One man has seized the attention of America.

[Cyrano]

He didn't do it alone. He was backed by billionaires and right-wing organizations to whom democracy is a blockade to the world they want to own and rule.

Trump is their perfect and (unknowing) tool. He wants to be king. He's clueless that he's just the means that the American fascists required to finally destroy democracy and instill their absolute control and power.

These people loudly backed Nazi Germany until Pearl Harbor. After that, they shut up until the war ended. It took them decades to reach the point of being on the verge of seizing absolute power. This November will tell weather or not they succeed. And if they do, the vast majority will find themselves in a world in which they are, for lack of a better word, enslaved.

Vote.

[calimary]

1. Indeed. VOTE.

This will be the most important vote in modern times.

[COL Mustard]

10. I used to listen to right wing talk radio

And one announcer in particular would always say that this election (whichever one it was) was the most important election of our lifetime. This time he’s right, but the reason he’s right is exactly wrong.

[louis-t]

23. I remember one of those guys would always screech louder if

repugs were not polling well or they didn't have a good candidate to run.

[COL Mustard]

25. We're probably talking about

The same guy, but there are a lot of them, all skilled at fear mongering.

[louis-t]

26. He would actually speak in a higher pitch.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. I wonder how much in extortion money Putin gets from the RICH Oligarchs?

10%, 25% annually from them so that they can do business from Russia?

The Uber rich here pay a lower percentage overall in taxes. Think paying 25% or more to one man, if re-elected, will demand be paid to him make them think twice? I doubt it.

In a Dictatorship, NOTHING gets past the DICKtator!

[LiberalFighter]

12. Interesting Russia had their fingers on Trump in 1987

[moondust]

3. Does Project 2025 mention returning to slavery?

You know that's where they're headed. If it was good enough for the Founding Fathers then it's good enough for us, amirite Justice Alito? As far back as 2011 Michele Bachmann proposed doing away with the minimum wage, and I frankly expected more movement towards slavery during TSF's term.

[summer_in_TX]

19. Forced labor in prisons is legal, so we have de facto slavery now.

Plus prison industry is used to keep prices low for a lot of corporations.

But yes, Project 2025 aims to repeal the Fair Labor Standards Act which provided for the minimum wage and overtime pay, gut anti-discrimination protections, require record-keeping, and child labor standards.

Project 2025 would prohibit the EEOC from gathering employment data based on race. That would make it practically impossible to prove discrimination in wages, promotions, or working conditions.

Plus they want to upend labor unions by allowing states to opt out of labor standards from the Fair Labor Standards Act and the National Labor Relations Board, allow worker-management councils to supplant unions, and require public elections instead of more anonymous ways of voting.

Truthout's article is a good summary of what they intend regarding labor.

https://truthout.org/articles/project-2025-threatens-not-only-workers-livelihoods-but-also-their-verylives/

Project 2025 is draconian. It has much more to it, sometimes couched in glowing generalities. But Stop the Coup 2025 [https://www.stopthecoup2025.org/] is working feverishly to break it down into easy to understand language. For instance, Project 2025 wants to move toward ending farm subsidies. Federal workers would lose work protections and jobs, and be replaced by Trump loyalists.

[Joinfortmill]

4. Take heed, people. Vote and drag everyone you know with you.

[twodogsbarking]

5. Great post. My father (born 1919) told me when I was in HS that there was great resistance to

the US getting into WW2. The Holocoust was happening.

[Cyrano]

6. Everyone should read Rachel Maddow's book, "Prequel."

It' about American fascism in the 1930's, right up until WWII.

Many (most?) of them wanted us to side with Germany.

[erronis]

7. Thanks - checking out from the library.

Just think if there is a trump2.0 - no libraries (or no books worth reading.)

[Cyrano]

11. Reading a book will become a crime.

While you're in the library, take a look at "Fahrenheit 451." The job of the fire department is to burn books.

[erronis]

13. Read Fahrenheit 451 probably 50+ years ago. Like so many books I read back then

I didn't understand the context nor the subtleties of humanity.

I devoured Tolstoy and Dostoevsky when I was in my early teens; many of the French authors in late teens. Wish I had enough time to go back and reread all of them with a somewhat more educated viewpoint - but new wonderful works are coming out constantly!

Too Many Books - Not Enough Time!

[sop]

8. Fascists have always excelled at propaganda, and Trump perfected attention politics...a deadly combination.

[kairos12]

9. When Biden wins count on MAGA chaos to try and toss the election to the

HOR.

That's why it's so important we gain the majority.

[DFW]

14. You might as well face it

You're addicted to Trump

[Jean Genie]

15. Endlessly Trump!

And I, for one, am sick of it!

[Evolve Dammit]

16. Lock his orange ass up! Enough of the election denying, coup plotting, lying, gas-lighting asshole. n/t

[Mr.Bill]

17. "Project 2025"

is code for Project 1825.

[Torchlight]

18. I tend to think that in our case,

his unstoppable stupidity is about to meet an unmovable force of law. Damned interesting times we live in... more's the pity.

[LT Barclay]

20. I tend to think that they were also the Tories, royalists, and confederates. The current iteration is

enabled by all the cowardly boot-lickers with their guns and oversized pickups.

[arthritisR_US]

21. My fear is that the mass doesn't know that truth.

[spanone]

22. He was also backed by a congress that believes in him over constitution.

Not a single republican congressperson has paid a penny for their crimes against America.

[DENVERPOPS]

24. Exactly spanone

Trump wouldn't have lasted one week in office, except for the 24/7/365 support of all the Republican Senators for starters....
Throw in a couple of Dems, Munchkin and Semena.

And don't forget all the corrupt Republicans in the House........Then of course, the massive money from Republican Oligarchs.
Add in the psyops from Russia, and their oligarchs, as well as the Chinese, N. Korea, and the Saudi's......

It's like when the Republicans corruptly and having committed Treason, installed Reagan in office. He was already deteriorating mentally when he took office. In all reality, it was HW that led the way for them to put Reagan in Office. That eight years was totally being run by HW, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and many more. They stayed when HW had his four years, to cover up things, and to pardon 100+ members of Reagan's administration who were indicted. Then the same group re-united to put W in office and totally run things all over again...Did I say run things? I meant ruin things.........Obama gave them the best gifts of all, when he decided, more or less, to adopt an attitude of, let's go forwards not backwards.......

Then came Trump, and it was childs play for him to win the 2016 election, with all their experience they gained on how to corrupt elections in 1980, 2000, 2004. The Republican's Platform should be: The Means Justifys the End Result.

Once again: 2024 and the 2024 election will be unlike anything ever seen during the entire history of this nation, by far.......