Am I the only one scratching his head, wondering how it is that the Heritage Foundation's 2025 project, whose objective seems to be the end of our government as we know it, isn't being regarded as more of a danger to our democracy? I get it that Republicans, being a minority, have to find ever new ways to prevail in a system that vouches for political actors who win a majority of votes over their opponents.
I would think the FBI would have an organization as subversive of the Constitution as one under observation.
Of course, I am also still waiting to hear of an investigation into all the Secret Service text messages that went walkabout on 1/6.
Sherman, you are not alone in your head scratching. I believe the Hertage Foundation operates like the Federalist Society in the background, laying groundwork and staying in the shadow of the Orange Menace who sucks up all the attention of not only MSM but all media. The Heritage Foundation is plenty savvy about publicity and how to shape their own narrative. It requires the kind of journalism that too few follow. It's rather terrifying.
He may be ditched with a “replacement” already selected. They have all the “lawyers of a certain stripe” on their side, as we see on MSM daily. And chump will be lucky to maintain the appearance of sanity until the election. After that, he will no longer be the useful fool…. Besides that, tfg may be crazy but he’s not stupid. Yes, it pains me to say that.
The “Useful Idiot” will have served his purpose! The conspiracy to undermine and overthrow democracy will have come to fruition! Isn’t that the most terrible of all consequences!!!
Jeri, I think I am in your age cohort and I have to say I have only thought that I maybe matter, but still feel like a second class person in many ways.
I'm sure that the Heritage Fdtn will have a lot to say about who accompanies Trump on the ballot as his VP. Just in case suggestions that Trump has developed clear signs of dementia are accurate and he must be removed from office under the 25th Amendment. If we don't defeat him at the polls, there will be just the right (for the purpose) individuals in his cabinet and in both houses of Congress to make removal a slam/dunk.
We may have to rethink the intelligence comment, given that his dementia is progressing. He is losing the ability to finish a sentence - and even a word. His off-script comments are word salad, stream of consciousness, and represent tangential thinking. I find it hard to think of him as “smart” given his brain damage. I’m guessing Bannon and Miller are controlling the strategy and the prompters.
During his presidency, Woodrow Wilson suffered a severe stroke, and was no longer capable of doing his job. His wife, Edith Wilson, hid that problem and managed his presidency. Should Trump regain the White House, his presidency will be managed in a similar manner.
I think the threats and vitriol are just automatic with him. When my husband was in memory care, a woman harassed several patients there with harangues that sounded like they were tried and true over a long period. Mean people get old too.
But… smart? Maybe at one time (although evidence says otherwise), but you have to have a functioning prefrontal cortex to be smart. I lost a friend and a relative to Alzheimer’s in the last six months. Both were very smart until the disease took that away from them. It’s a very cruel thing.
Trump has nothing to do with anything. He is just an actor like Reagan brainwashing people. He knows nothing about government, never did. Or did Reagan.
Trump is a megalomaniac. He knows little about anything and reads even less. Reagan was no saint but he actually had executive experience from being governor of California where about 10% of our country lives. He was light years better than Trump in experience and decency. IMHO.
I was living in Berkeley when Reagan was elected. As he took free college away from disadvantaged brilliant students. I was furious. What he didn't realize was that they get high paying jobs and pay higher taxes for other students who need helps. I never voted for him.
You haven't read Fantasy Land, also Evil Geniuses by Kurt Anderson. Although all the "blame" cannot be visited upon Reagon for the attempts, since the War Between the States, to unravel the Democratic Republic. It's a machine, succinctly illustrated in the aformentioned as well as Heather's new book, Democracy Awakening--naturally and logically written.
Yes, I agree. However, our new speaker of the house would make a fine VP. Perhaps, he is the replacement once trump is gone. God help us. What will it take for the people in this country to wake up.
Brenda The Heritage Foundation is not seeking to ‘control’ Trump. Rather, it and others are providing a possible Trump administration the tools with which to topple our constitutional government of checks and balances.
Remember, when Hitler first stepped into the Reichstag, he said that ‘he would leave only when they carried him out.’
TFFG is bought and paid-for by the 1% and their proxies. Roberts, Thomas and Alito are also bought and paid-for and are fine with the US becoming a Kleptocracy. And then there are a handful of puppet masters like Leonard Leo, Kevin Roberts, Harlan Crowe, Rupert Murdoch, the Kochs and several others.
Everything TFFG does is transactional. All these guys have to do is come up with a quid-pro-quo and TFFG is all in. And TFFG is as easy as they come when it comes to being bought. Who is funding his shoe grift? Because we all know it ain't TFFG.
