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RNC, Trump Immunity, Project 2025, and More · Project 2028

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Hello and welcome to episode 3 of Project 2028.
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On today's episode, we will be talking about the RNC, religion and public schools, Joe
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Biden and more.
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We will also be deep diving into Project 2025.
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For the deep dive portion of this podcast, please skip to around 20 minutes into the
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episode.
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Today's episode will be hosted by Luchana and myself.
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Ryan is at sleepaway camp, but he should be returning for our next episode.
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I'm sure he misses you all very much and he'll be excited to update you guys when we get
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back.
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The first topic we will be talking about in the general recap portion of this episode
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will be the Republican National Convention or the RNC.
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The RNC will be taking place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this year from July 15th to the
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18th.
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Here party delegates from all 50 states and 6 U.S. territories will officially select
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nominees for president and vice president.
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Former President Donald Trump will most likely be nominated and the decision by Republicans
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to hold the convention in Wisconsin was one that was strategically thought out.
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This is because this state has been a big deciding factor as to who will be president
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and it is a pretty much toss up state because in the 2020 election, President Joe Biden
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won the state by less than one percentage point.
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And current public polls are showing that it will be another close race between the
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two candidates.
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Yeah, and the Republican National Committee has announced themes for each of the four
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days.
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These themes are all about different ones of Trump's policies or different things that
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they would hope to change if a Republican was elected president.
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So Monday will focus on the economy, how Trump could turn the page on Biden's economic agenda.
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Tuesday will outline Trump's policies to target crime and support law enforcement.
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Wednesday will feature plans to stem immigration at the southern border and improve foreign
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policies.
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And Thursday will center on Trump's overall strategies for strengthening the country.
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Also on the 17th, the second to last day, whoever Trump chooses as his vice presidential
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candidate will give a speech and the last day, former President Trump himself will give
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a speech.
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Also, a big part of the convention is free publicity.
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So it gives a platform for lawmakers and legislators to share their views and opinions.
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The second topic we are going to be talking about is religion in public schools.
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In our first episode, we talked about Louisiana and the Ten Commandments and how they are
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putting the Ten Commandments into all public school classrooms.
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Now we are going to Oklahoma and their teaching of the Bible in public schools.
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So this is really interesting because the Oklahoma law already explicitly allows Bibles
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in the classroom and allows teachers to use them in instructions.
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So there's nothing to stop a history teacher from giving a lesson about Moses.
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And recently the state superintendent, Ryan Walters, said all public schools in the state
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must teach the Bible.
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So that's like starting in kindergarten but mostly in emphasis on fifth through eighth grade.
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And it wants them to infuse it into all aspects.
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So again, like a lesson on Moses in history class, but also it wants lessons in science
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and even math class too.
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So I think one of the questions this raises is how is that separating church and state?
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Because many people feel that kids have to go to school.
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And most of the time they end up in public school, but it's really, some people think
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that it's not fair for people who aren't Christian to have their kids being, to have their kids
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learning about the Bible in public schools.
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And many people could argue, well this is part of history, but then the counter argument
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to that is why aren't they learning about Judaism?
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Why aren't they learning about Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam?
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So I think that's just something really interesting to think about.
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Al, do you have any thoughts?
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No, I really agree with everything you said.
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Yeah, it's really a big question.
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We've seen this throughout the US and even in our federal government, not just state
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government, how there are ideas and we will go deeper into this when we talk about project
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2025.
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But there are ideas of pushing Christian and Catholic beliefs into public schools, which
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it's totally acceptable to have a religion and to have a religious education.
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That's why we have schools specifically for specific religions, but like you said, people
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who are not that religion and maybe don't have the same belief systems, it is not fair
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to push these beliefs onto those children.
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Another issue that this raises is whether or not it's even right by the Constitution.
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The Constitution says that we have the freedom of religion.
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That means anyone can worship any religion.
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You can worship corndogs, you can worship Greek gods, you can worship Jesus.
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But by making kids, kids are all required to go to school.
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And by putting religion in public schools, that is forcing religion, forcing one religion
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on them.
