Thank you, Andy. I had checked out Project 2025 some time ago because anytime anything gets demonized I look into it:-) DuckDuckGo, which I switched from Google to as soon as possible, made it easy then to find Project 2025. I just checked and DuckDuckGo still does place the PDF and the link you gave at the top of the search. DDG has become more Googlified but it's way preferable.
My own thoughts: Any president would be wise to get distance from any political think tank institute, no matter what the president's party, whether Brookings or Project 2025. Institutes are, as you wrote, made up of many people, and divergent ideas and they shift and grow more or less extreme. So I'm glad Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025. I say this with the experience of watching institutes. When I was a kid, my parents were friends with Hallock and Gene Hoffman (Hallock's brother was my godfather) who were two of the founders of the Fielding Institute. They were exceptional people, Quakers, and challenged the Loyalty Oath, which they were right to do. As much as I admired their anti-war activities, I don't think any president should have aligned with their institute. And many of you may remember the Center for Democratic Studies here, which became increasingly radical. Brookings Institute is a bloated, pompous blight at this point.
Back to Project 2025. The basic tenets listed on the website are not, to me, conservative. I agree with all of them and I'm not a conservative. Actually, the call to dismantle the Deep State is the kind of thing that got JFK assassinated, and he wasn't a conservative. I found the tenets just common sense. Honestly, if I could make this plea: they should lose the word “conservative” and replace it with “common sense.”
I didn't see anything about abortion, which made me sigh with relief. I am not pro-abortion, but it should not be the thing that stops all conversation and prevents us from going forward.
Thanks again for this column and for mentioning your interviews which I look forward to checking out.
Project 2025 immediately was forced to publish a fact by fact rebuttal of the specific Democrat lies about its content. There was no relationship to their partisan claims and its actual contents. Always good advice Polly, during election year silly seasons particularly to seek the original source material.
Unless like the 2020 Election Year "covid" hysteria, the powers that be had already preemptively cancelled, re-written and/or censored all sane rebuttal material.
If you have any doubts that Republicans won't make abortion illegal entirely, you need to wake up. Ending legal accessible abortion is their end goal. Women will DIE. I am not a single issue voter, but I will fight for women's reproductive rights until the day that I die. This is gravely important. Republicans need to give that up.
How very sad for you S Schroeder, you are so brainwashed you don't realize you advocated the willful murder of the most vulnerable and innocent human beings. What a vicious and vile pile of dead bodies to stand on. Every other abortion kills a woman and what do you care about men? Thank about it, you encourage a woman to murder her own child, and use the fear porn that if women can't murder their children in a safe environment, they might die. It is sickening because any sane , any real woman would rather die than murder her own children. You have no idea what you are saying, but you call it "gravely important." Shame on you S!
I am NOT brainwashed. Honestly, it is the Trump supporters who are. He is a blustering bully... a fool, a con-man, a complete toddler who melts down when he doesn't get his way. Trump is a disheveled old man who rambles incoherently talking about "bird graveyards".
Also, where, exactly did I encourage ANYONE to get an abortion? I didn't. DO NOT mix up my words or falsely claim that I said anything I did not say.
It is a solid fact that women die because of abortion bans, that is not "fear" mongering or "fear porn" as you put it. That is a verified fact. I have every idea of what I am talking about. I have been there. You have NOT. You have never menstruated or had a pregnancy scare. You don't have a uterus, you have no idea. SIT DOWN.
S, I don’t need a uterus to know how devastating it is to encourage, allow for, promote that a woman murder her very own child, to suggest such an absurdity gives form to your delusion- woman do no die because they don’t murder their own children-
Yes, yes they do. And abortion is NOT murder. Abortion is the removal of a clump of unformed cells. Get real. Researchers have found that if abortion is banned throughout the United States, the overall number of maternal deaths would rise by 24 percent. This number is even worse for Black women, whose deaths would rise by 39 percent.
Sorry S, abortion is murder- at conception there is an individuated dna sequence- and what fear porn- woman will die if they can’t murder their children, you are truly delusional and clearly don’t realize the intellectual and moral implications of your very own words- I would like to help you.
You're literally just a collection of organ systems (which are clumps of cells) by your own logic. If you can dehumanized the child in the womb by reducing them to mere cells and not a human person, others can do that to those they don't like (undesirables).
How do you _really_ feel about Trumpy - THE best president we've ever had (except for George Washington). He pulled us back from Traitor Obama's Commie-cliff. We have 2 choices in November - Trump or Venezuelanize.
Calling BS on the reply by Rummelsburg. Not only are his facts wrong, but consider that the republicans want to cut health care (esp for less affluent citizens who make use of ACA) which affects children, they want to cut meals and food services to poor people and children and school meals; they want to cut public education ( and get rid of US Dept of Education); they want cut pre-school programs; they want to get rid of childhood vaccines and inoculations (which will cause many more childhood diseases); and they are pro-fossil fuel, anti-environment, and anti- renewable energy resources, which will lead to a hotter, more polluted, and more miserable environment in the future of these children they so dearly want to “protect!” Come ON, man! Wake up!
It is certain that you don't know what the word BS means- the "future doom" you assert that is not facts in evidence is in fact fear porn, and ideological fear porn at that. What silliness JC Daniels.
You know, the Department of Education is in fact unconstitutional, and probably in good part responsible for your own incoherence- the sooner it is dismantled and the sooner we abolish the neo-marxist public schools, the sooner we can get to recovery.
Oh please, you can get down from the kitchen table now, it’s perfectly safe. I love it how libs claim to base all their Chicken Little bullshit on believing in “science,” and how conservatives are “anti science.” Ya sure, the “Science” behind needless COVID vaccines, climate change, Transgenderism and abortion. “Fetuses can’t feel pain”when they are burned to death with hypertonic saline solution based on your science?
Admittedly, if women (birthing people) want to terminate them/their pregnancy in the first trimester, I really don’t care. That’s on them and between them and their beliefs.
Seriously, do liberals have any topics other than abortion, transgenderism, climate change and racism?
Since most women do not even seriously show their pregnancies until the end of the second trimester or later, killing that baby is a high price to pay for only a few more months. Then delivering a full term live baby, that is quickly adopted in to a loving and waiting family.
Give that baby a few more months of your own life so the baby can have a live birth. You created this life.
SS, Fight for the rights of unborn babies who are also women, as well as men. Recognize much of the current pro-baby killing fervor is also against 18 years of mandatory child support.
There is no right for a woman to kill her own child. Landlord tenant rights are more restrictive, than the rights of a baby to reside in a mother's womb for 9 months and not get evicted before finally being allowed to have a live birth.
SS: Conjoining of chromosomes to only become a human life, and nothing else. The burden of proof is on you to prove otherwise. This momemt deserve awe; not self-serving homicidal argument.
Polly, all of my comments are level and sane. I am not having a "tantrum". Last time I looked we have freedom of speech and every American is allowed to comment on public political forums. Are you saying you would deny me that right because I disagree with your particular views?
SS: Why do Democrats/leftists always put their own words into other peoples mouths when they engage in argumentative debate? See, you just did this again. Re-read what you just wrote.
