@GIKorea , @setnaffa, and the Setnaffarians keep attacking Lee Jae Myung and the DPK because they fear he will take steps that will lead to the withdrawal of the USFK from Korea.
However the problem is more closer at home.
You see it is Trump, the President whom they have voted for, who will eventually withdraw the USFK from Korea.
If those idiots wanted the USFK to remain in Korea, they should have voted for Kamala instead of wasting their time attacking Lee Jae Myung and the DPK.
James Whitlock
11 months ago
For those that still believe Trump’s claim he has/had nothing to do with Project 2025
Trump’s “One Big Bill” is Project 2025 in legislative form. Here’s how it quietly turns a far-right wishlist into federal law:
– Sec. 10008 – Expands work requirements for SNAP
– Project 2025: Pushes “moral reform” to make low-income people work more for food assistance.
– Sec. 10011 – Repeals education & obesity prevention grants
– Project 2025: Eliminates “social engineering” and funnels funding into “traditional values” education.
– Sec. 10012 – Restricts immigrant access to SNAP
– Project 2025: Blocks aid to undocumented and many legal immigrants.
– Sec. 110115 – Creates “Trump Accounts” and a Trump savings pilot program
– Project 2025: Promotes private savings plans tied to “American values” and market-based welfare.
– Sec. 44125 – Bans federal Medicaid/CHIP funding for gender transition procedures for minors
– Project 2025: Calls for a nationwide ban on federal support for gender-affirming care.
– Sec. 44141 – Requires states to impose Medicaid work requirements
– Project 2025: Promotes work mandates for benefits under the guise of personal responsibility.
– Sec. 44110 – Cuts off Medicaid/CHIP for those without verified legal status
– Project 2025: Strips access to healthcare for undocumented immigrants and narrows eligibility for others.
– Sec. 20001 – Military expansion for “quality of life” and Indo-Pacific readiness
– Project 2025: Backs massive defense buildup, especially near China and the southern border.
Dozens of sections quietly restructure the federal government to match the far-right’s long-term goals:
Guts environmental protections
– Sec. 42108 – Repeals Clean Air Act provisions used to limit emissions
– Sec. 42117 – Eliminates environmental and climate justice block grants
– Sec. 42301 – Strips EPA authority to enforce vehicle emissions standards
– Sec. 41009 – Rescinds funds from national parks, conservation, and climate programs
– Secs. 80307-80309 – Rescind National Park Service (NPS) funds provided under the Inflation Reduction Act:
– Sec. 80307: Cancels unobligated balances from Section 50221 (BLM and NPS resilience & restoration)
– Sec. 80308: Cancels funds from Section 50222 (ecosystem protection and climate adaptation)
– Sec. 80309: Cancels funds from Section 50223 (historic preservation and legacy infrastructure)
– Project 2025: Seeks to eliminate conservation efforts and open public lands for extraction and development.
– Sec. 80301-80309 – Blocks federal land conservation plans; rescinds NPS/BLM funds
– Sec. 80151-80152 – Charges protest fees and kills environmental data programs
– Project 2025: Calls for dismantling the EPA and environmental oversight to unleash fossil fuel production.
Centralizes power in the executive
– Sec. 30051 – Blocks agencies from issuing new rules without meeting strict cost-benefit standards
– Sec. 30061 – Prohibits the Secretary of Education from proposing new regulations
– Project 2025: Places all federal agencies under direct presidential control.
Weakens federal worker protections
– Sec. 90004 – Allows new federal hires to be fired at will-reviving “Schedule F”
– Sec. 90005 – Increases pension contributions for federal workers
– Sec. 90006 – Eliminates early retirement supplements
– Project 2025: Aims to purge and replace career civil servants with political loyalists.
Limits state authority
– Sec. 44001 – Preempts state and local governments from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years
– Project 2025: Centralizes federal power to override states on tech, education, and energy policy.
Defunds watchdogs and public interest enforcement
– Sec. 50003 – Guts the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
– Sec. 50002 – Cuts enforcement powers from oversight bodies like the PCAOB
– Project 2025: Labels oversight and regulation as “deep state overreach.”
More buried provisions with Project 2025 fingerprints:
– Sec. 41008 – Creates a “De-Risking Fund” to protect fossil fuel companies from court orders or regulation
– Project 2025: Seeks to shield oil and gas interests from legal and environmental challenges.
