This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Thoughts on Project 2025

Episode Date: September 9, 2024

If you're fortunate enough to not know what Project 2025 - a far-right-wing outline that would spell doom for the United States (and, honestly, the world) if put into action - this episode is for you.  Educate yourself before you go out and vote.

Hi, I'm Mike Chernivsky, and your listen to this podcast is Un Called For. All right. Hi, everybody. Welcome to the podcast. This is an episode. I don't know if I'm really wanted to do this episode. I feel like it's my duty to do it so that's that's what I'm going to do we're going to talk today about this project's 2025 thing for those you fortunate enough not to know about this basically if a certain convicted felon were to regain the presidency this is what He has a mind. Translation, we're pretty well screwed if this ever happens. All right.

And I'm not just on from a political, from the political opposite perspective, even though I am politically opposites of this guy. For those of you who have not been listening to the podcasts or skipped over the political stuff. I am a registered Democrat, have been my whole voting life. My politics are pre-progressive.

You know, I supported Bernie Sanders in 16 and again 20. I've pretty much voted. Democrats, every single presidential year since 96, so since Clinton's second term. Living in Kansas, I have experienced the horror show to a smaller degree that this 2025 nonsense would bring, because that's pretty much what Bramakistan was. You know, tax cuts for the wealthy, which, by the way, almost destroyed the state and a desire to push Christian nationalism on everyone. Full disclosure, this is my second attempt at doing this particular episode.

The first time just ran really, really long. based solely on the Wikipedia on this. So I, for this go-around, I'm going to go with some a little more digestible and found such an article with the BBC. So dated June 11, 24, Project 2025, the Trump Presidency Wishlist Explained by Mike Winnling, BBC news. So we can trust the BBC. So, as usual,

when I read stuff from the internet, I'll pause if I need to insert something. And we will go from there. So, President Joe Biden's Democrats are mobilizing against a possible governing agenda

for donning we know what I'm talking about if he has elected this November so before I continue it is important to point out that at the time of this recording

Donnie has been convicted of 34 crimes felonies in the state of New York there's a lot of shenanigans going on with the other

felony cases against him but New York they got shit done he has not yet been sentenced he won't be sentenced for another couple of weeks but I guarantee you that

either jail time or home imprisonment are very much on the table personally I want to see the some bitch in jail for a very long time um and

yeah he needs to see the inside of a jail cell because he came close to destroying the country he proved himself to be

a traitor to this country not to mention he was just terrible as present all right and let's not forget

he lost the population vote two elections in a row he will lose the popular vote again because frankly Donnie nobody wants you around except for your crazies all right

and I'm sick and tired of hearing he's being persecuted and the judges are liberally biased the media is liberal blah blah but to quote Jim Car

in the movie Liar Liar Stop breaking the law asshole All right back to the Arkell

So the blueprint's called Project 2025 and produced by the Conservative Heritage Foundation is one of several

think tank proposals for Donnie's platform over more than pages. That's a lot of pages. It calls for sacking thousands of civil servants.

Remember, this is a British publication to translate in the American. A lot of civil servants are going to get fired. Expanding the powers of the presidency, dismantling the Department of Education and other federal agencies in sweeping tax cuts. What did I just say about tax cuts, how they almost destroyed the state of Kansas?

And that's all Republicans know how to talk about, frankly, is, oh, we got to cut taxes. They've been talking like, they've talked about that shit since 1980. Okay, I get it's taxes were Corporate taxes were 70% at the time They've been as high as 90% with a Republican president Eisenhower All right Nowadays, yeah, good luck

Getting it to 30% And good luck getting some of these corporations to pay taxes at all all right and uh and that's problem number one with the economy is we keep cutting taxes for the wealthy and screwing people like myself and likely you middle class working class people the working poor who are just stuck with having to pay more taxes because the wealthy aren't doing so The Heritage Foundation unveiled its agenda in April of last year and liberal opposition has been ramping up as opinion polls show a tight race between President Biden, Democrats,

and former President Donnie Republican, is common for Washington, D.C. think tanks to propose policy wish lists for potential governments in waiting. The Liberal Center for American Progress, for example, was dead to Barack Obama's Ideas Factory during his presidency. But on Tuesday, so a couple of weeks ago, California Congressman Jared Huffman announced a Stop Project 2025 Task Force.

