Connecting the Deranged Christofascist Dots of Project 2025
Gaza, Birthright Citizenship, Mass Deportation, the End Times
The world was shocked when during a joint press conference this week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump openly advocated that a war crime be carried out by the US military: the conquest of Gaza, the forcible removal of its population to another country, the demolition of any structure still standing and the construction of a “glorious” real estate development in its place owned by “the United States.”
Trump’s allies looked shocked also, but not because of a threat to commit a war crime. He said the quiet part out loud — prematurely.
As his staff furiously seeks to backpedal, Trump as usual, doubles down. In the post above, he gives it all away. Notice he calls Chuck Schumer, a Jewish American senator, a "Palestinian" who will be resettled. Once Schumer and every other Jewish American can be designated as “Palestinian” - that is a citizen of “Palestine” not an American citizen, they can be deported back to "their country."
This isn’t the first time Trump has made public statements suggesting that Jews not Americans. In a speech to a group of Jewish Republicans he referred to Israel as “your country.” At another time he said Jews who didn’t vote for him were “disloyal to Israel.”
The new Palestinians, AKA American Jews, will be deported to “their country.” This country is only for Christians, white Christians.
But first, you need to remove birthright citizenship. This effort is not just about the American children of undocumented immigrants. The creators of Project 2025 are not shocked by ethnic cleansing. The ultimate aim of their project is the ethnic cleansing of the United States of all but white Christians. Then the country can be repopulated by “real Americans” by forcing white women inseminated by white men to give birth. “Your body, my choice.”
This is reason Pete Hegseth was chosen for Secretary of Defense, and his most serious disqualification for the role is not that he was a Fox host who does pushups. Hegseth doesn’t believe in the concept of war crimes. He is a Christian Dominionist. Like the Crusaders whose symbol he has tattooed on his body, murder and mayhem is justified in order to create the “Kingdom of God” on earth in preparation for the return of Jesus and the “End Times.” If Trump orders him to send troops and “clean the whole place out,” Hegseth will obey.
Unfortunately the Senators didn’t raise Hegseth’s Christian Dominionist beliefs because they are terrified of being called “anti-religion” and there were certainly a cornucopia of other issues, any one of which should have made his confirmation impossible.
The problem is, you can’t grasp the depth of depravity that is Project 2025, and psychotic violence they feel justified in employing without the religious aspect. One of the worst features of religion is that, as Nobel Laureate in Physics, Steven Weinberg, said, “With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
Project 2025 is about more than so-called “small government” and tax cuts for the wealthy. That stuff is more of the usual GOP reactionary ideology, the return to a second Gilded Age. Project 2025 is driven by a delusional, deadly ideology, a medieval world view except with cell phones.
It’s no secret the Neo-nazis, some of the “fine people” that comprise Trump’s base, hate Jews. You have seen them marching in Charlottesville chanting “Jews will not replace us” and storming the Capitol for Trump in a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt.
What about the “Christian Zionists” like Mike Huckabee, the newly appointed Ambassador to Israel, and the gold medalist of opportunists, Elise Stefanik, designated as UN Ambassador who stated she has a “biblical view” of Israel? You may have assumed that this refers to the Old Testament and the “claim” that it is the Jews promised land given by “God.” But this is not the relevant bible. They are referring to the New Testament, the Christian book, and what is says is required for the return of the “Savior” and the “End Times.” In order for this to occur, the Jews must return to Israel.
Where does Natanyahu fit in? He has made clear that he does not support a Palestinian state. He has a problem, the dual founding missions of the modern state of Israel. It was intended to be both a modern social democracy and Jewish homeland - an ethnostate. The only was to have both is to have a majority Jewish population. Under Israeli law, every Jew is an automatic citizen. Jewish State does not refer to religion, but ethnicity. Because the word Jew refers both to a person who practices Judaism and an ancient tribal society claiming the area around its capital, Jerusalem is there is some confusion. Under ancient Jewish law, all that is required to be considered a Jew is that your mother is a Jew. The state of Israel is based on ethnic identity. You can be an atheist, or practice Buddhism. If your mother was a Jew, you are a Jew.
Jews have been persecuted for practicing Judaism in many countries, but also, as in the case of Hitler, as an “inferior race.” Even Jews who converted to Christianity were exterminated. Even people whose only connection was a Jewish grandparent were exterminated. And the Zionists, who started in Eastern Europe long before the Holocaust where they were treated the way Black people have been treated here (the term ghetto does not originate from Black segregation in the US. It comes from the forced segregation of Jews in Eastern Europe) concluded that they only way to be free of persecution was to have a country where they were no longer a minority, and could not be persecuted and defamed by a hostile majority. Unlike Christianity or Islam that actively seek converts, Judaism does not. Individuals do convert but it is a rigorous process. Thus Judaism has never become a majority religion. As a result most people who are Jews also have some descent from the ancient kingdom destroyed by the Roman Empire. So there are Jews who look middle eastern, and Jews who look European, and Jews who look African and so on. And all of them are automatically citizens of Israel under their laws.
