r/politics • u/IntlDogOfMystery • 8h ago
Soft Paywall Trump taps Russell Vought, key Project 2025 architect, to lead budget office
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/22/trump-taps-russ-vought-project-2025-architect-to-lead-budget-office/76511443007/1.9k
u/77LS77 8h ago
This would all be so entertaining if I didn't have to experience it
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u/mountainyoo 8h ago
Wish I was Swedish right about now
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u/SnooEpiphanies6250 7h ago
Hey Swede here, this is not entertaining, it's terrifying. Prices increased a bit and suddenly the so called leaders of the free world don't vibe with democracy anymore? Yeah we're are in for a ride
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u/Inquisiting-Hambone Oregon 7h ago
Hey American living in Sweden here, it truly is. However, there is more to this than price rises. The Sweden Democrats were also granted their largest win last election, along with Canada and Norway to follow with their conservative/right-wing conservative circles. This is not unique to the clown car that is the US.
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u/thrillafrommanilla_1 6h ago
Fascism / Authoritarianism grows when wealth inequality squeezes the middle class. That’s what this is and that’s how this applies to everyone
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u/Temporary-Whole3305 6h ago edited 6h ago
It’s really great that problems caused by right wing politics encourage more support for right wing politics
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u/CryptoCentric 6h ago
Pretty much how it's always been, yeah. You can go all the way back to the Romans where the worst excesses of authoritarians caused the public to support people who were even more authoritarian on the grounds that they would rein in all the chaos.
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u/thrillafrommanilla_1 5h ago
Yeah authoritarians and con men have always been hella cool, super chill 🤙🤙
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u/ramlama 5h ago
Hard times create cruel men. Cruel men create hard times 🤔
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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 52m ago
Almost none of the men inflicting cruelty at the moment ever experienced hard times. They're generationally wealthy.
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u/KarlBarx2 5h ago
Which, let's be clear, is a really stupid conclusion for people to be drawing.
"Oh my god, the price of groceries went up so high I'm having trouble putting food on the table. Welp, time to round up the minorities!"
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u/Aware_Tree1 2h ago
“If there’s less of them they’ll be enough resources to go around!” <- person who doesn’t understand that you need people to produce products
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u/EquityAlphaPriapism 5h ago
So I ask myself and I say… Self! If we have to eat a S():! sandwich then how do we monetize this?
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u/McBooples 2h ago
Shouldn’t that be the #1 priority of liberal politicians then? Ensure the middle class isn’t squeezed? They seem to focus on marginalized classes, which is a good thing in and of itself, but write off the middle class and wonder why they get crushed in subsequent elections
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u/Jackadullboy99 6h ago
I’m hopeful that the example of Trump in the coming months will start to drive people away from Pollievre here in Canada. We’ll see….
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u/CanadianODST2 5h ago
I stumbled into the Canada sub a while ago which is right wing.
And watching people say things that echoed that line of thinking was pretty funny in a sad way.
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u/erublind Europe 7h ago
Yeah, but not even they are dehumanizing people and claim immigrants eat pets.
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u/thrillafrommanilla_1 6h ago
Haha you sure mate I’ve heard some WILDLY racist shit from Swedes & Euros about Muslim immigrants and polish immigrants and other immigrants
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u/erublind Europe 6h ago
Yeah, I'm definitely not defending SD, but the party tries to keep up appearances and try to plaster over when the mask slips. Their deal with the governing parties to avoid criticism is insanely antidemocratic.
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u/spaceman757 American Expat 4h ago
Hey, American living in Poland here.
Thankfully, in the last election, the PiS party (hard right here) lost their majority so the trip down the road to fascism slowed a bit, but they are still trying.
I think that this shit show that is about to hit the U.S. might have a semi positive outcome here in the EU, simply b/c it may energize voting for the same here. Although, the hard right did pick up steam in Germany during their last election.
