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Susan Niemann's avatar

An excellent job here, Charles. Heartbreaking.

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Charles Bastille's avatar

Thanks, Susan. It sounds like a cruel April Fool’s joke. I have a dark sense of humor, but it’s not that dark.

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Shoshana's avatar

It's not just that the numbers are scary. It's actually the speed at which they are completing all of these things.

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Charles Bastille's avatar

You're so right. I'm updating this. The numbers are get worse almost by the minute. But the mad king is good at one thing in life. Deflection. All his insanity deflects from much of their heinous activity.

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StillTrying2AgeGracefully's avatar

Thank you so much for your detailed update on the "progress" of Project 2025. It will help us pick up pieces to restore etc. A wonderful roadmap!

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Charles Bastille's avatar

Thanks for taking the time to look through it!

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RickRickRick's avatar

Awesome work. Now if we only had a populace that reads.

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Constitutional Guardian's avatar

A metronome's relentless beat, TICK TOK TICK TOK,

A rhythm of descent, a silent, sickening shock.

FOTHER MUCKER, the whisper, a curse upon the air,

For the moment you embraced, a burden you would bear.

That mythical rope, a silken, tempting lie,

A ridiculous proposition, beneath a clouded sky.

You allowed them to place it, a choice, though subtly made,

Now suffocating, the light begins to fade.

On the brink of a fate worse than death, a chilling, stark despair,

A breath withheld, a gasp that's lost in empty air.

And the blood runneth cold for the rest, a silent, tragic plea,

Fortunately or unfortunately, for those who watched you flee.

We all knew that rope was a noose, we saw the fatal knot,

We warned you, with voices strained, from a truth we'd truly got.

We told you, with passion, our words like urgent cries,

We pleaded with you, to open your closed eyes.

Yet you complied, a strange submission, deep and vast,

You refused the truth, holding to a future that wouldn't last.

They told you the feast was a famine, a cruel and twisted art,

And the famine was a feast, tearing faith apart.

Oh, your lying eyes, that saw what they desired,

Betraying vision, by false illusions fired.

Their victory your loss, a bitter, final toll,

The last nail in the coffin for all, a shattered, broken whole.

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Peggy Coquet (she/her)'s avatar

Thank you for this. I have been thinking about doing something related to Project 2025, but have allowed myself to be sidetracked. Now I’m re-motivated!

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Charles Bastille's avatar

Thanks! It needs to be updated. I’ve started a draft of said update, lol. Progress!

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Solemna's avatar

Right there with you

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Charles Bastille's avatar

Thanks!

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Solemna's avatar

Thank you for putting this update together. Much appreciated, and though horrific, equally motivational

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Charles Bastille's avatar

It's ugly, right? Thanks for your support. I'll be updating soon. It's even worse than this old(ish) report.

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TR's avatar

WFA ( waste fraud and abuse) is a fukin lie !!!!!

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Charles Bastille's avatar

One of these days I’d like to do a comprehensive report on the pain this has caused federal employees. I have the info. I just need to put it all together.

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Alana Innes's avatar

Terrifying read. A nightmare. I fear for my family in the US. Thoughts are with you from us in Australia.

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Manohar Shenoy's avatar

This is absolutely amazing. Wonderful work for so patiently tracking and compiling it. It needs to be very widely disseminated so that everyone knows how the very foundation of our country is being dismantled.

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Sandy D's avatar

Excellent, and really clarifying. As shocking as Project 2025 is, it is only the plan for the first 6 months. And I seem to recall that one of them, Vought, Roberts, Nann, said early on that Project 2025 included the white papers they were fine with publishing, and that there were many other papers ready to go that couldn’t be publicly disclosed.

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Charles Bastille's avatar

Yep. Per your last sentence, here's one of them, Project Esther, which I also wrote about:

https://www.ruminato.com/p/i-just-found-the-police-state-version

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Mark Tweddle's avatar

Sure they say they want to reduce the scope of government and reduce the deficit, and yet they merely make the government more inefficient and ineffective whilst increasing the deficit.

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GS-z-14-1's avatar

With neither powers of requirement nor of restriction, it must be recognized that the US Constitution is legally inoperative. This is to say that the US Republic has fallen.

The letterhead is still used, meetings are still held in [some] government buildings where agendas are distributed, correspondence is received for information and actionable items are addressed, reports are given, recommendations are discussed and debated, decisions are made, assignments, communications, etc. occur.

It looks like ‘business as usual.’ In a sense, it is. Except for one point.

With the collapse of the Republic, the United States of America doesn’t exist. It passed from the historical scene.

The question is: ‘so what’s next?’

That will be determined by the massive, social struggles about to be unleashed.

Get this wrong and the consequences will be unimaginable.

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Charles Bastille's avatar

"The letterhead is still used..." Damn, that's a good line. Thanks for the comment.

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GS-z-14-1's avatar

You’re welcome to use it as your own.

As an aside, have you considered changing your given name from ‘Charles’ to ‘Storming The?’

We could use some of that 1789 spirit.

Thanks for your work. Regards.

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Tom Muir's avatar

Excellent work! Thank you for this report. Sharing this with as many people as I can. It is very difficult and time consuming to keep track of everything that is going on with the implementation of P2025, especially when they constantly use weapons of mass distraction.

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Maya J's avatar

Excellent work. How do we get more people to understand the impact these changes will have on their daily lives? That is the next step I think.

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Charles Bastille's avatar

Thank you! I don’t have an answer for that. Americans seem to be in wildly myopic state of apathy right now, outside the echo chambers of resistance, which has not really expanded much since the election.

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James F. Lavin's avatar

I’m trying to understand why what you presented—nice and helpful presentation and lists —is necessarily a bad thing. Do you have a philosophy of what the federal government should do and not do? Do you have a view as to the proper % of GDP the federal government should process? Are all government programs sacrosanct? Project 2025 has a coherent philosophy. Just attacking it without a countervailing philosophy seems to me to be unhelpful. But again thank you for the list.

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Charles Bastille's avatar

There is a process for addressing government spending. Google “schoolhouse rocks.”

They're violating every constitutional principle this country has been governed by for two centuries.

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Mark Tweddle's avatar

To call Project 2025 a coherent philosophy is very interesting. Could you explain that philosophy cause it seems far from coherent to me. It's certainly not set up to reduce the deficit or promote peace.

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James F. Lavin's avatar

Perhaps an overstatement. A comprehensive process to reduce the scope of the federal government, rather than a coherent philosophy. When you ask people, they support that goal of shrinking government and shrinking the deficit—-in abstract. If you want to counter Project 2025, just calling it the destruction of America doesn’t cut it, you need to offer an alternative. The past administration, and the Obama adminstration offered an alternative—-massive government growth—and I don’t think it has turned out well, or accomplished much other than handicapping the younger generation with unsurmountable debt.

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Charles Bastille's avatar

You're still missing the point. Libertarians have been repeating your arguments for years. We live in a nation where we have the right to make these arguments come to fruition through Congress, not through the actions of someone who wistfully self-fetishes as an American version of Rodrigo Duterte.

The vast majority of programs being slashed by Project 2025 have already been allocated by congressional law. The fact that Congress is now populated by his sycophants and is abandoning its responsibility to itself does not change the argument that those of us who object to Project 2025 are making.

As for the claim that my headline is hyperbolic? Deal with it.

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