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Apparently cancer research is DEI. WTF? (Original Post) Swede Monday OP
My family has been touched by cancer Henry203 Monday #1
Vought misses the good old days, when somebody died, folks would say... Girard442 Monday #2
You nailed it!! walkingman Monday #5
NAZI in a business suit. Kid Berwyn Monday #3
Gawd, what stupid, evil people these are! They never answer questions with any sane response, just change the subject.nt eppur_se_muova Monday #4
Vought dweller Monday #6

Henry203

(662 posts)
1. My family has been touched by cancer
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 09:24 AM
Monday

My mom, my brother both passed away from cncer and my wife currently has it. I have never wishe cancer on anyone but Vought is the exception. I so want this man to get cnacer and suffer as all cnacer patients do.

This is what happens when religion takes over good govrnment policy. No differnt than the taliban.

Girard442

(6,724 posts)
2. Vought misses the good old days, when somebody died, folks would say...
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 09:28 AM
Monday

"Well, God works in mysterious ways."

None of that endless yadda-yadda-ing about viruses and contagion and immunization.

Kid Berwyn

(21,536 posts)
3. NAZI in a business suit.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 09:58 AM
Monday

Just the Heritage Foundation's name for the thing, "Project 2025," sounds menacing. It's meant to. That's how NAZIs operate -- FEAR.



Unequal Justice: Trump 2024 and the Blueprint to End American Democracy

The far right Heritage Foundation created a platform for Trump that plots an authoritarian take-over of the country.


by BILL BLUM
The Progressive, Jul 27, 2023

Donald Trump nearly destroyed American democracy in his first term in office. If he is reelected, he plans to try to finish the job. This isn’t a matter of speculation; it’s a virtual certainty.

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One of the project’s more disturbing aims is to bring all federal agencies under direct presidential control, ending the operational independence not only of the Department of Justice and the FBI, but also the Federal Reserve, which oversees the banking industry and regulates interest rates; the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which oversees television, radio, and the Internet; and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which enforces antitrust and consumer protection laws.

“What we’re trying to do is identify the pockets of independence and seize them,” Russell Vought told The New York Times in an interview for a lengthy article published earlier this month on Trump’s plans for a second term. Vought ran the Office of Management and Budget for the Trump White House, and currently serves as the president of the Center for Renewing America, one of sixty-five ultra-right organizations that have come together to form Project 2025’s advisory board. (Others include the American Family Project, Hillsdale College, Liberty University, Susan B. Anthony Pro-life America, America First Legal, the Claremont Institute, Moms for Liberty, Freedom Works, the James Madison Institute, and ALEC.)

“The President’s plan should be to fundamentally reorient the federal government in a way that hasn’t been done since F.D.R.’s New Deal,” John McEntee, another former Trump White House staffer, also told the Times. “Our current executive branch,” McEntee continued, “was conceived of by liberals for the purpose of promulgating liberal policies. There is no way to make the existing structure function in a conservative manner. It’s not enough to get the personnel right. What’s necessary is a complete system overhaul.” McEntee joined Project 2025 in May as a senior advisor, working on the initiative’s “personnel” pillar.

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Dismantling the New Deal-era regulatory framework of the administrative state, as McEntee advocates, has long been a goal of the radical right. The right has also long advocated a bloated view of presidential power known as the “unitary executive theory.” The doctrine was popularized in the early 1980s by Ed Meese, who served as counselor to the President in Reagan’s first term, and as attorney general in his second term, before assuming a full-time post with the Heritage Foundation in 1988. Bill Barr, Trump’s last Senate-confirmed Attorney General, is another prominent proponent of the theory.

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https://progressive.org/latest/trump-2024-and-the-blueprint-blum-20230726/

eppur_se_muova

(39,547 posts)
4. Gawd, what stupid, evil people these are! They never answer questions with any sane response, just change the subject.nt
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 10:20 AM
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