– Sec. 44122 – Limits retroactive Medicaid coverage
– Project 2025: Reduces healthcare access by tightening eligibility windows.
– Sec. 44131 – Ends extra funding for states that expand Medicaid
– Project 2025: Actively seeks to roll back Medicaid expansion entirely.
– Sec. 80121(h) – Strips courts of jurisdiction to review federal permits and approvals
– Project 2025: Removes judicial oversight over mining, drilling, leasing, and environmental enforcement, effectively silencing the courts.
This isn’t just another bill. It’s the Project 2025 playbook written into law. This bill abuses budget reconciliation rules to jam through non-budget items: education rollbacks, environmental deregulation, and civil service purges.
setnaffa
11 months ago
Fancy Chinese EVs doing their thing! They’re really hot these days!! Check it out!!!
DC is supprisingly dirty and low class for how much money and power flows through.
Liz
11 months ago
Grayblack, I think the covid lockdowns ruined DC. Haven’t been there in many years, but when no one had to show up to work the businesses all around kind of shut down I’m told. Doesn’t take long for things to disintegrate after that.
setnaffa
11 months ago
“James Witlock” is another leftist fabulist who can’t summarize. So sad.
The perfect Worker’s Paradise already exists in Havana, Pyongyang, and Harare. You should move to one of them if you dislike Trump enough to tell such obvious lies.
Joshua Lee
11 months ago
All, sharing a really good perspective on rigged elections in SK from key U.S. figures.
Congrats, humans: you officially lost the internet to AI-powered bots in 2024.
Over half of all web traffic is now bots, and many of them up to no good.
They are stealing passwords, crashing sites, faking clicks, and even pretending to be you.
Many of them hit travel sites, steal concert tickets, and hijack social media posts just to mess with people and fuel drama.
Experts say these bots are getting smarter by the day.
Meanwhile, you’re still solving CAPTCHAs.
Source: The Straight Times”
Korean Man
10 months ago
For a very serious crime of getting refused entry into the US, this Australian woman, married to a US soldier, was taken to a local prison, strip-searched, then imprisoned with murderers and other common criminals.
Good job America showing sadistic cruelty! I don’t know how you’re going to handle all those visitors who will be attending the World Cup Soccer. I guess no one will visit this Maggot country that’s trying hard to become North Korea 2.0. Other countries should reciprocate the treatment and start imprisoning Americans, too, without any charges. That’s only fair. Haaaakkkk spit on your US flag.
ChickenHead
10 months ago
“I don’t know how you’re going to handle all those visitors who will be attending the World Cup Soccer.”
This is by design.
America is doing its part to kill the world’s stupidest game followed by the world’s stupidests people.
Hopefully, during the World Cup, anybody self-identifying as a soccer fan is taken off our precious streets and quickly bussed to a work camp until they develop some tastes.
Anybody found to be a fan of women’s soccer needs to be shot immediately.
Korean Man
10 months ago
US is now facing a coming food crisis, hyperinflation, and empty shelves, as farming collapses.
KM, fuel prices are much lower now. Overall, food prices are about the same (they basically tripled under Biden but the CPI was adjusted so former “staples” like coffee were removed from the equation).
If anything, things are better but it will take a while. This isn’t even hard to dispute, here are two charts (wheat and milk), examples from the video.
Liz
10 months ago
Couldn’t post both charts there so here is milk.
ChickenHead
10 months ago
Let’s take a closer look at whatever James Whitlock was going on about Project 2025.
Before we start, let’s remind everyone that corelation does not equal causation.
Just because Trump shares some values doesn’t mean they are anything more than shared values.
I like dogs and schnitzel… and think all gypsies should be put into death camps… but that doesn’t make me a Nazi.
“Trump’s “One Big Bill” is Project 2025 in legislative form. Here’s how it quietly turns a far-right wishlist into federal law:”
– Sec. 10008 – Expands work requirements for SNAP
Fantastic! There are lots of jobs “Americans Won’t Do.” I bet they will if they are hungry.
– Project 2025: Pushes “moral reform” to make low-income people work more for food assistance.
That shìt on the sidewalk and trash on the highway isn’t going to pick itself up.