Sheldon Adelson, George Birnbaum, Harlan Crow (a Clarence Thomas subsidizer), Wayne Huizenga (another Clarence Thomas subsidizer), Leonard Leo, Bernie Little (another Clarence Thomas subsidizer), Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, Paul “Tony” Novelly (another Clarence Thomas subsidizer), Dennis Prager, Steve Schwartzman, Paul Singer, David Sokol (another Clarence Thomas subsidizer), Peter Thiel, Anthony Welters (another Clarence Thomas subsidizer) Jeffrey Yass, Jeff Zuckerberg and families DeVos, Koch, Kushner, Mercer, Sackler, Uihlein.
If your company, school, municipal organization or what have you purchases items (trash bags, mops, tables, buckets, office furniture, etc) from Uline, you are providing financial support for the destruction of this Constitutional Democracy. Better to support similar companies like Global Industrial.
Derek, thank you tor calling out the Uihlein family business - Uline. I’m an artist who belongs to several online groups where part of the regular discussion is where to purchase items we need in our businesses. Packaging is a big one. Most artists I know avoid Uline like the plague!!!! I will post this alternative again today as a reminder. Thanks again.
Yes! I used to buy all my packing materials from uline. I pay more now for less and another non democrat may own these other companies too. It just feels dirty buying from uihllein.
Derek, the Uihleins bought the House seat for Wisconsin's shame: Derek Van Orden, a toxic, worthless drunk whose photo appears on the WH grounds on Jan 6. Please, everyone, help us get rid of him.
These are the monopolies ‘running the shows’. What or how to avoid enhancing their status seems near ,if not, impossible to the majority of …consumers.
Fortunately for us, Sheldon Adelson & David Koch are dead. But unfortunately, the others you name are still around to use their billions to wreck havoc on our democracy.
As well as to others who show how the U.S.'s billionaire classes have coordinated their schemes (the name of Sheldon Whitehouse's book of 2022) through many secretive far right foundations.
This coordination began, of course, with the 1971 Powell memo, which birthed the Heritage Foundation, ALEC, and the newly-steroided Hoover Institution. Their first decade aimed at killing humanities in U.S. higher ed and K-12. This resultant anesthetizing of U.S. elites allowed then the offshoring of the millions of U.S. working class jobs, then 2010's Citizens United, and today's Clarence court.
The first person who began documenting these damages was Wendell Berry ("The Unsettling of America," 1977). But even he, decades on, had no idea this was a coordinated hit job by ruling U.S. predators, rapists, and an internationally connected criminal class.
Add corporations of which a large percentage provide the goods we purchase. Lowes, Home Depot, Tesla,Amazon many more are not pushing for better living for their supporters.
That's a pretty scary list Phil. Are the ones that subsidized Alito on the list above. And Justice Robert's wife is making a killing off of right wing criminals.
"Trump granted clemency to medicare fraudsters before vowing to cut entitlement program abuse."
The total fraud the 5 people he commented was $1.6 billion. And we know that Senator Rick Scott bought his Senate seat with money he stole from Medicare/Medicaid as well as Matt Gaetz's daddy.
Most evil quid pro quo, Gary, is the silence they bought.
In the first decade of the Powell memo (the 1970s), the new Heritage Foundation, ALEC, and a viciously-enlarged Hoover Institution coordinated to kill humanities from American K-12 through higher ed.
This being done, we've since had generations of elites all without humane reference to our finest novelists, memoirists, film makers, and musicians still in touch with an America going sour by design.
Stupidly, our elites have everyone cowed into groups now, with corporate HR, nationwide standardized testers, social media algorithms, and universities all enforcing taboos protecting the group packaging, abstracting, and avoidance, murderous hatred of "others" in other programmed groups.
Then, Gary, there's the network of support connections emboldening Putin, the Saudi royals, Netanyahu, the Ayatollahs, Hamas, Orban, Modi, Erdogan, Sisi, Kim, Xi, and the U.S. white terrorists and theocrats protected by the Clarence court.
😲 that Phil is as accurate a synapse as I ‘ve seen. Well defined and Eluded to but now name specific ,written . Is plan B going into effect if TFG wins and …got your passport?
Project 2025 is a rehash of the libertarian views of billionaires like Charles Koch. Koch thinks government should protect HIS property and look after national defense. His view is basically, "What's mine is mine. What's yours is mine also." People like Koch are funding the Heritage Foundation to broadcast right wing propaganda as scholarship. The Heritage Foundation, et. al. is looking for a superior moral justification for selfishness. Such people have been gaslighting the ordinary people for forever to steal from them. These are wicked people who are happy to steal food from hungry children , offshore jobs to the cheapest labor market, and stomp women and the poor into the dirt. The only families they care about are their own.