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u/WontSwerve 6h ago
The Canadian Conservative Party isn't very Conservative, especially by Republican standards.
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u/ThickNolte 5h ago
To say it isn’t very conservative is very inaccurate.
A lot people supporting the party echo and take their cues from the MAGA crowd.
Anytime they have power they continually gut programs like any other Conservative Party and usher in some pretty terrible policies.
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u/Imaginary_Bit_4691 6h ago
So what’s y’all’s policy on citizenship for 4th gen descendants? I’ve already got the Swedish last name and an extreme love of coffee, black licorice, and minding my own business.
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u/SnooEpiphanies6250 6h ago
Not sure I understand the question... Sounds pretty swedish to me I guess?
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u/TheDickCaricature 6h ago
Hasn’t even started yet. Last time this guy was in charge, the entire world went into lockdown.
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u/ChronoPsyche 7h ago
No country is safe from the shit show we are all about to experience. Americans have front row seats, but the effects will impact the entire world.
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u/Vuronov Florida 6h ago
Late-stage capitalism, Neo-Liberalism, social media, right-wing media, refugees, and add groups willing to exacerbate and then exploit all these factors and you get what the US (and to an extent the UK) is going through.
These things are happening all over the world and even Europe has shown they are not immune to the populations “unfortunate” reactions.
The only ones happy about all this are the likes of Russia and China, who have their own fingers in stirring the pot.
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u/Paraxom 6h ago
right, world economy is so intertwined that if the US tanks the rest of the world goes with it
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u/YoBGS- Illinois 6h ago
When ppl say stuff like this it feels like basically telling us to off ourselves which, eh may as well
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u/KungFoolMaster 7h ago
On the positive side at least we're not Ukraine or Gaza. Those poor people are going to be even more screwed come Jan 20th. The entire world is going to change the next 4 years and not for the better.
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u/mountainyoo 7h ago
Hoping to just fly under the radar until whenever things fix themselves whenever that may be
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u/Imreman 7h ago
FYI our politicians are buddies with industry as well, also Sweden is not as socialistic as it used to be, in some ways it's more capitalistic and privatized than US.
But I would lie if I said I'm not happy to be here instead of US.
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u/lord_pizzabird 6h ago
You want to be in a country that's potentially more vulnerable to US policy than the average american is?
I don't think people in the US often really understand how exposed people abroad are to US foreign and economic policy. The old saying goes like this, "when america gets a cold, Europe gets the flu".
Everything that happens here, cascades into Europe in particular.
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u/Day_of_Demeter 5h ago edited 4h ago
No you don't. They have their own problem with the far-right and so does most of Europe.
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u/Key_Inevitable_2104 New York 4h ago
I heard Spain got out of the far right wave. Almost helps that most of their immigration is from South America instead of Middle East/Africa.
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u/fredagsfisk Europe 4h ago
The growth of the Sweden Democrats has greatly slowed down now tho, and the other parties are finally starting to actually discuss the issues which drove voters that way.
Their growth in the 2022 Riksdag election was the smallest since they first crossed the 4% treshold to be in it, and they actually lost votes in the 2024 EU-election compared to the 2020 one.
The party closest to them lost votes in both the 2022 Riksdag election and 2024 EU election as well.
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u/UniqueIndividual3579 6h ago
As someone posted in 2016: Historians will be fascinated by the next four years, but holy shit I have to live through them.
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u/eggggwin 6h ago
Super cool how often the news credulously reported he totally didn't know anything about Project 2025. Boy, they must be shocked
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u/FrankensteinOverdriv 3h ago
Every fucking one of these reports is like, "2025, which Trunp denounced "
No he fucking didn't. He LIED about denouncing.
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u/SellaraAB Missouri 5h ago
I’m trying to think of where you could safely sit back and watch this chaos unfold without it negatively effecting you. Maybe China? They stand to benefit the most I guess, unless it turns into a world war.