– Sec. 10011 – Repeals education & obesity prevention grants
I actually read the entire thing. It repeals Section 28 of a 2008 bill that was for NUTRITIONAL education (not education in general) and obesity prevention. This is a good thing because, despite millions of dollars going somewhere, the low-income grifters that were supposed to get this education are all still fat.
– Project 2025: Eliminates “social engineering” and funnels funding into “traditional values” education.
That’s a bad thing if you believe a mommy and a daddy are inferior to two mommies… both of which are transgender. But if you believe that you are a science denier who ignores study after study showing children do better with a mommy and a daddy.
– Sec. 10012 – Restricts immigrant access to SNAP
Why are you even putting this here. When all the Americans are cared for, we will start looking at “immigrants”.
– Project 2025: Blocks aid to undocumented and many legal immigrants.
If you can’t take care of yourself, fùck off back to your home country. If you are American, we have a job for you.
– Sec. 110115 – Creates “Trump Accounts” and a Trump savings pilot program
Explain why this is bad.
– Project 2025: Promotes private savings plans tied to “American values” and market-based welfare.
American values are successful values. Investing based on DEI is for losers.
– Sec. 44125 – Bans federal Medicaid/CHIP funding for gender transition procedures for minors
Only a pervert wants to see genital mutilation of impressionable children.
– Project 2025: Calls for a nationwide ban on federal support for gender-affirming care.
Not the taxpayer’s job.
– Sec. 44141 – Requires states to impose Medicaid work requirements
If you can work, you must work.
– Project 2025: Promotes work mandates for benefits under the guise of personal responsibility.
Be responsible.
– Sec. 44110 – Cuts off Medicaid/CHIP for those without verified legal status
If you ain’t American, no more freeloading off my labor.
– Project 2025: Strips access to healthcare for undocumented immigrants and narrows eligibility for others.
Fantastic… better, cheaper healthcare for Americans.
– Sec. 20001 – Military expansion for “quality of life” and Indo-Pacific readiness
Why not take a bit more care of our servicemembers. Europe can take care whatever enemies they create. China is a true threat to America.
– Project 2025: Backs massive defense buildup, especially near China and the southern border.
Good to see someone is aware of America’s two biggest threats.
“Dozens of sections quietly restructure the federal government to match the far-right’s long-term goals:”
…not just “the right”… but the FAAAAR right.
People who saw “far right” for everything they disagree with are dweebs.
Guts environmental protections
– Sec. 42108 – Repeals Clean Air Act provisions used to limit emissions
Fantastic. Artificial restrictions to help big business and destroy small business.
– Sec. 42117 – Eliminates environmental and climate justice block grants
Anybody who talks about “climate justice” is too stupid to live.
– Sec. 42301 – Strips EPA authority to enforce vehicle emissions standards
Artificial standards designed to push agendas other than clean air and less polution.
– Sec. 41009 – Rescinds funds from national parks, conservation, and climate programs
Now read the details. Destruction of all climate nonsense is fantastic.
– Secs. 80307-80309 – Rescind National Park Service (NPS) funds provided under the Inflation Reduction Act:
– Sec. 80307: Cancels unobligated balances from Section 50221 (BLM and NPS resilience & restoration)
– Sec. 80308: Cancels funds from Section 50222 (ecosystem protection and climate adaptation)
– Sec. 80309: Cancels funds from Section 50223 (historic preservation and legacy infrastructure)
– Project 2025: Seeks to eliminate conservation efforts and open public lands for extraction and development.
– Sec. 80301-80309 – Blocks federal land conservation plans; rescinds NPS/BLM funds
– Sec. 80151-80152 – Charges protest fees and kills environmental data programs
– Project 2025: Calls for dismantling the EPA and environmental oversight to unleash fossil fuel production.
Lets talk about the details.
Centralizes power in the executive
– Sec. 30051 – Blocks agencies from issuing new rules without meeting strict cost-benefit standards
Financial responsibiliy? In my government?
– Sec. 30061 – Prohibits the Secretary of Education from proposing new regulations
American students get dumber ever year.
– Project 2025: Places all federal agencies under direct presidential control.
Becasue they have shown no responsibilty to America.
Weakens federal worker protections
– Sec. 90004 – Allows new federal hires to be fired at will-reviving “Schedule F”
Getting a federal job and going into immediate slacker mode is no longer acceptable.
– Sec. 90005 – Increases pension contributions for federal workers
Awwww… they gotta pay like everyone else.