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So that's really something to think about.
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And I think that this definitely could be an issue with court cases.
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The ACLU is currently planning on suing the Louisiana government for requiring the Ten
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Commandments in public classrooms.
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So it'll be really interesting to see how this develops and whether or not it's going
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to follow through.
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Luchon, do you think that laws like these will make their way to the Supreme Court?
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I think they will.
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And I also think given how the Supreme Court is ruling, I think there's a very good chance
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it will make its way to the Supreme Court.
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And I also think there's a very good chance it would be upheld by the Supreme Court given
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the way they've been ruling recently.
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Most of the rulings by the Supreme Court have been six to three, if you are not keeping
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up with a lot of the recent cases.
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So the next topic is none other than the president himself, Joe Biden.
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He will be running for reelection, as most of you know, in the 2024 election.
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And he's had some kind of big updates recently.
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So he did release a statement saying he will continue to run against Trump, even though
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many people are pressuring him not to.
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They think that the Democratic Party would have a better chance of winning if he was,
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if they had someone else running against Trump.
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This is not just voters.
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This is also people within the party themselves.
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This is people in the federal government.
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This is people closest to Biden.
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People all over are urging him to not run for reelection.
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However, he put out a statement saying that he will continue to run.
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So this is kind of this is not even just splitting the country down party lines.
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This is splitting the party on whether or not they want Joe Biden to run.
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And so many sources very close to the president have said that the only person who could convince
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him to drop out is his wife, Dr. Joe Biden.
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And they say this because she has been such a strong ally for him and always encouraging
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him to run, like believing him.
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She is his right hand woman.
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And she really has she said, no, I fully support him.
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Like I want him to run.
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I know he can do this.
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So I think it seems pretty clear that if it's up to Mr. Biden, he will be in the race.
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Last night, Biden held a hour long press conference answering on the spot questions to prove that
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he is fit and able.
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He answered 19 questions and gave very long, very in depth answers.
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The only time we heard and saw Joe Biden slip up was when he referred to Vice President
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Harris as Vice President Trump.
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He was talking about how he is very confident in Vice President Kamala Harris's capability
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to continue to be vice president and was standing by her and what she had done these past four
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years in the position.
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But when showing his support, he mixed up the two last names.
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Trump was mocking this and Biden responded with, quote, By the way, yes, I know the difference.
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One's a prosecutor and the other's a felon.
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Biden also released a new ad about Project 2025 and he has a website dedicated to it
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and informing his party and the people who are voting for him and the Democratic Party.
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It has in that website, there is a direct link to the 900 plus page book, memoir, docu-
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Yeah, not really sure how to address it, but a direct link to the manifesto to the project
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and says, if you don't believe what we put on this website, read it for yourself in their
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own words.
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This is a very strong way to say I am not lying.
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You can fact check me.
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And it is all there.
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Everything that is on that website is also in the document.
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So then another really big update.
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This is actually super recent.
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At the time of recording this, it happened about three or four hours ago, but donors
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have frozen about 90 million dollars worth of donations if Biden stays in the race.
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So people have pledged this money to the Democratic Party, but they're saying, no, we won't give
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it if Biden is who you nominate.
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So this is a lot of pressure on Biden.
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He could be running it.
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These are like funds that could really go and help his party and they could really help
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the Democratic Party win if they had this kind of money.
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So this is a big decision for him.
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I haven't read anything about whether or not this has changed his mind, but we'll see in
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the near future what this would mean.
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And this also has opened up a lot of opportunities for a new candidate to emerge because one
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of the things that was an issue is that no candidate would have enough time to raise
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all this money so close to the race.
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We are so close and it's really hard to do all that fundraising right now.
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But then if they would have all these donations, that would make it so much easier.
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So that's something really interesting to think about.
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And I think that at the DNC, we will really see how it goes and who ends up being the
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nominee.
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So, Biden has at time of recording, Biden has a little over a month to make up his mind
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on if he will continue to run before the DNC, which is in August.