Amen, Congressman Huffman. Mr. Huffman said, quote, Project 2025 is more than an idea. It's a dystopian plot that's already in motion to dismantle our democratic institutions, abolish checks and balances, chip away at church-state separation, and impose a far-right agenda that infringes on basic liberties and violates public will. We need a coordinated strategy to save America and stop this coup before it's too late. Bravo, sir.

Bravo. All right. I want to talk about separation of church and state, but I will go on wait until it pops up in the article or or if it doesn't pop up in the article, I will bring it up

at the end. Moving on. So, Herodews said Mr. Biden's party was scaremongering with, quote, an unsurious mistake-ridden press release. House Democrats are dedicating taxpayer dollars to launch a smear campaign against the United effort to restore self-governance and everyday Americans, says Kevin Roberts, the Foundation's present.

Under the Biden administration, the federal government has been weaponized against American citizens, our borders invaded, and our institutions captured by woke ideology. Pause. This jackass is talking nonsense. Which you kind of expect from people of that persuasion. So weaponized against citizens. Again, Donnie, bro.

broke the law, and he is being held to account for that. If we're going to talk about the terrorists who attach to the Capitol, 1-621, they broke the law and are being held to account for that. If that's what you call weapon, if he call weaponization holding of these people accountable, well, fuck you. Simple as that. we'll get to the other stuff in if it pops up but just overall just fuck you pal all right the project 2025 documents which I will not read if you want

torture yourself go ahead and read it for yourself but the document outlines four main areas to restore the family as the centerpiece of American life, dismantle the administrative state, defend the nation's sovereignty and borders, and secure God-given individual rights to live freely. It is one of several policy papers for a platform broadly known as Agenda 47. Soapel called because, God forbid, if this jackass were to be real, elected, he would be

47th present. Bad enough, he's a stain at 45. I do not want this guy anywhere near the White House ever again. He belongs at a jail cell. Not in the White House.

Heritage says Project 2025 was written by several former Donnie appointees and reflects input for more than a hundred, organizations and here is an outline of several key proposals all right here we go government project 2025 proposes that the entire federal bureaucracy including independent agencies such as the department of justice be placed under direct presidential control a controversial idea known as unitary executive theory and practice

That would streamline decision-making, allowing the president to directly implement policies in a number of areas. The proposals also call for eliminating job protections for thousands of government employees, who could then be replaced by political appointees. The document labels the FBI as, quote, a bloated, arrogant, increasingly lawless organization, and calls for dramatic overhauls of this and other federal agencies, including eliminating the Department of Education. Okay, let's talk about that. Again, stop breaking the law, asshole. All right, you don't want the FBI on your case.

You don't want the Department of Justice on your case. Then don't break the fucking law. No, you're not powerful law. No one in this country is above. the law. We don't have fucking kings in this country. We divorced ourselves

from the UK because because the founding fathers knew what was like to live under a monarchy. They fell as

to rankle and England at the time had a crazy person as the monarch and they they fought for their independence we're tired of sending our tax dollars over to the UK that should be right here in the colonies and we're going to start our own country and they fought for that rights all right the family fathers would be appalled by this all right they they intentionally put a law of power in that they intentionally set up the separation

of powers the legislative executive judicial right under the executive no there's a lot's going on yeah that's true but you're

talking about firing people who are career government's employees who know what the fuck they're doing, by the way. And replace them with no-nothing hacks. All right. So, again, you don't want the Department of Justice

