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DOGE slashes over $100M in DEI funding at Education Department: 'Win for every student'
YoMamma 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 minute ago

project 2025, if real

This comment tells me a lot about what you've been reading.

(Also, voters were fooled by right wing misinformation about the inflation rate [albeit only 2% late last year], gas and food costs, which was the main reason for their votes for trump, even though they were of course misled.)

Regarding the reasons for the executive orders (which trump doesn't write), Project 2025 (which is why Dominion voting machines were rigged to elect trump) and the Haritage Foundation (which writes most of the executive orders, please read this:

https://theconversation.com/trumps-administration-seems-chaotic-but-hes-drawing-directly-from-project-2025-playbook-248821

In his first few days back in office, President Donald Trump engaged in a whirlwind of executive actions, from exiting the World Health Organization, to deploying military personnel and National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Many of these actions are unprecedented. Some appear to be illegal and unconstitutional, according to legal experts and judges. But none of them should come as a surprise – nearly all of them were outlined in 2022 in a plan called Project 2025.

Project 2025 is a multifaceted strategy to advance conservative policies in the federal government. Part of this effort revolves around the “Mandate for Leadership,” a 922-page document published in April 2023 that outlines a slew of proposed governmental policy changes.

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank and advocacy group, organized the collaborative effort. A long list of other right-leaning research organizations and interest groups, like Moms for Liberty and Turning Point USA, also participated in Project 2025.

In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, Project 2025 participants wrote on the plan’s website that “to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left,” they would “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.”

In my research on think tanks, I’ve investigated how these research organizations can influence public policymaking. The most potent strategy is to ally with a political party and support its objectives through research and advocacy. This is exactly what the Heritage Foundation has done via Project 2025.

Even though Trump said during his 2024 campaign that he was not affiliated with the project, evidence of Project 2025’s agenda can be seen throughout the beginning of his second term – as well as in his first administration.

For example, on Jan. 20, 2025, Trump echoed the plan’s statement that “men and women are biological realities” when he signed an executive order that, in part, recognizes “two sexes, male and female” that are “not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.” This order led to the removal of transgender references from government websites.

Other orders are similarly aligned with Project 2025. Take Trump’s executive order that, in part, eliminated the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, or OFCCP, a government office previously charged with ensuring companies working with the government did not discriminate against any employees. Project 2025 recommended, quite simply, to “eliminate OFCCP.”

Some news reports have found that there are already many other examples of Trump policy decisions and executive orders that appear to mirror Project 2025 recommendations.

One CNN analysis from Jan. 31 found that more than two-thirds of the 53 executive orders Trump issued during his first week in office “evoked proposals outlined in [the] ‘Mandate for Leadership.‘” Heritage Foundation’s decades of activism

Project 2025’s influence on Trump reflects the Heritage Foundation’s growing importance to the Republican Party.

In my forthcoming book about the polarization and politicization of policy research organizations, I show the many ways that think tanks like the Heritage Foundation have become embedded within partisan networks and intimately connected to politicians. Increasingly, Heritage and other partisan-aligned think tanks, including progressive groups like the Center for American Progress, use their research to consistently support partisan agendas that align with their policy goals.

The relationship between the Heritage Foundation and the GOP represents the most extreme version of this dynamic. The think tank has supported Republican presidents as far back as Ronald Reagan, using another policy document – also called the “Mandate for Leadership” – to secure significant policy gains through his administration. But the symbiosis between the Heritage Foundation and the GOP has been particularly notable since Trump gained more influence in the party.

At the start of Trump’s first term, as one Heritage Foundation researcher told me in 2017, the think tank recognized that the “administration didn’t have much policy depth, so when they won the election they were sort of like, 'Now what do we do?’ And that’s where Heritage comes in. … We work on these issues year-round, so we’ll stand by your side.”

The Heritage Foundation also vetted potential staffers for federal government positions. This led to more than 66 Heritage employees or former employees working for the Trump administration by the middle of 2018.

But Heritage has not entirely dictated Trump’s agenda. While the group did say that Trump “embraced 64 percent of our 321 recommendations” by the end of 2017, the think tank has also revamped its agenda to align with Trump on the issues he cared most about, like trade and culture wars.

As the think tank’s president, Kevin Roberts, said in 2024, Heritage views its job as “institutionalizing Trumpism.”

Many of the contributors to the “Mandate for Leadership” had been Trump administration officials, like Russ Vought, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget and current nominee for the same position.

This list also includes John Ratcliffe, the former director of National Intelligence and incoming CIA director, and Tom Homan, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and current border czar.

In all, more than half of the plan’s 312 authors, editors and contributors previously worked in the first Trump administration, [and meny of them work with him now].

An incredibly important but often underappreciated part of Project 2025 was its staffing effort: The coalition worked to identify, vet and train potential staffers and appointees who are now making their way into the Trump administration and executive agencies.

An older man wearing a grey suit points his finger at a large poster that says 'Exposing Project 2025' Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gestures toward a visual aid about Project 2025 during a news conference in September 2024 in Washington. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images What people – and the law – say about Project 2025

Polling from January 2025 shows that a majority of Americans oppose many of Trump’s actions since retaking office, sometimes by large margins.

Even during the presidential campaign, both Project 2025 itself and the policy ideas it advocated were broadly unpopular. Democrats consistently warned about the plan in their attacks against Republicans.