Let’s be clear: the philosophy of the Heritage Foundation has already been adopted by the US Supreme Court. Their decisions favor rich, white, straight, men. Also, always profit over people, especially for the gun lobby.
That's the other way around, I'm afraid. The Heritage Foundation is the "Daddy Warbucks" for the majority of the Court. Philosophy has little to do with the grift, they agree to the philosophy because it gives them power and money. No moral compass.
Yes. It's all about the money, making the rich, richer and more powerful, pushing out those who are merely rich in favor of the few brilliant billionaires who deserve to run the world.
Ahh, but, that’s the beauty of the grift. It makes the mark feel special while emptying his pockets. It’s the former president’s super power. And now he’s managing to institutionalize it.
All the while, most Americans are sleepwalking through it all! If this transpires according to the 2025 Plan, no one should ever say, “Why didn’t anyone warn us?” There are enough red flags for us to see right now, if we’d only open our eyes and ears! 🤯
What is to keep the “ blood bath” from happening no matter who wins the election? Have you seen what is happening in Haiti? With our lack of gun control, have we not ensured that the magats will take over the World as we know it? I know the Biden administration is up to it’s neck in current World issues and unrest, but the Heritage Foundation’s 2025 plan calls for a counter offensive, planned and organized now while the country still has some sense of sanity running the government. If we wait until after the election to put together a counter offensive, even a Democratic landslide will be met with an insurrection, the likes of which has never been seen in these United States.
And, as goes the United States, so goes the World.
Not just sleepwalking. I fear that many in the younger generations (I’m 60) are justifiably upset over our support of Israel. However, they are claiming they will not vote at all in November because a vote for Biden will mean they are complicit in the suffering of the Palestinian people. And of course a vote for Trump is a nonstarter, so they won’t vote at all. I fear if there isn’t a ceasefire before November that all will be lost.
Well, the Heritage Foundation no doubt stumbled upon this guy. He was the perfect gangster to do the dirty work for them. He is self-centered and only cares about himself and was spoiled by his parents. Possibly by his crooked father. Apparently he had a good teacher. So we have working against us Fox News, Sean Hannity, Viktor Orban, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin. All they need to control TFG is money.
Especially since DJT is already controlled (and owned financially ) by Putin and China. George Bush was almost the perfect patsy for a brainleess president. DJT is as he has no policies of his own and isn't smart enough to do anything on his own. The government will be owned and directed by his handlers not him. Look at how almost none of what he said got done.
Because they have no more respect for the failed insurrectionist than we do. To them he is just a tool and his cognitive decline is probably considered a benefit, because it will make him easier to control.
Inside the minds of the intellect-few of that organization, they view #45 as a tool, a dull one, a moron, etc etc. But, they need his stage presence, his cameo's, his 757 style, his good looking daughter, his sons (for whatever). They have money, #45 DOESN'T.
100%! Nobody can control a malignant narcissist sociopath. Is it hubris in their thirst for power. There’s a lot of big money behind Heritage. But why isn’t a registered foreign lobby now to? How much $ has come from Russian and Saudi oligarchs?
they do not intend to so so. Like Grover Norquist stated in the early part of this century, "we just need a president that will sign whatever the republicans send over and nominate whoever we suggest." DJT is just the guy. They could not fully control Reagan, HW Bush, GW Bush, those men still had some loyalty to the Constitution and America.
Have you seen the recent RBG award, traditionally given to women who have made a difference, now given to Musk and Rupert Murdoch? What a slap in the face. Her descendants want her name removed from the award. Not surprising, when you look at the award's major donors: the Federalist Society.
Thank goodness the “thumbs in your eye “ Awards were canceled.
But we ignore this warning shot at our peril. I think it is absolutely indicative of continuing denigration and wanting to roll back all progress that has extended rights and participation to anyone other than white wealthy males.
I assume they are also funneling money to the Trump campaign. The meeting of Orbán with the two elements that are prepared to dismantle our democracy fully, namely Treacherous-treasonous-traitor-Trump, and the developers of Project 2025, is quite scary indeed.