and the Federal Bureau of Investigation after you? Stop breaking the law, assholes! Next point. Immigration. Increased funding for a wall on the U.S. Mexican border, one of Donnie's signature proposals in 2016 is proposed in this document. However, more prominent are the consolidation of various U.S. immigration agencies and a large expansion in its power. other proposals include increasing fees on immigrants and allowing fast-tracked applicants for migrants who pay a premium and it shows a picture of Donnie's a very poorly constructed border wall

which uh yeah yeah no no terrible idea terrible a terrible idea all right uh there should have never been wall built in the first place

especially not one as shattily put together as what Donnie tried to do and certainly a special fuck you to the governor of Texas who puts

basically wires and blades in the Rio Grande River this is not a state issue this is a federal issue and should we do a better job of enforcing immigration policy yeah probably but putting up walls around the country that ain't the way to do it we're country of immigrants I don't know if y'all knew that but unless you are Native American. I was sorry, your ancestors came here as immigrants.

So what's the attitude? I got mine. Fuck y'all. You can't have yours? And let's not forget there may be legitimate reasons that they're coming to this. country all right absolutely the legitimate reasons and by the way if if they're here legally or not they're still paying taxes newsflash for some of these idiots with my very first podcast we had an

immigration lawyer on and he said you know if if they're here legally or not the first thing we tell them is pay your taxes. So immigrants are paying taxes. They are contributing to American society whether they're here legally or not. And shame on you for taking this approach. And honestly, immigration is not as big a problem as the right would have you think it is. That's just a truth. All right. Next up. Climate and economy.

The document proposes slashing federal funding for research and investment in renewable energy. It calls for the next president to, quote, stop the war on oil and natural gas. Carbon reduction goals would be replaced by efforts to increase energy production and security. The paper sets out two competing visions on tariffs and is divided on whether or not

the next president should try to boost free trade or raise barriers to exports. But the economic advisors suggesting that second Donnie administration should slash corporate income taxes

abolish the Federal Reserve and even consider to return to the gold standard. Let's talk about climate first, okay? It is 100 degrees today on the day I'm recording this. It's so hot that I had to cut my DoorDash activities a bit early. Okay? That's how hot it was today.

Last year alone, we had several days over 100 degrees. Okay. Climate change is real. Another example from last year that I can give last July, actually July 2023, there was something, for some reason I had to go up to the office and, or for me to go to the office, I got to go through downtown, right? Well, when I hit downtown, it is a big rainstorm.

wind's going really, really fast. There's like a couple of instances the wind and the rain were so bad I thought I was going to die driving. All right.

That should not be happening around here. Climate change is real. All right. The oil companies have been lying to us since at least the 70s. about the impacts of

burning gasoline and stuff now I'm glad we were starting to curtail so that in fact Kansas has been leading the country

in wind production and now dining is going to complain but oh windmills they killed the birds and the noise causes cancer and your property values to plummet. I don't know about you, but I have two nieces and nephew.

The oldest is going to be turned 12 here in just a few days. And the youngest is six. I want these kids to have a future. And in order to that, we need to address. the climate. I'm guilty of this. I drive a car that is powered

by gas. If I do get the opportunity, I would love to confirm my car to electric. You know, do my parts to be able to do my job at the same time being part of the solution, not part of the problem.

If we keep going, down this road that they're suggesting burning more oil and fossil fuels we might not survive as a species okay

the time to act on this is now all right that includes yeah not just going to electric cars but increasing and improving

public transit buses are not going to be the answer here they can be part of the answer but they're not really because buses have a certain stigma to them I'm glad the street cars being extended I'm glad that first extension is going to be open by this time next year all right and I want to see it further extended I want to see Metro wide rail. All right.

I think that's going to cut back on the carbon emissions significantly. All right, because let's be honest, transportation is a major contribution to the climate change that we are experiencing. so the time to act is now we can't go back or even continue with what we've been doing enough enough

as for the economy going back to the gold standard that's insanity that's fucking insane all right so is cutting corporate taxes which again Some companies aren't paying corporate taxes at all. And a lot of wealthy people are dodging even their income taxes.

