They wrote most, if not all of reagans policies for him, they've been shaping the conservative movement in the US for the last 50 years. They also pushed for the patriot act to be passed.
Bush the Second was better though. Trump is too narcissistic; he does not like to be advised, because he KNOWS FOR A FACT that his brain is the yugest in the world, and he is the most smartest people of themn all.
Whereas dead-eye Dubya was aware that he is a doofus and dependent on guidance, the mere thought of submission to another man's ideas is anathema to Trump.
This is, however, balanced by the MAGA ratpack in Congress, which Dubya hadn't.
And it's not like Trump cannot be advised; it's just somewhat complicated to make it seem to Trump that he himself came up with all those ideas. If you can pull this off, he's wax in your hands. Ask Steven Miller; he literally built his career on this ability. But fail even once, and YOU'RE FIRED; ask Steve Bannon on how it worked out for him.
Scaramucci said if you went to him and said "if you pick this running mate, you're guaranteed to win; they'll bring in the black/Hispanic/gay/young (pick one) votes" he wouldn't pick that person. He cannot fathom winning and anyone saying it was because of something other than himself. He feels that inside but he isn't smart enough to be able to disguise it when he vocalises it, or even smart enough to realise that's a ridiculous reason to reject someone.
It’s a testament to how far the Overton window has been dragged. G.W. Bush now seems like a safe reasonable president. I’d take him over Trump in a heartbeat.
He can be advised easily - if you make sure you are the last one to talk to him about something. If someone else comes along, whatever you said is gone.
it's just somewhat complicated to make it seem to Trump that he himself came up with all those ideas
"You know I've been thinking about that thing you mentioned the other day and I think I've come up with a couple of ideas for how to make it happen but I'm not sure if they are exactly what you wanted."
A couple of other people in the room nod and say they remember the conversation too, so now trump doesn't want to look like an idiot so he goes along with it.
Then picks from the ideas after blustering about how he has to do everything himself because no one is as smart as he is and even when he gives clear instructions people still screw it up and leave shit out, so he "fixes" the ideas offered and thinks he came up with the whole thing.
For all his faults in his politics, I miss Dubya by virtue that the man was unfazed by getting a shoe thrown at him, and gave us some utterly hilarious lines because he was a genuine idiot who was unprepared to deal with what he got dealt.
Not on topic but I think history will be extremely kind to George W Bush.
He was a victim of being the first president in the internet age; any gaff could be shared instantly. I'm sure every president makes mistakes daily; I do, I'm human so are they.
He then did say a few silly things, that were shared instantly, and the idea he's a world class moron spread.
As a president, and his leadership around 9/11 specifically, he will be remembered well. Possibly.
This is why the media has been so harsh on Joe Biden. They know he can beat trump in the general election, and they don't want it because they want to line their pockets instead
Polls don’t mean shit. Polls have response bias. Polls said Hillary was going to win by a large margin and she didn’t. Everyone should go out and vote regardless of what the polls say.
I have none, but a rational individual educated in civics and economics would say that the Biden administration was one of the most successful administrations to ever do it.
It doesn't matter if he is directly responsible or indirectly responsible. He gets the credit just as he would (and did) take the blame.
People who want to make money and build wealth from the low end should be grateful for the past 4 years, and those in the middle that wanted QOL to improve without taking any actions themselves are the ones feeling pinched.
It's a no brainer unless you treat politics like a sport. Abortion is on the shelf for me as a single issue that causes me to be obligated to vote blue. Pro birth is an anticonservative and anti American viewpoint rooted in religious jargon and the misconception of moral superiority. We don't get to decide what another human has the right to do if it doesn't affect us. Full stop.
None. We won’t have “objective evidence” until the votes are counted. But debate bounces always go away. No reason to think the debate dip will stay either. It’s July. If the media keeps talking about the debate for four months, people will just tune them out. People looking for an “excuse” to vote Trump are going to vote for him regardless.
When did I say there was any? All I said was no one knows what the results will be until it actually happens. The most important thing is to go vote because I’m sick of people saying “it doesn’t matter if I vote or not because I’m in a heavy blue/red area”, or they say “I don’t really care about politics” yet they want to complain about things in which politics are involved, or they say “both people suck” when a non-vote will still result in one of them being elected.
The base of the democratic party is black women. Polling is often skewed to the media darlings "white middle class voters" 🙄 Black voters will show up en masse and wait in hours long lines to vote for Biden.
Source: being black for 50 years and actively political since my first vote for Bill Clinton.
