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Brief: Dictatorship for Dummies

ProPublica recently got a hold of 25 Project 2025 training videos—over 14 hours worth of content revealing the policies the Heritage Foundation would like to see implemented if Donald Trump regains the White House. Derek and Julian break down one of the most egregious. Show Notes Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos Undercover in Project 2025 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On August 10th, Andy Cole published an article for ProPublica revealing that 14 hours of private internal training videos for the Project 2025 transition team had been exposed.
Top line observations include instructions to potential incoming Trump loyalists to eradicate all mention of climate change, equity, gender or reproductive choice.
As well as to try to follow directives without leaving a paper trail that watchdogs could discover.
Well, too late on that one, I guess.
On a pleasing point of irony, I should mention that the article in ProPublica was co-published with Nick Sturgey of the watchdog group, Documented.
Today, we'll be looking at just one choice video from the 23 in total that ProPublica shared on their YouTube channel.
They're all there if you listeners would like to go take a look.
Oh, but it's the right choice for this episode.
Yeah, it's quite something.
Now, remember, in the wake of it getting this wave of media attention some six months after we were raising the alarm about it, Trump tried to distance himself from Project 2025, a plan which was conceived and authored mostly by former members of his administration.
And Trump used his familiar tactic that we've all seen now of claiming not to know anything about Yeah, I love how he spins it by saying Project 25 all the time as if, oh, what the fuck is this?
I don't know.
He said, like some on the right, the severe right, I call it, came up with this Project 25.
I don't even know some of them. I know who they are, but they're very, very conservative.
They're sort of the opposite of the radical left. Yeah, I love how he spins it by saying Project 25
all the time as if, oh, what the fuck is this? I don't know.
I'm just I'm just a nice, kind grandpa who wants to save the country. Oh, did you see that
he went off stage and hugged a woman at his rally yesterday?
Like, this is him.
First, he's on Theo Van's podcast talking about cocaine, and then he goes hugs a woman.
So he's being Mr. Relatable these days.
Yes, the guy you'd like to do a line with.
Now, you mentioned some contributors, but there were 140 former Trump administration workers or officials who helped to contribute to Project 2025.
And the project currently employs over 200 former officials from his administration.
You got Ben Carson, Ken Cuccinelli, Peter Navarro.
I think you're going to talk about Russell Voigt now.
Yeah, but Trump's never heard of any of these people.
Who are they?
They're just like very peripheral.
Widely reported hidden camera recordings that also just recently came out were published by undercover investigators from the British-based Center for Climate Reporting.
And these showed a series of total mask-off statements from one of the plan's architects, Russell Voigt.
Believing on July 24th that he was pitching a family of wealthy potential conservative donors, Voight complained about the GOP not embracing what he called Christian nation-ism strongly enough.
And he dismissed Trump playing dumb about Project 25 as just being politically expedient, saying that Trump was actually very supportive and had given the Heritage Foundation his blessing.
Yeah, really good work by those undercover reporters, too.
I don't know if I would have the ability to just sit with these people and pretend like I'm on their side.
And the fact that they were able to put it off, and if you haven't seen, this is again, this is separate footage from what was covered in ProPublica, the training videos.
If you have not seen that, we'll include in the show notes.
It is a fantastic report.
Yeah, to just straight face that whole thing and then ask very like innocent leading questions.
Oh, so what about?
It's really good.
It's really good.
He also talked openly in response to some of those innocent questions about supporting Trump's ability to deploy the military.
Both to deal with the crisis at the border and in situations that may be similar to the 2020 George Floyd protests in the future.
So, Voigt is a former Trump cabinet member, as you flagged, Derek.
And as it turns out, he was also the policy director for the incarnation of the RNC that rewrote the GOP platform this year.
But yeah, Trump doesn't know the guy.
So with that context, let's move on to the media that we're analyzing today, shall we?
As I said, these are leaked training videos designed to prepare and orient Trump loyalists before they enter office.
The set that we're looking at here is what you might imagine a conservative think tank would use.
It looks somewhat academic, like your father's study, if your father was a conservative judge or a constitutional scholar.
You know, there are books on the shelves.
There's ancient looking scrolls on the table next to them.
There's like this framed black and white photo portrait on the shelves and then seated in two kind of understated, antique looking upholstered chairs, you know, all leather and wood.
Hi, I'm Katie Sullivan, and just a normal American woman.
But to the left, that makes me a cisgendered, ethno-imperialist, birthing person with pronouns she-her.