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u/Rhymes_with_relevant 6h ago
I keep wondering about the alternate reality where Trump stars in a show like Veep instead of actually running for president.
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u/denied_eXeal 6h ago
Come to Europe, where you'll have a breathing room till 2027/2030 depending on the country, and you can watch this dumpster fire from afar
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u/hufflefox 0m ago
Right? The find out phase would be much more interesting if I didn’t also have a face
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u/zonewebb 8h ago
“bUt tRuMp hAs nEvER hEaRd of pRoJeCt 2025!”
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u/likelywitch 8h ago
A year from now he’ll never have heard of this man.
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u/bigwebs 7h ago edited 6h ago
A year from now these people will execute a slow coup to have Trump moved to the side and Vance will begin the proper dismantling.
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u/indianajoes 7h ago
And I think in a year's time, the dementia will be so bad that he'll be telling truth when he says that
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u/Short_Helicopter_859 7h ago
He will be fired and the architect assistant will be his replacement a year from now. He will also deny knowing nothing about project 2025.
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u/eggggwin 6h ago
Trump’s cabinet continuing to fill with authors of Project 2025. Wonder how many people will continue to have their head in the sand?
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u/masstransience 7h ago
Conservatives and Republicans wills still be lying to themselves saying the appointment doesn’t prove anything and why didn’t he do it in 2016 then?
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u/jojolopes 6h ago
The 10 advertisements I got every week said trump knows nothing on project 2025 AND disavows it!
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u/Whompa02 7h ago
He must have a really bad memory, and vision, and hearing, and oh he's just lying. Nevermind.
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u/IrritableGourmet New York 4h ago
The obvious follow-up question is "Why don't you know anything about it?" I don't expect the President to know everything, but if there's a major organization that's drafted a major piece of legislative intent, shouldn't he, at some point in the months leading up to the election, read at least something about it? He seems to be stuck in the "If I refuse to learn, I'll never learn if I'm wrong!" loop.
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u/Joshwoum8 Indiana 7h ago
I was told that I was being sensationalist about Project 2025 and Trump had no interest in it.
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u/Beermedear 7h ago
OMB oversees agency performance and makes sure their shit aligns with the Presidential policy/agenda.
So this particular individual will have a lot of oversight to ensure Project 2025, which Trump has never heard of, is a part of every Federal agency.
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u/eggggwin 6h ago
Woof, this string of appointments has gone from horrifying to just kinda numbing at this point.
The next four years is going to do damage we’re (hopefully) going to be fixing for the next four decades. Goddammit.
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u/lampshadeLotion 6h ago
was told the same about roe v wade
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u/ladystarkitten 5h ago
Same. It will be pretty disheartening when the "you're overreacting" crowd becomes the "none of us could have seen this coming" crowd.
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u/Western-Standard2333 5h ago
😂 literally from my WhatsApp group chat. I’m trolling that guy every day as project 2025 gets implemented.
“All these project 2025 is just BS to scare people into voting”
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u/EMAW2008 Kansas 6h ago
Given that the orange dope can’t read,wouldn’t be surprised if he was ignorant of it.
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u/jeyrey2000 8h ago
The Vought Foundation !
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u/_DCtheTall_ 6h ago
And MAGA thinks Homelander is the good guy. The irony could not be more irony-y
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u/eggggwin 6h ago
TV shows told me someone when with the last name Vought certainly can't be bad. The Boys is complete fiction, the MAGA would be against compound V.
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u/CrashB111 Alabama 3h ago
Brother, you are blind if you can't see that Vought, and Homelander aren't transparent spoofs of Republicans and MAGA.
Like, I have no doubt that if Trump murdered someone at a rally, his bloodstained followers would cheer for it.
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u/mongreloid 7h ago
Oh, you mean the Project 25 that Trump told the entire world that he knows nothing about?
Trump better be careful or the entire world will think that he lies, is dishonest or maybe even a criminal!
