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   lolgop (lolgop@journa.host)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 10:45:56 JST lolgop

   I want to explain how Project 2025 is essential to the Trump campaign and the only way to understand it.

   But first, let's do something the press refuses to do in 2024: Take Donald Trump's threats seriously.

   Think about the core message of his first post-1/6 rally, delivered deliberately in Waco, Texas.

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     lolgop (lolgop@journa.host)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 10:45:52 JST lolgop

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     That's why I come back to this quote, which was included in both of the podcasts I worked on that came out yesterday.

     Because when you listen to his quote and think about Project 2025, it stops feeling like a bad joke and comes into focus as what it is:

     An assassination threat against democracy.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfIZQVuan2k

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     lolgop (lolgop@journa.host)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 10:45:53 JST lolgop

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     That's why if we're talking about Project 2025 at all, how it enacts Christofascism and attempts to replace the haphazard evil of Trump's first term with ruthless efficiency, it's terrible for Trump. It's debating how much of a crook Nixon is. It makes this election a choice of two futures.
     https://project2025istheocracy.substack.com/p/decoding-project-2025s-christo-fascist

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     lolgop (lolgop@journa.host)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 10:45:54 JST lolgop

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     Those not suffering from male pattern MAGA brain have no idea how core the "deep state" conspiracy theory is core to Trump's revenge fantasies. It's the defining myth and constant explanation for why he never fails but is always failed.

     https://www.patreon.com/posts/3-tapped-into-107525211

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     lolgop (lolgop@journa.host)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 10:45:54 JST lolgop

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     If Project 2025 were just the Trump Bible version of the GOP platform, that would be bad enough.

     But it also includes the answer for why Trump will be a dictator this time: He's going to replace the government with book-banning MAGA swingers who sleep with their AR-15s and framed Rothbard photos.
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s

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     lolgop (lolgop@journa.host)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 10:45:55 JST lolgop

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     There's a simple reason Trump, Miller, and MAGA have decided that they need to disavow Project 2025 immediately.

     Plausible deniability.

     Swing voters hate Trump, hate his policies, and hate Project 2025. But they remember how bad he was at the job. They get that the wall was just schtick.

     https://www.patreon.com/posts/freedom-at-last-105687661

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     lolgop (lolgop@journa.host)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 10:45:55 JST lolgop

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     With Trump off Twitter and speaking just to his most diehard fans by tin can and Truth Social, most people have no idea or have blocked out what a -- pardon my English -- bloody maniac he is.

     They don't get that he will replace the government with, essentially, Proud Boy suck-ups who learned to blog.

     https://www.patreon.com/posts/explaining-2025-107548195

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     Six Grandfathers Mountain (6g@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 10:57:35 JST Six Grandfathers Mountain

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     @lolgop
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     Project 2025 also includes the answer for why Trump will be a dictator this time...

     #registertovote #voteblue #vote2024

     #Project2025 info by #deanobeidallah on what a cluster plan it might do, like...

     1. Replacing the entire federal bureaucracy, including independent agencies such as the DOJ,
     under the direct control of the President

     2. Ending civil service protections

     3. Banning abortion and access to certain birth control

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     Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 10:58:50 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     @hankg @lolgop Nobody runs on a platform that requires concentration camps if you're gonna be normal.

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     hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 10:58:51 JST hankg

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     @moira @lolgop At least in 2016 you could hypothetically say there were doubts about if he'd rise to the occasion and/or would become like a normal adult if he won. We know now that the worst case projections were either spot on or not pessimistic enough. There is no benefit of the doubt left after 2020.
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     Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 10:58:52 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     @lolgop Similarly refused to in 2016. I had a _lot_ of arguments with people who were voting for him in 2016, and _they_ didn't take it seriously either.