Words like that are quite a mouthful, and it's one America needs to spit out before we choke on it.
Bethany, are your children afraid of monsters in the attic or under the bed?
Yeah, they have been, but we always tell them that they do not exist.
Today we have news.
There are monsters in Uncle Sam's attic.
It's the words, phrases, definitions that are used, which may look like one thing, but absolutely mean another.
And it is scary.
I just want to be in that production meeting where they're like, I think we'll start if we'll make it.
Well, first of all, we'll make a whole joke about like all these woke words that we're going to have to memorize that sound really like weird and intellectual.
And then let's let's make it relatable and talk about monsters in the attic as as two moms.
And then let's say there really are monsters, even though we tell our kids that there aren't any.
Yeah, and people who are listening to this on our podcast feed and not watching on YouTube, we did make a video and we are including those clips.
And you set up the room really well before, but you really need to see the environment that these were produced in to get the full feel.
Okay, so we're talking about Katie Sullivan, who introduced herself.
She was appointed as the Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs in 2019, which is part of Trump's brilliant strategy of appointing people to departments that they would seek to undermine as part of their work there.
She's a former judge in Colorado State Court.
She spent a lot of her career working in the area of domestic abuse and violence against women.
So, of course, she's a big Trump supporter.
She's talking to Bethany Cosma, who actually had a very controversial tenure as a Deputy Chief of Staff for the U.S.
Agency of International Development.
As a Christian, anti-trans, pro-life activist, she was in the news a lot in this role.
For example, the Trump administration sent her to the largest conference on gender equality, which is the UN's Commission on the Status of Women.
And at that conference, She kind of brags about how she reaffirmed the U.S.'
's commitment to sovereignty in another one of these videos as part of how she criticized any U.N.
policy that sought to provide contraception and abortion access to women in the developing world.
I also want to point out, even just from this clip, no one talks that way as she opens up with birthing person.
I mean, maybe like four people do.
And this is a conversation we have a lot about how language is policed and being on the left and the flexibility of language, for example, because I do agree that sometimes Far leftists go a little bit overboard in their policing of language.
Like, I'm not arguing that, but the words she strung together were just nonsense.
And I was hiking last weekend with my good friend and we were actually talking about sort of tone policing and language policing.
And we were talking about the corrections that happened when sometimes some people go too far, but in that process, they uncover real biases that we need to confront.
And he brought up in the 1990s, When his sister came out to him as gay, and she is now married to a woman.
And that was no problem with anyone in his family, but she had been grappling with it for a while.
And he had just been talking and mentioned the word fag and conversation.
Because again, remember, this is like the early 1990s.
That was a word that was used on just about every hip-hop album at the time.
And she stopped him and said, that's when she actually came out to him and said, just so you know, the woman you met recently is actually my girlfriend.
And he never used the word again after that day.
And eventually the culture caught up and that word is no longer in circulation except for real true bigots.
And I bring that up because that's a really good example of how language isn't being policed.
It's just like, hey, let's rethink how we're using language.
And the right, what they do is they conflate all of that.
They just take any perceived slight at words they want to continue to use, and then they bunch them all together to make it seem like it's this overwhelming problem, when really it's not.
And if there's any political party right now that's trying to dominate and control language, It is actually them, as the future clips that we're going to play are going to bear out.
Yeah, there's one party that's actually doing censorship and that's actually cancelling people, and it's not the Democrats.
Yeah, and she really gives the game away because she says, I'm just a normal woman.
But to the left, I'm a white cisgender ethno-nationalist birthing person.
It's like no one is going to string that set of like words together.
Sometimes people might use one of those terms in a specific context.
And yeah, I find it kind of cringe too.
And she is white and cisgender.
What's the problem with saying that?
There's there's absolutely no issue with that.
She is normal.
The tell is the very next word is ethnonationalist.
And so that kind of gives you an idea of where sympathies actually lie.
Yeah.
All right.
So this is all really pertinent because this particular training video focuses on being kind of a helpful primer to these incoming people potentially into Trump's second administration about how the left Deceptively uses language to change culture.
This is a phrase they come back to again and again.
Change the language, change the culture.
So in this next clip, we're transitioning now from our hosts encouraging these new appointees to make a stand for a culture of life, speaking of language games, and to push back against language like reproductive freedom or choice when career public servants try to gaslight them.
And this, they'll then say, is a similar tactic to what the left uses to push another dishonest obsession.