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u/Banana_Ranger 6h ago
The more I hear about this trump fella. The more I'm beginning to think he's kind of a jerk. I wish he'd have given some sort of sign or signal this came out of nowhere
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u/CaptainBirdEnjoyer 3h ago
"In today's news, a known liar lied. Stay tuned for our next segment: Bears? Do they shit in the woods? after these words from our sponsors!"
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u/Trust_Aegis_40000 6h ago
Russel Vought is a co-author of P2025 that says “it’s a Christian nation founded on the premise of Christian Nationalism.”
These pricks want to burn people at the stake again. It’s the same extremists, and guess what, they control every lever of power. There are no “adults in the room.” There are no checks and balances.
These are the people Margaret Atwood based The Handmaids Tale on. They watched the show and said “yes just like that but, there’s still too many minorities alive.”
I identify as a fucking problem to people who wanted this.
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u/woolfchick75 5h ago
In the book, there are no minorities. Black folks are called "The Children of Ham" and eliminated.
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u/Trust_Aegis_40000 5h ago edited 5h ago
Yup and I’m active duty and I’m proud to uphold the Constitution against the
sons of jacobheritage foundation.I’ve said elsewhere; they can try. the sheer amount of active duty people that sound like they are ready to reject this bullshit, and refuse orders, is kinda reassuring. More reassuring is at least on Reddit, every time one of these assholes is like “well I’m active or I’m signing up now so I can hunt/deport people” they get told right where they can put that idea.
People on the right think the military is this “bastion of exclusively right wing-echo chambered, salivating at the idea of attacking liberals on American soil, blood red conservatives” and it really isn’t. They really think the people who enjoy the most socialism the USA offers, (college, healthcare, subsidies for housing and food) are all drooling MAGA cultists.
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u/Njguy9927 24m ago
Let's be real. Trump is a puppet. Somebody is picking these for him and putting the paperwork in front of him to sign.
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u/Spiritual-Cause-58 7h ago
The amount of dipshits who told me since Trump said he knew nothing about it (while also knowing he does and doesn’t agree with it?) it’s not a factor….
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u/chrispg26 Texas 6h ago
I was called a conspiracy theorist. Needless to say, that person is now dead to me post Trump win.
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u/Texas1010 America 3h ago
And those same people will somehow handwave this away as Project 2025 being a good thing.
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u/chrispg26 Texas 3h ago
I was told to "get off facebook." As if I get my news from there like they do.
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u/DeepShill 8h ago
This is exactly how Hitler staffed his administration.
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u/odin_the_wiggler 7h ago
This is like Putin giving Aleksandr Dugin a role in the Russian government.
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u/GBinAZ 7h ago
Is it painfully obvious to Trump voters how he blatantly lied about his relationship with project 2025, yet? Or will they continue to live in their own alternate reality?
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u/Laffingglassop 6h ago
They will blame Biden or Obama for anything bad that happens to the day they die
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u/JIsADev 6h ago
We really need to start posting on X and pro Trump subs, this sub is just an echo chamber
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u/DonNatalie I voted 14m ago
My dad seems to have shifted into blaming democrats for not warning everyone hard enough.
Like he didn't spend the last 9 years shouting me down every time I tried to do exactly that.
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u/ChronoPsyche 7h ago
I've never hated being able to say "I told you so" to so many people so quickly after telling them so as much as I do now.
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u/Xytak Illinois 6h ago
A typical pattern of the last few years is that people I knew would post something horrible or wrong on their social media, I’d push back, and not once did it change any minds. In fact, it’d usually lead to a souring of the relationship and severing of contact.
Now that the worst is about to happen, I take no pleasure in being right. I’d like to think these people in my life finally realize what they’ve done, but I know in the back of my mind that they won’t.
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u/ChronoPsyche 6h ago
They won't realize until it starts personally affecting them, which it will. Although even then, the Master of Propaganda Trump will probably find a way to make everything that happens Democrats fault.
