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I think that a side-by comparison of the Republican platform for 2025 and the text of Project 2025 would be highly instructive. Indeed, I would bet that the former has borrowed liberally from the latter. The blunt fact is that the Republican party and right-wing Christianity have effectively co-opted each other. Whether one glommed up the other or vice versa is irrelevant. Both the platform and Project documents declare the goal of abolishing our secular government in favor of what amounts to a Christian theocracy, which would quickly remove the US from world leadership and relegate it to what would amount to a third-world backwater nation. It would render any non-Christian to second-class citizenship status, while simultaneously start infighting among different Christian sects to see who gets top dog status.

To say that this would be disastrous for the United States is to understate with criminal intent. What we need to do now is to get the word out about BOTH DOCUMENTS, so that people know and understand the threat represented by them and can be moved to take appropriate action this coming November.

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My cynical side says that the GOP is letting dominionists write whatever they want now because they realize that, other than the kowtowing sentences, Trump will ignore everything in it anyway.

The platform has degenerated into nothing but a cry of "see boss, I am being good! Pay attention to meeeeeeee!"

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It's a given that the repuke trash are whores. The only question is whether they will be good whores or bad whores. They will do whatever their boss says to do. Them hard won guns rights may come crashing down someday when they are no longer desirable. Same with medicare and social security.

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I think they're delusional if they think they can impose something like Project 2025 on the American people which they clearly do not support.

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They will try. They can succeed by relying on the fact that most people aren't paying attention. Most people don't know what is in Project 2025 and they certainly do not understand the implications. This worries me.

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+++ I fear America is about to learn that lesson the hard way.

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They have been convinced by the group of people who resemble leopards wearing suits, that the leopards DEFINITELY won’t eat their faces.

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If Republicans really want to foment a Second Civil War, they can push either their platform or Project 2025 on the American public. It'll hit the fan after a fashion they couldn't believe in their worst nightmares.

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+++ I came back from Vietnam in 1969. I'm way too old for this crap.

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I'm hearing this Civil War talk even among my loved ones. I don't want to start fights, with them or anybody here, but I'm really nonplused when it comes to the forefront. How in the world would that even work? There's a reason why a preponderance of military bases are in the "south."

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I don't think it will be that clean. State against state. I think it will suburban vs urban vs rural in every state.

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Considering how blue many urban and suburban areas are and how red much of rural America is, I think your comment is on the nose.

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Yeah that's what I getting at. Are we going to have roving bands of red hatted freaks trying to force some revolution à la Bushwick (the movie). It will flare and immediately be tamped out. Of course there will be blood, mostly the wrong folks will suffer, and our "Betters" will continue to wonder how this happened.

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I’m not sure it will ‘immediately be tamped out.' The military are going to be divided on what ‘support and defend the Constitution’ means. The ‘rebels’ will be the ones fighting for freedom.

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The D is God is for Delusional.

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You don't think there are enough stupid fucking american people to fuel whatever the fucking repukes want to do?

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They won't believe it. "It can't happen here"

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Yep, totally didn't happen in France in 1939, it didn't happen in 1914 either or in 1870 or in...

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Oh, gee, I'm TRIGGERED! I'm SO triggered! Yoo-hoo, Mr. Zappa, Sir!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svdrAHn_LGo

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Co-opted each other...

You mean like inbreeding? When do the hemophilia and underbit start...oh wait.

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I was going to say: have you seen MTG or Josh Hawley lately?

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Sex With Your Parents - Lou Reed

https://youtu.be/fhCDdYbZpRw?si=VvdNFpMbJePy9gNh

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The idea any religion could be imposed on a country as large and diverse as the United States with a happy ending is as stupid and dangerous as thinking gets. The religious right is trying to accomplish through government what they have failed to achieve from their pulpits. If the preachers ever acquired the power they evidently think they're entitled to, they would be killing one another over doctrinal errors within a month. If people wanted to be ruled by the clergy, America's churches would be overflowing, which they definitely are not. Mixing religion and government is the same terrible idea it has always been.

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They have basically written 7 Mountains Dominionism into this political document. They believe that their right to religious freedom includes the right to make everyone in the whole country live exactly like they want - something they don't particularly do themselves. It is an odious document. I surely hope that we come out in a massive wave rejecting it.

