#the heritage foundation is stupid

[vintageseawitch]

fascist billionaires are complete morons. evil, morally bankrupt, & terrible as well of course, but most of all morons.

they want their American tax breaks SO BAD that they're willing to destroy America for it. between trump's absurd tariff "plan" which will cost American consumers more, the "deportation" of over 10 million people which will cost American money to do which will turn into "sending people to concentrator camps" instead so they get that precious free labor they dearly wanted without having to do that silly thing called "treat your workers like human beings" & many businesses & jobs will be lost so the cost of groceries that are awful now will be IMPOSSIBLE so people will starve & start going homeless because workers protections will disappear & they have no plans to make it so the cost of living is affordable on one income per government forced family so people will start not being able to pay for rent or their mortgage so that's MORE prisoners for free labor, abortion & contraception will be banned so women will suffer & die but don't worry they're just expendable incubators but after that state sanctioned forced baby is born TOO FUCKING BAD YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANY HELP, they intend to make climate change worse, & so on.

all of this & more is going to tank the economy of the USA. this is not just counting our position as a world superpower; make no mistake, a second trump presidency is promising a world of fear & uncertainty where no one will be free. the American dollar will become worthless so what good will American billionaire money be? millions are going to suffer & die. they don't care about that i know but they won't be getting sky high profits for very long.

eat the rich.

[thedepressedjuggalette]

Jasmine Crockett EXPOSES Project 2025 Authors.

[lgbtally4ever]

[scottguy]

It's real and it's terrifying.

The Heritage Foundation must really think Americans are stupid.

Show them you're not... vote blue.

[chuck-glisson]

STOP Project 2025, and BOYCOTT Coors Beer!

Donald Trump's "Presidental Transition Project" is a plan by The Heritage Foundation, as outlined in THEIR "Project 2025", to OVERTHROW the "US Constitution", SUSPEND ALL "Future Elections", & "Appoint" DONALD TRUMP as a DICTATOR!

[actualrealnews]

Trump gives Keynote at Heritage Foundation; says Project 2025 is "crucial"

Source: Twitter

[evilswag]

tho I must say very very strange for people to say trump is infinitely worse than other Republicans because of project 2025. he didn't write it, other republicans did. it's been their whole thing for decades. trump is uniquely suited to the dictator role due to his background but he's, like, stupid. he has little to no control over the supreme court and has publicly admitted he regrets appointing some or all of them. in my personal opinion, he wanted to be dictator but doesn't actually care about the politics literally at all (see: how he changes opinion randomly) and now is fighting w the heritage foundation and other alt-right die hards for petty reasons, especially now that joe biden has dropped out. but he's not smart enough to write and push policy by himself, so instead he has to rely on them to continously make everything worse forever

[vintageseawitch]

extremely useful little tool for comparison. please check out r/Defeat_Project_2025 on reddit for more info & resources. share as much as you can.

STOP PROJECT 2025/AGENDA 47. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!! CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION STATUS OFTEN, MORE THAN ONCE, BEFORE THE ELECTION.

[thedepressedjuggalette]

Interview with Jasmine Crockett.

[biceratops7]

You need to understand that right-wingers are not stupid.

Because to act like they’re unintelligent puts you at risk for manipulation. It destroys your defenses against deceptively sophisticated propaganda techniques.

The “similarity” is that white supremacists love attaching themselves like a growth to marginalized groups so they can more easily pick off a different one. Remember most Isreali supporters and conservatives in general see Isreal and the Jewish people as one and the same. The person who put up these flags is willing to align themself with people they hate, to manipulate both said people and anyone else watching uncritically. This serves the purpose of radicalizing those afraid of a cartoonish straw man (the “big scary Palestinians”) to the point where they’ll assist fascist entities that openly act against their interests.

This, (second woman on the left), is a lesbian speaking at the heritage foundation. This is far from the first or last time openly anti lgbt organizations temporarily welcome lgb terfs with promises of helping them fight “the trans agenda”. They feed their frankly unhinged fears that “transgenderism” is the threat to end all threats, that all differences MUST be put aside to fight this behemoth of an attack on society. And do you know where all these lesbian terfs will be when these often literal neo Nazis have no use for them anymore? Right back under their boot in active danger. Except now they have one less ally to help pry them out from under it. These huge organizations like PragerU, the heritage foundation, etc, are smart enough divide and conquer. They want you radicalized, or they want you dead.