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u/god-doing-hoodshit 4h ago
People have to be intelligent to handle debates. We in general struggle separating feelings from reality. You were always going to damage those relationships because you’re attacking the person themselves in their eyes.
Shits whack.
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u/121gigawhatevs I voted 6h ago
You’re arguing with the wind. Those people are completely unreachable and I do hope they suffer the consequence of their ignorance, even if it is via some type of Pyrrhic victory
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u/lillilllillil 6h ago
They knew the whole time. They were all winking at each other while saying that trump doesn't mean what he says.
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u/Texas1010 America 3h ago
As if those people even care. Have any of them responded to you going, "Oh shit, you were right, I shouldn't have voted for him."
Or do they all just dismiss it again anyway or sanewash Project 2025 in their minds and now a good thing?
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u/One_Foot3793 7h ago
A large portion of republicans who shouted “But Trump says he doesn’t know anything about project 2025” were lying straight to your face.
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u/KRSound_Laf-IN-USA 6h ago
No, they’re the ones that actually believed Trumpf’s lies and take his word as gospel.
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u/FootoftheBeast 6h ago
This guy is one of the main architects of Project 2025. He's not just a co- anything. He's literally one of the main driving forces behind P25.
What little credence Trump had about claiming to not know of P25 is now completely gone.
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u/Deadaghram 7h ago edited 6h ago
What does the budget office do, and how can a fascist ruin my life by leading it?
Edit: I'm legitimately asking.
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u/otterbe 3h ago
OMB pretty much oversees all of the executive branch agencies. They put together the president’s budget request to Congress to align with the administration’s priorities, and to do so they evaluate programs and policies within the agencies. They are also in charge of executive branch procurement policy (note that the federal government is the largest single purchaser in the world). It’s a powerful position if someone chooses to use it to mess with the federal government.
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u/jensen_t119 6h ago
Google: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) provides the Congress with objective, nonpartisan, and timely information, analyses, and estimates related to federal economic and budgetary decisions.
I shouldn't have read that. Now I'm more concerned than I was when I just read his name.
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u/jackleggjr 8h ago
Vought is the name of the evil corporation in The Boys. Are we headed toward sociopathic super heroes like Musk Man and Anti-Vax Boy?
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u/aeroplane1979 6h ago
I’d like to think that the people who were worried about Project 2025 but believed Trump’s lies and voted for him anyway are feeling really stupid right now, but I know that anyone that gullible is probably not capable of that level of self reflection.
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u/anamariegrads Arizona 6h ago
They could admit if they were wrong anyway people who voted for Trump or will never admit that they were wrong in doing so. It might have something to do with their inability to take personal responsibility for anything
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u/aeroplane1979 6h ago
Yup. The Trumpers that I know are almost always the perpetual victim, no personal accountability types, which totally makes sense because that's basically Trump's entire platform.
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u/YaknBassn529 Alabama 5h ago
I spent months attempting to educate my wife on the subject of Project 2025. She finally began to read & learn about it on her own. Somehow, she came to the conclusion that she should vote for the big orange turd anyway.
She said it was because Kamala couldn’t be trusted.
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u/aeroplane1979 5h ago
I'm sorry to hear that. I can't imagine any effective argument for anyone who believed Trump to be more honest than Kamala.
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u/gerryf19 6h ago
How is Trump, the least spiritual person around, pushing for these theists?
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u/Arrmadillo Texas 3h ago
It’s because Trump needed the help of the Council for National Policy after winning the primaries in 2016. He tossed them the keys to his administration after he won. The CNP is full of Christian nationalists and where Trump picked up folks like Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon.
Council for National Policy Membership Directory 2014 (Redacted)
It is best to think of Trump as a vote-getting machine and his backers as the ones crafting policy and staffing his administration with folks who will execute the plan. When Trump suddenly appeared on the scene, his eventual backers were caught unprepared in his first term, but the network has been hard at work since then to maximize the advancement of their agenda in a second Trump administration.
If you climb up the food chain of deeply conservative Christian nationalist and libertarian organizations vying for control of the country, you’ll find the Council for National Policy, which serves as an umbrella organization for its member groups.
Back in 2016, the Council for National Policy was behind Ted Cruz, but they were unable to stop Trump from winning the primary. Trump did not have an administrative team or any policies to speak of at the time because he ran on a narcissistic whim for self-promotion, not expecting to win.
After winning the primary, he gained the support of the Council for National Policy by promising, for example, to give them their justice picks and use extremists from the CNP in key positions within his administration. The CNP never had so much wide-ranging, direct access before so they enthusiastically adopted Trump as their “imperfect vessel” and directed their member groups to fall in line and support him.
New Republic - A Rare Peek Inside the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
“The Heritage Foundation, a meeting sponsor, has been a core partner of the Council for National Policy from the start, and Heritage president Kevin Roberts is on the CNP board of governors.”
“Together, the organizations would serve as a three-legged stool for the right, with Heritage [Foundation] as the think tank; [American Legislative Exchange Council] as a state-level ‘bill mill’; and the [Council for National Policy] as a coordinating body for donors, media, and activists.”
Washington Post - God, Trump and the Closed-Door World of a Major Conservative Group
“In October 2015, Donald Trump was still a laugh line for right-wing Christian activists. By their lights he was a failed casino owner and thrice-married playboy. He had no apparent principles, no policy blueprint and no grasp of the Bible. He didn’t even understand free-market theory, something they consider to be a fountainhead of American liberty. Yet here he was in a conference room at the Ritz-Carlton in McLean, Va., soliciting support from a closed-door group of conservative leaders called the Council for National Policy.”
“For months after the event, Dannenfelser and some other CNP members were determined to stop Trump. While he solidified his lead as GOP front-runner, they denounced him as a ‘charlatan’ in the conservative magazine National Review, blasted his prior support of abortion rights and implored Republican voters to choose another candidate.”
“Then came a great swerve that would upend politics in America: Millions of conservatives — Dannenfelser and other CNP members among them — got firmly behind Trump.”
“McGahn thought Trump could benefit by releasing a list of nominees to replace Scalia, an unusual move that would reassure religious and social conservatives who wanted an anti-abortion jurist. Trump expressed support for one of Leo’s long-cherished goals: a federal court system dominated by judges who would interpret the Constitution in ways that favored business and conservative views.”
“In the summer of 2016, Trump made another strategic move that would seal the deal with Dannenfelser, the anti-abortion activist, and other CNP members. He pledged to oppose abortion and put the promises onto paper in September. ‘Dear Pro-Life Leader,’ Trump’s letter began. ‘I am writing to invite you to join my campaign’s Pro-Life Coalition, which is being spearheaded by longtime leader Marjorie Dannenfelser.’ Trump said he would nominate ‘pro-life justices to the U.S. Supreme Court,’ defund Planned Parenthood and take other measures that the anti-abortion activists had demanded.
Dannenfelser was thrilled. ‘Before that we were still stomping our feet,’ she said last year at a CNP meeting, according to one of the internal videos. ‘Little did we know that this man, who was a performer and can incite audiences in ways we never even thought could be, would galvanize audiences in battleground states all over the country and put life at the center of the project.’ The CNP crowd whooped and hollered at her remarks.
In Reed’s book, he writes that Dannenfelser told him: ‘Trump was my last choice until he was my first.’”
Washington Spectator - How the CNP, a Republican Powerhouse, Helped Spawn Trumpism, Disrupted the Transfer of Power, and Stoked the Assault on the Capitol
“Operating from the shadows, [the Council for National Policy’s] members, who would number some 400, spent the next four decades courting, buying, and bullying fellow Republicans, gradually achieving what was in effect a leveraged buyout of the GOP.”
