*not the author
This tool live tracks the progress of the various campaigns promises that were part of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 manifesto, which supported Trump during his last campaign.
Tap for spoiler
https://www.project2025.observer/
~Personal note: one of the authors is the mod of r/keeptrack, and I hope she strongly considers coming over here~
Excellent website. Scary data source.
It’s like “Collapse of Western Civilization, 38% complete”
This is not beautiful data.
Not from Russian and north Korean perspective
But Trump told me he didn’t know what Project 2025 was and DEFINITELY wouldn’t Implement it!
To be fair, his brain is such mush, that he probably doesn’t. It’s his
puppeteershandlers that know.He’s not Bush Jr.
That is both informative and incredibly chilling.
I actually hadnt had an overview of the scope of Project 2025 until now. But reading this, it seems they thought of “what would a decent, sane and moral person do?” and then plan on doing the exact opposite.
The republic is so unbelievably done.
Next mid terms the right will sweep the elections with Belarus-levels of fraud, in 4 years there’ll be an amendment to officiate the thousand-years reich.
In 10 years – world war 3.
In 10 years
I like your optimism.
Note that the current situation was done in just a single month
That long for a world war you think?
After the US has thrown Ukraine under the bus and carved it up with Russia, there will be a few quiet years as Europe arms itself and Russia re-arms. Then WW3 will kick off. Fuck knows which side the US will be on.
If Trump manages to remove all non loyal officers, an invasion of Canada, Mexico, and Greenland is in the cards over the next two or three years even.
The chance of the US military fracturing and a resulting civil war is non zero, if the purge of anti MAGA officers fails. California on its own has major bases for the navy, air force, and marines.
An American civil war would leave the US unable to respond strongly to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. China could use that opportunity to take the whole first island chain even.
Up until recently, I would have believed there was a chance for a few “quiet” years so a war can be started just when the incumbent president is up for reelection. Now that day might never come, so why not start some wars right now, subjugate whatever they can and throw the spoils of war to the population to quell unrest?
We’ve always been at war with Eurasia
I don’t think so. I want to believe that they’re doing so much wanton destruction to the federal government’s administrative capacity that we’ll simply (and peacefully) balkanize into a more EU style trade confederation of economically interdependent but legislatively independent nations. If I had to guess causes for a hot shattering of the federation, it’d probably be starting shit in Canada. Nobody but these fucking assholes want to start shit with Canada, and I could see it as an opportunity for regions interested in independence to put out feelers for international recognition and support (and potentially getting it). Under previous administrations, it would have been night impossible, but tweedle dee and tweedle dumb are also taking a huge shit all over the intelligence agencies that would have squashed such movements previously.
It has already begun in that sense
Do you really think Trump will wait that long? I think we might be on an accelerated timeline.
Yeaup :(
They will try.
Within 4 years open weight AI will be smarter than the smartest human at just about everything.
The scale of what’s ahead is so much larger than US sliding into fascism.
If it goes well, tyrants around the world are screwed.
If it goes badly everyone is screwed.
You might be right. You might be wrong. But you know what’s not in 4 years? Today. And today the US of A are going down a downhill path that saw the fall of another empire, the Soviet Union.
You wanna shoehorn AI into this? Sure, but good luck trying to run that AI when we’ll either be locked within a trade war or tariffed beyond recognition. I’m not being alarmist, by no means do I want this to happen, I just find it silly when people say “b-b-but AI!” In every discussion and minimize the importance of today for the promise of a future.
AI tools are great at making shit fast and cheap, including propaganda. That no doubt is affecting society, the rest I’ll believe when I see.
Data is terrifying
:lightbulb:
If we gave the Project 2025 crew Jira, it cpuld drag the entire operation to a halt.
Atlassian, your hour of need is at hand. It’s time to Save Democracy! Let us send wave after wave of Scrum Coaches to chase down Musk toadies and demand they play Scheduling Poker before defunding the VA. Do they even have a Definition of Done for conquering Canada?
If there’s one thing conservatives love, it’s pointless ceremonies.
The Simple Sabotage Field Manual, courtesy of the CIA.
You monster…
That’s genius. If there’s one thing I know from my time working on government contracts, it’s that the agile methodology grinds those contracts to a halt
Agile grinds everything to a halt.
I wonder what kind of long term damage this will do to the US, why the fuck did shit like this have to happen in my lifetime.
US soft power is gone now. The sheer treachery displayed in this Ukraine move has completely lost the trust of all of its allies. There’s no way anyone can afford to rely on them for anything now.
The threats to annex Canada and Greenland are the bigger breaches of trust than the moves around Ukraine.
Because not enough Americans voted against Trump. It’s entirely their fault.
No, no. “The non-fascist candidate wasn’t exciting enough! It’s the Democrats’ fault I stayed home while my country burned.”
People like those who claim they’re leftists are FAKE leftists as far as I’m concerned. They had a choice between Coca-Cola and hydrochloric acid, but didn’t vote for Coca-Cola because they wanted natural spring water. Any real leftist would vote for the lesser of two evils if placed in that situation.
