Project 2025 is a set of proposals from the US Heritage Foundation to reform the US according to right-wing ideology and to consolidate executive power shouldTrump win the 2024 presidential election. The project is a most frightening blueprint for fascism in the US and would have serious implications for the rest of the world. It would also profoundly impact on healthcare (my expertise) in multiple ways.
Here are some of them:
According to Project 2025, the federal government should prohibit Medicare from negotiating drug prices and promote the Medicare Advantage program, which consists of private insurance plans. Federal healthcare providers should deny gender-affirming care to transgender people and eliminate insurance coverage of the morning-after-pill Ella. Project 2025 also suggests a number of ways to cut funding for Medicaid, such as caps on federal funding, limits on lifetime benefits per capita, and letting state governments impose stricter work requirements for beneficiaries of this program. Other proposals include limiting state use of provider taxes, eliminating preexisting federal beneficiary protections and requirements, increasing eligibility determinations and asset test determinations to make it harder to enroll in, apply for and renew Medicaid, providing an option to turn Medicaid into a voucher program, and eliminating federal oversight of state medicaid programs.
Project 2025 insists that life begins at conception. The Mandate says that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should “return to being known as the Department of Life”. Project 2025 says it would reposition department policies “by explicitly rejecting the notion that abortion is health care and by restoring its mission statement under to include furthering the health and well-being of all Americans ‘from conception to natural death’.”
The project opposes any initiatives that, in its view, subsidize single parenthood. Project 2025 encourages the next administration to rescind some of the provisions of the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970, which offers reproductive healthcare services, and to require participating clinics to emphasize the importance of marriage to potential parents.
According to Project 2025, the Food and Drug Administration is “ethically and legally obliged to revisit and withdraw its initial approval” of the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol. It recommends that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “update its public messaging about the unsurpassed effectiveness of modern fertility awareness-based methods” of contraception, such as smartphone applications that track a woman’s menstrual cycle. The project also seeks to restore Trump-era “religious and moral exemptions” to contraceptive requirements under the Affordable Care Act, including emergency contraception, which it deems an abortifacient, to defund Planned Parenthood, and to remove protection of medical records involving abortions from criminal investigations if the owners of said records cross state lines.
Project 2025 aims to prohibit sending abortion pills and medical equipment used for abortions through the mail; the plan would allow criminal prosecution for senders and receivers of abortion pills. Project 2025 does not explicitly promote the prohibition of abortion, but some legal experts and abortion rights advocates said adopting the Project’s plan would cut off access to medical equipment used in surgical abortions to create a de facto national abortion ban.
Project 2025 advises the federal government to deprecate what it considers promotion of abortion and high-risk sexual behaviors among adolescents. It also seeks to remove the role of the Department of Health and Human Services in shaping sex education in the United States, arguing that this is tantamount to creating a monopoly.
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If you think this part on healthcare (within my area of expertise) is crazy or dangerous, you should see the rest of the document (not my area of expertise)!
Donald Trump tried hard to deny that he has anything to do with the project. But this as been largely in vain. However, the Democratic National Committee is rolling out a media blitz connecting him to it. This campaign will erect splashy billboards in major cities throughout the battleground states including Atlanta, Las Vegas, Raleigh, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Green Bay, and Phoenix.
Project 2025 is being staffed with countless members of Trump’s administration as well as close advisers. “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have not seen it, have no idea who is in charge of it, and, unlike our very well received Republican Platform, had nothing to do with it,” “Trump’s Plan to be a dictator day one: Project 2025. Google it,” reads one billboard. Another explains how Project 2025 will eviscerate our checks and balances, enable a Trump revenge tour, and ban abortion nationally. It is, in the truest sense, a blueprint for a fascist America.
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Where do they get those ideas from?
Cerebral phimosis?
Mein Kampf?
Just stop. Unless you have complete knowledge of this. We do not need anymore harmful rhetoric fueling fringe evil players in our country. We have a constitution to protect us. We have had an assassin attempt. It is time to stop. I read your writings for intelligent and logical medical information, not opinion on garbage politics from a far right think tank that the democrats have been using to because they have no sound platforms to stand on. Millions of US citizens of all walks of life cannot all be idiots.
“Just stop”
Thanks – but no thanks.
Its incredible the parallels between adolf and trump. Failed insurection / putsch, horrible rhetoric towards immigrants / inexhaustable ability to lie/ actively channeling mein kampf / removal of rights of citizens in the country (trump has reapeatedly boasted about overturning roe vrs wade/ and now a failed assination attempt …. etc etc etc. In political bingo terms a ‘full house’. Deja vue anyone??
TYT sports take on george carlins prescient rise of trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=234qdKgUET0
Thanks for highlighting edzard.
the similarites are hard to ignore.
I am honestly frightened!
Keep it up. When in the 4 years did he has millions of people. Are the things you mention even close to the evil committed during the holocaust? Allowing oneself to go about spreading such rhetoric unchecked will not end well. I have listened to his words being taken out of context, twisted by the the media for years. These last several years we now have hospitals making money doing sex change surgeries on infants/childrens…. Big money maker. We are literally sterilizing a generation! We are forcing cancer patients off of pain medication to suffer. We have found issis terrorist coming through our border. Our Drs are more afraid of our DEA than the cartels or the drug dealers poisoning our citizens in every community in the state of our union. All while pain patients are treated like addicts having to do pee tests, pill counts, pain contracts stepping over urine, feces, and dying addicts being enabled by the government, to the pharmacy with their limited RX to help with their intractable pain from all kinds of diseases, disorders and traumas being well managed by their Drs. Many patients are being forced tapered and placed on Buprenorphine (a study to see how it works for pain or if pain patients really need pain meds) or given chronic injections, spinal cord stims, pain pumps ($!$!!$) anything but what was working!!! Not unlike what they did back in the 70’s to the blacks in Tuskegee…. Soooo let’s seee…. Oh, and Trump is ok with the abortion pill. I am not. I’ve had at least one 14 year old client given this but no real instruction. The fear in this girls eyes when her friend brought her to us, her uncontrolled chills and non stop bleeding. So many young woman were not given full knowledge of what was going on with their early pregnancies. Rhetoric does this. We lived through this in the 20’s and 30’s, and 40’s. We want young girls and woman and boys and men to not go backwards but to have knowledge. Educated people are healthy people. Mentally, emotionally and spiritually. How cruel to keep info from them. Blood money, Making money off a woman’s right to choose is a book on how they manipulate woman in the abortion “industry”. Rhetoric keeps Woman / girls from seeking full information for all options to make the best choice. Too many have been lied to. I use to be liberal, I use to be pro choice. If you lie to me about certain things, I look further to what else. Because I am not an irredeemably deplorable, an existential threat nor a fascist, racist or any of the horrific evils words that have been dividing my country and destroying the meaning of these very words because they are thrown around so readily. And Donald Trump is not even close to the evil Hilter. Quit parroting what you hear and actually listen and hear. These things happening are not happening on his watch, yet, I would never call our current president anything close.
“Keep it up. When in the 4 years did he has millions of people. Are the things you mention even close to the evil committed during the holocaust?”
I did not read any further; it’s far too idiotic what you write.
Firstly before adding to the political divisness I’m sure you would agree on sending condolances to the peole killed at at the rally and we can all agree this was totally deplorable.
Having said that I never said Trump has sunked to the lows of Adolf – at least not yet. There are clear parallels however, between the two of them.
– Trump is the only President ever (EVER) to oversee an insurgence to block the peaceful transfer of power on Jan 6th. Munich Putsch anyone!
– He has repeatedly spoken and posted on his intentions to alter the american constitution. This comes directly from Trump
– What Grifter sells their own version of the Bible. What the f””. He even put version of the American Constition with specific parts that didn’t suit his insurectionist traits removed . He is telegraphing his intentions and has been doing so for some time. I truly hope the American Constitution is strong enough. This parallels exactly the rise of Adolf when it was assummed the constution of the day in Germany would hold him in check. He rode roughshod over this.
– Inexhaustable and demonstable liar
-Agitator and disruptor initially from outside the political system
– Failed assasination
-Actively uses language from Mein Kampf -Straight from /Trumps mouth not fake news.
– Again – removes rights of citizens.
– Given his inexhaustable ability to lie there is no way anyone can confidently say he wont action project 25. This again would be straight out of the dictators playbook who
– He has time and again talked about retribution if he gets into power (yet again straight from trump)- sound like another parallel to me. Commonly brushed off as he is only joking by his supporters.
So I am sorry to go Godwin again and matbe Trump has some useful things to say and maybe he has done some useful things. But what I hear and see the man himself say leads me to 1 conclusion. There are strong parallels between the rise of adolf and Trump. I did not say that what he has done is directly comparable. I’m with Edzard and deNiro he is a dangerous man and has already tried to undermine the democratic process in the USA. If he gets into power I hope I’m wrong.
You nailed it, Dave!
@Dave
I think that we can agree that Donald Trump is one of the most loathsome people on this planet. And yes, there are some eerie parallels between political developments in Germany’s 1930s and the current political climate in the US – one could also mention the Reichtag’s fire, set by a ‘lone wolf’ perpetrator, and immediately seized upon by Hitler as an excuse to assume absolute power and further eliminate any and all political opposition. And yes, Trumps ‘plans’ for a second term as president are mostly promises of hatred, revenge and retribution against anyone who opposes and has opposed him, together with plans to draw as much power as possible to himself, replacing a huge part of the federal workforce with loyalists. Most disturbing is also the recent Supreme Court’s decision to grant a president sweeping immunity from criminal charges for anything done ‘in the course of the presidency’ – with no-one being able to tell the extent of this. Could Trump, if elected back in power, for instance start locking up opponents without due process of law, much like in current-day Russia? Yes, he would of course be breaking the law, but hey, as a president, he enjoys immunity. By the same token, he could decide to sweep aside the constitution’s 22 amendment, and simply stay in power after 4 years. I’m afraid that these scenario’s are no longer crazy, far-fetched hypotheticals.
BUT … so far, we only see striking historical parallels, and Trump hasn’t done anything even close to Hitler’s unspeakable atrocities. So let’s just hope that it doesn’t go any further. Then again, this stupid guy’s murder attempt may well have handed Trump the victory on a silver platter – a miraculously saved martyr will enjoy instantaneous popularity, no matter how horrible a person he really is.
Well said and I totally agree. It was the historical parallels my original comment was alluding to.
I missed out the other obvious one of ‘the election was stolen’ vrs ‘the November criminals’. Again not direct comparisons but in respect of Trump another attempt to undermine the democractic process (how many goes is he going to get?) but also in both cases direct efforts to agitate and then deflect hate/ anger /a sense of injustice to something or someone else. Sure fire way of mobolising people and yes millions can be drawn into it. The big lie I think its called. I dont ever remember such overt attempts to undermine American democracy. Allied to the the continual repetition of ‘fake news’ and ‘witchhunt’ the paralles just keep coming
Given the rhetoric we commonoly hear from Trump I really hope all this is is a conversation saying blimey there were and are some interesting parallels here and not something else. Anyway here’s to an eventful future and hopefully not a catastrophic one.
Yes, Richard, miraculous seems about right.
As Trump pointed out immediately: it was “God alone”, who saved him 🙄.
(of course this makes one wonder why “the almighty” did not stop the shooter before he killed a person in the crowed and injured several more… but that certainly is part of a great masterplan)
Bro wrote a whole novel
btw no hospital is changing the sex of INFANTS and CHILDREN, unless you’re referring to intersex people. in that case, it does not “fertilize” them lol
Noel said;
“Just stop, unless you have complete knowledge of this”
Noel, I agree with you.
The nutty professor doesn’t walk by his own talk.
“if you make a claim in a comment, support it with evidence”
His own link to his post says this;
“Project 2025
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Donald Trump’s package of proposals, Agenda 47.”
Project 2025
Established April 2022
Purpose Reshape the U.S. federal government to support the agenda of next Republican president
Location
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Director Paul Dans
Publication Mandate for Leadership, 2023
Parent organization The Heritage Foundation
Budget $22 million
Website http://www.project2025.org Edit this at Wikidata
This article is part of a series on
Conservatism
in the United States
Project 2025 promotes a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals published by the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican nominee, presumably Donald Trump, win the 2024 presidential election.”
