Some More News - Some More News: Project 2025 Is Killing Us In 2026 and Beyond

Episode Date: January 14, 2026

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We're shooting new episodes. This is 2026 Cody coming at you officially. Not that piece of trash 2025, Cody. No, I'm the good one. Gonna go to the dentist finally and clean my car. Learn to forgive those birds for trashing my car. And most of all, I and we get to put 2025 behind. behind us because here's some news, it's over.

The year 2025 is over. It can't hurt us anymore. We're done so. So let's blast into the future with today's episode. Let's talk about Project 2025. Oh, that's a real shame. But hey, listen and see me and subscribe and like the video, please. As I point out that the GOP is already set.

up a brand new Project 2026 that is an extension of Project 2025. We're gonna get a new one every year like it's a Madden game. So it's always a good time to discuss Project 2025, aka Project 2026 and Beyond, aka the mandate for leadership. This 900 page elephant in the room that Trump definitely, totally no takes these backsees, had no intention of implementing. I have nothing to do with Project 2020. That's out there. I haven't read it. I don't want to read it purposely. I'm not going to read it.

This was a group of people that got together. They came up with some ideas. I guess some good, some bad, but it makes no difference. I have nothing to do. Hmm. Some good, some bad would have been neat if someone asked him which parts of Project 2025 he thought were good and which he thought were bad, or even for one neutral example, as proof that he read a word of it or even knew what it was beyond a plan he'd let his gaggle of ghouls implement in exchange for him being able to just kind of be the White House's interior decorator. Also, he lied. I mean, we knew that at the time, but we super know that now.

As of this video, over 120 goals stated in Project 2025 have already been implemented, and over 65 are in progress. The former director of Project 2025, Paul Dan's, is absolutely despised by Quentin Tarantino for some reason and says Trump's actions have gone actually way beyond my wildest dreams, which scans, considering that the plan was written by Trump's staffers and allies. One of the main architects and authors of Project 2025, Russell Vote, was hired by Trump to be the director of the Office of Management and Budget. If you don't remember who he is, he's the guy who said he wants to traumatize government employees.

We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do something. So we want to put them in trauma. Cool and inspiring leadership there. Rest assured, folks, that the people handling your tax return hate their job and are one bad day away from starting a fight club. In addition to vote, plenty of other Project 2025 contributors stock Trump's administration,

including Borders Tsar fake job and architect of the family separation policy, Tom Holman, CIA director John Ratcliffe, SEC Chair Paul Atkins, senior counselor Peter Navarro, former director of State Department Policy Planning Michael Anton and Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hochstra, who is doing just a bang-up job at diplomacy. Oh, can't forget FCC chair

and Jimmy Kimmelhater, Brendan Carr, who wrote the section about the plan for the FCC and who openly admitted that they were going to do Project 2025 all along. We voters love bait and switches, don't we? Basically, Trump's administration is Chaka Block with Project 2025 writers, and mysteriously, about half of it has been implemented, despite him knowing nothing about it.

Maybe it's just the 50% that's the good stuff he didn't specify. So this is why we have to look at the stupid thing, because it sure seems like our entire country will be reshaped by it. If Trump reads things, it would be the only thing he'd read, right there on the toilet tank next to MINEConf. But instead, it's probably just being spoon-fed to him by whoever is standing closest. Because, as I noted, it's long and confusing and repellent, like the cat in the hat's dick. Project 2025 is 900 pages and not exactly token quality world building.

So you'll be forgiven for not reading it. It covers policy with excruciating detail, including oddly specific things like allowing the Bureau of land management to call wild horses. Not even the boars, but the horses. And that's actually one of their most humane policies. We're not going to cover everything, is my point. But let's start at its origin. Project 2025 is the sadly unaborted brainchild of the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank that previously brought us most of Reagan's presidency, because the mandate for leadership, or rather a version of it, also existed back then. Again, it's like Madden they are.

This current version was published in 2023 as a response to Trump's first term, which they felt had failed due to the presence of old school establishment Republicans bogging him down with rules and junk. Thus, the Heritage Foundation wanted Trump to be able to run the government with as few checks on his power as possible,

which we've been seeing through sweepings, through sweeping firings and the replacement of career civil servants with loyalists. Part of this monarchist curious persuasion comes from the Unitary Executive Theory, the idea that there should be no independent agencies and that the president should have sole and total control over the executive branch, an ideology that the head of the Heritage Foundation Kevin Roberts fully believes in. As he told the New York Times Magazine, Unitary Executive Theory is something we don't just agree with.

We believe it is the proper constitutional understanding of our government, provided, and this is a vital thing for us, that the legislative branch is much more active and maybe even proactive and ambitious in the assertion of its authority. That second part is interesting, because he's saying it only works if the legislative branch pushes back, but he goes on to talk about a lack of political courage in Congress. So then it won't work, right? Because Congress won't push back. More on that in a second.

Roberts also adds, We just disagree wholly that the Department of Justice is independent of the president or the executive branch. And that's a bit funny, you know, given how much Trump and Republicans used to complain about Biden weaponizing the DOJ. I guess he wasn't doing it enough, like how Trump is?

Or, you know, maybe they're liars and hypocrites and scammers. This is all Russell votes opinion as well. His stated goal is to endow the office of the presidency with unrestrained power, saying of the government, what we're trying to do is identify the pockets of independence and seize them. And the notion of an independent agency, whether that's a flat out independent agency like the FCC,

or an agency that has parts of it that view itself as independent, like the Department of Justice, We're planting a flag and saying we reject that notion completely. And that's exactly what they've been moving to achieve. It was likely one of the reasons we did Doge, right? Though for the record, Russell Vote doesn't seem to like Elon Musk. Because who does? But once Elon left his Doge guy role, it was Vote who took over for him.

Because if you strip all the other agencies of power, that leaves more for the president. Trump is, for example, taking a stance against the Supreme Court decision Humphreys executor versus United States, which imposed limits on the president's power to fire members of independent government agencies. They've achieved multiple objectives of immediately firing career staff and replacing them with Trump loyalists, such as the Homeland Security Advisory Committee and firing much of the National Security Council. They've proposed reclassifying career civil servants as at-will employees, making them easier to fire. While most presidents do appoint new members of staff, this complete gutting of the government, including what are meant to be independent agencies,

is not normal and is an explicit goal of Project 2025. Incredibly, vote justifies all of this as a way to give power back to the people, saying they will use the aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch to return power, including power currently held by the executive branch to the American people. You can kind of see what he's appealing to here.

