(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . "The Handmaid's Tale" Is Just The Reader's Digest Version [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-07-25 “Mandate For Leadership” is the newest idea conservatives have to strike fear into the hearts of Democracy loving Americans . It is probably better in the original German, but people need to educate themselves about it because we haven’t had a bigger threat to this country since that pesky bug in 2020. Fortunately, the nice people at Democracy Forward have created a handy guide to the bloated fantasies of proud boys and their sugar daddies. A People’s Guide to Project 2025 is a breezy summary of the fevered dreams of neo-Nazis and their ilk in the Republican party. Links will take you to “Mandate For Leadership” (Hint- Very important. Look for the page # at the bottom of the page, not the page # at the side of screen.) Unfortunately, I tried linking to the pertinent passages, but no go, it just takes you to the document, you have to know what you’re looking for. Stop counting all the non-white people! Page 678 End Head Start programs! Page 482 Make it legal for the kids to work again! Page 595 Throw people off of Food Stamps! (Unless the lazy bums get a job) Page 299 Make it harder for veterans to qualify for disability! Page 649-650 Pretend climate change isn’t happening! Make it harder for farmers to get assistance when climate change ruins your crops! Page 297 Allow Big Pharma to overcharge for medications! Page 456 Make Medication Abortion very difficult to obtain! page 562 Push people to Private health care plans! page 465 Allow snoops to look at your reproductive care information! Page 497 Ending “disparate impact standards” What are disparate impact standards? i.e. Make it safe to racism again. Frankly, it’s in numerous spots in the document, not just Pages 72 & 583 Allow discrimination against LGBTQ+ youth in foster care and adoption agencies Page 477 Pollute all the minority neighborhoods. Project 2025 proposes to end the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice & External Civil Rights. What is that? OECRC enforces federal civil rights laws, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that, together, prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin (including on the basis of limited-English proficiency); sex; disability; or age by applicants for and recipients of federal financial assistance from EPA. link Ending OEJECR would go hand in hand with doing away with “disparate impact standards”. I’m going to interject here to say these two actions would bring back segregation, imo. This will exacerbate social stratification, leading to stultification, leading to Idiocracy. Yeah, I’m being tongue in cheek here but, not by much. Societies thrive on equality, liberty and community, not the opposite. This plan would alienate Americans from each other. Like the gray skies of China? Let’s bring them to America! You libs like wearing masks- we’re going to make you wear masks Page 425 Make the world safe for oil barons again! Page 523 End NOAA Page 664 Mind you, NOAA ‘s reach is worldwide, Europe has an equivalent EUMESTAT However, Europe’s program (satellites) is unable to cover The Pacific ocean and continents in the Southern hemisphere. The EPS programme is also the European half of a joint program with NOAA, called the International Joint Polar System (IJPS). NOAA has operated a continuous series of low earth orbiting meteorological satellite since April 1960. Many of the instruments on Metop are also operated on NOAA/POES satellites, providing similar data types across the IJPS. From Wikipedia Do you see the problem with ending a 53 year old program to give the rich more tax breaks? And don’t kid yourself, that’s where all the money the Republicans want to save will go, by slashing the government like a cat attacking a roll of toilet paper. Make school too expensive page 167 & 354 Indoctrinate students against their will Page 319 Allow Charter schools to kick out their LGBTQ+ kids Page 333-334 I know you’re wondering when I’m going to stop but it just goes on and on and on. This “tome” is the size of a Stephen King novel but way scarier than Pennywise. I swear if this were a cartoon with Snidely Whiplash, it would still be considered over the top. I haven’t even touched on immigration. If there are UFO’s flying around up there and one were to land and tell us, “Hey, we know some habitable planets to colonize and you idiots are destroying your own nest, wanna ride”? I would advocate sending these garbage people to go pollute another planet so we could save this one. Does that sound too harsh? The writers of this piece of work want all of us to live in a country that was before Regulation, Civil Rights and Stonewall, clean air and water when they are all too young to have lived in the America of the 1950’s. Maybe Elon can spare some billions to create a time machine so we can send them somewhere they’ll be happier. To be so determined to inflict this much pain on your fellow Americans, I’m aghast. This work should be considered a domestic threat. Another handy guide- Thanks Mokurai Uploaded by Mokurai Interesting article from The Nation- “The Mandate For Leadership, Then & Now” www.thenation.com/… And another from Slate- slate.com/... 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