So where is the evidence that Project 25 is Trumps own agenda ?
The link supplied states specifically that Project 25 is NOT Trumps agenda.
@John
First of all take a deep breath. Then wipe the foam from the corner of your mouth and go back and read Professor’s blog post in its entirety. Take a moment to understand what he wrote, if necessary read it again, this time slowly until you understand his post. If you do that you will be able to answer your own question.
PS: My thoughts and prayers to you and trump.
@Talker
There is no need to read the entire article again.
perhaps you missed the bold headline.
“Project 2025: Donald Trump’s blueprint for a fascist America”
There is no EVIDENCE that Project 25 is a work of DJT.
@John
Reading is not your strong suit anyway.
Why don’t you (professor) specifically refute my statement ? … instead of hiding behind your vague charge that I can’t read.
“Refute me, Bro” says the belligerent village idiot. 😂😂
You must be new to this blog: the science is sound but the professor suffers from an extreme case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). Also, he has little feel for the nuances of American politics and culture (and refuses to believe he’s not very media savvy when it comes to our propaganda) so he says things like “the Democratic National Committee is rolling out a media blitz” like he thinks that one political party’s partisan attempt at manipulation confirms the truth of what they say. It’s simply mind-blowing to see in a man of science.
How he came to admire the Democrat Party puzzles me, being the party of the late San Francisco cult leader, Jim Jones, that’s helped SCAM prosper and proliferate the most, first led by, three-time rapist, Bill Clinton’s initiatives. The professor must’ve blocked out of his mind that Barack Obama, who’s supposed to be brilliant, campaigned with Oprah Winfrey and her love for quackery and mysticism AFTER she started promoting “The Secret,” and he even gave her the U.S. Medal of Freedom, even though there’s documentaries on Netflix of her promoting “John of God,” who’s in prison for bogus ‘healings’ while allegedly raping 600 women.
I’ve been reading for years about the professor being betrayed by his betters for speaking his views, but he refuses to see Trump is popular for the same reason. Maybe he doesn’t realize he only knows about the “grab ’em by the pussy” tape because a Democrat – the head of CNN and Trump’s former boss – betrayed him by leaking it to the press, knowing someone like the professor will take the bait and not worry about the morality behind where it came from. The average American voter isn’t so gullible.
Trump is the first non-politician to try for the White House. They own the media and the levers of power. The Democrats protested his candidacy. They smeared his name. He won anyway. Then they openly announced they were going to ‘get Trump’ by hook or by crook. So they impeached him, twice, in bullshit trials every American saw through. They lied about January 6, the great American “coup” that featured marijuana but no guns (in a country overflowing with both) to impeach him again. It didn’t work. Again, because everyone heard them announce they were out to get him. They indicted him again. He became even more popular as a victim of the political process. They kept on indicting him, and he kept on becoming an even more popular champion of the people, who were getting a master class in what the Democrat party can and will do to YOU if you anger them. And now, naturally, the next step is they’re trying to kill him.
Don’t be fooled that the shooter was a registered Republican. A Democrat registering as a Republican, in an ‘open’ primary, so they can vote to defeat Donald Trump is not unusual. The shooter was a Democrat. He believes the same propaganda the professor does. That Donald Trump is a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler. That fascism is coming to America. That we Americans, who helped stop Adolf Hitler and Fascism, are too stupid to see it in our own country. And, as Joe Biden said just a week before the assassination attempt, “It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.”
It’s sick. And I’ve been telling the professor so for years.
No, you are thick and I’ve been aware of this for years.
Project 2025 is Qanon for leftists
All you’ve got to do is prove me wrong – I gave you lots of ammo – prove you’re smart and produce a real answer showing where I’m mistaken.
Here’s a link to Ronan Farrow’s rape investigation of the SCAM hero, Bill Clinton: https://www.thecut.com/2019/11/ronan-farrow-bill-clinton-rape-allegation-juanita-broaddrick.html
Stop running away, calling names, acting like a child, and debate like a man.
Says the type who stomps on the floor of the sandpit like a toddler and shouts: “You’re stupid! I’m right!”
Here is an expose on the Democrats now wishing “Fascist Dictator Adolf Hitler” a speedy recovery – AFTER the Democratic National Committee rolled out their media blitz connecting Trump to Project 2025 – proving it’s all propaganda to fool the professor and they never meant a word of it.
https://youtu.be/XkSeW7NU03U?si=yqH4iYjLeFR8u7hc
No one wishes Hitler a speedy recovery if they really think it’s him. Can you imagine FDR and Winston Churchill sending ‘get well’ wishes to Hitler after Operation Valkyrie? You’d have to be “thick” to believe that, right, professor?
you do not have to insist that you are a ibecile – we know it already.
How clever. At the top of your blog there’s a banner that reads: ” if you make a claim in a comment, support it with evidence”
Why don’t you hold yourself to the same standard?
You should see a psychiatrist. Perhaps he can help you free yourself from your pathological fixation on Edzard Ernst and his blog. 😀
Ouch. You guys are even lame at insulting people. None of you dare back up anything you say. It’s just insults, and name-calling, and childish behavior.
Edzard Ernst has been an important figure to skeptics, worldwide. To watch Democrat Party propaganda drive him ‘over the deep end’ is deeply disturbing, and destroys his image as a trusted scientist, instead of being just some gullible old fool in France.
Why should King Charles, or anyone else, listen to him, when he can’t even tell the difference between a ‘racist’ fascist and someone who’s done a video with P Diddy, and been best friends with Mike Tyson for 40 years? The man who loaned his airplane to Russell Simmons, so he could fly from New York to Los Angeles, and do the deal that gave us DefJam? The man who has Wu-Tang rap songs written about him like ‘Black Trump’? Why can’t he recognize that no one called Trump a racist or a fascist before he ran for office – against the Democrats?
How much more at odds with reality can Edzard Ernst get?
Edzard Ernst might as well restructure this blog to start endorsing homeopathic concoctions – oh, wait,…what’s this?