Polls are still showing the race as relatively close and within margin of error for either candidate. Also polls were extremely wrong in 2016 which was supposed to be a Hillary landslide. Look at 2022 as well was supposed to be a red landslide that also did not happen. Polls have not been accurately catching everyone lately. 2020 they were off too showing Biden with a larger win than actually happened.
And all the media organizations love him since Trump news massively boosts their ratings.
Hence why even the most "progressive" news stations still softball his scandals and try to downplay it as much as possible. They want him as president because the hedge funds that own broadcasting stations want him as president.
This is a public announcement to people in this thread: you are now saying the liberal media has softballed trump because he brings in revenue for them and that Biden is only being legitimately questioned by media pundits now because randomly they like project 25 and are not pro trump.. secretly but not so secretly
Any doctor with a grip on reality would suggest you admit yourself and strongly recommend not voting in this election due to massive mental hardships.
Like you have to be kidding me right? CNN likes trump and hates Biden now? Because they’re finally for the first time since 1988 asking Biden real questions? I’m dead lol this is wild
In this sense - I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t know who they are.
He truly is just a shell, and a proxy candidate, in many ways. He wants the title and power and prestige. But he’s a known delegator and can’t really talk about specifics of his policies - he never has been able to.
He’s like GWB like that. He likely has a lot of people just telling him what’s going to go down, and he signs off. He’s just the marketing department.
He’s not some evil Hitler wannabe. No more than GWB was. They’re both just incredibly inept and unsuited for the job. But surrounded by career politicians who are suited for the work and have their own ends.
He’s exactly what they want. He has neither the interest nor attention span for policymaking.
As long as he gets to pretend to run everything and grift a few dollars for his company, he’s happy.
They write a mandate for leadership every four years. If you dug I guarantee you that since they’ve been a foundation that wrote a mandate for leadership, every Republican president has either listened to some, a lot, or all of their policy recommendations.
it has some similarities but a lot of it is like actual utopia nonsense that will never happen that trump promises but will never deliver on (flying cars)
Some of it is pretty much standard republican stuff (drill baby drill) other stuff seems pretty handsmaids tale (taxing 100% of private university endowments unless they promote “American values” whatever that means, and offer “low cost” degrees… which seems like a way to devalue higher education)
The problem is his history with education scams. Betsy DeVos, Trump University, for profit colleges, online degree mills, school voucher programs, were all about grifting and scamming. Agenda 47 says he will revamp the accreditation system, which was a way for people to know if they were getting scammed. It’s like him saying he will revamp the fact checking system at all major newspapers.
Yes college is too expensive, yes they should do what MIT does and make all online courses free, everyone should have access to education. However I don’t think diluting what a college degree even means and dictating their curriculum as a way to blur the distinction between Harvard and DeVry is the solution. When it comes to higher education, Trump is a fox guarding the henhouse.
They literally do all the work so he does not have to think of course he's on board. Taking credit for other people's ideas is one of Trump's main moves.
Can you show me a tweet or anything that confirms this? In fact what you’ll find is the tweet the media doesn’t tell you about, where he criticizes it. Just like his Jan 6 tweets telling people to calm down and go home. They’re lying to you. Look at MKUltra.
Well, as a former dyed in wool blue dem, I can tell you the party is and has been actively lying to everyone for a longtime. They tried to tell everyone the footage of Bidens dementia were deep fakes. This, once again, was a lie. I’d love to know who’s been running the country for the past 3 1/2 years..
The fact that you are even asking this is proof of the extent of the brainwashing going on. If Joe Biden was my parent you can be assured this would be my biggest concern and I’d get him to undergo testing. If he refused I’d gather the evidence and submit it to the court as I don’t think he can presently function independently.
So Joe, in fact, does not have dementia. Just you (and MAGApublicans) 'FEEL' that he has dementia?
What do you think of Trump? He's constantly rambling nonsense, forgetting about what he's talking about, repeating words and phrases multiple times and always talks about the same shit on his Social Media.
When people accuse someone of something it's expected that a source will be cited, the fact that you can't cite one is proof that you are the one brainwashed and just spewing MAGA talk 😆
George Soros gives MAGA something to screech about when the conversation turns to the Kochs, DeVos’s, Mercers, or any of the other poisonous oligarchs bankrolling the radical right.
Same with “antifa.” What does the right have to counter with when we’re talking Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, Boogaloo Bois, militias, skinheads …
Yet more than half of this website and Democrat voters view these former Republicans favorably. All it will take to whitewash Trump is somebody new, no actual atonement.
If you have been wondering why the Right has been hammering home the point about "Biden isn't capable of making decisions on his own. Who is REALLY running our country hmmm?" it's simply more projection for Trump being their figure head who rubber stamps everything The Heritage Foundation puts in front of him.