The second a fascist agrees with you politically on anything, that is a sign. Fucking run.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Okay Stupid Question here, what's stopping the Heritage Foundation from enforcing Project 2025 regardless of whether or not Trump wants it? Am asking because Trump seemed to have people in his own party plan their own things behind Trumps back (could be wrong about this) when he was first president.

Because the Heritage Foundation has zero political power. They're a right wing think tank. They can make recommendations but not enforce policy. Also, the premise behind Project 2025 is that Trump can do it himself through executive orders. Only the president can issue executive orders. If anyone other than the president tries to issue what amounts to an executive order behind his back, that's illegal and will be thrown out in court if it ever even gets that far. Most likely, the person being told to do something would just say no, Trump would find out, and fire the person who went around him. Project 2025 was never anything more than a list of things one group really wishes the president would do. Trump has already said he doesn't like Project 2025 and he has his own agenda.

During Trump's first term the Republicans who pushed back against his agenda did so pretty openly. At least, they did it to his face behind closed doors if not actually in public. The people who went after Trump from within were from the FBI, for the most part. And they can't issue policy directives either. They can only fabricate evidence to use in bullshit impeachment trials.

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Is SusSEX an island inhabited by misfits?

Ashley Hansen doesn't need to start a (PR firm) Communications Agency w/meGain. What Ashley needs is intensive THERAPY (& so does Mandana).

They obviously believe the entire world (outside of lala land) is just plain STUPID!

Surely I'm not the only person who vividly remembers when Ashley (Momtaheni) Hansen QUIT brand susSEX?

Now the sussy-est team on the planet would have us to believe that Ashley is not only the current head of archeFRAUD communications, but she's transitioning into a new role as the head of her own company where susSEX is her 1st client and an INVESTOR.

I have zero sympathy for what's coming, zero. Watching James Holt rub shoulders with American VIPs as if he's a celebrity is stomach turning. archeFRAUD must be the best grift in town! Ashley is just as bad as Holt and The Meghans! What's worse is that she's promoting her company meGain's company & brand as HONEST media. 🥴🤦‍♀️

Ashley told US media how she likes a boss who telephones her spouse EVERY day to "check-in" while she's out for a medical leave of absence.

Ashley is also such an immature and emotionally fragile person that she required 2 girl bosses (sparry & wife) to make her FEEL seen & cared for---- as if she's just one (1) of the (invisible) susSEX children 🤢

A group of liars & bullies who dare to fraudulently market TRUTH & KINDNESS. You couldn't make any of this up.

So basically meGain has launched her own PR/Communications Company with Ashley at the helm.

"Meghan Markle’s Friend Is Launching a New Business, and the Sussexes Are the First Clients"

Ashley Hansen, the couple’s current head of communications, is starting her own firm, Three Gate Strategies, and continuing her work with Harry and Meghan.

By Erin Vanderhoof October 3, 2024

For the last four years, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been growing a US-based staff to help them establish a legacy in charity and business under their own names. Ashley Hansen, the couple’s current head of communications, has worked with the couple for over two years, helping to steer the ship through major moments like the release of the Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan and Harry’s blockbuster memoir, Spare. Now Hansen is branching out by starting her own communications firm called Three Gate Strategies, and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be her first clients.

“We are so proud of Ashley, especially as a female entrepreneur,” the duchess told Vanity Fair in a statement on behalf of the couple. “We look forward to having her focused expertise on our business and creative projects and her continued oversight of our communications team. My husband and I are excited to be alongside Ashley as she builds something extraordinarily special with her firm.”

Though Hansen will be taking on more accounts as her company grows, she plans to continue her work with Meghan and Harry and their communications team across their Archewell Foundation, business endeavors, and media projects. Hansen will work with other high-profile clients in entertainment, tech, and finance, and will remain based in Los Angeles.

Three Gate draws its name from a proverb often attributed to Rumi, which posits that a person should let their words pass through “three gates” before speaking: “Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?”

Hansen said that Meghan helped her brainstorm a name for the company, and remembering their shared affection for the saying, the selection felt like a “lightbulb moment.” 🤦‍♀️🥴

Ashley & the megaLiar developed this "logo" 🤢

The Rumi reference is also an homage to Hansen’s Persian heritage, as the poet lived in 13th century Greater Iran. In 2022, Hansen was present when Meghan gave a speech bringing attention to Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom movement, wearing a shirt with its name in Farsi.

