Project 2025: What is it really?

Who was lying?

 

@Salvy lol

 

Did something happen?

 

Yes, our pro-American president did good things for the American people and now leftists are outraged.

 

It's half an hour long, so if your not that interested, probably not for you. But it is a detailed breakdown of all the bullshit that's been implimented so far and a breakdown of the dumpster fire yet to come.

Since the Supreme Court has ruled that a President can't be prosecuted for doing his duties, the next Dem president should just assassinate all the reactionary hard right activists on the Supreme Court and all the Project 2025 contributors in the name of national defense. And maybe the Heritage Foundation for good measure.

These assholes only care about dismanteling America and replacing it with a hard right minority rule oligarchy only responsible to billionares. That's a legitimate national defense threat to America if I've ever heard of one. They certainly aren't interested in following the Constitution when they don't want to.

 

ChatGPT TLDW summary:

Achievements (What’s already been implemented)
1. Centralization of presidential spending power

• What happened
  • The president effectively gained the ability to ignore or delay congressionally approved spending.
    
    
  • Supreme Court shadow-docket rulings allowed withholding or canceling funds without congressional approval.
• Consequences
  • Congress’s “power of the purse” is severely weakened.
    
    
  • Future presidents can govern by funding threats rather than legislation.
    
    
  • Democratic accountability is bypassed.

2. Defunding and dismantling federal agencies

• What happened
  • Agencies effectively shut down or zeroed out:
    • USAID
      
      
    • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
      
      
    • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
      
      
    • US Institute for Peace
      
      
    • African Development Foundation
      
      
    • Inter-American Foundation
• Consequences
  • Loss of consumer protections and public-interest regulation.
    
    
  • Collapse of public media infrastructure, especially in rural areas.
    
    
  • Long-term damage to U.S. global influence and diplomacy.
    
    
  • Humanitarian crises linked to foreign aid cuts.

3. Elimination of DEI-related funding

• What happened
  • Grants canceled if they included language referencing DEI, gender identity, reproductive health, or LGBTQ issues.
    
    
  • AI used to scan federal grants for prohibited terms.
• Consequences
  • Universities, hospitals, and school districts lose funding.
    
    
  • Institutions self-censor to avoid financial punishment.
    
    
  • Civil rights enforcement becomes practically impossible.

4. Rollback of environmental and transportation policy

• What happened
  • Fuel economy standards repealed.
    
    
  • Congestion pricing and mass transit initiatives attacked or blocked.
• Consequences
  • Increased pollution and fuel costs.
    
    
  • Cities lose tools to manage traffic and emissions.
    
    
  • Climate mitigation stalls or reverses.

5. LGBTQ+ policy reversals

• What happened
  • Trans service members removed from the military.
    
    
  • Passports restricted to sex assigned at birth.
    
    
  • Federal pressure used to end gender-affirming care for minors.
    
    
  • Supreme Court upheld state bans on trans healthcare.
• Consequences
  • Loss of employment, healthcare, and legal recognition.
    
    
  • Increased mental-health risk for trans individuals.
    
    
  • States coerced into compliance through funding threats.

6. Purge of the federal civil service

• What happened
  • Tens of thousands of career civil servants fired.
    
    
  • Public-sector unions stripped of collective bargaining rights.
• Consequences
  • Massive loss of institutional knowledge.
    
    
  • Agencies become politically loyal rather than professionally competent.
    
    
  • Reduced capacity to enforce laws passed by Congress.

7. Media control and suppression

• What happened
  • Voice of America and related outlets nearly dismantled.
    
    
  • Public broadcasting defunded and dissolved.
• Consequences
  • Reduced independent journalism domestically and abroad.
    
    
  • Increased vulnerability to state-aligned or partisan media.
    
    
  • Loss of educational programming and local reporting.

Roadmap (What Project 2025 plans next)
1. Expand budgetary coercion

• Planned action
  • Normalize last-minute refusals to spend congressionally approved funds.
    
    
  • Use funding threats as leverage against states and institutions.
• Projected consequences
  • States comply regardless of voter preferences.
    
    
  • Federalism becomes symbolic rather than functional.
    
    
  • Policy is dictated by executive preference, not law.

2. Abolition or hollowing-out of remaining agencies

• Planned action
  • Target the Department of Education and remaining regulatory bodies.
    
    
  • Shift functions to states while cutting federal funding.
• Projected consequences
  • Unequal access to education and services across states.
    
    
  • Wealthier states cope; poorer states fall behind.
    
