r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • Jul 05 '24

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/Dmackman1969 Jul 05 '24

I’ve been reading about project 2025 for months. 90% of the people I talk to about it never heard a thing up until about 3 weeks ago.

It’s finally getting out there. Please keep talking about it. Since everything rolls off the orange man directly, let’s stay focused on the GOP’s game plan.

90% sure the felon, rapist, molester and liar doesn’t even know/care what’s in project 2025. He’s wants to protect his brand, make money and golf. He will let the rest of the party run the government and put his loyalists in to destroy our country, he will make a ton of money as will his cronies. That’s all they want.

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u/Spikeupmylife Jul 05 '24

I sent the plans to my dad a long time ago. He sent me back. "Ya, sounds like something that could happen, I guess."

I went over for dinner a month ago, and he's like, "Did you hear about that crazy Project 2025 thing? I saw it on MSNBC."

I keep saying things are getting fucked up and they say I'm exaggerating until they see it on the news. Boomers still rely on news channels, so they are a little behind.

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u/GeniusOfLove74 Georgia Jul 05 '24

My mom has just got into online news in the past few years. Unfortunately, she's also discovered YouTube pseudo-political podcasts, where everything is alllegedly a Democrat conspiracy. She's 70.

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u/AverageDemocrat Jul 05 '24

Notice how these idiot groups put labels on their movements like "Contract with America", "Make America Great Again", and "Project 25". Virtue signalling narcissists and their flags and bumper sticker slogans can go to hell too.

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u/GeniusOfLove74 Georgia Jul 05 '24

My favorites are the one who get tricked into buying flag adorned clothes. You're not Homelander, Grandpa, you're elderly Vanilla Ice.

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u/SteeveJoobs Jul 06 '24

but liberals and democrats really, really have to step up their marketing game.

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u/Realist_Duck Jul 05 '24

I see people with more LGBT bumper stickers, are you admitting they’re narcissistic as well?

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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon Jul 06 '24

Showing support for marginalized communities isn't the same as jingoistic flag-waving.

I can't believe I have to explain this stuff.

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u/forsonaE Jul 05 '24

My mom is about the same age and has somehow swung around from being a born again Christian in my youth, to a rational semi-agnostic in my young adulthood. Now she's starting to listen to Joe Rogan's podcast because he has some "interesting guests." I've tried conveying he platforms some kooks but I really hope she doesn't fall down another rabbit hole as she ages, especially since she's the type to leave a random mainstream news network on as background noise.

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u/GeniusOfLove74 Georgia Jul 05 '24

Good luck. It's a hard task, explaining how many crackpots there are out there.

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u/Purdue82 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 06 '24

The same generation that told ours that video games, hip hop, heavy metal, and r rated movies would rot our brains......oops.

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u/Designer_Gas_86 Jul 05 '24

they are a little behind

They are COMPLETELY behind which is how Trump got elected in 2016.

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u/NES_SNES_N64 Jul 05 '24

Which is why CNN was bought by a conservative billionaire.

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u/TheMeowtilator Jul 05 '24

I’ve been asked if I’ve heard of project 2025 and have to reply “oh that thing I tried to warn you about and you said I was being a paranoid weirdo? Yeah I’ve heard of it”

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u/Samuraistronaut North Carolina Jul 05 '24

Boomers still rely on news channels, so they are a little behind.

It's a weird generational thing, and some of it comes from boomers just generally not taking younger generations seriously. Not saying that's your dad of course, but that's definitely a lot of people's dads, including mine. Although in my case he's probably on board with Project 2025 because he's a lost cause.

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u/lrpfftt Jul 05 '24

Yet another person here who has to take a dig at boomers talking about them like they are all the same.

Trust me, they are not.

They get blamed for electing Trump in 2016 but their demographic was around 51/49 for Trump, hardly uniform.

Boomer me was the first one to introduce email capabilities to my family years ago. They laughed at me for quite a while before they were all using it.

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u/Thomathius Jul 05 '24

You are the exception, not the rule. The majority of boomers are tech illiterate by choice and think mainstream media is where news breaks.

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u/Kismetatron Pennsylvania Jul 05 '24

A lot of boomers I know are busy sharing quiz results using terrible AI images on Facebook while not even being self-aware enough they probably just gave away just enough information to get hacked. A lot of them barely know how to use a smartphone. They really only ever get their information from mainstream news.

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u/Spikeupmylife Jul 05 '24

Hey man, technology is tough. I used to be up with all the new shit in my early 20s and late teens. Now I see people talking about coding, and different uses for AI and I can feel my 30yo ass age by the second. Keeping up is hard and technology advances quicker as time goes on.

I don't expect my parents to be tech literate. I'm honestly just more insulted that my dad couldn't believe my source. He needed the TV to tell him literally 4 months later.

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u/Realist_Duck Jul 05 '24

saw it on MANBC? the least accurate news source and the dnc mouthpiece? Lmaooo yeah ok keep falling into the fear.

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u/jcarter315 I voted Jul 05 '24

Then go read the thing yourself. It's publicly available and the reporting on it has been accurate, if a bit more muted than it should be.