Peter Thiel & the Heritage Foundation's Evil Plan to Complete Project 2025
Donald Trump has always been the necessary distraction
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Cliff’s Note: This is a guest post by an old friend, Devon Ricci. He makes a compelling argument, one that touches upon some things we’ve theorized here. I still need to think aspects of it over, but it’s bold and based on a lot of data points!
By Devon Nicholas Ricci
Something has been bugging me for a while. I have written long threads including, “If I were Trump,” which was a thought experiment about how I would do it if I wanted to become America’s first dictator.
The conclusion I reached was that I would have slow played it. Trump could have just sat back, watched Biden’s economy keep rolling (because Biden DID fix much of the it), played golf, not rock the boat, and build political capital for an eventual takeover in 4 years.
But that’s not what happened; Trump came in like a bull in a china shop and has been completely unhinged from the moment he took the oath he immediately intended to break.
In the last 7 months Trump has done the exact opposite of every single campaign promise he made to his cult-like following. Including:
⁃ Lowering inflation (increased astronomically through illegal and reckless trade wars)
⁃ Ending wars in Ukraine and Israel (Trump has actively made those conflicts worse)
⁃ Not starting new wars (chose to bomb Iran and has threatened to attack Mexico, Canada, Greenland, and just tried his hand at Venezuela)
⁃ Helping small businesses (because of his tariffs, small businesses are closing at record numbers)
⁃ Supporting farmers (by shutting down USAID Trump destroyed their largest single customer. USAID purchased ~2 billion dollars annually in American grown produce. Tariffs and deportations have bankrupted scores of farms)
⁃ Increasing job numbers (proceeded to fire huge swaths of government workers, again the tariffs, we went from record low unemployment under Biden to mass layoffs and our newest jobs numbers, 22,000 in a month, are beyond pathetic)
⁃ Favoring “Law-and-Order” (a tall order for a convicted criminal, he’s proceeded to shred the constitution so blatantly, even MAGA has trouble defending it)
⁃ Lowering taxes (the big, beautiful bill actually raises taxes on the poorest Americans, many of whom make up his once-loyal base)
⁃ And, the big one… “Releasing the Epstein Files” (the con man conned himself into thinking he could run on something with this much conspiracy and cultural resonance to his base, and then just walk away from it. Oops.).
Trump has made policy decisions that almost seemed designed to erode support from his base. Especially when he could’ve just run his crypto grift and gone golfing for 4 years pumping in billions.
Some of these decisions have led state leaders to disqualify themselves by following along—see sloppy Ron DeSantis making measles great again in Florida.
Why would the Heritage Foundation put all their Christo-fascist dreams into the tiny, bruised hands of a lame duck president who was likely a partner in crime with Epstein, an actual convict, and is decaying before our eyes?
Because that has always been the plan!
We knew about Project 2025 for some time before the 2024 election (there’s even a tracker on how much they’ve completed).
Trump famously said, “I don’t know anything about it” and I now believe that maybe he didn’t. Trump doesn’t like to read; Project 2025 is a 1000-page document filled with legal and political jargon.
In Trump’s first term they couldn’t even get him to read a one-page PDB (presidential daily briefing) without pictures! You think he’s sitting down to read a manifesto that’s like War and Peace (with no drawings)?
Seriously!?
But because Trump can’t ever admit to not knowing about something—or at least the details even if knew something called Project 2025 existed—he just said “sure, I know what project 2025 is and nobody in my administration is involved with it.”
Right as one of its authors sat next to him with a shit-eating grin on his face.
Now, we know Christian Nationalists like The Heritage Foundation and MAGA Mike Johnson and the bro-ligarchs like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk all really want JD Vance as President to complete their authoritarian theocratic fantasies.
But how do you do that in a nation that still has a Constitution and some remaining trappings of democracy?
You make JD Vance the hero that saves MAGA and America, thus creating your Christian nationalist anti-FDR who’s been bought and paid for.
The main problem is Trump’s a singular cult of personality.
Your average loyal MAGA voter isn’t jumping from Trump to Vance—a guy so socially awkard he’s challenged ordering donuts—even if Trump tells them to. (We’ve seen this in election after election when Trump’s not on the ballot).
