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Wanted to also share I was on MSNBC tuesday on Joy Reid's show and made some of this very points: https://youtu.be/BlZjt2MTd0E

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Excellent work!

Agenda 47 and Project 25 are hand in hand! It's the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society (wealthy white Christian Nationalists) hiding behind tRump and sponsoring his dumb 🫏!

Conservative owned media have all sold their souls so theres no counting on them to get the word out! Democracy is hanging by a thread and the only way it can be saved is to vote for President Biden! Anyone with a bully pulpit needs to speak up and out! Americans need to unite like never before and speak up and out!

Anyone with any kind of following NEEDS TO SPEAK UP AND OUT! This is our CHILDREN, children's children, and future generations rights on the line! 🗳️💙🇺🇸

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I agree 100%! That is why I wrote this!

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And I can’t begin to tell you how grateful I am that you did! I’m absolutely terrified and sometimes feel as if I’m in some sort of horrible nightmare or alternate reality that I can’t come back from. And, I’m a nobody without a following, so, I’m really sincerely grateful! 🌹

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I believe all media have sold their souls. Why do they allow so much to go unreported about Trump while repeating conservative narratives against Biden?

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I agree…but, I have to say not ALL on MSNBC have lost their damn minds. For instance on “The weekend” this morning, they finally got it absolutely right! It’s the media and Democratic politicians who are making a big deal out of that deal out of the debate, not the voters! They need to stop asking Biden to step down because he already said he’s not, and start dealing with the real danger! I hope they were watching the show!!! 🌹💙

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MSNBC is a select audience of liberals who unfortunately doesn’t have a reach to independents like some of the other stations. CNN didn’t even correct Trump’s lies during the debate. The interview was a disgusting attack on Biden’s fitness where if GS didn’t get the answer he wanted, he asked again and again. Biden held his own, but why should defending himself against a bully be the interview?

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I agree with you completely! 🗳️💙🇺🇸

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I agree. Giving up on Joe seems like such a self-defeating attitude. We and Joe need to understand that he along with his allies are our best shot at defeating the Fascists. Joe needs to start getting on the bully pulpit a lot more.

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And President Biden stepping down is exactly what Maga republicans want, he was ambushed , Gish galloped with policy debate techniques &’then got discombobulated , I’m more infuriated over corporate media and spineless dems wanting him to step down the next day! After kier win in the EU a commenter says - we don’t base elections on debates we vote on how good the administration is! 187 minutes of trumps inaction & incompetance on J 6 is unforgettable, feckless Tapper & Bash took a victory lap over 90 minutes of confusion & lies, how about the comment about the call to Putin before the Ukraine invasion? C mon P Biden record speaks for itself, I don’t need or want spineless DEMS encouraging voters to vote out of spite & that’s what Maga would want if Biden stepped down…we will lose this democracy and our country - I’m all in with President Biden.

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Trump performed like I thought he would. So did Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. It was impossible to answer Trump's firehose of excrement. He, for sure, flooded the zone with sh*t.

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Thom Hartmann had a list of media CEOs that contribute to Donald Trump, it was a who's who of wealthy media captains and included MSNBC.

Greed superceding loyalty to country drives it, and a lust for power by religious extremists is the other motivating force, complete with multiple Soviet style propaganda outlets maintaining MAGA popularity. Ka-Ching.

In another time Trump would have polled neck & neck with a Know Nothing Party candidate.

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It's all about the clicks

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True, but …

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You don’t think narrative about Trump’s ramblings, search for kingdom, and Project 2025 truths would get clicks?

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Says the paid CIA propaganda fake media. Not one complete fact anywhere. You are just another wannabe cult leader full of bs lies!

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Yeah, whatever you say fizzy! 🙄Project 2025 read it if you can! Your dictator wannabe con man Putin loving felon losers boys wrote it! Get a friggin clue…

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Jul 6Liked by Dean Obeidallah

Well done, Dean. I do think it’s vital the media now highlights Agenda 47. (Which you do mention).

Trump will continue to disavow Project 2025 & for now, Agenda 47, remains unknown to most. It is essentially the same plans as P25 but uniquely trumps & on his website right now:

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47

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Thanks Brendan!

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Project 2025 is real, dangerous, and frightening attempt to Orbánize the United States.

There is a tight connection between the foundation and the Hungarian dictatorship. (See the link below.)

DJT would *love* to be another Victor Orbán:

Take over the courts, rewrite the constitution, take over the press, control the military, establish one party rule (VO calls it “a centralized political forcefield”), and install a dictator for life.

With the SCOTUS ruling this week, Project 2025 and the stampede to right wing fascism is officially underway.

PLEASE read Heather Cox Richardson's substack post of July 4th to find out more:

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-4-2024

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The difference between Hitler and cheeto Hitler is that the 1920's version wrote his own guide, the latter couldn't, can't, and incapable of writing anything (but his name) on his own. This current manifesto has taken a team to construct.

