That it's a good thing TRUMP! doesn't have anything to do with it.The Heritage Foundation — a well-funded, influential far-right group in Washington, DC — has been quietly vetting tens of thousands of arch-conservative acolytes to staff up the federal government under the next Republican administration as part of its "Project 2025" presidential transition plan. One scholar of authoritarian movements around the globe is sounding the alarm over what that would mean should former President Donald Trump win a second term in the White House.
During a Saturday segment on MSNBC, New York University professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat told host Ali Velshi that Project 2025 would effectively transform American government from a meritocratic democracy to a regime resembling Vladimir Putin's Russia. She pointed to Heritage's calls to eliminate numerous government agencies that serve as checks on the executive branch as merely one example.
"The essence of authoritarianism is removing restraints on the leader and making him immune from prosecution by domesticating government," Ben-Ghiat said. "And so some of what Project 2025 proposes, like abolishing the DOJ and the FBI is designed for that end, to make it impossible to prosecute Trump and allow him to commit crimes with impunity."
More at the link below...
'Essence of authoritarianism': Expert warns 'Project 2025' would create a Trump 'autocracy'
The Heritage Foundation — a well-funded, influential far-right group in Washington, DC — has been quietly vetting tens of thousands of arch-conservative acolytes to staff up the federal government under the next Republican administration as part of its "Project 2025" presidential transition...www.alternet.org
Sounds ominous to me! What do you think?
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'Essence of authoritarianism': Expert warns 'Project 2025' would create a Trump 'autocracy'
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Warning someone not to cross the street blindfolded is not fear mongering. This is all factual information.Fear mongering, the essence of politics since forever.
Lesh
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You fucking dopeWe've seen something like this before:
The “Protocols” was a put up job by antisemites
Project 2025 was drawn up by a right wing think tank
martybegan
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You fucking dope
The “Protocols” was a put up job by antisemites
Project 2025 was drawn up by a right wing think tank
And the bullshit extrapolations from Chief shitting bull are what I am comparing to the protocols.
I read the part on abortion, it says nothing about bans, but of not having the federal level be abortion favoring. States like NY and CA can do as they please.
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The Heritage Foundation — a well-funded, influential far-right group in Washington, DC — has been quietly vetting tens of thousands of arch-conservative acolytes to staff up the federal government under the next Republican administration as part of its "Project 2025" presidential transition plan. One scholar of authoritarian movements around the globe is sounding the alarm over what that would mean should former President Donald Trump win a second term in the White House.
During a Saturday segment on MSNBC, New York University professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat told host Ali Velshi that Project 2025 would effectively transform American government from a meritocratic democracy to a regime resembling Vladimir Putin's Russia. She pointed to Heritage's calls to eliminate numerous government agencies that serve as checks on the executive branch as merely one example.
"The essence of authoritarianism is removing restraints on the leader and making him immune from prosecution by domesticating government," Ben-Ghiat said. "And so some of what Project 2025 proposes, like abolishing the DOJ and the FBI is designed for that end, to make it impossible to prosecute Trump and allow him to commit crimes with impunity."
More at the link below...
'Essence of authoritarianism': Expert warns 'Project 2025' would create a Trump 'autocracy'
The Heritage Foundation — a well-funded, influential far-right group in Washington, DC — has been quietly vetting tens of thousands of arch-conservative acolytes to staff up the federal government under the next Republican administration as part of its "Project 2025" presidential transition...
Sounds ominous to me! What do you think?
"Expert warns".
LOL
Lesh
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Who wrote the Protocols jackass? YeahAnd the bullshit extrapolations from Chief shitting bull are what I am comparing to the protocols.
I read the part on abortion, it says nothing about bans, but of not having the federal level be abortion favoring. States like NY and CA can do as they please.
Antisemites claiming that Jews wrote it and act on it.
Who wrote the Project 2025 screed?
Yeah. REPUBLICANS…who DO plan to act on it
There is no comparison
martybegan
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Who wrote the Protocols jackass? Yeah
Antisemites claiming that Jews wrote it and act on it.
Who wrote the Project 2025 screed?
Yeah. REPUBLICANS…who DO plan to act on it
There is no comparison
Some Republicans, and I was referncing Lakhoduh's agitprop "summary" copypaste of the program filled with exaggerations and outright falsehoods.