Yes.I am with you on the terrifying part.The msm would behoove itself to talk loudly about all of this.People not paying attention I’m pretty sure are in the dark about rights being smashed to smithereens and might need to be informed.Just a thought…
It's a great thought! MSM, however, is focused on attracting eyeballs to translate that into income and profit. Cursory reporting of the scandalous pronouncements du jour from the likes of TFG accomplishes just that. Additionally, too few of our fellow citizens care to know all the details of the growing threat to our freedom. I believe it is becoming more urgent for those of us who are concerned to act by writing letters to editors, postcards to voters, if able door knocking. We can be the supplement to those news outlets that DO report necessary information.
Carmen, it is absolutely terrifying. When I posted the letter this am to Facebook, I thought maybe people should have something strong in their coffee. As usual, I urged people to vote D. The MSM is hopeless and there are places to find out what's going on including this letter and I read Timothy Snyder yesterday. I was reminded of the Nazi regime when I read about spies everywhere. I even know who among our immediate neighbors would probably be the guy. I would also add that those people who voted uncommitted or won't meet with Biden's people are very foolish if they think they won't be targets. I understand why, but....
It looks to me that trump is the most electable person they have - by far. That's why they need him out front - even as they may soon need to hold him up with marionette strings.
I have been saying since his poll numbers were rising before the 2016 election that his popularity was surreal. And after all we and his supporters have witnessed, he still is! It is crazy. As hard as I've tried, I just can't understand it.
I don't believe in the devil, but if there was ever better evidence of a person selling his soul to the devil for power, it's donald's popularity and ability to avoid accountability. However, I never thought we'd ever get as close as we are to him being convicted. So, I continue to retain my finger biting and cautious optimism.
well said. as the decades since my first official ballot-casting ('96) have slipped by, I have not exactly imagined that I ever have my finger on the pulse of the entire USA, but i was stunned the first time I saw a glossy photo of a young woman at a 2016 Drumpf rally - starry-eyed, wowed, so excited that this putrescent griftmonkey was in her field of view. beyond the assumption that plenty of kids pick up their parents' bad habits whether or not they ever 'rebel' ... to me it's still an absolute head-scratcher that whatever passes for their political imagination couldn't find a better nest.
The Heritage Foundation and the Manafort-Bannon-Stone-(and lately)Kellyanne consortium are ALWAYS cited by me as the people behind the curtain manipulating the levers of power. Trump has never been anything more than a tool. (And he is a total tool, in every sense of it.)
I would so like to see more coverage of Heritage in the press, but I fear it would be more like advertising than analysis.
We have the Heritage Foundation to thank for McConnell’s packing of our courts with Heritage-vetted jurists, for instance.
This posting by HCR is SO important. In it, we see the seeds the autocrats will plant about “living free,” and I shudder at how easily they will be able to sell some people on those false promises. That ‘s how Fascists do it.
Yes, but I have been battling these same people and their predecessors since 1963, when I was 19 years old. Some ups, mostly downs, but if we lose this one, it sppears to me to be all over but the shouting.
All of this is scarier than any thought of what hell might be😬. If your not scared and ready to take action your not doing your homework if what democracy means.
Yes, I agree. Heather is doing an marvelous job in keeping us informed. But we have a responsibility as well to alert the people of this country as well. Or suffer the consequences.
Am I the only one scratching his head, wondering how it is that the Heritage Foundation's 2025 project, whose objective seems to be the end of our government as we know it, isn't being regarded as more of a danger to our democracy? I get it that Republicans, being a minority, have to find ever new ways to prevail in a system that vouches for political actors who win a majority of votes over their opponents.
I would think the FBI would have an organization as subversive of the Constitution as one under observation.
Of course, I am also still waiting to hear of an investigation into all the Secret Service text messages that went walkabout on 1/6.
Sherman, you are not alone in your head scratching. I believe the Hertage Foundation operates like the Federalist Society in the background, laying groundwork and staying in the shadow of the Orange Menace who sucks up all the attention of not only MSM but all media. The Heritage Foundation is plenty savvy about publicity and how to shape their own narrative. It requires the kind of journalism that too few follow. It's rather terrifying.
I don’t understand why the Heritage foundation thinks it will be able to control Donald Trump.
He may be ditched with a “replacement” already selected. They have all the “lawyers of a certain stripe” on their side, as we see on MSM daily. And chump will be lucky to maintain the appearance of sanity until the election. After that, he will no longer be the useful fool…. Besides that, tfg may be crazy but he’s not stupid. Yes, it pains me to say that.
The “Useful Idiot” will have served his purpose! The conspiracy to undermine and overthrow democracy will have come to fruition! Isn’t that the most terrible of all consequences!!!
It is indeed, as a female, I have gotten used to feeling like I matter, so have many “others” at my UU church…
Jeri, I think I am in your age cohort and I have to say I have only thought that I maybe matter, but still feel like a second class person in many ways.
