Speaker 1: There's a very good article about the plan to make Trump dictator that is in Salon,
written by our friend Chancey de Vega. I encourage you to take a look at the article. What I want to
impress upon you right now is that the right has a much more specific and actionable plan. If Trump
is elected to make him a de facto dictator, then you might know than you might believe. Chauncey
argues in his article that Donald Trump right now in 2023, is effectively a dictator in waiting. He
has already started to threaten to put his enemies in prison and to do even worse things to them.
He's telling talking about killing them. Chance's article talks about Trump's violent and dangerous
behavior, his interview with Glenn Beck, where he says, I would imprison my enemies. Yeah, man, I
have no choice. Listen, they're doing it to us. We're going to have to do it to them. Of course,
there's no evidence that Joe Biden is doing anything when it comes to Trump's criminal charges
dropped. Donald Trump has talked about the infrastructure that his advisers are creating
in which he would implement Agenda 47 and Project 2025, and this would make Trump a
neo fascist dictator in the United States. I am rarely hyperbolic on this program.
When people call in and say, David, I'm so worried about this or that, is this a problem? I like to
say, look, let's not jump to the apocalyptic scenario yet. But what Chauncy to Vegas article
in Salon reminds us is that none of this is speculation. All of this stuff is in writing and
corporate media is not doing a good enough job of acknowledging the violent threats. And by violent,
I don't always mean physically violent. I mean ideologically violent to our democracy,
to our systems that we have. And what Chauncey do, Vega urges people, urges people to do is
to resist that first and foremost by ensuring that Donald Trump or DeSantis or whoever are not
elected in 2024. Now let's talk about Agenda 47 and Project 2025. So many of you wrote to
me about this over the last week. First, Agenda 47, Agenda 47. Trump would be the 47th president.
That's the whole gist of the number. Agenda 47 is basically the harebrained and dangerous policy
proposals that we've heard from Trump sort of over the last year, 9 to 12 months or so.
And this includes things like we'll take all the homeless people from cities, force them out into
some camp. If it's in California, it would be in the desert. If it's, I don't know, in the South,
it would be in some rural area. This is Trump's idea. We're going to force homeless people into
camps, get them out of cities where they are reducing property values. We've talked about
why it's crazy and it doesn't work. It wouldn't work. Agenda 47 calls for the death penalty for
human traffickers and drug dealers. Trump has talked about that before, and that is another
aspect to this ending birthright citizenship. You no longer are automatically a citizen if you were
born in the United States under this agenda 47. If you were born to undocumented parents saying
it rewards undocumented immigration, the Agenda 47 would also issue pardons and even a government
apology depending on which version of Trump's speech you look at. Too many of the January 6th
rioters, which is as crazy an idea as you can imagine, it would require police departments to
start doing stop and frisk if they still want to continue receiving certain types of funding. And
we've talked about the disaster that is stop and frisk. So that's Agenda 47. And that's bad enough.
But then we get to Project 2025. Project 2025 is bigger than Trump,
but Project 2025 views Trump as the tool through which it will get itself implemented. The Heritage
Foundation played a role in Project 2025. That's a right wing think tank. It has ties to fossil
fuel billionaire Charles Koch. What project 2025 does is give a set of recommendations. It gives a
personnel database and IT training opportunities. And maybe most importantly, Project 2025 has this
180 day playbook for the incoming president in 2025. Remember November 24 election inaugurated
January 2025. What happens in those first hundred and 80 days or six months? And it is absolutely
and completely crazy at the point of Project 2025 is to, quote, dismantle the administrative state.
This is a phrase Steve Bannon and others use. Many right wingers repeat it without even really
knowing what it means. The idea is, of course, undo the policies of the Biden administration and
what they call the radical left, the radical left that has very little power in the United States,
But it does it by decimating or even eliminating many elements of government. Project 2025 would
eliminate a whole bunch of the Department of Energy that is a department. And those
are offices that would be critical if we are going to ever transition off of fossil fuels.
Why would a Coke funded organization or plan want to do that? While I wonder it's cynical personal
financial interests, it would cut renewable energy deployment. It would also push for ending
birthright citizenship for U.S. born people in the U.S. with undocumented parents. It would also
issue pardons to many of the rioters. It would also require police departments to implement
stop and frisk. Much of what is in some of what is in Project 2025 violates international law.
Project 2025 is also completely unrealistic. So as usual, it is one of these ways of getting
people interested through promises that, of course, are never going to be made a reality.
So what is the point of telling you all of this? The point is that these are the stakes. They're
being clear. We don't have to you know, the right loves to say the left won't tell you,
but their real goal is to implement some kind of Marxism and to take over this and that and
propagandize in this way. And you say, well, where is the evidence of that? And they say, Well,
you've got to read between the lines with Project 2025 and Agenda 47, you don't need to read between
the lines. If they win in 2024, particularly if Trump wins in 2024, this is what they are going to
try to do. Much of it is totally unrealistic. Some of it they might actually be able to accomplish a
theocratic dictatorship based on their view of Christianity is the end goal. It's been clear
for years. A shocking number of Americans are fine with it, want it or are indifferent to it.
And if it means that they get more power, they throw the Constitution in the trash. We almost
saw them do it in January of 2021, on January 6th. So we know that they will try. It's up to
us to make sure that they don't. We'll be here throughout the entire process. I hope
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