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And if you think about this, it would be really hard for a new candidate to come through,
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even if they did have all those donations, because by the time they are announced as
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the official candidate, they would literally have under three months to prepare, which
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could be a real struggle.
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But we will see how it turns out.
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So that's going to be really interesting to watch and really interesting to read about
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in the upcoming future.
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Another very important thing that happened recently regarding the presidents was that
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Donald Trump on July 1st, the Supreme Court ruled that he had some immunity in cases regarding
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the election.
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This was a 6-3 vote falling along partisan lines with judges Kagan, Sotomayor and Brown
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dissenting.
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The Sotomayor wrote the dissent with, she said, with fear for our democracy, I dissent.
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And Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority vote and he said that the president deserves
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immunity for official acts.
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So that's kind of what was ruled.
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He gets immunity for official things, but obviously not unofficial things.
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So a way to kind of think about this, because it's really hard to understand what he's protected
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from and what he isn't, is if he walked down the street and shot the guy in his local drugstore,
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he would go to jail.
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But if as a presidential act, he had someone killed and it was a matter of national security,
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that wouldn't be an issue because it's an official presidential act.
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So you can kind of see this in, because it was originally about January 6th where it
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was presidential related and they're saying like, yeah, he has some immunity to that because
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that's his discretion, what he did in office.
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On the same day, former President Trump was initially set to be sentenced, his lawyers
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argued that the recent Supreme Court ruling invalidated the verdict that the president
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was guilty of charges of falsifying records related to the hush money during his 2016
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presidential run.
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Donald Trump asked the judge who oversaw his criminal trial in Manhattan to throw out his
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felony conviction because of his immunity from prosecution for official acts that he
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took as president.
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Supplying this decision to this case might be a long shot and doesn't really have an
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official reason to use hush money in this specific case and with this specific circumstance.
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So trying to get his felony conviction thrown out while attempting to use this decision
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by the Supreme Court will not be as easy and as convincing as maybe Trump and his lawyers
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thought.
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His lawyer did argue that the District Attorney's Office built its case on evidence from his
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time in the White House and they note that in the recent ruling, the Supreme Court held
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that prosecutors cannot cite most evidence involving official acts to prove accusations
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about private misconduct.
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This is a really strong point from his lawyers and I think it will cause some questions on
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what Trump is allowed to do and what is considered an official act and what is considered necessary
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to do his job properly as a former president or what allowed him to do his job while he
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was president.
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So this isn't typically what we talk about but it is kind of has to do with international
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affairs and also just things that are happening in the world and taking a toll on people.
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The weather recently has been really intense.
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Hurricane Barrel has came through the Caribbean and it has been so tragic for so many people
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there.
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It has wiped out most of the beautiful islands of Grenada and Jamaica and it has left 11
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people dead and 20,000 people homeless from this and all its destruction.
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So just because that number might not register, that is one sixth of the population of Grenada
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that has lost their homes because of this hurricane.
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In the U.S., Hurricane Barrel has caused Texas has been having power outages.
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Houston is currently without power and other U.S. states such as Vermont and New Hampshire
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are also facing flooding and power outages due to the hurricane.
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In Las Vegas and Nevada, we have seen for the past three days temperatures over 100
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degrees and it is not looking like the temperature is going to drop anytime soon.
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It was actually a record-breaking heat in Las Vegas of 120 degrees, which is just ugh.
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The sixth thing we are going to be talking about in our recap is the French elections.
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So the French elections, now this can be a little confusing, these were not for the president,
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these were for the parliament, so parliament seats in France and French held their parliamentary
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elections from Sunday, June 3rd to Sunday, July 7th.
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The left won the most seats, but they still don't have a majority.
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So there's three parties, which means even if you have the most seats out of any party,
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you might not have a majority.
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And none of the parties had the 289 out of 557 seats that they need.
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577.
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Sorry, 577.
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Thank you very much, Elle.
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Words are not wording right now.
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And these are for their national assembly, which is the most powerful part of their legislative
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branch.
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The last thing we are going to be talking about for this section of the podcast is Boeing,
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the plane company, pleading guilty to fraud in the 737 Max crashes.
