Trump says he has 'nothing to do' with Project 2025, disagrees with some of its elements
Former President Trump sought to distance himself from the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 on Friday, saying he has “nothing to do” with the initiative and disagrees with some of its aspects. Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he is not involved in the right-wing... #press
And I hate that it’s taken me all this time to finally get my head around solid techniques for breaking through the mind control of someone who hasn’t already been somewhat disillusioned.
Don’t forget the power of questions in the role of breaking down a person’s manipulated worldview.
Core to that is trust. You believe what you do because of the sources you trust. Why do you trust those sources?
They believe what they do because they trust their sources. Why?
This conversation alone would do more to find common ground with a MAGA than arguing about the Constitution or rule of law. Get them to think about trust rather than to act automatically. Get them to tell you what gets them to trust someone. Then induce more critical thinking and self-awareness by asking follow-up questions about that trust.
I started looking into Project 2025 so I could be more informed about it and...wow. This is really bad, absolutely horrible. They want to get rid of anything that benefits citizens and protects children and workers.
American is in big trouble - big trouble. The decent folks over there a very worried about their future and the fragile state of freedom. I am seeing alarm bells going off everywhere and calls to this thing called Project 2025 broadcast far and wide - look it up, it’s a recipe to dismantle an entire government once Trump gets hold of power. It’s a fascist regime with terrifying consequences. No one should turn their back on this because it has serious ramifications for the entire world
How the pro-Israel lobby bought the US Democratic Party
In the past four years, in response to the success of nine progressive Democratic candidates who refused to toe AIPAC’s line, the pro-Israel lobby radically changed its approach:
Instead of funding candidates in general elections, "it moved to defeat progressive candidates in primaries, thus preventing them from sure victories in their urban safe seats in Democratic strongholds."
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As I was discussing the "root of all evil" in the #US present-day #Republican political thinking with
@Jeramee a while back, I had my misgivings about dating the Republican counteratta…
Axios is right-leaning, but their journalists are warning of the dangers from #TFG's annihilistic, antidemocratic, & cruel platform:
"You have to love how Axios’s plain language summary of Trump’s platform is “He’ll set up concentration camps and jail his political enemies” - literally fascism and tyranny - but somehow this all gets sidelined in our day-to-day discourse." -W Stancil
Starting July 1, Hungary will assume the rotating presidency of the Council, during a period of transition for both the Parliament in Strasbourg and the Commission.
Ignore polls. Times have changed. The pollsters are probably having a hard time getting anyone except MAGA types. The only poll that matters is in November.
#JoeBiden can achieve a legacy even greater than #LBJ by also withdrawing from his re-election bid and then leading a *unified* #DemocraticParty to VICTORY in #November.
FDR once said: Only thing we have to fear is fear itself
You still have a fighting chance.
Will it be easy? No. Is there a guarantee democracy will prevail? No. But there is hope.
Hope is each and every person, not giving in. Hope is each and every person discussing. Hope is each and every person spreading truth. Hope is each and every person organizing demos. Look around. You are not alone.
I am asking people to vote for Biden because it reduces my chances of being murdered in a pogrom. Antisemitism is getting worse and I appear more visibly trans every day.
WASHINGTON—Admitting that he had never been more conflicted about a ruling in his life, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was reportedly torn Monday over a case in which both sides offered compelling scuba trips.
Joe Biden now has the ability to save the Republic. He can order Seal Team 6 to go shoot a bunch of Republicans and it is completely, unquestionably, legal. Not a crime. Trump, the 6 Republican Justices, and a bunch of other people. Note that I am not advocating any crime be committed here, just a use of Presidential power to save the USA from a clear and present threat. Biden could appoint Justices to repeal the decision, making him the only user ever.
Presidents now have presumptive immunity from prosecution for “official acts.” So what happens now with the Federal Trump DC trial? It goes back to the trial judge who will have to make a first determination on whether Trump’s alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election results are official or unofficial acts.
"The goal here is 👉not just to prevent Trump from winning the election. The goal is to prevent Trump from attaining the Presidency again, via whatever means he plans to pursue.👈 And for that reason, it is highly unwise to add points of potential failure he can exploit where, thus far, there are none... Aside from his Israeli policy, Biden is, most Democratic voters..will concede, a remarkably successful President. Via whatever means, he has managed to do that job well"
"This is what happens when you gather a handful of nutters like Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, etc. and a bunch of angry, uneducated white people who believe the world 'owes them' and that they've been ignored in the past." - Aure
Boeing (BA.N) agreed to buy back Spirit AeroSystems (SPR.N) for $4.7 billion in stock and Airbus moved to take on the supplier's loss-making Europe-focused activities in return for hundreds of millions of dollars of compensation following months of t…
A thought I should've had a couple of days ago, but only had today:
If you believe that the New York Times has been doing everything in its power to put Donald Trump back into office without saying so - a proposition which seems entirely reasonable to me - then...
...why would you take their editorial call for Biden to step down at face value?
Why would you take that in good faith?
Why would anyone take it as anything other than yet another attempt by the New York Times to put Donald J. Trump back into the White House?
It might be a shitty bottom-of-the-pile tabloid, but the Daily Star's front page headlines are frequently a joy to behold. #DailyStar
Anyway that's (probably) my one and only venture into the world of #USpol for the day. I'll be trying to ignore all that madness and aiming for a pleasant weekend.
