Summary

Following Donald Trump’s election victory, Republicans are now openly embracing Project 2025, a policy agenda from The Heritage Foundation that outlines sweeping conservative reforms.

Despite Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the project during his campaign due to its extreme proposals—including expanded executive powers, a national abortion ban, stricter contraception limits, harsh immigration policies, and the elimination of agencies like the Department of Education—his allies quickly began celebrating its implementation.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and commentator Matt Walsh publicly affirmed the agenda, signaling the GOP’s commitment to enacting these controversial policies in Trump’s second term.

120 points

You mean they didn’t write a 900 page manifesto for the lulz?

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My understanding is it was written by an individual or individuals, then passed around and got approval from other influential people before being declared the plan.

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That’s how plans usually form, from what I understand.

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But Trump said he didn’t know anything about it! Are you saying he might’ve stated a mistruth?

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95 points

I’m so fucking done with this country man, people make me so tired of living. I’m so disappointed, and the amount of lives this orange fuck is going to destroy is so immense it’s just so depressing. and I hate living in a red state surrounded by idiots who genuinely think this is a good idea, and think I shouldn’t even have basic rights.

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52 points

Bad news

Trump is amplifying the rhetoric overseas too

So, he’s also ruining other countries too

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Yea, but at least the proportional representation systems in Europe were delaying them a bit to cut off a few hostile actors, create defenses…now it is coming from the most important ally the disinfo storm is going to reach cat 6 :(

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its frustrating dealing with this overseas. i am as far from the us as you can get, and it’s worse dealing with it here. i wish i were back home at the moment with people who get it.

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Part of me wants average people to realize the Republican leadership isn’t on their side. The other part of me realizes once normal people take notice, it will be too late.

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Those statements aren’t contrarian at all they will realize it will be too late. Leopards will have a feast of faces.

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6 points

It’s already too late. It’s just a matter of time.

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356 points

You had to live inside your own asshole to not know this was always the plan

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Which is a grave offense with this new regime, because that means you’re gay with yourself.

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Sounds like a really bad transformers opponent.

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7 points

There’s some talented fanfic writers out there who could probably make it work.

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37 points

You just described like 38% of voters

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52%

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I’m assuming some of those voters believed project 2025 was real and very much supported it.

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2 points

Trying to envision that physically but seems like a recursive paradox. If you lived inside your own asshole then your asshole would be in your asshole, etc. You need 4 dimensional vector space to solve it.

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253 points

My mom, who voted tRump and is on public assistance, is gonna be very sad and not understand why.

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Once she gets her benefits slashed be sure to talk about how great the Republicans are and isn’t she glad she got what she wanted with her vote? Thank goodness trump got rid of that pesky public assistance, that was costing the rich real money.

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I plan on reminding every family member, at every opportunity, when they complain about some benefit they’ve lost, “tough shit, you specifically voted for this”

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63 points

“but he’s hurting the wrong people, tell him that, he must not know it!”

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24 points

“the face-eating-leopards aren’t supposed to eat my face!”

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25 points

Who’ve thought that a leopard would be a leopard and do leopard things?

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11 points

"I accidentally got caught in the net, but I’ll make that sacrifice so more of the other gets caught.’

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14 points

Time to find her bootstraps

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4 points

If the leopards haven’t eaten her face already.

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10 points

Good. She sounds horrible

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She is/was . She is the type of person to smoke with the windows up around her asmatic child and have 3 abortions and be desperate to vote for other woman to also not have that choice

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Can’t wait for every one of you fucks to realize what you’ve done voting for that scum. We’re all fucked.

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They’ll find some way to blame Dems for anything that becomes too unpopular, and their base will willingly buy into it to avoid responsibility - until something bites them personally. It’ll take far too long for it to affect enough of them personally to save the rest of us with some semblance of rationality, though.

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they will not realize anything. they don’t believe what any of the news outlets say. we have been saying this for 8 years.

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Maybe for a little while - until the department of education & a national abortion ban are completely wiped from society. All of us, not just the ones who made the right choice will suffer.

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it’s been 8 years. disillusionment is not happening.

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