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Project 2025 is not elucidated on the Heritage Foundations' website. Why not?

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At Heritage.org on the front page is a picture of Project 2025, which links to: https://www.project2025.org/

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Thanks John. Seeing as how you've linked to the page where the entire report is available for free. I'd suggest those concerned read it. Just a thought.

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Which doesn't say anything about the pillars.

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The pillars are on the link I included to Mandate for Leadership. It's on p. xiv: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

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The only thing that is given at xiv are very general descriptions of where in the 922 pages of rhetoric their specific rhetoric can be found.

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I have no idea what more is involved with that. My piece was debunking the hysteria the Left is raising about Project 2025, nothing else. Give them a call.

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They should do a better job of making them available to those educated in the public fool system, like MAGAs mostly were. Both parties are based on hysteria that is shared by both. Maybe we need a hysterectomy party:-)

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Project 2025 is so far distanced from the Trump campaign, his VP literally wrote the introduction. And “Trump” appears 312 times in a word search of the document. Hmmm

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They want to appea to him. But he says he's not listening. Vance was independent then, in early 2023. It's now 18 months later and he's just part of the Trump machine. Having been betrayed by the likes of Bolton in his first admin, and learning much the past eight years, Trump now has a trusted inner team that will run things. He has his own agenda.

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Well, if MY name is in some document 312 times, then I absolutely have a strong connection to it - come on, who are you trying to fool?

I personally can’t stand Trump, not since January 6th. Was a registered Republican my entire life. Watched the whole day on Fox, a shameful day. And in my book, Trump is a shameful man.

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Rick: Biden is in "Mandate" 375 times. They're the last two presidents, and looked to be the nominees back in April 2023, when the book was published, although Biden dropped out of course.

On Trump, my three issues are: End the foreign wars, especially Ukraine. Gun rights. Keep Roe repealed. Keep Trump 2017 tax cuts (I saved $1,000 more a year and am middle class barely getting by in Calif.)

Trump first term: No new wars. Supreme Court revoked Roe and strengthened the Second Amendment. Tax cuts.

As to Harris: Keep Biden Wars going. Continue the greatest risk of nuclear Armageddon ever. End the Second Amendment. Bring back Roe. End Trump tax cuts, costing me $1,000 a year, which I can't afford.

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No. Trump is trash. Putin is trash. As a Republican and a veteran, I can’t believe that we are at a point where a U.S. President became a Russian puppet. Unbelievable.

As far as abortion - I saw what my wife went through with our kids. My daughter just went through a rough time with hers, too. Not my business, let women decide.

And Ukraine is holding that bastards Putin back for us. They are not perfect, but by god they are tough. My son is active duty now, his 12th year in, he would go fight there in a heartbeat.

Sorry about your financial troubles.

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Well, it's a binary choice. Trump or Kamala. The Ukraine war is almost over with a Russian victory. Read my site going back 2.5 years. I've always predicted there were two outcomes: 1. Russia wins. 2. Thermonoculear war destroying 5 billion of 8 million on the planet.

Russiagate Hoax was disproved by: 1. Mueller Report. 2. Durham report, which showed it was cooked up by Hillary and the FBI. Read them.

I'm also a veteran and was a Russian linguist in the U.S. Army and hardest-core anticommunist. Communism ended with the Soviet Union in 1991. Read John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs on what really happened, such as expanding NATO despite Bush, Baker and Kohl promising it would advance "not one inch," inexorably provoking Russia. As JD Vance detailed in the NYTimes, Ukraine is out of men, and US/NATO is out of ammo.

Abortion is objectively morally wrong. The matter is not determined by one's sex.

My financial troubles are because, beginning with Schwarzenegger (Republican) 20 years ago and Democrats since, the state now costs 3X what it does in civilized states. If I moved to Tenn. I'd be OK.

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My son and his family live in CA, they own a house and a rental condo in Tahoe that pays for itself. Did it all on their own, too. Cars paid off, college savings for their kids. It’s not that hard to do well in California, you just have to work hard. They love it there. I don’t quite get it, but don’t argue. Wish they lived closer, that’s all.

And I’d pick my wife or daughter’s life every day over whatever they’re carrying. We men don’t have skin in the pregnancy game, when you get down to it. We really don’t. I trust women to decide for themselves on that department.

Finally - I watched Trump suck up to Putin over and over, calling him a genius and a tough guy and what not. Gross. Disgusting. Russia is a junky country - full of alcoholics, their economy is a mess, ugly buildings, ugly all around. We can’t let them threaten us with nukes every time they don’t get what they want. Starve them into compliance, they’re basically just a gas station with a national anthem. Screw those bums, and their KGB agent leader, too. Let them wear rags and eat grass, lol.

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