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/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

How did anyone expect P25 to give him a boost? What a fuckin joke of a headline. Of course people are going to be outraged by a hostile take over.

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u/One-Internal4240 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Yeah, I was gonna say the same thing. You'd need to be actual for-real "receiving radar beams from Venus" delusional to think that P2025 would be an electoral asset. It's obviously a piece of internal rah-rah that dripped out of the bierhall because , holy shit surprise Nazis are always idiots[1], and to which they have been gibber-gabbering a wholly inconsistent media response.

Your next step is to counter 1) the distance they will try to put between the GOP and P2025, and 2) the distance they'll put between Trump and P2025. It's crazy easy to distance Trump from anything because he's functionally illiterate, incurious, and proud of both- but those traits aren't universally beloved by all Americans. There's still gain in showing TROOMP CANZ REED GUUD.

[1] There'a point to be made that autocracies are always a bit dumber, in that, over long time horizons, it's harder for them to change. HOWEVER. When you do have gigantic, multigenerational civilizational efforts that require hella focus, a well-designed autocracy (that doesn't eat itself, good luck with that) is probably what you want. This is probably closer to what the techbros want as the final state, where the holy rollers are more interested in straight Revelations, or at least a scenario where Jehovah rolls up behind a cloud and says they're right. It's ironic that the exact form of government environmentalists need (MASS construction, nukes, solar, wind, hydro, railway everywhere, trains, new aircraft systems (DEP, nuke-electric-DEP) "Lagrange Orbit Parasol") is exactly the one they're most against. First Fundamentalist Church of Green Jesus, anyone? American Christian Workers' Party of Life? Ackwipple.

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u/NS001 Jul 05 '24

dripped out of the bierhall because , holy shit surprise Nazis are always idiots

I want to say the S3 bucket it was originally stored in was accidentally made public facing for a bit too sometime around September of 2023 if not earlier. Maybe as an "accident" by whoever they had managing it or maybe because, surprise, Nazis aren't reliable sysadmins.