[Democrat Party candidate] Marianne Williamson says she’s a ‘homeopathic remedy’ in the 2024 presidential election
https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2024-01-22/marianne-williamson-says-shes-a-homeopathic-remedy-in-the-2024-presidential-election
I’m sure, she and her party will get the professor’s full endorsement,…
To cite a German proverb: “Wie man in den Wald hineinruft, so schallt es heraus.”
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wie_man_in_den_Wald_hineinruft,_so_schallt_es_heraus
You act like a troll, behave like a mentally challenged moron and constantly insult other people. That’s how people respond to you.
He acts like a troll, reacts like a troll, writes like a troll …
PERHAPS HE IS A TROLL?
He writes like a bigot.
BUT OTHERWISE, HE’S A REALLY NICE GUY!
No need for more evidence than you’ve already supplied yourself.
exactly!
as you seem unable to google the matter, here are a few links for you – not that they will convince you, I know:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-are-project-2025-s-ties-to-the-trump-campaign/ar-BB1q8Q8g?ocid=BingNewsSerp
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-trump-loyalists-behind-project-2025/ar-BB1q5JXU?ocid=BingNewsSerp
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-wants-to-distance-himself-from-project-2025-but-his-new-vp-pick-says-every-civil-servant-in-the-federal-government-should-be-fired/ar-BB1q6r6A?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Happy?
No
I thought so!
Sir,
To pretend I’m the one ignorant, here, is hilarious: First, you’re talking about the political reframing of a man that the United States, and the world, have known since 1980. Propaganda can’t turn Donald Trump, a man who used to hang out in a rap clubs, into a racist or a fascist. It’s just not gonna happen.
He was disliked, before politics, because the rich people said the guy in the rap clubs had no class. Now he’s disliked, by those same rich people, for invading their space. Hillary Clinton would never bring Kanye West to the White House. ‘Racist’ Donald Trump did. When Ice Cube had a political plan for Black people, he took it to Hillary and the Democrats, and they said they’d ‘look’ at it. When he took it to Donald Trump, he implemented what parts he could, immediately, and promised more. He opened the African-American History Museum in Washington, DC. He brags about how much money he’s made for “the blacks,” and then gets criticized for his ‘racist’ phrasing. I’ll stop there, because I think you should’ve gotten the point: You are the victim of an ugly smear job, by the Democrat Party, and their operatives in the media.
Speaking of Democrat operatives, the source for your first piece of evidence is MSNBC. The station that, on election night 2016, showed the world their objectivity by warning viewers they weren’t ‘having a bad dream’ or landed in ‘Hell’? The station that, for five years, insisted Donald Trump was tied to Russia, so a lapdog of Putin, and, thus, a traitor to his nation – with no evidence. The station that hid evidence of Hunter Biden’s criminally-incriminating laptop, until they were sure Joe Biden had ‘won’ the 2020 election. That’s your first source.
MSNBC claiming there are “ties to the Trump campaign” do not make Project 25 into Trump’s. He’s already loudly disavowed it. He called it ‘ridiculous.’ Donald Trump is liked by a lot of different people, of various stripes and denominations, so it’s weird. Gays standing beside conservatives (because Trump’s the first American politician to have always been for gay rights) produces strange bedfellows. What’s important to understand is, literally, thousands of people ‘worked in the White House under Trump,’ so, just because some crackpots came up with a program does not mean that he is behind it. The number on Trump’s program isn’t 25 but 47.
Your second piece of evidence just says the people behind Project 2025 are loyal to Donald Trump. Lots of people are loyal to Donald Trump. Even more people are loyal to Donald Trump after he got shot. To be loyal to Donald Trump, is not evidence of a crime, or criminal intent. It just means you like Donald Trump. It means you understand what kind of problems ‘news outlets’ like MSNBC can cause when they say things like Donald Trump is Hitler.
Your third piece of evidence is also from MSNBC. I’m noticing a pattern here.
Perhaps you should broaden your sources. MSNBC’s viewership is tiny. Google says “on a 24-hour total day basis, the network pulled in a daily average of more than 1.2 million viewers” – in the United States – a nation of approx. 350 million citizens. Understand? You’re listening to the fringe of the fringe of our media. For comparison, the Joe Rogan podcast has 190 million downloads – each month.
I mean, come on, you know who and what Marianne Williamson is. You saw Obama campaigning with Oprah AFTER she started promoting “The Secret” and “Dr. Oz.” Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop? Hillary brags that she spends her time doing yoga and alternative nostril breathing. You, of all people, should know better than to side with these people.
Don’t get me wrong. I have never voted for Donald Trump. I don’t like politicians. But I also don’t like seeing someone I’ve admired buying into their party’s propaganda.
can you please stop admiring me?
I find it creepily scary.
Thanks.
Professor,
I’d also like to remind you that – starting after Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance with Trump on June 27, 2024 – the entire nation was laughing at MSNBC for previous ‘gaslighting’ statements like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vp4qmsB7h8s
As you can see at this link – ‘thick’ and an ‘ibecile’ or not – I was speculating Joe Biden was ‘senile’ as far back as 2020:
https://themachoresponse.blogspot.com/2020/11/sleepwalking-through-history.html
MSNBC couldn’t talk me out of THAT either,…
Admiration, over.
Man, your colleagues must love you,…
And here he is in 2022 actively supporting the heritage foundation at 3 mins 42 secs roughly. Yet again straight from the horses mouth – you cant say you weren’t warned! He is telling you his intentions right there. He may have tried distancing himself from this but CAN YOU REALLY TRUST THIS MAN. Me thinks not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WZQlWEeYbE
Here’s a couple of Jews laughing over Trump’s recent good political fortune, just like the Jews of WWII made light of Hitler’s successes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBPAZnTMqYw
‘I’ve known Donald for a number of years. We’ve played golf together. We’ve had dinner together. I’ve known him pre-presidency and obviously during his presidency’
– Golf Legend Tiger Woods, on the ‘racist’ fascist Donald Trump, to New York Times reporter John Branch, today.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/golf/article-13643665/tiger-woods-donald-trump-assassination-attempt-open.html
Trump likes to surround himself with rich and famous people – and some of these are black. Doesn’t mean he’s not ‘racist’. You think sucking up to trump now is going to save you when the fascist state arrives?