Since relocating to the US in 2020, Meghan has been investing in women-owned businesses and she considers Hansen’s new venture part of her growing portfolio, which also includes accessories brand Cesta Collective, beverage brand Clevr, and more. Since April, the duchess has also been teasing the launch of her own lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard, with sneak peaks at its future wares, including gift baskets with jars of strawberry jam. In addition to her work on Archewell’s charitable endeavors, Hansen will also work with the duchess on the business and her other creative projects.

Hansen told Vanity Fair her new venture will build on the work she has already done to support the couple.

Who in their right mind would seek to duplicate the work and counsel provided to brand susSEX???

“It came about after I was approached by other clients seeking the high-quality counsel I have provided to the Sussexes,” she said. “The Duke and Duchess’s ongoing support and trust in me to execute their vision is testament to the meaningful working relationship we have built.

Hansen began working with Meghan and Harry in May 2022, following a career in communications that included roles at UTA, Annapurna Pictures, and Universal Filmed Entertainment Group.

Only a fool would admit this: "During her time with the Archewell team, she oversaw communications during a particularly historic and tumultuous time for the couple, including the 2022 death of Queen Elizabeth II and the 2023 coronation of King Charles III."

[poorrichardjr]

Threats

Sometimes it can be very frustrating to live in a place so heavily populated with conservatives. Most everyone I run into plans on voting for Donald Trump because they believe he was sent by God to save them. He is what's best for our country, and it doesn't matter what he says or does, nothing is going to shift their belief in him.

I know a lot of these people have no idea what Trump really says. I know most of them have no idea what the results of his hatred for immigrants, the media, or liberals will really be. Mostly because they don't believe what he will do is really that extreme, and also because most of them really can't be bothered to actually do a bit of thought or research to understand the threat. Nope, they are die hard republicans and voting any other way is voting for the devil and the destruction of the country.

The thing is, I know a lot of these people aren't stupid. And though they say that they aren't hateful or racist people, it sure seems hard to believe them when you watch how they respond when they are told about how Trump wants to send troops into American cities on day 1 to root out every single immigrant and deport them. It's as if they can't put it together that if we suddenly remove a few million people from our economic system that we are going to have massive upheaval. No, these people aren't all collecting government checks that are so large they live better than you. These same people aren't taking your job. They are doing construction jobs, agriculture jobs, and meat packing jobs that a lot of Americans will not do. Many of them are paying taxes.

Don't get me wrong, there needs to be a better system in place to root out the criminals that sometimes slip through the cracks. There also needs to be a way for these people who are dedicating their lives to getting better and working hard to become citizens. We all know that suddenly deporting millions of people is going to adversely effect our economy. Adding in tariffs will significantly increase the costs of everyday items and cause a massive recession or depression. Tariffs have a place and a point, but Trump doesn't know what it is, and that's why he had to pay trillions of dollars to farmers and agriculture companies just to keep them afloat after he started his trade war.

But, this isn't about economics. As bad as Trump is on economic issues, you will never hear a bad word about it in the right-wing media sphere which is where the vast majority of these upper lower class yahoo's get their information from.

No, what I'm really getting to is that Trump, and by extension the Heritage Foundation, is planning to use every tool at their disposal to completely upend our society in every way imaginable. For people who seem constantly obsessed with conspiracy theories about democrats murdering newborn children, children using cat litter boxes in schools, or the government pushing vaccines on people to track their every movement, they don't want to consider the possibilities of giving a man who is deemed to be untrusty by every reasonable measure the tools to do whatever he wants.

You say you love your freedom. You say you want your guns, your free speech, your religious freedoms, and every other thing you know you are entitled to by our constitution. Yet, you can't understand that a man willing to send the police and military through the streets to root out undesirables isn't going to suddenly decide one day that even your freedoms are too much. You shouldn't have your guns because some idiots tried to assassinate me. You shouldn't have any right to protest because you don't like what I did. Maybe I will send the police and military into your town to round you up next and stick you in concentration camps.

I know you believe that will never happen. Oh, my representative wouldn't allow that. Yes they would. They are all cowards who have repeatedly bowed down to let Trump say and do whatever he wants. Are they suddenly going to grow a spine and try to say no just because your lily white ass is now on the line? Hell no, they won't because like every coward they are far more worried about their own lily white ass.

