The best thing Project 2025 did was write down all the horrible plans they had so that people could react to it instead of dismissing opponents pointing out what the conservative talking points would actually mean in practice.
They wrote down that they were leopards who planned to eat faces!
I “heard” anyone disrupting his visit were FBI plants and the arrested ones would be political prisoners (even when video/photographic evidence says otherwise).
If you have conservative “old fashioned” friends and family members who are OK with the toxic sludge of regressive cultural stuff in Project 2025: scare them with the truth that they want to also cut social security and medicare. Two very popular programs with old people. Old people vote in large numbers. Old people remember paying into the social security and medicare systems for their entire career. They won’t like it when the leopards eat their faces.
The younger crowd should also be concerned that they want to cut overtime pay and change it from 40 hours a week to 160 hours a month before you get time and a half. So many of these guys fund their mall crawling brodozers with their overtime pay.
Unfortunately I have one BIL who will vote for Trump no matter what comes out because he’s just swallowed every single talking point about Democrats from Fox News without the slightest bit of consideration, and the elderly folks who I am thinking of would vote for anyone with R after their name because it’s just what they’ve always done.
I have an acquaintance, a “formerly” rabid-right-wing, anti-union, global-warming-isn’t-real, they-hate-our-freedom, wealthy, fossil-fuel-family Reactionary from the western US who is doing this now. Apparently now with grown daughters and an immigrant son-in-law, Trump, formerly touted to me by this guy as “a really smart guy” and “doing some great things” (at the time, the great thing was withdrawing from the Paris accords), is not quite as palatable as before. But rather than focusing on Trump’s shortcomings, it’s better in the Reactionary’s view to fixate instead on Biden’s genocide support (while ignoring Trump’s and the GOP’s enthusiasm for the practice), assert that “both sides” are just a “uni-party”, and throw up his hands and claim to be not voting this time around, or voting for some hopeless brain-worrmed third party candidate. Anything, anything at all, except for showing one iota of opposition to old Doddering Donald, anything but admit that you, the Reactionary, made disgusting wrong choices in the past and are about to, for all intents and purposes, make them again. The bottom line aim is that taxes remain low, dividends and capital gains remain high, and regulations, whether it be on the Environment or child labor, remain minimal. Voting for Trump directly is preferred to achieve these aims, but both-sides-ing him into office again is fine too if you need the plausible deniability because of pressure from your misguided Communist family members.
I doubt social security would matter. My parents have been talking about it for 30 years now that they will never see it and how much of a waste it is. The defense would be, I have been hearing that all my life and it hasn’t happened yet.
My favorite answer from conservatives is that “this is just a think-tank; it’s not really gonna happen.”
Despite the Christian nationalists explicitly saying this is what they want and having achieved a huge victory for the patriarchy by taking away the right to abortion.
From the article these machines are somehow $75k a pop. They didn’t do all 10 because there weren’t enough eligible organizations to run each one. I wonder how many machines Elon or Bezos could afford to put into U.S. cities?
^Sydney Atkinson, 36, who runs a barber shop on Central Avenue in Far Rockaway, said that at first he was worried that a vending machine across the street would bring new people who use drugs into the area.
”First couple weeks it had a bad reputation,” he said. “But people use it, and other people have kind of forgotten about it and go about their business as usual.”
WOW, it’s almost like being a NIMBY asshole is not actually justified.
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