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Project 2025 is the 1000-page blueprint for turning the United States into a full-blown christo-fascist dictatorship. It is also Donald Trump's election program. Isn't it time that the main stream media started taking this seriously? Becaue THEY will be shut down when this beomes reality. Project 2025, what is that you say? Yes, it exists. It is real. I have a copy. It is frightening. Maybe, MSM, it's time to start talking about this. Because this is far bigger a problem than Biden's condition. There are institutions that have been specifically designed to deal with situations like these, i.e. a (so far entirely hypothetical) vacancy at the highest level of administration. Under Project 2025, those institutions will no longer exist. And neither will you.

Let's talk about something kinda ironic. Residents in Puerto Rico have been out there, side by side with mainlanders, fighting for democracy across the globe. They've done a ton for the cause, but back home, they can't even vote for the President. It doesn't make much sense, right? Think about it like this: if the U.S. was a big company, and Puerto Rico was one of its significant assets, you'd expect the top brass (like the President and Congress) to make sure it's well taken care of, considering everyone involved (yep, that's us, 'We the People') has a stake in it. So, why aren't more of our leaders, from state reps to senators, getting fired up about how Puerto Rico is managed? This isn't just about territory; it's about fairness, rights, and making sure everyone's heard. It's high time we closed this crazy gap. Residents living in Puerto Rico shouldn't just be helping spread democracy without enjoying its full benefits. All we are asking is for parity, not more not less. Let's make sure we get an actual seat at the table.

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#politics #unitedstates As the 2024 election gathers feverish pitch, the point is we cannot have a rigged democracy. But this what we have and the people who vote know it. How do you fix a bi-partisan rigged democracy? Donald Trump says end it. We do not need it. But he represents the wealthy like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk’s partner at PayPal, who has been his big supporter. The Democrats say a rigged democracy is better than none at all. We are not talking about perfection here. We are talking about the basics of running a country: getting rid of corruption by unhinged interest groups, with no constitutional protections except money as free speech in a politically agnostic manner. Still, this cannot be done overnight. Once the founding is legally abrogated as Adolf Hitler did in the Weimar Republic in Germany after legitimately winning an election like Trump wants to again, the standard playbook of all dictators since Socrates and Athens, it is a lot of hard work to restore it. Democracy anywhere in the world has never been really restored after the Peloponnesian War. I suppose I can live with a rigged democracy than a de jure fascist state. All those with “uncritical respect for government authority” get security clearances in the expanding security state which is fascism, because if you are perceived as disrespectful of authority, whatever heck this arbitrarily means, you will be seen as a behavioral problem and deprived of you have. You are considered not trusted. We are already in a highly bureaucratized country but this cannot be fixed if you fire government bureaucrats in droves as Trump wants to do. Transparency must be forced and government processes must work as intended in the Constitution, not “relationships” and old boy networks of the spoils system against which there are unenforced laws on the books dating back to the 19th century, in particular the Ivy League and the Top 10 universities, including, and especially, all of the Intelligence Community (IC) without exception - Pentagon including NSA, CIA, and FBI who are running The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Edward Snowden must be repatriated for blowing this whistle during Barack Obama. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has failed on painkillers such as Fentanyl and OxyContin. So did National Institutes of Health (NIH) on COVID. The Pentagon globalizing the military industrial complex in the Indo-Pacific and Afghanistan and Iraq spending upto $6 trillion is still not fully accounted for. The revolving door is out of control and unhinged. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whose job it is to deal with government impropriety must do its job. Amazon Prime is now playing the film about Deep Throat, FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt, who spoke to Washington Post’s Bob Woodward during Watergate. Now it is far worse and nothing happens, though investigative journalists who won a Pulitzer on Panama Papers a few years back know all about it.

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