In her first campaign rally as the presumptive Democratic nominee to face Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris took aim at her Republican rival and a widely derided Trump-linked platform that provides a blueprint for the next GOP administration.
“Donald Trump wants to take our country backward,” she said in remarks from Milwaukee on Tuesday, just two days after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and endorsed his vice president.
Harris, who secured enough delegate pledges to clinch the Democratic Party’s nomination within a little over 24 hours after announcing her candidacy, linked Trump to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation-backed plan for his administration, and one that his campaign is now furiously trying to distance itself from.
“He and his extreme Project 2025 agenda will weaken the middle class. We know we got to take that seriously,” Harris said. ”Can you believe they put that thing in writing? Read it. It’s 900 pages.”
The plan proposes cuts to Social Security and Medicare, tax breaks to corporations that will force “working families to foot the bill” and abolishes the Affordable Care Act, which “will take us back to a time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with preexisting conditions,” Harris said.
Did Biden ever even really talk about 2025? I’m loving that this is one of the very first places she goes and I hope she just presses hard on it non-fucking stop what’s in it
Tell them their porn’s going away. Do it in the fucking debate. Do it pussy.
Unfortunately a large number of conservatives support that. Like how Mike Johnson has an app that tells his son whenever he’s jacking off.
the heritage foundation has been putting out a project 2025 like document since 1980 and nearly 75% of all of the recommendations have been enacted by both democrats and republicans since then, including biden.
biden didn’t talk much about project 2025 because, if you looked into it, you’ll find that biden was a big proponent of the 1980’s & 1990’s versions of the project 2025; so it was politically advantageous that he pretended that it never happened and he never did it to ensure a distinction between him and maga stayed present in today’s political discourse. the same is true with gay marriage; lgbtq in federal service; student loans; segregation; feminism; etc. and i bet that’s why he dropped out.
I would just like to point out that this is an example of the tried-and-true rhetorical technique of shrugging off issues with a dismissive “that’s not new.” We see politicians and spokespersons do it all the time, because, maddeningly, it works.
But, it doesn’t actually matter whether it’s new, does it? Couple things: The Heritage Foundation has put out a similar document every election cycle for decades, but the contents have changed; this iteration could be (is!) much, much worse. Even if Heritage had been putting out the same plan all along, and we didn’t object then, well, we can still object now. We don’t have to keep making the same mistakes in the future just because we made them in the past.
I’m legitimately curious how many people have actually read their document. I just started the other day and I’m about 100 pages in. I’m glad to see people are starting to realize the amount of coordination going on within the far right. Straight up playbook for stacking the cards and consolidating power to the executive branch. Borderline unconstitutional type stuff.
I’m confused… They did it on cameras on Jan 6th… why are some Americans still blind to it. Do they know they can listen to the trump tapes!?
They either don’t care or ignore it. As long as their side is on top they shrug it off.
But it’s not… Republican side isn’t anyway.
The only ‘side,’ that wins out of ignoring Jan 6th is people who genuinely want trump to be king.
No you see, that was their crazies, and even though they support their crazies, you shouldn’t do guilty by association.
Having said that, I’ve been going on far right forums and it’s mostly guilty by association. They find a very obviously wrong “leftist” and claim that anyone that calls themselves a leftist has the responsibility to keep all those wearing the label in check.
Their logic doesn’t even work cause, I could just use another label, doubt they would allow me to self identify though.
I read some but I had to stop after it started talking about the deep state, when that’s the whole point of p2025. A right wing deep state. The 180 proof, acidic nature of the irony melted my face and I could no longer see.
the heritage foundation has been putting out a project 2025 like document since the 1980 and both republicans and democrats (biden included) have enacted around 75% of the recommendations so far; conservatives continuing this tradition is status quo for the united states.
Heritage foundation is an israeli lobby which explains why both Democrats and Republicans participate.
Do you have a link handy for further reading on this? I knew the heritage foundation has been terrible since inception but I didn’t realize how much sway they’ve had historically. I thought that influence was new
Trump put his criminal conspiracy to pay off Stormy Daniels in writing.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/09/politics/hush-money-trial-evidence-trump-charges-dg/index.html
[nsfw] https://youtu.be/pBdGOrcUEg8
And yet multiple people have seen him eating pieces of paper. I’m starting to think he just likes eating paper.
According to one source.
https://www.businessinsider.com/omarosa-saw-trump-eating-paper-in-oval-office-2018-8
Denied by someone who knows him better. https://www.newsweek.com/trump-not-eating-paper-cohen-omarosa-1070371
But here’s some paper related news you might enjoy
Remember when he kept complaining about the low flow toilets in the white house? I think he was tired of all the clogs caused by flushing documents.
So now that Project 2025 is unpopular and Trump is trying to distance himself from it, has anyone else found Trump’s lack of campaign promises kind of strange? Leading up to the 2016 election he made a ridiculous amount of promises. Mexico building a wall, bring back coal, lock up Hillary, repeal and replace Obamacare, balanced budget. This time around it’s very different. I can’t think of any promises he’s made. Could it be he doesn’t want to mention the promises he failed to delivered on or maybe Project 2025 is exactly what he has in mind?
I’m starting to think that he doesn’t care whether he wins or loses. He has a horde of sycophants following him that he can continue grifting off of from now until the end of his days.
Yep close to 40% of the country will turn out and vote for him. He could be pulling wads of poo out of his diaper and flinging them at the audience during his rallies and this wouldn’t change. They’re rooting for their team good season or bad.
Yep close to 40% of the country will turn out and vote for him.
This idea right here needs to actually die for the sake of democracy.
No…close to 40% of the country will not turn out to vote for him. Close to 40% of people WHO VOTE will turn out to vote for him.
just under 155 million Americans voted in 2020 (out of a population of just over 331 million) which makes a voter turnout of 46%.
46% of the country (conservative and liberal) don’t vote because they just don’t care. Neither side truly represents them and, whether they consider themselves conservatives or liberals, they’re just folks who want to live their lives and let other people live theirs; what I call the “Your fist my nose” voting bloc; people who believe (regardless of their own leanings) that “your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins”.
more than half of America doesn’t vote. If they live a conservative lifestyle and they don’t vote…they’re NOT a Republican. If they have a liberal mindset and they don’t vote, they’re NOT a Democrat. That’s literally the definition of Republican and Democrat.
But instead of actually talking to those 46% of people people, everyone just pretends that every Conservative is just as bad as a Republican and every Liberal is just as bad as a Democrat and therefore there’s no point in conversing.
It’s absolutist shit like that that keeps the status quo in effect and prevents any meaningful change.
I think when people are in that little private booth, there will be more republicans that vote for Kamala. The only thing they have to run on anymore is immigration, but thats not working as well as everyone thinks, IMO.
It doesn’t matter. His voters believe that he’s the guy that somehow kept all the promises he made.
Reality doesn’t really matter.
I like to assume it’s related to all the lead released into the environment. The populations IQ went down 5 to 10 points due to lead poisoning from leaded gasoline in the 20th century so someone could turn a fat profit at the cost of humanity’s cognitivity. Critical thinking is harder than it used to be.
Can you believe they put that thing in writing?
Absolutely.
Acting openly horrible has been hugely successful with their base. Maybe it’s gone far enough that all the low information voters out there will start seeing how crazy things have gotten. I know the women in my social circle are pissed, and they’re pretty much all white suburban moms. That’s a group that could have a big effect here.
I know the women in my social circle are pissed
I’m curious. About what specifically? That “MAGA Manifesto” is huge.
I haven’t exactly interrogated them about all the details, but there is a lot of anger about all the stuff specific to women for sure. I think the Roe overturning primed many women (and people in general) to see that this shit is serious and not just the empty political talk they’re used to mostly ignoring. They are worried it will continue to get worse and make their health care more difficult in general, not just for abortions.
Somewhere there is a site that lets you put in topics that concern you, and it pulls up page numbers and quotes from p2025 that fit. I really need to find and bookmark it for linking…
I’ve read 103 pages so far… Nothing worth noting as extreme in this document. The left (not everyone) is just fkin stupid, ignorant, and parroting chit. No different than calling Trump Hitler, a dictator, a Nazi, a racist, a fascist etc…
I get the tactic though.
It’s election year. They needed to fear monger, so they chose “Project 2025”. They needed to race bait, so they needed to find a story anywhere in America about a White cop shooting a non-violent Black person - Sonya Massey. BLM isn’t falling for their chit. They’ve caught on.
Leftist tactics are played out, same ol fkin moves as before.
Nazis always seem to be stupid enough to leave evidence around of their plans.
Where do you think the villain monologue trope comes from? lol
I mean they do seem like a Saturday morning cartoon villain just monologuing their evil plan because they think they have the hero down for the count.
