President Donald Trump’s blitz of executive actions align with many of the ideas promoted in a conservative policy blueprint he once distanced himself from.
  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    A Bloomberg Government analysis found that dozens of executive actions rolled out by the new administration this week mirror recommendations in the sweeping plan. In all, more than 30 out of Trump’s 47 initial executive actions as of Thursday afternoon match or partially align with ideas promoted in Project 2025, the analysis found.

  • futatorius@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    Trump lying? Really? Who’d have thought such a thing could happen, after only 30,000 previous lies while in office?

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I’m just shocked that people are shocked that they’re following the playbook they said they’d follow that for some reason nobody believed they’d actually follow.

    Like, they published the plan, in detail, in entirety. They said the were gonna do it. Then all the “adults in the room” said “nah that’s crazy they wouldn’t do that”. Then they did it, and the “adults” were shocked.

    • Vespair@lemm.ee
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      10 days ago

      Television and movies have conditioned people to believe that things have a way of just working out. I’m not kidding, I’m serious. This is a huge problem. People believe that nothing truly terrible can happen to them, and that when danger presents some force, god, America, luck, whatever, is going to swoop in and save them.

      I truly believe the American people believe this. Imo step 1 in saving America is convincing Americans that nobody is coming to save us, WE have to do the work and save ourselves. Until they put to rest the childish idea of an outside savior, they’re trapped.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I remember having a conversation with someone I know pretty well, and they asked “Project 2025? Isn’t that just conspiracy theory?”

      Me, after a beat to make sure I heard correctly…“Um, no. They published a rather large PDF. You can download it and read it. It’s a thing.”

      Turns out, they listen to Rogan, so not sure what kind of gateway red-pill bullshit he was slinging on his podcast about Project 2025…

  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Trump’s Early Actions Mirror Project 2025 Plan He Once Dismissed pretended he didn’t know anything about due to his knowing how horrifying and unpopular it is

    FTFY

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      They really are shocked though.

      The media continuously took his lies at face value and faithfully republished them while everyone with a bit of fucking sense saw them for what they were.