I'm sure that the Heritage Fdtn will have a lot to say about who accompanies Trump on the ballot as his VP. Just in case suggestions that Trump has developed clear signs of dementia are accurate and he must be removed from office under the 25th Amendment. If we don't defeat him at the polls, there will be just the right (for the purpose) individuals in his cabinet and in both houses of Congress to make removal a slam/dunk.
We may have to rethink the intelligence comment, given that his dementia is progressing. He is losing the ability to finish a sentence - and even a word. His off-script comments are word salad, stream of consciousness, and represent tangential thinking. I find it hard to think of him as “smart” given his brain damage. I’m guessing Bannon and Miller are controlling the strategy and the prompters.
Bannon and Miller two loathsome bottom feeders!
Didn't Bannon steal money which was to be used for the wall?
Repulsive scumbags !
During his presidency, Woodrow Wilson suffered a severe stroke, and was no longer capable of doing his job. His wife, Edith Wilson, hid that problem and managed his presidency. Should Trump regain the White House, his presidency will be managed in a similar manner.
But the Heritage Society.
OMG -- so Melania would be the shadow president? Well, she might be an improvement! (LOL)
I think the threats and vitriol are just automatic with him. When my husband was in memory care, a woman harassed several patients there with harangues that sounded like they were tried and true over a long period. Mean people get old too.
But… smart? Maybe at one time (although evidence says otherwise), but you have to have a functioning prefrontal cortex to be smart. I lost a friend and a relative to Alzheimer’s in the last six months. Both were very smart until the disease took that away from them. It’s a very cruel thing.
Crazy but cunning. Like his exemplars, Putin et al., the ultimate in streetwise.
Mob style
Cartoon Maxine's (John Wagner) thought for yesterday:
" St Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. Apparently, they moved to Washington , D.C."
I wish I had grown up to be Maxine. 🤗
Maybe a bit more like Gutter style, too
I agree and think they would get rid of him.
They have slimy lawyers too
Trump has nothing to do with anything. He is just an actor like Reagan brainwashing people. He knows nothing about government, never did. Or did Reagan.
Trump is a megalomaniac. He knows little about anything and reads even less. Reagan was no saint but he actually had executive experience from being governor of California where about 10% of our country lives. He was light years better than Trump in experience and decency. IMHO.
I was living in Berkeley when Reagan was elected. As he took free college away from disadvantaged brilliant students. I was furious. What he didn't realize was that they get high paying jobs and pay higher taxes for other students who need helps. I never voted for him.
Reagan, maybe experience, but not decency. I never voted for him either and loathed him. I have to agree the death star beats him in that department.
You haven't read Fantasy Land, also Evil Geniuses by Kurt Anderson. Although all the "blame" cannot be visited upon Reagon for the attempts, since the War Between the States, to unravel the Democratic Republic. It's a machine, succinctly illustrated in the aformentioned as well as Heather's new book, Democracy Awakening--naturally and logically written.
You're right.
No Eva, he is very clear about what he wants and what he will do.
Yes, I agree. However, our new speaker of the house would make a fine VP. Perhaps, he is the replacement once trump is gone. God help us. What will it take for the people in this country to wake up.
Brenda The Heritage Foundation is not seeking to ‘control’ Trump. Rather, it and others are providing a possible Trump administration the tools with which to topple our constitutional government of checks and balances.
Remember, when Hitler first stepped into the Reichstag, he said that ‘he would leave only when they carried him out.’
TFFG is bought and paid-for by the 1% and their proxies. Roberts, Thomas and Alito are also bought and paid-for and are fine with the US becoming a Kleptocracy. And then there are a handful of puppet masters like Leonard Leo, Kevin Roberts, Harlan Crowe, Rupert Murdoch, the Kochs and several others.
Everything TFFG does is transactional. All these guys have to do is come up with a quid-pro-quo and TFFG is all in. And TFFG is as easy as they come when it comes to being bought. Who is funding his shoe grift? Because we all know it ain't TFFG.
Beware the Ides of March--indeed!
Not "a handful," Gary.
Consider:
Sheldon Adelson, George Birnbaum, Harlan Crow (a Clarence Thomas subsidizer), Wayne Huizenga (another Clarence Thomas subsidizer), Leonard Leo, Bernie Little (another Clarence Thomas subsidizer), Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, Paul “Tony” Novelly (another Clarence Thomas subsidizer), Dennis Prager, Steve Schwartzman, Paul Singer, David Sokol (another Clarence Thomas subsidizer), Peter Thiel, Anthony Welters (another Clarence Thomas subsidizer) Jeffrey Yass, Jeff Zuckerberg and families DeVos, Koch, Kushner, Mercer, Sackler, Uihlein.
