Transition officials have used Project 2025's extensive personnel database to identify potential hires for the incoming administration, a person familiar with the plans said.

Summary

Despite disavowing Project 2025 during the campaign, Trump’s transition team is now using its extensive database of vetted conservative candidates to help fill over 4,000 government positions.

Project 2025, criticized for its extreme policy proposals and links to Trump’s first administration, created a “conservative LinkedIn” of 10,000 candidates.

While some contributors are being tapped for key roles, others face rejection due to controversial stances.

Democrats, who used Project 2025 in campaign attacks, are warning of its influence on Trump’s agenda and planning policy responses.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    7·
    1 month ago

    You know who else disavowed what he wrote publicly to pacify his critics? Hitler with Mein Kampf. He kept repeating he wrote Mein Kampf in 1925 but had changed his views since. Guess what: he hadn’t.

    And surprise-surprise, the Orange Utan hasn’t either. It’s almost like we didn’t see that one coming from a mile away…

    And don’t think for a second that I’m the only one to see the striking parallel.

    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 month ago

      I have a friend who says things like “oh that project isn’t real its just a think tank”.

      Nobody writes a document that long and detailed just as a little thought experiment. It was obviously a manifesto and I don’t know how so many people against project 2025 still voted for the party supporting it.

      • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        1 month ago

        It had a 4!!! Percent approval rating. 4!!

        And yet… he won the popular vote.

        I’m an American in a poor red state. I really hope the FO portion of fafo hits us SUPER hard.

        It’ll suck for me… but man it’ll be great to be that smug asshole reminding folks who they voted for.

        In my county 23% voted Harris. So odds are good that dude in the lifted Ford is a trumpkin.

        Fucking idiots…

      • SwampYankee@mander.xyz
        0·
        1 month ago

        All the policy goals are the same as what’s been in the Republican platform for decades. The only thing Project 2025 adds is how to get there. Is Trump a useful idiot? Maybe, although it would be silly to operate under that assumption rather than believing he’s just as committed as the rest of them. Either way, the idea having seeped into the popular consciousness of the American voter that Project 2025 is something other than a serious plan for a Republican administration is an astonishing bit of doublethink. Orwell spins like a turbine in his grave.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      Trump has never read Project 2025. Or Mein Kampf. Or The Art of the Deal. Or any book in his life.

      He might have listened to the audiobook version of Mein Kampf, but probably not in the original German like his dad would have.

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    I’ve run into some trump voters who aren’t worried about project 2025 because “i’m going to vote against it in 2025” and it’s like… goddammit, why did the republicans get so good at propaganda so fast (hint: Russian money)

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          yeah. these are people who think the new president takes office election night, think the federal government does ballot measures, and haven’t ever really voted in a national election that wasn’t for president. it’s not mental gymnastics to not know things

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 month ago

    Told and told and told by everyone with half a brain but as usual the nitwits wanna listen to the “entertainer”

  • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    So what are you going to do about it America?

    It seems like everyone is waiting for another chance to vote. Voting isn’t the only political action.

    If you want to prevent this agenda you still have options. I don’t just mean protests and riots, but organized labor.

    A general strike would cripple them. Start organizing your workplaces, join unions, join community groups. The time for voting is over the time for direct action is now. You don’t have to wait until the whole project is implemented, you don’t have to wait for a disappointing Democratic candidate to gaslight you in 2028. Take action now, join a movement now. The more you do now the better off you’ll be in the future.

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 month ago

      How does one go about looking for movements to join? Honestly asking. I’m assuming I can’t just type “labor movements near me” into Google maps, but I honestly don’t know where to start looking for trustworthy resources on this stuff.

    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      A big part of the problem is those most impacted by these policies cannot afford to take time off to strike or protest. And I’m not sure if it’s as bad in America as it is in Canada but if there was a general labour strike, our Canadian politicians would just solve it by importing cheap labour.

      • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        That’s why organization matters, it has to be big and it has to be sudden. “Importing” labor isn’t immediate.

        More likely they’ll use back to work legislation and deploy the police, but then they’ll remember why we have labor protections.

        If they’re going to tear up the social contract and take everything away from us then they’ll see violence.