A lot of what people identify as the deep state are really bureaucrats who are often embedded in positions of power that they aren't elected into. Meanwhile, in theory, if you don't think too hard about it, if we elect the president and that president has a lot of power, then that would create a more direct line between the people and our government. But the problem is obvious

in that when you give a single person a lot of power, they, you know, they tend to get a little wild with it. Google Hitler or Mussolini or James Cameron making the abyss. I mean, going back to what Kevin Roberts said about how this only works if Congress, who he thinks lacks political courage,

pushes back, what he was essentially saying was this idea only works if the world around it miraculously changes. It's like building a car that runs on alien farts. And so sure enough, Congress has in no way pushed back against Trump because they are cowards, like Robert said, and mostly Republicans, like Roberts prefers. In fact, you may be thinking that this all sounds a little short-sighted for the GOP to give the president so much power. After all, what happens when it's a

Democrat in charge? Are they really being so selfless as to not consider that aspect of this? Of course they aren't. In their minds, that won't happen anymore. Project 2025 also includes some very concerning methods of voter suppression, such as forcing states needing emergency assistance to give the government access to voter registration roles, criminalizing errors on voter registration and selectively prosecuting election officials. They also want to make it easier for corporations and the super wealthy to meddle in elections by defangging the FEC's ability to enforce campaign finance law and raise contribution limits. Maybe we'll get a Democrat in power someday, not that they will help as much as is needed,

but the plan here is to chip away little by little. Hand more power to the president and claim it's for the voters. while simultaneously ensuring they get to select which voters actually matter. Because what's really happening here is simple. It's a group of people with specific beliefs who are angry that the rest of the country doesn't adhere to those beliefs. Like, it should be noted that Kevin Roberts, who is, again, the president of the Heritage Foundation and one of the authors of Project 2025, is a religious extremist who is closely connected

to Opus Day, a weird little freak group within Catholic. that believes in ending the separation of church and state. They're the villains in that book movie about that symbol guy, hunting a paint art to expose that other book. You know the one. This is to say that Project 2025 is ultimately a wish list for a small group of Christian nationalists, a bunch of largely unpopular ideas

that they plan to inflict on America through this unitary executive theory where the president gets to exist outside the rule of law or governing. And they are 100% Christian nationalists. Russell Vote is actually quite clear on this. He once told Charlie Kirk, unlike most pejoratives, it describes something that's true. We are Christians who are nationalists. We are people who believe that we have a Christian nation. I mean, Christian nationism would probably be the most accurate aspect of what I believe. Here's a clip of him proudly claiming the term Christian nationalist.

The phrasing is too accurate to run away from the term. So you will see me diving into it to say, let's talk about this. I'm a Christian. I am a nationalist. And so we have a, we were meant to be a Christian nation. He's a Christian nationalist. He loves that about him. And to big quotes, fix the country to align with his vision, he wants to consolidate power into the executive. A Christian nation run by specifically this guy. Vote justifies this by saying we are in a post-constitutional moment in our country, citing some vague concept of what the founders truly wanted as opposed to where we are now,

saying the right needs to throw off the precedents and legal paradigms that have wrongly developed over the last 200 years. In other words, he thinks the last 200, years of America have been bad and that we need to go back and reinterpret the Constitution based on vague logic that he claims to have some understanding of. Quote, originalism should not just be interpreting the words in their original meaning. It should be to understand the logic of the original constitution and how these authorities should be used unencumbered by the scar tissue resulting from decades of bad cases and bad statesmen. It's like jazz. We

is like jizz. It's the words they didn't use, I guess. I want to emphasize how freaking dangerous this is. He's claiming that legal precedent laws, legislation can and should all be overridden based on his Christian nationalist interpretation of the Constitution, not on what was actually written, but the logic he can divine from it. This is the sort of twisted reasoning that allows someone to read in the First Amendment, Congress shall make no law respecting and establishment of religion and conclude, hey, I know what the words say, but the logic behind them is that we are and should be a Christian nation. It's a game of Calvin Ball, but with our Constitution. I really can't stress this enough, and we'll stress it many times in this video.

It's just a handful of people who don't like what the world is, and instead of going to therapy, think they get to force their version on everyone else. It's the lawmaking equivalent of that Twilight Zone kid. They're crying foul on the whole system, and the reason people listen to them is because they aren't entirely wrong about the system being broken. But they don't want to make the game fair, rather they just want to skew it to favor them. It's Elon Musk buying Twitter. At the end of the day, it's just that.

It's someone rich enough to rig things in their favor by appealing to people's general frustrations with the system in place. They promise that it'll be super democratic. you know, to the people they want to listen to. Because the very telling thing about Project 2025 is that it doesn't just say that. Again, it's 900 pages long. That's not 900 pages just about how the president should have more power.

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I'm hip. Birds don't like me, it seems, but otherwise I am cool. Also, fuck birds, feathers, what is that? Furs and a hair, choose one. So it's time to actually open Project 2025 and look at the spoilers, bad policies it recommends. Starting with the stuff we've already implemented. As I mentioned, the Trump administration has already enacted

or is enacting many of Project 2025's goals. Specifically, 128 objectives completed and 68 in progress as of this being filmed, so who knows where we're at now, if the White House is even still there. Heck, we could all be fish people by now. The birds would love that, I bet. Luckily, this is being monitored by Project 2025 tracker, a website made by independent journalists who have meticulously connected goals in Project

2025 to actual policies and actions taken by the Trump administration. We'll include a link to where you can support them and check them out. Go give them a kiss if they and you are into that. Because there's a lot to go through, an onslaught of policy. The flood the zone strategy that by design makes things difficult to track. So in the interest of time, I'll just give you some of the highlights, which is, Still a lot, so I'll do it all in song. A song that has no melody, rhythm, and is in my normal cadence.

Here we go. Immigration. All good things, I'm sure. Oh, sorry, title. Opposite. As you can imagine, Project 2025 is not keen on immigration. It proposes taking the rules of Title 42 by which America can expel anyone from a country with a health crisis.

and apply it to non-health reasons. It's very big on punishing immigrant children specifically. They want to remove the Flores Settlement Agreement, which is basically a set of rules for how to humanely house migrant children. The Flores Settlement Agreement was a bit of an inconvenience during Trump's first term, and so they tried to get rid of it and still are trying to do that.

