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Aug 3Liked by Andrew Lowenthal

Thank you for this examination and opinion. It was needed.

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I have only read snippets of “Project 2025”. I have no idea of what it says in its entirety, but I think its value lies in its comprehensive approach. It’s a document that can be discussed and debated in whole or, contextually, in part, which could serve as a partial foundation for the kind of debates we should be having. Aside from the “platforms” of our two political parties, which almost nobody ever reads, this is as close to a starting point for a much needed, comprehensive, political debate that we have - and we have to start somewhere.

The alternative is to continue using repetition of talking points, celebrities, sound-bites, and gotcha moments, in a psy-ops like atmosphere, plus October surprises to win presidential elections. We, as a people, need to stop being so passive, and do the work - while we still can.

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100%! And until we get to that point we will remain frozen in our ideological bunkers.

Did you happen to catch Michael Tracy’s 2025 discussion (while Glenn Greenwald was on vacation)? Enlightening. https://rumble.com/v58es0t-project-2025-untangling-fact-from-fiction-with-heritage-foundation-presiden.html

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Aug 3·edited Aug 3Liked by Andrew Lowenthal

The problem is cronyism and its close kin, regulatory favoritism/capture. An important question for freedom advocates is: Does Project 2025 increase or decrease cronyism and regulatory capture/favoritism for technology companies (on the censorship issue) and companies in other sectors?

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Wow, so a plan not asked for, accepted or approved by Trump or the Trump campaign is reason to reject Trump and to instead vote for the person who laughed while America was actually invaded, who called forcdefunding police, and who received not one vote for her nomination.

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Great summary. I will read it, and I suspect there are ideas both sides can agree on. While I strongly disagree with the cynical liberal / dem censorship done during the 2020 election cycle and pandemic and Biden gaslighting, these are tactics deployed in politics for the ages. When we had an honest media, political tricks were exposed and politicians were shamed. No more. What Hilary did was far worse than Nixon. What Biden did was far worse than anything Trump did. these political tactics have been supercharged by liberal media and social media. If these same tactics are available to the conservatives / republicans in future governments - they will be used much more effectively at muffling the opposition. The media needs to become fair and impartial with reporting news and events. They are an important brake on out of control government.

I think the other massive influence on our government are NGOs. They have become the unofficial policy makers since most of congress has become lazy, re-election obsessed and dysfunctional and has essentially outsourced the legislative law writing to these non government organizations. We need a law to force NGOs to reveal donors and we need term limits at all levels of governments - from sheriff to President.

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BS. Using the FBI to pressure private companies to censor is not business as usual. The FBI sitting on actual forensic evidence of actual crime by Biden is not business as usual.

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By far the vast majority of censorship today is done not by govt but by the ruling class Big Tech corporate-capitalist billionaires on their social media platforms and search engines (primarily google).

See for example the massive astounding level of censorship, deplatforming, shadow-banning, visibility-filtering and caging us in partisan echo-chambers on Musk's right-wing Zionist Twitter/X. And what's truly scary and unprecedentend is that it is all done under the banner of "freedom" and "fighting the elite"!!! Truly 1984 level of DoubleSpeak. And a blind misinformed army of millions upon millions are buying into this sick GREAT INVERSION conservative narrative (the successor to the Qanon narrative), worshiping the holy billionaire trinity of Musk/Trump/Tucker (and Shapiro) as "freedom fighters" and "anti-elite", while "God's chosen messiah" and his deep-state zionist billionaire buddies are ushered into the white house. Truly dystopian times..

The GREAT CONSERVATIVE INVERSION (Qanon version 2.0) in full swing - The biggest billionaire abusers of humanity, scum of the earth are worshipped by hypnotised deceived conservatives as "pro-freedom anti-elite heros"!!! SICKENING!!

PS. For anyone not yet aware that anti-Christ trump and vance and musk and carlson, as well as Harris and the corporate-capitalist fake-left liberals, are the very definition of pro-ruling class, pro-elite, pro-M.I.C, pro-genocide, pro-ZioNazis, pro-global capitalist militarized empire, pro-Wall St, pro-Big Pharma, pro-Big Agri, pro-Big Tech, pro-surveillance capitalism, pro-squeezing workers to death for billionaire sociopaths, pro-NeoConservatism, pro-war profiteering, pro-division of humanity along religious-ethnic lines and pitting us against each other to ensure eternal sectarian-tribalistic hatred and war that cements the position of right-wing billionaire manipulators at the top of the pyramid in every country as "protectors of the people" from "those evil monstrous other religion/ethnicity/ideology over there who want to hurt you, but don't worry, we righteous ruling class billionaires here to protect you from the evil enemies of the nation" (and these corporate-capitalist right-wing billionaire deceivers are presented to those who don't know the facts as "anti-establishment freedom fighters" in the manipulative DoubleSpeak of billionaire-sponsored conservative echo-chambers and fake "alternative" media), if you're still not aware of who these right-wing billionaire manipulators are and still believe they are here to "fight the deep state for the little guy" (as the deceptive Qanon/MAGA conservative narrative would have you believe) , then please watch this to understand how the ruling class are deceiving you and having you think that your ConMan billionaire messiah is anti-establishment https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OEkgZtu_Q2Q

