Project 2025 is in the news again: the appointment of Russ Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget, a position he held during Trump 1.0, has confirmed what we always knew: Implementing Project 2025 will be a pillar of the Trump presidency.
Thank you so much for inviting Nancy MacLean to be your guest this Sunday. I read her book "Democracy in Chains" soon after it was published and it has been one that I have recommended to many others in the years since. I look forward to Sunday. During my phone banking weeks I often talked about Project 2025. People said they weren't aware of it (to which I listed a few things about it and suggested they look it up) or they said it really wouldn't happen. Since Trump cannot open his mouth, it seems, without lying, why would anyone have believed him when he said that he knew nothing about this plan? Mainstream media, shame on you!!!
Today (Monday 11/25) this was announced on CNN re: Jack Smith. “Special counsel Jack Smith is dropping the federal election subversion and the mishandling of classified documents cases against President-elect Donald Trump, seeking the cases’ dismissal in court filings Monday.”
Questions:
1. How we can find out if and when Jack Smith will be filing reports on these two cases ?
2. How we can find out what the *contents of these reports on these two cases would be ?
3. How we can find out if and when the public will be able to see the contents of these reports ?
4. If produced, how can the public obtain copies of these reports ?
For whoever can answer these questions…can you tell me/us how you know the answer you are providing ?
In or around 2014/15 Nancy MacClean was interviewed on 60 Minutes. My husband and I were in NY and the interview really perked up our attention. This was before the total addiction to social media to took hold. I remember her warning Americans about the plan by the Republican Party related to the Constitution. At the time, we were concerned and mildly alarmed. I think about all that has happened since. I think about the former Republicans who I follow and who must have known the intentions of the party. Shortly after that interview and before "disinformation" was so central to the dangerous place we are at today, I read reviews about Nancy MacClean and her book and she was really 'discredited'. I sort of dismissed her then. Now I realize that people like her, Dr. Bandy Lee and Steven Hassan become targets not just by nefarious politicians but by media moguls and elites. I think one day when Dr. Lee, Dr. Hassan and Dr. MacClean are exonerated, having been discredited by bad people and entities, we will "weep" knowing we could have and should have listened.
Someone had shared with me the spreadsheet of her "discredited" info and as I read through it, I found it was more opinion rather than facts. When I replied with proof of her points, no response. Typical of these right wing nuts.
Ruth your comment about Pete Hegseth promoting the sale of grenade ammunition, I don’t believe is accurate. There are videos of Hegseth promoting sale of ammunition, but not grenades. Your voice is so important in these times to credibly link what is happening in our country with other authoritarian and fascist movements. When you offer inaccurate information, the right discredits what you’re saying and damages your message. Many people find firearms distasteful, but it’s not the firearm. that’s the problem, It’s the policies around those firearms that is the problem.. Please don’t fall into the trap providing misinformation about firearms. Hegseth is bad enoughwithout miss representing his association with firearms and militant right groups.
A quick search takes you to his FB page as he grifts. The grift is Grenade Soap. "One Man Army - Grenade GrenadeSoap.com 100% American made, anti-woke, Patriots! Been using their stuff for months, and can't beat it"
It does seem fantastical that the Donald and company will pull off what project 2025 indicates, but Ruth your knowledge of how authoritarians seize power is absolutely frightening ! I keep thinking of my parents in the French resistance during the Nazi occupation , and think we might have to form one here as well !
Am thinking about what will be the consequences of civil disobedience will be, how many of us will be willing to do so, and how strong the potential resistance will be - will we fight and not accept and how will best we accomplish holding together in our shared fight.
The article "What Could Stop Him?" by David Cole in The New York Review is instructive in that regard. "The Constitution’s checks and balances are not self-enforcing; they work only where citizens and civil society institutions fight back," he writes. "Trump’s first term showed that when we do, we can limit the damage and turn the tide." A daunting task, for sure, but here's hoping.
It seems almost surreal, but the time has come. It’s all happening so fast. I am tremendously grateful to Ruth and her “LUCID” for providing a refuge for us to learn and find guidance. I have ramped up my support with paid subscriptions because as certain aspects of the media falter and cave, we HAVE TO support Ruth and other writers/teachers/leaders whose light will help guide us through the darkness….Thank you, Ruth, as always. I’m glad to have the friends here amongst us, as well as your Zoom-‘guest commentators’ who attend these Zoom meetings and share their thoughts and insight here….thanks all!
Thank you so much for inviting Nancy MacLean to be your guest this Sunday. I read her book "Democracy in Chains" soon after it was published and it has been one that I have recommended to many others in the years since. I look forward to Sunday. During my phone banking weeks I often talked about Project 2025. People said they weren't aware of it (to which I listed a few things about it and suggested they look it up) or they said it really wouldn't happen. Since Trump cannot open his mouth, it seems, without lying, why would anyone have believed him when he said that he knew nothing about this plan? Mainstream media, shame on you!!!
New info that is blowing up my mind. The author is a climate journalist. I found this on substack and do not know validity, nor what to think....
