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In her first campaign rally as the presumptive Democratic nominee to face Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris took aim at her Republican rival and a widely derided Trump-linked platform that provides a blueprint for the next GOP administration.

“Donald Trump wants to take our country backward,” she said in remarks from Milwaukee on Tuesday, just two days after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and endorsed his vice president.

Harris, who secured enough delegate pledges to clinch the Democratic Party’s nomination within a little over 24 hours after announcing her candidacy, linked Trump to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation-backed plan for his administration, and one that his campaign is now furiously trying to distance itself from.

“He and his extreme Project 2025 agenda will weaken the middle class. We know we got to take that seriously,” Harris said. ”Can you believe they put that thing in writing? Read it. It’s 900 pages.”

The plan proposes cuts to Social Security and Medicare, tax breaks to corporations that will force “working families to foot the bill” and abolishes the Affordable Care Act, which “will take us back to a time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with preexisting conditions,” Harris said.

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[–] [email protected] 164 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Did Biden ever even really talk about 2025? I'm loving that this is one of the very first places she goes and I hope she just presses hard on it non-fucking stop what's in it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Biden was too soft to mention it... Good thing he's out of the race

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

the heritage foundation has been putting out a project 2025 like document since 1980 and nearly 75% of all of the recommendations have been enacted by both democrats and republicans since then, including biden.

biden didn't talk much about project 2025 because, if you looked into it, you'll find that biden was a big proponent of the 1980's & 1990's versions of the project 2025; so it was politically advantageous that he pretended that it never happened and he never did it to ensure a distinction between him and maga stayed present in today's political discourse. the same is true with gay marriage; lgbtq in federal service; student loans; segregation; feminism; etc. and i bet that's why he dropped out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I would just like to point out that this is an example of the tried-and-true rhetorical technique of shrugging off issues with a dismissive "that's not new." We see politicians and spokespersons do it all the time, because, maddeningly, it works.

But, it doesn't actually matter whether it's new, does it? Couple things: The Heritage Foundation has put out a similar document every election cycle for decades, but the contents have changed; this iteration could be (is!) much, much worse. Even if Heritage had been putting out the same plan all along, and we didn't object then, well, we can still object now. We don't have to keep making the same mistakes in the future just because we made them in the past.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It’s almost as if career politicians aren’t great choices cause of all the baggage.

[–] [email protected] 110 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Tell them their porn's going away. Do it in the fucking debate. Do it pussy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

They'll go back to their couches.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

you could probably use vpn or whatever to get around that. i think it's worse that they want to incriminate sex workers

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately a large number of conservatives support that. Like how Mike Johnson has an app that tells his son whenever he's jacking off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

TIL. This is weird as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How is that app supposed to work?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly, it lets each user view the other's search history.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That, but also an immediate notification if you go to a porn site.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I don't like my freedom! But you can also restrict someone with Google and not even need to see those sights. So I dunno what the fuck they are doing. Family link is easy and takes like 5 minutes to set up.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Honor system, which makes it even more creepy. He has to decide to tell his son he jerked off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Forgive me son, for I have sinned.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Lol I wasn't joking, it actually is an app and not the honor system. His 17 year-old son gets an immediate notice when his dad starts cranking his hog.

“It scans all the activity on your phone, or your devices, your laptop, what have you; we do all of it,” Johnson told the panel about the app.

“It sends a report to your accountability partner. My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He’s 17. So he and I get a report about all the things that are on our phones, all of our devices, once a week. If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-johnson-son-monitor-porn-intake-covenant-eyes-1234870634/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So it's looking at porn, not cranking his hog.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Are you suggesting that Mike Johnson is edging himself?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Maybe he just appreciates the porn, aesthetically.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who is going to tell him that his son has a way around it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah imagine expecting a 17 year old boy to NOT look at porn.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

and the son wants to know? or has he deleted the app without telling?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

His son just probably has a laptop and boots using a usb into linux. All of these christian goodie-do-gooders are going to create a nation of hackers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lmao part of the reason I went so deep into the Linux world was because my school board had super advanced network policies that were able to effectively block specific traffic and pretty much any commercial VPN. I had to build my own server at home to connect to from school using a bunch of traffic cloaking techniques to get unobstructed internet access.

I didn't really use any sites that were blocked anyway, but it made me go "watch me bitch" to whoever was overengineering the censorship system in our school board's IT.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Shadow socks? Ssh?

tell me.how

Also fuck your school board's it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The biggest hastle was that any persistent tunnel I would make over any protocol (I tried OpenVPN, WireGuard, SSH, Shadowsocks, etc) to any IP address would be blocked after (I think) 3 hours. This let them basically block any VPN that wasn't already explicitly blacklisted outright.

My solution was to make a simple API on the server that got a new IPv6 address for the server and returned it.

There was a WireGuard server running on port 53 and listening from any incoming IP. On my devices I would call the API every hour when idle and change the IP in the WireGuard config. On Android I had a Tasker automation to do this and on my laptop a shell script on a cronjob.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

His son grew up with Mike Johnson as a father. He’s either a true believer or he knows that you do not step out of line when it comes to dad’s creepy shit.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago