Conservative Promise represents the best effort of the conservative movement in 2023—and the next conservative President’s last opportunity to save our republic."​

The link to the 111 groups Trump and his minions have cobbled together in a coalition to help Trump achieve his agenda.

Advisory Board | Project 2025

GET INVOLVED Does your organization want to join us in the fight for our country? Join Us

www.project2025.org

Groups include:​

• ALEC - the Koch brother's foundation that has written all of the state laws that undermine child labor protection, worker's rights, air and water pollution protections, voter's rights, government assistance programs from those that need the help, and tax codes that made sure the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.
• Moms For Liberty - the group leading the charge to ban any book that treats anyone, who is not white, heterosexual, cis and Christian, as being equal and deserving of acceptance, tolerance and respect.
• National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation - which works for corporations to prevent and bust worker's unions to help corporations pay a non living wage to employees and force them to work under horrible conditions.
• Tea Party Patriots - the group that is MAGA and has taken control of the Republican party and supports Trump's efforts to stage a coup on Jan 6th so that he could stay in power even though he lost the election.
• Turning Point USA - run by Charlie Kirk who fully embraces Christian Nationalism and the reducing of women to just being homemakers dedicated only to serving their husbands and their family, in that order

Here are some articles and videos that give an overview of what Trump's Project 2025 plans to do if Trump wins the presidency:

What Is Project 2025?

If you were on Twitter or TikTok over the weekend, you might have seen people talking about Project 2025.

time.com

Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump’s vision

With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump.

apnews.com

What is Project 2025? Wish list for a Trump presidency, explained

A think-tank with ties to Trump has set out a vision for Republicans. But the former president has tried to distance himself from it.

www.bbc.com

Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill

Republicans’ Project 2025 plan would leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion.

www.rollingstone.com

Project 2025, the far-right agenda for a second Trump administration, explained - The Boston Globe

There is growing alarm about the sweeping plan, which opponents have called a “dystopian plot,” “far-right manifesto,” and “blueprint for destroying our democracy.”

www.bostonglobe.com

A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration

Project 2025, a comprehensive transition plan organized by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to guide the next GOP presidential administration, is the conservative movement’s most robust policy and staffing proposal for a potential second Trump White House — and its extreme agenda...

www.mediamatters.org

The Heritage Foundation cooked up this plan during the Reagan administration, but Reagan didn't let the Heritage Foundation fully implement it. Trump has claimed it for himself and has made it his plan, because it plays into the ultimate power and control that Trump wants. See the videos below.









No matter how annoying, frustrating, distasteful, or unappealing it may be, either Biden or Trump will be the next president. No one else has a chance at winning the election. If Biden wins, we have issues to solve, but we still have our democracy.

If Trump wins, we lose our democracy and have to fight for our freedom, if we aren't white, Christian, cis, heterosexual men who believe in the divine right of white, Christian, cis, heterosexual men to sit in domination over all others.

The bottom line is this, vote for Biden if you want to preserve our democracy, or don't vote for Biden if you want to chance Trump winning, which would bring an end to our democracy.

That's the grounded-in-reality choice folks, like it or not. Please vote for Biden so that we all have the freedom to live our lives how we want, to argue with each other, and to protest without fear of being imprisoned or "falling" out of window to our death.

This election is not a drill, it's the real deal.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

Concerned with provisions of Project 2025 that could criminalize pornography, a group of porn stars is jumping into the 2024 election, launching “Hands Off My Porn” and purchasing $100,000 in ads in swing states to spread their message.

“We must fight back against this ultra-conservative agenda that is rooted in religious conservatism, fearmongering, and the suppression of women’s rights,” Casey Calvert, one of the porn stars involved with the effort, wrote alongside the announcement of the ads.

Twenty porn stars came together to found Hands Off My Porn, and they are placing the ads on sites that show explicit content in Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Michigan, warning users about Project 2025’s drive to criminalize porn.

The ads will direct people to the Hands Off My Porn website, where they can watch testimonials about Project 2025’s dangers.

“This ‘180-day playbook’ for the next Trump Administration puts the anti-porn agenda front and center – on page 5 of this nearly 1000-page document that’s endorsed by The Heritage Foundation, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Koch Brothers, and hundreds of conservative organizations,” the group writes online.

Hands Off My Porn is referencing the foreword written by Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, who calls for pornography to be “outlawed.” ……….

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4922640-hands-off-my-porn-project-2025/

Surely someone suggested, "Hey! Unhand My Porn!"

 

[Optimus Prime]

Why doesn’t a reporter ask Trump

1. What parts specifically are terrible?

2. What parts specifically are ‘pretty good for America?’

3. If you’ve never read Project 2025 and don’t know a thing about it how do you know what parts are bad and what parts are good?

 

[fooferdoggie]

Why doesn’t a reporter ask Trump

1. What parts specifically are terrible?

2. What parts specifically are ‘pretty good for America?’

3. If you’ve never read Project 2025 and don’t know a thing about it how do you know what parts are bad and what parts are good?

trump will not answer. he would stomp away and call them names. He couldn't handle 60 minutes asking him questions. I think his hair would catch on fire with all the effort it takes for him to think.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

Why doesn’t a reporter ask Trump

1. What parts specifically are terrible?

2. What parts specifically are ‘pretty good for America?’

3. If you’ve never read Project 2025 and don’t know a thing about it how do you know what parts are bad and what parts are good?

or ask him why his name appears in it like 300 times, and if he was against it, why he doesn't demand his name be removed?

