Good luck dude. Your whole inner circle and entourage are involved in Project 2025. The guy whose in charge of the RNC platform, Russell Vought who was also his budget director, has been named by the Republican National Committee as the policy director for the 2024 platform committee. He wrote the chapter on the executive office of the president for Project 2025 and is said to be in charge of planning for the first 180 days of a new Trump administration. Come on. How about this from Trump extremely close associate John McEntee: Also: Everyone’s saying that Trump is running from the Heritage Foundation president saying that this is a second American revolution and there will be no bloodshed if “the left allows it.” But I think it’s about this: I wrote all about his freakout about the abortion issue this morning. He does not want to be associated with the right’s extreme position on abortion because he knows it’s deadly. The last thing he cares about is threats of violence. He makes them himself all the time.
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How about the nuclear policy? He is, of course, all in on this. Because he knows about nuclear weapons. His uncle taught at MIT and he has the same genes. From 1986. (Trump hasn’t had a new idea in almost 40 years.) Trump's eagerness to surrender to Russia is nothing new. Even amidst total collapse of the USSR, Trump wanted to "negotiate", bowing to Moscow rather than just beating the bastards, which we did and can do again. 1986 pic.twitter.com/66n6gFUVA6 — Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) July 4, 2024
Even setting aside his grotesque character, flagrant criminality and rank stupidity, Trump’s mind is also slipping precipitously. And that combination is a thousand times worse than Biden could ever do. It would be nice if the media could keep some perspective on all this. But since Trump is impervious to criticism because he’s a sociopath, they’ve decided to turn their ire on Biden instead. It’s so much more pleasant to have the right patting you on the back than issuing death threats.
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It’s demotivating The spectacle of Democrats, hair afire, publicly second-guessing themselves to the nth degree over whether Joe Biden’s candidacy might demotivate voters is demotivating to me. I don’t want to vote for us when we act like this, and I’m a convention delegate. I wrote the other day that I haven’t heard this much magical thinking from the left since the last New Age convention I covered. This thread by David Roberts, a.k.a. Dr. Volts, expresses a lot of that same frustration: I haven’t written much about politics since the debate, mainly because I’m so overwhelmed by disgust & contempt toward this country’s media & commentariat that it has rendered me inarticulate with rage. Twitter probably doesn’t need more rage. I do just wanna make one point tho. To be clear up front: I don’t give one tiny hot fuck who the Dem nominee is. I truly don’t. Biden’s fine. Harris is fine. A warm puddle of vomit is fine.
2024 is about more than presidential candidates As David Roberts (Dr. Volts) stated plainly on Friday, “This election is not a choice between two individuals, it’s a choice between worldviews, between futures. Do we want to continue down the path to multiethnic democracy or do we want to impose a white patriarchal Christian autocracy?” While Democratic Party elites tear their hair out over Joe Biden’s debate performance and pretty uneventful interview with George Stephanopoulos broadcast Friday night, the Biden-Harris comms team is hammering Donald Trump on social media over Project 2025. (See below.) Why and why now? Because Trump is doing his best Sgt. Schultz and running away from Project 2025. Don’t you let him. Project 2025, the published 900-page plan for turning America into a fascist theocracy, is drawing more negative attention than, in their hubris, the Heritage Foundation and its Christian nationalist partners may have anticipated. What is Trump’s internal polling showing him about ublic reaction? Look, it’s been a tough week.
I don’t even know if that’s real, but I do know that it could be.
That’s just for starters. Trump says that he doesn’t know the people involved or anything about it but he doesn’t agree with it. He’s not bright. I do believe he doesn’t know — or care — about many of the policies in that document. He has a very narrow focus on trade, immigration and fucking over his enemies and rewarding his friends. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t perfectly find with his henchmen carrying out the rest of it. He only cares about himself and since he won’t be running again (whether because he observes the constitution or repeals it) anything they want to do is fine with him. By the way:
They were LIED too! I vividly recall when the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal broke, the media and certain self-righteous Democrats all screamed in unison that they were livid that Clinton had lied to them about having extramarital sex. “He lied to ME!,” they cried, as if that was the real crime he had committed. I would have thought that after Trump, who lies more easily than he breathes, they would realize that little conceit is ludicrous. Apparently not: President Biden has lost more than broad Democratic support since his bad debate. He has bled credibility — with the media, lawmakers, top officials and even his own paid staff. It’s not clear if — and how — Biden recovers it, top Democrats tell us. […] Axios’ Alex Thompson, the most deeply sourced reporter on the Biden beat, has chronicled, day after day, the number of longtime staff and top Democratic officials who feel deeply angry and misled. These are the president’s fans, many on his payroll. Lawmakers and top Democrats feel duped by Biden … his press office … his campaign co-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg … his top aides.
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural address March 4, 1865: “Fellow countrymen: at this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends is as well known to the public as to myself and it is I trust reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future no prediction in regard to it is ventured. “On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ~ all sought to avert it.