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So Boeing will have a felony conviction.
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They are pleading guilty to fraud in connection with approval of its 737 Max before two of
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the planes crashed, killing 346 people off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia.
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This deal is not a promised option, and there is the possibility where they will not have
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the plea deal that they are hoping for.
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Relatives of some of the passengers who were killed have said that they will ask the federal
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judge in Texas to throw out the agreement.
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They say it's too lenient considering how many lives were lost and how much grieving
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is being done by 346 families that no longer have their loved ones with them.
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Prosecutors say Boeing will pay another $243.6 million fine matching the fine it paid in
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2021 for the same crime.
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The Justice Department says that a conviction for fraud will hold Boeing accountable for
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misstatements it made to regulators who certified the 737 Max in 2017.
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The crashes that are being tried took place less than five months apart in 2018 and 2019.
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Okay now let's dive right in to Project 2025.
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So as you probably guessed in our deep dive section of today's podcast, we will be talking
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about Project 2025.
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We are going to go over who supports it, what it is, the four main points of what it will
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do and other things outlined by the plan, and then some questions and concerns that
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we personally have and other people have that we've heard being talked about in people from
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obviously both parties and obviously all over the age scale.
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So LaTrona let's jump straight into who supports it.
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So this is kind of an interesting thing because no one from the Democratic Party really supports
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this and even a lot of people from the Republican Party think it's too extreme such as Trump
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who has tried to distance himself from Project 2025 although this doesn't always work.
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So he has said and I quote, I know nothing about Project 2025.
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I have no idea who is behind it.
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I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're saying
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are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.
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Anything they do I wish them luck but I have nothing to do with them.
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But then this was, he kind of had to eat his words because people saw a video of him shaking
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hands with the masterminds behind Project 2025 who is Kevin Roberts, the president of
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the ultra conservative far right Heritage Foundation who Trump says is doing an unbelievable
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job and so this is really interesting because this has kind of prompted a lot of discussion
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about whether or not he really has more to do with it than you might think because this
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video did surface and also even in the original quote he was saying, anything they do I wish
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them luck.
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So people are kind of trying to figure out like what does he have to do with this.
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So what is Project 2025?
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Project 2025 is a 920 page document which to put that into perspective that is a document
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that is longer than the fifth Harry Potter book.
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This collective work was made by Kevin Roberts, the director is Paul Dans and it is made by
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a bunch of different authors who are unnamed and there is an advisory board with a bunch
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of different groups for all different backgrounds.
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There's the Alabama Policy Institute, there is America First Legal Foundation, Center
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for Equal Opportunity, Family Policy Alliance, there's Hinsdale College, Keystone Policy,
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there is Susan B. Anthony Pro Life America and Young America's Foundation just to name
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a couple.
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Project 2025 was established with the goal of quote building a governing agenda not
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just for next January but for long into the future.
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This document outlines what Trump or the next conservative president will do as the president,
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as the commander in chief and the leader of the United States.
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This document is a thorough blueprint for how exactly to carry out such a vision through
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recommendations for key White House staff, cabinet positions, Congress, federal agencies,
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commissions and boards.
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The plan goes as far as to outline a vetting process for appointing and hiring the right
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people in every level of government to carry out this vision.
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So there are four main points to Project 2025, kind of in their own words the four things
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that they aim to do are restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect
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our children, dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American
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people, defend our nation's sovereignty, borders and bounty against global threats
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and secure our God-given individual rights to live freely, what our Constitution calls
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the blessings of liberty.
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So these kind of put lots of emphasis on families and very traditional Republican values such
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as self-governance and borders and also the Constitution.
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So that's kind of the four main points and then there are several specific things that
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they outline which we will get into now.
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So some key things that are outlined by the plan are to end no-fault divorce.
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So ending no-fault divorce could be a bit of an issue for some people because a no-fault
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divorce is basically when no parties at fault you don't have to prove like why something
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was wrong, you don't have to say we argue about money, you don't have to say he doesn't
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spend enough time with me, you don't have to say she doesn't make enough money, you
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don't have to say he hits me, you don't have to add any of that, you can just file for
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a divorce.