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They can talk about their loving Jesus and the glorious after life from now on, but there is nothing they want as badly as power and control in this world. Power few groups would be more ill-equipped to exercise.

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It is all about control. The whole anti-abortion movement is about controlling women. They don't care about the babies. If they did, they would fund programs to get them born healthy and take care of them once they are here.

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+++ They quit caring about mother and child the moment the child is born.

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The child is on its own as soon as it pops out, but the pre-born are only valued as womb occupants. We should have easily obtained, free pre-natal care, free day care, guaranteed maternal healthcare for the first year after birth... the fact that the fetus people always shoot down proposals to provide these things makes me very cynical about their whole movement.

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It's all about controlling women. Given a free hand they will reduce women to the status of property.

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Because it proves their lies. They want women and their children to suffer!

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Good observation, re: Seven Mountains. R. J. Rushdoony would be SO PLEASED.

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"𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑇𝑒𝑟𝑚 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝐵𝑖𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼𝑉𝐹 (𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠)."

The forced birth movement loves this term "late term abortion" which is not a real thing in actual medicine. Late term means after the due date. Late term abortion may just mean medically inducing birth after the normal gestation period is over, it does not usually end in death for the fetus/infant. It just means the ending the pregnancy after the gestation period has passed. Just like the medical term for a miscarriage is spontaneous abortion. This does not mean what they think it means. Plus, they're ignoring the fact that all, 100% of, every. single. one. abortions that happen in the third trimester and in the late second trimester are a result of something going horribly wrong with the pregnancy and the baby, or mother, or both will die without intervention. There are no pregnant people suffering through a pregnancy for eight months only to decide, naw, I'm not going to finish this it's not what I want anymore.

The GOP platform for so long has been to deny access to healthcare for so long that I simply do not believe them when they say they will expand access to maternity and fertility care. It is just way too off brand for them to be remotely believable.

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There is a higher risk in pregnancy than in abortion. An inconvenient fact for these religious zeolots.

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True ... but those twits never much cared for facts. They get in the way of what they want to believe.

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It’s not inconvenient if they are banking on it. They know that pregnancy is more dangerous, they know that maternal mortality rates go up when abortion is illegal, they know women will be facing tragic decisions, they know women will die trying to get abortions, they know all the bad shit that happens when you make abortion illegal, they want it all to happen because it happens to people they don’t think count. Black, brown, and poor women will die in the highest numbers and they’re alright with that. They’re looking forward to it.

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It already is happening in Texas.

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From some of what I have seen, they are completely delusional.

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Which if they actual cared about women would matter, but they don't.

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It would be the first time they've advanced policies supporting mothers. Especially *those* mothers.

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You are more trusting thn me. I do not trust anything they say.

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I only trust what they say when they accidentally say the quiet part out loud. Otherwise, when their lips are moving they're lying.

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"𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝐵𝑖𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼𝑉𝐹"

As if only. They have had over fifty years to implement these policies and have done nothing.

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To them "late term" which is not an actual thing, means after the first trimester. They have said so. Jessica explains it best.

https://jessica.substack.com/p/dont-fall-for-the-gops-platform-lie

"What’s also noteworthy is the language opposing “late term abortion,” which shifts weight away from Republicans’ ‘state’s rights’ promise.

If you’re a regular reader, you know I’ve been tracking how anti-abortion activists and lawmakers are increasingly defining ‘late’ abortion as anything after the first trimester. And because ‘late abortion’ isn’t a real medical term, they can define and redefine it at will. I pointed out last year, for example, that president of March for Life Action Jeanne Mancini wrote an op-ed characterizing ending a pregnancy after 12 weeks as “dangerous and extreme late-term abortions.” Also last year, the Charlotte Lozier Institute published a paper arguing for a national 15 week ban by calling it a “Federal Limit on Late Abortion.”

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Got into with some young dumbfuck who found a few proposals regarding Project 2025 appealing on a superficial level and claimed they “sounded good” but hasn’t actually read the any of proposals. Also claimed it was ridiculous to compare Project 2025 to Mein Kampf which he also hasn’t read. Here’s our problem, folks! Unless people actually look at it and understand it, “it sounds good” is going to be the standard issue answer from MAGAs. JFC.