You said my comments were "offensive" and that I was having a "tantrum". Can you have a reasonable conversation or are you just falling back on lies and perceived attacks?
You talked about abortion in your reply to my comment (see above). “If you have any doubts that Republicans won't make abortion illegal entirely, you need to wake up. Ending legal accessible abortion is their end goal. Women will DIE.”
I sure hope Republicans outlaw abortion universally, sadly they won't and they will continue to let this massacre (genocide really) of the innocents continue.
HAHA! Ok, misogynist. If you don't have bodily autonomy you have nothing. Women will ALWAYS get abortions, even if they are illegal and there is NOTHING you or anyone else can do to stop that. There would be a massive abortion underground railroad for women if Republicans outlawed it. Even Catholic countries like Ireland and Mexico have legalized abortion. If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament! This is sexism pure and simple. Trying to keep women down and in the kitchen. I do not understand the stranglehold that this single issue has on Republican policies. Seriously, it will be their death knell. WE WILL NOT GO BACK!
Schroeder: “Keeping women down and in the kitchen.“ i bet you had to fight your way out of the kitchen this morning. I am in favor of legal abortion, but let me tell you something. You talk about abortion like it's no more than a laxative. You talk about it like it's nothing. When I was a teenager I took an older female friend to an abortion clinic. It was her first. She thought it was nothing, just like getting rid of a pimple. When she came out, she was a different person. She was devastated by what she'd done. Because when a woman gets pregnant everything in her gets ready to protect this living creature she has been blessed with carrying. Years later when I saw that woman again she drank too much. She had an empty life. I wondered how many times she wished she had some reason to live, that she wished she'd had that child. It is absolutely unhealthy for women to have abortions. But it is better that women do it in the best circumstances so I support legal abortions,
The child in the womb isn't a part of a woman's body, it's ab illogical and asinine idea. You don't have two sets of organs, you have your own DNA, and you most certainly do not possess male genitalia if you are pregnant with a boy. This accusation of keeping women down is simply liberals positioning the well and attempting to paint pro life individuals as hating women.
Ireland and Mexico adopting abortion means nothing other than how much secularism desires the slaughter of the unborn, and about ensuring people actually practice their faith not simply using it as a cultural symbol.
Google is a confirmation bias facilitator for the left. For a conservative, the Google experience makes one feel weird for having such fringe beliefs. I am unimpressed with fact checks and links in support of much the left supports. Our most trusted institutions have lost credibility. The CDC reported if you get the shot you will not get covid, the FBI misrepresented the Hunter laptop. Information has been weaponized as a political tool. I get my bias confirmed here. I am thankful for this conservative platform in Santa Barbara.
FYI…all search engine are controlled via (changeable) programmed algorithms…many developed by nefarious actors & intentionally devised to shape public perceptions…try YANDEX, has most “clean” algos…
Thanks for the clarification. I have assumed Project 2025 must be worthwhile, based on who criticizes it. You know you are over the target if you are getting a lot of flak, as they say. I’m sure the people who criticize Project 2025 go to bed reading The 1619 Project, by The NY Times, and have never heard of the 1776 Project.
For those who are interested, we plan to show “Letter To The American Church” movie outdoors next Sunday evening, if you would enjoy Eric Metaxas wake up call to America. Contact me if you want details.
Worthwhile?! You have a last name that suggests you aren't caucasian. YOU WILL NOT benefit from Project 2025 if that is the case. Make no mistake. White Christian Nationalism has no place for POC.
Hi Sheryl: I haven't read obviously the whole 900 pages so I am wondering what you are referring to about it being racist. Could you write an example of what you mean? Thanks.
Yes, Monica. Project 2025 seeks to eliminate protection for equality in American society. One of the first things they want to eliminate is the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools. They want to whitewash education.
Another one of the project’s core objectives is to reduce the federal government’s involvement in healthcare. This means the incoming president could (and likely would) take a battleax to the agencies that run Medicare and Medicaid as well as affiliated offices that research treatments for infectious diseases and approve prescriptions, medical devices, and personal products like cosmetics.
The main goal: fewer Black, brown or low-income people will have healthcare. Black women, especially expectant mothers, will continue having the worst health outcomes, and the practice of medicine will become more politicized than ever.
Trump’s project 2025 and Agenda47 would dismantle nearly every federal program dedicated to building and strengthening Black-owned businesses. It would eliminate a 60-year old program that requires federal contractors to comply with anti-discrimination laws and overhaul the Minority Business Development Agency into a program focused on “the benefit of free markets, the evils of socialism and Communism, and the destructive effect of taxes and regulations on minority businesses.”
Project 2025 will stop the Justice Department’s civil rights division from investigating voter suppression and election interference. That directly affects people of color.
Then there is the police. Parents of children who commit crimes like mass shootings won’t be subject to prosecution. But Trump’s Agenda47 pledges to wipe out gangs and investigate progressive prosecutors in “Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and every other city where these maniacs have taken over.” Meanwhile, Project 2025 wants to use the federal government to “target violent crime and career criminals” and “use the death penalty” as often as possible, or “until Congress says otherwise through legislation.” And on his first day in office, Trump will terminate every “unnecessary or outdated consent decree” in America – effectively eliminating the most effective tool for monitoring and overseeing corrupt and abusive law enforcement agencies. This favors good ol' boy white police and is bad for civilians in general. These are my quick takes from it, and although I have read a hefty portion of the document I have not read all 900 plus pages yet. It's HORRID. We cannot let it happen.
Thank you, Sheryl, for your comprehensive answer. I think that 900 pages of policies will certainly lend to not agreeing with everything that is included in this project and perhaps something less massive might be more productive. That being said, I can tell from your comment that you are in support of CRT being taught in schools. I am not. I find it highly divisive and destructive to the much wanted racial unity we are all, hopefully, striving for in this country. And I do have to admit that I am old school and believe that the schools main aim should be teaching the three "r's" which statistics show they are greatly lacking in. Today so many educators are interested in empire building instead of doing what is best for the children. I am glad that Andy wrote this article so we can all investigate it a bit further.
Perhaps a Google search gave S Schroeder the idea. She will provide no example. Can't find what isn't there. A Google scholar spouting Google scholarship.
SS...My gosh you are such a toddler. You're always telling people to SIT DOWN! Why? You don't like what they say? So leftist of you. 🙄 You come on here and bash people for being against abortion, you talk trash about people because we think that our children should be learning something productive in school instead of CRT, you tell people to basically shut up and sit down just because you don't agree with them. You judge someone's race just because of their last name. Seriously? You really are pathetic. And yes, I'm a woman. And no, I don't think that abortion is okay. And yes, I do think it is absolutely, without a fraction of a doubt, MURDER!
I am one of the original feminists in this state but I also value men and everything they bring to our world. And yes, I had an abortion when I was younger. And no, I will never ever ever ever EVER get over it! Have you had an abortion? Do you know what it feels like to have a living being ripped out of you? Do you know the trauma, the tears, the pain, the physical hurt, the potential for breast cancer and so many other health problems BECAUSE of abortion? If not, SIT THE FREAKING HECK DOWN!!!