        These laws exist because workers fought actual battles. Actual battles, domestically. If it must happen again it will.

        • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
          0·
          1 month ago

          Either way, most people aren’t willing to risk being fired/missing pay/being arrested because they need that money to pay rent and feed themselves. You can be as organized as you want, the system has pushed most of us to being wage slaves that have very little say in the matter. Even if importing labour isn’t immediate, i wouldn’t put it past governments to still let the economy collapse while they import labour just to prove a point about who makes the rules and has the control.

          • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            1 month ago

            What role can systems of mutual aid among the organized play to address the risk and encourage continued participation (e.g. voluntary distribution of food to those who need it, temporary housing/boarding of siblings of the cause by those with room, etc.)?

            I 100% don’t have an answer, this is just what comes to mind first when I read this.

            • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 month ago

              Thats what I thought too. If we cared about each other enough we’d be able to feed and house ourselves while we demand better, but a lot of us are divided (which is their goal) and so we’d rather blame minorities or whatever group your politician told you ro hate.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 month ago

    Hope everyone is ready to suffer.

    I’d say blame it on conservatives. But you can also blame it on the absolute idiots that voted 3rd party, were single issue voters, or abstained from voting. They’re just as much to blame and just as stupid as Trump supporters.

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        “Genocide Joe” passed more meaningful legislation for average Americans then most presidents. But the conservative propaganda machine won and made him seem like the devil incarnate because stupid Americans can’t discern fact from fiction.

    • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      That’s not what happened. The slice of America that turned hard against Harris was uninformed voters, not engaged leftists. That is absolutely clear in the exit polls. There was also a massive spike in google searches about whether Biden was still in the race ON ELECTION DAY. If you just have to blame someone other than Biden and Harris, that’s who you must blame. All the evidence says your terminally online theory is flat wrong.

      • Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works
        01·
        1 month ago

        I hate self important douche bags who are so used to basking in their own fart clouds that they can’t see how sanctimonious they are and can’t come to terms with the fact that maybe their fart sniffing ideology doesn’t work for all 300M other people in this country.

        Especially when they turn around and call their political opposites sanctimonious fart sniffing hypocrites without acknowledging their own hypocrisy. It annoys me.

        See the nation is healing already!

      • freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        Your reading comprehension skills suck. The original commenter mentioned TWO types of idiots. 1) the morons that voted third party, and 2) the defectives that ABSTAINED from voting.

        I guess your brain only came equipped with 8GB of RAM, because you acted like OP gave you some clever GOTCHA moment by only mentioning 3rd party voters, while you completely disregarded OP including group #2 as well.

        In the future, I recommend you avoid complex tasks, like, say, chewing gum and walking at the same time.

      • DancingBear@midwest.social
        01·
        1 month ago

        They are just angry and trying to blame other people for their shitty candidates loss. If they can scapegoat other voters they can feel superior, it’s basically all to protect their fragile feelings.

        Kind of sad really

        Crows got to straw man I guess

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 month ago

    Project 2025 is and has always been a right wing conservative wishlist the GOP has maintained since forever.

    The idea the conservatives were ever disavowing conservatism was laughably stupid.

  • Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
    1·
    1 month ago

    This is exactly what they said they would not do… trump stated several times that he would not go forward with this project that he had never ever in a million years heard of… You people were played like a cheap russian fiddle.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 month ago

    And why should anyone be surprised?

    1. Rumor of shitty thing republicans are planning

    2. Republicans deny shitty thing is being planned, that was just (insert republican official here) brought up, claim it’s just the official on their own.

    3. Months later republicans are trying to officially enact shitty thing they denied planning.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 month ago

    They never came up with any other plan, so they’re just going with what they’ve got. They haven’t been able to govern for more than a decade. They’re so fractured and have done nothing more than shit talk and blame, so no nobody is willing to try to get republicans to form a group capable of planning anything other than who to point fingers at.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      They never came up with any other plan

      The guy said he had concepts of plans in a debate designed as a platform for candidates to let America know what their plans are.

      And then we elected him anyways.

      Americans are fucking stupid.

      Take politics and politicians out of the equation and you’re still left with stupid fucking Americans. And THAT is why we’re doomed in the long run.