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   Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 00:05:32 JST Nonilex

   • Julie stitchyMc

   Taking @StitchyMc’s words to heart that #Trump’s sensationalist #racist pet-eating #lies are designed to distract us in our outrage from what matters, so I’m turning back to his (make no mistake — it is his) #authoritarian handbook:

   I read the full 900-pg #Project2025 manifesto – here’s why it matters

   #HeritageFoundation blueprint describes an #America poisoned by ‘#wokeness’ & overtaken by lawlessness that only *#conservatives* can save

   by Rachel Leingang
   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/project-2025-election

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 00:06:34 JST Nonilex

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     These attempt to neatly distill all the ways the doc could upend the #USgovernment. For #Democrats, #Project2025 has become a buzzword for #election2024, a shorthand way to warn voters what could be ahead if #Trump wins again in Nov.

     My own consumption of the project was not as piecemeal – I read the full *#conservative* manifesto by the #HeritageFoundation & its many #rightwing allies. Here’s what I learned from the document & all the controversy surrounding it.

     #autocracy #democracy #law

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 00:06:34 JST Nonilex

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     #Project2025’s #policy guide, Mandate for Leadership, describes an #America poisoned by “#wokeness” & overtaken by lawlessness & #chaos, where *#conservatives* need to SEIZE #power immediately–& FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE–to right a sinking ship.
     The guide is just one part of the broader plan Project 2025 & #Heritage had in mind to dismantle the #government, recruit thousands of politically aligned people to staff an incoming #Trump admin, & quickly guide the next pres….

     #autocracy #democracy #law

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 00:06:35 JST Nonilex

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     I printed out all 900-plus pgs of #Project2025 in Feb on my home printer, stacking the unwieldy chapters on my desk. Bit by bit, each evening, I read my way through the plans that seek to dramatically alter each #FederalAgency.
     Most Americans who know about Project 2025 consume it in bite-size pieces, like Instagram infographics, or see the name on billboards. They hear politicians, like MVP #KamalaHarris, mention it on stage – or #Trump *disavow* it in TV interviews.

     #autocracy #democracy #law

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:39:43 JST Nonilex

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     #Project2025 is also steeped in the #CultureWars: the doc characterizes so many elements of governance as #woke – the woke #treasury department, woke #weather reports – that the term is rendered #meaningless. It also describes the country as run by “#elites” – though not, apparently, the elites that run heavyweight Washington thinktanks.

     #idiocracy #Trump #HeritageFoundation #authoritarianism #evangelism #NewApostolicReformation

     #law #democracy #HarrisWalz2024

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:39:44 JST Nonilex

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     One way to enforce this idea would be for #Congress to require paid time-&-a-half for anyone who works on Sundays, which #Project2025 calls the default day of Sabbath….

     In nearly all chpts, there is a mention of driving out any forces that seek to increase #diversity in the federal #government. And whenever #LGBTQ+ rights are mentioned, it is to say there should be fewer of them.

     #Trump #HeritageFoundation #authoritarianism #evangelism #NewApostolicReformation

     #law #democracy #HarrisWalz2024

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:39:45 JST Nonilex

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     or by modifying programs like #SmallBusiness Admin #loans to make #religious groups eligible for funding.

     In some parts, the project takes a more explicit #Christian worldview. In the chpt about the Dept of #Labor, the #Project2025 manifesto suggests a communal day of rest for society because “God ordained the Sabbath as a day of rest”.

     #Trump #evangelism #NewApostolicReformation

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:39:46 JST Nonilex

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     It would #criminalize #pornography. There would be #MassDeportations & curtailments of LEGAL #immigration programs, including #DACA. It would DISMANTLE the Dept of #Education.

     Throughout the #Project2025 manifesto, authors also recommend ways to increase funding for #religious orgs by giving them more access to #government programs–largely through increased use of #school vouchers that could go to religious schools

     #authoritarianism #autocracy #NewApostolicReformation #SevenMountainMandate

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:39:47 JST Nonilex

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     § Dismantling #government & elevating #religion

     As I have watched & covered #Project2025 & the backlash to it from #Democrats & #Trump’s circle, it has become clear that few have read the document itself. It is at times less aggressive than its detractors would have you believe & at others far more wide-reaching & consequential than a simplistic infographic [could impart].

     #authoritarianism #autocracy #NewApostolicReformation #SevenMountainMandate

     #law #democracy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:39:47 JST Nonilex

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     It doesn’t say [explicitly] to defund #SocialSecurity, for instance…. But it does say a whole lot else that would affect the daily lives of people in the #US & beyond.

     Across multiple #FederalAgencies, it would make access to #abortion INFINITELY more difficult. It would change the name of the Federal #Health & Human Services Dept [#HHS] to the “Department of Life”.

     #authoritarianism #autocracy #NewApostolicReformation #SevenMountainMandate

     #law #democracy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:39:48 JST Nonilex

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     Some of the plans, like dismantling the Dept of #Education, have been on #conservative wishlists since the dept began. That doesn’t mean they couldn’t happen – it just means there is an eventual tipping point where they could. Take the fall of #RoeVWade, for instance.

     One way the plan seeks to create more tipping points is by adding in more #PoliticalAppointees, a change #Trump has tried in the past in what’s known as #ScheduleF.

     #authoritarianism #autocracy #democracy #law #HarrisWalz2024

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:39:48 JST Nonilex

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     It would classify thousands more positions in the #FederalGovernment as #political instead of #neutral #career #CivilServants. And the recent #SCOTUS ruling that made #accountability difficult if a president’s *official acts* break the #law certainly helps w/amassing #power in the #ExecutiveBranch, too.

