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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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[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 95 points 4 months ago

Can you believe they put that thing in writing?

Absolutely.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 33 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

I know the women in my social circle are pissed

I'm curious. About what specifically? That "MAGA Manifesto" is huge.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 31 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

They are correct to worry and it's good they are finally clued in, late as it is.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Thank you for sharing. I like seeing people get engaged with stuff that matters, but not at a cost like this.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 15 points 4 months ago

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).

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

Not just the Roe overturning, but also the promises that "this won't be a complete ban" and "there will be exceptions" only for there to be complete bans with no exceptions, including unviable pregnancies that threaten the woman's life.

[-] Freefall@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Somewhere there is a site that lets you put in topics that concern you, and it pulls up page numbers and quotes from p2025 that fit. I really need to find and bookmark it for linking...

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 months ago
[-] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

Lemmy hug of death? I see a Heroku app down page.

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

Looks like that dev haven't kept it up but I've seen 2 other people announce working on it

[-] Freefall@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago
[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

Nazis always seem to be stupid enough to leave evidence around of their plans.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 months ago

Where do you think the villain monologue trope comes from? lol

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 4 months ago

I mean they do seem like a Saturday morning cartoon villain just monologuing their evil plan because they think they have the hero down for the count.

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

Worse, they think they are the heroes.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 4 months ago

I'm surprised they're not trying to sell it.

[-] Xanis@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

They haven't figured out a way to fit the whole thing on a shoe.

Just you wait.

[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

The heritage foundation LOVES smelling their own farts.

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