One of the people who shows up regularly on my social media timeline is a gay man who is absolutely obsessed with Project 2025. He's not totally insane about politics, but he has gone off the deep end about this. I think it was the day before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump that he reassured his friends that Joy Reid would be doing an hour-long analysis of Project 2025 on MSNBC the following Monday (the day that the RNC Convention started).
Alas, it was not to be. There were shake-ups in the MSNBC scheduling. Morning Joe was pulled. Joy Reid ended up on a panel of MSNBC "analysts" in front of a projected image of the RNC Convention.
Consequently, one of the friends of my alarmist social media "friend" mourned in a later comment to him:
Just when Project 2025 was beginning to be exposed, the assassination attempt diverted the spotlight away from it.
You would think that they would have started exposing it in January when it was published, but squirrel! At one point, Joy Reid was reduced to Ear Trutherism, which also spread to more "respectable" press representatives.
And from the Daily Mail:
Joy Reid was accused of 'next level desperation' after suggesting that Joe Biden's brush with Covid is as heroic as Donald Trump's defiance in the face of an assassin's bullet.
The MSNBC host was speaking from the Republican National Convention as news broke that the president had cancelled a speech in Las Vegas after testing positive for Covid.
The liberal anchor dismissed the attack on Trump as a 'photo-op', and seemed dismayed at the contrast drawn by delegates between the president's frailty and his challenger's vigorous response to being shot.
'Should he (Biden) be fine in a couple of days, doesn't that convey exactly the same thing?' she demanded.
So, did Biden get better in two days?
This is so difficult for certain people on the left. Here's an example of a social media image of Project 2025 looked like after the assassination attempt:
There is talk among some of these folks of moving abroad if Trump wins, because they think they would be in danger. Iceland (the best place to ride out WW III) and Costa Rica are favorably mentioned.
The image at the top of the post is from Brad Polumbo. I found it in a post by Ed Driscoll which summarizes the hypocrisy between the initial responses of Democrats to the assassination attempt and their earlier rhetoric.
Of course, Joy Reid was among those quoted:
Another MSNBC anchor, Joy Reid, recently described a second Trump term as “Hitler in the White House.”
The softening of rhetoric is not lasting. It is changing, though, sometimes substituting "Project 2025" for the "3rd Reich".
What seems to have happened during the week of the convention is that (instead of analyzing actual text from Project 2025), anything that anyone says that bears some resemblance to something in Project 2025 is called PROJECT 2025. And anyone who has met someone at the Heritage Foundation, or any of the other groups involved, is tarred by association.
But the new hysteria centers around J.D. Vance, who is seen as the man who will implement Project 2025, especially the gutting of government agencies and replacement of mid-level Obama loyalists with new personnel, some of whom have been identified through Project 2025.
Of course, no one on the left now mentions that Obama did something very similar when he came into the White House. This is interesting:
Politico, 11/05/2016 07:36 AM EDT
President Barack Obama plans to ask the thousands of political appointees across his administration to submit letters of resignation effective on Inauguration Day, a move that follows a time-honored tradition but is stoking anxiety among his loyalists throughout the federal government.
For the first time in 28 years, there’s the prospect of a same-party transition, and with Hillary Clinton vowing to build on Obama’s agenda, that could have been good news for any of his 4,000 political appointees who might want to keep their jobs beyond Jan. 20.
But despite the eight-year process of merging the Democrats’ political networks, the expectation remains that Clinton will largely replace Obama’s executive branch staff — from cabinet secretaries to deputy chiefs of staff to low-level press assistants — with her own.
Compared to the skeletal political machine that Obama built as a freshman senator from Illinois, Clinton has “a far larger universe of people who have relationships with her or have worked with her over the years,” said Tommy Vietor, who went from driving a press van for then-Sen. Obama to becoming his top national security spokesman in the White House.
My social media "friend" suggested that J.D. Vance will not be successful in clearing out Deep State appointees because there are not enough "smart conservatives" to fill the positions.
But he suggests that if they just cut government agencies instead, that will be just as disastrous.
Some conservatives are worried that Vance will maintain more "big government" than they would like, "using the left's tools against them".
Here's something that worries the left:
How did Joy Reid's scholarly analysis end up?
Project 2025 encapsulates the dark, dystopian, fake-masculine, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant vision of America we heard over the course of the past four days from the Republican Party at the Republican National Convention. For more on Republicans' extreme policies and how Project 2025 promises to upend our republic, go to MSNBC.com/ReidOutProject2025.
Four videos are currently featured, including "Project 2025: DOJ as 'office of vengeance' emboldened by Trump's presidential immunity"
It does not seem that the authors of the various sections of the document demonized by Reid were asked to comment.
I wonder if Joy Reid has noticed any instances of our current DOJ being used as an "Office of Vengeance"?
Eric Weinstein asks about the following video:
Completely ridiculous batshit crazy election year thought experiments:
Imagine that masculinity was net positive, and positively perceived by many...perhaps even most...heterosexual females. Imagine that European culture was also overwhelmingly net positive, and was perceived to be so by many black, asian and latino people. Imagine that Judeo-Christian values were net positive, and were perceived as being so by a majority of Atheists.
Imagine that "Weaponize Masculinity." was actually a pretty AMAZING and effective election year slogan. Edgy. Positive. High Energy. Confident. Pro-safety. And all the right people will hate it ensuring maximal exposure.
I know, I know. Stupid right? So dumb.
This all sounds crazy to many of you die-hard Biden/Harris supporters. Forgive me for wasting your time. Just crazy talk. No big deal.
See you all in November.
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