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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sat Oct 4, 2025, 06:06 PM Oct 4

GOP Senator: Project 2025 Creator Has Dreamt About This Since Puberty

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hammancheez
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Tell me again how Democrats are going to take the blame for layoffs when every Republican is saying 'WE WILL FIRE YOU ALL AND LAUGH'
"“Democrats should know that they put the White House and the president in this position,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier on Thursday. “And if they don’t want further harm on their constituents back home, then they need to reopen the government. It’s very simple: Pass the clean continuing resolution, and all of this goes away.” "
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“Russ Vought, the OMB director, has been dreaming about this moment—preparing this moment—since puberty."

https://newrepublic.com/post/201276/republican-senator-project-2025-creator-vought-dream-puberty-shutdown

GOP Senator: Project 2025 Creator Has Dreamt About This Since Puberty
Republicans all know the havoc Russell Vought is about to unleash this shutdown.
trib.al
October 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM

Tell me again how Democrats are going to take the blame for layoffs when every Republican is saying 'WE WILL FIRE YOU ALL AND LAUGH'

hammancheez (@hammancheez.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T18:30:32.562Z


The New Republic
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“Russ Vought, the OMB director, has been dreaming about this moment—preparing this moment—since puberty."

https://newrepublic.com/post/201276/republican-senator-project-2025-creator-vought-dream-puberty-shutdown

GOP Senator: Project 2025 Creator Has Dreamt About This Since Puberty
Republicans all know the havoc Russell Vought is about to unleash this shutdown.
trib.al
October 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM

“Russ Vought, the OMB director, has been dreaming about this moment—preparing this moment—since puberty."
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The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) 2025-10-04T18:22:58.434089Z


GOP Senator: Project 2025 Creator Has Dreamt About This Since Puberty

Republicans all know the havoc Russell Vought is about to unleash this shutdown.


Russell Vought speaks otuside the White House, arms splayed outward
ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAGES

The GOP has gone fully mask-off as it brings the hammer of austerity down on Democratic voters as punishment for their senators not capitulating to Trump’s funding bill. … “This is what they’re doing. They’re doing it deliberately, it’s going to harm [Democrats],” said Republican Senator Mike Lee, referring to Trump and OMB Director (and Project 2025 mastermind) Russell Vought ripping funding away from blue states, holding crucial projects hostage.

“Because Russ Vought, the OMB director, has been dreaming about this moment—preparing this moment—since puberty,” the Utah senator continued. “Russ Vought has a plan, and that plan is going to succeed in further empowering Trump. This is gonna be the Democrats’ worst nightmare, and it’s of their own making.”

While it might not have been his dream since puberty (although Vought is filled with enough spite to make that somewhat believable), this slash-and-burn retribution is absolutely all part of the plan.

Trump and Vought have already frozen $18 billion in infrastructure projects in New Jersey and New York, and announced cuts to $8 billion in energy funding from 16 blue states as well. The pressure campaign seems to just be getting started.

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GOP Senator: Project 2025 Creator Has Dreamt About This Since Puberty (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Oct 4 OP
Couldn't find any girls willing to go out with him? tanyev Oct 4 #1
Leavitt is extorting blue states: Make your Democrats do as we say and we will not hurt you. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 4 #2
Dreaming about what since puberty, sex with a woman? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 4 #3

Bernardo de La Paz

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2. Leavitt is extorting blue states: Make your Democrats do as we say and we will not hurt you.
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 06:39 PM
Oct 4

That is despite that they were hurting them before, are hurting them now independently of the shutdown, and will hurt them in the future despite any promises they make.

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