 

[LA - L.A.]

Why doesn’t a reporter ask Trump

1. What parts specifically are terrible?

2. What parts specifically are ‘pretty good for America?’

3. If you’ve never read Project 2025 and don’t know a thing about it how do you know what parts are bad and what parts are good?

I think this answers all questions about Trump and Trump's Project 2025. I can only see two reasons why Trump's campaign would be ignoring the transitions process, either they know he won't be President or their transition plan is to fire everyone and blow up everything just like it's laid out in Trump's Project 2025. Trump's Project 2025 is Trump's transition plan.

As Trump delays transition process, Biden and Harris teams push forward with post-election planning | CNN Politics

Former President Donald Trump’s team has blown past a pair of key deadlines for his presidential transition in a break from precedent that could have longterm national security ramifications.

www.cnn.com

 

[MT15]

I think this answers all questions about Trump and Trump's Project 2025. I can only see two reasons why Trump's campaign would be ignoring the transitions process, either they know he won't be President or their transition plan is to fire everyone and blow up everything just like it's laid out in Trump's Project 2025. Trump's Project 2025 is Trump's transition plan.

As Trump delays transition process, Biden and Harris teams push forward with post-election planning | CNN Politics

Former President Donald Trump’s team has blown past a pair of key deadlines for his presidential transition in a break from precedent that could have longterm national security ramifications.

www.cnn.com

Another possible reason that I read was that by ignoring the transition they avoid certain other requirements for reporting on money for the campaign.

 

[LA - L.A.]

Another possible reason that I read was that by ignoring the transition they avoid certain other requirements for reporting on money for the campaign.

I hadn't considered that and it could very well be the reason. It's probably all of those reasons combined.

 

[bird]

Another possible reason that I read was that by ignoring the transition they avoid certain other requirements for reporting on money for the campaign.

If this is breaking the law then arrest those responsible.

 

[LA - L.A.]

If this is breaking the law then arrest those responsible.

If Trump loses the election, I think he immediately flees to a country without an extradition treaty with the US. He is in a lot of legal peril if he loses the election and I don't think he has the courage to take a chance on stealing the election or winning his multiple court cases.

 

[MT15]

If this is breaking the law then arrest those responsible.

No, my impression was that as soon as they start the process additional requirements kick in. By refusing the process they don’t have to comply.

 

[bird]

No, my impression was that as soon as they start the process additional requirements kick in. By refusing the process they don’t have to comply.

Wow. So a meaningless process, basically.

 

[LA - L.A.]

Wow. So a meaningless process, basically.

The reason our democracy is frail and vulnerable is that it relies too heavily on individuals acting honorably and in good faith. We need to codify all of those unspoken and honor system rules, so no one has the option to opt out of any of them.

 

[bird]

The reason our democracy is frail and vulnerable is that it relies too heavily on individuals acting honorably and in good faith. We need to codify all of those unspoken and honor system rules, so no one has the option to opt out of any of them.

Agreed. It also applies to political economy. The theory of rationality by economic actors is completely and utterly useless.

 

[LA - L.A.]

Agreed. It also applies to political economy. The theory of rationality by economic actors is completely and utterly useless.

Yeah, it's like throwing a bunch of children into a playground unsupervised and thinking they'll all get along a play nice. Most of them will, until the bullies take over and ruing everything for everyone, except for the bullies.

 

[Optimus Prime]

When Project 2025 began making headlines this summer, it was largely for the ways the conservative “wish list” of policies for a future Trump administration would restructure the entire federal bureaucracy, deepen abortion restrictions and eliminate the Department of Education.

But the document – a proposed mandate for the next Republican president authored by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative thinktank – also outlines steps that would radically transform food and farming, curtailing recent progress to address the excess of ultra-processed foods in the United States.

Among those: weakening the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), ending policies that consider the effects of climate change – and eliminating the US dietary guidelines.

“This is a deregulatory agenda,” said Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition and food policy at New York University. “And what we know historically from deregulation is that it’s really bad for consumers, it’s bad for workers, it’s bad for the environment.”


Project 2025 proposes changes to the country’s food assistance programs, like Snap and the Women, Infants and Children supplemental nutrition program (Wic), that Nestle believes are intended to dismantle such programs. It also calls for ending support for school meals.

But one of the most notable of its proposals is calling on the next Republican president to eliminate or reform the dietary guidelines. Those guidelines form the basis for all federal food policies, from school meals to Snap, Wic and other programs.

“There is no shortage of private-sector dietary advice for the public, and nutrition and dietary choices are best left to individuals to address their personal needs,” the document reads.

The food industry has long pushed the idea that chronic, diet-related health conditions, like diabetes and obesity, are the result of individual choices – like not exercising enough. Today, nearly 42% of adults in the US are obese and about 12% have diabetes. But nutritionists emphasize that those conditions are not the result of a moral failing, but rather conditions caused by the ingredients and policies (like aggressively advertising to children) pushed by food companies.

Nestle sees that as one of many pro-business policies outlined in Project 2025’s agricultural provisions that trusts companies to prioritize public health over profit.

“There’s twice as many calories available in the food supply as the country needs on average. So the food industry is enormously competitive in selling calories,” she said. “Republicans want to deregulate, and give those food businesses every opportunity to make as much money as they possibly can, regardless of the effects on health and the environment.”……….

Project 2025 dietary rollbacks would limit fight against ultra-processed foods

Conservative ‘wishlist’ of policies for a future Trump administration goes so far as transforming food and farming

www.theguardian.com