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   Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 05:22:01 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

   [thread 3/x] Trump2: buckle up
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   [1/x] https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113436929353577778

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 05:22:01 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Young men helped Trump retake the White House — a trend years in the making
     https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/nx-s1-5181804/young-men-helped-trump-retake-the-white-house-a-trend-years-in-the-making

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 01:49:19 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Start Reading Project 2025
     https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/13/start-reading-project-2025

     * Heritage Foundation’s long-planned (42 y) Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership
     * manual: conservative presidents to govern U.S. like a dictator
     * available f. publisher (Heritage): 30 chapters, 922 pages, free to download

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

     Comment: d/l, save a copy. Conservative websites scrub content when overly damaging (e.g. associates completely f. up).

     #GOP #Trump2 #HeritageFoundation #MandateForLeadership #Project2025 #fascism

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 04:18:19 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Trump Makes Chilling Joke About Staying in Power Forever
     https://newrepublic.com/post/188363/donald-trump-joke-power-forever

     * Trump not sure about the 2-term limit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_limits_in_the_United_States#President
     * before the House Republican Conference 2024-Nov-12, 78-year-old, soon-to-be 47th president openly joked about running for a 3rd term

     “I suspect I won’t be running again unless you say he’s so good we got to figure something else out,” Trump said while laughing

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 05:41:16 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     fyi: copies of Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025" manifesto

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

     ... uploaded by others to

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

     Internet Archive/Wayback Machine
     https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

     #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #GOP #fascism #Trump2

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 09:43:37 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Republicans Complete Trifecta w. Tiny House Majority
     https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republicans-trifecta-house-majority

     * Senate leadership: John Thune (R-SD) replaces filibuster-abusing Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

     * via filibuster Trump may try to unilaterally:
     impose huge tariffs on foreign goods
     deport unprecedented numbers of immigrants
     pull U.S. out of NATO
     unwind regulations
     negotiate Ukraine surrender to Russia
     pass tax cuts for rich

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 13:27:36 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Republicans win 218 U.S. House seats. Trump/GOP control government
     https://apnews.com/article/republicans-house-elections-e3754a684a7b96b129841d4b207c15e9

     * GOP controls U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives
     * thin majorities
     * mandate to upend fed. gov., swiftly implement Trump’s vision

     * Trump promised to
     carry out U.S.’ largest-ever deportation operation
     extend tax breaks
     punish his political enemies
     seize control of the federal government’s most powerful tools
     reshape the U.S. economy

     * Democrats almost powerless

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 09:30:47 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     "I would love to serve": Lara Trump beams over possible appointment to Senate seat
     https://www.salon.com/2024/11/14/i-would-love-to-serve-lara-beams-over-possible-appointment-to-senate-seat

     * co-chair, Republican National Committee
     * daughter-in-law to Donald Trump
     * contender to replace Marco Rubio should he become Secretary of State: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113468583716578867

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 15:39:28 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     As he fills his new administration, Trump values loyalty above all else
     https://apnews.com/article/trump-transition-loyalty-appointments-ca140eec67df051cf6d378b7108f0f5c

     * much of Trump1 feeling stung/betrayed by those he’d placed in power
     * now putting loyalty above all else
     * aiming to cut infighting, maximize ability to reshape Washington
     * Gaetz for attorney general drew open shock/alarm f Dems who fear retribution
     * Gaetz’s fellow Republican thought news was a joke
     * ditto Hegseth (defense), RFK Jr. (health)

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     –modo ⚛️ 🧬 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 (enmodo@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 18:41:31 JST –modo ⚛️ 🧬 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

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     @persagen
     Elect a clown, expect a circus. Elect an evil clown, expect a bloodbath.

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 03:54:57 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     HR 9495 would let Trump silence nonprofits, stifle dissent
     https://www.nationofchange.org/2024/11/15/tlaib-aclu-and-advocates-warn-h-r-9495-could-empower-trump-to-silence-nonprofits-and-stifle-dissent

     * civil rights groups sound alarm over legislation
     * could allow Trump to strip nonprofits of tax-exempt status w/o evidence
     * threatens free speech/democracy

     HR 9495 Stop Terror-Financing & Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act
     https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9495/text/rh

     Amnesty International USA Urges No Vote on HR 9495
     https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/amnesty-international-usa-urges-no-vote-on-h-r-9495

     ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-urges-house-to-kill-bill-that-could-give-trump-admin-power-to-crush-dissent-and-go-after-political-enemies

     #Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism #HR9495

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 02:44:45 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     "Makes us look like Nazis": Trump allies asked to stop talking about mass deportation "camps"
     https://www.salon.com/2024/11/16/makes-us-look-like-nazis-allies-asked-to-stop-talking-about-mass-deportation-camps/

     * stop saying quiet part out loud
     * advisers worry about the word "camp" plays as they plot mass deportation schemes

     Trump Allies Told to Stop Saying They’ll Put Migrants in ‘Camps’
     https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-allies-migrants-camps-miller-homan-1235168998

     #Nazism #propaganda #Goebbels #WeaponizationOfLanguage #rhetoric
     #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #xenophobia #Project2025 #libertarianism
     #Christofascism #antiLGBT

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     CdaleCO Rider, RN (cdaleco@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 03:30:00 JST CdaleCO Rider, RN

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     @persagen Oh really? They don’t like the comparison. What the hellwere they thinking. Do they think we are all gullible like their cult?

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     Camille lives at Praxis Now (camille@social.praxis.nyc)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 09:06:51 JST Camille lives at Praxis Now

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     @persagen
     I am wondering if there is a scorecard tracking how far Trump has *already* strayed from this plan. I have a feeling the folks at Heritage Foundation are tearing their hair out with annoyance.

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 03:43:34 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Trump Reveals His Fascist Plan for Carrying Out Mass Deportations
     https://newrepublic.com/post/188533/donald-trump-plan-mass-deportations-military

     * Trump’s latest promise predictably goes against all of his allies’ claims
     * plotting to use U.S. military to carry out massive deportations
     * Trump pronouncement comes as Republicans attempt to downplay how extreme his immigration plans will be

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 10:07:07 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Christian Nationalist Tries to Push Trump Prayer on Oklahoma Schools
     https://apnews.com/article/trump-treasury-tariffs-cabinet-bessent-lutnick-99db930ea0516673c96f8b524af975f2

     * Oklahoma state superintendent of schools Ryan Walters
     * wants every teacher in OK to show video message f. him to classes showing him praying for Trump
     * already under fire for his plan to buy Trump-branded Bibles

     #RyanWalters #Trump2 #Trumpism #GOP #Project2025
     #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation
     #Christofascism #antiLGBT #transphobia
     #capitalism #billionaires #libertarianism

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:13:10 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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