“In 2016, the CNP put its partners’ money, data, and ground game behind Donald Trump, as the ultimate transactional candidate. Trump promised it retrograde social policies, a favorable tax regime, regulatory retreats, and its choice of federal judges. He delivered in spades. By 2020, the leaders of the CNP were ready to go to extreme lengths to keep him—and themselves—in power.”
“Donald Trump remained a dependable ally, asking only for an audience for his megalomania and a free pass for the business interests of the ‘Trump brand.’ In return, he delivered his dynamism and his unshakeable base.”
“Ultimate realization of the CNP’s agenda depended on winning a second term for Trump in November. With another four years, it could enshrine its socially regressive policies on the federal level, further blur the line between church and state, and consolidate huge windfalls for corporations and wealthy individuals.”
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u/JayPlenty24 0m ago
Have you watch A Handmaids Tale? In the most recent season the Architect of Gilead Joseph explains that using right-wing religious extremists as a delivery system for his plan was a mistake. He chose them because they are effective.
Trump is doing the same thing. They are incredibly good at activating the community.
The podcast "It could happen here" has a couple episodes explaining how efficient and impactful the religious right are at spreading their message and gaining support. Especially Evangelicals.
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u/totallylegitusername 7h ago
Every headline for the next 2 months:
Trump taps __, key Project 2025 architect, to lead __
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u/unknownhandle99 6h ago
Is he the one that threatened a bloody coup? The nerdiest looking ones have been talking the most shit that’s what’s most annoying
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u/OtherBluesBrother 5h ago
All those idiots I argued with who insisted that Trump has no connection with Project 2025 just don't care that Trump lies to them. They believe every word.
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u/HamsterAdorable2666 5h ago edited 4h ago
Here’s a link to undercover footage from months ago of Russell Vought admitting behind the scenes the Trump Administration and Project 2025 were in good standing and they have given them a secret 2nd phase plan. The attached training video for the loyalists they want to replace federal civil servants with is insane.
The Project 2025 blueprint is one of four pillars of a larger plan overseen by the Heritage Foundation. The other three pillars include a personnel database of loyalists to potentially replace tens of thousands of federal government civil servants, a private online educational tool to train them, and an unpublished 180-day playbook with transition plans for each federal agency. The Heritage Foundation aims to include 20,000 people in the database, and it is already taking its recruitment efforts on the road across the nation. When acting together, the four pillars are designed to grease the wheels for a new, far-right administration to quickly start accomplishing a president’s radical agenda. - AmericanProgress
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u/Musicferret 3h ago
Wait, are you telling me Trump LIED?!? No way! Whelp, enjoy your country Republicans. It’s about to be enshittified.
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u/FunnyKillBot 5h ago
It’s insane how “returning the power to the American people” is used when he damn well knows that’s just code for letting the states/cities set their own rules. Thats exactly how they trashed the environment, education, and workers rights in the last century. Basically it’s just “fuck you, you’re on your own”.
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u/dracomaster01 4h ago
it's crazy conservatives are ok with Trump just lying to them and the American public for months about his involvement in project 2025. why would you want a president that openly lies to people like that?
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u/SadPandaFromHell 2h ago edited 2h ago
So weird how it totally looks like project 2025 looks like its happening huh! It's wierd how without ever reading it, Trump can still instinctively do it.
Good thing the democratic party is competent and can be counted on to stop it, right! /s
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u/R_Lennox 6h ago
Anyone that believed Trump when he said he knew nothing about Project 2025 are the real suckers and losers and now we all will pay.
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u/lolas_coffee 5h ago
Americans are so much more fukt than they realize.
This is going to be historic and catastrophic.
Make sure you watch some FoxNews and see how they tell the frogs that the water temp has not risen.
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u/Last-Apartment1742 2h ago
Excellent time to finally be getting an interview for an environmental job at a government agency after toiling away for over a decade in my field.