A note about that last name, Uihlein.
If your company, school, municipal organization or what have you purchases items (trash bags, mops, tables, buckets, office furniture, etc) from Uline, you are providing financial support for the destruction of this Constitutional Democracy. Better to support similar companies like Global Industrial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_and_Elizabeth_Uihlein
Derek, thank you tor calling out the Uihlein family business - Uline. I’m an artist who belongs to several online groups where part of the regular discussion is where to purchase items we need in our businesses. Packaging is a big one. Most artists I know avoid Uline like the plague!!!! I will post this alternative again today as a reminder. Thanks again.
Help get out the vote and vote blue!!
Yes! I used to buy all my packing materials from uline. I pay more now for less and another non democrat may own these other companies too. It just feels dirty buying from uihllein.
Derek, the Uihleins bought the House seat for Wisconsin's shame: Derek Van Orden, a toxic, worthless drunk whose photo appears on the WH grounds on Jan 6. Please, everyone, help us get rid of him.
These are the monopolies ‘running the shows’. What or how to avoid enhancing their status seems near ,if not, impossible to the majority of …consumers.
UGH! Thanks for the enlightenment!
Fortunately for us, Sheldon Adelson & David Koch are dead. But unfortunately, the others you name are still around to use their billions to wreck havoc on our democracy.
Citizen's United - The g(r)if that keeps on giving -- To Republicans.
The cemeteries are littered with the corpses of 'irreplaceable' people.
and what did David K's will say?
Damn Good list of fascists. Looks like a list right out of Jane Mayer's book Dark Money.
Am much indebted to her, Rickey.
As well as to others who show how the U.S.'s billionaire classes have coordinated their schemes (the name of Sheldon Whitehouse's book of 2022) through many secretive far right foundations.
This coordination began, of course, with the 1971 Powell memo, which birthed the Heritage Foundation, ALEC, and the newly-steroided Hoover Institution. Their first decade aimed at killing humanities in U.S. higher ed and K-12. This resultant anesthetizing of U.S. elites allowed then the offshoring of the millions of U.S. working class jobs, then 2010's Citizens United, and today's Clarence court.
The first person who began documenting these damages was Wendell Berry ("The Unsettling of America," 1977). But even he, decades on, had no idea this was a coordinated hit job by ruling U.S. predators, rapists, and an internationally connected criminal class.
Add corporations of which a large percentage provide the goods we purchase. Lowes, Home Depot, Tesla,Amazon many more are not pushing for better living for their supporters.
That's a pretty scary list Phil. Are the ones that subsidized Alito on the list above. And Justice Robert's wife is making a killing off of right wing criminals.
"Trump granted clemency to medicare fraudsters before vowing to cut entitlement program abuse."
The total fraud the 5 people he commented was $1.6 billion. And we know that Senator Rick Scott bought his Senate seat with money he stole from Medicare/Medicaid as well as Matt Gaetz's daddy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-granted-clemency-to-medicare-fraudsters-before-vowing-to-cut-entitlement-program-abuse/ar-BB1k0udQ
What is the quid pro quo for these fraudster's pardons?
Most evil quid pro quo, Gary, is the silence they bought.
In the first decade of the Powell memo (the 1970s), the new Heritage Foundation, ALEC, and a viciously-enlarged Hoover Institution coordinated to kill humanities from American K-12 through higher ed.
This being done, we've since had generations of elites all without humane reference to our finest novelists, memoirists, film makers, and musicians still in touch with an America going sour by design.
Stupidly, our elites have everyone cowed into groups now, with corporate HR, nationwide standardized testers, social media algorithms, and universities all enforcing taboos protecting the group packaging, abstracting, and avoidance, murderous hatred of "others" in other programmed groups.
Then, Gary, there's the network of support connections emboldening Putin, the Saudi royals, Netanyahu, the Ayatollahs, Hamas, Orban, Modi, Erdogan, Sisi, Kim, Xi, and the U.S. white terrorists and theocrats protected by the Clarence court.
😲 that Phil is as accurate a synapse as I ‘ve seen. Well defined and Eluded to but now name specific ,written . Is plan B going into effect if TFG wins and …got your passport?
This shakes me to the core.
Roger Stone. Mark Meadows. Stephen Miller are active .