Thanks for sparking an interest to learn more. I just downloaded the "Mandate For Leadership" and will read it this week. A cursorily look at the policy section on the website was interesting. I couldn't arrive at a conclusion on some of the policy issues as they were not detailed out.
As an Independent, I may take a more caution view since the Plan was generated by strong conservates and as such, proposes a plan that may be exclusionary to moderates and those left of center. Since America is home to 6 races of peoples, hundreds of religious practices and a variety of other differentiators, the viewpoint of less than 30% of the population MAY poor policy for the country as a whole. Just read Hamilton's first 10 essays from the Federalists Papers to see what history has taught about such attempts.
Project 2025 would be a disaster for the United States. For starters, it would eliminate school funding as we know it. They want to eliminate the Head Start program which offers free early childhood education, health and nutrition services to children from low-income families.
That would eliminate services for the families of roughly 800,000 children, two-thirds of whom are Black or brown (but we all know Republicans do not care about this faction of the American public)
It seeks to limit the number of children who can qualify for free school meal programs while also calling for Republicans to block any effort to implement universal free school meal programs. WHAT THE HELL??!!
Project 2025 seeks to shrink the social safety net. Critical federal programs meant to support people experiencing economic hardship and children living in poverty would be significantly overhauled or eliminated under the plan. Its reforms would make it more difficult for people to qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly referred to as "food stamps."
SNAP is the country's largest nutritional assistance program, serving an average of around 41 million people — or over 10% percent of the population — per month. What are those people then going to do?
Project 2025 calls for caps to how much federal funding states may get to help pay for Medicaid costs. These caps would ensure that federal Medicaid spending does not keep pace with expected enrollment and health care cost increases, resulting in a significant cut to funding over time. This would significantly negatively impact our aging middle class population.
Weirdly, Project 2025 wants to dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and either transferring its functions to private agencies or eliminating them entirely. It argues NOAA must be terminated because its research on the effects of human-caused climate change from greenhouse gas emissions "is harmful to future U.S. prosperity." FFS!!! What?! Project 2025 would eliminate federal money for research and investment in renewable energy and sustainable climate research. Super LAME.
Project 2025 would overhaul the entire U.S. tax system, shifting to two tax brackets instead of the tiered system we have now. Millions of low- and middle-class households would face significantly higher taxes under the Project 2025's proposals.
Project 2025 would make porn illegal. Weird, but ok. Project 2025 would eliminate a long list of terms from all laws and federal regulations, including "sexual orientation", "gender equality", "abortion" and "reproductive rights". This gravely hurts women and the entire LBGTQ population by making sure that they have no federal protections whatsoever.
Project 2025 gives the American president entirely too much power. It's a road map for stringent Puritan backwards values and dictatorship. There is not ONE thing about Project 2025 that benefits a free American society. We are NOT a theocracy or a monarchy. Do NOT fall for it.
That all sounds great to me. Mostly reducing the size of government and reducing generational government dependency. S Schroder, do you have a personal interest in big government?
SS: Project 2025 will be a disaster to the partisan bloated Big Government agenda that demands everyone be a government union employee and/or lifetime government beneficiary - in order to ensure a permanent Democrat voting block. You reveal your true hand too obviously, SS. But thanks for playing.
SS: There is no justification for your demands for cradle to grave government dependencies. It is unhealthy for all concerned. Why are you pushing this?
No one would be forced to convert, the Catholic Church explicity condemns forced conversions and baptisms and respects the fact that God gave us free will so that we can CHOOSE to love him. A Catholic Monarchy would enforce moral values, ensuring that moral evils like abortion are condemned, but maintaining beliefs in subsidiarity, where matters not concerning morals are still left to local regions, communities, etc.
I mean I have no experience in governing, but I think I'd be a much better ruler as a paternal autocrat than the democrat party that hates traditionalism and the Republican party which can't be bothered to conserve traditional values.
Hmmm…”Catholic Monarchy would enforce moral values, ensuring that moral evils like abortion are condemned, but maintaining beliefs in subsidiarity, where matters not concerning morals are still left to local regions, communities, etc.”
So a Crown that sets mortality for all…not gonna work, Americans love freedom, liberty, free choice…I like our Constitution Republic, we just need to cut the Federal level down to a minimal appropriate size (about halved)…set Our Nation firmly back to its Constitutional foundations, compromised of 50 individual states plotting their courses pursuant to citizens’ wants/demands.
Freedom, free choice, liberty cannot be removed from morality, because the mess we live in of moral decay and an erosion in social cohesion is a direct result of these values being promoted under "individualism", where each person is their own deity and their own arbiter of morality.
the mess we live, including moral decay & erosion in social cohesion, is a product of the Communist’s 40-year long march through our institutions that has now captured our government (all 3 branches)…we just need to return to law & order & hold the bad actors accountable (clean house) & reset to Constitution founding…respect for others & morality will return
Project 25? What’s not to like? Let’s see, dismantle a systematic anti American cabal of swamp creatures…I say go for it.
That’s right, take down the corrupt, deep state within the IRS, FBI, CIA and DOJ just to mention a few! Yep, Department of Education, EPA, all taken to the trash heap. Don’t stop there! Oh hell no, purge the State Department of anti American treachery and undermining of American foreign policy. Make it so you can ACTUALLY FIRE public sector employees!
Unleash our capitalist system to include energy, agriculture and technology and make NO excuses for our enormous wealth and prosperity to follow.
Dismantle the racist, anti white and anti Christian, grievance culture which has propagated hate and resentment.
Stop the indoctrination of our children and the make believe, clown show, drag show that indoctrinates our children into believing that there is more than two genders.
Abortions? Yes, as the LAST Democrat I voted for, Bill Clinton, espoused “legal but rare”.
Since a key component of Project 2025 is ........ "dismantling the deep state, and improving education, including eliminating the Federal Department of Education" ............ one quickly understands where the howls of protest against Project 2025 are coming from.
Former Gov Jerry Brown admitted he did nothing without first consulting what he identified as his unelected fourth branch of government - the California Teachers Association (CTA): the parent state teachers unions along with their local subsidiaries.
The real howls of protest should be directed at the California #45 ranking for our state's K-12 student outcomes. Because California voters passed Prop 98 which ensured public education is our highest state budget priority. Prop 98 requires 50% of all general funds goes automatically to public education. We want good schools in our state and Prop 98 made sure they got the funding to provide this critical state resource.
However, an unintended consequence of this automatic public education funding priority turned the unelected state teachers unions into one of the loudest political forces in this state. So how did throwing this much automatic public education funding go so very wrong for California?
(See Vegara vs LAUSD for a detailed analysis of the ongoing weaknesses in the current teacher union-driven delivery of public education in this state. Teacher union members back the election of state legislators, who in turn write the mammoth California Education Code.)
Very astute article by Andy Caldwell. Amazing how the left media and big tech have purposefully given Harris political cover over the last few weeks. No interviews, no press conference, no public appearances without a teleprompter…no problem! Nothing, nada, zero about her proposed policies. What do we know? Not a lot. We do know she supports price controls, despite many Economists saying that it will not work. We know she supports giving first time homebuyers $25k for a down payment.
