Project 2025’s 180-Day Playbook is a remarkably detailed guide to turning the United States into a fascist’s paradise.

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    9 months ago

    I remember when republicans were about less government. Pepperidge farms remembers….

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      9 months ago

      I remember when republicans were about less government.

      They never really were. They’ve always been the party of corporate cronyism, with “less government” only ever applying to institutions from which they couldn’t generate profit.

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        Small government has only ever meant minimal regulation. It means nothing when it comes to civil rights or liberties.

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          I wish it meant minimal regulation.

          But set aside abortion and immigration. I’m seeing some crazy efforts to regulate the solar and wind energy industries. I’m seeing efforts to restrict how municipal governments can operate education and transportation infrastructure. In Austin TX, the state government threatened to take over the municipal police department. In Houston TX, they removed the Independent School District and installed their own flacks. Texas law prohibits state agencies and political subdivisions (“Governmental Entities”) from contracting with businesses that boycott energy companies, discriminate against firearm entities or associations, or boycott Israel, which has an enormous impact on the statewide financial system.

          So, I’m seeing lots of statewide regulation.

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    9 months ago

    Perfect time to teach Biden a lesson by not voting for him – or so I’ve been told by those with too much privilege and not enough brainpower.

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      9 months ago

      Or you could say that this issue and all the others mean so little to the Democratic Party that running anybody but Genocide Joe is off the table.

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        Hi, it’s me, a Palestinian American, how about don’t use my people’s plight to justify letting the guy who wants to deport my ass for liking Knaffeh get into office?

        I have enough issues without truck nuts McGee feeling re-emboldened to call me Sand Nigger and Towelhead.

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          I’m not the guy who wants Trump in office. I’m just the one who doesn’t want to vote for somebody who is repeatedly bypassing Congress to send weapons to literal fascists committing war crimes. That’s someone I can’t just hold my nose and vote for. His political career is over.

          Why can’t we have any of the other people who ran in the 2020 Democratic primaries instead of Biden? This idea that it absolutely has to be Biden or else the DNC will let the country fall apart with Trump is so completely messed up.

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            Back in reality, the choices are a) vote for Biden, b) vote for Trump, and c) don’t vote. That’s it, those are your choices.

            Just know that options b and c help Trump. You can bend and twist reality in any shape you want, but that is the actual effect of those choices.

            So ask yourself, do you want Trump as president?

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    9 months ago

    Its 2016 all over again.

    Every effort to drag the Democratic party over to any kind of popular position is getting labeled as a betrayal. Every effort to oppose Republicans at the state and local level is denounced as uncivil. And as soon as the dust settles in November, the national media will fall in love with the winner, and grow increasingly irate at anyone critical of this abysmally unpopular tumor of a Presidency.