In its place, Project 2025 proposes, quote, large-scale use of temporary facilities, for example, tents. which just so happens to be what Trump is doing by lowering the standards of housing for immigration detainees, allowing for tents to be used, and increasing funding for concentration camps. Meanwhile, they're following Project 2025's goal of restricting dangerous students from immigrating to the United States who come here to pay our universities tuition and learn. Menacingly! To quote the thing, ICE should end its current cozy deference to educational,

institutions and remove security risks from the program. This requires working with the Department of State to eliminate or significantly reduce the number of visas issued to foreign students from enemy nations. Too long has ICE been cozy with our educational institutions. They're like Tom Holland and Zendaya. Break it up you two. Gosh, you're so adorable.

Trump is also making it harder to be granted asylum, including new fees. and limitations, effectively shutting down most asylum claims. He's sending National Guard and active duty personnel to the border, increasing funding for ICE and detention centers. This is, of course, exactly what Project 2025 recommended, quote, Congress should mandate and fund additional bed space for alien detainees. ICE should be funded for a significant increase in detention space, raising the daily available number of beds to 100,000. It also said that. that quote, ICE should be directed to take custody

of all aliens with records for felonies, crimes of violence, DUIs, previous removals, and any other crime that is considered a national security or public safety threat as defined under current laws. In other words, everything you're seeing with ICE, the family's being dragged out and kidnapped,

these terrifying camps, students grabbed by dudes and masks, just shooting people in the face. All the stuff. You know the stuff. That's all Project 2025. It's hard to even go into it all here. Also, we kind of have in the past.

So we won't, because we can't. But we want to, but we can't. And we have, so we won't. Next thing. DEI, more like PEI. Project 2025 talks about DEI a lot. Of course it does. How could it not?

It's like Quentin Tarantino not having feet in his films. To quote, one of the many times they bring it up, under the Obama and Biden administrations, there were not enough close-ups of feet. I'm sorry, that's not what it says. It says, under the Obama and Biden administrations, labor policy was yet another target of the diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI Revolution. Under this managerialist left-wing race and gender ideology, every aspect of labor policy became a vehicle with which to advance race, sex, and other classifications, and discriminate against conservative and religious viewpoints on these subjects and others, including pro-life views. The next administration should eliminate

every one of these wrongful and burdensome ideological projects. Discriminate against viewpoints that want to discriminate. Perfect. Art, no notes. Of course, first of all, DEI didn't start under Obama or Biden. That term has been around since at least the 90s, and some version of that term has been around even longer. You know, like fucking civil rights, et cetera. And when you realize that, it kind of makes it that much more fucked up

that Trump and Project 2025 have worked so hard to get rid of it. It's not some fringe, radical thing Obama came up with, right? It's America. It's an attempt to address all that other stuff that's unfortunately also America. Anyway, for now, Project 2025 wants to, for the most part, go back to a time where we ignored non-binary and trans people. More specifically, they want to revert Title IX.

Quote, restore the Title IX regulations promulgated by then-Secretary Betsy DeVos on May 19th, 2020, and define sex under Title IX to mean only biological sex, recognized at birth. It's real baby shit tantrum stuff. Make it how it was, they cried. And Trump listened. The Department of Education, what is left of it at least, announced that it would go back to pre-Biden Title IX rules, and Trump issued an executive order trying to erase the existence of trans and non-binary people. And they keep going, banning trans people from the military, ending the funding for research and data collection on gender identity. Because if there's no data, Well, they don't exist.

It's peekaboo rules. They're currently trying to allow adoption agencies to discriminate against people due to their sexual orientation and gender identity by allowing them to partner with faith-based entities. And yes, that's all in Project 2025 as well. Quote, unfortunately, many of the faith-based adoption agencies that serve these children are under threat from lawsuits

or else their licenses and contracts have been halted because they cannot in good conscience place children in every household due to their religious belief that a child should have a married mother and father. Those poor faith-based adoption agencies just want to discriminate. Stop discriminating against them. And the tyranny. Anyway, much like DEI, the word faith-based comes up a lot in Project 2025, as you can imagine. Almost as much as it uses terms like DEI and CRT and woke is this vague catch-all label to justify cutting just about whatever. It speaks several times of the great awokening and says America is divided between woke revolutionaries and those who believe in the ideals of the American Revolution, which is a

really bizarre way to phrase it. Like, it seems like maybe they needed a broad way to define American values that coincidentally existed before stuff like civil rights and women's suffrage. Because that stuff, that's part of the woke revolution, you realize. Remember, these are people who think the Constitution needs to be reinterpreted and that the last 200 or so years have been a mistake. That's why they never really define wokeness beyond, like, inclusivity. And this is all to say that it is completely in line with what the Trump administration is doing. this broad use of DEI and wokeness to attack pretty much anyone they want,

which is ultimately an attack on all of American history after the revolution, also known as America. And speaking of failing to learn basic history, let's talk about what they're doing to education. Screwing kids, not in a weird way. Right, we wouldn't want people to think Republicans fuck kids. It's called the Phoebefiles, people, totally different. So as of early last year, about one-third of the 50 goals targeting higher education in Project

2025 were already being enacted by the Trump administration, including firing the whole office of special education and rehabilitative services, significantly weakening the individuals with disabilities education act or IDEA. This is at least a part of what Project 2025 called for, saying federal lawmakers should move idea oversight and implementation to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Officials should then consider revising idea to require that a child's portion of the federal taxpayer spending under the law be made available to families so parents can choose how and where

a child learns. The plan here is to kick special education to the states themselves and give parents money directly to spend on these schools. And that's exactly what they are trying to do by gutting the Department of Education. The problem is that not all states, have the infrastructure to do this, nor does this make things easier on families. For one, any public school with a special needs program is getting way less support. But also, if you're the parent of a kid with special needs, you probably don't want to spend time shopping around,

perhaps having to drive extremely far to find a private school that offers special education. They don't want the government to just hand them a check and say, here, you figure it out. That's why public schools should just have special education, right? But boy, they just love to kick it to the free market, don't they? They love to act like passing the money to families actually goes to the people and opens them up to this magical free market of infinite possibilities. But what they are actually doing here is taking federal money and passing it on to private schools, right? Likely the only private school near them. It's like how they think we want to shop around hospitals when they're not.

is an emergency. Sit there and yelp prices while we're bleeding out because we got drunk with a nail gun at one, maybe two times. On the subject of free market bullshit and bad youthful decisions, Project 2025 has this to say about student loans. Quote, the new administration must end the practice of acting like the federal student loan portfolio is a campaign fund to curry political support and votes. The new administration must end abuses in the loan forgiveness programs. Barrowers should be expected to repay their loans. So they're ending student loan forgiveness for those who work for non-profit organizations and tried to end forgiveness for students on income-based repayment plans, which is now stalled after they got sued because fighting back does work sometimes, folks. But

speaking of screwing the poor, screwing the poor. So, Trump and his administration are enforcing stricter requirements for SNAP, shutting down USAID, while simultaneously protecting evangelical Christian organizations receding foreign aid money from cuts. That SNAP stuff is pretty much in line with Project 2025, which called for the program to be reformed. What's surprising is that ending USAID is actually more extreme than Project 2025, which argued that USAID should be used explicitly to promote capitalism and partner with, you guessed it, Faith-based organizations, which is kind of wild. Project 2025 was like, hey, we should change what USAID focuses on and who it helps.