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Project 2025 reads better in the original German. ; )

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I know, reich? 😉

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I did Nazi that coming.

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Project 2025/GOP Platform 2024 is Conservative Christians declaring war on the United States of America. Those who drafted it and those who support it are traitors.

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The Republicans decided to write this "platform" to distance itself from the backlash over Project 2025, just as Trump himself has tried to distance himself from it. Don't be fooled, this "platform" is just a sanitized version of Project 2025, made to be palatable to the masses that won't, can't, or are apathetic to investigating either document. Project 2025 is getting attention that it cannot withstand, despite the news media working desperately to not see it. Social media is exposing Project 2025, individuals with large platforms are bringing attention to it, and it is not popular. Even when defending Project 2025, average conservatives cannot support what it contains. One guy on my local facebook page claimed it was just an extreme group of right wingers that don't represent the right, just like the left doesn't support Joe Biden's administration extreme policies. (what extreme policies, I wonder? Capping pharmaceutical costs? Reducing inflation? Protecting workers' rights? Building the economy into a level we haven't seen in decades?) He was defending it by claiming it isn't what the GOP is trying to do. But this official GOP platform is only Project 2025 wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses.

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"what extreme policies, I wonder?"

Pro gay and trans rights.

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But Biden is old. I know that the other guy is taking about mass round ups, military tribunals, and arresting political opponents. But Biden is old. Sure Trump has committed fraud multiple times and stole money from his charity. But Biden is old; he has to go to bed at 8. And sure Trump's judicial appointments are gutting ever last protection for consumers, voters and the environment. But come on, Biden is old. And sure they are trying to erase gay people. But Biden had verbal stumbles at a debate. And sure voting for Trump we run the significant risk of basically ending our democracy. But Biden is old. How can I not vote for Trump?

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Trump is just as old and more prone to nonsensical ramblings. But Biden is old.

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(Just in case someone not familiar with Holytape's humor read this, this is sarcasm).

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It's particularly telling that the solution this platform puts forward to combat inflation is the same solution every right-wing politician and shill posits to combat the fentanyl crisis. frightening the Republican base with scary brown people flowing over the border with drugs in their pockets and babies in their wombs is how they get them to vote against their own interest so often.

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While at the same time, making sure that the white people who played a major role in starting the opioid crisis (the Sackler family) don't pay a dime.

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Be careful now. They plan to prosecute anything they deem as antisemitic. And they will probably have Marjorie Taylor "Jewish Space Lasers" Green lead the committee.

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The most amazing thing I ever heard a conservative complaining about was "George-Soros-backed anti-semitic group".

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I have to believe that one of their biggest fears ( and what may be driving their manifesto) is becoming a "minority" to people of "color".

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4. Republicans will protect and defend a vote of the People, from within the states, on the issue of life. (*what’s with the shitty capitalization folks, its not even accurate with capitalizing a title, so I’m tired of trying to follow along.)

Why is it always a matter of civil rights something that should go to the states to decide? First it was States Rights for slavery. Now its states rights for bodily autonomy for only women. And also, states rights to discriminate against LGBTQ people, or for LGBTQ people to marry the adults they choose. But it’s never states rights that would be something each state would have an actual need that is different from other states, like ecological rules or – actually there really isn’t much that states need different laws for. Considering people move within the country freely (as it should be) their rights shouldn’t be dependent on invisible lines on a map. Fuck States Rights. It is a shitty concept that no longer serves in the modern world, and probably didn’t back in 1776 either.

Women are not provided liberty when forced birthers get their way, in fact, they die unnecessarily in tragic numbers. And when pregnant people die, so do their fetuses. So, what does the forced birth movement serve, if not only control. Republicans are doing a shit ass job of distancing themselves from the backlash over abortion and IVF. They’re still the architects of the skyrocketing maternal and infant mortality rates across the country.