So listen.
Bethany, it's incredible how the left is able to make killing children and babies a pro-movement.
I mean, their narrative is just incredible and so opposite of what the reality of the situation is.
We see that also with environment.
Right?
They're calling it climate change.
Now, I always understood that climate change meant seasons.
Our climate does change all the time, but of course that's not what's meant by the left.
What do you think about all of, about the left's words and definitions in, in, in the environment?
That's a great point, Katie.
They don't stop.
Climate change, allegedly, is everywhere.
And if the American people elect a conservative president, his administration will have to eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere.
And, according to our intelligence community, the number one threat facing our country today is, drumroll, climate change.
Not Russia.
Not China.
Not AI.
Climate change.
This shows how the federal government is all in on this issue.
And climate change activists wield a lot of power.
This is an issue to pay attention to as it has infiltrated every part of the federal government.
Now, when I think of climate change, I immediately think of population control, don't you?
I think about the people who don't want you to have children because of the impact on the environment.
Perhaps not everyone will make that connection, but after spending time in the international space trying to protect life, I can tell you that this is part of their ultimate goal to control people.
Donald Trump recently came out and said that he kept insulin at $35, which is just not true.
He just made that shit up because Biden actually did it.
He also started using Beyonce's song Freedom at his rallies, saying that Kamala Harris was actually stole it from him.
He was using it first.
Provenly untrue.
So this is a party that just lies.
The left Has never endorsed killing children.
That's just, it's so absurd that, but this is, this goes back to moral panics and QAnon and everything we see, eating babies, all that's just jumbled together.
They're calling it climate change.
Researchers and scientists have been calling it that for a long, we didn't like global warming, so we have something else.
And yes, it actually is everywhere.
Although, as we know, the people who are going to suffer most from it are usually in economically underdeveloped areas.
So there's that we have to grapple with.
The idea that climate change activists wield a lot of power?
Yeah, because of all those great regulations you see that are always coming down.
Actually, Biden has installed some actual legislation, but not nearly enough to make a difference.
And as a global society, we're not actually making enough of an impact to overturn the effects of climate change.
And it's all capped off by this religious nature of her response, this fear of population control.
And what she's really saying is, we need to birth more Christian babies.
I mean, that underlies all of Project 2025 and part of their Just frenetic response to the idea that we are actually seeing population decline in certain countries isn't that we need to actually populate more.
It's not that we need smart immigration policies to fill in economic gaps because of a declining population.
It's that we need to produce as many religious people as possible for whatever fucking perceived, like, ascension moment that they're going to have sometime in the future.
Yeah, you know, Derek, I spared you because I actually cut out a whole probably it was probably like 30 full seconds of this brain numbingly stupid summary that Katie Sullivan gave about how when I grew up, we were told by the environmentalist that another ice age was coming.
And then that acid rain was going to kill us all.
And then they called it global warming.
And then we had the coldest winter we've had in decades.
And so now they're calling it climate change.
And is climate change everywhere?
Well, yeah.
Tell me somewhere outside of our climate.
And have the intelligence agencies identified it as a major threat?
Hmm.
Maybe that means you should consider that there's something serious going on here.
But no, it's all part of a big conspiracy to stop white ladies from having lots of babies.
And it is making a big impact.
I mean, one of the most fucked up stories I've read in years, and this was years ago, was how in the Arctic Circle, because of all the ice breaking up, there's no control of shipping lanes.
So they are, Russia and the U.S.
and countries are sending in giant ships to break up ice to create shipping lanes so they'll have faster access for trade.
So this is a global problem in every possible meaning of that word.
Communist.
One impression that I can't shake here.
One impression I can't shake is there's like this Sunday school teacher vibe.
And if you're watching on video, you really know what I'm talking about here.
And it's like simple language and preachy delivery, complete with Bethany's exaggerated facial features.
Like she's, she's really doing that, that overacting thing that we criticized.
I forget the lady's name, the woman who did the response to the State of the Union, right?
It's that very pained, like intense Christian, Sunday school teacher like delivery and acting style.
It feels also like all of this means that they're assuming the new appointees who will watch these videos are kind of childlike, and they'll have no experience in government whatsoever, or maybe any other career for that matter, which, you know, it's kind of is the strategy.
Let's go to the next topic.
This is how the left apparently wants to confuse us all by making the crisis at the southern border about human rights using their pesky language tricks.
Human rights and border security.