    
  • National standards effectively disappear.

3. Culture-war governance via funding control

• Planned action
  • Continue using “anti-woke” criteria to approve or deny funds.
    
    
  • Target climate policy, public health, housing, childcare, and urban programs.
• Projected consequences
  • Policy areas unrelated to culture wars become collateral damage.
    
    
  • Cities and universities face chronic financial instability.
    
    
  • Public services degrade unevenly.

4. Family and social policy overhaul (“Project 2027” ideas)

• Planned action
  • Ban social media for minors.
    
    
  • Ban p*rnography.
    
    
  • Regulate dating apps.
    
    
  • End no-fault divorce.
    
    
  • Eliminate community-property divorce and alimony.
• Projected consequences
  • Reduced autonomy, especially for women.
    
    
  • Higher barriers to leaving abusive or unhappy marriages.
    
    
  • Increased state surveillance of private life.

5. Further weakening of labor and worker protections

• Planned action
  • Expand “national security” exemptions to strip more workers of bargaining rights.
    
    
  • Normalize mass firings for ideological noncompliance.
• Projected consequences
  • Precarious federal workforce.
    
    
  • Increased corruption and politicization.
    
    
  • Decline in government effectiveness.

6. Long-term constitutional shift

• Planned action
  • Entrench Supreme Court precedent favoring executive dominance.
    
    
  • Make reversals difficult even under future administrations.
• Projected consequences
  • Permanent expansion of presidential power.
    
    
  • Law becomes dependent on Court composition, not statutes.
    
    
  • Democratic checks and balances erode structurally.

Bottom line

• Achievement: Project 2025 successfully transferred power from Congress to the presidency using budgetary control and Supreme Court backing.
  
  
• Next phase: Use that power to reshape culture, labor, family life, media, and education.
  
  
• Core risk: Once the executive can ignore Congress’s spending laws, no policy area is insulated from coercion — regardless of public support

 

ChatGPT TLDW timeline:


Timeline: Project 2025 From Blueprint to Reality
2024 – Public Disavowal Phase

• Trump campaign distances itself from Project 2025.
  
  
• Surrogates claim no Project 2025 authors will join the administration.
  
  
• Strategy: avoid electoral backlash from an unpopular agenda.
  

Consequence

• Public perception: Project 2025 is “radioactive” and unofficial.
  
  
• Behind the scenes: staffing and legal groundwork continues.
  

January 2025 – Immediate Power Shift

• Trump returns to office.
  
  
• Foreign aid freeze ordered day one.
  
  
• Education, public health, and grant funding paused or blocked.
  
  
• Russ Vought (Project 2025 author) leads budget strategy.
  

Consequence

• First lawsuits filed by states, schools, NGOs, and agencies.
  
  
• Executive branch tests whether courts will stop impoundment.
  

February–March 2025 – Civil Service & LGBTQ Actions

• Executive orders authorize:
  
  • Mass federal layoffs.
    
    
  • End of collective bargaining for large portions of federal workforce.
    
• Order issued to remove trans service members from the military.
  

Consequence

• Trial courts block several actions.
  
  
• Administration appeals directly to Supreme Court via emergency docket.
  

April 2025 – Supreme Court Opens the Door

• Department of Education v. California
  
  • Supreme Court (shadow docket) allows government to withhold teacher training grants.
    
    
  • Jurisdictional technicality used to avoid merits.
    
• First major signal that Congressional spending authority will not be enforced.
  

Consequence

• Executive branch gains confidence it can ignore budget laws.
  
  
• Funding threats become a governing tool.
  

May–June 2025 – DEI Purge Accelerates

• AI tools used to scan grants for DEI, gender, reproductive health language.
  
  
• Hundreds of grants canceled retroactively.
  
  
• Supreme Court:
  
  • Allows trans military ban to proceed.
    
    
  • Upholds state bans on gender-affirming care for minors.
    

Consequence

• Institutions self-censor to survive financially.
  
  
• Federal civil rights enforcement collapses in practice.
  

July–August 2025 – Foreign Aid & Health Funding Eliminated

• NIH v. Public Health groups
  
  • Supreme Court allows $783M in grants to be zeroed out.
    
• USAID and related agencies effectively shut down.
  
  
• Administration claims foreign policy authority outweighs human harm.
  

Consequence

• Public health experts link cuts to mass mortality abroad.
  
  
• Congress unable to force compliance.
  

September 2025 – Budget “Pocket Veto” Established

• Administration refuses to spend funds near fiscal year end.
  