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I couldn't agree more strongly about state's rights. Certain rights are too precious to delegate to a state (ID, TX, AL, MS, etc). What happens when a state starts attaching conditions to a women's right to vote, mostly likely through some jacked up Head of Household voting for all the family members shenanigans? Or black people, through some "skin in the game" guise based on having paid property taxes for a certain number of years, knowing that due to our fucked up history, home ownership is far less common for black people? If not for federal protections, it is unlikely that a gay couple could drive from CA to NY, because it may not be possible to find a path where they don't cross a state where they could be arrested. Freedom of movement is a federally enjoyed right, and this applies also to situations where states are trying to limit travel for health care. I guess to add some nuance, I think there is value in state's rights when adding a right. I think the legalization of MJ in more forward thinking states is a good example of this. But a state taking away rights previously enjoyed on the strength of being a citizen or permanent resident is never ok.

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Why would we want to make mj legal in one state and not another? All that does is give police license to stop and frisk folks (we know which folks, too.) as they cross state lines. If mj is legal, it should be legal across the board.

Knowing the history of the war on drugs, it is only illegal because it was a vehicle to harass and arrest undesirables, who were, according to Nixon himself, blacks, hispanics and the hippies. I am hard pressed to find any real reason to separate states in this way.

Anyway, thanks for your support. A state should be able to add to civil rights, but never take away. Fully agree.

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I absolutely think that mj should be federally legal. I think some states being able to go first, however, lowers the bar to get the ball rolling in the first place. So as the ultimate solution, no, but I think it's super valuable as a vehicle to help us get to where we want to go. Another example I can think of is universal basic income. With the way the world is changing, particularly regarding AI and automation, some kind of UBI in the future is a must. And ultimately it must come at the federal level, because I think you have to plan your economy to a degree around what we expect to be the norm of maybe 40 or 50% of people working by around 2050. But to accomplish that in a single jump from where we are today would be incredibly difficult if not impossible. But I think cities and ultimately states trying it cracks the door open, generates data, and makes for a smaller jump from that milestone to where we really want to be. Back to weed, I'd rather have it legal in half the country (for now) than none of the country, with the caveat that we don't let up now that we are hitting the hard states and keep going until it's federally legal and we can put this shameful chapter behind us.

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I agree with you, it starts at the state level and grows to federal. But we absolutely need the federal level to happen, and sometimes it needs to happen so much faster than it does.

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In John Barnes 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 there is a society on a planet that requires every citizen to work four hours a day just to give them something to do. This is because nanites do everything better than humans, there is no need for humans to work at all. *Spoiler alert* Later in the 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 tetralogy we learn that the people on Earth spend their days in virtual reality because they have nothing to do.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Earth_Made_of_Glass.html?id=RrWPQ6L5sIIC

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Oooh, that looks interesting! That is going on the list. Thanks for the recommendation! I was a huge fan of Iain M. Banks Culture series. Are you familiar? Also, if it was you who recommended P.D. James' 'Children of Men', thank you! I finished it on a recent plane ride and I really liked it.

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The first one in the series is 𝘈 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘋𝘰𝘰𝘳𝘴.

I've heard of the Culture, but I haven't read any. Nope, not me.

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Republicons will blablabla...

Like in Kansas, Ohio and Montana ?

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These are the same people trying to undermine a vote of the People of Texas by requiring voting by counties not population. That is in the state Republican platform.

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They didn't say it here, but there's enough of them talking about repealing the 19th amendment, so voting for women is out too.

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Yes, Coke-can Clarence is masturbating over that as we speak.

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Their agenda demonstrates that even a cross that is untwisted is still a swastika.

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G卐P

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Project 2025 is the Republican Party's true platform. Much of this watered-down language is copied and pasted from it, then dumbed down to try to sound less insane.

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GOP - 2012 platform on climate change: Put their fingers in their ears and go la-la-la.

GOP - 2024 platform on climate change: Put their fingers in your ears and go la-la-la.

See change.

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You misspelled "Sea change" 😇

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I can only imagine Ted Cruz standing in the surf with a ruler trying to disprove that sea-level are rising.

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You're not supposed to imagine him in a mankini though.

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Do you have any idea how little brain bleach is available in Texas? and then you put that image in people's heads.

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Have you any idea how little electricity is available in Houston? Their "Go-it-alone" attitude sure is welcoming help from utility companies nationwide.

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Because they discovered they can't really go it alone.