If you're listening to this, odds are you're not making that much money as it is. And you're just being killed by income tax. Okay. Income tax is supposed to be a progressive tax, meaning that the law. the less you make the less you're supposed to pay into it, the more you make, the more you're supposed to put in. And don't get me starting

on flat taxes either, because that ain't going to work. And yeah, so move on. Next up, the only issue that's the right consistently campaigns

about abortion. Project 2025 does not call for a nationwide abortion ban. Bullshit. However, it proposes withdrawing the abortion bill Mephtristone from the market. Yeah, I don't buy that. I'll buy that because that's about the only thing the certain people in the right. especially the crazy religious types

that's the only thing they ever talk about is abortion and to which I rebut with the late great George Carlin why why

why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people who want to fuck in the first place and that he further stated and this is the quote I hope y'all

take away from this they're not pro life they're anti-woman it's as simple as it's anti-woman moving on so tech and technology

so under the proposals pornography would be banned and tech and telecom companies that facilitate access to such content would be shut down. The document calls for school choice and parental control over schools and takes aim at what it calls, quote, woke propaganda. It proposes to eliminate a long list of all laws and federal regulations. including sexual orientation, diversity, equity, and inclusion, gender equality, abortion, and reproductive rights.

Okay, so let's start there. So ban on pornography. So if you've been a regular listener to this podcast, I guess you know that I am a naturist, also know as a nudist, and a lot of naturist and nudist content is sometimes mistakenly class as pornography. If pornography would be banned, then it would also unintentionally ban non-sexual nudity from the internet. And I think that, I think that's wrong, but it has no place in the schools in the first place, certainly not K through 12. Now, that said, I do have a huge problem with the idea of school choice. So school choice, let's call it what is voucher programs.

the idea is you take that you're given a voucher and you take that money and you take it out of the public school system and send your kids to private schools or

more most likely parochial schools Catholic schools in particular now because it's a religious institution, they can indoctrinate

the kids into religion. I don't know if they want indoctrinated them to Catholicism. Most of these wacko ideas come from the evangelicals and evangelicals

and traditional Christians don't, traditional Catholics especially, don't really match. You know? because they have a distorted idea. I'm talking about evangelicals now of what Jesus was all about. Jesus would be all about the, quote, woke propaganda that these idiots are complaining about.

So, yeah, terms they want to give up. orientation, are you gay? Are you straight? Are you transgender? Bisexual? That's our taking aim at the LGBT community.

That's wrong. I consider myself an ally of the LGBT community. LGBTQIA plus, you know, whatever. But I'm an ally of that community. I am myself, I'm not gay. but I will defend

the rights to choose whatever they want to do you know diversity, equity and inclusion we're getting a race ear they want

they want to keep being racist towards African Americans towards Hispanics increasingly to a lesser degree towards Asians and of course Native Americans and

you know that's wrong too that's wrong too they gender equality again they're not pro life they're antsy woman reproductive rights once again they're not pro life they're anti woman

they claim to be want to be Christians, but frankly the version of Christianity they want to peddle does not jive with my understanding of Christianity or with the idea of Jesus Christ himself. Jesus Christ was

a goddamn hippie. Excuse my language, but he would walk into one of these evangelical churches if he were to come back. And we all know that's not going to happen. You know, it's all storytelling.

And everything. He would walk into one of these churches and say, "'Cast the out of my sight, you hypocrites, you hypocrites, thou knowest nothing of my work.' All right, he was all about the social justice and helping those who are downtrods and everything, at which so-called Christians would latch on to that message at the very least

you know you're not just being Christian you're being Christ-like all right so these same pseudo-Christians yeah they're complaining about Taylor Swift backing

non-conservative candidates she first went to political in 2018 for the gentleman who was running against Marshall Blackburn in Tennessee who is a for those of you fortunate enough not to know who that is

she's one of these right-wing crazies and she said her reasons is because she votes against women and you know so and and a couple of that she's paying her cruise really really well on the heirs tour to the to the uh let's just call it a life-changing amounts of pay for those crews all right and good on her for doing that now she's billing and actually can afford to do that.