And who would pay for all this? If you have to ask, you’re not a serious adult. We also know she hijacked Trump’s idea to not tax tip income and the liar press acted like it was her idea!
Oh well, the DNC Convention starts tomorrow in Chicago. Yes, Chicago could be the poster child for failed Democratic policies and dysfunction. Yes, with over 1200 shootings YTD and nearly 400 murders, many of which are unsolved, Chicago is a certifiable basket case.
Then there’s the issue of planned, organized rage and violence that is certain to erupt in protest of US support for Israel.
Yes, the entire world will see the unhinged, violent, disgusting rage directed against Jews, Israel and its supporters. You think the 68’ Dem Convention in Chicago was bad?…just wait!
It is truly unbelievable and amazing how Dem voters can condone and support this dumpster fire!
[D's] , tell Biden: “We’ll give ya a pot of gold and an FDR Hero Medal if you’ll resign at the Democrat Convention so Blow-Blow Harris can take over, which would allow her to run as the sitting president.
Good article Andy. Thank You. While Project 2025 is a big basket collection of ideas/recommendations developed by conservative groups for decades, it does contain many policy recommendations that most American citizens support. Shame that the Legacy Media & AI programs have aggregated the common sense policies with those that are less popular in order to smeared political candidates & conservative-minded citizens.
FYI…Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google, (President of Alphabet Inc.Net Worth $49.5 Billion) is married to Anne Wojcicki, Co-founder of 23andMe (Net Worth $1 Billion, *DNA Database) who is sisters with Susan Wojcicki, CEO of Youtube (Net Worth $410 Million, *Censorship)…it’s a big club, with lots of nepotism…
FAKE NEWS keeps you asleep (sheep) and fixed in a pre_designed false reality (narrative). GOOGLE altering search results to 'support' the pre_designed narrative and 'prevent' (make harder) for one to learn the TRUTH? Those (w/ influence) who challenge the narrative are banned, shunned, threatened………
There are so many other search engines besides Google. You cannot blame Google on the horrors of Project 2025. The document is insane. It would be awful for America.
I like common sense policies, including many that happen to coincide with Project 2025, but keep in mind that Project 2025 is not part of the Republican platform.
PS…I quit the Republican Party in 1992 & voted for Perot…always wanted to send an outsider to clean up Washington & reduce the size of federal government + couldn’t vote for GWHB, the exCIA head, when he started promoting the NWO, Thousand Points of Light narrative
This article highlights an important issue in American political life: the influence of corporate campaign contributions. While it points out concerns about Google's and Facebook's roles, it overlooks the fact that other influential figures, like Elon Musk, are also using their resources to support the opposite side. It's crucial to consider all perspectives to ensure a more balanced understanding and the article fall short on this measure. Ultimately, corporate contributions from any side can distort the political field, and perhaps we should consider banning them altogether. Elections should truly reflect the voice and choice of the people. The question is, how can we make this a reality?
It doesn't help that Trump disavowed the report, insinuating it was extremist right wing views that he said he knew nothing about. Why would people think it's not a crazy dangerous blueprint for America when the guy it was supposedly written for is denouncing it.
Thus is why we can not shy away from having conversations, asking questions.
Yes there are those indoctrinated Donkey Cult Zombies that only say “orange man bad”
But most people you can talk to one on one.
It is our duty to talk to our family, friends, neighbors, coworkers.
If you do not then be prepared to live in a Marxist country. The last 3.5 years of lockdowns, needing identification to goto dinner, DEI privileges, supply chain issues, inflation, world war, rising unemployment , removing property rights, removing parents rights, drug addiction, drug deaths, etc….
We just saw the beginning of a Democrat/RINO world.
[Brackets are mine] Andy provided a good summary when he wrote "The real policy recommendations of Project 2025 include securing the border [keep "them" out, and keep you in], unleashing American energy [America is already the world's leader in fossil fuel production, so this is codespeak for shutting down alternative energy and carbon management], de-weaponizing the federal government [replacing department heads with Trump loyalists], dismantling the deep state [replacing career civil servants with Trump sycophants], and improving education [book bans, "White" washing U.S. history, segregating schools] including eliminating the Federal Department of Education [ditto]. It also includes recommendations on how to rein in inflation [that's already been done] and how to deal with rampant crime [that's already been done], including promoting and expediting capital punishment [for poor people, and before DNA evidence can exonerate them]."
Wading through all 900+ pages of this "conservative" White oligarch manifesto is a challenge, to say the least. Unfortunately, the authors did not write it at a 6th grade reading level, so many of Trump's most ardent supporters may not be able to comprehend what it portends for them. As Maya Angelou warns us, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." Good advice, and a warning that German readers of "Mein Kampf" failed to heed.
SS: "Them" are line cutters, who stomp over those waiting patiently for legal application to enter this country. Do you have a problem with this?
The deep state are 99% Democrat sycophants today. Of course, they should be replaced. The Civil Service Act needs total reformation to ensure no partisan taint ever enters government service ever again. This includes a total ban all government employee unions.
As usual, another political discussion that devolves to dragging the "children" card out, and of course, abortion.
Meanwhile, thanks to the blind allegiance of the overwhelming majority of angry, scared voters, the national debt keeps rising and more and more of us ("us" as in "many of you") come closer to joining the ranks of the homeless.
I guess "children", "racism", and abortion are really the only talking points that matter. Carry on with the status quo, and from time to time, check in on the national debt.
Thank you, Andy. I had checked out Project 2025 some time ago because anytime anything gets demonized I look into it:-) DuckDuckGo, which I switched from Google to as soon as possible, made it easy then to find Project 2025. I just checked and DuckDuckGo still does place the PDF and the link you gave at the top of the search. DDG has become more Googlified but it's way preferable.
My own thoughts: Any president would be wise to get distance from any political think tank institute, no matter what the president's party, whether Brookings or Project 2025. Institutes are, as you wrote, made up of many people, and divergent ideas and they shift and grow more or less extreme. So I'm glad Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025. I say this with the experience of watching institutes. When I was a kid, my parents were friends with Hallock and Gene Hoffman (Hallock's brother was my godfather) who were two of the founders of the Fielding Institute. They were exceptional people, Quakers, and challenged the Loyalty Oath, which they were right to do. As much as I admired their anti-war activities, I don't think any president should have aligned with their institute. And many of you may remember the Center for Democratic Studies here, which became increasingly radical. Brookings Institute is a bloated, pompous blight at this point.
Back to Project 2025. The basic tenets listed on the website are not, to me, conservative. I agree with all of them and I'm not a conservative. Actually, the call to dismantle the Deep State is the kind of thing that got JFK assassinated, and he wasn't a conservative. I found the tenets just common sense. Honestly, if I could make this plea: they should lose the word “conservative” and replace it with “common sense.”
I didn't see anything about abortion, which made me sigh with relief. I am not pro-abortion, but it should not be the thing that stops all conversation and prevents us from going forward.
Thanks again for this column and for mentioning your interviews which I look forward to checking out.