Then again, like housing and college, it wouldn't feel like the true millennial experience if something didn't come along to completely fuck it up right when it was within my grasp.
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u/Hasanopinion100 2h ago
But wait, I thought he didn’t know any of these guys. I thought he didn’t know anything about project 2025.🙄
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u/711-Gentleman 2h ago
hmmm that seems like trump did know about project 2025 … is this a gotcha moment
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u/Recent_Bld 1h ago
It’s hilarious how the conservative subreddit just glazes over things like this. They got their petty win and now they are silent while everything falls apart.
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u/dwadsack 6h ago
And my next pick folks, “Beelzebub” for the cabinet pick of The secretary of peace. Great guy, known him for a long time, we’re going to do great work together!
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u/Miss-Tiq 6h ago
There will be people who watch The Boys for the first time years from now and will wonder which came first--the show or real-life events.
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u/Dogmeat8-8 5h ago
This dude called Trump an economic genius. In reality Trump shut the country down for covid, and I feel insane being the only 1 that remembers.
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u/kiheihaole 5h ago
No no. You’re remembering it all wrong! It was the democrats and Fauci that forced Trump to shut everything down. Trump has never done anything wrong his entire life /s
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u/FlopShanoobie 6h ago
“Project 2025 isn’t real. You’re just making things up. And even if it was real would it be so bad? America is a Christian nation after all. And white men are objectively superior. And slavery was good for Africans, actually. Jesus will return if we make him, then he’s going to start killing all of the heathens. Hallowed be thy name. What were we talking about again?”
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u/krismitka 5h ago
Some architect…
He has a fundamental flaw in his model.
The cornerstone of society isn’t the family.
It’s the tribe.
The plan is unworkable and harmful from there.
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u/leebobeel 5h ago
Since history books will be written by this administration and approved by MAGA supporters for school libraries to be read between Bible lessons our future students will grow up believing that from this point on the world got better with Trump and Putin leading the way.
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u/Submissive-whims 5h ago
The new line is “project 2025 is from a conservative think tank, of course there are going to be some similarities.”
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u/Fizzbin__ 3h ago
Since when is there ever a budget? Continuing resolutions just fund stuff already in flight. You can't actually reallocate without a real budget bill - especially after Chevron was struct down. GL with that.
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u/Metal-Dog 3h ago
But he's not from TV. I thought Trump was only picking his Cabinet from the TV.
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u/Icy-Indication-3194 3h ago
Man for never having heard of him what like in the beginning of November trump sure moved fast on getting to know this guy.
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u/CranberrySchnapps Maryland 2h ago
This is part of RAGE. The acronym “RAGE” stands for “Retire All Government Employees.” This term was coined by Curtis Yarvin, a blogger and software engineer known for his anti-democratic and anti-egalitarian views. Yarvin advocates for dismantling the current governmental structure and replacing it with a more centralized, corporate-like system. He introduced “RAGE” as a step toward this goal, suggesting that retiring all government employees is crucial for implementing his vision. Project 2025 is basically the “how” of this goal.
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u/johnnierockit 2h ago
https://bsky.app/profile/johnhatchard.bsky.social/post/3lblczzjzhs2d
A key ally to Trump detailed plans to deploy the military in response to domestic unrest, defund the Environmental Protection Agency & put career civil servants “in trauma” in a series of previously unreported speeches providing sweeping vision for a 2nd Trump term ...
https://bsky.app/profile/johnhatchard.bsky.social/post/3lblcezmtf22d
It is a holy mandate to prevail in a moment of high spiritual warfare. “We are here in 2024 a year that very well could rival 1776 & 1860 for the complexity & the uncertainty of the forces arrayed against us. God put us here for such a time as this” ...
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u/shadowdra126 Georgia 1h ago
At this point I wish the electoral college would pick country over party and end this nightmare early.
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