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  • Yeah it’s definitely not “just one guy,” this is a collective effort by a group of very wealthy people who are creating policy at the federal level and state level.

    This is decades in the making. It is a sort of “civil war” but the thing is, it’s a small group of wealthy people who are hoping to manipulate enough Americans into believing they have some kind of common in-group interest that will motivate them to fight against any Americans resistant to their takeover. Which, after actually typing that out, and reading it, I’m realizing that is also exactly what the American civil war was, there was just no way for people to be informed about who was actually pulling the country’s strings at the time.

    That’s why they exploit political, racial, and religious divisions. They don’t actually care about any ideology. It’s a tool to manipulate and control in order to further exploit groups to do their fighting for them.

    The Heritage Foundation first infiltrated the government by providing Reagan with a copy of their Mandate for leadership, and getting him on board back in the early 80s.

    Over 40 years later, they are back in the White House ready to implement Project 2025.

    Since Reagan opened the door for them, America has gradually accepted that social benefits are handouts, but corporate welfare actually benefits all of America, because somehow corporations ARE people.

    Citizens United was a huge victory for this wealthy group of individuals, because they now have to jump through fewer hoops/hide the source of money used to buy elections.

    The Heritage Foundation has also created a network of nonprofit think tanks in all 50 states that pays to promote state level policy benefitting wealthy individuals and corporate donors while disguising it as “small government” representative of state residents.

    The creator of this network was Thomas Roe, an early member of the Heritage Foundation. As Roe himself explained to another Heritage Foundation trustee, Robert Krieble, “You capture the Soviet Union – I’m going to capture the states.”

    T.l.d.r., it’s a bit more complex than one guy.




  • I was trying to explain to someone that even if Trump doesn’t actually drag the U.S. into WWIII fighting alongside the Taliban and Russia, at best, he gets the U.S. to remain neutral and leave NATO, that means we lose our allies and any expectation of defense if we are attacked.

    So even if Putin loses Ukraine and or never succeeds gaining ground in Europe, what’s to stop the democracy hating tag team of Russia and the Taliban from just attacking the U.S. and taking it for themselves? Or more likely, Russia getting the Taliban to attack and then taking advantage of the situation while making it look like an act of good will towards an ally, and offering the U.S. safety as a part of the Russian federation.

    There’s actually a “fictional” novel that was written by a Putin loyalist and predicted details of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine way before the fact.

    Putin has called it one of his favorite books, and in the novel, once Ukraine is conquered, he takes all of Europe and then eventually drops a bomb on the U.S., forcing them to surrender willingly bc they no longer have allies/NATO to defend them after the attack.

    So, however we lose our allies, even if it’s just by leaving NATO, we end up in a very similar situation in the present reality. Trump and his administration have also done several things to willingly weaken our cybersecurity against Russia and leave our infrastructure incredibly vulnerable.

    Say Putin for whatever reason decides to carry out the playbook against the U.S. from his favorite novel. We are heading towards a situation where we have no allies who will come to our aid, and we’ve willingly given Russia the ability to potentially attack our infrastructure like water and electricity grids for some reason. Imagine how easily they could take over after an attack on the U.S. or even a large natural disaster.
















  • I’m just wondering how Trump squares an explanation for this with the fact that we’re in a technology war with China. Why would we make ourselves more vulnerable to them?

    I guess to clarify, it seems easier for Trump to make the argument to his base that everything he does to make us more vulnerable to Russia shouldn’t really be a big deal bc he has so much respect and trust for Putin.

    Most people (myself included) don’t really know about this program, but if cutting funding makes us more vulnerable to China and other bad actors, it seems like a point more Americans should be made aware of.