– Sec. 90006 – Eliminates early retirement supplements
Awwww… still better than the private sector.
– Project 2025: Aims to purge and replace career civil servants with political loyalists.
Careful there… read the details.
Limits state authority
– Sec. 44001 – Preempts state and local governments from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years
Having unregulated AI is going to be devistating to society. Having regulated AI will be fatal.
– Project 2025: Centralizes federal power to override states on tech, education, and energy policy.
America has a goal and a plan and states pushing agendas other than American success get no say.
Defunds watchdogs and public interest enforcement
– Sec. 50003 – Guts the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
– Sec. 50002 – Cuts enforcement powers from oversight bodies like the PCAOB
– Project 2025: Labels oversight and regulation as “deep state overreach.”
Much regulation has become a weapon of Big Business and the Deep State. Goodbye.
More buried provisions with Project 2025 fingerprints:
– Sec. 41008 – Creates a “De-Risking Fund” to protect fossil fuel companies from court orders or regulation
Lawsuits against fossil fuel companies have been abused.
– Project 2025: Seeks to shield oil and gas interests from legal and environmental challenges.
Lawsuits against fossil fuel companies have been abused.
– Sec. 44122 – Limits retroactive Medicaid coverage
– Project 2025: Reduces healthcare access by tightening eligibility windows.
– Sec. 44131 – Ends extra funding for states that expand Medicaid
– Project 2025: Actively seeks to roll back Medicaid expansion entirely.
Do you really want to talk Medicaid?
– Sec. 80121(h) – Strips courts of jurisdiction to review federal permits and approvals
Activist judges are pushing agendas rather than justice. Removing this check and balance is jot ideal. Leaving it in place is a disaster.
– Project 2025: Removes judicial oversight over mining, drilling, leasing, and environmental enforcement, effectively silencing the courts.
Good. They abused it. Now they cant have it.
“This isn’t just another bill. It’s the Project 2025 playbook written into law. This bill abuses budget reconciliation rules to jam through non-budget items: education rollbacks, environmental deregulation, and civil service purges.”
This is not some conspiracy between Trump and Project 2025.
Project 2025 just codified many of the reasons people voted for Trump.
This is not a conspiracy.
It is a conspiracy of shared values that the majority of Americans have a shared belief in.
Nothing is wrong here.
Liz
10 months ago
Per the video (the part I watched, at any rate…first few minutes), the claim the elderly will suffer most if orange juice is priced too high is pretty humorous. I sure hope so. Orange juice is filled with pesticides and about as “nutritious” as eating a Twinkie with a vitamin C tablet. Might actually be worse. Not that I want the orange industry to take a hit, just sayin.
The globalist agenda, btw, is actively anti-small farmer, pro big agriculture. Which is one reason why, per the video, the average farmer is over 65 now. The way “environmentalists” have embraced big agriculture reminds me of the way NOW embraced Clinton’s rapes and molestations.
setnaffa
10 months ago
CH, you and Liz areknocking it out of the park on this Open Thread. Thank you both!!
I also like Japanese food and think the Korean governments are wildly ineffective; but I have no intention about bombing Pearl Harbor or conquering the Korean Peninsula.
Those things are both more old-fashioned than anything but the fake Dialectical Materialism spewed by our local CCP-inspired trolls.
I’m more into trying to find a cure for the trolls. So far, it seems like having a steady job and an attractive spouse works better than whining about stuff.
Regular showers, haircuts, and dental care are necessities. Laying off the cheap booze, all forms of tobacco, and marijuana help a lot, too. Makes it easier to get close to the attractive ones.
@GIKorea , @setnaffa, and the Setnaffarians keep attacking Lee Jae Myung and the DPK because they fear he will take steps that will lead to the withdrawal of the USFK from Korea.
However the problem is more closer at home.
You see it is Trump, the President whom they have voted for, who will eventually withdraw the USFK from Korea.
Exclusive | U.S. Considers Withdrawing Thousands of Troops From South Korea – WSJ
This is just the beginning.
If those idiots wanted the USFK to remain in Korea, they should have voted for Kamala instead of wasting their time attacking Lee Jae Myung and the DPK.
For those that still believe Trump’s claim he has/had nothing to do with Project 2025
Trump’s “One Big Bill” is Project 2025 in legislative form. Here’s how it quietly turns a far-right wishlist into federal law:
– Sec. 10008 – Expands work requirements for SNAP
– Project 2025: Pushes “moral reform” to make low-income people work more for food assistance.