And Trump was like, that's too hard and I don't want to help anyone. Let's just nuke it. He's also trying to ban any mixed status families from living in federally assisted housing, which was, in fact, something Project 2025 wanted. Quote, the Office of the Secretary should recommend's proposed regulation put forward under the Trump administration that would prohibit non-citizens, including all mixed status families, from living in all federally assisted housing. That means if you're married to an immigrant, well, fuck you, I guess. Speaking of the legislative equivalent of the phrase, fuck you, they're also trying to end the

Housing First HUD policy, as Project 2025 wanted. Housing First is exactly what it sounds like, giving housing to people who need it so they can live safely and focus on addiction or other rehabilitation. efforts, which objectively is the best way to actually help people living on the streets. This isn't a matter of ideology. If you want people who are homeless and have addiction problems to get clean, it's been found that the best way to do that is to give them a place to live and then treat the disease. You know, hierarchy of need stuff, copyright Jordan Balthazar Peterson. Project 2025, of course, proposes the opposite, saying, end housing first policies so that the

department prioritizes mental health and substance abuse issues before jumping to permanent interventions in homelessness. It's weird. It's like saying bake the cake and then add the eggs. That's simply not objectively how to do it. Assuming they earnestly want to help people with addiction, they are not going to do that here. You can't treat people for addiction during the day and then send them back to sleep on the street at night. If they think that housing is like too expensive, well, seems more expensive to do it wrong. So, I don't know. Boo, says Project 2025.

Boo everything that helps. Especially unions. Screwing workers. No surprise here, Project 2025 doesn't like unions very much. To quote it, federal labor law offers no alternatives to labor unions, whose politicking and adversarial approach appeals to few, whereas most workers report that they prefer a more cooperative model, run jointly with management that focuses solely on workplace issues.

The next administration should make new options available to workers and push Congress to pass labor reforms that create non-union employee involvement organizations, as well as a mechanism for worker representation on corporate boards. Although, in fairness, that's not that extreme. Okay, it is that extreme. It's just less extreme than Trump stripping federal workers of their union organizing rights. They're also making it more difficult for anyone to unionize by ending support for a card check, a simple way for employees to form a union by having the majority of employees sign a union card,

making it harder for employers to interfere during the more lengthy secret ballot process. And yes, that part is in Project 2025. Quote, Congress should discard card check as the basis of union recognition and mandate the secret ballot exclusively. The worker stuff is interesting because even Project 2025 will recognize that it sucks to be a worker in this country and recommend stuff like better child care access, but only provided that either corporations and businesses provide it, or money that would go to universal daycare would be given to parents. Quote, either to offset the cost of staying home with a child or to pay for familial in-home child care, which means you'd only have child care if you have a job, a stay-at-home parent, a young and spry gam-gam, or can afford a nanny. Because even if they can see a problem, their solution still has to be something that sucks

and is stupid and usually helps rich people more than it helps anyone else. Oh, health care's bad, people can't afford rent or child care. Well, let's think of a way to fix that as long as it also benefits the wealthiest people we personally know. Oh, right, helping rich people. We should talk about that. Helping the rich be more rich so they can get rich. Specifically, helping those defenseless corporations do crimes. Project 2025 says that while the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, quote,

makes a significant contribution to law enforcement efforts. It also does demonstrable, substantial, and widespread economic harm. Right. Why don't they think of all the precious money they are hurting by stopping these financial crimes? That's certainly something other law enforcement agencies take into account. It also advocates for Congress to repeal the Corporate Transparency Act, which is meant to make sure businesses report accurate information about ownership

in order to help curtail money laundering and tax evasion, which are surely our president's least favorite crimes. Basically, they argue that it's bad for the economy to like, make sure corporations don't break the law. Whose economy? They don't say. And sure enough, Trump has ended domestic enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act. They've gotten rid of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because fuck consumers, which, yes, Project 22,

25 calls a highly politicized, damaging, and utterly unaccountable federal agency and recommended abolishing. They're reducing the corporate income tax rate and are trying to privatize the FAA, all in Project 2025. Although, to be F and B about the F and AA, they never outright say, we should privatize the FAA, but rather that it should operate more like a business because they love saying that. It's their pickle rick, slash, don't have a cowman.

slash, oh me, oh my, I'm a Fred of Flintstone. That reminds me of some other stuff they love saying stuff and things and stuff about. Environment enshrinement. No surprises here, Trump is pulling out from the Paris Agreement and UN Framework on Climate Change and cancelling over 130 climate and clean energy contracts abroad. This is, yes, directly in line with Project 2025, which says, the next conservative administration should withdraw the U.S. from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement,

and also complains constantly about the resources we're using on clean energy. Quote, reform is needed because DOE, instead of focusing on core energy and security issues, has been spending billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize renewable energy developers and investors, thereby making Americans less energy secure and distorting energy markets. Well, good news for Project 2025, bad news for everyone else, and everything else, I guess. The government is abolishing the Office of Domestic Climate Policy and increasing sales of offshore oil and gas. Maybe oil from our new 51st state, Venezuela? To quote Project 2025, the next administration must work to unite the hemisphere against this significant,

but underestimated threat in the southern hemisphere. Interesting, they don't mention drugs. They just say, like, they're communist or whatever. So I guess Trump went a little above and beyond there, but enough about things that just happened so we're adding it on the fly. Back to things, they want to happen and also are indeed happening. They're ending subsidies for electric vehicles and cutting subsidies for renewable energy, while allowing for logging and road construction for 59 million acres of national forest land by rescinding the roadless rule. They're reducing standards of energy efficiency for appliances and fuel economy for transportation,

reducing air pollution reduction requirements and drastically cutting the EPA. Yes, that's all in Project 2025, even the part about the freaking appliances. Remember they're mad at stoves or something, right? People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times. That people have to flush their toilet 15 times. We won't talk about toilets, but you know that's 10, 15, but we don't talk about that.

