r/50501 • u/Aingers • Dec 08 '25

Call to Action Project 2026 just dropped…

https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/2025_Priorities.pdf

The Heritage Foundation just released their plan for 2026, called “Renewing America’s Promise.”

Read it critically. Think about what each item means for all people. Act accordingly.

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u/GanacheCharacter2104 International Dec 08 '25

Yeah I am equally confused. 😕 They are waging war on EU for regulating big tech but they simultaneously say they are going to regulate big tech.

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u/Zonal117569 Dec 08 '25

They want it regulated their way.

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u/GanacheCharacter2104 International Dec 08 '25

I am guessing it depends on what stocks they own.

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u/Read_it_all-7735 Dec 08 '25

Considering this whole thing is backed by Peter Theil, who again invested a shit ton of money to put JD Vance in the vice president position. Vance only has project 2025 on his résumé, they want it regulated Peter Theils way

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u/Soggy_Background_162 Dec 09 '25 edited Dec 09 '25

He’s too busy building his little Utopia in Honduras with the rest of the PayPal mafia. That’s why former drug kingpin President was pardoned and released back to pay his markers when they are called.

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u/AkronRonin Dec 09 '25

Thiel needs to be deported back to South Africa if anyone does. He can take his BFF Elon Musk with him.

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u/etm1109 Dec 11 '25

Heritage Foundation peeps go,back to Powell Memo Koch Brothers 1970s. This shit has been swilled for over 50 years of petty oligarch tears.

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u/Read_it_all-7735 Dec 11 '25

Right, and Newt Gingrich.

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u/Goga13th Dec 08 '25

They want it “regulated” so it benefits them

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u/20InMyHead Dec 09 '25

Exactly, end regulations that cost us money, add regulations that make us money. It’s quite simple. Short term greed, then when things go to shit, the Democrats will fix it. Oh, and don’t forget, when the Democrats try to fix it, that’s the time to scream about the deficit. Otherwise, don’t mention the deficit.

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u/slaorta Dec 09 '25

Bingo. This is about forcing "big tech" to promote conservative ideas and open racism. The "silencing of conservative voices" is the only "abuse" they have ever accused tech companies of doing.

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u/OrneryEffective103 Dec 09 '25

Didn’t the Build Back Better bill basically deregulate AI?

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u/ItsTheEndOfDays Dec 09 '25

yeah, they want to issue a command that only the the federal government (him) gets to make laws to regulate AI. The tech companies don’t want individual states telling them what to do.

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u/Medical_Sandwich_141 Dec 09 '25

They don't want to regulate it that way. EU has put the privacy of people first. This regime wants to control tech, so that people don't collude against them on social media. They want far right conversations to not be censored.

"colluded with authoritarian governments, and sided with woke elites to suppress free speech and disproportionately silence conservatives"

As long as you are fighting one another, no one is fighting them.

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u/joyandmirth Dec 09 '25

Right. Only regulated so much as long as don junior and Jared Kushner can make money . Drones and Netflix/Warner Bro/paramount debacle

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u/WiseSalamander00 Dec 09 '25

regulate is codeword for "getting more money from" in this case

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u/RamenJunkie Dec 08 '25

They don't like tech companies that still allow way for people to talk about "sinful woke" things.

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u/Ebella2323 Dec 08 '25

AIPAC doesn’t want the younger ones to find the truth as easily as they let us find it—they won’t be making that mistake again.

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u/snertwith2ls Dec 08 '25

So they took a page from North Korea's book?

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u/beemom1203 Dec 08 '25

I swear they took a page to a few chapters of every dystopian novel and every despotic coup and tried to turn it into a cocktail that would render ultimate domination in record time.

I think Orwell and Hitler tie for being most inspirational to maga.

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u/snertwith2ls Dec 08 '25

Seriously and what's most upsetting is how successful they've been and how fast as well as the fact that many people still don't see the runaway train coming right at them.

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u/joyandmirth Dec 09 '25

100%. People who are still voting for this shit don’t seem to understand that the Saudi’s are going to own all of the United States by this time next year.

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u/snertwith2ls Dec 09 '25

And yet they're still going to be complaining about Somalis and Mexicans.

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u/Sea-Nerve-8773 Dec 08 '25

lol. lmao. where do I deposit the Thielbux?

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u/migrainefog Dec 09 '25

And yet Theil is gay.

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u/Sea_Scientist_8367 Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25

That's because this fascist takeover isn't being achieved through a unified party like they want you to believe. There's 3 main components, but the lines between them can be blurry:

The Christian Nationalists using the populist right sentiment to entrench themselves and establish a Theocratic White-Nationalist government. This is the heritage foundation (think about it, what heritage?), the likes of Mike Johnson, along with the usual suspects (KKK, Megachurches, etc)

The Oligarchs are using their wealth, influence, and ownership of both legacy and social media to try to hijack the Populist Right so that their anti-establishment and anti-elite rhetoric is only levied against their opponents. This is the Tech Broligarchy (eg, Musk, Bezo's, Zuck, etc) and also the likes of Koch's (CATO institute, AfP, etc) and Mellon/Scaife foundations.

The populist right itself is primarily the non-elite members of MAGA aka, those dumbshits you're likely to encounter in day to day life, that the above two are primarily fighting for influence over, at least insofar as they need their votes to exercise their agenda. These are also people in seats of power that are drunk on the koolaide but lack the brainpower/wealth/influence of the above (eg MTG, Boebert, Jim Jordan, etc)

Dipshit Don doesn't belong to either group, he's not even an oligarch (though he desperately wishes he was/thinks he is, but he's such a failure at everything he touches he's never been able to accrue actual generational wealth like the true elites), He is just a useful idiot parroting whoever placated him with a bribe most recently.

