Hey, remember when Donny swore up one side and down the other he knew nothing of Project 2025 and had absolutely, positively nothing to do with it, whatsoever? Yeah, he lied about that, too. Oh, I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

MAGA will tell you I’m misrepresenting what he meant or said, or in this case, posted. So let’s see, shall we? July 5, 2024, during the “election,” after details about Project 2025 started to be a thorn in his campaign trail side, our Fearful Misleader lied that he had, “no idea who is behind Project 2025.” He added, “some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” and that “anything they do, I wish them luck, but have nothing to do with them.”

So, that’s why MAGA believes what they believe. But the truth is, Project 2025 was put together by the evil Heritage Foundation, a conservative stink tank. It was primarily overseen by a guy named Russell Vought, a stink of a conservative. It has all kinds of mean and nasty things rich people want to do to everyone else. In fact, it came across as so mean and nasty, many people simply dismissed the threat. “What, do you think they can pull that off here? In the United States? Get real!” Okay.

Forty-eight percent. Donny has infested the Oval Office (this time) a little over nine months and the “baby” he’s birthing is a grotesque mockery of a decent government. Forty-eight percent of Project 2025 has been completed! In a little over nine months. By Donny and Team Evil. Implementing a program he claimed he had no idea about but now gleefully inflicts on Americans AND MAGA equally. (Only MAGA is surprised.)

In fact, between the evil he’s inflicting on the US in general, and the specific evils he’s visiting on those he considers political enemies, it’s hard to find a happier guy. He gets genuine joy, watching his “lessers” suffer. There’s a website, ‘The Project 2025 Tracker’ (click here). It counts 318 proposals. It lists 118 completed and 67 in progress.

Here’s a short list of some of the 67: End the Flores Settlement Agreement (which sets basic standards of care for immigrant children in custody), “downsize” the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which focuses too much on “climate alarmism,” Direct the military to assist in building border wall, Ban “critical race theory” and “gender ideology” from public school curriculum, Repeal the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Eliminate carbon capture utilization and storage programs, End taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, Eliminate the HHS Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force and install a pro-life task force, Privatize TSA screening, Cut off DOJ grants to states/localities that do not cooperate with Trump’s immigration plans, Terminate the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, Eliminate DEIA programs in Labor policy, Close the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion; treat the participation in any DEI initiative as per se grounds for termination, Repeal the Corporate Transparency Act, Require the FAA to “operate more like a business,” Weaken federal employee unions, Remove all unions in the Dept. of Homeland Security.

That’s a hell of a list – and I’ve only selected a choice few. There’s a LOT more stuff they want to do to you and NONE of it is going to benefit you or feel good to you. Much of it will do you direct harm. It’s an agenda built to benefit the One Percent, racists, misogynists, and men. If you’re not in one of those groups, well, it sucks to be you…

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There’s another “in-progress” item on the evil Heritage Foundation’s to-do list: Reduce the corporate income tax rate. This one, in part, is why our dysfunctional government is currently mostly not functioning at all. Greed. Remember, greed kills.

See, in order to starve the government of the money it needs to function, pamper the One Percent, and punish the working class, Team Evil has implemented massive tax cuts, both for (rich enough) individuals and corporations. In order to pay for those cuts, at least in part – they STILL add $3.4 trillion dollars to the deficit – Team Evil cut Medicare subsidies. Of course, MAGA doesn’t know about THAT, either.

See, MAGA was told that the $880 billion dollars Team Evil cut from Medicaid was all fraud, waste, and abuse. It defies logic that a governmental agency like Medicaid would allow $880 billion dollars of fraud, waste, and abuse to continue. If you want THAT kind of fraud, waste, and abuse, you have to look to the Pentagon – but nobody looks at the Pentagon. And, really, how DARE I even suggest it? I’ll flog myself appropriately later.

Meanwhile, people are already beginning to receive notices of increases in their health insurance costs for next year. I’ve heard that some people are receiving notices that their premiums are going to increase as much as 97%. Some people will be asked to pay over $800 dollars more – each month! Quick question: with the upper classes doing everything they can think of to impoverish the lower classes, how the hell is Joe Six-pack supposed to come up with an additional $800 a month to cover the increase?

So, the Democrats have dug in their heels. So have the Republicans. The Democrats to restore the Medicare subsidies that made health insurance affordable in this pseudo-free market, capitalist hellhole. Democrats don’t WANT to see millions of Americans (or MAGA, either, for that matter) lose their health insurance. For their part, Republicans don’t want millions of Americans (or MAGA, either, for that matter) to realize they’ve lost their health insurance to the Big Beautiful Bill forced on us BY the GOP.

Fortunately, the GOP has a proven, successful tool to help them get over the hump. They’ll tell a big, beautiful, but scary lie. “Democrats,” they lie, “want to give health insurance to illegals.” While I would prefer a national health care system that just treated whomever needed treatment, that’s not the system we have, here, in MAGAmerica, and in THIS country, it’s illegal for undocumented people to sign up for the Affordable Care Act.

We, the people, don’t DO that. Because, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me,” (Matthew 25:40) and “whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” (Matthew 25:45).

Democrats are trying to restore funding for the premium subsides for American citizens, MAGA, and no one else. Republicans have a message of their own: “Screw you, Jesus!” It’s a bold message, but they’re running with it. I stand with Jesus and the Democrats on this one…