Strange Country Ep. 284: Project 2025, Part 1
Jun 27, 2024
Project 2025 is a 920-page bloated opus about taking our fragile democracy and turning into Christian Nationalist nightmare if Trump gets back into the oval office. And Beth read it!! Well, skimmed some portions because oh my god was this bureaucratic gibberish. But that’s the point; onslaught us with so much information, we’re too numb to fight back. Listen to part one on Strange Country where Beth and Kelly detail how the Project 2025 authors, an assortment of Garbage Pail kids, pin all of society’s ills on “wokeness,” abortion, and gay people having rights. The plan is to get rid of all those things.
Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands.
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