And donating to various charities, especially food pantries. So I would argue that Taylor Swift adds more Christian than a lot of these Christians. In fact, I would also argue she acts more Christ-like than a lot of these Christians. Who claimed to be Christian,

but clearly don't know the first fucking. thing that Jesus taught. So I would suggest to these guys reread that Bible and especially pay attention to the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

All right. Step away from the Old Testament and certainly stay the fuck away from the Book of Revelation. That was running on a fever dream and hopefully will not happen. and certainly there will be no second coming to Christ you know once you're dead you're fucking dead

all right let's wrap up this article all right the Heritage Foundation is one of the most influential of a number of think tanks that has proposed policy papers designed to guide a possible second Donnie

presidency. Since the 1980s, Heritage has produced similar policy documents as part of its Mandate for Leadership Series. Project 25, backed by a $22 million budget. This being a British publication tells us what would be in pounds and have 17 million pounds. also sets out strategies for implementing policies beginning immediately after the presidential inauguration of January 2025. Donnie has endorsed a number of the Project 2025 ideas in his speeches and on his website, although his campaign has said that candidate has the file say on policy, many of the proposals will face immediate legal challenges if implemented

what that's a good thing that's a good thing and the article didn't talk at all about separation in church and state so I will because that's an important part here so these same jackoffs

say oh there's no separation church and state I would strongly disagree with you on that and we're better to point that out than in the United States Constitution itself, specifically Amendment 1. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,

or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. That first part, let me repeat that again. Congress shall make no law, respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof. Yes, most Americans are Christian. I will grant you that.

But we're supposed to be a secular government. as clear to stand in the First Amendment. So that Jefferson was very clear on. Jefferson, if you're unfamiliar, wrote his own version of the Bible and took out all of Jesus' miracles. I'd like to read that Bible, to me, completely honest with you. Not everyone in this country is Christian, all right? There's a sizable Jewish population.

There are a lot of Muslims who live in this country. I know they're pissed off at Muslims because of stuff that went down over 20 years ago. Muslims have as much rights to be in this country as Christians too. In fact, I would, are you, yeah, I would argue. religious extremism is bad it doesn't matter if it's Christian or Muslim or Jewish extremism is bad and and this project's reeks of Christian extremism they want they want to take that next step and make it illegal to be anything

but a very narrow type of Christianity to hell with what Jesus actually taught but just act in Jesus' name as though the batshit backwards stuff that you're proposing

would be okay with Jesus again now no it's nothing of my work get Cassie out of my sight you hypocrites and the family fathers would be appalled by this that's just yeah we're more than we have Christians we have Jews

we have Muslims Buddhists Hindus Sikhs Wiccan Neopagans Non-religious, agnostics, atheists, all living together in one country. And I think we've done a pretty damn good job over the past 200 plus years. I would like for us to continue to do that. So, wow.

Got all that in and just a fraction of the time it took the first time I tried to. record this, uh, which would have taken hours and hours. So thank you to the BBC for, uh, that article. And thanks to you for, uh, listening and, uh, hearing my, uh, thoughts on Project 2025. Let's make sure this does not become reality. Let's, uh, let's hope for a, uh, ruling that It's Donnie dumb fuck in prison or in home confinement for a very long time. And let's hope that enough voters recognize that you can't have a criminal right in this country. Biden has his faults. But compared to Donnie, he's not a hell of a good job running this country and make us respected.

once again, on the world stage. All right. Donnie was a laughingstock. And my foreign listeners, I certainly get it. All right. The only good thing Donnie did was get that tyrant of a governor out of our state. All right. Remember to vote in November.

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