So, according to that ‘logic’, it’s impossible for him to not be a racist no matter what he does – including making us money and building us museums. He’s just a stone-cold racist who’s been pretending to like blacks – for 40 years.
And why must I be ‘sucking up to Trump’ just because I don’t buy propaganda about him after knowing him for decades? Why was no one calling him a racist or a fascist before 2015? If he’s Hitler, why is everybody wishing him well now, on both sides of the aisle? Have you ever wished Hitler well?
And is this ‘fascism’ I’m being saved from like the Democrat’s take on the badly-written abortion law Trump got rid of, so the Democrats claimed he hates women, even though it’s now a decision each state’s women make themselves? Is it like that?
America used to be a country where you have ‘nothing to fear but fear itself,’ but now it’s a country where people like you try to spread fear – because you’re cowards – terrified of the unknown. I need to be saved from people like you, who don’t care when they’re lied to, or when they see people being lied to, trying to get others to side with the liars. You, who don’t provide good evidence to refute anything I’ve said. You who are dangerous because you’re ignorant and aggressive. Like the NewAge crowd, you’re trying to make your own reality and all you’re doing is making things worse. Creating the worst possible reality. The reality of our enemies. Donald Trump was shot because of people like you. So, no, I’m not afraid of him at all.
You’re the ones who bother me.
@Dave
Jesus, are all of you ignorant to American politics? The Heritage Foundation is one of the oldest political organizations in the country and, if you’re running for something on the right, you give them the nod because it’s kind of hard to win without them.
You guys are determined to find bogeyman. Even the tone of your posts sounds like cowardice, frightened of your own shadow.
What part of ‘Donald Trump has been around since the 80s’ is unconvincing to you? How can media organizations come along and – just since 2015 – convince you of a whole history and political philosophy he’s never had, after almost every other American saw him growing up? How can they convince you that one of Mike Tyson’s best friends is a racist?
You are either very weak-minded, or they are very good at their jobs, and I know they’re not good at their jobs.
Evidence – here’s a link to the Jimmy Dore show with a montage showing that the people who now claim Donald Trump is a racist fascist loved him until he opposed their political party
https://youtu.be/4KdFqYuwZ3k?si=gyWyt38RB8t0g7tp
Dear Wacky Cracky,
I hope you don’t mind me addressing you with a nickname. Of all the people you would surely understand. Your dear friend Trumpty Dumpty is known for giving people nicknames, who can forget Meatball Ron or Low Energy Jeb? Pretty hilarious, don’t ya think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nicknames_used_by_Donald_Trump
“I know a fella named The Crack Emcee, folks. I like to call him Wacky Cracky. I played golf with him several times and he happen to be one of my black friends, folks. I am the least racist person because I have black friends, folks” is something Trump would say to introduce you, but I digress Cracky.
I agree with you Wacky Cracky that Trump is not a racist. How can one conclude that the best friend of Mike Tyson could be racist? It boggles my mind. Everyone knowns that to be qualified as “not racist” you need to have at least one black friend. Apparently, the author and the readers of this blog are in the dark and I applaud you for taking time to give them a 101 on identifying racists. These days racists are an extinct breed, perhaps you may find one or two noodling for catfish in the swamps of the deep south. One must watch movies and documentaries to find out more about them. In movies and television racists are always depicted in white robes and pointy hoods and can be found burning crosses in their free time. Here is an old picture of what racists looks like: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1777a2e202142dbd25745719ad1229afce133fb2/0_211_3330_1999/master/3330.jpg?width=1900&dpr=1&s=none
One doesn’t need to watch media to determine if Trump is racist or not, one only need to listen to Don the Con when he says he is not a racist. One must believe him because whenever he opens his mouth pearls of truth and wisdom roll out of his mount and we should cherish them for eternity.
Yours truly,
Honest Ape
Dear Honest-Ape,
Call me whatever you want, just get the story straight – here’s Glenn Greenwald, an excellent reporter (who’s gay and Jewish) describing the themes of Trump’s first term, and what his pick of JD Vance as a running mate “means”. Does he speak of racism, or fascism, or Project 2025? No, they don’t come up even once. Instead, he speaks of being anti-establishment, and helping the working man – NOT the rich people who run this country. Once you understand that – and understand it as a threat – then all the bogus charges against Donald Trump, and his history, start to make all the sense in the world. He HAS to be eliminated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNeEusa9oA
That some of you can’t tell the difference when Trump is telling the truth, or just being the carnival barker salesman he always has been, is just amazing to me. He says his crowd sizes are the “biggest” anyone has ever seen and you guys let left-wing reporters tell that’s a “lie” instead of just being the braggadocio that his fans laugh at, it’s so familiar. That’s how his critics stop being taken seriously, and he becomes embraced even more, after being so badly mischaracterized. Donald Trump showed the world what he was made of, after he was shot. None of these lies are going to make a bit of difference, now, after that.
The professor is lucky he wrote this post right before that happened, or else he’d look like an even bigger fool than he apparently feels comfortable showing the world he is.
Honest-Ape,
I must say that you, taking it upon yourself to ‘educate’ a 63-year-old black American on what ‘racists’ look like – and even claiming “these days racists are an extinct breed” – is hilarious. You’re the expert, Boss. My background, and previous participation in some of the most politically-active bands in San Francisco, doesn’t qualify me for anything in this regard. I thank you (and the professor) for the ‘help.’ I haven’t laughed that hard all day.
https://youtu.be/LjBE04mXhQw?si=E65g8z5WvRjE4nHm
https://www.laweekly.com/a-funky-epiphany/
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13914311/rono-tse-disposable-heroes-hiphoprisy-michael-franti
http://www.daveyd.com/commentarylantiwarsonglist.html
https://soundcloud.com/user9659350/the-crack-emcees-classic-rock
@The Crack Emcee
“I must say that you, taking it upon yourself to ‘educate’ a 63-year-old black American on what ‘racists’ look like – and even claiming “these days racists are an extinct breed” – is hilarious.”
Right you are, I got a good laugh from your reply.
Pay no attention, that Ape is a fool.
