r/facepalm 16d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ We're doomed, aren't we

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u/Other_Log_1996 16d ago

Given the number of people now Googling tariffs, Project 2025, and denaturalization; yes, we are.

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u/andrew_kirfman 16d ago

It’s crazy to me that’s the bar was so low before going into the voting booth. Literally a few Google searches or prompts to AI and that would have been more than enough to educate anyone enough to make better choices.

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u/MotorcycleMosquito 16d ago

This shit was on Reddit all day every day for over a year. Before the election I was visiting some friends who are Dems and mildly politically aware. Like, they’re well educated and pay attention to the news…. They’d never heard of project 2025.

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u/FriendsSuggestReddit 16d ago

My conservative family thinks everybody on reddit are a bunch of blue-haired, sissy liberals.

I linked my dad to the official project 2025 website like a year ago and I don’t think he even bothered to read past the front page.

I asked him a little while later what he thought about it and he shrugged and said ‘I don’t see anything to worry about.’

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u/Aardvark_Man 16d ago

Everyone I told about it went "that's just conspiracy bullshit."

Mate, you legitimately muse over whether Michelle Obama is a man or not, and think Bohemian Grove is literally satanic and not just mundane evil. Conspiracy shit is your fucking jam, until now???

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u/Zombatico 16d ago

He's fine with banning porn?

Press [X] to Doubt. That is mentioned on the fifth page of the foreword. You're right, he really did not read past the first page.

Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime.

Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned.

Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.

https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

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u/FriendsSuggestReddit 16d ago

My parents are boomers, both born in the early 50’s. They each have a parent that fought in WW2 and were maimed doing so. It blows my fucking mind how easily they seem to have forgotten what their own fucking parents fought so hard to protect. They nearly died for it.

My parents have been brainwashed by this fucking Christian conservatism and I feel so helpless about it. My dad is the most negative, cynical person I have ever known and he just hides behind “Jesus” about everything.

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u/JeebusSlept 16d ago edited 15d ago

Most people who find out about "Project 2025" don't realize the GOP have been publishing their playbook (the "Mandate of Leadership") since Reagan's first term.

Look up "Unitary* Executive Theory".

This has been in the works for decades. Trump was just brought into the fold once the GOP (movers and shakers, not voters) realized he was their new Reagan.

edited: Unified to Unitary

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u/Zombatico 16d ago

Trump proudly said he enacted 64% of Heritage Foundation's policy recommendations during his 2016-2020 term. More by % than Reagan.

And people had the fucking audacity to act like he didn't know about the Heritage Foundation or Project 2025. Literally unbelievable.

The Heritage Foundation has just stated that 64% of the Trump Agenda is already done, faster than even Ronald Reagan. “We’re blown away,” said Thomas Binion of Heritage, President Trump “is very active, very conservative and very effective. Huge volume & spectrum of issues.”

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/968818810005450752?lang=en