So rights, rights, rights.
The left is always coming up with new rights.
In the Trump administration, we countered human rights with unalienable rights.
The careers went absolutely crazy at USAID.
But thankfully, President Trump had established a commission on unalienable rights at the State Department.
And we would just point back to the commission.
Sadly, our founding documents were not sufficient.
But thankfully, the commission was.
The left has bought into the globalist vision of a borderless world and their language choices reflect that.
The left loves to say that illegal aliens are undocumented.
That is simply not the case.
If an alien has not gone through the appropriate process for obtaining a visa to enter the United States or otherwise followed United States law to enter the United States, they are illegally here.
Period.
Hard stop.
Calling illegal aliens undocumented immigrants is the intellectual equivalent of calling someone who breaks into your house in the middle of the night an undocumented homeowner.
It is inaccurate and it is designed to be inaccurate.
All right. I am going to language police here.
A period is a hard stop.
You're being redundant.
But but given what that was explaining, they're still undocumented, even if they're illegal.
So it's just this circular reasoning that she's doing that doesn't actually make sense.
She's just proving what she's trying to disprove.
It's really hard to follow these people sometimes when they try to run circles around what language is and how it's functioning.
And again, changing our language is a healthy practice.
They said new rights.
That is the history of this country, is extending rights when we realize that we've had bad policies in the past.
But again, these are people who don't want to confront, as we'll hear soon, critical race theory at all.
So they wouldn't ever want to think about anything that challenges the notions of the past, and therefore they feel that they don't ever have to actually update their language.
Yeah, the inalienable rights of the Constitution that you're parroting, you know, as if they're sort of lines of verse from the Bible, didn't extend the vote to women.
They didn't extend the vote to black people.
They were written in the time of slavery.
So, yeah, we've The history of this country is one of new rights and actually that's what has made us the shining city on the hill that all these immigrants want to come and benefit from as, you know, elucidated in the plaque on the Statue of Liberty, for fuck's sake.
This is all part of a longer discussion in which Bethany and Katie do all of the typical immigration fear-mongering and demonization.
You heard that whole, Democrats are globalists who want completely open borders, canard.
Yeah, because that's part of every speech that Kamala Harris gives.
We want open borders.
We're just globalists.
What are you even talking about?
And we know that globalists also is an anti-Semitic kind of dog whistle.
But the truth is, the crisis on our border has a lot more to do with the aftermath of COVID and the economic impacts of climate change and the exploitation of the global South.
It has to do with the border having been very strictly closed down through the first phase of COVID and then returned to more standard protocols by Biden once the quarantine measures were fully lifted everywhere else.
There are more people trying to get across because of these different things that are going on in the world, not because Democrats want open borders.
But if you look at the data, the total encounters with people entering illegally by border police The data says that Biden sent a slightly higher percentage of those people back where they came from than Trump ever did.
And in fact, Barack Obama still holds the record for total deportations during a presidential administration.
Even as he sought to apply the DREAM Act, which compassionately gave people who had entered the country illegally as minors an actually quite stringent path to citizenship, right?
Like, they had to jump through all kinds of hoops, including education and paying taxes and, you know, a whole set of things, being in good standing with the law.
Now, the rate of deportations is nothing to be proud of, but there are some facts here that disprove this nonsensical narrative about Democrats.
All right, so now we get to, of course, Bethany Cosma's absolutely favorite topic.
The idea that gender is fluid is evil, and it is a major initiative of the Biden administration.
It's layered into each and every office, document, task force, and funding priority.
Perhaps most commonly known are the changes to Title IX giving institutions, schools control over children and their gender preference, working against parents, mandating boys compete against girls.
This is all done with words.
Words matter.
Change the words, change the culture.
Words matter.
Change the words, change the culture.
It's almost new-agey.
It's almost postmodern, Jordan Peterson.
You know, words have the power to manifest reality.
Or, to paraphrase Jordan Peterson's arch-nemesis, the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, there is no reality outside of the text.
It's all just about the language and the context, right?
But here, it's actually the same kind of scriptural fetish these folks have for biblical literalism and for following the Constitution to the letter, and then sometimes for the conviction that so-called sovereign citizens don't have to pay taxes or submit to the U.S.
legal system.
It's all about the language, right?
And if they just say the magic words from some ancient document, they'll get out of trouble somehow.
They'll get out of jail free.
It's like they think that trans people will cease to exist if you just get rid of all of the words in our official documents that refer to them.