  
• Supreme Court allows clock to run out on congressionally approved spending.
  
  
• Impoundment Control Act effectively neutralized.
  

Consequence

• President gains a functional line-item veto without legislation.
  
  
• Congress’s budget becomes advisory, not binding.
  

Late 2025 – Agency Shutdowns & Media Collapse

• Defunding or dissolution of:
  
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
    
    
  • US Institute for Peace
    
    
  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
    
    
  • African & Inter-American Development Foundations
    
• Voice of America staffing cut by ~80%.
  

Consequence

• Local public media collapses.
  
  
• Consumer protections and diplomacy infrastructure hollowed out.
  

End of Year 1 – Structural Effects Visible

• ~300,000 federal employees gone.
  
  
• Budget deficit and national debt unchanged.
  
  
• Executive authority massively expanded.
  
  
• ~50% of Project 2025 objectives achieved.
  

Consequence

• Damage to bureaucracy and norms becomes hard to reverse.
  
  
• Power shift persists regardless of future elections.
  

Next Phase: 2026–2027 (Projected)
2026 – Education & State Coercion

• Continued effort to dismantle Department of Education.
  
  
• Funding threats used to reshape school policy nationwide.
  

Likely consequences

• Unequal education access.
  
  
• States comply regardless of voter preference.
  

2027 – “Family Policy” Expansion

• Push to:
  
  • End no-fault divorce.
    
    
  • Restrict alimony and community property laws.
    
    
  • Ban p*rnography and regulate dating apps.
    
    
  • Incentivize marriage and childbirth.
    
• Marketed as “saving the family.”
  

Likely consequences

• Reduced personal autonomy.
  
  
• Disproportionate harm to women.
  
  
• State involvement in private life increases sharply.
  

Long-Term (Post-2027)

• Supreme Court precedent entrenches executive dominance.
  
  
• Any future president inherits expanded powers.
  
  
• Congressional authority permanently diminished unless Court reverses itself.
  

End state

• Presidency becomes the central lawmaking force.
  
  
• Elections still occur, but policy outcomes depend less on voters and more on executive discretion.
  

 

So much to strengthen when the Dems take over.

DD

 

ChatGPT TLDW Comparison to historical authoritarian playbooks:


Below is a comparative analysis mapping Project 2025’s approach onto well-documented authoritarian playbooks, with concrete historical parallels. This stays analytical (not rhetorical) and focuses on mechanisms, not vibes.

Core Pattern: “Legal Authoritarianism”
Project 2025 most closely follows the legalist / institutional capture model, not classic coups.

Instead of tanks in the streets:

• Courts reinterpret law
  
  
• Budgets are weaponized
  
  
• Bureaucracies are hollowed out
  
  
• Elections remain, but choice narrows
  

This is the same model used in Hungary, Turkey, Poland, Russia (early Putin), and parts of 1930s Germany.

1. Neutralizing the Legislature via Budget Control
Project 2025

• President ignores or delays congressionally mandated spending.
  
  
• Supreme Court permits impoundment through procedural rulings.
  
  
• Congress cannot enforce its own budget.
  

Historical Parallels
Germany (1933–34)

• Reichstag formally existed after Hitler took power.
  
  
• Budgetary authority shifted to the executive via emergency decrees.
  

Hungary (Orbán, post-2010)

• Parliament votes, but executive controls fiscal implementation.
  
  
• Opposition wins votes but loses power over outcomes.
  

Pattern

Legislature survives on paper but loses leverage.

Why it matters

• Once spending control is lost, legislation becomes symbolic.
  
  
• This is often the point of no return institutionally.
  

2. Courts as Enablers, Not Abolished
Project 2025

• Supreme Court not purged.
  
  
• Instead, it:
  
  • Uses shadow dockets
    
    
  • Avoids merits
    
    
  • Reframes harm analysis to favor executive power
    

Historical Parallels
Nazi Germany

• Courts initially upheld emergency powers using formal legal reasoning.
  
  
• Judges believed they were preserving order, not ending democracy.
  

Turkey (Erdoğan)

• Courts weren’t eliminated first.
  
  
• They were slowly normalized into deferring to executive “national security” claims.
  

Pattern

Courts remain independent in theory, deferential in practice.

Key insight
Authoritarianism today doesn’t abolish courts — it trains them.

3. Weaponizing “Neutral” Law (Procedure, Jurisdiction, Security)
Project 2025

• Claims:
  
  • “Jurisdictional defects”
    
    
  • “Foreign affairs”
    
    
  • “National security”
    
• Used to bypass civil rights, labor law, and administrative protections.
  

