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Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation and architect of Trump’s Project 2025, employs intense fire-related rhetoric in his upcoming book, Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America, advocating for a “controlled burn” of institutions he deems corrupt or antithetical to conservative goals.

Roberts calls for dismantling entities like the FBI, Ivy League schools, and the New York Times, framing it as necessary to “renew” America.

His incendiary language has sparked controversy, with critics alarmed by the violent imagery and its implications for Trump’s second term.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Didn't Trump already say he's not doing P2025 and wants to go with some other plan that involves messing around with taxes and taking troops out of Syria? And that the Right is pissed cause he's not doing P2025...

If true, that might be the first good deed he's done

If false, that sucks, cause I really don't wanna end up in a camp

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Christ’s sake. Like any of the shit that crime elemental says contains even a molecule of truth. He saw how upset people are by the prospect so he backpedaled like, well, someone who’s in infinitely better shape than he is. The benefit of the doubt that anyone can give—which, let’s be real here, he absolutely does not deserve—is that Trump himself isn’t going to do a goddamn thing apart from shuffle across a golf course on the daily and scribble on the occasional executive order; but you should know that the ghouls in his inner circle are the ones who do all the wetwork for him anyway. They’ll be the ones to raise their flag over Gilead, just as they’ve been planning to do all along. If you believed anything to the contrary, then I have a stainless steel electric truck to sell you.

[–] AngryRobot 14 points 6 days ago

I haven't heard that. What I've heard is that Stephen Miller said they're full steam ahead with Project 2025.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Didn't Trump already say he's not doing P2025

Your first mistake was assuming Trump was telling the truth.

About anything.

Ever.

[–] General_Shenanigans 9 points 6 days ago

Trump is just a useful idiot to these fascists

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Didn’t Trump already say…

Yeah. But what’s that got to do with anything he’s actually going to do?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

So basically, lead our attention astray as we invest all the good time and resources of our politicians and defendants of democracy trying to block every aweful measure of Project 2025. And While they dismantle every important institution, make more back door deals to personally enrich themselves. We will never catch up because they are now 6 steps ahead of us in the supreme court, however many seats, and 4 years time on the shot clock to do it. If there are 4 years of gridlock, we’d be extremely lucky. But the majority of America just used their ballots to lubricate all of our asses. January we all bend over and grab a hand full of ankles.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They LITERALLY wrote this all out before the Election so Voters could Read and Understand what they're Voting for!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Ah come on, that involves reading.

[–] undergroundoverground 8 points 6 days ago

I don't think you're allowed to burn boy scouts.

[–] FlyingSquid 113 points 1 week ago (5 children)

He hates the Boy Scouts and BlackRock? But is also super right-wing? Who is this guy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Didn’t the Boy Scouts recently started admitting girls and calling itself Scouts?

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, but only because they would have gone bankrupt if they didn't. It was out of sheer desperation.

Somehow people were less willing to send enough boys to an organization that had become super religious and was already trying to live down the sexual abuse scandal that had been going on for decades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh I don’t doubt that one bit. But I can see how the Magat would think it has “gone woke”.

[–] FireRetardant 79 points 1 week ago (30 children)

The boy scouts one is especially baffling. A lot of boys become more traditionally "manly" through boy scouts. It is physically active and they typically learn skills like camping, fire starting, wood working. We were also expected to do good deeds, be polite, and overall be decent members of society that help where is needed, such as litter clean ups and tree plantings. I guess the latter half of my point is where their issues start?

[–] Stovetop 109 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Maybe because they now allow girls to participate. Integration is "woke" and must be destroyed.

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[–] SasquatchCosmonaut 82 points 1 week ago (26 children)

Why the fuck would you get rid of boy scouts it's literally a patriotic paramilitary (kinda) organization with a checkered past on sexual abuse that should be a Republican wet dream lol

[–] cultsuperstar 17 points 6 days ago

He probably wants to replace it with a Hitler Youth style of program.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

I'm pretty sure they recently changed to allow LGBT members along with toying around with integrating both boys and girls into troops since the girl scouts really only exists to sell cookies. I've seen lots of garbage on social media about how "woke" the Boy Scouts are now so they're gunning for the organization.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe 1 points 6 days ago

Probably because the boy scouts no longer fits their narrative of "women bad".