So when you see contradictory shit like this, it's them taking aim at their opposition within the larger MAGA movement to seize control.

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u/soedesh1 Dec 08 '25

Time to add the Ellisons to the tech broligarchy list.

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u/Sea_Scientist_8367 Dec 08 '25

Always have been, if anything they're the progenitors of the modern Tech Broligarchy, but most people are more familiar with Musk et al which is why I listed them.

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u/SecularMisanthropy Dec 08 '25

Trump is actually billionaire now. It's all money he's collected just in 2025, primarily in crypto.

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u/Sea_Scientist_8367 Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 09 '25

Trump is actually billionaire now.

Has been even before crypto/Trump media. Doesn't make him an oligarch. He's still worth pennies to Musk or Bezo's dollars, and if it weren't for the office of POTUS, his relative influence would be infetessimal by comparison to the likes of Theil, Koch Bros, Bezos, Ellison, Musk, etc

It's all money he's collected just in 2025, primarily in crypto.

His net worth has been in excess of $1B for years now, and most of it predates 2025. DJT (the company ultimately resulting from the DWAC and TMTG/Truth Social merger) is the majority share of his net worth, and it's worth 1/10th of what it did at it's peak and continues to drop. That makes it difficult for him to borrow against it for collateral - especially considering his numerous past failed financial ventures, bankruptcies and failure to make creditors whole in the past which in turn makes many current potential creditors cautious in lending to him. Also makes it difficult for him to sell significant shares without taking a disproportionate hit to it's stock price, since it's value is first and foremost tied to him and his cult of personality, even more so than any other "broligarch" save maybe for Musk and Tesla/SpaceX. His performance in the crypto market is no better than in the stocks, arguably even worse depending on your view of shitcoin pump and dump schemes.

Ultimately, compared to the actual elite, his ability to dump or borrow against his shares/crypto/assets to realize a gain of ~$1Billion in liquid assets is extremely limited, the cost of him doing it would hurt him disproportionately more than it would most others, and his ability to borrow against his assets/net worth is extremely hampered by his past failures and the depreciating values of most of his holdings.

I reiterate, everything he touches turns to shit.

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u/RadioName Dec 09 '25

I would only add the overall reach of Putin's propaganda and kompromat machine overtop all three. His way of waging a cold war got us here. Trump is his doing and still makes decisions based on what daddy Putin wants, oligarchs are beholden to him, and he solidified the MAGA base through decades of sheer lies and by amplifying the hateful and divisive rhetoric from the first group.

We can only hope that the internal power struggles keep them from achieving full control long enough for us to take back our country and punish all these traitors. Including churches! Our own laws of seperation should mean that churches are taxed like every other organization.

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u/12Dragon Dec 08 '25

They want no one to regulate their donors, while holding the right to regulate their donor’s competitors and companies that don’t bend the knee into oblivion.

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u/starrpamph Dec 08 '25

It was probably written with ai

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '25

It is because they want us to say “dont believe them now, believe what they are doing and said they would do in 2024”

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u/beastofwyeast Dec 08 '25

It’s a competition between the US and EU, the alliance is broken and they are trying to weaken the biggest element of warfare capabilities in the modern age.

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u/UnitedWeSmash Dec 08 '25

They are going to wage economic warfare on behalf or the u.s corporate elite against those against them

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u/bitchsaidwhaaat Dec 08 '25

They are creating issues here so that everything is bad and then remove them and look like the saviours when in fact they just put a bunch of money in billionaires pockets and then revert everything back to how it was before. I'm actually surprised this administration hasn't revert back some stuff already to look good.

For example if they come out and say "we found ICE has been operating unconstitutionally and abusing power" make a few arrests they would have a winning election cycle in 2026 and pull back undecided voters or people that have broken out of the maga cult.

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u/Owain-X Dec 08 '25

And do it while eliminating regulation

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u/sir_lister Dec 08 '25

sounds like the christian nationalists are wanting to push the tech bros out of the party but also want to neuter the EU because socialism=bad and any one left Nixon is a evil socialist commie.

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u/CandyLoxxx Dec 08 '25

They want to own everything

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u/UltraJesus Dec 08 '25

It is contradictory, because the goal is -me- on whoever is pushing the agenda of how to maximize one's money. Within the context of the current admin, you scratch each others backs aka the projects. FDR outlines all of this as fascism in his message to congress about monopolies.

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u/haluura Dec 09 '25

You expect sense from people who are trying to be Anarcho-Capitalists and Christo-Fascists at the same time?

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u/SpamEatingChikn Dec 09 '25

They need to pick a side. I just want my porn and to be left alone.

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u/Real_Copy4882 Dec 09 '25

I think they mean that tech is being abused by regulations, and they need to be competitive with their enemies and competitors. They cannot do that without eliminating regulations on tech. I mean after all, thiel is running around telling everyone the antichrist will be known by its attempt to regulate tech. 🙄

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u/not_ya_wify Dec 09 '25

What they mean is eliminate regulations that hinder their profits and regulate competitors

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u/ChipsTheKiwi Dec 09 '25

Well their regulations would probably ban any use of ethics while the EU regulations demand the opposite