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Serious answers only. For over a year I was told that trump "doesn't have anything to do with that".

I honestly need to know from an actual Republican who believed trumps words and is now witnessing p2025 almost hit 50% completion with the department of education getting dismantled.

And with that; how do these people feel that public schools, daycare centers and tech schools all going to cost 3-6x as much as it does now for tuition?

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[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

i was hoping for a response yes. and really hoping for an actual intellectual as well.

so what makes you think it isn't trumps plan? even though you can follow the progress online of p2025 and trump is checking off each objective.

what do you see p2025 as? and do you think it will make america "awesome again"

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I see Trump's plan as Trump's plan. P25 holds some similarities, some things are just that obvious, like illegal immigrants should be deported, but it's not Trump's plan. P2025 is it's own thing, some wishlist created by some think tank that got picked up by the news because it's so stereotypical.

I think that Trump's plan is an attempt to put America back on the right track economically.

Protective tariffs for instance, are a pretty standard way of protecting domestic industry. It's expensive to comply with OSHA and labor laws, it's a lot cheaper to make stuff in China and ship it over here. Tariffs make it so that it's no longer cheaper. Bernie Sanders agrees, even if can't directly agree with Trump. https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-trump-tariffs/

Does p25 have anything on tariffs? No, they don't.

P25 does have stuff on things like racial discrimination, which no politician in their right mind would support.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

P25 literally does have stuff on tariffs and it’s exactly what is happening right now.

It starts on page 765. https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf Like literally the entire section from page 765-783 are just about tariffs and how high to increase them.

And an article discussing it https://seekingalpha.com/article/4769053-what-project-2025-tells-us-about-what-will-happen-tariffs-april-2

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tbh, I only ever read the cliff notes. I never read the hundreds of pages, I had better things to do with my time.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

I also haven’t read the hundreds of pages, but it was a simple search away (either a search engine or literally just typing ‘tariff’ into the PDF). You said something that wasn’t true and didn’t bother to check if it was accurate before hand, and it was kind of the base “fact” of your entire post.

I do appreciate that you’re willing to come in here and actually discuss your viewpoint, which is why I tried to react quite neutrally. I would appreciate continuing the conversation because I do wonder if that revelation has changed your view that trump has no ties to P25.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tariffs are one way to protect domestic industry.

They are completely useless when that industry does not exist already. When an industry doesn't exist and you want to build it, you need subsidies, not tariffs.

Do you believe the US has sufficient industry to protect? Or that we should instead be focused on growing more?

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes I do. We have chip fabs, car factories, steel mills, all sorts of things. But they've been hurt by the likes of China for a very long time.

Did you know Gary Indiana used to have a Steel Mill? And it was when it closed that Gary went to shit?

And we can do both. We already are subsidizing lots of things.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

We are not subsidizing recreating those factories that are gone. Which is a shame.

What you're saying makes sense if we were putting tariffs an those specific industries that we have factories for, but not other industries. Are we doing that?

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Republicans already passed the removal of DEIA in the workforce. Idk how you feel about that but that can be seen as racial discrimination which a lot of Republicans have shown don't give a shit about. A lot are pro white power, women are baby makers. i also can't see how someone would think p2025 or "trumps plan" as a good thing. I see no benefits to destroying government agencies with no though or plan before hand. How many times has he fired a department only for him to go "woops . We actually needed those people" and then rehire them? 3?.. 4?. Like what's the point? A lot of Republicans say "we are finding the fraud, so much winning". How do you feel saying that or hearing it knowing that trump is convicted of 34 felonies? Was on tape gloating how he walked on in naked 15 year old girls and is an actual fraud to the country?

How do you feel about our administration literally editing the Internet and leaves of history to remove anyone of color or nationality other than white?

How do you feel about doge finding "wasted tax payer money" but trump plays golf with tax payer money? I'm sorry I just don't understand and no one has ever answered these questions they just deflect. Like you can't deny trump is a fucking scum bag monster pedophile

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

so what makes you think it isn't trumps plan?

They're an idiot, duh

Their name is eerily close to a reference to a famously horrible and Nazi-infested (like, actually) instance, especially given their previously discussed viewpoint, so they're probably also a Nazi openly lying about their beliefs

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

The fuck are you talking about?

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reddthat isn't a Nazi instance, wtf.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Never claimed it was, work on your reading comprehension

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe I didn't understand what you meant. Can you explain the connection you see between Nazis and the instance name?

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Exploding heads was (I think it's gone for good now) an extreme Nazi instance full of people trying their damndest to be the worst people they could be

The guys name is Kaboom and regularly posts the same kind of talking points they did, I don't think it's a coincidence, personally