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And this is usually a good thing because it's faster, cheaper, and less stressful, you don't
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have to prove that anything specific was wrong, it also, nothing has to be wrong, you can
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just think I'm not compatible with this person, like you know, that's that.
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And it creates so much less conflict between people who need to co-parent which is really
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great because then it's not like arguing, there's a lot less hostility and so that's
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really beneficial for the kids.
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So one of the reasons why people that worked on Project 2025 really want this though is
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because it falls under their first main point which is, which is to restore the family as
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a centerpiece of American life and protect our children.
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So that really, that kind of helps because these people that are working on this think
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that by ending no-fault divorce it'll kind of encourage parents or couples who love each
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other deep down to work things out instead of deciding like, you know, what we can get
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a divorce so we're going to.
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Which they're both interesting points to think about and you can kind of see where they're
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coming from because it comes from their point of the families but then it can also be a
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bit of an issue, it can be an issue with the families on both sides, it can lead to hostility
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or it can lead to the families staying together so there's a lot to think about in regards
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to this.
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Another thing outlined by the plan is a complete ban on abortions without exceptions.
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This is something that is a very common topic when it comes to the two different presidential
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candidates and the two sides and how their opinions on abortion really oppose each other.
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Now we're not going to go too deep into the pros and cons of banning abortion as that
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could be talked about for the entire episode and more.
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One of the pros of banning all abortions with no exceptions that is often brought up in
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conversations about abortion is it forces people to think more about what they're doing
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and if they're ready to welcome a life into this world before they get into an intimate
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relationship or even just a regular relationship with anybody and it really makes people think
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about why they choose to do what they are doing and it goes past just the topic of getting
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an abortion or not.
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One of the cons to banning abortion and specifically with no exceptions is that in cases of rape
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or incest that child will have to be born and that can cause in medical issues and trauma
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to the baby and the mother, also in cases where the fetus or the child depending on
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the stage has a medical issue and they will not live after they are born it can cause
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a lot of complications and with the statement of having no exceptions to this abortion ban
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is a major thing that concerns pro-choice peoples and groups.
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Another thing laid out by the plan is to ban contraceptives.
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So banning contraceptives could mean everything from birth control to condoms so that would
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mean that you couldn't get an oral pill or any form of implant for women and it could
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mean for men that condoms aren't allowed but I'm not sure how far through this is going
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to go into what types of birth control it's going to reach to because in the past condoms
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haven't been challenged as frequently as the others and different parties have divided
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opinions on this so some pros of banning contraceptives could be kind of like Elle said it kind of
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forces people to think before they get into an intimate relationship.
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Some cons of banning contraceptives, if someone is looking to not get an abortion but still
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avoid getting pregnant, getting rid of contraceptives eliminates that option and if you were to
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ban abortion like they want to you would have no option other than to if you get pregnant
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carry a child to term.
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Another con is contraceptives such as birth control, the pill that you take orally is
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not just used to prevent getting pregnant it is also used for things such as stopping
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and controlling periods and acne and other things like that.
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Another thing laid out by the plan is additional tax breaks for corporations and 1% higher
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taxes for the working class.
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Another thing talked about in project 2025 is elimination of unions and worker protections.
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They also want to cut social security and cut Medicare, raising prescription drug prices.
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They also would like to eliminate the Department of Education and teach Christian religious
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beliefs in public schools along with ending free and discounted school lunch programs.
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The teaching of Christian religious beliefs in public schools is something we have already
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seen a little bit with Louisiana and Oklahoma.
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So banning school lunch programs could be really detrimental for many underprivileged
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students because not all of them get a good breakfast or dinner at home and it would be
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denying them possibly the only hot meal they get in a day and it would put them at such
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a disadvantage to more privileged peers because they can't function as well on an empty stomach.
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Also regarding schools, they would like to ban African American and gender studies in
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all levels of education and ban books and curriculum about slavery.
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There has been talk about banning curriculum about slavery for a very long time as people
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feel that white students feel guilty and they don't want them to feel the shame of what
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their ancestors may have done.
