ProPublica just published 14 hours of leaked project 2025 training videos. They’re all insane.

https://www.propublica.org/article/video-project-2025-presidential-training-academy-trump-election

I skimmed through a few but only watched all of one video because I couldn't be bothered to go through the whole catalog. A few remarkable excerpts from the video I watched:

12:34 : 'I remember when I was in school in elementary school we were taught we would all be frozen over by an ice age… in the 80s it was acid rain… then it moved to global warming… and then science comes along and disproves the global warming theory in large part, and we had one of the most frigid winters ever known.'

14:13 'When I think of climate change I think of population control, don't you? I think about the people who don't want you to have children because of the impact on the environment… I can tell you that this is part of their ultimate goal, to control people.

22:17 : 'The current mass illegal immigration we're seeing as a result of the Biden administration's intentional actions is not migration and these people are not migrants. It is an orchestrated invasion being led by the Biden administration in conjunction with the Mexican cartels.'

Beyond that obvious lunacy the whole thing reeks of authoritarian traditionalism. They constantly make a division between 'careers' and the audience of the videos, Trump's future political appointees. This is an antagonistic relationship. Careers are the agents of the deep state, to be beaten over the head with the new power of the appointees until they conform or quit. If they interfere, they are to be ignored. Trained professionals are the enemy. In the very first video they speak of America's institutions as 'backward facing'. That our ultimate law is the first law, something we inherited from our founding fathers. I feel like that's a totally wrongheaded look at the constitution, a document which was intended to be amended to keep up with changes in social organization. It gives you a peek into how they view the world. There is a natural order, unamendable, to which we should mold ourselves and from which we should refuse any change. Very weird people.

The reason I didn't just post this as news is because I encourage you to watch one of the videos and post critiques of its content or just highlight and laugh about any particularly insane stuff they say. It'll be a nice collective research expedition.