– Sec. 10011 – Repeals education & obesity prevention grants
– Project 2025: Eliminates “social engineering” and funnels funding into “traditional values” education.
– Sec. 10012 – Restricts immigrant access to SNAP
– Project 2025: Blocks aid to undocumented and many legal immigrants.
– Sec. 110115 – Creates “Trump Accounts” and a Trump savings pilot program
– Project 2025: Promotes private savings plans tied to “American values” and market-based welfare.
– Sec. 44125 – Bans federal Medicaid/CHIP funding for gender transition procedures for minors
– Project 2025: Calls for a nationwide ban on federal support for gender-affirming care.
– Sec. 44141 – Requires states to impose Medicaid work requirements
– Project 2025: Promotes work mandates for benefits under the guise of personal responsibility.
– Sec. 44110 – Cuts off Medicaid/CHIP for those without verified legal status
– Project 2025: Strips access to healthcare for undocumented immigrants and narrows eligibility for others.
– Sec. 20001 – Military expansion for “quality of life” and Indo-Pacific readiness
– Project 2025: Backs massive defense buildup, especially near China and the southern border.
Dozens of sections quietly restructure the federal government to match the far-right’s long-term goals:
Guts environmental protections
– Sec. 42108 – Repeals Clean Air Act provisions used to limit emissions
– Sec. 42117 – Eliminates environmental and climate justice block grants
– Sec. 42301 – Strips EPA authority to enforce vehicle emissions standards
– Sec. 41009 – Rescinds funds from national parks, conservation, and climate programs
– Secs. 80307-80309 – Rescind National Park Service (NPS) funds provided under the Inflation Reduction Act:
– Sec. 80307: Cancels unobligated balances from Section 50221 (BLM and NPS resilience & restoration)
– Sec. 80308: Cancels funds from Section 50222 (ecosystem protection and climate adaptation)
– Sec. 80309: Cancels funds from Section 50223 (historic preservation and legacy infrastructure)
– Project 2025: Seeks to eliminate conservation efforts and open public lands for extraction and development.
– Sec. 80301-80309 – Blocks federal land conservation plans; rescinds NPS/BLM funds
– Sec. 80151-80152 – Charges protest fees and kills environmental data programs
– Project 2025: Calls for dismantling the EPA and environmental oversight to unleash fossil fuel production.
Centralizes power in the executive
– Sec. 30051 – Blocks agencies from issuing new rules without meeting strict cost-benefit standards
– Sec. 30061 – Prohibits the Secretary of Education from proposing new regulations
– Project 2025: Places all federal agencies under direct presidential control.
Weakens federal worker protections
– Sec. 90004 – Allows new federal hires to be fired at will-reviving “Schedule F”
– Sec. 90005 – Increases pension contributions for federal workers
– Sec. 90006 – Eliminates early retirement supplements
– Project 2025: Aims to purge and replace career civil servants with political loyalists.
Limits state authority
– Sec. 44001 – Preempts state and local governments from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years
– Project 2025: Centralizes federal power to override states on tech, education, and energy policy.
Defunds watchdogs and public interest enforcement
– Sec. 50003 – Guts the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
– Sec. 50002 – Cuts enforcement powers from oversight bodies like the PCAOB
– Project 2025: Labels oversight and regulation as “deep state overreach.”
More buried provisions with Project 2025 fingerprints:
– Sec. 41008 – Creates a “De-Risking Fund” to protect fossil fuel companies from court orders or regulation
– Project 2025: Seeks to shield oil and gas interests from legal and environmental challenges.
– Sec. 44122 – Limits retroactive Medicaid coverage
– Project 2025: Reduces healthcare access by tightening eligibility windows.
– Sec. 44131 – Ends extra funding for states that expand Medicaid
– Project 2025: Actively seeks to roll back Medicaid expansion entirely.
– Sec. 80121(h) – Strips courts of jurisdiction to review federal permits and approvals
– Project 2025: Removes judicial oversight over mining, drilling, leasing, and environmental enforcement, effectively silencing the courts.
This isn’t just another bill. It’s the Project 2025 playbook written into law. This bill abuses budget reconciliation rules to jam through non-budget items: education rollbacks, environmental deregulation, and civil service purges.