Remember that? Remember the president's massive, unflushable dumps? What else? Oh, they're killing the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights and trying to rescind the 2009 EPA endangerment finding that concluded, greenhouse gases are bad for public health. They're also trying to allow companies to destroy endangered species habitats, because it's important to be as cartoonishly Captain Planet Evil as possible.

Again, that's all stuff Project 2025, 1,000, because it's a document absolutely seething with hate for the notion that climate change is a real thing. At one point, it refers to the National Weather Service, National Ocean Service, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, the National Marine Fisheries Service, and Office of Marine and Aviation Operations, and NOAA Corps, as, quote, a colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry, and as such is harmful to future US prosperity. Okay, but those are just science.

They're talking about organizations that just measure reality as being part of the dastardly alarm industry for climate change. Really think about that, really think about what they are saying. Rulers are in the pocket of big measure, right? It's like calling a smoke detector a tool of the fire alarm industry, which is that literally true actually.

They're called fire alarms, you get it. But you, okay, so you get what I'm saying, and I don't need to explain myself actually to you, so I won't explain myself to anyone. Let's move on. Health. Right, if there's anything they hate more than paying to restore and maintain the environment,

it's paying to restore and maintain the public's health. Why don't they just use all their money and congressional health care plans to fix themselves, you know? Bootstraps. So Trump is pulling out from the World Health Organization, enforcing work requirements for Medicaid. They're also automating the VA healthcare claims process using AI, which definitely won't efficiently increase

the rates of denials. Everything I just said is in Project 2025, which is very critical of the WHO and Medicaid and wants to automate healthcare. It's all in there except for the suggestion of AI specifically. Even Project 2025 wouldn't do that. They would, however, go after women's reproductive care a whole lot.

Project 2025, as you can imagine, is not in favor of abortions and generally promotes very old school pro-family ideals. It went after the Department of Health and Human Services for protecting physicians and hospitals that perform abortions in violation of state law if they deem those abortions necessary to stabilize the women's health.

They call that baseless. They also specify that use of public monies for transgender surgeries or to facilitate abortion for service members should be ended. And sure enough, we're now ending support for service members to travel to obtain an abortion. We're also limiting prosecution of people violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, making it easier for people to physically block or intimidate people trying to access reproductive health care. Of course, soon there won't be any clinics for people to block because they're now trying to end funding for Planned Parenthood

and are trying to allow employers to deny health insurance coverage for contraception on religious grounds. all in Project... 2025. Boy, I am sick of saying those words. I should try something else. Like P25 or just project or something. Project 20... I don't know. Anyway, can't get an abortion,

but also can't use contraception. Hmm. Seems bad and stupid. Like it was designed by bad and stupid people. Do we have any more bad and stupid ideas in Project 2025 that America is doing? Down. With Elmo.

Of course, Project 2025 hates the corporation for public broadcasting. Not because it's state funded, mind you, but because it's, you guessed it, woke. Or to quote the thing, PBS and NPR do not even bother to run programming that would attract conservatives. That's why they are mad, because it doesn't pander to them and instead supports woke stuff, like, you know, reading and empathy, facts and so on. They talk about it like Mr. Burns talks about the sun. Quote, every Republican president since Richard Nixon

has tried to strip the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CPB of taxpayer funding, and conservatives will thus reward a president who eliminates this tyrannical situation. My goodness, it goes for pages about how much they hate it and how to get rid of it, like it's fucking saron. There's even a drawing of Big Bird being executed on live television, I'm sorry, no, that last thing was from Warmbo's Dream Journal. Anyway, Trump is ending all federal funding for NPR and PBS.

He did it. It's done. Literally, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting just voted to dissolve itself. The Trump admin is also removing protections for journalists involved in leak investigations, which is also mentioned in P25. Sounds weird, actually, to call it that, Project 2025. Also, they're ending the independence of the U.S. agency for global media, turning it into a partisan state-aligned media by having one American news

create the news feed to the previously independent Voice of America International Broadcast. Because again, they are fine with state-funded media. If it's theirs, if you're wondering how that's gonna go, here's an OAN host suggesting mass executions for people who stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump. What happens to all these people who are responsible for overthrowing the election?

What are the consequences for traitors who meddled with our sacred democratic process and tried to steal power by taking away the voices of the American people? What happens to them? Well, in the past, America had a very good solution for dealing with such traitors. Execution.

Oh, we want to execute people trying to stop the transfer of power, you want to play that game? I can play that game, you know. It's a fun game. Anyway, Project 2025 doesn't name OAN specifically, but rather advocates for the U.S. Agency for Global Media to be controlled by the State Department, as opposed to being an independent entity. Which they got. And then some, because this newly run agency for global media is also conducting HR investigations of Voice of America journalists for any comments deemed critical of Trump, presumably while polishing guns and twirling nooses so these journalists know the consequences of being traitors. You see how it all feels really petty and not

at all interested in what the American people want. I guess if you're a conservative, some of this stuff matters to you. Maybe you're really fired up about killing endangered animals. I don't know. I don't know your fetish. But all of this, everything we just covered after the ad break, is just the stuff they have done already. There is so, so much more weird and petty and devastating stuff they want or plan to do. After all, it stands to reason that Trump will keep playing Project 2025's greatest hits.

So let's do one of them breaks. Come back from the break, smile, really shine that beard, don't think about birds, and talk about the future of Project 2025. Yay! Woo-wee! 2026 came in hot.