Project 2025 immediately was forced to publish a fact by fact rebuttal of the specific Democrat lies about its content. There was no relationship to their partisan claims and its actual contents. Always good advice Polly, during election year silly seasons particularly to seek the original source material.
Unless like the 2020 Election Year "covid" hysteria, the powers that be had already preemptively cancelled, re-written and/or censored all sane rebuttal material.
If you have any doubts that Republicans won't make abortion illegal entirely, you need to wake up. Ending legal accessible abortion is their end goal. Women will DIE. I am not a single issue voter, but I will fight for women's reproductive rights until the day that I die. This is gravely important. Republicans need to give that up.
How very sad for you S Schroeder, you are so brainwashed you don't realize you advocated the willful murder of the most vulnerable and innocent human beings. What a vicious and vile pile of dead bodies to stand on. Every other abortion kills a woman and what do you care about men? Thank about it, you encourage a woman to murder her own child, and use the fear porn that if women can't murder their children in a safe environment, they might die. It is sickening because any sane , any real woman would rather die than murder her own children. You have no idea what you are saying, but you call it "gravely important." Shame on you S!
I am NOT brainwashed. Honestly, it is the Trump supporters who are. He is a blustering bully... a fool, a con-man, a complete toddler who melts down when he doesn't get his way. Trump is a disheveled old man who rambles incoherently talking about "bird graveyards".
Also, where, exactly did I encourage ANYONE to get an abortion? I didn't. DO NOT mix up my words or falsely claim that I said anything I did not say.
It is a solid fact that women die because of abortion bans, that is not "fear" mongering or "fear porn" as you put it. That is a verified fact. I have every idea of what I am talking about. I have been there. You have NOT. You have never menstruated or had a pregnancy scare. You don't have a uterus, you have no idea. SIT DOWN.
S, I don’t need a uterus to know how devastating it is to encourage, allow for, promote that a woman murder her very own child, to suggest such an absurdity gives form to your delusion- woman do no die because they don’t murder their own children-
Yes, yes they do. And abortion is NOT murder. Abortion is the removal of a clump of unformed cells. Get real. Researchers have found that if abortion is banned throughout the United States, the overall number of maternal deaths would rise by 24 percent. This number is even worse for Black women, whose deaths would rise by 39 percent.
Sorry S, abortion is murder- at conception there is an individuated dna sequence- and what fear porn- woman will die if they can’t murder their children, you are truly delusional and clearly don’t realize the intellectual and moral implications of your very own words- I would like to help you.
You're literally just a collection of organ systems (which are clumps of cells) by your own logic. If you can dehumanized the child in the womb by reducing them to mere cells and not a human person, others can do that to those they don't like (undesirables).
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Really ????!!!!!!!
How do you _really_ feel about Trumpy - THE best president we've ever had (except for George Washington). He pulled us back from Traitor Obama's Commie-cliff. We have 2 choices in November - Trump or Venezuelanize.
Do babies ever die as a result of abortion?
Calling BS on the reply by Rummelsburg. Not only are his facts wrong, but consider that the republicans want to cut health care (esp for less affluent citizens who make use of ACA) which affects children, they want to cut meals and food services to poor people and children and school meals; they want to cut public education ( and get rid of US Dept of Education); they want cut pre-school programs; they want to get rid of childhood vaccines and inoculations (which will cause many more childhood diseases); and they are pro-fossil fuel, anti-environment, and anti- renewable energy resources, which will lead to a hotter, more polluted, and more miserable environment in the future of these children they so dearly want to “protect!” Come ON, man! Wake up!
Le me make sure I have all your (D) talking points, J.C:
1. GOP wants to starve poor kids
2. GOP wants to deny health care to poor people
3. GOP wants to cut mandatory public education
4. GOP wants to cut redundant and ineffective government bureaucracy
5. GOP wants to cut cradle to grave government dependencies
6. GOP wants to eliminate childhood disease prevention
7. GOP wants to kill the planet
Thank you for giving voters a choice in 2024. The lines are drawn.
It is certain that you don't know what the word BS means- the "future doom" you assert that is not facts in evidence is in fact fear porn, and ideological fear porn at that. What silliness JC Daniels.
You know, the Department of Education is in fact unconstitutional, and probably in good part responsible for your own incoherence- the sooner it is dismantled and the sooner we abolish the neo-marxist public schools, the sooner we can get to recovery.
Name one fact I got wrong JC-
Oh please, you can get down from the kitchen table now, it’s perfectly safe. I love it how libs claim to base all their Chicken Little bullshit on believing in “science,” and how conservatives are “anti science.” Ya sure, the “Science” behind needless COVID vaccines, climate change, Transgenderism and abortion. “Fetuses can’t feel pain”when they are burned to death with hypertonic saline solution based on your science?
Admittedly, if women (birthing people) want to terminate them/their pregnancy in the first trimester, I really don’t care. That’s on them and between them and their beliefs.
Seriously, do liberals have any topics other than abortion, transgenderism, climate change and racism?
Next topic.
Since most women do not even seriously show their pregnancies until the end of the second trimester or later, killing that baby is a high price to pay for only a few more months. Then delivering a full term live baby, that is quickly adopted in to a loving and waiting family.
Give that baby a few more months of your own life so the baby can have a live birth. You created this life.
SS, Fight for the rights of unborn babies who are also women, as well as men. Recognize much of the current pro-baby killing fervor is also against 18 years of mandatory child support.
There is no right for a woman to kill her own child. Landlord tenant rights are more restrictive, than the rights of a baby to reside in a mother's womb for 9 months and not get evicted before finally being allowed to have a live birth.
Fetuses do not have rights, women are the important thing here.
SS: Life begins at conception. Full rights granted at that very moment. Beyond that you are into the realm of bioethics; not partisan politics.
Prove it.
SS: Conjoining of chromosomes to only become a human life, and nothing else. The burden of proof is on you to prove otherwise. This momemt deserve awe; not self-serving homicidal argument.
It is offensive how people like you hijack any conversation. Buzz off. Have your tantrum elsewhere.
Polly, all of my comments are level and sane. I am not having a "tantrum". Last time I looked we have freedom of speech and every American is allowed to comment on public political forums. Are you saying you would deny me that right because I disagree with your particular views?
SS: Why do Democrats/leftists always put their own words into other peoples mouths when they engage in argumentative debate? See, you just did this again. Re-read what you just wrote.
You don't know my views on abortion. So don't go lecturing me. And by saying that I'm exercising my freedom of speech.
You said my comments were "offensive" and that I was having a "tantrum". Can you have a reasonable conversation or are you just falling back on lies and perceived attacks?
SS: Claiming the GOP wants to kill women is "offensive". Why go to such extremes?
You talked about abortion in your reply to my comment (see above). “If you have any doubts that Republicans won't make abortion illegal entirely, you need to wake up. Ending legal accessible abortion is their end goal. Women will DIE.”
If Polly says you're having a tantrum, _you're having a tantrum_! :)
I sure hope Republicans outlaw abortion universally, sadly they won't and they will continue to let this massacre (genocide really) of the innocents continue.
