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Any legit sentence that contains "900 pages" and "Donald Trump" will also include "indictment."

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Et tu, USA Today? Are they afraid they're on trump's hit list?

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Ta, Dok. I grieve for the press. I remember when one could find facts almost anywhere. Now it's Philadelphia Enquirer, The Guardian, and Teen Vogue.

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"The Holocaust was the work of the Nazi party, not Hitler".

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I went to read Agenda 47 and was horrified to realize that it was just a series of videos! (Further digging did reveal that there are transcripts attached to each individual video.) they seem to be about as coherent and substantive as you would expect.

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No fucking duh, USA Today. OF COURSE PAB didn't write Project 2025! He's a lazy slob! He has everyone else do his work for him, then he takes the credit. Leonard Leo chose his three Supremes. Johnny McEntee fired the staff he didn't like. And Stephen Miller wrote Project 2025 with a bunch of other MAGAt cretins.

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Honestly the advent of USA Today in 1982 will be year Zero in the Idiocracy era, when the active enstupidifacation of the American public began, or as it was called at the time "McPaper" and "TV news you can wrap fish in"

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The first time I saw it was at some hotel that stuffed a copy under your door every morning. I read the first one; after that they went straight to the trash can.

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I was watching Jim Acosta interview the head of the GQP in Michigan earlier, and it was so stunning. Acosta would ask him things like "your state is sending people involved in the fake elector scheme to the RNC, does that seem OK"? The guy would say "they're loyal Republicans." I wish Acosta had said "they were involved in trying to overthrow democracy, so doesn't make them also traitors"? Instead he said "you were involved in a fake electors slate, right? Can you tell us about that"? The guy just brushed if off saying he couldn't really talk about it, and it's all in the past, and who really cares.

One of our two political parties is actively trying to end democracy, and the media is just kind of collectively yawning.

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They're not loyal Americans.

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More clicks!!

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Trump's PERSONAL involvement in policy initiatives tend to be limited to drawing on weather maps with sharpies and suggesting Americans squirt bleach up their asses to cure the Corona. Everything else is done by other people. Now, can I be a USA Today factchecker, too?

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The "Best People" . . . which of course is GOPspeak for the Worst Fucking People in the World.

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I can't believe people in this country are stupid enough to vote for ANY of this crap, although I know the average voter has no clue what they're voting for, so I guess we'll all have fun finding out what horrible things await us if another Trump term comes to fruition.

I can't imagine being a young person, and thinking to myself "well, the oil companies tell me that climate change isn't real, but scientists tell me it is real, so I guess I'll believe the people with the financial agenda!" Texas, if you're listening, you're getting pounded with hurricanes, fires, and tornadoes, what more does God need to visit upon you that you realize fossil fuels are not good? Would locusts do the trick?

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They already have Ted Cruz. A plague of locusts would be a welcome jamboree by comparison.

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Ok, that's an excellent point.

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Let me guess -- did Rupert Murdoch buy it ...?

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Just keep repeating over and over and over and over to every single person that you think might vote:

Project 2025 = Donald Trump.

No argument, no expansion, no additional comments or responses are necessary. If you tell "Project 2025 = Donald Trump" and someone disagrees with you, no matter what they say just keep repeating "Project 2025 = Donald Trump".

It's VERY IMPORTANT to stay on that message because that message is 100% true.

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They’re telling us who they are

We should believe them

https://youtube.com/shorts/hMoBPfyqMXU?si=p4Netl1tlyImoMcJ

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This is likely just to help Trump because many people are searching online for information.

And a lot of people are connecting it to Trump

So USA Today is helping Trump with this.

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maybe the only thing TFG ever learned from history was how to deflect responsibility by channeling Henry II (Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?). Not his fault if his rabid mob misunderstood what he said about the electoral college, Jan6, being a dictator, Project2025....

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"In an article with the very factual headline β€œProject 2025 is an effort by the Heritage Foundation, not Donald Trump,” the Nation’s Newspaper carefully explained that no, dear, Donald Trump himself didn’t write the 900-plus page policy wet dream agenda for a second Trump term published by the Heritage Foundation."

And did USA Today fact check the claims that the proven rapist, fraud and convicted felon Trump overturned Roe vs. Wade, pointing out that the justices on the Supreme Court were a project of the Heritage Foundation, and that the rapist Trump had nothing to do with it?

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I saw a poll the other day that said 1/3rd of voters think Joe Biden overturned Roe V Wade. THIS is how stupid our electorate is, but in fairness to the electorate, our schools keep getting worse since all of the money is getting siphoned off to support religious schools.

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It isn't that bad, but the polling is showing that about 15% of Democrats think that. Then again, 15% of Democrats believe that Barak Obama is a Kenyan . . .

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I caught the tail end of the poll on TV, but I checked, and it's close to 20% of all voters. So that means 1 out of 5 think that the POTUS is on the Supreme Court or they don't know what the SC is. Not a ringing endorsement of our electorate.

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Help us, Scientific American. You're our only hope.

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