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Hey, we're back. Everything's cool. you're cool, we're just some cool people not thinking about birds and talking about Project 2025, which isn't cool, uncool, uncool, I'm told they say. Before the B, which is short for bird, I mean B, I mean break. We went through all the gross and weird and bad stuff from Project 2025 that the Trump administration has already done despite saying he barely knows anything about it and it's a Democrat hoax or whatever. And it's a lot. Like we barely even scratched the surface there. And so logically,

and despite Trump's previous lies about Project 2025, they are going to do a whole lot more. So what, perchance, is awaiting us? Let's get a little visit from the ghost of Christofascist future. Project 2025 Vision Board, Manifesting Destiny. Hey, you. Yes, you holding the cup of your own piss. Don't you think we give too much high-quality food to kill?

kids in this country? Me too. Well, we can expect more weakening of regulations like those on baby formula, as well as reducing kids access to free school meals by means testing the shit out of them. And like, sure, that might be harmful to you if you're struggling, but have you considered that a little bit of starvation is a great motivator? Nothing helps your productivity like low blood sugar. And is health care not scammy enough or confusing enough for older people? Don't worry, Project 2025 plans on making Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option, making it easier for private insurers to scam seniors into signing up for expensive options with poor coverage. And in terms of the regulations that do exist to protect seniors from bad Medicare

Advantage plans, they would like to remove burdensome policies that micromanage MA plans. Burdensome, huh? Burdensome for whom, motherfuckers? They also want to end government negotiated price controls for drug coverage in Medicare, because we know when the free market decides drug prices are totally reasonable. And because poor people truly have it too good in the country, they want to put time limits and caps on Medicaid

to quote, disincentivize permanent dependence, regardless of, say, a lifetime disability that someone has that would, you know, make them need help for their whole lives. A bit more of that old, Bootstraps attitude might actually make someone become less paralyzed. Maybe the disabled simply need a more grind-set attitude. Have you simply hustled harder not to be an amputee?

Speaking of accuracy in medical science, they want to correct the science around abortion by changing what CDC researchers have previously concluded, which is that abortion is less risky than pregnancy, saying it should fund studies into the risks and complications of abortion and ensure that it corrects and does not promote misinformation regarding the comparative health and psychological benefits of childbirth versus the health and psychological risks of intentionally taking a human life through abortion.

Because that's how science works. You start out with the result you want, then you nudge data around until you prove it. The scientific-ish method. But look, once that baby is forced out, they're planning on making big improvements to their own education, and by that I mean, make sure to turn more school children into soldiers. No, really, that's really in there. Project 2025 has astutely observed that recruitment is down, in part,

because we don't shove it down kids' throats hard enough. It proposes we, quote, improve military recruiters' access to secondary schools and require completion of the armed services vocational aptitude battery, the military entrance examination, by all students in schools that were federal funding. That's right. They want to require your kid to take the military entrance examination in any school that wants money, a program I like to call, no child left behind enemy lines, rimshot, cablamo, blood dripping sounds, crying parents. Other education improvements include making sure that schools must be completely beholden to so-called parents' rights, saying, parents' rights as their children's primary educators should be non-negotiable in

American schools. States, cities, and counties, school boards, union bosses, principals, and teachers who disagree should be immediately cut off from federal funds. Hey, who could argue with something called parents' rights? Definitely not one of those things that boils down to forcing schools to rat out gay or gender nonconforming students to potentially abusive parents. Children are their parents' property, see? That's why you can sell them. And schools must report to the parents on the property if it is not operating in the way that the user would like. This will be given even further teeth by Project 2025's plans for a federal Parents Bill of Rights.

They don't say exactly what would be in this Bill of Rights, but they cite Georgia, Florida, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Arizona, as states with Parents Bill of Rights to model after, which appear to give parents more control over censoring school materials, forces schools to expose students who seek mental health services to their parents and bans discussion of anything gay or about gender identity for elementary schoolers. So yeah, that's what they mean by parents' rights and not, for example, allowing parents to support their trans kids. In fact, literally right after all the whining about parents in alienable rights, Project 2025 wants to take away parents' rights to support their child in their transition, saying,

Allowing parents or physicians to reassign the sex of a minor is child abuse and must end. So apparently, there is some negotiation when it comes to parents' rights. It's parents' rights in the sense that parents have the right to parent the right-wing way that Christophascists want and in no other manner, and schools should not be able to teach kids anything that would challenge this perspective.

Because again, this is all about the wishes of a specific group of people and not America as a whole. There's no guiding principle here beyond partisan politics, so it's filled with more contradictions than the film Tenet. Speaking of protecting elementary schoolers from learning about stuff, they also want to eliminate the Head Start program that offers low-income kids early education and support for parents. But at least they'll never hear the term gay penguins. Lessons about hot heteropenguine fucking are allowed. Are penguins birds? Doesn't matter.

Also, this just in a federal judge just issued a preliminary injunction blocking Trump Trump's attacks on head start. So kind of good news about this one thing on this one day, for now. What else? Oh, they want to add a citizenship question to the US census, a move that many demographic researchers say will cause huge gaps in the data as participation drops among those who may be afraid that answering no would make them a target. And gee, I wonder why they might think that.

In other census shenanigans, they want the government to specifically work with conservative groups and voices to increase response rate, specifically of conservatives. Statisticians might lament the egregious sampling bias here, but have they considered shutting up instead? They want to get rid of ARPA-E, the Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Department of Energy, because why would the Department of Energy need to research energy? We have energy already! Just use an outlet!

They're also weirdly specific about wanting to expand horseback mounted border patrol for CBP and want to clear the records of border patrol agents who were accused of whipping migrants, specifically the people in this video. No matter your view on the border, it seems ineffective to like bully people and try to run over their kids with a horse, but Project 2025 brings up this event specifically, saying the secretary should clear the records and personnel files of those who were falsely accused by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of whipping migrants and issue a formal apology on behalf of DHS and CBP. Again, weird and specific, grievance-based policy. One of the authors clearly saw this on

Fox News and plugged it in there as an official stance. We here at Project 2025 actually think it's good to try to trample kids on horses. Anywho, other things that suck. Yeah, they want to allow pharmacists to refuse to offer contraception, emergency contraception, and miscarriage and abortion medication by having the Office for Civil Rights abandon the obligations under federal civil rights laws to ensure access to comprehensive reproductive health care services guidance. That requires retail pharmacies that receive government money to actually fulfill prescriptions women get from their doctors for things like contraception, but also for emergency situations such as miscarriage and ectopic pregnancies.

Medications prescribed by doctors in these instances, like misoprostal to help pass a miscarriage, methotrexate to halt a deadly ectopic pregnancy, and antibiotics must be provided by the pharmacies. For now. Because Project 2025 wants to allow pharmacies receiving federal funding to deny women these prescribed medications. This could quite literally kill women's suffering miscarriage

or ectopic pregnancies, situations in which there is no viable baby regardless of your beliefs. They also want to end ACA coverage of the week after pill, calling it an abortifacient. And to be clear, that is not an abortion pill and cannot cause an abortion. Not that it particularly fucking matters to these people who seek to control women based on their childlike understanding of reproduction and anatomy. The human soul is stored in the balls.