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked?utm_medium=email
I hope your dinners were delicious and digested. This takes a strong stomach. Crying...
Here's a quote, from yours truly:
"Donald Trump's mouth is an open sewer that befouls the main stream."
[Feel free to share/use – with credit.
— H.M. Bogotch]
When a segment of the populace is hoodwinked and lied over and over and other side is timid and concerned by not i
Today (Monday 11/25) this was announced on CNN re: Jack Smith. “Special counsel Jack Smith is dropping the federal election subversion and the mishandling of classified documents cases against President-elect Donald Trump, seeking the cases’ dismissal in court filings Monday.”
Questions:
1. How we can find out if and when Jack Smith will be filing reports on these two cases ?
2. How we can find out what the *contents of these reports on these two cases would be ?
3. How we can find out if and when the public will be able to see the contents of these reports ?
4. If produced, how can the public obtain copies of these reports ?
For whoever can answer these questions…can you tell me/us how you know the answer you are providing ?
Harry, grateful we have you to keep an eagle eye on any shenanigans that come up in the Trump DOJ. 🙏🏻
time to revisit the Atlantic Magazine January/February 2024 issue
Ruth,
Please direct message me if you get s chance. I have a concern and need your advice
It seems that project 2025 is something that many Americans are just not aware of or they simply just don’t care about the consequences it will bring.
Those on the right don't see Project 2025 as fascist. I have some bad news for them.
Thank you Ruth, very much.
We must be prepared to
resist. The seat of power is
Washington. Once "the
people" are "really" aware of
and see what's happening with the new regime, I have
hope they will not bend a
knee throughout this great
land.
Do what you can to protect
yourselves financially, with
your food supplies, etc.
Fascist takeover is never
a pretty picture.
To think a LOT of this rot could have been muted by a more bold President than the one we got saddled with, or as I call him President Hindenberg...
In or around 2014/15 Nancy MacClean was interviewed on 60 Minutes. My husband and I were in NY and the interview really perked up our attention. This was before the total addiction to social media to took hold. I remember her warning Americans about the plan by the Republican Party related to the Constitution. At the time, we were concerned and mildly alarmed. I think about all that has happened since. I think about the former Republicans who I follow and who must have known the intentions of the party. Shortly after that interview and before "disinformation" was so central to the dangerous place we are at today, I read reviews about Nancy MacClean and her book and she was really 'discredited'. I sort of dismissed her then. Now I realize that people like her, Dr. Bandy Lee and Steven Hassan become targets not just by nefarious politicians but by media moguls and elites. I think one day when Dr. Lee, Dr. Hassan and Dr. MacClean are exonerated, having been discredited by bad people and entities, we will "weep" knowing we could have and should have listened.
Someone had shared with me the spreadsheet of her "discredited" info and as I read through it, I found it was more opinion rather than facts. When I replied with proof of her points, no response. Typical of these right wing nuts.
Ruth your comment about Pete Hegseth promoting the sale of grenade ammunition, I don’t believe is accurate. There are videos of Hegseth promoting sale of ammunition, but not grenades. Your voice is so important in these times to credibly link what is happening in our country with other authoritarian and fascist movements. When you offer inaccurate information, the right discredits what you’re saying and damages your message. Many people find firearms distasteful, but it’s not the firearm. that’s the problem, It’s the policies around those firearms that is the problem.. Please don’t fall into the trap providing misinformation about firearms. Hegseth is bad enoughwithout miss representing his association with firearms and militant right groups.
A quick search takes you to his FB page as he grifts. The grift is Grenade Soap. "One Man Army - Grenade GrenadeSoap.com 100% American made, anti-woke, Patriots! Been using their stuff for months, and can't beat it"
It does seem fantastical that the Donald and company will pull off what project 2025 indicates, but Ruth your knowledge of how authoritarians seize power is absolutely frightening ! I keep thinking of my parents in the French resistance during the Nazi occupation , and think we might have to form one here as well !
Yes! Resist. Do not obey in advance!
Am thinking about what will be the consequences of civil disobedience will be, how many of us will be willing to do so, and how strong the potential resistance will be - will we fight and not accept and how will best we accomplish holding together in our shared fight.
The article "What Could Stop Him?" by David Cole in The New York Review is instructive in that regard. "The Constitution’s checks and balances are not self-enforcing; they work only where citizens and civil society institutions fight back," he writes. "Trump’s first term showed that when we do, we can limit the damage and turn the tide." A daunting task, for sure, but here's hoping.
It seems almost surreal, but the time has come. It’s all happening so fast. I am tremendously grateful to Ruth and her “LUCID” for providing a refuge for us to learn and find guidance. I have ramped up my support with paid subscriptions because as certain aspects of the media falter and cave, we HAVE TO support Ruth and other writers/teachers/leaders whose light will help guide us through the darkness….Thank you, Ruth, as always. I’m glad to have the friends here amongst us, as well as your Zoom-‘guest commentators’ who attend these Zoom meetings and share their thoughts and insight here….thanks all!