Historical Parallels
Soviet Union

• Political repression framed as administrative violations.
  
  
• “Enemies of the people” punished via procedural law.
  

Francoist Spain

• Labor and speech restrictions justified as national stability.
  

Pattern

Repression is reframed as compliance with technical law.

This reduces public resistance because:

• No dramatic law repeal occurs.
  
  
• Each step appears narrow and boring.
  

4. Purging the Civil Service (Replacing Neutral State with Loyal State)
Project 2025

• Mass firings of career civil servants.
  
  
• Unions dismantled.
  
  
• Expertise replaced with loyalty.
  

Historical Parallels
Germany (Gleichschaltung)

• Civil service “coordination” laws removed Jews and dissenters.
  
  
• Loyalty oath replaced professional norms.
  

Russia (Putin)

• Bureaucracy staffed with loyalists from security services.
  
  
• State functions persist, but answer upward, not outward.
  

Pattern

The state still works — just not for the public.

Consequence

• Corruption rises.
  
  
• Policy becomes erratic.
  
  
• Reversal becomes extremely difficult.
  

5. Culture War as a Tool, Not the End Goal
Project 2025

• Targets LGBTQ people, DEI, media, universities.
  
  
• Uses funding threats rather than bans.
  

Historical Parallels
Hungary

• LGBTQ issues used to:
  
  • Split opposition
    
    
  • Distract from institutional changes
    
    
  • Justify NGO crackdowns
    

Poland

• “Gender ideology” framed as foreign threat to justify legal restructuring.
  

Pattern

Culture war creates emotional cover while power consolidates quietly.

6. Media Weakening, Not Total Censorship
Project 2025

• Defunds public media.
  
  
• Attempts to redirect state media to friendly outlets.
  
  
• Allows private media but economically pressures it.
  

Historical Parallels
Hungary

• Independent outlets starved financially.
  
  
• Pro-government media flooded with state advertising.
  

Russia (early 2000s)

• Media owners pressured, not jailed (initially).
  
  
• Narrative dominance achieved without formal bans.
  

Pattern

Silence through scarcity, not censorship.

7. Family Policy & Gender Control (Late-Stage Move)
Project 2025 / Project 2027

• End no-fault divorce.
  
  
• Restrict reproductive autonomy.
  
  
• Incentivize childbirth.
  
  
• Increase state involvement in private life.
  

Historical Parallels
Fascist Italy

• Marriage incentives, divorce restrictions.
  
  
• Women framed primarily as mothers.
  

Communist Romania (Ceaușescu)

• Reproductive control justified as national survival.
  

Pattern

Once institutions are captured, control shifts to the private sphere.

This phase typically appears after courts, budgets, and bureaucracy are secured.

8. What This Is Not
Important distinction:

• ❌ Not a military dictatorship
  
  
• ❌ Not immediate one-party rule
  
  
• ❌ Not mass arrests (yet)
  

Instead:

• ✅ Elections continue
  
  
• ✅ Opposition exists
  
  
• ✅ Law is cited constantly
  

This is managed democracy, not open tyranny.

Comparative Summary Table
Feature Project 2025 Historical Match
Budget control Executive ignores legislature Germany, Hungary
Courts Defer via procedure Turkey, Germany
Bureaucracy Purged & politicized Russia, Nazi Germany
Media Defunded & redirected Hungary
Culture war Strategic wedge Poland, Hungary
Family control Late-stage policy Italy, Romania
Bottom Line
Project 2025 follows the most successful authoritarian playbook of the last 100 years:

Keep the law.
Redefine its meaning.
Centralize enforcement.
Let institutions exist — emptied.

That’s why it’s effective.
And that’s why it’s hard to reverse.

 

Continued: Warning signs checklist:


Democratic Backsliding Warning Signs
Status Assessment (Based on Video Claims)
1. Budgets stop behaving like laws
Indicator

• Executive delays, cancels, or selectively enforces congressionally mandated spending.
  

Status

• ✅ Fulfilled
  

Evidence cited

• Withholding education, health, and foreign-aid funds.
  
  
• Supreme Court allows impoundment via shadow-docket rulings.
  
  
• Impoundment Control Act functionally neutralized.
  

Why this is critical

• Control of spending = control of policy.
  
  
• Historically one of the strongest predictors of authoritarian consolidation.
  