It's just like the climate crisis.
Just take out any reference to climate change and we're all going to be fine.
I wonder what other words have this nefarious power.
Project 2025 perpetuates the right-wing narrative that any attempts to support minorities and remedy the long-term effects of institutional racism are, in fact, forms of racism.
The language of this is embedded in government documents, and the job of appointees, they say, the ones who are going to be watching these training videos, is to identify it, to fight against it, and to root it out.
I'm also seeing a pattern here, which is these people have no ability or desire to update their understanding of reality.
And I want to take this briefly in two parts, because it often gets conflated by anti-trans activists.
But first off, there's the question of gender and gender identity.
And we know that their gender is fluid and that biological sex, there are two sexes, but then even within that there are intersex people throughout the animal kingdom that is a phenomenon.
And they are completely unwilling to even entertain the fact that some people might have questions about their gender or if they have intersex parts then that would also make them question their actual identity.
You were exactly right.
Remove the language and therefore those people will stop existing, even though we know in countries like Thailand and in Mexico that there have been people who have been fluidly gender for many centuries.
So, that's the first one.
Then it gets into this question, which they conflate it with, which is sex.
And recently I was talking to my wife about this because we saw a post where someone was talking about coaching their son or the son was talking about having been coached about how to go on a date as a 13 year old.
And I thought about my own upbringing and At least me as a Gen Xer in my circle of friends, we really didn't have that.
Our parents were kind of like, yeah, go out in the world.
Don't be stupid.
And then so I was talking to my wife who's lived in France a few times.
She has a degree in French literature and then she was also a teacher there.
And it's a completely different environment from her experiences where parents do coach their children about approaching women for sex, for example, or about taking people on dates.
And I know Well, that does also exist in this country, but just not nearly to the level, at least in my generation, that I've seen before.
So the idea that people are doing that is very healthy given all of the misogyny and the Andrew Tate's having influence.
There's a hole because parents So my question though, I have all of these things in my head, but I'm not a parent.
So in some ways I'd be like, oh, I would do it differently, but I'll never find that out.
So it's really a moot point.
But from my perspective, I would think you would want to start talking, and again, I don't want to conflate these topics because we're talking about sex on one hand and then gender identity on another.
But I would think it would be important to introduce those concepts earlier in life than later when people already have all those neurons wired in specific ways to think about reality.
So as a parent, what are your thoughts on that?
I don't know if we need a specific age, but How would you imagine these topics being approached in a way that could create a healthier relationship to these topics?
One thing I know for sure, the standard conservative Christian notion that we should have abstinence-only sex education is an absolute disaster, right?
And it's based in denial.
It's based in this idea that somehow your kids will never learn about sex, will never talk about sex, will never have sex, if you just never mention it to them.
And that way you'll stop them from ever doing it.
Or if you do mention it to them, you tell them it's a sin, you'll go to hell, you can only do it once you're married, you can only do it in these particular ways that are heterosexual and maybe like eliminate certain acts that are deemed unacceptable.
So that's crazy.
We definitely, kids definitely need to learn all of these topics that you're talking about, right?
These are each sort of different topics.
I think that most reasonable people agree that there's a kind of scaffolding, right?
That you start with basic information and you build from there in age appropriate ways.
So I'm not in favor of like, you know, I would I don't want my six-year-old daughter coming home and having a whole set of explicit questions about, you know, the mechanics of sex and different types of sex that people have.
And, you know, I don't know that she needs.
And for me, it actually does all shade.
These topics all do shade into one another.
I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with her knowing, for example, about if her teacher I mean, my daughter's nanny is gay.
So she knows that her nanny, who she's super close with, has a wife and that they are two ladies and that they live together and they've been together for 20 years.
And that's all normalized for her.
And I think that's really healthy.
I would feel the same way if she had a friend at school who had gay parents or if her teacher was gay.
I think when you start getting into really complex questions about identity and sexual preference, maybe that comes a little later.
You know, it's necessary to be talked about and learned about in a really open and compassionate and non judging way.
But I think that there are also People coming at this from the opposite angle of the abstinence only sex education kind of Christian model, who are saying, you know, no, from, you know, maybe as young as eight or nine years old, we should have books in school that, you know, teach things that are with diagrams that are actually pretty explicit.
And I think they might just be confusing and maybe even scary.
Like there are things about Sex and the variety of sex that people have that takes some getting used to.
I don't know that kids necessarily need to learn a ton of explicit detail really early on.
