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4:53Now PlayingReporters at ProPublica have gotten ahold of secret training videos created for The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, and the content is nothing short of shocking. The videos contain information on how to “outsmart” bureaucrats in Washington and how to prevent policies from being overturned by “left wing judges.” This is what conservatives will do if they win The White House this year, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.
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ProPublica released a shocking new report late last week after they had gotten a hold of multiple, actually dozens of training videos, unpublished training videos from the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025. And the content of these training videos that are meant to be shown to people that Trump packs the government with are nothing short of absolutely terrifying. Let me read you this from this ProPublica Report Project 2020 five's plan to train an army of political appointees who could battle against the so-called Deep State Government Bureaucracy on behalf of a future Trump administration remains on track. Now, right there, that's the first terrifying thing because what have we heard over the last few weeks? Trump's attacking project 2025. He doesn't want anything to do with it. Oh, staffers are leaving. Project 2025. Kevin Roberts has delayed his book about Project 2025. It's over. No, it ain't, it has not gone anywhere.
And that is the most important takeaway from this story. They are moving full steam ahead with Project 2025. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise. One centerpiece ProPublica continues of that program, is dozens of never before published videos created for Project 2020 five's Presidential Administration Academy. The vast majority of these videos, 23 and all totaling more than 14 hours of content were provided to ProPublica and documented by a person who had access to them. The project 2025 videos coach future appointees on everything from the nuts and bolts of governing to how to outwit bureaucrats. There are strategies for avoiding embarrassing freedom of information act disclosures and ensuring that conservative policies aren't struck down by left wing judges. Some of the content is routine advice than any incoming political appointee might be told. Other segments of the training offer guidance on radically changing how the federal government works and what it does.
In one video, Bethany Cosma, conservative activist and former deputy chief of staff at the US Agency for International Development and the Trump Administration downplays the seriousness of climate change and says, the movement to combat it is really part of a ploy to quote control people. If the American people elect conservative president, his administration will have to era eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere. Cosmos says now. Terrifying stuff, right? And and it goes more in depth. You wanna read the whole story. It's available on ProPublica's web website propublica.org. Um, but I wanna get to 1.2 here. Let me reread this. The project 2025
Videos coach future appointees on everything from the nuts and bolts of governing to how to outwit bureaucrats. Now, the outwit bureaucrats thing is problematic enough, but we're having to teach, or project 2025 is having to teach idiot MAGA freaks how the government works. You understand that's the most terrifying part of this. It's not that conservatives are gonna have a hold of everything and oh my God, they're gonna tear it up. They will, but it's not even gonna be people who know what the FD government does that they don't know how the government works. They, they've never seen schoolhouse rock. They don't know how a bill becomes a law that is horrifying. We're gonna have a government of the dumbest people in this country. And of course, by virtue of being so dumb and not knowing how anything works, those people are easier to manipulate and to get to do whatever Donald Trump wants them to do. So the stupidity is not a bug. It's a feature. =
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