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usaf-vet

(7,522 posts)
Fri May 23, 2025, 10:37 AM Friday

Have you ever wondered....How Closely Have the First 100 Days of Trump's 2025 Presidency Aligned with Project 2025?

Short answer: Very closely.
What we’re seeing is not improvisation. It’s a coordinated execution of a pre-written blueprint.

Project 2025, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation and over 70 conservative groups, laid out a detailed transition plan to:
- Dismantle the administrative state
- Reassert presidential control over the executive branch
- Purge civil servants
- Militarize federal responses to dissent
- Weaken LGBTQ+ rights, environmental protections, and democratic safeguards


Key First 100-Day Actions That Match the Plan
-Replace career civil servants with loyalists

“Schedule F” reactivated; mass terminations and loyalty vetting underway
- Re-centralize executive power

Dozens of agency heads now report directly to a Trump-appointed oversight layer
- Use DOJ as a weapon

Ongoing prosecutions of political enemies; shielding of allies
- Roll back LGBTQ+ military rights

Transgender military ban reinstated; discharge proceedings accelerated
- Control education content

Federal funding threats for states using CRT, LGBTQ+ content, or rejecting “patriot curriculum”
- Clamp down on media and dissent

DOJ surveillance of journalists; FCC “reviews” of media licenses announced
- Favor fossil fuels over climate science

EPA gutted, clean energy funds frozen, and “climate hoax” language normalized in briefings


What’s Likely Next? Red Flag Forecast
Next 30 Days: Consolidation and Control
- DOJ reshuffling to insert loyal prosecutors and judges
- Executive Orders redefining “domestic extremism”
- IRS or DHS actions targeting liberal nonprofits
- Expanded military discharge of LGBTQ+ service members


Next 60 Days: Legal Infrastructure and Pretext Building
- Redefining “citizenship” tied to ending birthright citizenship
- Homeland Security retooling to include ideological enforcement units
- Rollout of a Federal school “compliance” board
- Restrictions on vote-by-mail under “election integrity” branding


Next 90 Days: Structural Authoritarian Moves
- Emergency declarations bypassing Congress
- Use of the National Guard in Democratic strongholds
- AI-powered surveillance initiatives fast-tracked
- Trial balloons to means-test Social Security/Medicare
- DOJ begins blocking lawsuits from blue states


Do They Flip a Coin?
No. They flip the country, not a coin.

This is not governance—it’s a consolidation of power, using:
- A roadmap (Project 2025)
- Enforcers, not administrators
- Chaos as camouflage


*JH*
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Have you ever wondered....How Closely Have the First 100 Days of Trump's 2025 Presidency Aligned with Project 2025? (Original Post) usaf-vet Friday OP
I think Krasnov is ahead of schedule. gab13by13 Friday #1
This message was self-deleted by its author usaf-vet Friday #5
Is there a source for this assessment? hlthe2b Friday #2
Keep reading the answer is below. usaf-vet Friday #6
Nice! hlthe2b Friday #7
While many in America sleep Onthefly Friday #3
A little background history. I'm am in my late seventies. A scientist by degree (BS in Biology). Published in two areas. usaf-vet Friday #4
In the future, I will share with you the AI searches I have done that are not political in nature. But I will continue.. usaf-vet Friday #8

Response to gab13by13 (Reply #1)

Onthefly

(889 posts)
3. While many in America sleep
Fri May 23, 2025, 11:10 AM
Friday

I talk to so many people who have no idea where we are headed as country. We are being destroyed by the oligarchs. Inform and resist!

usaf-vet

(7,522 posts)
4. A little background history. I'm am in my late seventies. A scientist by degree (BS in Biology). Published in two areas.
Fri May 23, 2025, 11:26 AM
Friday

As my time grows shorter and shorter. I continue to try to finish three Life Projects in no particular order.

1. The history of a YMCA Camp that I attended from age seven through my early teen years.
Have you ever wondered what the history of land on a lake was like before it became a YMCA camp for kids?
I did, and I labored to find answers.


2. Cataloguing and conserving over 100 letters written to my maternal grandmother's father when he emigrated to the US at age 14.
The letters were all from relatives in England living in and around London.
Written to William Black ["Dear Bill"] will be the title of the finished project.
Have you ever wondered exactly where those old addresses in London were?
I did, and I labored to find answers.


3. The detailing of a Whaler's Voyage on a ship named the Tropic Bird, which was captained by my wife's great-great-grandfather.
We have a copy of the original daily log of the multi-year voyage.
The day-by-day LAT LONs of their location.
Have you ever wondered what the point-by-point daily log would show of their exact location on a map?
I did, and I labored to find answers.


Google and other search engines were of little or no help, and I spent hours refining the search terms with little or no helpful results.

Then, along came AI, not (A1)..... DUers should get the distinction. Recently, I decided to see what AI "knew" about the world today.
So here we are, the above post was generated with the help of the exact same tool that helped in the development of Project 2025

usaf-vet

(7,522 posts)
8. In the future, I will share with you the AI searches I have done that are not political in nature. But I will continue..
Fri May 23, 2025, 04:01 PM
Friday

... to bring DU folks what AI has to say about politics in 2025 and through the days ahead until we have regained our control of the House in 2026 and beyond.

For non-AI users, let me suggest that I'll "ask" AI a question or two for fellow DU users.

So far, I have not found a topic that AI has failed to answer, many of which have been beyond my belief.

For example, electrical problems are among the most challenging car problems to solve. I recently had a problem with my 2003 truck's directionals not working. I took it to my garage, which has been servicing all of our cars without fail over the years.

They called me the next day and asked me if I had done anything with the car's electrical circuits, like fooling with trailer lights or switching to a new Bluetooth radio to work hands-free with our phones. The answer was no and no... nothing.

So I thought, "What the hell, let's ask AI what it thought," given the symptoms I was experiencing. I posed the question, and 30 seconds or less later, AI generated a list of possible issues with a troubleshooting guide to diagnose and eliminate each one step by step.

I emailed the mechanics the troubleshooting list, and they called back less than an hour later and said, "Your car is ready, and where in hell did you find the troubleshooting list?" I told the AI, and they said, "A what!"

One more: I have been researching my dad's military records from WW II. He had told me that he was stationed in 1943-44 in a jungle radio station "20 some miles up the Amazon river," intercepting German U-boat radio communications—years of digging through military records with no luck. With the same description ("20-some miles up the Amazon river&quot , AI found the answer immediately. With lots of additional information that matched up to the records I got from military records years before.
More later!

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