@John
We know you’re a babbling parrot with no opinion of your own. Don’t even get me started on your constant spineless sycophancy.
Dear Wacky Cracky,
I don’t see skin color, I only see fur color. To me all you furless humans look the same. But nice try claiming to be an authority in racism by virtue of your skin color and age. Is Kanye your friend?
During my time working in a circus, I traveled all over USA and met many humans and they all said they have at least one black friend. According to your own logic, Americans are not racist, and we can safely conclude that racists are an extinct breed in America. Besides whatever racism that was left after Obama left office was eliminated by Trump when he became president, I am sorry you missed that. Perhaps you were too busy ranting on this blog, Cracky!
“Besides whatever racism that was left after Obama left office”
BO was the beginning of the division.
He was the great divider’n-cheif.
@The Crack Emcee
They enjoy attacking anyone and everyone that thinks different they do. They offer little evidence or few facts, and they love name calling.
It’s an opinion site, fueled by the nutty professor, who loves throwing stones at therapies that don’t involve MD’s or make use of Pharma meds.
@John, the resident antivax loon
I take it that you resorted to riding the coattails of shit-slingers. 🤣🤣
How lovely thanks for the education and for not denying Trumps obvious support of the Heritage Foundation which I think was the premise of the post. I dont have too much to say except:-
1. Its so nice to hear from people who get triggered by evidence. Pesky stuff this evidence.
2. I’m glad you have pointed out that I am very weak weak minded. Along with all other weak minded people I also suffer with kindness, empathy, compassion and a desire to help others. As a group we all suffer with intractable and intrusiveness kindness which puts us in the same group as dan ackroyd, kermit the frog and possibly ghandi. In fact as a very weak minded individual I am currently writing this in a sustained low bowing position which is setting off my sciatica so i will be seeing the homeopath shortly. Edzard will be pleased. I am in fact so weak minded that paul mcCartney is going to write a song about me – my input is the title ‘Wokey Davey’. ‘So it is my leige from a painfully stooped position and dothing ones cap, I ‘umbly wish to point out to the much stronger minded a few pieces of evidence. Its important to realise weak minded individuals still retain a SOS as its considered a weakness by strong minded individuals. We prefer the weakness as it also comes with reason and a large hat (rather like Maga only floppy). This means we cant possible go for strength otherwise we would support strong minded men who:- (damn I’m going to list stuff again – its another affliction you know. Ok for now but not so good on a BOAT)
– stand tall proud and erect, throbbing like a spartan warrier in their orange dayglow (wheres kenneth williams when ypu need him)
– Have a failed insurrection on their C.V. – teachers note must work harder – oh he is see above post.
– Quote directly from mein kampf – nothing like channeling the founding father for peace of mind.
– Having a running mate who calls you ‘America’s Hitler’. Oh the irony I can hear the laughter in Swindon (a small town in England well known for its irony (bronsy and goldy as well)
– Tells a big lie about losing an election. Damn you would think this guy was trying to undermine democracy. mother must be proud
– Selling own bible. Trying to overthrow democracy and GOD. Never open a war on 2 fronts it wont end well:)
– Inexhaustable lier. This is where I direct you to Jimmey Kimmel.
– Sexual misdeameanors – ah forgot this one. This is what strong minded men do pillage and … etc etc. Excellent role models for the next generation. Dont let them nnear us weak minded we might infect them with compassion and respect for women. Lord forbid
– Have an anthem sung by Jan 6th Insurrectionists. Music to their ears. We weak minded individuals only have mozart, Bach and Taylor Swift.
– Be a mutiple time failed business owner – well this is kinda ok as we all gotta fail at something even the strong.
– Be a convicted felon – apparently also looks good on a strong minded persons C.V.
My apologises if all of the above ‘EVIDENCE’ from such an ‘umble weak minded person such as myself sets off in your good self a ‘right royal fit of the vapours’. If it does may I suggest lying down with a strong cup of darjeeling and possible mein kampf.
Finally I would like to introduce some weak minded ad hominems (yes the long winter nights just fly by)
1. Who votes for someone who is actually Orange. People come in many shapes, sizes and colours but never orange. I think he must be ill (see above list for confirmation – possibly diagnosable me thinks). Perhaps I can suggest a naturopathy detox.
2. When GOD made Trump why oh why did he use a ducks arse for his mouth.
3. And finally. Personal disclosure (you have been warned) I have at home a square tank of water that contains an ameoba. It is singled celled but way more intelligent (its not even a neuron). I dont recommed drinking the water as Basil (how cute I named him) will violently upset your stomach. Interstingly you will still produce far less shit than the Donald.
And so endeth todays sermon for the weak minded. I think I have finished on this post debating fuckwits is damazing the ozone layer over my house.
Dave, I could reply to all of this, but it would be a waste of time. I’ll leave you with these two bits of Democrat history to think about:
1) The Democrat party stole Harvey Milk’s 1975 election, using Jim Jones’ ‘People’s Temple’ cult that killed 900 Black people in the jungles of Guyana. Major California Democrats, like Nancy Pelosi, were involved. They don’t tell you that in the Hollywood movie they made about Milk – another rapist – or in any of the PRIDE parades, or any of the legislation they write, or any of the rainbow tags they put all over our lives. They keep it as their little secret. That way, latecomers (like you) will believe that they are the ethical party, and not a vile collection of snakes spreading lies.
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/17/archives/followers-say-jim-jones-directed-voting-frauds-busloads-of-voters.html
Second, the heads of the Democrat party are Jimmy “I saw an alien UFO” Carter, Barack Obama (who campaigned with Oprah “The Secret” Winfrey) and Bill Clinton, who still has three outstanding rapes to answer for, that his party would rather distract everyone from – by talking about Donald Trump. They’ve been covering for this crime for almost 40 years, and through three investigations, making all of their moral stands, today, look completely hollow:
https://www.thecut.com/2019/11/ronan-farrow-bill-clinton-rape-allegation-juanita-broaddrick.html
Here’s the writer from Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens, trying to bring Bill Clinton’s rapes to the attention of the American people in the 90s, but Bill Maher – who Democrats wrongly seem to think is some kind of truth teller – waved it all away, to side with the lady behind the “ThighMaster”:
https://youtu.be/mjUD5Jo_MBE?si=IllKqZhif7JhaHj8
And here’s Donald Trump in 2016 with Bill Clinton’s rape victims – right before he had to debate Hillary Clinton – who he defeated. Why people, like you, are never interested in cleaning up the Democrat Party, while so focused on everyone else, is a mystery. I think it’s because Democrats, always claiming to be filled with empathy and compassion, know they’ve never held the moral high ground on anything:
https://youtu.be/FWGZZ_4KJ0c?si=lsd6ZxAxCMXcn1Vu
Finally, I will say that it’s sad that at the top of this blog, it says “if you make a claim in a comment, support it with evidence,” but the majority of you – including the professor – would rather ignore evidence to make insults (like calling people ‘fuckwits’ or calling admiration for clear thinking ‘creepy’) on a website dedicated to science. It is a sad statement on where science is today, and why it fails in the face of fraud, pseudoscience, and quackery. Those of you, who consider yourselves science’s greatest defenders, are actually its weakest links. I didn’t need the professor to tell me to stop admiring him. His own behavior already did that. I’m pretty sure that’s how most people feel when confronted with such assholes as yourselves. You do us all – but especially science – as huge a disservice as Democratic Party lies have done America.
And Joe Biden is now using bronzer as well
@Dave,
Jan. 6th: the worlds first “insurrection” or “coup” – BY THE PARTY OF US GUN OWNERS – but without a single gun, anywhere. Lots of marijuana smoke, but no guns.
Lies like that are why the Democrats can’t win without cheating. The American people are not as stupid as you think we are. Or you appear to be.
Snopes.com: “No, Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists ‘Very Fine People'”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/
If he didn’t say it, then that means the Democrat party lied – as they always do. Why do you guys insist on siding with the party that I can prove always lies?
FASCISM: “As for Democrats, the anger evident every night on cable networks may reflect a degree of insecurity about becoming the very thing that they are campaigning against. It is time for the party to look around to take stock of its anti-democratic policies.”
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/07/17/221226/
@crackemcee
Nice deflection to the democrats. I think this is about Trump if I read the blog post accirately. I have never once mentioned the democrats or whatever nefarious business some of them may have or are indeed getting up to and quite clearly stated some of the above as ad hominems unlike your most excellent self who does seem very well schooled in them. I have absolutely no doubt both parties are culpable in numerous dasterdly deed and nefarious activities.
So instead of deflecting and ‘what abouting’ perhaps a closer look rationally at Trump would help as it was what the post was about. i wait with baited breath. I will accept the fuckwit was a tad strong but I thought that was how the strong minded liked it.
I did warn you that I may set of a fit of the vapours. Prescient as well. I shall add this to my weak minded attributes.
@Dave,
“Nice deflection to the democrats.”
Here we go. This is where you wanna talk about racism but you’re gonna deny that I can speak about white people. You can’t talk about Donald Trump without talking about what the Democrats did to him. They started off calling him Hitler and ended up getting him shot. Am I just supposed to leave them out of the story?
“Perhaps a closer look rationally at Trump would help as it was what the post was about.”
What is there to talk about? Trump’s critics are actually trying to get people – who have lived with him on the public stage since 1980 – to reframe him as something he’s not. Basically, to gaslight ourselves, to suit the Democrat party’s narrative. Check out this quote from Jonathan Turley: https://jonathanturley.org/2024/07/17/221226/
“For years, Democrats have repeated analogies of Trump to Hitler and his followers to brownshirted neo-Nazis. Indeed, defeating Trump has been compared to stopping Hitler in 1933. The narrative began as soon as Trump was elected,…”
See that last line? “The narrative began as soon as Trump was elected,…”? This started when Trump entered politics, and it’s just a ploy – but a ploy you want to insist is true, despite people like me, who have been following US politics for 50 years or more, telling you it’s simply not true. It’s like you’re insane. Or trying to drive others insane. In a previous post I’ve already provided you with a link to a montage of Democrats, from before Trump ran for office, screaming how much they love him. What happened? I’ll tell you what happened: he switched parties. And that’s when the cult of the Democrat party went to work on him.
You don’t wanna talk about what’s happened to them, to make them so authoritarian and dishonest. You wanna act like one man – one man – is somehow the equal to the millions of people in the Democrat Party, dishonestly doing this.
It’s not gonna work on me. Gaslight yourself.
Right-wing ‘Project 2025’ mastermind sues for list of all medications handed out on Biden’s Air Force One
Who’s the “mastermind” behind Project 2025?
“The Heritage suit was quietly filed July 9 in Washington, D.C., federal court by Mike Howell”
NOT DONALD TRUMP
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/project-2025-air-force-one-joe-biden-heritage-foundation-foia-b2581430.html
A hit dog will holler. *woof woof woof woof*
😀 😀
Donald Trump: Make America
GreatGrate Again@crackemcee.
Its interesting that this report clearly states that Project 25 is the blueprint for a second trump administration from a far right think tank. Guess who? Not sure why you would link to something that categorically supports Edzards post?? A slam dunker no less. As to requesting Bidens medications not sure of the relevance to this post either. Go figure!!
@Dave,
You really are acting like a moron. Just because some people at the Heritage Foundation drew up a plan, that they want Donald Trump to follow, does not make it his plan. What’s interesting is (like good little Democrat cult followers) neither you, the professor, or any of the other assholes here, even bothered to look and see what Trump’s plan is. All you have to do is Google “What is Donald Trump’s plan?” and you get AGENDA 47 – NOT Project 2025:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/07/16/what-is-agenda47-heres-what-to-know-about-trumps-policy-agenda-if-elected/
Now, after that, tell me why A) anyone should respect you, and B) we have to keep talking about this, like you guys are anything but a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists?
@Dave,
“As to requesting Bidens medications not sure of the relevance to this post”
Yeah, I’m starting to pick up that you’re kind of slow: The relevance is to show that Project 2025 is not Donald Trump’s but some guy named Mike Howell.
@crackemcee
Absolutely hilarious – you are so funny. Firstly you post a link to a newspaper report that debunks your own arguments and then you call ME a conspiracy theorist. I think you have undone yourself and should stop now I can tell the cognitive dissonance is starting to take its toll.