     #immunity #authoritarianism #autocracy #democracy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:39:49 JST Nonilex

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     #Democrats seized on it, tying #Trump directly to the plan by plastering #Project2025 on billboards & mentioning it in speeches as much as possible. They have been successful–tho the plan was released in 2023, the public’s knowledge of it has increased dramatically in the last 2 mos bc of this negative attn.

     Could the ideas in Project 2025 actually happen? Not all of them, & not overnight. But a movement amasses #power that then can lead to massive social change….

     #autocracy #democracy #law

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:39:50 JST Nonilex

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     by claiming it could #influence a man who hates to see himself as influenced by others [but don’t count on that, it takes a few ass-kisses & flattering statements & #Trump will be totes cool to let you lick his boots]. Other thinktanks that kept their hands clean of the #power struggle could instead become more influential, though it would be difficult, or impossible, to staff thousands of political jobs w/people who have NO ties to #Heritage or #Project2025.

     #autocracy #democracy #law

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:39:50 JST Nonilex

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     In an ironic turn, given the #toxicity of #Project2025to voters, it could cost #Trump the #election in Nov.[🤞]
     Could it actually happen?
     Outside grps always hope to #influence presidents. #Heritage has put together & released a version of the Mandate for Leadership every 4 yrs since #Reagan’s 1st term. Why did this one catch fire? For 1, they wrote it all down & released it publicly, w/splashy online presence & #media appearances.…They publicly called it a plan for “institutionalizing #Trumpism”

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:39:51 JST Nonilex

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     #Trump has *claimed* he does not know what it is or who is involved, though he does indeed know many of the people involved. Perhaps more importantly, his #policy plans [more] often [than not] align w/what’s in the project.

     By seeking to #influence Trump, #Project2025 – which counts >100 *#conservative* groups as supporters & contributors – probably poisoned #Heritage & its allies’ chances of forming part of Trump’s inner circle & potential next admin

     #autocracy #democracy #law

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:54:58 JST Nonilex

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     § How to remake a government

     Trump’s #ScheduleF, the wonkily named plan to create a government more beholden to its executive, is perhaps the biggest change that #Project2025 seeks, & it’s one #Trump [tried in his 1st term]

     In each agency chpt, there are suggestions for how more non-partisan, civic employees in the federal government could be turned into #PoliticalAppointees who would be beholden to the Trump agenda & less likely to push back on #policy changes.

     #autocracy #democracy #law

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 01:54:59 JST Nonilex

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     #Trump’s policy positions are typically much less detailed than what’s in #Project2025. [Probably left intentionally vague to disguise how much they are exactly the same. Also he’s dumb.] We have at times referred to Project 2025 as the meat on the bones of a Trump presidency. To figure out where Trump & the project’s policy goals align, I also looked up what Trump has said – or not said – on the issues the project covers.

     #HeritageFoundation #authoritarianism

     #law #democracy #HarrisWalz2024

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     @mcepl @Nonilex @StitchyMc I need a conservative to explain to me exactly what is meant by anti-woke, or woke free.

     Is it now just a catch all phrase, or is it really bragging about ignorance? It seems meaningless yet massively hateful at the same time, and keeps me from discussing anything with the lm

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     • Julie stitchyMc

     @Nonilex @StitchyMc

     May I say, as a #Christian and self-declared #conservative (in style of Burke, Oakeshott, Thatcher), that I am outraged whenever #TheOrange claims to be one of these. It is even worse when many of my brothers believe this living fraud. Lying, stealing, tax frauds, sexual escapades have absolutely nothing with Christian values, and if he now declares himself to be pro-abortion again, good for them, at least they see how they have given away their integrity for nothing.

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 23:01:11 JST mark

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     @bhawthorne @mcepl @Nonilex @StitchyMc this is how i take it, as well as anti anything lgbtq+.

     But then people hide behind civility to avoid being called out. This is why I want a conservative pov

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     @ATLeagle @mcepl @Nonilex @StitchyMc “Woke” to conservatives appears to be a dog whistle meaning “black,” so anti-woke means anti-black/white power and woke-free means all-white.

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     @ATLeagle @Nonilex @StitchyMc You are giving them far too much credit. I see two kinds of people co-opting words like “woke.” The first is politicians who are using it as a dog whistle to rile up their racist supporters. They don’t have a coherent definition because they don’t need one. The second group are their supporters, who know that they mean “all those people we hate.”

     The Republicans in the USA have been doing this repeatedly, inventing new words to replace the n-word. You are not going to get a “conservative view” because they know they can’t be honest about their abhorrent racism.

     The same is happening now with conservatives in Germany and the UK, except there the racism is against immigrants from outside Europe. I know nothing about racism in the Czech Republic, but I would love to hear what @mcepl thinks about immigrants there.

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     @bhawthorne @Nonilex @StitchyMc @mcepl this is exactly my thoughts. I ask because of this bullshit https://ultrarightbeer.com/ .

     We have a beer fridge at work and this appeared. It has me beyond pissed off, but I'm certain that pointing it out will do nothing more than have me lose my job.

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     @bhawthorne @Nonilex @StitchyMc @mcepl this is a good idea. I always skip being subtle.

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     @ATLeagle @Nonilex @StitchyMc @mcepl Just carefully crack open all the cans to release the pressure and let all the carbonation out. They will look normal, but the beer will taste flat and horrible, just like the politics. I guarantee that beer will never be bought again.