Fancy Chinese EVs doing their thing! They’re really hot these days!! Check it out!!!
https://x.com/xibaozi36064237/status/1925431523878346908
I can’t see your link, Setnaffa… but I assure you Chinese EVs are… unbelivable.
Apart from their futuristic design, digital interiors, and metalic paint jobs, European cars look 20 years out of date next to them.
America doesn’t realize the domestic Chinese car industry looks like Cyberpunk 2077.
Kamala. It is to laugh.
Hey CH, this might work: https://x.com/i/status/1925431523878346908
Minjoo wants to even make a dictatorship in the gaming world..
Defamation against Lee Jae-myung in League of Legends in-game chat can be considered a serious crime
https://n.news.naver.com/article/015/0005135907?sid=154
DC is supprisingly dirty and low class for how much money and power flows through.
Grayblack, I think the covid lockdowns ruined DC. Haven’t been there in many years, but when no one had to show up to work the businesses all around kind of shut down I’m told. Doesn’t take long for things to disintegrate after that.
“James Witlock” is another leftist fabulist who can’t summarize. So sad.
The perfect Worker’s Paradise already exists in Havana, Pyongyang, and Harare. You should move to one of them if you dislike Trump enough to tell such obvious lies.
All, sharing a really good perspective on rigged elections in SK from key U.S. figures.
https://youtu.be/238rsbkdITU?si=TNKPeXJw8Go9zebT
They explained the situation beautifully and easy to understand!
Lee Jae Myung wants the role of Minister of Defense to be given to a civilian…..???!!!!!! What a complete lunatic!!!!!
This comment for sure will get him more people to not vote for him.. love it!!! HAHAH~
https://n.news.naver.com/article/081/0003544068?lfrom=twitter
Setnaffa,
Have you bothered to read project 2025? It’s out there and has been.
North Korea is reportedly using balloons in an attempt to recover the destroyer that capsized during its May 21 launch in Chongjin.
James Whitlock, You probably drink water. You know who else drank water? Charles Manson, Adolf Hitler, and Jack the Ripper.
By your logic, you are exactly the same as them.
Try your fables over in the drag queen reading room. CH can suggest the right venue, for a nominal fee.
Hm.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1927235820072910940
“AI BOTS RUN THE INTERNET NOW
Congrats, humans: you officially lost the internet to AI-powered bots in 2024.
Over half of all web traffic is now bots, and many of them up to no good.
They are stealing passwords, crashing sites, faking clicks, and even pretending to be you.
Many of them hit travel sites, steal concert tickets, and hijack social media posts just to mess with people and fuel drama.
Experts say these bots are getting smarter by the day.
Meanwhile, you’re still solving CAPTCHAs.
Source: The Straight Times”
For a very serious crime of getting refused entry into the US, this Australian woman, married to a US soldier, was taken to a local prison, strip-searched, then imprisoned with murderers and other common criminals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cYsSl-twEg
Good job America showing sadistic cruelty! I don’t know how you’re going to handle all those visitors who will be attending the World Cup Soccer. I guess no one will visit this Maggot country that’s trying hard to become North Korea 2.0. Other countries should reciprocate the treatment and start imprisoning Americans, too, without any charges. That’s only fair. Haaaakkkk spit on your US flag.
“I don’t know how you’re going to handle all those visitors who will be attending the World Cup Soccer.”
This is by design.
America is doing its part to kill the world’s stupidest game followed by the world’s stupidests people.
Hopefully, during the World Cup, anybody self-identifying as a soccer fan is taken off our precious streets and quickly bussed to a work camp until they develop some tastes.
Anybody found to be a fan of women’s soccer needs to be shot immediately.
US is now facing a coming food crisis, hyperinflation, and empty shelves, as farming collapses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5orWKGjoQ2k
Hatred has a serious price.
KM, fuel prices are much lower now. Overall, food prices are about the same (they basically tripled under Biden but the CPI was adjusted so former “staples” like coffee were removed from the equation).
If anything, things are better but it will take a while. This isn’t even hard to dispute, here are two charts (wheat and milk), examples from the video.
Couldn’t post both charts there so here is milk.
Let’s take a closer look at whatever James Whitlock was going on about Project 2025.
Before we start, let’s remind everyone that corelation does not equal causation.