It is when I do it. Not even sure what that means. Speaking of things stored in the balls, they want to make pornography illegal and send anyone who makes porn to prison. No, really. To quote Project 2025, 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. Again, cancer. Stressed it enough, this document is just what a small group of ultra-religious freaks want.

And you see there how they, for some reason, want to punish librarians for spreading porn? Like, that's an actual problem? You get a lot of porn from librarians, do you? Well, you can kind of guess that their definition of porn is absurdly broad. Because they vaguely reference transgender ideology as a form of pornography. Because in this case, porn is whatever they want it to be, unless Grock is doing. it, then it's just funny memes, I guess. Anyway, sorry gooners, the people currently running our country want to take us back to the 1800s, or failing that, the 80s, because they also want to bring back

the war on drugs, baby, to rigorously prosecute the simple possession of distributable quantities of drugs. If you're wondering what counts as distributable quantities, the answer is, it depends on the state and is highly subjective, but some places have the, more than four grams as the cutoff. Man, they don't like anything. I mean, except for child labor, of course. Project 2025 envisions a future in which children have the right to work dangerous jobs,

and their reasoning is delightful. They propose, long quote, Some young adults show an interest in inherently dangerous jobs. Current rules forbid many young people, even if their family is running the business from working in such jobs. This results in worker shortages, in dangerous fields and often discourages otherwise interested young workers from trying the more

dangerous job. With parental consent and proper training, certain young adults should be allowed to learn and work in more dangerous occupations. This would give a green light to training programs and build skills in teenagers who may want to work in these fields. Literally, think of the children who yearn for the minds. That's two memes and ones. That's kind of cool, all right? And of course, Project 2025 isn't really into adult workers' rights either. They want to weaken union protections that prevent employers from retaliating against employee union activities, and they want to allow certain companies to not pay overtime, and to allow state and local governments to opt out of federal minimum wage and overtime requirements with waivers to encourage experimentation. No,

not that kind of experimentation, you sickos. You're going to wind up in prison for that. No, experimentation to see what happens when you exploit workers more. Like, does it make more money for companies? I bet it does. Wouldn't that be cool for them? You can't know unless you do some experiments though, all right? You gotta get the sciences guys out there and do the, you test it out. They plan to get rid of the Office of Accountability and whistleblower protection for veterans

and outsource VA care to private companies. They want to reduce the Federal Trade Commission's power to enforce antitrust, laws or just get rid of the FTC entirely. Repeal Dodd-Frank required reports on mine safety, conflict minerals, and CEO pay ratios, and to stop regulating banks by abolishing the Federal Reserve to engage in free banking. I'm so tired.

And yet, I'm not done, never done, not until I die. I mentioned before that they are not fans of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, so they want to just get rid of that. They also want to private time. the National Weather Service because they want to fucking privatize everything. They also want to downsize national monuments to allow for greater deforestation of public land. Don't worry though, that timber won't be used to build affordable housing

because they also want to eliminate the housing supply fund which help pay for the building of new affordable homes. And if you're concerned that the rapture just isn't coming soon enough, Lord knows I am, they want to ramp up our nuclear bomb game, developing new war-harm rejecting the comprehensive test ban treaty so that we can go back to the good old days of the Cold War where countries tested nuclear bombs all the time. Like when they were kids, you see?

Because again, again, again, again, again, again. Just a bunch of old Christian nationalists making a wish list of stuff they personally want, most of which involves winding the clock back on America and sometimes just odd grudges. Like for some reason, they want to end protections for sage grouses? Yes, they specifically call out sage grass protections,

quote, seed to Western states' jurisdiction over the greater sage grouse, recognizing the on-the-ground expertise of states and preventing use of the sage grouse to interfere with public access to public land and economic activity. You can't let those small birds push us around anymore. Look at them.

Look at those things. This male greater sage grouse is trying to attract a mate. He impresses the lady sagegrouse by filling bulbous yellow sacks with air and thrusting his head, all whilst shaking his gorgeous tail feathers. Okay. Well, I like birds again, I guess. But only the sexy ones. Alas, Trump is removing their protections.

So I guess this counts as something they already did. We won the war on busty birds. I really can't stress this enough. Project 2025 is the brainchild of a handful of people, Kevin Roberts and Russell vote, to name a few, who have this ultra-specific and ultra-religious view on what America should be. It's based entirely around personal grudges, as opposed to some higher and educated view of the government.

Like, a great example is from Kevin Roberts' book, Dawn's Early Light, and his weird hatred of dog parks. In it, he rants about, how the dog park is a symbol of American moral decay, because there's a combined playground slash dog park in DC, separated by some fencing. He complains about this fence surrounding the playground, saying it's caged in so that the canine progeny

of childless dog parents can run about. Something Roberts complains, perfectly sums up the anti-family culture shaping legislation, regulation, and enforcement throughout our sprawling government. Now, I'm no politicker, but maybe we shouldn't base national policy off of one guy's grudge against a local dog park. Also, does he think that families don't have dogs? Also also, and this isn't important, but it is super important.

Back in his 30s, Kevin Roberts apparently bragged to his colleagues at New Mexico State University that he once, quote, took a shovel and killed a neighbor's dog that was barking too much. Roberts would later deny this and claim that he simply felt threatened by the neighbor dog who was eventually stopped by his owner. So that means that Kevin Roberts either kill the dog or more likely made up a story about killing a dog because he thought that made him seem cool and impressive. The point of this story being that Kevin Roberts is a weird dog-hating freak. Why are they all such proud dog-hating freaks? Why do they think killing dogs is so cool?

What is wrong with these people? Anyway, I'm genuinely surprised that Project 2025 doesn't have a page and a half about dog park fencing in it. Because so much of the rights grievances feel like this. This vibe-based assessment of the state of America based on the personal perspective of unpleasant people. Also, weird,

He cares about kids in cages in this instance and not, you know, in other literal cases. But again, their philosophies and Project 2025 are filled with contradictions because it's not about broad rules of governing, but rather shaping the country to their personal preferences. And luckily for them, Trump shares enough of that vision that they can funnel their weird ideas through him. And to them, we don't really have a choice in the matter. even openly talks about how he wants a Second American Revolution that will be hopefully bloodless.

