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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    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

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

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

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                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.

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              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/

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                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.

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

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    I’m legitimately curious how many people have actually read their document. I just started the other day and I’m about 100 pages in. I’m glad to see people are starting to realize the amount of coordination going on within the far right. Straight up playbook for stacking the cards and consolidating power to the executive branch. Borderline unconstitutional type stuff.

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      I’m confused… They did it on cameras on Jan 6th… why are some Americans still blind to it. Do they know they can listen to the trump tapes!?

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          But it’s not… Republican side isn’t anyway.

          The only ‘side,’ that wins out of ignoring Jan 6th is people who genuinely want trump to be king.

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            people who genuinely want trump to be king.

            It is my unscientific and wholly unsubstantiated hunch that some people are okay with that because they have no idea how limited the office of the President is supposed to be, and how that keeps the train on the tracks. They might have thought they were electing a virtual king this entire time.

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              They think they get what they want out of it. They are brainwashed. There is no turning back for some. There is a sunk cost fallacy that you gotta just watch them do it and hope some find their way.

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    So now that Project 2025 is unpopular and Trump is trying to distance himself from it, has anyone else found Trump’s lack of campaign promises kind of strange? Leading up to the 2016 election he made a ridiculous amount of promises. Mexico building a wall, bring back coal, lock up Hillary, repeal and replace Obamacare, balanced budget. This time around it’s very different. I can’t think of any promises he’s made. Could it be he doesn’t want to mention the promises he failed to delivered on or maybe Project 2025 is exactly what he has in mind?

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      I’m starting to think that he doesn’t care whether he wins or loses. He has a horde of sycophants following him that he can continue grifting off of from now until the end of his days.

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        I think he cares more about humiliation than almost anything else, and he sees winning as the only way to avoid not only the humiliation of losing the election but also the humiliation of facing any consequences at all for his many crimes.

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        I’m sure he cares. If he wins he can make many of his problems go away. On the other hand win or lose he can share his stake in DJT and be a billionaire. Doing so would screw over a lot of people so I doubt he will do that if he wins.

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        Yep close to 40% of the country will turn out and vote for him. He could be pulling wads of poo out of his diaper and flinging them at the audience during his rallies and this wouldn’t change. They’re rooting for their team good season or bad.

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          I think when people are in that little private booth, there will be more republicans that vote for Kamala. The only thing they have to run on anymore is immigration, but thats not working as well as everyone thinks, IMO.

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            Yeah. It’s just too bad the democrats are adopting the republican stance on that to somehow show republican voters that their representatives aren’t actually committed to keeping those promises so much as being contrarian to democrats, as if they need any more proof of that fact and will suddenly see the light, rather than simply challenging them on their outright lies and winning over the people that actually value evidence-based rhetoric.

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      It doesn’t matter. His voters believe that he’s the guy that somehow kept all the promises he made.
      Reality doesn’t really matter.

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      She seems to be doing fine, but she needs to watch out for acting giddy like she gets.

      She can really act drunk sometimes.

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        If you think expressing any emotion other than bigoted hate and manufactured outrage = “drunk”, then you’ve been watching too much Fox News. Of course, it’s no surprise that the MAGA crowd just assumes that anytime a woman laughs, she must be drunk.

        Keep it classy

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          Come on man, do we always have to do the blanket denial? I’m voting for her, but she acts goofy as shit sometimes, not just “laughs a lot” or a woman laugh.

          Lighten up, we can talk about things here, we’re among friends. Not everything is off limits.

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            Maybe someone that expresses a little authentic human joy is exactly what the American public needs right now.

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              And exactly the sort of thing that terrifies sociopaths. That’s why they’re freaking out about it. They so rarely experience joy that they think there’s something wrong with it.

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              The explosion of support she’s getting says you’re correct.

              She’s absolutely killing it, and I think her energy and positivity are a huge part of why.

              I was planning on giving an unenthused vote for Biden just as a “please not Trump” vote. I’m now planning on an excited and hopeful vote for Kamala!

              She represents a much, MUCH needed turn away from the dumpster fire we’ve let our political system become.

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              Well you’re still my friend. Let me know if you need to talk about anything, or have a bad day. I’d be happy to just listen.

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                You don’t really understand the word “no” do you or when people just aren’t that into you?

                Creepy

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        God forbid a politician enjoy life and laugh. I like how human she acts. It’s nice seeing a politician who knows how to enjoy herself

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        Remember when Howard Dean “yeeahhhharrrrgfh” ed? In excitement.

        Glad we avoided that.

        Remember when trump said “bing ding ding ding boom psheen pfoom”? To explain missile tech.

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    Let’s go! Kamala’s bringing a good energy to the table, I like to see it. I’m cautiously optimistic.

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      I definitely feel better having a presumptive nominee who actually seems to give a fuck about stopping the fascists instead of this idiocy:

      I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the good as job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about.

      Because holy fuck I was real fucking concerned he was going to sleepwalk us into a fascist government taking over after that shit.

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      First time in a long time I’ve actually been optimistic about the 2024 election. I generally vote for policy, not people. But I’d be excited to vote for Kamala Harris if she’s the eventual Democratic nominee. No doubt.

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      Acting openly horrible has been hugely successful with their base. Maybe it’s gone far enough that all the low information voters out there will start seeing how crazy things have gotten. I know the women in my social circle are pissed, and they’re pretty much all white suburban moms. That’s a group that could have a big effect here.

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          I haven’t exactly interrogated them about all the details, but there is a lot of anger about all the stuff specific to women for sure. I think the Roe overturning primed many women (and people in general) to see that this shit is serious and not just the empty political talk they’re used to mostly ignoring. They are worried it will continue to get worse and make their health care more difficult in general, not just for abortions.

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              Agreed. The cost is too much, but once my wife asked me if I’ve heard about project 2025 a few weeks ago after texting her friends, I knew it had hit some sort of critical mass with the normies (which I say with zero negativity attached to it).

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          I’ve read 103 pages so far… Nothing worth noting as extreme in this document. The left (not everyone) is just fkin stupid, ignorant, and parroting chit. No different than calling Trump Hitler, a dictator, a Nazi, a racist, a fascist etc…

          I get the tactic though.

          It’s election year. They needed to fear monger, so they chose “Project 2025”. They needed to race bait, so they needed to find a story anywhere in America about a White cop shooting a non-violent Black person - Sonya Massey. BLM isn’t falling for their chit. They’ve caught on.

          Leftist tactics are played out, same ol fkin moves as before.

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            It’s always fascinating watching people on the wrong side of history spin and justify the desires and actions of conservatives throughout the world throughout history.

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              Like leftists and the would be Trump assassin?

              BTW he was a leftist POS degenerate afterall. They’ve discovered his Gab social account. How about Ava Kris Tyson, how the leftist are making excuses and rationalizing the actions of that degenerate chomo? Hope he goes to prison and gets proper justice.

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    “Project 2025 will weaken the middle class.”

    Project 2025 will destroy the middle class. It is a guide to creating a Judge Dredd universe where the only people living in it will be the Super Rich and Super F*cking Poor. They’re not even trying to hide it.