What's going on is so outrageous that it's hard to believe it's really happening in the United States--but it is--and I'm pretty sure that "hard to believe" is part of the plan.
Project 2025 was something all pols--Demos and Repubs--of consequence knew about, but it didn't seem to make much of a dent when the Dems made a big deal about it during the election campaign. The voting public seemed to think it was all just knee-jerk liberal hysteria or, Trump Derangement Syndrome (a sure sign of normalcy). At the very least- Project 2025 was BORING because it contained printed facts (yawn...). And as Trump knows better than anyone, more voters prefer him and his assorted jesters' vaudeville shuffles than actual reality...
The Death of FOIA--or, more accurately, the non-existence of records in the first-place was/is obviously part of this grand authoritarian plan/plot. FOIA was always based on the commonly accepted understanding that when a citizen or media group requested information from the Government, relic from the past!
This assumption--that the government should keep records and produce them when asked--like the very existence of democracy itself--was always a fragile enterprise; it always required/requires a constantly renewable struggle by the citizens for it to work. If, as in The Year of Our Trump 2025, most Americans are obsessed with--and fatally diverted by--one of the thousand grinning heads of the Great Entertainment Monster, especially as personified by Trump, et. al., then then the theft of all their rights (like FOIA) will just seem like another dimly interesting TV series or Podcast or Videogame ... When Trump scolded Zelensky and told him that he didn't have the cards he needed to negotiate, Zelensky said, "I'm not playing cards."
The more I hear about all this, the more I marvel at how Trump resembles Hitler--Hitler, too, and Goebbels, his minister of "information" knew that bread and circuses (podcasts, videogames, TV shows) would hypnotize the masses of low-information voters--turn them into mobs of malleable fools. (Now I hear that Trump wants a full military parade on his birthday--replete with artillery pieces and tanks, goose-stepping troops and jets flying overhead! What are the odds that he gets it?)
Hitler also instructed his inner circle not to keep records of his conversations; He, like Trump--like any mob boss--took it for granted that they all know what he wanted and would carry out his wishes--expressed or unexpressed--to the letter. Trump, famously, said that he had NO IDEA what Project 2025 was; maybe he didn't--the instinct to destroy freedom and democracy probably just came naturally to him--and besides, he doesn't read anything longer than a tweet.
Here's a final thought... In the beginning Hitler worried that there would be a record of his criminal plans primarily because he was still worried that the world, if they knew what he was up to, would band together and stop him. BUT--he stopped worrying when he invaded the rest of Europe and carried out the mass-murder of tens of millions of people. Maybe Trump and his nasty crew are still worried that the public will hold them to account for their criminal excesses; that the midterms actually mean something--that the courts still might retain any legitimacy...
But--as you can see every day--the time when they'll cease worrying about running afoul of American Democracy is FAST APPROACHING.
UNDERCOVER interview with Russell Vought and Micah Meadowcroft (project 2025) shows they ☄️ purposely and intentionally planned NOT to follow rules to avoid FOIA requests (4.45minutes ) ☄️ have a second secretive phase
These mfer's could teach the gd NAZI'S a thing or two! The German need for order meant keeping detailed records for posterity. Which ultimately led to their hangings after the fall of the Reich. These bastards don't write a phone number on a cocktail napkin because they are posteriors!
Hopefully, our collective memory will allow for their comeuppance when this nightmare is finished.
Please excuse my use of vulgarities in polite company!
Terrifying!
Superb and brilliant. Thanks.
What's going on is so outrageous that it's hard to believe it's really happening in the United States--but it is--and I'm pretty sure that "hard to believe" is part of the plan.
Scary!
Project 2025 was something all pols--Demos and Repubs--of consequence knew about, but it didn't seem to make much of a dent when the Dems made a big deal about it during the election campaign. The voting public seemed to think it was all just knee-jerk liberal hysteria or, Trump Derangement Syndrome (a sure sign of normalcy). At the very least- Project 2025 was BORING because it contained printed facts (yawn...). And as Trump knows better than anyone, more voters prefer him and his assorted jesters' vaudeville shuffles than actual reality...
The Death of FOIA--or, more accurately, the non-existence of records in the first-place was/is obviously part of this grand authoritarian plan/plot. FOIA was always based on the commonly accepted understanding that when a citizen or media group requested information from the Government, relic from the past!
This assumption--that the government should keep records and produce them when asked--like the very existence of democracy itself--was always a fragile enterprise; it always required/requires a constantly renewable struggle by the citizens for it to work. If, as in The Year of Our Trump 2025, most Americans are obsessed with--and fatally diverted by--one of the thousand grinning heads of the Great Entertainment Monster, especially as personified by Trump, et. al., then then the theft of all their rights (like FOIA) will just seem like another dimly interesting TV series or Podcast or Videogame ... When Trump scolded Zelensky and told him that he didn't have the cards he needed to negotiate, Zelensky said, "I'm not playing cards."
The more I hear about all this, the more I marvel at how Trump resembles Hitler--Hitler, too, and Goebbels, his minister of "information" knew that bread and circuses (podcasts, videogames, TV shows) would hypnotize the masses of low-information voters--turn them into mobs of malleable fools. (Now I hear that Trump wants a full military parade on his birthday--replete with artillery pieces and tanks, goose-stepping troops and jets flying overhead! What are the odds that he gets it?)
Hitler also instructed his inner circle not to keep records of his conversations; He, like Trump--like any mob boss--took it for granted that they all know what he wanted and would carry out his wishes--expressed or unexpressed--to the letter. Trump, famously, said that he had NO IDEA what Project 2025 was; maybe he didn't--the instinct to destroy freedom and democracy probably just came naturally to him--and besides, he doesn't read anything longer than a tweet.
Here's a final thought... In the beginning Hitler worried that there would be a record of his criminal plans primarily because he was still worried that the world, if they knew what he was up to, would band together and stop him. BUT--he stopped worrying when he invaded the rest of Europe and carried out the mass-murder of tens of millions of people. Maybe Trump and his nasty crew are still worried that the public will hold them to account for their criminal excesses; that the midterms actually mean something--that the courts still might retain any legitimacy...
But--as you can see every day--the time when they'll cease worrying about running afoul of American Democracy is FAST APPROACHING.
UNDERCOVER interview with Russell Vought and Micah Meadowcroft (project 2025) shows they ☄️ purposely and intentionally planned NOT to follow rules to avoid FOIA requests (4.45minutes ) ☄️ have a second secretive phase
https://youtu.be/UQjdwsZhE_Q?si=U-LqrB2WiZoIQUYc
These mfer's could teach the gd NAZI'S a thing or two! The German need for order meant keeping detailed records for posterity. Which ultimately led to their hangings after the fall of the Reich. These bastards don't write a phone number on a cocktail napkin because they are posteriors!
Hopefully, our collective memory will allow for their comeuppance when this nightmare is finished.
Please excuse my use of vulgarities in polite company!