Lesh
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Project 2025 - Wikipedia
martybegan
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Project 2025 - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
Even Wikipedia doesn't claim the plan is to ban abortion at the federal level, just eliminate the pressing for it at the federal level in opposition to State level limitations.
Ever read the Democratic Socialist's guide to governing? It's far scarier.
DSA Political Platform - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Fun shit like this:
- Freedom for all incarcerated people
- Free all people from involuntary confinement
- Stop all funding of prison expansion, stop funding of new buildings, and close local jails
- End pre-trial detention, civil commitment, and imprisonment for parole violations
- Remove and repeal all restrictions on the organization, demonstration, and labor action of incarcerated people
- Make all communication to and from prisoners free
- Reject “alternatives to incarceration” that are carceral in nature, including problem-solving courts and electronic monitoring and coercive restorative justice programs
Lesh
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No one is pushing for the Socialist Whatever to be enacted… at least no one with access to any positions that matterEven Wikipedia doesn't claim the plan is to ban abortion at the federal level, just eliminate the pressing for it at the federal level in opposition to State level limitations.
Ever read the Democratic Socialist's guide to governing? It's far scarier.
DSA Political Platform - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Fun shit like this:
martybegan
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No one is pushing for the Socialist Whatever to be enacted… at least no one with access to any positions that matter
Bullshit. Several of the Dems in Congress are also members of the DSA, AOC amongst them.
Lesh
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Even Wikipedia doesn't claim the plan is to ban abortion at the federal level, just eliminate the pressing for it at the federal level in opposition to State level limitations.
Ever read the Democratic Socialist's guide to governing? It's far scarier.
DSA Political Platform - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Fun shit like this:
Senator Murray Releases New Fact Sheet Outlining How Donald Trump and his Anti-Abortion Allies Will Try to Rip Away Reproductive Rights from Women Across America with Radical Project 2025 Agenda - Senator Patty Murray
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member and former Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released a new FACT SHEET on how a second Trump administration would wage an all-out assault on reproductive rights and abortion...
www.murray.senate.gov
Lesh
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How much access does AOC have to White House policy making?Bullshit. Several of the Dems in Congress are also members of the DSA, AOC amongst them.
Near zero?
Yeah
martybegan
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Senator Murray Releases New Fact Sheet Outlining How Donald Trump and his Anti-Abortion Allies Will Try to Rip Away Reproductive Rights from Women Across America with Radical Project 2025 Agenda - Senator Patty Murray
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member and former Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released a new FACT SHEET on how a second Trump administration would wage an all-out assault on reproductive rights and abortion...
Trump has already said he's leaving it to the States.
Plus he has other fish to fry.
martybegan
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How much access does AOC have to White House policy making?
Near zero?
Yeah
She's not the only one, and legislators are the ones needed to make laws like AOC wants.
It's even worse at the local level in places like NY.
You have Jews in Congress who are anti-Israel. Anti semite Jews. That is a total comparison. And making suckers out of non-Jews. The men who have died in the middle east. The men who have lost parts of their bodies in the middle east and returned home. The men who have psychological problems with PTSD. All of that in a troubled region of the world and in part to protect Israel. Trillions of dollars spent there.Who wrote the Protocols jackass? Yeah
Antisemites claiming that Jews wrote it and act on it.
Who wrote the Project 2025 screed?
Yeah. REPUBLICANS…who DO plan to act on it
There is no comparison
Lesh
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She’s one of 435 members of CongressShe's not the only one, and legislators are the ones needed to make laws like AOC wants.
It's even worse at the local level in places like NY.
Distraction fail
Lesh
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Read Patty Murray’s take on it. Outlawing abortion drugs sent through the mail.Trump has already said he's leaving it to the States.
Plus he has other fish to fry.
Using the friggin Comstock Act to enforce national bans
Right wing Republicans have done grievous harm to abortion rights and they are far from done
Lesh
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One more time to make it harder for the freaks to bury thisSenator Murray Releases New Fact Sheet Outlining How Donald Trump and his Anti-Abortion Allies Will Try to Rip Away Reproductive Rights from Women Across America with Radical Project 2025 Agenda - Senator Patty Murray
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member and former Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released a new FACT SHEET on how a second Trump administration would wage an all-out assault on reproductive rights and abortion...
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