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The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itself

The website for the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” — a right-wing policy and administrative wish list — manifests its worldview immediately. Its wish, the site says, is for “you the reader — Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith, and Ms. Smith — to come to Washington or support those who can.”


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That archaic differentiation between married and other women is obviously intentional, sending the message that Heritage and its allies seek to turn back the clock not just past “wokeness” but even past the movement to treat women as equal participants in American society. It is a microcosm of what the effort intends: restructuring the country so that the right — meaning primarily straight White men, as was the case 100 years ago — can decide how power and status are allocated.
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Kevin Roberts is the president of the Heritage Foundation and has overseen the organization as it has shifted toward an explicit embrace of Donald Trump and his approach to government. In an interview with former Virginia congressman and college professor David Brat (R) on Tuesday, Roberts articulated his view of the moment.



“Let me speak about the radical left,” Roberts said. “You and I have both been parts of faculties and faculty senates and understand that the left has taken over our institutions.” He said the left was “apoplectic” because, now, “our side is winning.”
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I “just want to encourage you with some substance,” Roberts added, “that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
It is true that, particularly of late, his side has been winning. That is not a function of his side convincing a majority of Americans that its policies or worldview are preferable. Instead, it reflects the Supreme Court’s decisions reversing access to abortion, stripping power from federal agencies and, most immediately, granting broad impunity to presidents (which, Roberts told Brat, was something the right “ought to be really encouraged by”). The court that made those changes is one that arose largely despite popular will, not because of it. The immunity decision, for example, was opposed by most Americans and even most Republicans — at least until the question was framed as granting immunity to Trump.



Roberts describes the moment as a second “revolution,” one that he hopes will remain bloodless as long as, we can impute, the left doesn’t provide too much resistance. But against what is his side revolting?
There’s a hint in his comments leading up to that declaration of war: that the left has “taken over” institutions, including universities. We know what this means from recent context. He’s talking in part about how college students are more liberal than non-college students, a divide that predates Trump but expanded in the Trump era. He’s talking, too, about the perception on the right that college admission and employment are driven by considerations of race and identity that disadvantage Whites. He’s talking about how he and people like him feel others who are not like him are gaining power at their expense.
This is the heart of Trumpism, of course. The gap between college- and non-college-educated Americans began to widen during Barack Obama’s presidency, as populism became an increasingly potent part of Republican politics. The ostensible trigger was taxation, but that was a framing driven heavily by the traditional elements of the GOP, which saw cutting taxes as a central policy goal. Rank-and-file members of the tea party movement often put it differently: They objected to where their tax dollars were going. To people on public assistance — meaning, in their estimation, non-White people who live in cities. To foreign governments. To immigrants.



Trump was a beneficiary of this worldview mostly because he shared it and was willing to amplify it. Make America great again, because it’s not great now, what with Black people protesting the police, Pride flags flying and immigrants seeking new lives in America. Revert America to its previous greatness so that you don’t have to hear Spanish at the supermarket or be aware that someone is dressed in drag. Muffle and sideline those New York and Los Angeles elites who, in the estimation of many Republicans, are actively discriminating against White people and Christians.
This fear of a declining America because of an ascendant left is pervasive on the right. Justice Samuel Alito has spoken of it publicly, as did former attorney general William P. Barr. (Trump does constantly, of course.) The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is centered on securing power for the right primarily as a response to that fear. The Supreme Court’s immunity decision is rooted in the idea that what broke wasn’t Trump’s response to his 2020 election loss but the Biden administration’s effort to hold him to account through the investigation led by special counsel Jack Smith.
That decision was written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who also wrote the 2013 decision asserting that the era during which Blacks were systematically excluded from access to voting had ended. It was an early benchmark in the right’s effort to claw back power for traditional American values, meaning for traditional Americans, meaning for White Americans.



So much of this is about demography and power. America’s demography is shifting, albeit not in the way that most people think. When the baby boom was young, there was a large White majority and a small Black minority. Now, about half of younger Americans are Black, Asian, Hispanic or mixed race, and the density of immigrants in the population is about what it was a century ago. They are more likely to take advantage of shifts in the acceptability of LGBTQ+ identity.
This shift means more voices challenging how American systems tacitly or explicitly advantage White people and straight people and men, and that means more of a reaction. Race and gender are easy scapegoats for problems from job losses to denied college applications to (to use a more extreme example) plane crashes. The people advocating for change are young, meaning more likely to be non-White and meaning more likely to be in college. It overlaps.
Trump promises to stand in their way. So does Heritage’s Roberts; his revolution will reshape government to muffle popular will, sure, but it also recognizes the centrality of social issues, like the use of “Ms.” instead of “Mrs.”