Trump and all of his enablers are a threat to the very foundation of this nation, and I am so sorry that none of you are able to see it. I still believe there are enough people of good moral judgement and conscience that Trump is going to lose this election. I can't guarantee that though. There are people in place to gum up the works and there are others who plan to not certify the vote if Trump loses. I don't expect Trump to walk away if he gets blown out, and I don't expect the right wing bubble to do anything but try and say how everything was stolen from them. They have also proven over and over that they are willing to say anything to get their way.

My faith in my fellow countrymen is waning. I want to believe you are good and honest people. I want to believe you are who you say you are. But I see your actions. I hear your words. You aren't the Christians you think you are. You aren't the good people in this story. I don't want to blame you. I know you are being lied to. I know you are struggling and doing your best just to get by most of the time. I also know that you are being poisoned and brainwashed on a daily basis when you listen to anyone talk about how awful our country is. There are problems, just like there has always been, but we are nowhere near as bad as we have been in other times.

Our whole way of life is on the line. I hate to say this because most everyone is tired of hearing how "important" this election is. But, it's true. A man who is given absolute immunity to do whatever he thinks he should for the good of the country isn't going to stop at "illegal" immigrants. Next they will come for the trans people. Then the gays. Then the "left wing media". Then anyone who doesn't support him and his every lie.

Sooner or later they will get around to you and your friends. Someone like this can't stop no matter how far they go. There will always be a new enemy. You have the chance now to stop this madness before we walk down the same road as Germany, China, Rwanda, and so many other nations. Can you, as a concerned citizen do the right thing? Will you? I guess I'll get my answer in a few weeks.

[freedomfromwar-pigs]

The US Air Force’s F-35 has a helmet that is custom fitted to the pilot and allows said pilot a 360 degree vision through the plane as if it were invisible AND IM SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?

The programs lifetime cost is approximately $1.7 trillion. And yet there’s never enough money for healthcare or education.

It’s fucking bullshit. They are lying. Go to them and tell them to stop lying. Check white pages, with about 15 minutes of research and cross referencing you can find anyone!

For example: I have it in good authority that John P. Backiel, treasurer for The Heritage Foundation, lives somewhere in Cheverly, Maryland. Because his bio on their very own website says so the stupid bastard.

Stop letting them intimidate you.

There’s more of us than them. If the police arrest you just mob the jails like the good old days. Grow a goddamn spine and riot already.

[catgirlforeskin]

Actually, I want to talk about this more.

I think that people really overpay how bad politically "online" and 4chan and such are. Not because 4chan is good (it is very bigoted), but in my experience while imageboards are very loosely moderated*, and it allows them to spread some graphic shit, they are not interdimensional aliens. Sure, I didn't see photos of bestiality anywhere else, but I saw and see all the same prejudices in "normie" groups, in comments under movie torrents, in news media, I hear them on the streets and from my relatives. And it doesn't just happen, it's like the norm (not so much in official news, thank fuck, but mainstream TV is still guilty).

After Trump all imageboards into more or less interconnected system of fascist propaganda, sure, but the foundation wasn't that different, in my opinion. Society just sucks because of capitalism and due to the fact that most of pre-capitalist heritage is even worse.

Something similar is true for Reddit. It does suck, but also everyone uses it, even worldwide. The fact that it is like that is not because of redditors, but because this is the face of (mostly white American) middle class society.

This may sound too anti-communist of me, but I feel so angry when people say "actually bigotry is just a thing that online loners do, most people are actually nice". No! People are not nice, people are the ones who do all of this bigotry! It is not 4chan that makes people use racial slurs, it is not twitter that brainwashes women into being housewives, it is not Reddit that covers up rapists, it is not TikTok that makes people crave fascist dict6. It is your neighbors, your friends, you! And me, and all of us here. It's not "human nature", but it's our reality. Society is very flawed, and since society is not a deity but only a network of people, all of us are flawed, all of us are monsters even. Attributing every societal ill to "terminally online neckbeards" is just placing all of your crimes on convenient scapegoats.

This is not defense of 4channers or redditors, they suck, but it's so stupid to pretend that they are just not children of your society, not even that different from you

100% agree, yeah, I hate the tendency for people to project societal ills onto an Other so they don’t have to think about their own complicity in it. We see it in Stranger Danger and the creation of The Predator as opposed to the reality of most abuse coming from people you know and have structural power over you (parents, bosses, etc).

We see it all the time in the transmisogynist harassment campaigns on here, where we’ll see trans women get called “literal rapists” for doing cnc play with their girlfriends when we (at least used to) understand that Rape Culture is a thing and it’s omnipresent in society, or trans women promote “literal incest” for calling their girlfriends big sis or whatever when the most popular porn category everywhere for the last decade has been incest crap.

