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.

    • emmy67@lemmy.world
      1·
      32 minutes ago

      Honestly, a lot of centrist are. They also don’t expect any of it to actually be implemented. Cue those leopards

    • freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world
      66·
      6 hours ago

      If you were one of those people who believed otherwise, you were probably one of those idiots taking every opportunity to share your fake concerns about genocide, and your intent to vote 3rd Party or not at all. Golf clap.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    808·
    1 day 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.

    • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
      91·
      2 hours 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.

    • witten@lemmy.world
      94·
      18 hours ago

      In which state did 3rd-party voters tip the presidential election results there?

      • freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world
        67·
        6 hours 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
        814·
        18 hours 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

        • freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world
          31·
          6 hours ago

          Oh, they’re not angry. They’re just dismayed to learn how many C.H.U.D.s there are in this country who had no problems voting for a narcicistic, low IQ rapist after watching him fuck up for 4 years, and after attempting a coup. Like, seriously, out of all the Republicans to choose from, ya’ll decided Trump was your best and brightest TWICE. It’s like watching the fall of the Roman Empire in real-time.

          • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
            2·
            2 hours ago

            You know what’s just as productive as blaming voters? Masturbating into a Kleenex. Unless you have a plan to nominate better voters next cycle (yes, if there is one) then your attention is better spent on how we fix a Democratic party that’s so pathetic that it lost to Trump twice.

            If Rahm Emanuel or another establishment clone is the next DNC chair, get ready to see this happen again. That’s where the focus belongs for anyone who wants to fix this shit.

    • AngryRobot@lemmy.world
      384·
      1 day ago

      I hate trump voters, but I hate the people who know how awful he is but stayed home even more.

      • Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works
        314·
        18 hours 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!

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
        192·
        1 day 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.

        • ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world
          8·
          19 hours ago

          stupid Americans can’t discern fact from fiction.

          It’s almost as if all the attacks on education over the last 4-7 decades are bearing fruit.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
    44·
    1 day ago

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

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    1991·
    2 days 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
      103·
      2 days 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
        671·
        2 days 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…

        • Atom@lemmy.world
          13·
          1 day ago

          Same, red county-district-state. I would hope the same but they won’t attribute it to their dear* leader. His Tariffs and GOP policy will fuck them too, but fox and podcasts will tell them it’s the deep state Democrats keeping them down. They all were doing the “this is Biden’s America” posts in 2020. GOP can do no wrong in their eyes. Used to be child rape was a deal breaker but even that is A-OK now, as long as the Democrats lose.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          Yet she was part of the administration that got you that huge infrastructure project and new factory incentives the donvict will take credit for

      • SwampYankee@mander.xyz
        17·
        2 days 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.

        • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
          6·
          2 days ago

          Actually getting the policys in place is the hardest part of policy making. Now they’ll be able to do that.

          We’re going to need to hook Orwell up to the grid. He’s going to produce a lot of spins in the next few years.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        13·
        2 days ago

        I don’t know how so many people against project 2025 still voted for the party supporting it.

        Can you be truly against something if you cannot even be bothered to have the slightest idea what it is?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      372·
      2 days 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.

      • Mirshe@lemmy.world
        65·
        2 days ago

        Actually, his wife and his friends said they’ve only seen him actively read one book, which is a book of Hitler’s speeches.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          271·
          2 days ago

          That’s just what he wanted them to think. Inside the book, he had hidden a single Bazooka Joe comic that took him 5 years to read. And then he didn’t get the joke so he had to take another 5 years to read it. And he still didn’t get the joke so… basically he’s going to put anyone with a Bazooka Joe comic in their possession in front of a firing squad when he gets in charge.

  • Fester@lemm.eeEnglish
    47·
    2 days ago

    That’s always been his plan. And it’ll happen because these Heritage Foundation ghouls will run the government off-camera while Trump and his reality TV cabinet distract us with fights and absurd sound bites in between his golf rounds.

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
    127·
    2 days 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)

  • NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org
    48·
    2 days ago

    America is just experiencing a case of all-time stupid. There’s no excuse that I can find that says Americans didn’t know about Project 2025.

    If we’re in a ‘golden age’ of anything, it’s the golden age of ignorance and stupidity for America. Where’s my Brawndo?

    • 1ns1p1d@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      The America of Idiocracy was waaaay better than what we’re going to get. I remember joking about how we were heading that way. Little did I know how quickly it would be so much worse.

      Im in my 50’s. I feel so bad for my parents. So many good things have happened in their lifetimes, only for their twilight years to turn into non-stop devastating disappointment and the relentless reversal of so much progress.

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 day ago

      Fox and Friends didn’t report on it.

      When Trump and his team were effectively forced to respond by a deluge of other outlets covering it, Trump literally just got in an interview and said “I never read it”. He didn’t say he didn’t know about it, he didn’t say he didn’t agree with it, just “I never read it, I don’t know what it’s about” - which I believe because the guy barely reads anything according to all the sources I can find.

      Remember that really ever since 2000, a LARGE amount of voters have checked out entirely. They get their politics third-hand from people who watched Fox or read an article and many don’t even do that, just going into a polling station and checking whoever’s name they’ve heard more in the last month or two. They’re not even low-information, they’re zero-information, and some, like my mother, are even negative-information, digesting objectively untrue facts and regurgitating them onto their personal political canvas (mom got deep into the Qanon panic because “parts of it felt true”).

    • Grass@sh.itjust.works
      183·
      2 days ago

      When I was a kid it was a common belief that americans were just way more stupid than the rest of the world. Turns out it was worse, but that we were also really stupid for copying a lot of their dumb shit.