But just saying it is wrong is definitely not the path forward.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
Because it's natural and it's going to come up.
I mean, in fact, I'll share with you, we learned from one of my daughter's teachers a few days ago that a boy who we know really likes her, and again, these are six-year-olds, stole some kisses from her at school on the cheek.
And it was like, oh, OK, that's interesting.
I guess we're going to have to talk about this a little bit.
I'm going to talk about boundaries and consent in a way that's really understandable to her.
And the next day when I dropped her off, I saw the little boy's mother.
And so I went over to her and I said, hey, how's it going?
You know, I heard your little boy stole some kisses from my daughter.
Let's talk about it.
And she was really nervous that I was going to be angry about it or that it was offensive and that it was dangerous.
And, you know, I just said to her, This is natural.
They're kids.
You know, he really likes her.
Let's just keep talking about it.
That's the answer.
Let's just keep talking about it.
And if anything problematic comes up, we'll address it.
But they're kids.
When you first framed it that way, I thought you meant Hershey's Kisses and I would be really pissed if someone stole my chocolate.
Yeah, then we'd have an issue.
All right, what's our last clip, Julian?
So this last clip, as I was setting up a minute ago, is about institutional racism and the problems with the language that the left uses to try to somehow confuse and manipulate people.
Let's see.
Certain words and phrases used together have hidden definitions.
A really good example is social emotional learning.
That's actually the new buzzword for CRT or critical race theory.
Equity no longer means All men are created equal, the cornerstone of our U.S.
Constitution.
It is more of a competition of what class is more of a victim so that particular class can receive the preferential treatment being handed out and mandated by the Biden administration.
Oh, no.
Learning socially and emotionally.
Comedists.
Satanic.
How terrible and frightening is that?
The triune brain model is contentious in neuroscience, but it does give a general map of how the brain works.
And it's pretty well founded that the brainstem, the oldest part of our cognition-based system, basically, That is why no matter how much we pontificate over philosophy, if you hit the right emotional chord with someone, it will be much more effective.
how does that translate into humans, it means we will always be and learn emotionally first.
That is why no matter how much we pontificate over philosophy, if you hit the right emotional
chord with someone, it will be much more effective, and that's really important.
So in the context of what she's talking about with equity, we're just saying we have historically
not treated non-white people very well in America.
That is the basis of critical race theory.
It's like, we've fucked with a lot of people, specifically in this case, black people, but it's also any minority.
And because of that, we have created systems that still privilege white people.
How can we fix that?
So, when she says equity no longer means that all men are created equal, it is the opposite.
We are trying to create an equity in which we actually recognize and implement systems in which we honor the fact that all men and women are created equal.
And the victim is the one who is afraid of losing that privilege.
No, absolutely.
We are trying to create an equity in which we recognize that indeed all human beings are created equal, but they don't all start from the same place on the playing field.
And so analyzing where people are starting from based on how we got here is part of trying to foster a more equitable society.
And the idea that this is all stemming from critical race theory in the first place is something popularized by Christopher Rufo, who then did that very infamous tweet where he said, we have successfully frozen their brand.
And it's like, critical race theory is an academic graduate study course.
It's not something that's being taught in schools, even though you may trace some of the ideas back to some aspects of what critical race theorists have said.
And I have to say, I love what Michelle Obama did the other night at the Democratic National Convention, because she took language and flipped it, the affirmative action of generational wealth.
So to these women and all of Project 2025, fuck you, because we can update language.
And what a perfect framing for understanding how affirmative action, what it aspires to be and why it was implemented, but also how it's manipulated by the people Yep, and she said Kamala Harris is not someone who could continue to fail forward again and again and again with the safety net of daddy's hundreds of millions of dollars.
So, I've watched several of the other videos in this series, I'm sad to say.
It's worth noting that 29 of the 36 speakers in these videos, including Katie Sullivan and Bethany Cosma, Worked previously in the Trump administration.
I'll close with a quote from another guy who also worked for Trump.
This is Dan Huff, and he previously worked as a legal advisor for Trump's presidential personnel office.
So in his video, here's what he says to potential new appointees.
If the next Republican president does not execute a dramatic course correction, there may never be another chance.
If you're not on board with helping implement a dramatic course correction because you're afraid it'll damage your future employment prospects, it'll harm you socially.
Look, I get it.
That's a real danger.
It's a real thing.
But please do us all a favor and sit this one out.
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