There’s easily a hundred other things I could list but the point is obvious, I mean shit it applies with the law too, there’s so many things that are part of the dominant culture and everyone has a hand in, but punishment is only inflicted on the subaltern

[iwieldthesword]

As an antizionist Jew, I need to make something clear. You don’t need a degree in anything to condemn Israel’s actions because you understand that ethnic cleansing, land annexation, and genocide are fundamentally wrong. You also don’t need a degree in anything to look at how how the Israeli state was developed and maintained and recognize that ethnonationalism is an inherently violent and unjustifiable act. You do not need a degree in anything to support Palestine's right to exist.

You should, however, have at least a basic understanding of Jewish history and heritage to claim that nope, a people you are not part of that you know nothing about are not actually from the part of the world they say they are. Because when you try to dismiss or disprove Jewish ancestry to Palestine, you are claiming that you know more about…

Our history as a people

Our culture, including our language and calendar

Our understanding of ourselves as an ethnic group

…than we do. Which is an absolutely unhinged thing to try to claim about someone else's culture!

Like, what are your options here if we’re not actually from historic Palestine? Either we’re too stupid to understand our own history (unlike you, an Enlightened Outsider) and need to be rescued from ourselves, or the (((sneaky))) (((lying))) (((Zionists))) falsified thousands of years of cultural history to trick ~innocent, naive gentiles~ into believing them because Jews Zionists are manipulative and evil like that. Either way, that’s fucking antisemitism, baby! We're either stupid and wrong and need to be converted away from our own culture, or we're evil liars falsifying our own history for profit: you can't get more classically antisemitic than that. It's so wild to see leftists embracing this with zero reservations, debating everything from the color of our skin to the way we say our names. Half the time it's repackaged racial science, half the time it's poorly researched clickbait, but all of the time it's a reflection of very, very old narratives about the superiority of the Enlightened Outsider over (backwards, stupid, lying) ethnic minorities, and the untrustworthiness of Jewish voices.

Antizionism is not antisemitism, but debating and attempting to disprove Jewish ethnic origins is. There is not a non-antisemitic way to do this.

And it’s such a waste of time, because it doesn’t fucking matter. Israel’s actions are not wrong because they’re committed under false pretenses, they’re wrong because they’re killing people. Because ethnic cleansing, genocide, annexation, apartheid, and ethnonationalism are indefensible and unjustifiable, no matter what. Because the Israeli nation-state, from inception to modern day, has been an inherently violent settler project that is built on Palestinian suffering and exile and must end—not so ~invasive lying Jews~ are forced out but so that Palestinians can have justice and liberation.

Recognizing Jewish ancestry to Palestine does not validate or support Israel as a state. Being from a place does not mean you own it, that you are entitled to it, or that your actions to take or maintain control over it are justified. Acknowledging Jewish culture and history doesn't hurt you or the movement for Palestinian liberation. If anything, it helps because it undercuts one of the foundational talking points of pro-Israeli propaganda (that antizionists are antisemites) by reaffirming respect for Jewish peoplehood and culture AND refocusing the conversation back onto the actual point that Palestinians are fucking dying. Not to mention that acknowledging Jewish ancestry helps antizionist Jews continue to untangle ourselves and our culture from political Zionism, because it reaffirms that our culture can and does exist separately to the nation-state of Israel without losing our core understanding of us as a people. Antizionist Jews are putting in so much work to pushing back on political propaganda that uses our history and pain to wipe out another marginalized people, and every time you hinge Palestinian liberation on mutilating Jewish culture, history, and identity, you make our job harder.

And I know leftists genuinely don't care about any of this. I know they'll put “punch nazis uwu” and a video of JVP right next to “REAL indigenous people would never do X” and “Jerusalem is a fake name” and "the shema is a Zionist chant" and “they changed their names to sound more ethnic”. Because talking about colonialism outside of the traditional western framing of it is too hard, and it's complicated and annoying to have to think critically when we're tired and stressed. Because clickbait and superiority and contempt feels good, and it's so easy to lean into antisemitic, anti-ethnic tropes when you're no longer obligated to put the effort in.

Debating Jewish ethnic origins is antisemitic, sets the movement for Palestinian liberation back, and, I can't stress this enough, is not the fucking point. Stop fucking us over, do better, and let's get back to work.