2. Courts shift from merits to procedure
Indicator

• Courts avoid substantive rulings and rely on jurisdiction, standing, or emergency orders.
  

Status

• ✅ Fulfilled
  

Evidence cited

• Shadow docket decisions.
  
  
• Jurisdictional dismissals (e.g., Tucker Act rationale).
  
  
• Harm balancing favoring executive authority.
  

Implication

• Rights exist formally but are difficult to enforce.
  

3. “National security” becomes elastic
Indicator

• Security invoked to override labor rights, civil service protections, or funding laws.
  

Status

• ✅ Fulfilled
  

Evidence cited

• Union rights revoked on national security grounds.
  
  
• Mass firings justified as security needs.
  
  
• Courts decline to scrutinize claims.
  

4. Civil service loyalty replaces expertise
Indicator

• Career officials fired; ideological alignment prioritized.
  

Status

• ✅ Fulfilled
  

Evidence cited

• Tens of thousands of federal employees terminated.
  
  
• Explicit rhetoric portraying civil servants as enemies.
  
  
• Union protections dismantled.
  

Key line you highlighted

Neutral administration is a prerequisite for democratic governance.
Once lost, rebuilding takes decades.

This matches classic historical patterns (Germany 1930s, Hungary post-2010, Russia 2000s).

5. Independent institutions are defunded, not outlawed
Indicator

• Agencies remain legal but lose funding and staff.
  

Status

• ✅ Fulfilled
  

Evidence cited

• USAID, CFPB, CPB, USIP, development foundations effectively zeroed out.
  
  
• Congress created and funded these bodies, but executive defunded them.
  

6. Law enforcement becomes selective
Indicator

• Enforcement differs based on political alignment.
  

Status

• ⚠️ Partially present / insufficient evidence
  

Evidence cited

• Strong claims of selective grant enforcement and civil service purges.
  
  
• Less direct evidence presented on criminal or prosecutorial selectivity.
  

7. Culture wars substitute for governance
Indicator

• Cultural conflicts dominate while structural changes occur quietly.
  

Status

• ✅ Fulfilled
  

Evidence cited

• Focus on DEI, LGBTQ issues, education language.
  
  
• Major institutional shifts occur via budget and court rulings with limited public attention.
  

8. Media pluralism erodes economically
Indicator

• Independent media weakened through funding and staffing cuts.
  

Status

• ✅ Fulfilled
  

Evidence cited

• Defunding of CPB.
  
  
• Voice of America staffing reduced ~80%.
  
  
• Attempts to redirect content to partisan outlets.
  

9. Elections remain, stakes shrink
Indicator

• Elections occur but no longer strongly constrain policy outcomes.
  

Status

• ⚠️ Partially present
  

Evidence cited

• Power shifts occur independent of electoral outcomes.
  
  
• Congress and courts unable to reverse executive actions.
  
  
• Still contested; elections continue with real consequences in some areas.
  

10. Rights reframed as privileges
Indicator

• Access to benefits conditional on identity or compliance.
  

Status

• ✅ Fulfilled
  

Evidence cited

• Funding conditioned on rejection of DEI language.
  
  
• Healthcare and education access threatened via funding leverage.
  
  
• Passport and military service restrictions.
  

11. Family and private life enter policy crosshairs
Indicator

• Divorce, reproduction, sexuality targeted as policy issues.
  

Status

• ⚠️ Emerging / Planned
  

Evidence cited

• Project 2027 proposals (no-fault divorce, alimony limits, social media bans).
  
  
• Not yet fully implemented at federal level.
  

12. Opposition is legal but ineffective
Indicator

• Lawsuits, protests, and dissent exist but rarely succeed.
  

Status

• ⚠️ Partially present
  

Evidence cited

• Trial courts repeatedly rule against executive actions.
  
  
• Supreme Court routinely reverses or blocks enforcement.
  
  
• Opposition exists but struggles to translate into outcomes.
  

Summary Scorecard

• ✅ Clearly fulfilled: 8
  
  
• ⚠️ Partially fulfilled: 4
  
  
• ⛔ Not fulfilled: 0
  

According to comparative political science:
7+ fulfilled indicators with court alignment = authoritarian consolidation phase

Based on the framework used, the video argues the U.S. has crossed that threshold structurally, even though elections, speech, and opposition still formally exist.

Red-Flag Accumulation Rule
One or two signs
→ political stress

Five or more simultaneously
→ democratic backsliding underway

Seven or more with court alignment
→ authoritarian consolidation phase