HAHA! Ok, misogynist. If you don't have bodily autonomy you have nothing. Women will ALWAYS get abortions, even if they are illegal and there is NOTHING you or anyone else can do to stop that. There would be a massive abortion underground railroad for women if Republicans outlawed it. Even Catholic countries like Ireland and Mexico have legalized abortion. If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament! This is sexism pure and simple. Trying to keep women down and in the kitchen. I do not understand the stranglehold that this single issue has on Republican policies. Seriously, it will be their death knell. WE WILL NOT GO BACK!
Schroeder: “Keeping women down and in the kitchen.“ i bet you had to fight your way out of the kitchen this morning. I am in favor of legal abortion, but let me tell you something. You talk about abortion like it's no more than a laxative. You talk about it like it's nothing. When I was a teenager I took an older female friend to an abortion clinic. It was her first. She thought it was nothing, just like getting rid of a pimple. When she came out, she was a different person. She was devastated by what she'd done. Because when a woman gets pregnant everything in her gets ready to protect this living creature she has been blessed with carrying. Years later when I saw that woman again she drank too much. She had an empty life. I wondered how many times she wished she had some reason to live, that she wished she'd had that child. It is absolutely unhealthy for women to have abortions. But it is better that women do it in the best circumstances so I support legal abortions,
"We will not go back . . " Isn't that a popular rant by another dope . . . oh yeah, Blow-Blow Harris.
The child in the womb isn't a part of a woman's body, it's ab illogical and asinine idea. You don't have two sets of organs, you have your own DNA, and you most certainly do not possess male genitalia if you are pregnant with a boy. This accusation of keeping women down is simply liberals positioning the well and attempting to paint pro life individuals as hating women.
Ireland and Mexico adopting abortion means nothing other than how much secularism desires the slaughter of the unborn, and about ensuring people actually practice their faith not simply using it as a cultural symbol.
Will not go back to a healthy economy, secure borders., children safe from the gay train, food and gas prices affordable..
You ‘We will not go back people obviously like the country in disarray.. Shame on you..
What is the gay train? Is that like what happens to alter boys but a little different?
Not the best comment but I am referring to the indoctrination of our young in schools w the transgender agenda..
Very cool Polly.
Google is a confirmation bias facilitator for the left. For a conservative, the Google experience makes one feel weird for having such fringe beliefs. I am unimpressed with fact checks and links in support of much the left supports. Our most trusted institutions have lost credibility. The CDC reported if you get the shot you will not get covid, the FBI misrepresented the Hunter laptop. Information has been weaponized as a political tool. I get my bias confirmed here. I am thankful for this conservative platform in Santa Barbara.
I agree - I don't use Google - I use AI.
Ask AI if the covid vaccine is safe and effective.
Which shows how little you know of both.
What "shows" ? Being on Google since '98 when Brin and Page were still Stanford students, or perfecting AI skills for the past 6 months?
Didn't say you haven't been around for forever.
The appalling "covid" lies betrayed Big Media, long before their continued self-destruction in election year 2024.
It isn't, but if you don't like Google there are plenty of search engine options.
FYI…all search engine are controlled via (changeable) programmed algorithms…many developed by nefarious actors & intentionally devised to shape public perceptions…try YANDEX, has most “clean” algos…
Have you considered that perhaps you are weird?
My ambition is to be as weird as J D Vance.
Yep, nail in that coffin.
Thanks for the clarification. I have assumed Project 2025 must be worthwhile, based on who criticizes it. You know you are over the target if you are getting a lot of flak, as they say. I’m sure the people who criticize Project 2025 go to bed reading The 1619 Project, by The NY Times, and have never heard of the 1776 Project.
For those who are interested, we plan to show “Letter To The American Church” movie outdoors next Sunday evening, if you would enjoy Eric Metaxas wake up call to America. Contact me if you want details.
Worthwhile?! You have a last name that suggests you aren't caucasian. YOU WILL NOT benefit from Project 2025 if that is the case. Make no mistake. White Christian Nationalism has no place for POC.
SS: Do you know where the Caucasus Mountains actually are?
Hi Sheryl: I haven't read obviously the whole 900 pages so I am wondering what you are referring to about it being racist. Could you write an example of what you mean? Thanks.
Yes, Monica. Project 2025 seeks to eliminate protection for equality in American society. One of the first things they want to eliminate is the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools. They want to whitewash education.
Another one of the project’s core objectives is to reduce the federal government’s involvement in healthcare. This means the incoming president could (and likely would) take a battleax to the agencies that run Medicare and Medicaid as well as affiliated offices that research treatments for infectious diseases and approve prescriptions, medical devices, and personal products like cosmetics.
The main goal: fewer Black, brown or low-income people will have healthcare. Black women, especially expectant mothers, will continue having the worst health outcomes, and the practice of medicine will become more politicized than ever.
Trump’s project 2025 and Agenda47 would dismantle nearly every federal program dedicated to building and strengthening Black-owned businesses. It would eliminate a 60-year old program that requires federal contractors to comply with anti-discrimination laws and overhaul the Minority Business Development Agency into a program focused on “the benefit of free markets, the evils of socialism and Communism, and the destructive effect of taxes and regulations on minority businesses.”
Project 2025 will stop the Justice Department’s civil rights division from investigating voter suppression and election interference. That directly affects people of color.
Then there is the police. Parents of children who commit crimes like mass shootings won’t be subject to prosecution. But Trump’s Agenda47 pledges to wipe out gangs and investigate progressive prosecutors in “Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and every other city where these maniacs have taken over.” Meanwhile, Project 2025 wants to use the federal government to “target violent crime and career criminals” and “use the death penalty” as often as possible, or “until Congress says otherwise through legislation.” And on his first day in office, Trump will terminate every “unnecessary or outdated consent decree” in America – effectively eliminating the most effective tool for monitoring and overseeing corrupt and abusive law enforcement agencies. This favors good ol' boy white police and is bad for civilians in general. These are my quick takes from it, and although I have read a hefty portion of the document I have not read all 900 plus pages yet. It's HORRID. We cannot let it happen.
CRT is bunk. It has no place in tax payer supported public education. Just like the former outcry against "creationism". Get in line, SS.
Thank you, Sheryl, for your comprehensive answer. I think that 900 pages of policies will certainly lend to not agreeing with everything that is included in this project and perhaps something less massive might be more productive. That being said, I can tell from your comment that you are in support of CRT being taught in schools. I am not. I find it highly divisive and destructive to the much wanted racial unity we are all, hopefully, striving for in this country. And I do have to admit that I am old school and believe that the schools main aim should be teaching the three "r's" which statistics show they are greatly lacking in. Today so many educators are interested in empire building instead of doing what is best for the children. I am glad that Andy wrote this article so we can all investigate it a bit further.
Perhaps a Google search gave S Schroeder the idea. She will provide no example. Can't find what isn't there. A Google scholar spouting Google scholarship.
No, Jeff. My critical thinking brain gave me the thoughts. I have provided ample examples above. SIT DOWN.