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They renamed themselves the Scouts and let in girls. Maybe that's why? These people are insane and evil, so honestly it doesn't matter why.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Whole it does teach survival skills and can teach about shooting, most of the skills are just to prepare you for life. Importantly though, it builds a community focused on helping people and doing good. It's a children's version of a mutual aid group almost. This is a bad thing for children to learn in their opinion probably.

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[–] lennybird 68 points 1 week ago (9 children)

We were close to holding right wing extremists accountable. We needed one more term at least. It was clear how suddenly Republicans try to denounce the FBI as a liberal institution after Wray said that white supremacists were the #1 domestic terrorist threat.

Now, we're fucked.

[–] grue 40 points 1 week ago (6 children)

We were close to holding right wing extremists accountable.

"We" had four goddamn years and did absolutely fuck-all with it! Frankly, in retrospect, the fix was in when Biden appointed Merrick Garland instead of somebody who would actually care about the rule of law and do his goddamn job.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (8 children)

My personal reaction to reading this is that I want to pick up the book just to better understand what he believes these conservatives values are. Then I realized this is like trying to understand why Hitler wanted to gas the Jews.

What's more important is why the fuck Americans are democratically voting for this. I'm going to venture to guess (and hope) that the majority of people who voted for Trump have no clue what they voted for. I'd like to hope that teachers are going to use this moment in time to perfectly frame it along with the rise of Nazi Germany but I know that Trump also intends on burning down the DoE. Teachers will be prevented from using history to educate students.

Incidentally, I'm already exhausted by all the "news" being made about why the Dems lost and Trump prevailed. We have to be discussing why our media and our existing elected officials are all ignoring the plight of middle class Americans while failing, as they have always done, to educate people.

I remember as a kid hearing presidential debates and getting aggravated that the politicians weren't answering questions. And then in interviews and news reports a topic will be discussed but the contexts and ramifications of that topic are often left out (time constraints, etc). Quick example; why Biden sent arms to Israel has as much, if not more, to do with Iran as it does Gaza. WHY is never explained in political discourse and the media never pressures or holds officials accountable. I am terrified of what Trump will do to our already squeamish journalism community.

I still blame the media for Trump's 2016 win and I'm blaming them again today. People are clueless. Not to say they're unintelligent, they are uneducated regarding politics and history.

People are all in their own bubbles living their day to day lives and occasionally see headlines on their mobile apps. They're subtly influenced, sometimes by the news media but I'd venture to guess equality often by the efforts of Russian, Iranian, and Chinese disinformation armies.

Moreover, this far from a new issue. I was just reading and commented on a story about Musk being the most powerful unelected citizen in America. This reminded me a bit of the guy Citizen Cane was based off of. William Randolph Hearst owned a sprawling media company and used his influence to publish articles that were favorable to Nazis.

How are we not only allowing this but voting in favor of it?

Something is broken. It's not the political parties. It's evidently not the electoral college. Schools have always taught about WWII so it's not our education system. It could be the two party first-past-the post voting system. It could be how election campaigns are financed.

I think we're distracted. I think there's too much going on in modern lives. Too many Americans are struggling to get by while also using every moment of free time to disengage. There's basic government and economic policies and norms that people are clueless about. Take drilling for oil: most Americans think that if we drill for more oil our gas prices will go down. That's not at all true. This will only increase profits for the oil companies because, while the US actually produces more oil than any other country, we lack the infrastructure to refine the oil we have. Honestly, I only learned about that this week. Not to mention the whole tariff thing that republicans are clueless about. Above all else, I'm terrified that Trump's presidency is going to bankrupt Americans.

As this article alludes to, Americans should know that the GOP agenda is to dismantle federal agencies and replace them with private corporations. Some agencies and services will go to the states while others will become Wall Street funded corporations. Theoretically, federal taxes should decrease but state and homeowner taxes are going to sky rocket. The costs of goods and services is going to sky rocket while the quality plummets over time. This has been in the playbook since before Reagan got into office. Now they have the momentum, the votes, and the stooge in the White House to make it happen.

Don't be distracted as the stock market goes to the moon. This is their agenda – to make themselves richer on the backs of clueless Americans.

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