Just because Trump shares some values doesn’t mean they are anything more than shared values.
I like dogs and schnitzel… and think all gypsies should be put into death camps… but that doesn’t make me a Nazi.
“Trump’s “One Big Bill” is Project 2025 in legislative form. Here’s how it quietly turns a far-right wishlist into federal law:”
– Sec. 10008 – Expands work requirements for SNAP
Fantastic! There are lots of jobs “Americans Won’t Do.” I bet they will if they are hungry.
– Project 2025: Pushes “moral reform” to make low-income people work more for food assistance.
That shìt on the sidewalk and trash on the highway isn’t going to pick itself up.
– Sec. 10011 – Repeals education & obesity prevention grants
I actually read the entire thing. It repeals Section 28 of a 2008 bill that was for NUTRITIONAL education (not education in general) and obesity prevention. This is a good thing because, despite millions of dollars going somewhere, the low-income grifters that were supposed to get this education are all still fat.
– Project 2025: Eliminates “social engineering” and funnels funding into “traditional values” education.
That’s a bad thing if you believe a mommy and a daddy are inferior to two mommies… both of which are transgender. But if you believe that you are a science denier who ignores study after study showing children do better with a mommy and a daddy.
– Sec. 10012 – Restricts immigrant access to SNAP
Why are you even putting this here. When all the Americans are cared for, we will start looking at “immigrants”.
– Project 2025: Blocks aid to undocumented and many legal immigrants.
If you can’t take care of yourself, fùck off back to your home country. If you are American, we have a job for you.
– Sec. 110115 – Creates “Trump Accounts” and a Trump savings pilot program
Explain why this is bad.
– Project 2025: Promotes private savings plans tied to “American values” and market-based welfare.
American values are successful values. Investing based on DEI is for losers.
– Sec. 44125 – Bans federal Medicaid/CHIP funding for gender transition procedures for minors
Only a pervert wants to see genital mutilation of impressionable children.
– Project 2025: Calls for a nationwide ban on federal support for gender-affirming care.
Not the taxpayer’s job.
– Sec. 44141 – Requires states to impose Medicaid work requirements
If you can work, you must work.
– Project 2025: Promotes work mandates for benefits under the guise of personal responsibility.
Be responsible.
– Sec. 44110 – Cuts off Medicaid/CHIP for those without verified legal status
If you ain’t American, no more freeloading off my labor.
– Project 2025: Strips access to healthcare for undocumented immigrants and narrows eligibility for others.
Fantastic… better, cheaper healthcare for Americans.
– Sec. 20001 – Military expansion for “quality of life” and Indo-Pacific readiness
Why not take a bit more care of our servicemembers. Europe can take care whatever enemies they create. China is a true threat to America.
– Project 2025: Backs massive defense buildup, especially near China and the southern border.
Good to see someone is aware of America’s two biggest threats.
“Dozens of sections quietly restructure the federal government to match the far-right’s long-term goals:”
…not just “the right”… but the FAAAAR right.
People who saw “far right” for everything they disagree with are dweebs.
Guts environmental protections
– Sec. 42108 – Repeals Clean Air Act provisions used to limit emissions
Fantastic. Artificial restrictions to help big business and destroy small business.
– Sec. 42117 – Eliminates environmental and climate justice block grants
Anybody who talks about “climate justice” is too stupid to live.
– Sec. 42301 – Strips EPA authority to enforce vehicle emissions standards
Artificial standards designed to push agendas other than clean air and less polution.
– Sec. 41009 – Rescinds funds from national parks, conservation, and climate programs
Now read the details. Destruction of all climate nonsense is fantastic.
– Secs. 80307-80309 – Rescind National Park Service (NPS) funds provided under the Inflation Reduction Act:
– Sec. 80307: Cancels unobligated balances from Section 50221 (BLM and NPS resilience & restoration)
– Sec. 80308: Cancels funds from Section 50222 (ecosystem protection and climate adaptation)
– Sec. 80309: Cancels funds from Section 50223 (historic preservation and legacy infrastructure)
– Project 2025: Seeks to eliminate conservation efforts and open public lands for extraction and development.
– Sec. 80301-80309 – Blocks federal land conservation plans; rescinds NPS/BLM funds
– Sec. 80151-80152 – Charges protest fees and kills environmental data programs
– Project 2025: Calls for dismantling the EPA and environmental oversight to unleash fossil fuel production.