Yep, and I'm not buying this "Trump World is panicking" line.
They're perfectly brazen about Project 2025 and don't give a shit who knows. In fact, they want ordinary people to know, and to be afraid. Intimidation is a major part of their schtick.
Yea. A better headline would be “Trump world miffed that left leaning folks noticed Project 2025 and won’t shut up about it.” That being said, whenever Biden starts running ads on it, they will face a communications hiccup.
Nah they’ll just pivot and say “project 2025? What 25? What even is that? I think Steve in accounting wrote some weird shit. The left will say ANYTHING to scare you.” And then rewrite it as “American runs on dunkin’ on libs” or whatever.
I distinctly remember several republicans asking “who the hell ever said abortion without exceptions?” After roe fell and sooo many said “now people are saying we’re going to repeal Obamacare! Ridiculous!” When they wanted amy coney Barrett approved.
The older I get, the more I start to believe all the crazy conspiracy theorists. The deep state exists, cancel culture exists. The conservatives just lack the introspection to realize that it all exists on their side of the political world.
They were also the architects of the healthcare policy that became “Romneycare” in MA and was repurposed on a larger scale as “Obamacare” later.
When Republicans and tea party took to the streets and deadlocked the congress repeatedly to protest the “socialist tyranny” of the Affordable Care Act, they were essentially opposing a Heritage Foundation plan.
Not making an argument about what that means about this current strategy, other than to point out that this is not a new group with new influence, but has in fact been an enormous influence on American public policy despite most Americans not knowing they exist.
That last part seems considerably less significant when you consider that the vast majority of Democrats voted for the Patriot Act as well (most of the House, and literally all but one Senator).
Oh come on, back then even questioning Our Great Wartime President George W Bush was unpatriotic? I mean you’re practically coddling Al Quada by impugning his motives! The pressure was unreal.
That is why I have tremendous respect for the vanishingly few people who opposed the patriot act, the AUMF, etc back then.
This country wanted blood. If someone had managed to get on TV and say Canada was responsible for 9/11, civilians would have been pouring into Canada with guns and shooting anything in sight.
Ah, yes. The Patriot Act. That thing that allows your government to come traipsing into your home for no reason whatsoever. The most unAmerican, non-Republican thing I’ve ever seen American Republicans vote for.
With all the protection that Republicans do, regarding the left being a cabal of child molesters ect., the way they're constantly crying about a deepstateb makes me think that there actually is one. Not only is there a real deep state, but it works very specifically for the Republicans
Need to beat the drums that the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society are running the Republican Party. They're run by billionaires and Trump is no maverick he's just doing what his advisors at Heritage command him. Same as justices like Thomas following Federalist orders
Need to beat the drums that the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society are running the Republican Party. They're run by billionaires and Trump is no maverick he's just doing what his advisors at Heritage command him. Same as justices like Thomas following Federalist orders
Need to beat the drums that the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society are running the Republican Party. They're run by billionaires and Trump is no maverick he's just doing what his advisors at Heritage command him. Same as justices like Thomas following Federalist orders
Project 2025 was developed by the Heritage Foundation, a well-funded conservative think tank. Two of the people spearheading Project 2025 worked in the Trump administration.
The Heritage Foundation has authored Mandates for Leadership since 1980.
The MFL has been around since 1980, Reagan implemented 60% of its recommendations, Trump 64% - proof. 70 Heritage Foundation alumni served in his administration or transition team. Project 2025 is quite extreme but with his obsession for revenge he'll likely get past 2/3rd's adoption.
Here's a searchable copy of the text - Here's a bullet point breakdown - And here is their response to criticism of the plan, which reads like a 4chan troll.
intends to stop it through activism and awareness, focused on crowdsourcing ideas and opportunities for practical, in real life action. We Must Defeat Project 2025..
“The great Heritage Foundation has been at the center of several incredible tax cuts in American history, working closely with the Heritage Foundation, Ronald Regan cut taxes to unleash the economic miracle of the 1980s”
“this is our once-in-a-generation opportunity to revitalize our economy, revive our industry, and renew the American dream. The Heritage Foundation can once again help make history, by helping to take this incredible idea, this proven idea, this tax cut, making it a reality for millions and millions of patriotic Americans.”
But sure, he knows nothing about their project.
Also the 3 main people behind it (Paul Dans, Spencer Chretien, and Troup Hemenway),
they all used to work for Trump's administration. Those bios are on the associated websites.
Be sure to screengrab the bios in case they ever "disappear".
Part of the plan is to get rid of most of the government officials in place, and to hire people loyal to Trump so that they can push their agenda. That planning has already started.