SS...My gosh you are such a toddler. You're always telling people to SIT DOWN! Why? You don't like what they say? So leftist of you. 🙄 You come on here and bash people for being against abortion, you talk trash about people because we think that our children should be learning something productive in school instead of CRT, you tell people to basically shut up and sit down just because you don't agree with them. You judge someone's race just because of their last name. Seriously? You really are pathetic. And yes, I'm a woman. And no, I don't think that abortion is okay. And yes, I do think it is absolutely, without a fraction of a doubt, MURDER!
I am one of the original feminists in this state but I also value men and everything they bring to our world. And yes, I had an abortion when I was younger. And no, I will never ever ever ever EVER get over it! Have you had an abortion? Do you know what it feels like to have a living being ripped out of you? Do you know the trauma, the tears, the pain, the physical hurt, the potential for breast cancer and so many other health problems BECAUSE of abortion? If not, SIT THE FREAKING HECK DOWN!!!
Thanks for sparking an interest to learn more. I just downloaded the "Mandate For Leadership" and will read it this week. A cursorily look at the policy section on the website was interesting. I couldn't arrive at a conclusion on some of the policy issues as they were not detailed out.
As an Independent, I may take a more caution view since the Plan was generated by strong conservates and as such, proposes a plan that may be exclusionary to moderates and those left of center. Since America is home to 6 races of peoples, hundreds of religious practices and a variety of other differentiators, the viewpoint of less than 30% of the population MAY poor policy for the country as a whole. Just read Hamilton's first 10 essays from the Federalists Papers to see what history has taught about such attempts.
Project 2025 would be a disaster for the United States. For starters, it would eliminate school funding as we know it. They want to eliminate the Head Start program which offers free early childhood education, health and nutrition services to children from low-income families.
That would eliminate services for the families of roughly 800,000 children, two-thirds of whom are Black or brown (but we all know Republicans do not care about this faction of the American public)
It seeks to limit the number of children who can qualify for free school meal programs while also calling for Republicans to block any effort to implement universal free school meal programs. WHAT THE HELL??!!
Project 2025 seeks to shrink the social safety net. Critical federal programs meant to support people experiencing economic hardship and children living in poverty would be significantly overhauled or eliminated under the plan. Its reforms would make it more difficult for people to qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly referred to as "food stamps."
SNAP is the country's largest nutritional assistance program, serving an average of around 41 million people — or over 10% percent of the population — per month. What are those people then going to do?
Project 2025 calls for caps to how much federal funding states may get to help pay for Medicaid costs. These caps would ensure that federal Medicaid spending does not keep pace with expected enrollment and health care cost increases, resulting in a significant cut to funding over time. This would significantly negatively impact our aging middle class population.
Weirdly, Project 2025 wants to dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and either transferring its functions to private agencies or eliminating them entirely. It argues NOAA must be terminated because its research on the effects of human-caused climate change from greenhouse gas emissions "is harmful to future U.S. prosperity." FFS!!! What?! Project 2025 would eliminate federal money for research and investment in renewable energy and sustainable climate research. Super LAME.
Project 2025 would overhaul the entire U.S. tax system, shifting to two tax brackets instead of the tiered system we have now. Millions of low- and middle-class households would face significantly higher taxes under the Project 2025's proposals.
Project 2025 would make porn illegal. Weird, but ok. Project 2025 would eliminate a long list of terms from all laws and federal regulations, including "sexual orientation", "gender equality", "abortion" and "reproductive rights". This gravely hurts women and the entire LBGTQ population by making sure that they have no federal protections whatsoever.
Project 2025 gives the American president entirely too much power. It's a road map for stringent Puritan backwards values and dictatorship. There is not ONE thing about Project 2025 that benefits a free American society. We are NOT a theocracy or a monarchy. Do NOT fall for it.
That all sounds great to me. Mostly reducing the size of government and reducing generational government dependency. S Schroder, do you have a personal interest in big government?
And it makes it a felony to put pineapple on pizza! Project 25 must be disavowed for that.
SS: Project 2025 will be a disaster to the partisan bloated Big Government agenda that demands everyone be a government union employee and/or lifetime government beneficiary - in order to ensure a permanent Democrat voting block. You reveal your true hand too obviously, SS. But thanks for playing.
SS: There is no justification for your demands for cradle to grave government dependencies. It is unhealthy for all concerned. Why are you pushing this?
We should be a monarchy and a theocracy, and project 2025 doesn't care for either forms of government, this is once again fear mongering.
Don’t think that a monarchy and theocracy system would make it here in America…who’s in charge? How old non-Catholics/non-Christians fit in?
No one would be forced to convert, the Catholic Church explicity condemns forced conversions and baptisms and respects the fact that God gave us free will so that we can CHOOSE to love him. A Catholic Monarchy would enforce moral values, ensuring that moral evils like abortion are condemned, but maintaining beliefs in subsidiarity, where matters not concerning morals are still left to local regions, communities, etc.
I mean I have no experience in governing, but I think I'd be a much better ruler as a paternal autocrat than the democrat party that hates traditionalism and the Republican party which can't be bothered to conserve traditional values.
Hmmm…”Catholic Monarchy would enforce moral values, ensuring that moral evils like abortion are condemned, but maintaining beliefs in subsidiarity, where matters not concerning morals are still left to local regions, communities, etc.”
So a Crown that sets mortality for all…not gonna work, Americans love freedom, liberty, free choice…I like our Constitution Republic, we just need to cut the Federal level down to a minimal appropriate size (about halved)…set Our Nation firmly back to its Constitutional foundations, compromised of 50 individual states plotting their courses pursuant to citizens’ wants/demands.
Freedom, free choice, liberty cannot be removed from morality, because the mess we live in of moral decay and an erosion in social cohesion is a direct result of these values being promoted under "individualism", where each person is their own deity and their own arbiter of morality.
the mess we live, including moral decay & erosion in social cohesion, is a product of the Communist’s 40-year long march through our institutions that has now captured our government (all 3 branches)…we just need to return to law & order & hold the bad actors accountable (clean house) & reset to Constitution founding…respect for others & morality will return
Project 25? What’s not to like? Let’s see, dismantle a systematic anti American cabal of swamp creatures…I say go for it.
That’s right, take down the corrupt, deep state within the IRS, FBI, CIA and DOJ just to mention a few! Yep, Department of Education, EPA, all taken to the trash heap. Don’t stop there! Oh hell no, purge the State Department of anti American treachery and undermining of American foreign policy. Make it so you can ACTUALLY FIRE public sector employees!
Unleash our capitalist system to include energy, agriculture and technology and make NO excuses for our enormous wealth and prosperity to follow.
Dismantle the racist, anti white and anti Christian, grievance culture which has propagated hate and resentment.
Stop the indoctrination of our children and the make believe, clown show, drag show that indoctrinates our children into believing that there is more than two genders.
Abortions? Yes, as the LAST Democrat I voted for, Bill Clinton, espoused “legal but rare”.
That about covers it for now…stay tuned!
Since a key component of Project 2025 is ........ "dismantling the deep state, and improving education, including eliminating the Federal Department of Education" ............ one quickly understands where the howls of protest against Project 2025 are coming from.
