November 2024
I started writing this four months ago.
Today, following Election Day, USA, we learned that Project 2025 is going to be the whole of the law very soon.
I read Project 2025 so you don't have to. Of course, I didn't pay for it, even though it's for sale as a book. But it's also free as a PDF on the Heritage Foundation's website, at this link here.
(In the words of the great Gil-Scott Heron: "Mandate, my ass.")
It's a long read, with many pages devoted to how the government works, in the hopes their current candidate will read it and figure some things out, but it's essential to know why their platform is not what you want to vote for. Worst case scenario: you can dazzle your MAGA family with your knowledge of their candidate's platform.
They are making it loud and clear what the next Republican POTUS* and Republican-controlled Senate is going to do. And what is that?
Let's take a look...
Here's what they have to say about sexual freedom: (p37)
Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.
Highlighting this for all the bros who plan to vote for this candidate because he's the ultimate alpha, bro.
HE IS COMING FOR YOUR SECRET PORN STASH. He is coming for Stormy Daniels and Cory Chase (Ted Cruz' "favorite" on twitter when it was twitter) and their "besties". He is coming for your fantasy OnlyFans girlfriends and your weird hentai.
But of course, this is all so much shock and awe for their real target: your library. Your kids' public school. Your community college. P351: the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.
And, once again, PBS (p278 on. Yes, a whole chapter is devoted to it.) Right after our new POTUS has CBS taken off the air because they refused to do a puff piece on him.
Remember Stephen King getting targeted by Dan Bongino and Nick "Apple Shaped Male" Adams? That's their strategy. They HATE people who are educated and read and learn, because we are the ones who see right through them.
And, of course, their weird obsession with transgendered persons is blatant from the foreword on. Sex education? Counseling and services for trans youth? Gone, per page 94.
Abolishing the Gender Policy Council would eliminate central promotion of abortion (“health services”); comprehensive sexuality education (“education”); and the new woke gender ideology, which has as a principal tenet “gender affirming care” and “sex-change” surgeries on minors. In addition to eliminating the council, developing new structures and positions will have the dual effect of demonstrating that promoting life and strengthening the family is a priority while also facilitating more seamless coordination and consistency across the U.S. government.
Again, they hate adults, young or old, taking classes like psychology or neurobiology - or as it's known on Fox NewsMax: "Gender Studies". They don't want you to know that gender is a complex chromosomal and neurobiological maze that we start trying to figure out at a young age. They want you scared of a mysterious boogeyman known as "The Groomer".
And, of course, Mexicans.
Their other obsession with "open borders" is rife throughout the book, with, of course, the typical militaristic response. Nothing about arresting the rich corporate elite who hire undocumented workers, refugees, and other immigrants for pennies on the dollar. In fact, they intend to nix further H1B visas (p170). Nothing about sending immigration lawyers and judges to the border to clear the line and give refugees due process. They're cracking down on that, too (p173). Just more deportations of children, and refusing asylum for those in danger, and more money and support for ICE and the border military. And more fear mongering about cartels and fentanyl (p215).
What's surprising about this election is how many Latinos want the new arrivals to go back to where they came from. Well, they're about to get their wish.
Their stance on race is simple:
p37-38: The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.
Someone explain to me how addressing bigotry and discrimination "deprives" anyone of their First Amendment rights. Make it make sense.
But no surprise, they hate "critical race theory", known in academia as History. And "DEI", known in the general population as "equality in the workplace". This is gone (p290).
And p354: Enforcement of civil rights should be based on a proper understanding of those laws, rejecting gender ideology and critical race theory.
Uhh...so no learning about why civil rights are evolving and why they matter. Got it.
And finally, the most important of all: climate change. I believe climate change affects Israelis and Gazans, it affects Ukranians and Russians, it affects Mexicans and the Chinese and the Koreans. It affects you, and it affects me.
They are supporting a candidate who wants to ban the sale of electric cars. Who addressed the oil tycoons of the world at a summit and promised them, for the low, low price of one billion USD, that he will sign any legislation they force through Congress.
You know....the "Windmills cause cancer" guy.
You may notice that I cite pages from the document and references from the internet, because citations matter. (Apparently they switch pages around, so scan the document for quotes if you can't find them.) You have something to say on the internet? Back up your statements and claims. And don't trust anyone who doesn't.
But it doesn't matter anymore. Everything is about to change, and most people are scared. And they should be.
PS: Think I'm paranoid? Exaggerating? Misreading the situation?
Screenshot credit to @ask_aubry on Threads. No credit to these sickos.
*The actual POTUS will be JD Vance. Trump will be in Walter Reed's memory care ward getting his dementia looked after while JD "How do you do, fellow rednecks?" Vance will be at the Resolute Desk with the Project 2025 book in front of him, making all these laws happen over the next 4 years.