Let's say someone is inspired to go participate in this, but they say, Steve, Kevin, I can't, as Kevin likes to say, tithe two or four years to go to D.C., but I want to be part of what I call the Second American Revolution, hopefully bloodless or no more blood than has been spilled by the left. Duda said this multiple times. Here's an even scarier version. that we are in the process of the Second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be. Right. Because going back to Trump during his campaign, going back to how he pretended like he barely knew anything about Project 2025, and then after he got elected, everyone was like, psych, we're doing it. The reason he had to pretend is obvious. It's because the

vision in Project 2025, that of a Christian nationalist society that rewards corporations while punishing the poor, screws over veterans and coal miners, deports hardworking non-criminal immigrants, and replaces them with child labor. Make sure there's a steady supply of child labor by taking birth control away from women, privatizes everything, destroys national forests, also kills baby bears. Well, it's not popular. And what's more, they know it's not popular. Here's Roberts at an Opus Day event, explicitly recognizing this fact.

Well, let me speak about the hardest one. It's harder than abortion. It's harder than marriage. And if we're thinking about all of the policy arenas in which we have a hard time using the vocabulary of our faith to apply to public policy, this one is the hardest. And that's contraception. I mean, so much so that in my career in public policy, when family policy comes up, the question of family formation comes up, the question of whatever the role of the state is in that comes up. if I were as a Roman Catholic, if I were sitting with my family or with friends in this room in a Catholic setting, I could speak in a certain way about the teaching we all believe. We may find,

you know, a difficult teaching, but we accept it. We believe in it. We love it. But even in a politically conservative setting, that can be a very difficult thing to advance. A majority of Roman Catholics don't believe in that teaching if public opinion surveys are the case. is, there's nothing wrong with believing, I don't know, a lot of things. I think chemtrails are birdfarts. See, it's fine. There's nothing wrong with being religious, too. There's something wrong with the fact that I can't seem to find a single religion that believes chemtrails are birdfarts, but the real problem, of course, is that so many people, specifically conservatives seem to think that they are being oppressed unless everyone follows their religion and their

morals. Again, it's people in a secular society wanting to apply their personal and often religion-based rules to everyone, even if that includes their weird anger at dog parks and erotic birds. Roberts knows that what he believes doesn't reflect what most people believe. So he uses something called radical incrementalism to force his will on the people. Not my term for it, here he is flat out explaining it. There's a philosophy toward public policy change that I call radical incrementalism. When I was doing public policy in Texas, I would call this the enchilada theory. I'm a big boy. I don't want half an enchilada. But if I can go get one in a piece of legislation and come back and get the other half next session, sign me up for that all day as a political conservative. Radical

incrementalism. Go get 50% if you can. I'm just going to let you know. doing conservative public policy that's rare. Although it has happened this year, we've had nine states, eight states that have passed universal school choice. At Heritage, we consider that the whole enchilada. Other states are passing half. Texas will probably pass half next month. You put that on any policy, even apply it to abortion, even apply it to marriage, apply it to religious liberty. And maybe you're not getting half or a quarter or 10% of the enchilada, you're getting a morsel. But at least you got the morsel. The point is to tie it to that to a strategy that will let you get more of that enchilada. Now I'm making myself hungry.

Ah, yeah, fun guy. He made himself hungry talking about the concept of force feeding people his enchilada. Because that's what he's describing, right? He wants to force everyone to eat his Christian nationalist turds and realize that it's easier to do that if you give it to them little by little via a Trump-shaped spoon. It's why progressives often get very frustrated with and centrists for seeding ground under the idea that, well, they won't go that far with it. Yes, they will. That's the plan. It's the mouse to whom you shan't give a cookie.

This is why they knew to let Trump distance himself from Project 2025. This is why the Heritage Foundation is an organization that thinks in decades. And when you stand back and you look at the full scale of their wants, the ultimate destination, their policies are pointing. It's horrifying, right? It starts with going after trans people, then gay people, then women, children, then black people, and Jewish people, and anyone who isn't a white Christian adult male. And that circle will keep getting smaller and smaller and smaller. Because there's only like 25 white dudes they actually want to have power.

There's no stopping. They won't be satisfied until this is a Christian nationalist country, period. That's what's at the end of the path they are trying to bring us on. Even if we're just a few steps into the path, that's ultimately the end. So why even give them an inch? Not a single bite of the enchilada, spit that fucking thing out. Like, since we're all high right now,

here's a little thought experiment. Let's say you're in a room with the authors of Project 2025, or with Trump, or any conservative or Democrat, or whomever. I think a question we don't ask politicians enough is, What is your idea of a utopia? Like a Jetsons or Tomorrowland, perfect world? You can even call it heaven if you're a pervert like that. What do they think that would look like?

The thing that we as a society strive to make our world resemble. Are people homeless in that utopia? Do they starve? Do you even have to work in a utopia? Are people scared to love the people they love? To live the way they want to live? Do children work in minds in this utopia? Utopia? Do people have to pay for health insurance in order to get health care in this utopia?

Would we strip all the forests in this perfect world? Would this go extinct in a utopia? How can something be both balls and breasts? Incredible and erotic. God's paintbrush, am I right? You see my point, don't you? Project 2025 isn't a vision for a better society, but rather a game plan built by, and directly benefiting a small group of rich religious freaks at the expense of others. They know this, and so their plan is to trick people into accepting it, a Trojan horse of bad ideas.

And it's weird how when you think about most conservative ideas, they don't really lead to what most people envision as a utopia. Not to say that Democrats will lead us there either, or to say we'd ever actually achieve the perfect world. But we certainly should at least aim our country toward that horizon. And why would we ever accept a plan that doesn't? So maybe here in 2026, we keep that in mind.

We keep asking people what they think a perfect world is and think about how to get there. And most of all, we don't trust a single goddamn word these freaks say, these liars. When Trump says he doesn't know anything about Project 2026, don't believe it. I mean, obviously, you probably don't. the people watching.

But maybe moving forward, the media can actually respond to these liars with, we don't believe you. Or that's an obvious lie. Refuse to bite any of the enchilada. Fuck, now I'm hungry for an enchilada. He got me. Oh, ironic choice of food from Roberts when you consider what he wants to do to immigrants. Anyway, I'm going to go order an enchilada and then go look at bird porn.

And before you get any wild ideas, it's for. Sex reasons. Sorry, I feel like I said sex reasons. Sects reasons. Like, I'm looking at a specific sect of Christianity that's really into bird porn. Chirp, chirp, or whatever. That's the cum sound that the birds make.

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