Former Gov Jerry Brown admitted he did nothing without first consulting what he identified as his unelected fourth branch of government - the California Teachers Association (CTA): the parent state teachers unions along with their local subsidiaries.
The real howls of protest should be directed at the California #45 ranking for our state's K-12 student outcomes. Because California voters passed Prop 98 which ensured public education is our highest state budget priority. Prop 98 requires 50% of all general funds goes automatically to public education. We want good schools in our state and Prop 98 made sure they got the funding to provide this critical state resource.
However, an unintended consequence of this automatic public education funding priority turned the unelected state teachers unions into one of the loudest political forces in this state. So how did throwing this much automatic public education funding go so very wrong for California?
(See Vegara vs LAUSD for a detailed analysis of the ongoing weaknesses in the current teacher union-driven delivery of public education in this state. Teacher union members back the election of state legislators, who in turn write the mammoth California Education Code.)
Very astute article by Andy Caldwell. Amazing how the left media and big tech have purposefully given Harris political cover over the last few weeks. No interviews, no press conference, no public appearances without a teleprompter…no problem! Nothing, nada, zero about her proposed policies. What do we know? Not a lot. We do know she supports price controls, despite many Economists saying that it will not work. We know she supports giving first time homebuyers $25k for a down payment.
And who would pay for all this? If you have to ask, you’re not a serious adult. We also know she hijacked Trump’s idea to not tax tip income and the liar press acted like it was her idea!
Oh well, the DNC Convention starts tomorrow in Chicago. Yes, Chicago could be the poster child for failed Democratic policies and dysfunction. Yes, with over 1200 shootings YTD and nearly 400 murders, many of which are unsolved, Chicago is a certifiable basket case.
Then there’s the issue of planned, organized rage and violence that is certain to erupt in protest of US support for Israel.
Yes, the entire world will see the unhinged, violent, disgusting rage directed against Jews, Israel and its supporters. You think the 68’ Dem Convention in Chicago was bad?…just wait!
It is truly unbelievable and amazing how Dem voters can condone and support this dumpster fire!
Don't be surprised if suddenly Chicago is "peaceful". The high command wants to make Kamala Harris the one true soul who can heal America.
Ginning up pre-convention hysteria could be just more Democrat gas-lighting for contrast. We shall see - but my cynicism meter is on right now.
[D's] , tell Biden: “We’ll give ya a pot of gold and an FDR Hero Medal if you’ll resign at the Democrat Convention so Blow-Blow Harris can take over, which would allow her to run as the sitting president.
Good article Andy. Thank You. While Project 2025 is a big basket collection of ideas/recommendations developed by conservative groups for decades, it does contain many policy recommendations that most American citizens support. Shame that the Legacy Media & AI programs have aggregated the common sense policies with those that are less popular in order to smeared political candidates & conservative-minded citizens.
PS…Google, like many www programs, was developed by DARPA & used by the Deep State to mold the minds of us plebs… https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance
FYI…Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google, (President of Alphabet Inc.Net Worth $49.5 Billion) is married to Anne Wojcicki, Co-founder of 23andMe (Net Worth $1 Billion, *DNA Database) who is sisters with Susan Wojcicki, CEO of Youtube (Net Worth $410 Million, *Censorship)…it’s a big club, with lots of nepotism…
FAKE NEWS keeps you asleep (sheep) and fixed in a pre_designed false reality (narrative). GOOGLE altering search results to 'support' the pre_designed narrative and 'prevent' (make harder) for one to learn the TRUTH? Those (w/ influence) who challenge the narrative are banned, shunned, threatened………
There are so many other search engines besides Google. You cannot blame Google on the horrors of Project 2025. The document is insane. It would be awful for America.
I like common sense policies, including many that happen to coincide with Project 2025, but keep in mind that Project 2025 is not part of the Republican platform.
PS…I quit the Republican Party in 1992 & voted for Perot…always wanted to send an outsider to clean up Washington & reduce the size of federal government + couldn’t vote for GWHB, the exCIA head, when he started promoting the NWO, Thousand Points of Light narrative
Great article, Andy! Thank you for the website address. As you have described Project 2025, it looks well worth looking more into.
This article highlights an important issue in American political life: the influence of corporate campaign contributions. While it points out concerns about Google's and Facebook's roles, it overlooks the fact that other influential figures, like Elon Musk, are also using their resources to support the opposite side. It's crucial to consider all perspectives to ensure a more balanced understanding and the article fall short on this measure. Ultimately, corporate contributions from any side can distort the political field, and perhaps we should consider banning them altogether. Elections should truly reflect the voice and choice of the people. The question is, how can we make this a reality?
It doesn't help that Trump disavowed the report, insinuating it was extremist right wing views that he said he knew nothing about. Why would people think it's not a crazy dangerous blueprint for America when the guy it was supposedly written for is denouncing it.
“people don’t know what they don’t know”
Thus is why we can not shy away from having conversations, asking questions.
Yes there are those indoctrinated Donkey Cult Zombies that only say “orange man bad”
But most people you can talk to one on one.
It is our duty to talk to our family, friends, neighbors, coworkers.
If you do not then be prepared to live in a Marxist country. The last 3.5 years of lockdowns, needing identification to goto dinner, DEI privileges, supply chain issues, inflation, world war, rising unemployment , removing property rights, removing parents rights, drug addiction, drug deaths, etc….
We just saw the beginning of a Democrat/RINO world.
[Brackets are mine] Andy provided a good summary when he wrote "The real policy recommendations of Project 2025 include securing the border [keep "them" out, and keep you in], unleashing American energy [America is already the world's leader in fossil fuel production, so this is codespeak for shutting down alternative energy and carbon management], de-weaponizing the federal government [replacing department heads with Trump loyalists], dismantling the deep state [replacing career civil servants with Trump sycophants], and improving education [book bans, "White" washing U.S. history, segregating schools] including eliminating the Federal Department of Education [ditto]. It also includes recommendations on how to rein in inflation [that's already been done] and how to deal with rampant crime [that's already been done], including promoting and expediting capital punishment [for poor people, and before DNA evidence can exonerate them]."
Wading through all 900+ pages of this "conservative" White oligarch manifesto is a challenge, to say the least. Unfortunately, the authors did not write it at a 6th grade reading level, so many of Trump's most ardent supporters may not be able to comprehend what it portends for them. As Maya Angelou warns us, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." Good advice, and a warning that German readers of "Mein Kampf" failed to heed.
SS: "Them" are line cutters, who stomp over those waiting patiently for legal application to enter this country. Do you have a problem with this?
The deep state are 99% Democrat sycophants today. Of course, they should be replaced. The Civil Service Act needs total reformation to ensure no partisan taint ever enters government service ever again. This includes a total ban all government employee unions.
Thank you for the link to Project 2025.
As usual, another political discussion that devolves to dragging the "children" card out, and of course, abortion.
Meanwhile, thanks to the blind allegiance of the overwhelming majority of angry, scared voters, the national debt keeps rising and more and more of us ("us" as in "many of you") come closer to joining the ranks of the homeless.
I guess "children", "racism", and abortion are really the only talking points that matter. Carry on with the status quo, and from time to time, check in on the national debt.