Lets talk about the details.
Centralizes power in the executive
– Sec. 30051 – Blocks agencies from issuing new rules without meeting strict cost-benefit standards
Financial responsibiliy? In my government?
– Sec. 30061 – Prohibits the Secretary of Education from proposing new regulations
American students get dumber ever year.
– Project 2025: Places all federal agencies under direct presidential control.
Becasue they have shown no responsibilty to America.
Weakens federal worker protections
– Sec. 90004 – Allows new federal hires to be fired at will-reviving “Schedule F”
Getting a federal job and going into immediate slacker mode is no longer acceptable.
– Sec. 90005 – Increases pension contributions for federal workers
Awwww… they gotta pay like everyone else.
– Sec. 90006 – Eliminates early retirement supplements
Awwww… still better than the private sector.
– Project 2025: Aims to purge and replace career civil servants with political loyalists.
Careful there… read the details.
Limits state authority
– Sec. 44001 – Preempts state and local governments from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years
Having unregulated AI is going to be devistating to society. Having regulated AI will be fatal.
– Project 2025: Centralizes federal power to override states on tech, education, and energy policy.
America has a goal and a plan and states pushing agendas other than American success get no say.
Defunds watchdogs and public interest enforcement
– Sec. 50003 – Guts the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
– Sec. 50002 – Cuts enforcement powers from oversight bodies like the PCAOB
– Project 2025: Labels oversight and regulation as “deep state overreach.”
Much regulation has become a weapon of Big Business and the Deep State. Goodbye.
More buried provisions with Project 2025 fingerprints:
– Sec. 41008 – Creates a “De-Risking Fund” to protect fossil fuel companies from court orders or regulation
Lawsuits against fossil fuel companies have been abused.
– Project 2025: Seeks to shield oil and gas interests from legal and environmental challenges.
Lawsuits against fossil fuel companies have been abused.
– Sec. 44122 – Limits retroactive Medicaid coverage
– Project 2025: Reduces healthcare access by tightening eligibility windows.
– Sec. 44131 – Ends extra funding for states that expand Medicaid
– Project 2025: Actively seeks to roll back Medicaid expansion entirely.
Do you really want to talk Medicaid?
– Sec. 80121(h) – Strips courts of jurisdiction to review federal permits and approvals
Activist judges are pushing agendas rather than justice. Removing this check and balance is jot ideal. Leaving it in place is a disaster.
– Project 2025: Removes judicial oversight over mining, drilling, leasing, and environmental enforcement, effectively silencing the courts.
Good. They abused it. Now they cant have it.
“This isn’t just another bill. It’s the Project 2025 playbook written into law. This bill abuses budget reconciliation rules to jam through non-budget items: education rollbacks, environmental deregulation, and civil service purges.”
This is not some conspiracy between Trump and Project 2025.
Project 2025 just codified many of the reasons people voted for Trump.
This is not a conspiracy.
It is a conspiracy of shared values that the majority of Americans have a shared belief in.
Nothing is wrong here.
Per the video (the part I watched, at any rate…first few minutes), the claim the elderly will suffer most if orange juice is priced too high is pretty humorous. I sure hope so. Orange juice is filled with pesticides and about as “nutritious” as eating a Twinkie with a vitamin C tablet. Might actually be worse. Not that I want the orange industry to take a hit, just sayin.
The globalist agenda, btw, is actively anti-small farmer, pro big agriculture. Which is one reason why, per the video, the average farmer is over 65 now. The way “environmentalists” have embraced big agriculture reminds me of the way NOW embraced Clinton’s rapes and molestations.
CH, you and Liz areknocking it out of the park on this Open Thread. Thank you both!!
I also like Japanese food and think the Korean governments are wildly ineffective; but I have no intention about bombing Pearl Harbor or conquering the Korean Peninsula.
Those things are both more old-fashioned than anything but the fake Dialectical Materialism spewed by our local CCP-inspired trolls.
I’m more into trying to find a cure for the trolls. So far, it seems like having a steady job and an attractive spouse works better than whining about stuff.
Regular showers, haircuts, and dental care are necessities. Laying off the cheap booze, all forms of tobacco, and marijuana help a lot, too. Makes it easier to get close to the attractive ones.
Just sayin’…
In Babylon bee, veritas.