America has for decades been shifting toward a government in which power is distributed broadly and irrespective of identity. On the right, this is a problem; getting more people to vote, for example, is positioned as “rigging” elections since those more people are presumed to be Democrats. So we have Roberts, Trump and their revolution.
This time, though, the aim isn’t a new nation born of equality and the law. It is instead to largely reverse the trajectory of the first American Revolution, centralizing power in one leader who happens to look a lot like them.

If Trump wins, which park are you buying?

Since a stated goal of Project 2025 is to sell all public land I’m assuming that you all plan on buying your favorite hunting/fishing/camping spot. So which have you saved up for?

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Dem. Congressman Adam Frisch on Morning Joe

Just happened so I can’t link it.

Pretty much just made Mika cry and upset the panel very much by saying something along the lines of, “Climate change is important, democracy is important, but the 57,000 miles of voters I just talked to in focus groups aren’t talking about those things at all when it comes to the upcoming election. They’re all trying to keep their head above water in this economy and that’s front and center for them.”

This of course is exactly opposite of what Mika and Sharpton and the crew have been spewing. Then he finished by calling for Biden to step aside and she cut him off and sent him packing. You could see the rage in her eyes and hear it in her voice.

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Michelle says transwomen aren't women

The fight to keep transgender athletes out of girls' and women's sports continues.

The Biden administration recently rewrote Title IX in order to give trans participants more protections, but several states blocked the ruling last month.

Former NFL reporter Michelle Tafoya joined OutKick's "Don't @ Me" on Tuesday to discuss the "insanity" of allowing trans people to compete with biological females.

"It is insane, this whole thing is insanity. Thank God for voices like J.K. Rowling and Riley Gaines and others. Apparently, you need big voices like that to keep up, to keep countering this ridiculousness," Tafoya said. "I don’t’ care if the male is intact or was born a male – they don’t belong in a women’s locker room, they don’t belong on a women’s team. They are not women. So this notion that trans women or women, it’s ridiculous, because there’s a reason you put the ‘trans’ in front of the word ‘woman,’ because you’re not a woman."

"We’re in a weird time. This is one of those lies that they want to keep propagating. ‘Trans women are real women, trans women are real women,’ and then they’ll eventually believe it. I’m not going to believe it. I have a daughter, as well, who competes in athletics. I’ve got nieces. I just care about women. I care about all girls being able to have a fair shot. When you see these girls who have been robbed of their opportunities or places on the podium, it drives me nuts. It doesn’t mean that a trans person cannot participate. It does mean trans women cannot compete against biological women. That’s all we’re saying."

Oftentimes, those who are against trans inclusion in women's sports are labeled hateful and transphobic. It happened to Gaines and the Independent Women's Forum last month, when their tour bus was vandalized.
However, Tafoya says that could not be farther from the truth.

"If you can’t compete, join the millions of other people that have come in last place in a race. But that doesn’t mean you get to change genders so you can be in third place or first place in a race. That ain’t the way this works. It’s very simple, but apparently, we have to keep fighting these gender-ideology voices that think we’re hateful," she says.

"We’re not hateful, we’re helping women."

A federal judge blocked Biden’s Title IX rule in Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Idaho, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Indiana, Virginia and West Virginia last month.
The New Hampshire senate passed a bill back in May that would bar transgender athletes in grades 5-12 from competing against the gender they identify as.

The passing of the New Hampshire bill came a couple of weeks after Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders signed an executive order in response to the new Title IX regulations. Sanders said she had been "appalled" by the "attack on common sense."

Top 50 90s Albums

Stemming from a comment in the Alanis Morissette thread 500 some days ago, @Moral challenged me and I accepted. It has been pure bliss listening to old CDs, scouring Apple Music, discussing with friends and doing my research. Narrowing to a top 100 was difficult… top 50 even more so. I know if I tried to do this again, my list would look different next time. I enjoy almost every genre except country. (Just not my jam, and the country I really like pre dates the 90s). I attempted to actually order the albums 1-50, but gave up because… I just can’t. So many memories unfolded in this process.

Ground Rules:
No repeat artist (variety is the spice of life).
No greatest hits.
Albums graded cover to cover, none of that “Yay I Made one good song” sh*t.
How did the album make me feel after?

In no particular order….

