One of the reasons why the MSM is so tightly focused on covering Joe Biden and his non existent emergencies is that it will detract from the abject misery that Donald Trump has thrown his coalition into this past 24 hours. There was a bit of a stir yesterday, over what the official Republican party stance is going to be regarding abortion. That’s a continuous fight and the GOP is running out of time in which to resolve it. It’s July 5 and in ten days the Republican National Convention convenes, so the time in which to reach an accord on this issue is yesterday. That’s pressure number one.
Then, lo and behold, with the emotionally charged abortion wedge issue hanging fire, what does Donald Trump go and do? The unthinkable, that’s what. He actually went on Truth Social and disavowed Project 2025. Publicly. You believe that? He did. He said, “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”
That right there is the knell of disaster. This 900 plus page document has been touted as Trump’s blueprint for the New Civil Service, which is to say no Civil Service at all, but a group of MAGA loyalists all in place one Day One to effect a “second American Revolution.” Hopefully without the bloodshed, its principal draftsman, Kevin Roberts said, but if violence is needed, oh well. What are you going to do, right?
So Trump disavowing knowledge of them is like the set up to a Mission Impossible episode, except nobody behind the scenes is clever enough to figure out how to rewrite the script with this kind of an unexpected, last minute plot twist in it. Trump seriously distanced himself from Project 2025 today and that’s a bit like Henry Ford distancing himself from the assembly line: um….didn’t you invent it? At least that’s what we have been told, that Trump’s blueprint for a new America is to be found in the articles of Project 2025 and nobody was more on board for an army of Trump loyalists than he was. You can see why this is freak out time in Trump world.
The move suggests that Trump’s aides are concerned that Democrats have been able to insert Project 2025 into the public mind and associate Trump with its most radical ideas, at a time when the Republican Party should be on the front foot. Trump has had a poll boost from the crisis in Joe Biden’s presidency caused by his stumbling debate performance, but there are concerns in his campaign that a focus on abortion policy would give Democrats a potent weapon.
Democrats pounced on Trump’s statement on Friday, using it as an opportunity to continue to try and tie the two together.
“Donald Trump and Project 2025 are one big MAGA operation, coordinating on an extreme blueprint to rip away freedoms and undermine democracy — and they’ve made it clear themselves,” a DNC spokesperson said, adding: “Trump can’t hide his ties to the dangerous, unhinged MAGA loyalists at Project 2025, and the American people will stop them at the ballot box in November.”
The Heritage Foundation tried to pre-empt any Republican fallout from Trump’s disavowal, saying in a statement on Friday the group doesn’t speak for any presidential candidate.
“We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating policy & personnel recommendations for the next conservative president,” the group’s Project 2025 X account posted. “But it is ultimately up to that president, who we believe will be President Trump, to decide which recommendations to implement.”
Trying to throw Project 2025 overboard matches recent rhetoric from Trump on abortion, where he has attempted to navigate between his base’s fundamentalist anti-abortion position and the reality that there is wide popular support for pro-choice policies. Notably, on Tuesday, the Trump campaign released a version of its plans for the party platform at the Republican National Convention this month without making any mention of abortion. At the same time, Trump has tried to claim that “everybody” wanted Roe v. Wade overturned and abortion policy returned to the states. And his promise of a clear abortion policy has been coming for many months; it was, for example, due “on Monday morning” according to a Sunday April 8 post on Truth Social.
Here’s the simple reality: the abortion issue is like a hand grenade with the pin pulled. It is ready to go off at any moment and if you’re in the proximity, you’re hoping it doesn’t blow right when it’s near you.
Trump advisers, in turn, have been angered by the public pressure from antiabortion activists, according to people familiar with the campaign’s internal discussions. At the same time, Trump allies are not overly worried about the platform skirmish, because evangelicals strongly opposed to abortion have remained among his most fervent supporters regardless of his evolving positions on the issue.
“If the Trump campaign decides to remove national protections for the unborn in the GOP platform, it would be a miscalculation that would hurt party unity and destroy pro-life enthusiasm between now and the election,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said in a statement on Wednesday. “We are now just one business day away from the platform committee meeting and no assurances have been made. Instead, every indication is that the campaign will muscle through changes behind closed doors.”
Now there are two grenades with the pins pulled and ready to go off. That doubles the chances of a fatal explosion. Trump, for all his obliviousness, is not oblivious to this level of a mess. He knows that the abortion issue is a hot button topic. Now he’s got Project 2025 on a nearby burner and he simply does not want to deal with it. The problem, with respect to both issues, is that it’s too little, too late. No whitewash of either one is going to come across as anything other than a whitewash.
Get the countdown clocks rolling. It’s going to be a wild ten days and then expect the convention itself to be one for the books. Now maybe it’s starting to make sense to you that mainstream media assignment editors are burning the midnight oil to write about Joe Biden giving up his place on top of the Democratic ticket. It’s to deflect from, and normalize, this insane mess on the GOP side of things.
::waiting for the wreckage that is the GOP to sink::
This is why Democrats and especially top ones who have PANICKED need to take a fooking chill pill. The Party holding the WH gets to hold their convention second if they want. They always do, and in this case we all knew what to expect from Trump and the GOP. The 2016 shit show of a convention, Trump’s “American Carnage” inaugural and whatever the hell that 2020 shit show convention was – the worst parts combined and on steroids. That was BEFORE this brewing abortion fight, and now it looks like although the last thing the media has wanted to talk about at length has been Project 2025 but it’s starting to look like they have no choice.
Voters it seems are at least hearing about it and starting to ask questions. There must be a LOT going on we don’t know about with polling and focus groups but for Trump to so publicly try to disavow this means he’s terrified. And so are other GOPers and again Trump has good reason to panic. IF Nikki Haley delegates stick with her during the voting at the convention it’s going to be a bad look for him. Should Biden weather this current storm Trump could be in deep shit come fall. If a growing number of GOP candidates pointedly keep their distance? Watch out.
Having to go first and getting a slow start out of the (convention) gate is one thing but Trump could well stumble and fall. If WE keep our wits about us between now and then and raise hell at OUR leaders who are calling on Biden to step aside come August I truly believe we’ll see a repeat of the SOTU at our own convention. Things won’t be over. Not by a long shot but we’ll be well positioned.
Women…if you’re so phucking smart and ‘liberated’ since Gloria Steinham and Betty Friedan and the women’s liberation movement in the 70s, where MY GENDER WAS THE PROBLEM…then please explain why ANY OF YOU VOTE FOR THESE NAZIS??????????????? Evidence seems to imply you’re just another slave class in rich, white man’s world. You excommunicated me long ago based only on my penis…now you are reaping the whirlwind.
Not to state the excruciatingly obvious fact but Von Shitzinpants is a liar such as the world has never seen before. I find it hard to believe his campaign team as well as the dumb fucks who created that steaming pile of fecal matter project aren’t doing the “nudge, nudge, wink, wink thing right now. One should never trust anything spewing from that shitty piehole and I’d say they know that. I seriously doubt project fecal matter is dropping off anyone’s radar.