I am naming your last tirade the ‘cavalcade of crap’ as I like illiteration. There is a certain beauty in your ramblings and I admire you for it. Good to see the schooling in ad hominems is as strong as ever.
Keep up the comedic excellent work – I think the vapours have now turned into a smog.
“Firstly you post a link to a newspaper report that debunks your own arguments”
I’m going to stop because, if that’s what you read, then it’s evidence A) whatever I post you’ll say endorses your point, and B) your not engaging with what I’m saying anyway, and C) your dumb ass can’t read – all characteristics of conspiracy theorists. Enjoy your fantasy life.
I’m done
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/07/16/what-is-agenda47-heres-what-to-know-about-trumps-policy-agenda-if-elected/
what a pity; we all laughed tears!
@crackemcee
Thats a shame as I was genuinely warming to your ramblings – they were giving me a warm fuzzy feeling inside. To be fair I was also considering calling time so this is also my last post on the topic (maybe? – perhaps a Sinatra reprise)
Firstly I would like to thank you for your education in terms of making me reflect on and be more thoughtful on what I post – your teachings are well received. Also I would really like to thank you for making me appear way smarter than I actually am:) – deep gratitude.
Secondly you have made links supporting both agenda 47 and project 25 as plans for Trump. I’m not exactly sure what you want me to make of this so here are some suggestions
– you have no idea what you are talking about. (possible)
– you are in fact a genius and deliberatly using confusional techniques (possible but far less so)
– You cherry pick links that support a particular point without realising it totally undermines your entire argument whilst supporting Edzards post (most likely)
So what is it agenda 47 or project 25? My solution would be to do a link to the movie ‘plan 9 from outer space’ so bad (acting) and writing it is unintentionally hilarious. We are now finding common ground!
Thirdly would you stop blaming me for what you post. Spoiler alert YOU are posting it. I dont mind being called a moron but ‘if in your own head’ you want to think of me as less moronic stop posting moronic links (see point above). Honestly it is NOT me. If you posted something smarter it would help both of us look good – team work gotta be good.
Fourth. As I have said on a couple of occassions and you have ignored Trump is selling his own bible. Is there no Universe in which this makes at least some alarm bells ring. Not only that but he puts a molested version of the constitution in it. So much for seperation of church and State that is weirdly in the Constitution. Again how can you not have alarm bells ringing!! Its at this point before you pivot to conplaing about the Democrats I would like to point for this post I am neither a democrat nor republican. It is the person who is the problem here i.e Trump. I am absolutely sure there are terrible politicians in both parties and I sure there are some really decent politicians in both parties who are grounded in morals and ethics. To be fair we have the same problem in Britain.
Unfortunately I think we will only agree to disagree on this. There is no way I would ever Trust Trump given the evidence I have detailed in previous posts. I will say it again though maybe just maybe he will say and do more useful things to help move towards resolving the divisiveness in American Politcs and perhaps look to helping others with authentic compassion. I can only Hope so and perhaps your seeing something that I’m not – this is possible but unfortunaly my friend highly unlikely.
I genuinely wish you well and look forward to the next time
@Edzard
I’m laughing my arse off also. JB wrong again.
Joe Biden;
“take the covid vaccine and you won’t get infected”
As reports tell us that he has tested positive for covid again (3rd time).
How many times did he get boosted ?
(why hasn’t he been wearing his mask ?)
@Big Crank John
4 (!) years ago, when the vaccine was developed, the media and non-experts in particular spread the idea that the corona vaccination was sufficient to prevent future infections. However, this assessment quickly proved to be wishful thinking.
Every serious expert (not the pseudo-intellectual cranks you keep quoting) has confirmed that the ultimate aim of vaccination is to build up the strongest possible immune protection to reduce the consequences of the infection as much as possible. That has worked. The virus, which 4-5 years ago caused numerous deaths or illnesses with severe consequential damage, now “only” produces flu-like or cold symptoms in the vast majority of people, as is the case with Joe Biden.
This is a great success, but one that a covidiot like you will never acknowledge. Otherwise, the whole edifice of faith that you cling to would collapse and you would be left with nothing.
So the early SARS‑CoV‑2 variants each died of natural causes? Or were they eradicated by measures including vaccination?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variants_of_SARS-CoV-2
@Dave,
“You have made links supporting both agenda 47 and project 25 as plans for Trump.”
I have not done a single post supporting Agenda 47 or Project 2025. I don’t even support Donald Trump. You and the professor are just ideological idiots, who can’t read, and assume everyone who doesn’t hate Donald Trump is a supporter, just like you can’t grasp that, just because the Heritage Foundation makes a plan “for” Donald Trump, that doesn’t make it his plan.
Now, please, stop talking, because I know you’re going to misread what I just wrote, and somehow come back to try and turn it into another example of how ‘smart’ you think your dumb ass is.
Duly noted.
@crackemcee.
I never said you did support agenda 47 or project 25 but the links clearly support that both have been proposed as Trumps / Trumps administration. Perhaps I should have used the word ‘outlined’ instead of support but either way you clearly dont read your own links – both the folllowing are direct quotes from the links you posted. My question is still valid which one is it??
‘What Is Agenda47? What To Know About Trump’s Policy Agenda If Elected’
‘which is behind the hard-right blueprint for a second Trump term known as “Project 2025”
@Dave,
I repeat: you’re an idiot. Both you and the professor are victims of political ideological capture and you can’t even grasp it. You both do science a disservice, and show exactly why it isn’t more credible or popular generally, if your moronic behavior, here, are examples of who’s behind it.
you have been out of order for some time now.
I recommend you gey professional help for whayever condition you suffer from.
for a while, I found you oddly amusing.
this is over now.
go and troll elsewhere.
GOOD BYE
Perfect Edzard.
i think posting links that clearly say the same thing as your original post, denying it and then getting very arsy about your own incompetence definately deserves a red card.
I amazed myself at the length of time I tolerated this troll; but for a while he made me laugh a lot.
Read this: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism. Then wonder if the USA under Trump is not showing many of these characteristics around which fascism can coalesce?