Like Ayn Rand, who opposed Social Security and Medicare, taking both Social Security and Medicare under her husband's name when she discovered she couldn't pay her medical bills without them.

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Why are you imagining him wearing something?

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Adds to the mystique.

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Ewwwwwww!

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EEEWWWWWW!

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Rip Tide!!

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Cruz looks like Terry Jones...

youtu.be/rY-HOYTz-rs

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He's wearing colored contact lens to hide the slitted pupils.

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I disagree. Project 2025 advocates for everything that will make climate change worse. Instead of "ignore it and hope it goes away," their platform is now "deliberately do more of everything science tells us we shouldn't do," for example, now that the US is a net oil exporter and has energy security, don't stop there, get into those Federal lands and exploit them for as much profit as possible by exporting way more than today.

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“Freedom to Pray”? For Christians only, this one only mentions the Bible and not any holy text. Freedom allows for any religion or none, but this is very clear they only want Christians to have freedom, and fuck everyone else. The Religious Liberty part of chapter 9 makes it clear that they don’t understand the word liberty, or freedom, or Conscience. My religion demands I do not worship anything or anyone and I never need to pray and you can’t make me. But Republicans will try to make everyone with their task force (worship God at gunpoint is the opposite of liberty you twats).

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Looking...looking...looking...

Nope. Nothing about feeding, clothing and housing the needy. I seem to recall that Jesus fellow addressing the needs of the poor.

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Oh there is.

1. They want to repeal the income tax in favor of a vat tax, which would cause food, clothing, and housing to increase in cost.

2. They want to eliminate fannie mae and "avoid future taxpayer bailouts," so that also puts housing out of reach for poorer people.

3. They think zoning laws have zero to do with fair housing, so they would eliminate federal fair housing programs.

4. They want to eliminate all federal grant-in-aid programs to states. All. Of. Them. They even admit the size of this elimination of public spending: over 1,100 programs comprising about one sixth of the federal budget.

Skipping down a bit...

5. They want Medicaid to only be a block grant to states. IOW, no federal requirements for care or who qualifies.

6. Skipping ahead...p32. They want all welfare and food stamps linked to work, and where possible, to give local governments the responsibility for welfare programs rather than the fed. Because it makes total sense that the poorest districts are the ones who have the most money to pay out to support their populations.

7. Education: They want more online, unregulated universities. And to eliminate the whole accreditation thing. Also to eliminate government student loans.

I did find a plus though. They support Puerto Rico becoming a state. Didn't think they'd say that, the place was virulently anti-Trump after his constant racist gaffes.

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Ohhhh Hemant you forgot one...

𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝐷𝑅𝐼𝐿𝐿, 𝐵𝐴𝐵𝑌, 𝐷𝑅𝐼𝐿𝐿

Well, they ain't lying about that.

...𝑡𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦, 𝑆𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑡ℎ, 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝐿𝑒𝑓𝑡𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎...

Are they trolling us? Seriously? They concatenate 'left wing' in the same sentence they say they're going to focus on fundamentals like reading? Not to mention the Victorian Focus on Unnecessary capitalization Throughout the Document.

𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠

This means: we will legalize/keep it legal to beat your kids, starve your kids, and deny them medical treatment ending in their death. At least we will if you say you're doing it for Jesus.

𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑇𝑒𝑟𝑚 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝐵𝑖𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼𝑉𝐹 (𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠).

So, that last one is interesting. I'm surprised they mentioned it, could be a friction point between the far evangelical right and the far far evangelical right.

𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑉𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐼𝐷, ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑠, 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑓 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑉𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔.

Translation: we will end early voting because too many citizens who use it don't vote for us.

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The genesis of this platform was Project 2025, but once the internal polling started to point to loathing an edit occurred. But as any of us here knowing the tactics of apologiae, it still shines through. They've overplayed their hands (exhibit A the SCOTUS). They can't NOT do it, they're scorpions. With FA's help, and if the elite media finally get around to it, this will be broadcast far and wide - for a great turn out at the polls.

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That's a very optimistic scenario. I hope it's right.

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Moi aussi.

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𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘩... yeah, right.

𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨... will consist of mainly grammar lessons and cursive writing practice, and the few books available must be sourced from the Party-Approved Reading List. Any study of literature as art will be limited to the classics, and then only the classics written by a classical author who we can easily straightwash.

𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺... excluding all the bits about slavery (or at least the bits about the slaves being unhappy and wanting to be free), women not having the right to vote, and any mention of the existence of queer people. Nothing America has done in its history will be portrayed in a negative light. Everyone we blew up or bayoneted deserved it, except the Confederacy, because they were also Americans and they just had a little disagreement with the government over which color uniform to wear or something.

𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦... insofar as we'll teach the kids a 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 bit of Physics and Chemistry, but the Biology section will go no farther than the basic-bitch version of Mendelian genetics, and there will be no discussions of human anatomy, human reproduction, and the very mention of evolution will be 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯!

𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘩... will be taught the traditional way, by rote memorization and being smacked on the knuckles with a ruler when you get an answer wrong. Any attempt to contextualize any formula or equation by placing it in its real-world context will result in the instructor being sent off for re-education at one of our fully-equipped Happy Funtime Work Retreat And Concentration Camps.

𝘈𝘳𝘵, of course, is for hippy-dippy commie pinkos. You lazy kids don't need art. Who needs art when you won't have any days off to appreciate it anyway? Get back to work, you freeloaders!

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On biology...it will be interesting to see how conservative states deal with the the problem of wanting competent biotech scientists, not wanting their kids taught, but also hating immigrants. Can't have all three.

I expect maybe a two-tier education system coming on. Kinda like how they deal with abortion and BC. Evolution education could be the next "forbid it in general, then make sure the kids of rich folk have under-cover access to it."

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That's exactly how it's going. That's what vouchers are for, providing the wealthy with an adequate education and leaving the rest of us illiterate and dependent on their slave wages. Within the private schools there will be the religious and semi-illiterate versus the wealthy and educated.

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"cursive writing practice"

What is that. Kids these days aren't learning it.

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I once worked with a 20-year old who could not read cursive, so all hand-written notes and memos directed at her had to be in print. She also couldn't tell time on a regular wall clock, because she grew up with digital watches and time displays on her phone.

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"She also couldn't tell time on a regular wall clock"

When did they stop teaching that in first grade? I had a "woman" tell me that once, I replied, "I can teach you."

She didn't take me up on the offer.

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𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑇𝑒𝑟𝑚 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝐵𝑖𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼𝑉𝐹 (𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠).

That sentence can be read in two different ways

(A) [...] while supporting [...] policies that advance

- prenatal care

- access to birth control

- and IVF [...]

(B ) We will oppose

- late term abortion [...]

- access to birth control

- and IVF [...]

(A) is to look reasonable to undecided voters and (B) is to tell the MAGA taliban

what their real plans are.

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They pull terms out of their ass as usual to them "late term" is after the first trimester.

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Read Jessica Valenti who tracks this shit's explanation of "late term"

"What’s also noteworthy is the language opposing “late term abortion,” which shifts weight away from Republicans’ ‘state’s rights’ promise.

If you’re a regular reader, you know I’ve been tracking how anti-abortion activists and lawmakers are increasingly defining ‘late’ abortion as anything after the first trimester. And because ‘late abortion’ isn’t a real medical term, they can define and redefine it at will. I pointed out last year, for example, that president of March for Life Action Jeanne Mancini wrote an op-ed characterizing ending a pregnancy after 12 weeks as “dangerous and extreme late-term abortions.” Also last year, the Charlotte Lozier Institute published a paper arguing for a national 15 week ban by calling it a “Federal Limit on Late Abortion.”

https://jessica.substack.com/p/dont-fall-for-the-gops-platform-lie

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Wow you really wrote up a storm, and I appreciate you!!! But one thing about this is the orange Cheeto is not a religious person, he is not an honest person, he is a hater and anyone, white whiny men included will suffer under this piece of shit monster.

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But he would be a dictator on day one and forever after and that is what they want because they know he has to keep the base happy to rule. So, they put him in power and they get Gilead and they'll send him a handmaid from time to time to keep him happy.

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And *she* won't be allowed to sue or charge rape or ask for child support or tell anyone that he doesn't have bigliest dick on Earth.

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Any infraction of these rules, no matter how minor, and she'll end up on the wall.

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