July 30, 2025

Project 2025: The First 180 Days (World Is Weird 15)

1 hour 18 minutes

EPISODE 142 | Project 2025: The First 180 Days (World Is Weird 15)

Donald Trump said he didn’t really know much about Project 2025 except that they sure liked him. And yet, of 313 specific Project 2025 initiatives, he’s already enacted 108 of them, and another 63 are actively in the works as of this recording. Quite a coincidence, wouldn’t you say?

Project 2025 put a lot of importance of a sort of blitzkrieg if their boy won the 2024 election, a flurry of activity to define the first 180 days of his presidency and hopefully create so much change that, no matter what happens in future elections (if there are any) many of the changes they want to see happen will end up sticking around. That benchmark date was July 19.

So, let’s look at Project 2025. What they say, and some of their own justifications for why they say it. And we’ll also see just how much Trump has actively assisted them in realizing their vision for a very different America than the world has ever seen.

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SECTIONS

02:40 - The Mandate for Leadership, Version IX - The first of the Four Pillars, "cultural Marxism"; yes, it really is Gilead; white nationalists and Christian nationalists, family is the key, four main goals

08:52 - Three More Pillars - Info gathering, the Presidential Administration Academy, "climate change" is code for Christian depopulation, a secret playbook, Carter was evil, the DoD and Space Force

13:16 - Economy - General ideas, "fair trade" vs. "free trade", the Consumer Protection Bureau, the Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce

21:05 - Environment - General ideas, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior

25:09 - Transportation - General ideas, get married and make babies or no funding, the Department of Transportation, the FAA

27:11 - Education - General ideas, education is a private good, not a public one; the Department of Education, Parental Bill of Rights

33:12 - Identity - General ideas, LGBTQ+ and trans people ("radical gender ideology"), DEI, pornography

36:15 - Journalism - General ideas, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the FCC, the US Agency for Global Media (now a One America News organ), the Open Technology Fund

38:39 - Healthcare - General ideas, Medicaid, Medicare, the Department of Veteran Affairs, the CDC, the Department of Health is really the Department of Life, marriage, abortions, Planned Parenthood, in vitro fertilization, teen pregnancy, the Department of Health and Human Services

47:43 - Legal - General ideas, affirmative action, the FBI, the death penalty, the Secret Service as military cops, the Department of Justice, FACE Act no longer enforced, don't say trans

53:16 - National Security - Foreign policy shifts, USAID, NATO, nukes, the Department of Defense, Cybercom, the State Department, strengthen ties with Saudi Arabia

57:26 - Immigration - CBP, ICE, TSA, USCIS, refugees, asylum pay-to-stay scheme, birthright citizenship, mass deportations, more police, FEMA funds, the Department of Homeland Security

01:04:42 - Elections - General ideas, the FEC gets limits, photo ID to vote, armed police at polling stations

01:06:58 - Expansion of the Executive - The President is boss, loyalists only, the Insurrection Act of 1807, more surveillance

01:09:24 - Federal Staffing - Bring back the spoils-and-patronage system, the White House, the National Security Council

01:12:01 - Final Thoughts - Trump totally knows about Project 2025, the vision for an America-that-never-was, why the hell didn't you vote?

Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

Project 2025 Tracker website (updated daily)

r/Keep_Track

Full text of "Project 2025 Mandate For Leadership"

The “Mandate for Leadership” Series

Inside Project 2025's Secret Training Videos - video on ProPublica YouTube channel

5 Reasons Leftists HATE Project 2025 from the Heritage Foundation

Project 2025 Quick Read

Subject-by-Subject Breakdown of Trump’s Project 2025 from the Stop Project 2025 Taskforce

Project 2025 at 100 Days: Part I - part of Tracking Project 2025 at the Center for Progressive Reform

Project 2025 at 100 Days: Part II - part of Tracking Project 2025 at the Center for Progressive Reform

Reading Project 2025 as a Manifesto

A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration

Project 2025, Explained at the ACLU

Project 2025: The Plan To Seize Power by Gutting America’s System of Checks and Balances at the Center for American Progress

Project 2025: The right-wing wish list for Trump's second term on the BBC

The People’s Guide to Project 2025 at Democracy Forward

An army of MAGA think tanks behind him, it’s Trump’s Washington now at Politico

‘Beyond My Wildest Dreams’: The Architect of Project 2025 Is Ready for His Victory Lap at Politico

MAGA is whatever Trump decides it will be at Politico

MAPPED: 70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups - DeSmog analysis

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