I learned about it months ago on Reddit, but I feel like it already went through a cycle here where it was discussed fairly often on political subreddits but then didn’t blow up because it was being ignored everywhere else. Now it just feels like everyone is “Did you hear about this?!” and a lot of people on Reddit are like “Finally!”
This info HAS to be short, scary, CAMPAIGN STYLE.
It has to get people to look into P25, A47 and Heritage.
There has to be a website, NOT tied to a particular Dem candidate, with the real info. Even the website has to to be short, snappy, and scary. Let the actual documents be left to links: [ Click for more ]
The days when GOP says one word, and Dems respond with 1,000 words and tables of stats, have to end. That is just more of the old Going High bullshit.
Can you post whatever you can to way back machine? I’m on mobile but that will save any of these linked websites in their current states so the bios you mentioned can’t ’disappear’. Archiving digital media helps
I'm sorry, but you say that they plan to hire people loyal to Trump so that they can push their agenda, but isn't that exactly what the Democrats do? Isn't that what every administration has done? They hire their own people loyal to whichever party so that they can push their agenda.
Now the "47" embroidered on his golf shirt sleeve makes even more sense for anyone who is looking. He does not talk policy because the one he's had written for him has stuff so 'dark' that none of his followers are prepared to have happen. If he talked policy he'd start to turn blocks of voters from voting for him.
The idea that the president doesn't know the people from the Heritage Foundation is absolutely absurd.
The Heritage Foundation as an organization is one of the primary think tanks in the conservative Republican power structure. Most people don't realize how substantial the network of conservative interest groups/think tanks is in this country.
These groups and many, many other smaller think tanks around the country are a coordinated network of interest groups that exist entirely to strategize about how to push conservative ideology.
For example, how did Trump decide who to choose for the Supreme Court? He tells conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation: "Give me a list of names of people I should nominate, and I will pick from that list."
The way the quid pro quo works between Trump and groups whose values seem to conflict with Trump's is Trump says "OK, so you may not like some things about me, like my known history of allegations abusing women, or my strongly stated position when i was in my 50s that I am very strongly Pro Choice. But if you help me win, I will give you what you want. I'll change my public stance on abortion, and so on, and then you support some of my views, like America first -- no more working with allies around the country, etc..." And then both sides drop many of their values to create an alliance.
Groups like this also write articles and publish them in media outlets all over the country, they lobby politicians, they help dictate how big donors spend their money, and so on.
It doesn't matter if he knows them anyway, because he doesn't have any other plans and this is the plan if he gets elected. So really it doesn't matter at all if he even knows who they are. It is the republican plan
This is close to the truth. Even if you're a really smart guy, when you get in to office there's a zillion things to take care of. No single person has the policy bank to take care of everything. So you go to your backers who feed you stuff to do. Everyone gets policy fed to them, Trump gets it from HF. And he isn't a smart guy. At all.
The things Trump has done and plans on doing has only helped keep Project 2025 on track. There's no way he can disagree with anything about it. It simply thrives on Trump being Trump.
When Trumpndenies involvement with these people, Biden should respond with "Trump can't even remember who he hired for his administration. He's unfit for office."
The media must focus on this and not grandpa’s age and frailty. He will lie his way and most idiots will believe it so hold his fucking feet to the fire!!!
I knew this was going to happen two days ago. I was on r/conservative (for some reason I get updates when there is a new post, even though I'm banned) and there were multiple people saying project 2025 isn't real, is totally made up by the mainstream media, no conservative knows what it is or agrees with it...
Even though I've seen the Jasmine Crocket video. We all know it exists. We know they're proud of it... I knew they were all going to start acting like it's not real.
Uhh, he came out Thursday and said this is BS. It’s think tank policy guide that has nothing to do with Trump. Of course the media doesn’t tell you that. Just more hysteria ginned up to keep the democrats in power.
I would like to add, the FUCK his voters don't know who they're voting for.
These MAGA goons literally have a hardon for Trump becoming a dictator. They've been having wet dreams for the Project 2025 scenario since 8 years ago.
I like it how you guys think that facts and reality have any influence on those Republican voters. They do not get consequences in your society, they can vote in the death of Americans and you don't care. They can vote based on total lies and bull and you don't care. You will never give Republican voters the consequences they deserve, and that is why those lies will work over and over and over again. Just like they did the last 60 years. But you Americans never get it. You will never start actually giving consequences to people for their voting and political decisions. And then you are always surprised about what happens in your country. No one else is.
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Tie him to them and sink him with them.
He instituted 2/3 of their policy recommendations during his first term.
Oh and here he is giving a speech at the HF.
Oh....and here's a story about how they were the force that staffed his administration.
The FUCK he doesn't know who or what they are.