Project 2025 is a rehash of the libertarian views of billionaires like Charles Koch. Koch thinks government should protect HIS property and look after national defense. His view is basically, "What's mine is mine. What's yours is mine also." People like Koch are funding the Heritage Foundation to broadcast right wing propaganda as scholarship. The Heritage Foundation, et. al. is looking for a superior moral justification for selfishness. Such people have been gaslighting the ordinary people for forever to steal from them. These are wicked people who are happy to steal food from hungry children , offshore jobs to the cheapest labor market, and stomp women and the poor into the dirt. The only families they care about are their own.
So well-put, Jenn.
Let’s be clear: the philosophy of the Heritage Foundation has already been adopted by the US Supreme Court. Their decisions favor rich, white, straight, men. Also, always profit over people, especially for the gun lobby.
That's the other way around, I'm afraid. The Heritage Foundation is the "Daddy Warbucks" for the majority of the Court. Philosophy has little to do with the grift, they agree to the philosophy because it gives them power and money. No moral compass.
Yes. It's all about the money, making the rich, richer and more powerful, pushing out those who are merely rich in favor of the few brilliant billionaires who deserve to run the world.
Ahh, but, that’s the beauty of the grift. It makes the mark feel special while emptying his pockets. It’s the former president’s super power. And now he’s managing to institutionalize it.
Brenda, I don’t think they really care….there are others more competent standing in the wings to assume “leadership”.
All the while, most Americans are sleepwalking through it all! If this transpires according to the 2025 Plan, no one should ever say, “Why didn’t anyone warn us?” There are enough red flags for us to see right now, if we’d only open our eyes and ears! 🤯
Maximum, well-presented publicity for the 2025 Project could explode that project in their faces.
Hoist of their own petard.
What is to keep the “ blood bath” from happening no matter who wins the election? Have you seen what is happening in Haiti? With our lack of gun control, have we not ensured that the magats will take over the World as we know it? I know the Biden administration is up to it’s neck in current World issues and unrest, but the Heritage Foundation’s 2025 plan calls for a counter offensive, planned and organized now while the country still has some sense of sanity running the government. If we wait until after the election to put together a counter offensive, even a Democratic landslide will be met with an insurrection, the likes of which has never been seen in these United States.
And, as goes the United States, so goes the World.
Do you think his cult followers would believe this if it was posted on bill boards and tik tok etc?
And VOTE
I will vote accordingly to stop this hideous power grab.
Not just sleepwalking. I fear that many in the younger generations (I’m 60) are justifiably upset over our support of Israel. However, they are claiming they will not vote at all in November because a vote for Biden will mean they are complicit in the suffering of the Palestinian people. And of course a vote for Trump is a nonstarter, so they won’t vote at all. I fear if there isn’t a ceasefire before November that all will be lost.
Well, the Heritage Foundation no doubt stumbled upon this guy. He was the perfect gangster to do the dirty work for them. He is self-centered and only cares about himself and was spoiled by his parents. Possibly by his crooked father. Apparently he had a good teacher. So we have working against us Fox News, Sean Hannity, Viktor Orban, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin. All they need to control TFG is money.
Especially since DJT is already controlled (and owned financially ) by Putin and China. George Bush was almost the perfect patsy for a brainleess president. DJT is as he has no policies of his own and isn't smart enough to do anything on his own. The government will be owned and directed by his handlers not him. Look at how almost none of what he said got done.
Because they have no more respect for the failed insurrectionist than we do. To them he is just a tool and his cognitive decline is probably considered a benefit, because it will make him easier to control.
Inside the minds of the intellect-few of that organization, they view #45 as a tool, a dull one, a moron, etc etc. But, they need his stage presence, his cameo's, his 757 style, his good looking daughter, his sons (for whatever). They have money, #45 DOESN'T.
100%! Nobody can control a malignant narcissist sociopath. Is it hubris in their thirst for power. There’s a lot of big money behind Heritage. But why isn’t a registered foreign lobby now to? How much $ has come from Russian and Saudi oligarchs?
They own him.
Brenda, All they have to do is flatter him, and failing that, threaten him and his family.
they do not intend to so so. Like Grover Norquist stated in the early part of this century, "we just need a president that will sign whatever the republicans send over and nominate whoever we suggest." DJT is just the guy. They could not fully control Reagan, HW Bush, GW Bush, those men still had some loyalty to the Constitution and America.
Because it has so far. You kiss his ring, and he does anything you want him to do… They don't revere him…he is their sock puppet.
Have you seen the recent RBG award, traditionally given to women who have made a difference, now given to Musk and Rupert Murdoch? What a slap in the face. Her descendants want her name removed from the award. Not surprising, when you look at the award's major donors: the Federalist Society.