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However, it is an important part of American history that we talk about how at one point
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people were treated and what it took to in law make people equal but people still receive
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constant discrimination and the world is still so full of injustice when it comes to things
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involving race and banning the talk and the teaching about the history of slavery in our
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country and in the world is not doing a service to kids that need to understand why it's important
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that everyone is equal and that everyone is one in the same.
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Project 2025 also lays out a plan to end climate protections and to increase Arctic drilling.
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When the project first came out and first started receiving attention online, there
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was a lot of talk about how increasing Arctic drilling will be detrimental to climate change
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and to eliminate climate change protections that have already happened is going back on
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everything we have tried to do to keep our planet stronger for longer and to try and
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improve the state of the world right now.
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Another thing they aim to do is to end marriage equality, which basically means getting rid
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of the rights to gay marriage.
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The next point laid out is condemning single mothers while promoting the quote only traditional
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families.
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Now both this point and the previous point tie back to the first pillar and really foundational
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main point of Project 2025.
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And it's also interesting how some of their things don't line up from certain perspectives
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such as getting rid of contraceptives, abortions, yet also condemning single mothers.
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But this is kind of confusing because there's not a lot urging the fathers to be active.
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All it does is condemn single mothers, which is really interesting.
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It's definitely something to think about.
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Another thing it does is it would encourage the mass deportation of immigrants and incarceration
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in camps.
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And it would also end birthright citizenship.
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So you're not a citizen just because you're born here.
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If your parents were immigrants and you're born here, that wouldn't mean you're a citizen,
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according to this, which could be really a big issue because something that so many people
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know about the United States.
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This goes against the Constitution.
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It is one of our amendment given rights.
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But the amendments are, they amend the Constitution.
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They are one of the important laws that are laid out by the Constitution.
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And to get rid of an amendment, it is a very hard and lengthy process.
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And the only reason to end birthright citizenship is to limit who is allowed to become a citizen
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in our country.
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And the US is a country that has not always been equal.
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But as of right now, it is a country that is seen as, you know, you have freedom, you
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have equality, and really the American dream.
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But if you cannot become a citizen for whatever reason someone might think of when you take
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your citizen's test, that is not an equal opportunity for all.
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Yeah, I think I was completely right with everything she said there.
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I don't think people understand.
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George Washington wasn't born a citizen.
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George Washington was literally an immigrant.
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Like the foundation of our country was immigrants, which is really interesting.
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I think if you're an American, you're either descended from immigrants or from Native Americans,
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neither of whom have been treated very well in the past.
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And also, by ending birthright citizenship, like that's just so, the United States has
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been such a refuge for so many countries for so long, it's really hard to like deny people
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that right, especially when it is literally in the Constitution, so that we could never
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deny people that right.
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And the last important point on there that we'll discuss today is that they would like
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to ban Muslims from entering the country, which could be a huge issue for so many people,
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again, seeking refuge or wanting citizenship.
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To ban an entire ethnicity of people, it is very unethical.
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And in today's day and age, it is really unheard of and really unnecessary.
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And it doesn't seem as though it helps benefit anyone in the US.
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So seeking refuge in the US and people who are asking for our help to provide them the
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option to start a new life and to continue to live their only life here on earth.
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And this is something where this is just not, it's not like this hasn't been done before.
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It has.
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In the 1940s, 50s, many Japanese people were not allowed in the country simply because
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they were Japanese, which is so horrible that people generalized an entire group saying
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like, because this one bad thing happened, which it was undoubtedly tragic, but they
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generalized an entire group saying like, because this happened, we're not letting any of you
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in, which is really what they're doing right now with Muslim people.
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They're saying like, because these couple bad things happened, we're not letting any
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of you in.
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There's no more good people.
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And that is just so horrible that we're not learning from the mistakes of the past.
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And honestly, this is a trend.
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It seems like we'll continue if Project 2035 follows through with, for instance, banning
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African American and gender studies or curriculum about slavery.
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Like, there's nothing to stop us from repeating the mistakes of the past.
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