Depeche Mode - Violator

Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

Beck - Odelay

Madonna - Ray of Light

Elliott Smith - Either/Or

OutKast - Aquemini

HUM - You’d Prefer an Astronaut

Tom Petty - Wildflowers

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

Morphine - Cure for the Pain

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape

R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang

Wilco - Being There

4 Non Blondes - Bigger, Better, Faster, More

RHCP - Californication

Garbage - Garbage

Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die

The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at a Cubist Castle

Toadies - Rubberneck

Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club

Deftones - Around the Fur

Snoop - Doggystyle

RATM - Evil Empire

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea

Weezer - Pinkerton

Moby - Play

STP - Tiny Music

The Lemonheads - Come on Feel the Lemonheads

Dr Dre - The Chronic

Ween - The Mollusk

The Beta Band - The Three EPs

Pearl Jam - Vitalogy

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Radiohead - Ok Computer

Fiona Apple - Tidal

2Pac - All Eyez on Me

Sublime - Sublime

Green Day - Dookie

Fugees - The Score

Nirvana - Nevermind

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication

Portishead - Dummy

Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Daft Punk - Homework

Mad Season - Mad Season


That’s my list. If you want to comment, cool. If you want to post some of your own favorite sweet 90s music, doubly cool.

Hoping this thread is way better than Biden/Trump stuff. ✌️

This is NOT how you get people to take covid seriously.

"The particular mutations that people refer to as “FLiRT”s or “FLip”s..."

Nobody is going to care about a virus mutation if you give it cutesie names like "flirt" and "flip". It doesn't matter if the names are based on some specific mutation/pattern/whatever. Nobody cares about getting the "flirt" virus. Might as well have just called it "cooties".

I'm Guessing This is a Two'fer For You Heterosexual Repositories of Testosterone?

Perhaps the eyes are too close together on the one on the left? No mention in the article if they were actual teachers but I assume they were...

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Anyone looking for new property in Florida?

Some interesting property description

“Home for sale in South Daytona Florida. To date, have invested 100K in updates. Home is located in a white Christian Nationalist community with a 100% white Christian nationalist government and law enforcement. South Daytona is a 100% Trump city that has almost a 90% white population. The 10% “ others “ are well under control. South Daytona is a MAGA community. If you’re looking for a place like this, South Daytona is for you.”

Trump's Mother died at 88. His Father died at 93. So, I then fear that if Trump is re-elected at 78...

...he then may well not give up the POTUS prize that he will consider his for another 10-15 years. He has already publicly stated that he thought his first term should not count against him because of all investigations of him. He will convince the cult that a 3rd, 4th or even 5th term is in the best interest of the country and his due as the best POTUS ever. The mentions of Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Clinton and Obama will not techically be forbiden, but the overuse, even in one's own home, will be noted on their Trump Bureau of Investigations permanent file...multiple violations will result in exile.

Then it well could be that he passes the POTUS title on to Trump Jr. upon his death. Then Jr. then passes it on to Barron. Before it is disolved, the SCOTUS will, of course, agree that all of this is legal.

By then all class rooms in Amerika will have both the Ten Commandments and a even larger picture of Donald John Trump hanging on the wall in the front of the students. The Pledge of Allegence to DJT will be repeated at least four times per day. The Russian language will be mandatory in the class rooms as well as the Courts, Public Buildings and Post Offices.

All states can decide on "Seperate, but Equal", and 2/3rds will say yes. I won't even speak of what will become of women, but at the very least they must remain silent, comply and submit. They are only good for one thing anyway.

And all of that is the best it will be.

Biden, Trump neck and neck nationally, in battleground states: CBS Poll

Looks like the Trump verdict didn't move the needle.

President Biden and former President Trump are basically tied nationally and in battleground states, according to new polling from CBS News.

The CBS News/YouGov poll found that Trump received 50 percent support nationally among likely voters, while Biden received 49 percent. In battleground states, 50 percent of likely voters selected Biden, while 49 percent backed Trump, according to CBS.

The poll also found that Trump’s recent conviction in the New York hush money case is not a major issue for most voters when deciding whom to support. More than half of respondents said that the guilty verdict was “not a factor” in their decision, 28 percent said it was a “major factor” and 17 percent said it was a “minor factor.”

Instead, an overwhelming majority said that issues like the economy, inflation and the state of the democracy would be the major factors in their votes.

The poll also found that Biden had the edge over Trump among key voting groups. Eighty-one percent of Black likely voters said they would support Biden, while 18 percent said they would back Trump.

Fifty-four percent of surveyed women also said they support Biden, while 45 percent support Trump. Independents are more divided when asked whether they would support Biden or Trump, with 50 percent selecting Biden and 48 percent choosing the former president.

The poll comes as the two front-runners are barreling toward a likely 2020 rematch in November. Trump and Biden are also neck and neck according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s national polling average, which shows Trump with 45.5 percent support and Biden with 44.7 percent.

The poll was conducted June 5-7 among 2,063 U.S. adult residents. It also included an oversample in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The poll has a margin of error is 3.2 percentage points among all adults and 3.8 points among registered voters.

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