Those specific types of leftists want accelerationism the us. They will encourage you not to vote even. They want trump because they think that Trump will crash the government and the US will either be crippled and unable to exert imperialism or the people will become so disenfranchised they’ll experience class consciousness and there will be a glorious socialist revolution. What they don’t realize is that companies will gobble up power and the US will become corporate feudalism that’s even more awful on the global stage and few citizens will fight back as long as they feel personally safe and can eat.
“After Hitler, our turn” - Communists in 1933, Germany.
Well, to a degree they weren’t wrong.
The GDR was run by the Communists, but probably not in a way that anyone was hoping for.
The democrats have failed repeatedly to convince the American people of an alternative vision for the future. Obama provided a vision, but the execution fell short. Not Trump wasn’t good enough of an idea.
Definitely!!
Not entirely. Remember, even if 2 to 4 million more people vote for Democrats you can still get a Repulican in the US due to their voting system favouring land over people. It never really was a true democracy, they always needed 55-60% of actual votes for the lesser evil to actually get the lesser of the two evil.
This is such a gross oversimplification, and the fact it keeps getting repeated is the reason I have no faith in the American people getting out of this. This coup has been in the making for decades, but everyone points to the last 5 minutes as the key point we fucked up.
Half their fault, making fraud plausibly deniable.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-so-hard-to-write-software-to-count-votes/answer/Mark-Miller-89I do think Trump and his party are a but to blame tbh.
And not the people spreading propaganda?
People arent born hating minorities
You’ll probably see the BRICS countries ditching the dollar for their own currency within a few years. With USAID gone basically the entire global South will be looking towards China as well.
Once oil stops being sold in dollars and the dollar stops being a reserve currency, you’ll probably start seeing hyperinflation and deficits and debts actually mattering a lot more than they currently do.
And what has always, in all history, been the most effective metod to deflect from incompetence and one’s own corruption? Yes. It will still be a military superpower by then. I hope I am wrong and that the people in the US act swiftly.
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
I’m fully expecting American civil war in near future.
When Trump starts to purge the officer corps of the military is a critical moment. Once he has full control over the military, a civil war becomes unlikely.
Cooked bro
Because the easy times made weak people… People like Trump and Elon. And now the hard times are going to have to forge the strong people… After the weak and wealthy are done harvesting the remaining wealth of America.
That whole “hard times make strong men” litany is pro-war gaslighting, not how humanity works.
The real (main) reason is the corporate takeover of every part of American society, including the parts that were supposed to defend against and denounce it.
In effect, you have to be a corporation or have a net worth of at least a hundred million dollars in order to have any real autonomy in the US and corporatist fascism is the inevitable result of that.
The “weak men” part is the part where people become so complacent, docile, and addicted to convenience that they allow the corporate takeover to happen.
Weak men creating hard times is happening right now, in real time, right on schedule.
That’s still not accurate. Propaganda is much more effective than most people are aware of/willing to admit.
You don’t have to be weak or stupid to fall victim to effective messaging and when all of the most trusted sources of information repeat the same pro-corporate and anti-worker propaganda for several lifetimes, everyone who’s not actively searching for independent sources (which is probably 25% of Lemmy but 75% of the general public) will inevitably be fooled into believing the lie since that’s the only information they have available
Calling people weak for that is textbook victim blaming and pretending that all we need to solve the problems is to be “stronger” is the kind of oversimplification used in the lies that got us here.
You don’t need good times to create weak people. You just need people to be stupid and easy to manipulate, which they are all the time by nature. That’s all. WWII followed WWI, there were no good times before the nazi Germany. It didn’t help.
Don’t discount the Great Depression making “soft” people. Eating boot leather is the mark of a lavish and hedonistic lifestyle. /s
Malnutrition might soften the brain.
Stop perpetuating that stupid meme.
I guess beauty is subjective.
The content and topic of the data don’t affect if it’s well presented. You can hate what it’s about and still appreciate the design of how it’s presented.
The beauty here is the clean presentation and directness. Like a guillotine- everything you need to do the job, nothing you don’t.
Data is
BeautifulBlandly Presented but Terrifying
I hate that this HAS to exists, this is basically an anxiety tracker. For Herr Trump to deny that he has had anything to do with this, its sure progressing at a steady rate.
**Frau Trump
Don’t forget: everyone in America is a woman now by her own executive order 👍
Frau Drumpf, for completeness sake
John Oliver himself feels embarrassed at that term, although I’m not sure why since it’s hilarious 😂. (Edit: he says it at 33:15)
The frau part is funnier for sure, but the funniest shit is calling a single-cell organism a “person”.
So they developed some kind of progress bar, that allows the whole world to track the USAs way to fascism? Interesting choice
If that were the case it would be at 96%
And now do egg price.
It’s time to start fighting for real. Fuck this diplomacy bullshit
When did “nothing ever happens” stop being a criticism of people calling stories online fake and start being something political? This is a real question, I feel like I’ve missed something. I don’t get what it means when people say it.
Because government does bad thing, people say omg the world is ending, nothing ends up happening. IE tiktok ban
We will know so far ahead of time if something happens, it is as if nothing happened at all.
Prescience is a prison
Commander, the Americans continue to make progress on the Avatar project. … If we’re going to slow them down, we need to move fast.
Makes me think of a classic Megadeth album for some reason 🤔