Then please see this https://organicconsumers.org/florida-ban-on-protections-for-outdoor-workers-goes-into-effect-amid-record-heat/ yet another example (among numerous) of the pure evil and immorality of God-forgetting republicans who do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to enrich the ultra-rich billionaires by squeezing working people to rhe last drop, literally squeezing us to death in order to increase the profits of the anti-life republican billionaire scum. These are the pro-elite Godless republican abusers that are sold to you, hypnotised conservatives, as "anti-elite fighters of the deep state", and you blindly believe them becasue these anti-Christ republican pro-billionaire deveivers say it over and and over and over again WAKE UP!!!

Then please attentively read this profoundly important research essay (with full citations) to understand the exact tactic that the ultra-wealthy ruling class use to manipulate you. In my humble opinion, this is a MUST READ essay for every human on the planet https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies

Then see this full breakdown of who Vance actually is and who are the adrenochrome-drinking billionaire abusers that are funding him and have grooomed him for this moment https://miri.substack.com/p/america-the-movie-screenplay-by-jd?

And especially here https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/investigative-reports/the-man-behind-trumps-vp-pick-its-worse-than-you-think/

And here

https://plagueonbothhouses.substack.com/p/friends-romans-countrymen-lend-me?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

And here https://youtu.be/sGySygy0LWs?si=n6u28vsLzazo_gdS

Scumbag pro-ruling class deceiver Vance is literally funded every step of the way and brought to where he is by the billionaire founder of US defence contractor Palantir “the engine on which the surveillance state runs”. I repeat, "THE ENGINE ON WHICH THE SURVEILLANCE STATE RUNS". These are your so called "anti deep-state" heros. WAKE UP DECEIVED CONSERVATIVES!! YOU ARE BEING PLAYED!! Your "patriotic" heros are funded by scum who don't just have ties to the deep state, THEY ARE THE DEEP STATE!!!

WAKE UP!!

Trump’s record on the issues that could bring him into conflict with The System demonstrates that he is as much of a threat to the establishment as the tooth fairy. See https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/the-billionaire-class-is-no-more

And here https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/trump-minus-narrative-equals-bushbama-84a363947536

In addition to the above, to learn at depth about the M.I.C war-profiteering deep-state oligarch networks that brought trump into power (of Wall St conservative billionaire military contractors, mass-murderering right-wing arms dealers, surveillance capitalists, sexual blackmail networks run by supremacist zionist tribalists, and ultra-wealthy God-ignorant evangelical religious fundamentalist control-freaks) that brought infantile psychologically-undeveloped heart-ignorant abusive narcissist love-less greedy ConMan anti-Christ right-wing mass-murderer trump into power, kindly listen and read in full these profound research papers https://www.exposetheenemy.com/deep-politics-and-trump

and here https://www.exposetheenemy.com/trump-war-the-pentagon-and-the-conservativeestablishment

and here https://web.archive.org/web/20190720130650/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/tomdispatch-trump-military-foreign-affairs/

and here https://odysee.com/@ExposeTheEnemy:b/america-first-from-wall-street-to-the:a?lid=95a34b649ac72026c32466c45591322426c77cf1

and here https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9e/c5/93/9ec59307f55ea5fabf59dbbdd7abb43a.png

And here

https://odysee.com/@ExposeTheEnemy:b/the-religious-right-revealed-(part-one):b?lid=8b0e67d6cbc1b26a69c6482eaa43b14930cdf1ee

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Good summary. It's just a first pass. I guess if anything that means there is more room for develpment. I don't know what it's like to work with Heritage, but they seem like a closed set of people who sign reproductive rights oaths if they're women and suit and identical beards if they're men. They don't readily coalition in groups from what I have observed. YET this has all the smelly stink of collective steerage from the Project 2025 title for D.C. The American people have totally had it with globalism even if DC conservative collateralists with investments in Aspen haven't. I think we need to get past the ideological hazing and ask these players if they're ready to dump global IPOs and punch BigTech in the testes with US conditioned competitive preferences and deporting BRICS monetary interests. Then I'll believe.

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Project 2025 is a plan to overthrow the government and make it over into a piggy bank and a plaything for billionaires and it should be violently and relentlessly opposed.

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Lmao

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Specifics to back your opinion??

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Are you a defender ?

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porn is subsidized through the same "advertising model" as almost all other media, so if the proposal is to ban porn, my guess is the skim from the porn subsidies are not going to the people behind Project 2025. Further guessing is the real motivation for proposing to ban porn is to tell the people receiving porn subsidies to start paying up to the R side.

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