The lack of popular approval for Project 2025 and its proposals is notable because the Heritage Foundation has historically invested time and money into gaining public support for its work. It even operates an initiative that polls citizens on how they “interpret arguments for and against our policy recommendations and how we can best gain their understanding and support.”

There are also legal considerations.

Many of Trump’s actions – like saying the government will deny citizenship to children born to some immigrants in the U.S. – rest on potentially unconstitutional interpretations and expansions of presidential power.

This represents another about-face for the think tank, which has historically opposed efforts to empower the president at the expense of congressional authority. Indeed, the Heritage Foundation was founded to work through Congress to accomplish its goals. But with Project 2025, it seems it is pursuing a new strategy.

How successful the Heritage Foundation is in helping Trump implement Project 2025 proposals will partially depend on how the public reacts. Whether Congress asserts its control over budgetary matters and exercises general oversight of the executive branch will also matter, as will the decisions made by the American judicial system.

These checks and balances have helped sustain American democracy for nearly 250 years – whether they will continue to do so remains to be seen.

IGN Reviewer Claims He Will Dock Points On Reviews If Gulf Of America Is In The Game
HiddenFox 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 9 minutes ago

Could not have said it better myself.

IGN Reviewer Claims He Will Dock Points On Reviews If Gulf Of America Is In The Game
HiddenFox 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 10 minutes ago

Ahhh hahahahah

For 5 years my province has pushed electrification. Last night we got a request on the local news to reduce consumption as the grid was maxed. At 11pm power outages began... My power went out around 11:14 for around 10 minutes.
farmer 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 18 minutes ago

Good to hear, figured you probably were ok but never hurts to ask / mention the concerns, just in case.

For 5 years my province has pushed electrification. Last night we got a request on the local news to reduce consumption as the grid was maxed. At 11pm power outages began... My power went out around 11:14 for around 10 minutes.
LordoftheFlies 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 19 minutes ago

To be fair though, coal-fired plants aren't even remotely the best option for any kind of clean-running power generation. Acid rain is a thing, and it's due almost entirely to coal residue in the air.

And London had so much air pollution from coal residue that it actually covered the city in a thick fog during the early '50s after a combination of otherwise-inconsequential weather conditions all occurred at just about the same time. A pretty significant number of deaths and respiratory illnesses were attributed to that fog.

100 women kept as slaves on human egg farm in Georgia, forced into egg trafficking
Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 27 minutes ago

I'm going to assume that, since it's a Pakistani paper, they don't mean Georgia the state but rather the country that calls itself Sakartvelo.

Democrat Rep. Perfectly Boils Down Party's Agenda When Given Just 30 Seconds To Speak...
Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 29 minutes ago

Yes, the point of politics is to win, and thus take power away from the other side.

Sometimes it helps to tell the people you're doing it all for them, but only the morons fall for it.

‘Inflict physical damage’: Calif. group plans to vandalize Tesla cars
xoenix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 33 minutes ago

SANE — Students Against Nazi Extremism

Trump says he and Putin agreed to start negotiations to end Ukraine war: ‘It must end’
AriShekelsteinDDS 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 50 minutes ago

NAFO trannies on suicide watch.

Well, more so than usual.

I'm ready to be on that television
tradecoder[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 hour ago

*pitchers

I'm ready to be on that television
tradecoder[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun 1 hour ago

I will need a trailer with a star on the door and I'm going to need a fruit basket every morning and a mud pack of course and I'll need a private toilet in the trailer.

My agent shall never enter the trailer without knocking twice.

These are standard world rules in Hollywood

Is Harvard still worth it anymore?
hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 hour ago

Harvard has a DEI access school called Harvard College where low achievers can go if they fit the right profile. They get to say they went to Harvard without needing to worry about unjust things like grades an' sheeit.

For 5 years my province has pushed electrification. Last night we got a request on the local news to reduce consumption as the grid was maxed. At 11pm power outages began... My power went out around 11:14 for around 10 minutes.
hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun 1 hour ago

They're out there as totems to ward off the Great Carbon Monsters, who the government says is coming to eat us all.

For 5 years my province has pushed electrification. Last night we got a request on the local news to reduce consumption as the grid was maxed. At 11pm power outages began... My power went out around 11:14 for around 10 minutes.
hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 hour ago

Echh, that reminds me that I have to fix my genny. We're supposed to get 5 cm of rain here tomorrow, of all things!

100 women kept as slaves on human egg farm in Georgia, forced into egg trafficking
Drewski[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 hour ago

First Person Who Died In Sarco Suicide Pod May Have Been Strangled: Report
American_Muskrat[S] 3 insightful - 7 fun3 insightful - 6 fun4 insightful - 7 fun 1 hour ago

"When I go out I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather and not screaming in terror like his passengers."

Hello?
hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 hour ago

Automod generally unblocks people after they've been here for a couple of weeks.

Professional serial swatter who repeatedly targeted Tim Pool, The Quartering and other conservatives gets prison time
hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 2 hours ago

He's lookin' real pretty in that thar mugshot.

IGN Reviewer Claims He Will Dock Points On Reviews If Gulf Of America Is In The Game
hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 2 hours ago

Let's see what happens after their next USAID funded paycheque bounces.

IGN Reviewer Claims He Will Dock Points On Reviews If Gulf Of America Is In The Game
hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 2 hours ago

Behold, the legend in his own mind!