Project Destroy Democracy

Have you heard about Project 2025? If you haven’t, then what you need to know is that racist xenophobic knuckle-dragging mouth-breathing racist yee-haw fuckers love it.

This morning, Marco Rubio was on CNN and he defended Project 2025 and then complained about the Biden administration using policies created by think tanks…while Project 2025 was/is being created by…wait for it…a think tank. Little Marco also refused to answer if he would move to another state if selected by Trump to be his running mate (presidential running mates can’t be from the same state), claiming it’s a hypothetical…and then dived into the hypothetical of Kamala Harris replacing Joe Biden as the nominee and selected Gavin Newsom as her running mate.

Marco Rubio is saved from being the dumbest member of Congress by people like Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Marco Rubio, Tommy Tuberville, etc. I digress.

Project 2025 is a plan created by the Heritage Foundation that lays out the agenda for the next Republican presidential administration. It doesn’t specify Donald Trump because it’s a 501(c) which means it can’t be affiliated with any political campaigns or it would lose its tax-free status. Unfortunately for us, the Heritage Foundation does not have a goon-free status.

The entire thing is about reshaping the federal government and giving more authority to “whoever” may be the next Republican president. It’s a plan to fire tens of thousands of government workers and replace them with loyal goose-stepping red hat-wearing stooges.

During the Trump administration (sic), there were career people (non-political government workers who remain in place through administration turnovers) in government agencies who were able to block a lot of Trump’s agenda by basically following laws and regulations. There were even a few of his appointments who restrained Trump, like his Chief of Staff, General John Kelly. There won’t be any of that restrainment sensible nonsense if there’s a next Trump administration (sic) as there won’t be anyone in place to reign in the worst of Donald Trump, like the time he wanted to fill the Rio Grande with piranhas and alligators. Imagine Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon (when he gets out of jail) in charge of hiring. Cooks, maids, gardeners, and Butlers in the White House may have to declare their loyalty to keep their jobs. We can’t have some groomer outside with a weed whacker.

Project 2025 plans to use the military to enforce domestic laws. It will use the military to round up people in this country who did not enter legally, perhaps even those with residence status and on a waiting list for a court date. It plans to place those people in concentration camps until they’re deported. Avoiding family separation, a policy of the first Trump administration (sic) is NOT on the agenda.

Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation said just a few days ago, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” What he’s saying is that Project 2025 will be implemented with violence and bloodshed if it’s challenged. How else are we to decipher his statement?

Anyone who says they don’t want to live under Christian Nationalism’s version of Sharia Law will be beheaded with their remains donated to Soylent Green (dammit, that’s a cartoon idea. Colleagues, don’t steal that).

Project 2025’s director, Paul Dans said that Project 2025 is “systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army, [of] aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the deep state.” You know the deep state…that thing that doesn’t actually exist, but if you do see any baby-eating lizard people who look like government workers, feel free to point them out (make sure they’re government workers first as they may just be tourists from the secret inner-Earth underworld).

Project 2025 will force NATO to defend itself from an invasion by Russia. Don’t bother calling,

Under Project 2025, the Justice Department, the FBI, the Commerce Department, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission will all be weaponized and controlled by partisans with deep loyalty to the president (sic). The Department of Homeland Security will be done away with and replaced with the Department of Hood Wearing Jack-Booted Thugs Agency. The Department of Education will also be abolished. Environmental and climate regulations will be decided by puppets of the oil companies. The National Institute of Health (the agency Dr. Anthony Fauci used to lead before his retirement) will implement the scientific knowledge of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Medicare and Social Security will be cut. Since saving these programs is at the top of the list for most seniors, let me say it again. MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY WILL BE CUT!!!! Go tell your grandpa.

Project 2025 wants to kill Obamacare, cut any insurance or payments for emergency abortions, criminalize birth control, and prosecute anyone who buys a condom from a truck stop vending machine.

Project 2025 will outlaw pornography so you’ll have to go back to jerking to Sears catalogs unless they ban those too. The project will turn the nation into a Christian authoritarian one despite the irony of the president not being a churchgoer except for that time he chased away anti-racism protesters with teargas to pose in front of one with an upside-down bible, and who continues to violate all of the Ten Commandments.

Project 2025 will remove all laws that protect LBGTQ and transgenders from discrimination. It will make DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) programs illegal like Ron DeSantis did in Florida. While making it legal to discriminate against minorities, it will create legal consequences for people who “discriminate” against or even give a stink eye to White Christians.

Project 2025 will install the death penalty in every state and push the speedy “finality” of those sentences, whatever the fuck that means.

Project 2025 will enact “vengeance” on liberals and Democrats for being liberals and Democrats. It will go after perceived enemies of the next Republican president, whoever that is. It’ll even go after critics in the government and the media (yikes). Mike Davis, a former aide to Senator Chuck Grassley who has been proposed to be Trump’s Attorney General in the second administration (sic) has promised a “three-week reign of terror.” Kash Patel, a real creepy bug-eyed official of the first Trump administration (sic), who’s also a big fat lying icky felonious fascist, said if Project 2025 is implemented, “We will go out and find the conspirators—not just in government, but in the media… We’re going to come after you. Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out.” Steve Bannon, before he went to jail, named specific current and former FBI and DOJ officials who would be hunted down for “crimes and treason,” even if they fled the country.

Since Donald Trump can’t legally be connected to it, he has said he doesn’t know anything about it and disavows it…wink wink, nudge nudge. However, many of the contributors who helped draft Project 2025 were members of the first Trump administration (sic). Despite claiming he doesn’t know anything about this plan or who’s behind it, he appointed one of its writers, Russell Vought, to the Platform Committee of the Republican National Committee. Another creator of Project 2025 is former Trump administration (sic) shitweasel, election-denier, and felon Peter Navarro, who should be out of prison in time to help implement Project 2025. A couple more of the creators of Project 2025 is former Trump HUD director and moron who doesn’t understand the difference between REO rates and Oreos, Ben Carson, and Ken Cuccinelli, who hates climate and immigrants.

Not only is this one of many great reasons to vote against Donald Trump, even if the Democrats nominate a dog who refuses to stop dragging his butt across your favorite Persian rug, it’s another reason to vote against ALL Republicans running for Congress as control of the House and Senate is necessary to implement Project 2025.

Project 2025 is the blueprint to destroy our nation’s democracy. If you don’t vote blue in 2024, you may not get a chance in 2028.

Fun fact: I’ve actually been to a couple of the Heritage Foundation’s Christmas parties way back in the early 2000s because my editorial editor, at that time, was a former staffer. I met George Allen while he was still a Senator for my state and yes, he’s as big of an asshole in real life as he is on TV.

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