In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce an American conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation (@Heritage). Heritage is best-known for opposing military aid to Ukraine and for their political initiative called Project 2025, a potential blueprint for a Trump presidency. 1/23 - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

vatniksoup.bsky.social • 113 days ago

In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce an American conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation (@Heritage). Heritage is best-known for opposing military aid to Ukraine and for their political initiative called Project 2025, a potential blueprint for a Trump presidency.
1/23

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angryfella420.fellas.army•113 days ago

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vatniksoup.bsky.social•113 days ago

Before we begin, I want to justify this soup that focuses heavily on US domestic politics. As a strong supporter of Ukraine, I see Donald Trump as a threat to Ukraine’s existence, and the reasoning for that can be found in this previous soup:

https://vatniksoup.com/en/soups/199/
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vatniksoup.bsky.social•113 days ago

Heritage was founded in 1973, but it took a leading role in conservative politics during the Reagan presidency, whose policies were mostly taken from the foundation’s book series called Mandate for Leadership. Project 2025 is the ninth iteration of this series.
3/23

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vatniksoup.bsky.social•113 days ago

The influence of the Heritage Foundation on US public policy shouldn’t be underestimated - it’s been often ranked as one of the most influential think tanks in the US. They were a central organization in developing the Reagan Doctrine, which provided military and other...
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vatniksoup.bsky.social•113 days ago

...support to anti-communist resistance movements in Afghanistan, Cambodia and other countries. Historically, Heritage has been hawkish, supporting US-led wars like the Gulf War and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq during the “war on terror”.
5/23

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vatniksoup.bsky.social•113 days ago

In 2015, after Trump announced his candidacy for the 2016 US presidential elections, Heritage were highly skeptical of him. The leader of Heritage’s advocacy group even stated that “Donald Trump’s a clown. He needs to be out of the race.”
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vatniksoup.bsky.social•113 days ago

After Trump won, the foundation started lobbying their own candidates for his cabinet. Hundreds of people from their database received jobs in government agencies, and in 2018 Heritage claimed that Trump had embraced 64% of proposed policies in the foundation’s agenda.
7/23

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lyuber.bsky.social•113 days ago

Strategic patience is a thing on the conservative side. If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by. Which I cannot say about the liberal side. They want everything at once, and they want it NOW, or else.

citizenvalerie.bsky.social•112 days ago

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keawijkstra.bsky.social•113 days ago

Not only this think tank itself is alarming, also the fact that so many Americans voted for Trump, knowing the ideas of this group or not knowing it.

gmarie55.bsky.social•113 days ago

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motorpoodle.bsky.social•113 days ago

Not conservative. A cult. Scumbags.

alvareze.bsky.social•113 days ago

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anastas1a.bsky.social•113 days ago

2025 is the new 1984

jtv.bsky.social•113 days ago

Excellent soup

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paulcrowder.bsky.social•113 days ago

America doesn’t care. They want this.

greilk.bsky.social•113 days ago

Welcome over from that other site. Glad to see you here!

atrebatus.bsky.social•112 days ago

No thanks.

pablofinn.bsky.social•113 days ago

Am I the only one not being able to see a single image from the thread? Tried it on mobile, Windows (https://bsky.app as well as blue.deck)

ideetje9.bsky.social•113 days ago

I can see them all.

pablofinn.bsky.social•113 days ago

Meanwhile here es well again. Was sure something of an overload for the servers

ideetje9.bsky.social•113 days ago

Because of all these Flying Fellas in the Blue Sky 😅

pablofinn.bsky.social•113 days ago

Yep, Bluesky Airbase is filling up with Fellas 😁

snifferactor.bsky.social•111 days ago

@bsky.app we need a save post feature... with albums, if that's not much to ask 😏

miskaknapek.bsky.social•113 days ago

Thank you for the good thread.

Dare I ask if this is the same Heritage Foundation where Bill Browser works.
He's been very vocal about passing sanctions on Russia.

One can have lots of internal contradictions. But opposing helping Ukraine and at the same time pushing for sanctioning .ru is strange

sturmlliouville.bsky.social•113 days ago

Also one of the most putrid cesspits of climate change denial BTW

thedogfathernafo.bsky.social•112 days ago

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tsunami65.bsky.social•113 days ago

Not a Trump presidency, a Trump dictatorship.

dragonsitter.bsky.social•112 days ago

Gods help the whole world!

hiddebouwmeester.nl•113 days ago

Finally, I see Pekka here too.

endthepatriarchy.bsky.social•113 days ago

I think we're past potential

isaco-1.bsky.social•112 days ago

Did he return Epstein’s plane? The mooch!

philipmartin.bsky.social•111 days ago

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tekkned.bsky.social•113 days ago

Thanks again. Did Peter Thiel come by in your #vatniksoup series btw?

deniedenizen.bsky.social•112 days ago

There is a series about Thiel on the Behind the Bastards podcast, in case you're interested.

tekkned.bsky.social•112 days ago

Cheers

billy-iam.bsky.social•112 days ago

Its called the Confederate Heritage Foundation

sascrads.bsky.social•113 days ago

The heritage foundation, best known for being evil

astartiel.substack.com•113 days ago

I see Heir Trumpf (& his goons) as a threat to the USA, Ukraine, & the entire planet. https://bsky.app/profile/astartiel.substack.com/post/3laomtsvqjk2g

real-uai.bsky.social•113 days ago

Unroll @skyview.social

rondorland.bsky.social•113 days ago

With the exception of Ashli Babbitt,it has so far.
I'm fired up. I would rather die in democracy than live in trumps America.

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iffygoescommando.bsky.social•113 days ago

Conservative think tank is an oxymoron, surely?

hamishoz.bsky.social•111 days ago

The whole Atlas Network seems to need an introduction Pekka. Decades of planning are paying dividends. Another worthy read on the topic by @lucyham.bsky.social

https://johnmenadue.com/the-atlas-networks-transnational-revolution/

moneill16.bsky.social•9 days ago

The Convicted Felon and Rapist lied...big surprise

johnsmith292170.bsky.social•113 days ago

They're the worst scum.

jofromeurope.bsky.social•113 days ago

Hi Pekka
Glad to see you here skeeting 🙂

henry111.bsky.social•113 days ago

Fly where, the convicted felon?

handle.invalid•113 days ago

Before Trump, Heritage had for many years been a conservative think tank which would have strongly opposed Russian aggression and expansionism. The Trumpist takeover turned Heritage into a MAGA PAC in the same way its poisoned many other institutions. 10-15 years ago they’d have been with us.

jandee924.bsky.social•113 days ago

Please leave these pictures on X. A lot of us came here to get away from them.

gmarie55.bsky.social•113 days ago

📌

drstroh.bsky.social•113 days ago

Nice to see you here, Pekka

writerkaylie.bsky.social•113 days ago

If this doesn’t scare the shit out of you nothing will.

florafella.bsky.social•113 days ago

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