Vance lacks the right-wing charisma to punch down in a way that entertains MAGA masses and lacks the ability to tell big lies with Trump’s confident glare.
But the Heritage Foundation, at its core, is a PR shop. The reason this all seems like the plot of a bad movie, is because it is!
It’s a set up with Trump as the evil villain, one who’s even sickly at this point, and JD Vance as a savior who can heroically stand up to his own President to save his country from Trump (and likely Putin).
Trump and almost his entire cabinet are all patsies in service of Project 2025, which is by design.
Everyone around Trump is an abject disaster. All expendable…
⁃ Pam Bondi
⁃ Pete Hegseth
⁃ Kash Patel
⁃ Marco Rubio
⁃ Sean Duffy
⁃ Tom Homan
⁃ Kristi Noem
⁃ RFK Jr
⁃ And (maybe) Elon Musk
… Save one!
Look who’s been oddly absent from all this illegality within the administration. Publicly distancing himself from every terrible decision Trump and his regime have been making by taking “vacations” all over the world with lots of social media posts to prove it?
None other than former “Never Trumper” JD Vance!
Bear in mind, Vance hasn’t really committed any impeachable offenses. He’s mostly been a spectator.
They have set up Trump to take the fall, then have JD Vance step in as the hero.
Fighting for all the promises Trump made to America. Saving our democracy from the evil villain with the crazy 2am, all-caps tweeting, delight in the suffering of families and pedophile-ring connection.
Vance as president can remove the entire cabinet filled with Fox flunkies and fuck-ups and say he’s putting the country back together Trump smashed. Only now with 75% of Project 2025 completed.
And JD Vance as the heroic patriot who replaced the evil maniacal autocrat, and who just by not taking up every GD news cycle will seem like a breath of fresh air, almost…moderate.
Trump is only meant to last for 2 years, he’s a means to an end. The far-right, like Rep. Thomas Massie and even MTG are now sabotaging Trump, helping shift the base to Vance.
Then with billionaire backing Vance can become the eventual hero to disgruntled Republicans, even independents and Democrats who just want someone who seems “normal” as Leader of the Free World.
There are many ways to do this.
From having Vance or the cabinet invoke the 25th amendment due to Trump’s lost mental (and physical) capacity as more and more people see it to leaking the worst of the Epstein files. (Honestly, the options are unlimited).
This is how the Heritage Foundation and other Project 2025 lunatics usher in a future under Christian rule by a theocratic billionaire class. All by hanging this whole disaster around Trump and his Fox News cabinet’s necks.
While leaving Vance relatively unscathed to be the hero that saved America.
The Heritage Foundation has been grooming America to accept JD Vance as our savior. Positioning him as the “hero” of American democracy who ended the chaos.
He may seem sane as he won’t send out the angry middle-of-the-night tweets but he’s a bridge. Between the Opus Dei Christian Nationalists like the Republicans on the Supreme Court and tech fascists like Thiel, Musk and David Sacks.
With the help of Palantir and Elon Musk—who remember is still in a huge feud with Trump, but loves himself some J.D. Vance—they can rig any election moving forward. After they’ve used the midterms to rid themselves of Trump.
Thus, leading to a “permanent Republican majority” because the brave Republican Vice President stepped up to save America from Trump and the Democrats!
And there is it, the whole plan, and believe me, it’s a good one. I wrote a while back “there is glory to be had” and “there is an open spot in the history books for a hero.”
Vance will be that “hero,” brought to you by Peter Theil, The Heritage Foundation, and the elite billionaire class.
Unless we stop them. So I say: Not On Our Watch.
I am a member of “We the People” and we will not allow these Christo-fascists to manipulate us into complacency to take over our country.
There are ways to stop them, and we are stepping up, but where are our Democratic congressional leaders??
If you don’t step up, we’ll be running right past you forthwith, because we don’t intend to wait for this forever-disaster to take hold in our America
Devon Nicholas Ricci, AKA “The Angry Progressive” has been a longtime political activist and is a proud member of “We the People.” Susbscribe to his Substack The Angry Progressive!
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About a clear as it gets. Writing has been on the wall for a couple years. This was always the plan.
Good article.