Editor, Times-Union:
It’s a go! The plan is working. The puppets are in place, the strings are attached, and the puppet masters are giving the “thumbs up” to their stooges. Project 2025 is coming along nicely — as planned. Following the playbooks of Putin, Xi, and Orban, the first steps have been taken, and the destruction has successfully begun:
1. Take over the military and intelligence operations by getting rid of the most experienced officers. Then install new “leaders” with only cult loyalty as the prerequisite. Check.
2. Diminish the power of the courts. Ignore rulings with which the cult disagrees (or at least threaten to do so). Check.
3. Make sure current legislators “toe the line” or get primaried in the next election. Use threats of violence if necessary. Check.
4. Take on the media and all free press by blocking their representatives from news conferences and/or interviews. Threaten lawsuits against any and all sources who seek truth and who may report information disagreeable to the new leaders. Check.
5. Remove all qualified agency leaders and replace them with loyalists with axes to grind in deference to their leader. Check.
6. Cut off funding to any and all who are weak, ill, maimed, poor, old, or determined to be detriments to society. Check.
7. Freeze funding for scientific programs researching cancer (and other) cures, climate change, etc. Check.
8. End any and all programs that might include people from all walks of life (DEI) and make sure mainly white, straight, loyalists are given priority and leadership. Check.
9. Take control of or just eliminate any suspiciously subversive programs or agencies with initials: DEI, CRT, FDA, NIH, CDC, FBI, CIA, NIA, NOAA, EPA, WHO. Check.
10. Punish universities permitting “illegal” protests (such illegality determined by “Leader of the Pack” and the “Musk”eteers) by canceling many millions of dollars in grants and contracts for such things as scientific and health research. Check.
11. Remove thousands of historical words and pictures from the Department of Defense database that sound or look like diversity propaganda — everything and anything depicting women, blacks, and even the Enola Gay (the aircraft that bombed Hiroshima, Japan, during WW2). Check.
12. Flag and ban the usage of at least 100 words (so far) that government agencies need to limit or avoid completely: woman, black, disabled, Native American, Biden, inclusion, gay, gender, sexuality … Check.
All of this in less than two months ... and remember, Project 2025 has more than 900 pages! I wonder what other great changes await us. Only forty-six more months to go … So far, so good?
Jeanne Tuka Schutz
Winona Lake, via email