Projectile Varmint

​This will be blessedly short.  Especially by the standards of this website.

Yes, it’s well-established that Trump throws so much garbage at the wall almost every day, people have to spend their time ducking to avoid being splattered and overwhelmed by it.  As a result, Most Things Trump get buried under the mountain of bilge or fall through the cracks.  And so, I find it valuable to occasionally reach back to what everyone knows, but maybe lost sight of, overwhelmed by reality piling up around them.

Today’s reminder is Trump saying throughout the presidential campaign that he has noooo idea what Project 2025 is, he has noooooooo idea who wrote it (despite having dozens of its authors  working on his campaign), he has nooooooo idea what’s in it.  He doesn’t know Project 2025.

And that’s worth remembering because pretty much all the garbage that Trump has been throwing at the wall, overwhelming American with his mountain of trash, forcing lawsuits (most of which he loses) are part of Project 2025.  Almost all of it.

Of course, saying, “See!  Trump lied!” is a concept that lost all meaning halfway through his first term, culminating with the Washington Post documenting over 30,000 Trump lies.  But just because it’s a firmly established reality that Trump lies like other people breathe, that doesn’t mean it should be shrugged off and normalized.  You remember it and remind others so that, at the very least, among a great many reasons, there’s a foundation on which to push back.  Pick and choose your lies to remember – there are well over 30,000 of them, so the push back can be overwhelming in return.

Beyond that, though, when people see the person in charge relentlessly pleading, “I don’t knoooow” and “You’ll have to ask…” in response to non-stop problems, as Trump is now doing so regularly he’s looking enfeebled and out of touch, at a certain point they begin to wonder why are you in charge then, because the whole point of being The Most Powerful Man in the World is you’re supposed to know.

And so, just a reminder, to keep it from being buried:  when the latest Trump fascist, authoritarian, sick, harmful outrage spews its way into the world – remember it was probably part of Project 2025, the manifesto Trump said he never, ever heard of and didn’t know.

Fun Fact: one of the architects of Project 2025, Russell Vought, is currently Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget.

And while you're at at -- remember that the MAGOPs in Congress enable it all and are the ones who literally enact Project 2025 policies into law.  Making them their policies. All 922 pages.

And as a bonus, sometimes the whimsy of the gods makes linguistics and dictionaries seem like worthwhile additions to society: