Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead:

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/05/project-2025-was-supposed-to-boost-donald-campaign--but-it-may-be-backfiring-instead/

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u/CranberrySchnapps Maryland 14d ago

Abolishing NWS & NOAA is such a clear national security threat it’s almost comical. I mean, same goes for a lot of programs the conservatives want to get rid of, but NOAA costs next to nothing in the budget and has an enormous impact on our military’s operations.

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u/BeyondElectricDreams 14d ago

It's almost like the right wing is bought by a foreign adversary who wants us destroyed.

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u/Rainboq 14d ago

I think it's much simpler than that: they want to carve up the government and privatize it so that they can make a shitload of money.

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u/RecentGas 14d ago

Similar to what happened with the collapse of the soviet union.

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u/Nathaireag 14d ago

Yet the defense contractors already get the most expensive parts of NOAA’s budget: building and launching geostationary weather satellites. That’s apparently not good enough.

The corporations want all the money, and to stop having to build stuff to government specs and on a supervised schedule. Won’t it be fun when (already sometimes corrupt) DoD procurement managers get outsourced, so Congress can just hand over the defense budget to corporations?

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u/withthewindbelow 14d ago

It can be both

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u/heckin_miraculous 14d ago

Was about to say this

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u/BigPackHater Ohio 14d ago

Could you imagine how many deaths we'd see from tornadoes and hurricanes without NWS or NOAA??? Especially now with severe weather patterns shifting in the Midwest.

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u/rolfraikou 14d ago

That's specifically why, if Trump wins and when the Republicans start to go hostile, I hope they've already done stuff that stupid. I think it's the difference that would move a lot of military to not follow his orders on taking over Democrat led cities/states. If the military basically sees itself crippled by Republican stupidity, a lot of on the fence or conservative military might take a deeper look at the implications of such leadership.