I read the statements from RBG’s family - spot on! They must remove her name from the award. Her name is being hijacked and must stop.
I saw this. Disgusting. This is another attempt to normalize their fascism.
That. Is. Disgusting.
WHAT! I had no idea. I have to read more about this.
https://www.wpr.org/news/rbgs-family-condemns-the-selection-of-recipients-of-an-award-named-in-her-honor
Unbelievable this move to white male dominance in this country.
Yes. Ruth Ginsberg family threatened to removed her name from the award. Long story short, the awards were canceled.
Thank goodness the “thumbs in your eye “ Awards were canceled.
But we ignore this warning shot at our peril. I think it is absolutely indicative of continuing denigration and wanting to roll back all progress that has extended rights and participation to anyone other than white wealthy males.
I assume they are also funneling money to the Trump campaign. The meeting of Orbán with the two elements that are prepared to dismantle our democracy fully, namely Treacherous-treasonous-traitor-Trump, and the developers of Project 2025, is quite scary indeed.
Yes.I am with you on the terrifying part.The msm would behoove itself to talk loudly about all of this.People not paying attention I’m pretty sure are in the dark about rights being smashed to smithereens and might need to be informed.Just a thought…
It's a great thought! MSM, however, is focused on attracting eyeballs to translate that into income and profit. Cursory reporting of the scandalous pronouncements du jour from the likes of TFG accomplishes just that. Additionally, too few of our fellow citizens care to know all the details of the growing threat to our freedom. I believe it is becoming more urgent for those of us who are concerned to act by writing letters to editors, postcards to voters, if able door knocking. We can be the supplement to those news outlets that DO report necessary information.
Carmen, it is absolutely terrifying. When I posted the letter this am to Facebook, I thought maybe people should have something strong in their coffee. As usual, I urged people to vote D. The MSM is hopeless and there are places to find out what's going on including this letter and I read Timothy Snyder yesterday. I was reminded of the Nazi regime when I read about spies everywhere. I even know who among our immediate neighbors would probably be the guy. I would also add that those people who voted uncommitted or won't meet with Biden's people are very foolish if they think they won't be targets. I understand why, but....
It looks to me that trump is the most electable person they have - by far. That's why they need him out front - even as they may soon need to hold him up with marionette strings.
I have been saying since his poll numbers were rising before the 2016 election that his popularity was surreal. And after all we and his supporters have witnessed, he still is! It is crazy. As hard as I've tried, I just can't understand it.
I don't believe in the devil, but if there was ever better evidence of a person selling his soul to the devil for power, it's donald's popularity and ability to avoid accountability. However, I never thought we'd ever get as close as we are to him being convicted. So, I continue to retain my finger biting and cautious optimism.
well said. as the decades since my first official ballot-casting ('96) have slipped by, I have not exactly imagined that I ever have my finger on the pulse of the entire USA, but i was stunned the first time I saw a glossy photo of a young woman at a 2016 Drumpf rally - starry-eyed, wowed, so excited that this putrescent griftmonkey was in her field of view. beyond the assumption that plenty of kids pick up their parents' bad habits whether or not they ever 'rebel' ... to me it's still an absolute head-scratcher that whatever passes for their political imagination couldn't find a better nest.
The Heritage Foundation and the Manafort-Bannon-Stone-(and lately)Kellyanne consortium are ALWAYS cited by me as the people behind the curtain manipulating the levers of power. Trump has never been anything more than a tool. (And he is a total tool, in every sense of it.)
I would so like to see more coverage of Heritage in the press, but I fear it would be more like advertising than analysis.
We have the Heritage Foundation to thank for McConnell’s packing of our courts with Heritage-vetted jurists, for instance.
This posting by HCR is SO important. In it, we see the seeds the autocrats will plant about “living free,” and I shudder at how easily they will be able to sell some people on those false promises. That ‘s how Fascists do it.
We got our work cut out for us.
The Heritage 2025 plan is, for upwards of 74 million Americans, a plus. It’s their dream outcome.
Horrifying, isn't it?
Yes, but I have been battling these same people and their predecessors since 1963, when I was 19 years old. Some ups, mostly downs, but if we lose this one, it sppears to me to be all over but the shouting.
All of this is scarier than any thought of what hell might be😬. If your not scared and ready to take action your not doing your homework if what democracy means.
Agree. And the lackeys in the "Supreme" Court from their prescribed "academic" pipeline.
Yes, I agree. Heather is doing an marvelous job in keeping us informed. But we have a responsibility as well to alert the people of this country as well. Or suffer the consequences.
Amen