The largest Jewish population outside of Israel is in the United States and Netanyahu wants them. They stubbornly refuse to come. Alas the ones that do come are not the Nobel Laureates or the famous filmmakers or the legal scholars or the business moguls. They tend to be the religious extremists who demand an exemption from the compulsory military service all Israelis do as young people. They demand to be supported so they can pray all day. Given that his political coalition is much like the GOP, dominated by right-wing religious people, he can’t just denounce these devoutly religious for the lack of patriotism. But a tiny country that is constantly at war can’t afford too many people like that.
Trump could not care less about any of the religious stuff. His only creed is that he is the man who knows more about everything than anyone and deserves not only the Nobel Prize but to be the richest man in the world. You can be sure that the Gaza “redevelopment” is about a massive flow of money into the Trump family enterprise, like from the Treasury of the United States. Now that he has a billionaire tech bro with a cadre of hackers will administrative privileges, he doesn’t even have to engage in the charade of passing a funding bill in Congress. They can go in, send the payments, even erase all traces and claim the Gaza construction was funding by “wealthy investors.” He did mention “wealthy people.”
That might be part of the plan. Bezos, Zuckerberg and other grovelling mega billionaires could be induced to make a sizeable “investment” in the same manner that MBS (Mr. Bone Saw) induced members of the Saudi Royal family, or Putin induced his oligarchs, such as noticing that the windows in their mansions need replacement.
The forced removal of a population is a war crime but deporting a citizen to their country of origin is not. Since the Americans forced to leave will be welcomed as citizens in Israel, this move avoids the bad look of Holocaust round two. But if you are a Christian Zionist, you know that it is, except that this is ordained by God. Part of their “return of the Savior” fantasy is that the “End Times” involves some great war during which all the Jews will either convert to Christianity or die. Of course Netanyu understands their motivation and humors them to achieve his own ends.
The problem is, from the geopolitical perspective, this could well lead to a great war. The Islamic nations won’t stand this. Whichever one gets nukes might well launch on Israel. The nutjobs in control of our government will love this because it means Jesus is coming. And they’d love a reason to nuke all the Islamic countries because they aren’t Christian and must die. Hegseth yelled “Kill All Muslims” in public, in front of witnesses. Do you think he’d hesitate to launch?
Since I’m putting together a big theory of what they want to achieve with the parts of Project 2025 they didn’t explicitly write down, they want of course to get rid of Black people. There is no country to which one can deport African-Americans (unlike Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio) under international law. African-Americans’ ancestors have been here longer than many of the MAGA fucks who stormed the Capitol.
This is where Trump’s plan to send “American criminals” to another country for a “small fee” to be imprisoned there. I don’t have to tell Black how easy it is to be deemed a criminal. But Bishop Budde isn’t safe (and you recall demands to deport her too though she is a white Christian native born American citizen. But she can always be made a criminal for the crime of criticizing Dear Leader. El Salvador, the country cited as the imprisonment local has no problem killing clergy. You may remember Bishop Oscar Romero murdered by a death squad in San Salvador in 1980. I would expect any American sent there to face the likely hood of death. There are going to be millions of “criminals” and El Salvador can either expand their prison space in a joint venture with US based private prison corporations (they’re big donors you know) or simply kill people to make room for the next planeload. In fact an efficient use of the plane that just disgorged new prisoners can, instead of flying back empty, load up a bunch past their sell by date and throw them out of the plane over the ocean. That’s been done. No mass graves to worry about.
You don’t need to revoke the 14th Amendment to deport any naturalized citizen who is not a white Christian. Despite Trump’s lament, Norwegians aren’t the ones emigrating here. They are largely people from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. A naturalized citizen can lose their citizenship as a consequence criminal conviction right now. It’s dead easy to create all kinds of new crimes that qualify.
The only thing that makes someone a “criminal" is that they violate a law. The rule of law is only as virtuous as the people making the law. My grandmother was a criminal just for refusing to be exterminated. And if you’re LGBTQ, your existence can be outlawed. Hey, it was when I was a kid. People went to prison.
What I’m saying is: first they came for the woman who walked 1400 miles from El Salvador carrying her baby, and don’t you fucking let them. Whatever you can do. Whatever it takes. We are all in danger.