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And it is that very "team" behind Trump, that we have to fear. To some extent, Trump is a dumb, self-serving, out-of-control, ungrounded front-man for a movement. One which might well exclude Trump, himself, eventually, once his mission is over. Think of Trump as an iceberg (not implausible) with ⅞ of its substance below the surface. This is not "just" Trump; it is a larger movement which we have to address.

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Which mostly describes GOP presidents, beginning with Reagan. Not until Trump, did we get one so narcissistic that he would gladly destroy the country and take the same pleasure in his deed that Vladimir Putin would.

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Does changing a weather map with a sharpie to show a different course for a hurricane count as writing????? I completely agree with what you said.

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Victor Orban and Vladimir Putin heavily influenced the authorship of Project 2025. Trump doesn't have the intellectual capacity, but his sociopathic malignant narcissist pathology makes him an idiot savant, where genius focused around corruption is concerned.

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It's not Trump's baby, though. The conservatives have been working on this for the last fifty years. I was stuck in this movement and glad to have gotten out. Now I'm terrified it will be forced on me again.

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I hadn't thought of this before, but you have made me realize that "Agenda 47" is probably plagiarism. I went through a period where I voted republican, and I'm really glad that when I got married, my husband helped me see that I needed to change that. I know that Reagan was the first one to adopt the "mandate for leadership" and implement it. As one who lived in California while he was governor of that state, I always disliked him intensely, and that never changed. I hope you don't have to go through this again. I feel an intense need for sanity these days…

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Look up "Dominionism" on Wikipedia, and chase it down. That's just a starting point. Also check out the docuseries "Shiny Happy People" on Amazon of you haven't already. It's only just the surface.

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Check out this PBS Frontline documentary about Kremlin loving, former NSA director Mike Flynn he leads an arm of the craziness. He's a dangerous man that should not be running around loose.

https://youtu.be/lhRNDsLbOvQ?si=VTGeCwlOb8XMXlGC

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Very interesting! I discovered that the first time I searched, dominionism briefly appeared, but then disappeared as a choice of topic. Got it on my second try. I doubt that I would be able to get through the docuseries - I can't watch much of anything like that any more. Thank you for educating me.

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They are not conservatives; they are radical far right extremists, in the same vein as the southern enslavers who declared war on the Union.

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Jul 6·edited Jul 6

Somehow, the national Democratic "leaders" don't seem to be overly concerned about Project 2025. You rarely hear them mention it. That astounds me, since it is the biggest threat to our nation in my lifetime. If Trump wins it will be, at least in part, due to the incredible lack of awareness by the national Democratic intelligentsia. The Dems should be going on television every night and warning the American people about Trump and Project 2025--but it's not happening, and it could portend our downfall on November 5th. I weep for my country.

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What makes you think a DNC that elevated VP and career pol since the age of 27 from the Legal Fiction state of Delaware who spoke gibberish his entire career from his youthful entry into the World's Most Exclusive Country Club of the U.S. Senate has any more commitment to reversing the Wealth Concentration and Impoverishment spreading policies of our fully partnered Duopoly party elites from Wall Street to London? We've had those doing Public Interest government jobs, often tedious working with no political reward or media curiosity or populist support for Biden's entire ancient roots in the U.S. Senate. Who d'ya think got US here? Not Elizabeth Warren or Jeff Merkley or their staffs of anonymous if televised nationally Summer of 2016 in the Senate Banking Committee Hearings you can still see posted to U. of Tube that fateful summer and fall of our zombified republic into the hands of the Big Neilsen TV audience winner, namely the front man (certainly not the Idea Person behind) and until then not even indicted and never employed in Public Interest work Private heir to a real estate fortune in our Normalized Homeless nation state, the wealthiest in quantified human her\history. The Don of Trump!

Tio Mitchito (no oracle am I, just a curious watcher, digger and study group organizer in the guise of indie news and public affairs media reporter)

Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers

Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers)

Media Discussion List\Looksee

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I’ve known of Project 2025 for a long time. It’s been on the Heritage Foundation website for all to see. I am glad to come across any writings that help me articulate this to those who need to hear these threats/promises before they vote so they understand what we’d be living under if Trump is elected. He either lies when he says he doesn’t know anything about Project 2025 or he’s way too illiterate to even be elected dog catcher.

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So this Roberts character, head of an obscure, twisted, antidemocratic think tank — and is someone virtually no one has ever heard of — is threatening anyone who doesn’t lie down quietly and let religious totalitarians trample them if they dare to protest, will have only themselves to blame if they end up dead. Unbridled bloodlust, thy name is Trump, and Project 2025 is his handbook.

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One of the most chilling images from the summer of 2020 was the Lincoln Memorial covered in “Little Green Men” (LGM). They were actually DC National Guard, but were ordered to stand as a deterrent on the steps of a public monument as a show of force. There were also little green men in other cities that summer WITH NO IDENTIFICATION as to who they were. Some of them threw protestors into unmarked vans. To this day, the press has not investigated these events with the gravitas they deserved. Our lives will absolutely be inundated with LGM should America First prevail in November. Trump will invoke the insurrection Act without a seconds hesitation. Quite a sobering thought

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I hope more Americans pay attention to this plan. No matter what Trump says, this was developed by a horde of former Trump appointees and sycophants, and though he has recently tried to distance himself, HE is the reason this plan was developed. The architects saw the perfect dumb wannabe autocrat, too stupid to construct this himself, and recognized his MAGA followers as the perfect supporters who will flock to the polls to elevate their "Fuhrer".

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Actually, the Heritage Foundation has been at this since Reagan, who was the first to implement their ideas.

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Since TFGuy’s grandfather came here in 1895 as a German draft-dodger and his daddy Fred was arrested around a NAZI Rally in NYC; this family (and others) have been racists with Hitler-German leanings.

They are not the only ones!

The book: HITLER’s AMERICAN FRIENDS by Bradley W. Hart and the books & podcasts by Rachel Maddow: “Ultra” and “Ultra II” are real eye openers about the Nazi sympathizers here in America (Charles Lindbergh, US Senators priests & preachers, too). When THAT infiltration of Congress & the Airwaves was tried first in the 1930’s. Famous and unknown Americans were in the Bund, The Silver League, The Christian Front, and THE maga co-opted phrase “America First” was first uttered.

They ARE Real eye openers and I hope you check them out at a library or buy one.

It’s worth the time to educate yourselves about how this NAZI/Fascist leaning went underground & has festered and lived in the shadows of our society & country.

It’s a scary world-

Hell, it’s a scary AMERICA!!!

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How you can tell the Right is starting to panic: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

If they were comfortable, they would not need to encourage violence.

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One of the best and most concise descriptions of this fascist document that I’ve seen. And I’ve been reading a lot! Thank you, Dean. I’m restacking immediately.

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Thank you for continuing to provide the truth and exposing Project 2025 and Trump for what they are…domestic terrorists. We need you!

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Dean, I agree that Project 2025 is our country's version of Mein Kampf. But I really don't think trump is smart enough to come up with all those ideas on his own. Some, yes, but I think that he and the SCOTUS (especially SCOTUS) are in the pockets of the Heritage Foundation. From what I've been learning, some version of this "mandate for leadership" has been around since the Reagan era. A lot of what's wrong with our country today is that Reagan used a lot of their ideas in his presidency.

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It’s been around for longer than that- just in the shadows, like the Confederacy in the 1800’s and it’s here & NOW.

The RICH plantation “gentlemen” who owned slaves to ensure their place in southern “society” and economics have morphed, become the Musks, Bezos, Mercers, Kochs, Harlan Crows & other Oligarchs NOW.

When they have millions to buy SCOTUS off and build play things to take other RICH folk into space as tourists…and the people employed are making $7.50 an hour, working 2 and 3 jobs with no healthcare or security- it’s just THE NEW SLAVERY.

Yes, Masser Musk; yes Masser Koch, yes Masser Murdock.

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I see your point. From what I've read in Project 2025, the current incarnation, the "mandate for leadership" started around Reagan's time. They are all about taking us back several hundred years, so their insecure selves can own whoever they want, and they are just fine with being slave owners (except they are certain that they have no responsibility to take care of their slaves in any fashion).

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I’ve long thought the NFL Owners who buy & trade men were a bunch of megalomaniacs relishing in “owning” others as play things.

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They are definitely the worst. I hadn't thought of it that way, but I have to agree. Some of them, like the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, are just nasty.

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I started reading that crappy Project 2025. Right now I'm reading the Introduction/Forward by POS Kevin Roberts PhD (Who I refuse to call doctor. He's not a real Doctor!)

Seems Kevin is all hung up over Communist China and stopping their communist activities. It's duly noted that there is NO mention not a word of stopping Putin and his aggression. Fancy that! They don't want to offend Trump's bestie.

The authors and their followers want to model OUR Government after Putin's Russia. Mostly white population, Trump and his wanna be Oligarchs make everyone work and they divvy up the rewards. Let's not be content to wait for that "Trickle Down".

Too many pigs at the trough for that wait!!

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Trickle Down always, always makes me think of some guy pissing & not bothering to shake off the urine & IT Just Trickles Down. This just reinforces it!!!!

Fitting visual of trickle down economics AND everything you can attribute to That nonsense!

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I would love to know how many MAGA supporters are aware of the details of tRump's Project 2025. It will ruin their lives just as much as ours.

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I don’t think they care. I think as long as they can piss-n-moan and feel a little better about their hatred & bigotry of others… that’s their heroin. Drug of choice. They “feel” better surrounded by others just like them. It’s their validation.

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