It's No Surprise This Man-Baby Is One Of Project 2025's Biggest Stars
Met Johnny yet?
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All right, let’s talk about Project 2025. Everybody else is! And everybody should be.
One of the unintended consequences of the media-driven freakout over Joe Biden’s debate performance is that millions of people suddenly started paying attention at that moment to what Donald Trump’s real plans for a second term are — the retribution, the revenge, his designs on dictatorship.
And people started cluing in to the fact that for the last couple years, many of Trump’s most servile, slobbering lackeys — at least 140 of his former staffers — plus tons of friendly organizations, led by the fascist Heritage Foundation, have been putting together an incredibly detailed Dictator For Dummies manual to spoonfeed their dumbass leader all the instructions he needs to remake America in his image, and in their image. (Trump of course is now pretending he’s never heard of it.)
It's called Project 2025, and it’s scary shit.
Fortunately, some really smart people have already been going through this thing with a fine-toothed comb, arming people with the information they need to arm others with the information they need to arm others with, etc. It’s over 900 pages long, so there’s no way to summarize it succinctly, but … well fuck it, here’s a run-on sentence:
Project 2025 wants to destroy all the federal agencies, and eliminate as many career federal employees as possible and replace them with Trump Nazi dipshits, and ban all abortion nationwide, even abortion pills, and get rid of birth control and no-fault divorce and basically turn women into chattel and declare war on LGBTQ people and racial minorities and attack people’s free speech and ban porn and ban telling kids that LGBTQ people exist (which they also consider “porn”) and destroy the Department of Education and the EPA and turn the Justice Department and FBI into Donald Trump’s personal Gestapo and, in the words of the prissy little dilettante who runs the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, you better just lie back and take it, because “[W]e are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the Left allows it to be.”
He said that. Out loud. Where people could hear him.
Conveniently, these fuckers put Project 2025 online, so we all can read it on the beach, on the toilet, or while we’re waiting for our anxiety medication in the Walgreens drive-thru. (Here’s a searchable version!)
Something tells us they didn’t anticipate a scenario in July 2024 where “Project 2025” became an election season rallying cry against their felon god-king, where thousands of Americans were learning every single day that “Project 2025” really is just a code phrase for “Nazi Jizz Manifesto,” and that the people who created it must never be allowed near power ever again.
But here they are, and here we are!
But this is The Moral High Ground, where we try to illuminate the rage and weakness and helpless fear behind these garbage white conservative Christian men’s temper tantrums, so that we may understand them better and defeat them in a more satisfying manner.
So, what kind of loser fucking dorks come up with this kind of shit?
Here’s one!
Meet Johnny McEntee!
You can’t tell in that screenshot, or the one at the top of this post — I’m about to cry, I’m so proud of it — but John McEntee actually is a handsome man. Of course, as tends to be the case with MAGA men, all sexual magnetism shrivels up and dies as soon as they open their mouths. (More on that in a sec.)
At Wonkette, we actually jokingly called him Hot Johnny when he worked for the Trump administration, because he was the closest thing to an attractive man that regime ever had.
Qualified? He definitely was not.
If you haven’t seen it, John Oliver’s episode on Project 2025, he did a hilarious and excellent job explaining who the hell this guy is, what he did to please Father Trump in the White House, and what he’s doing for Daddy in Project 2025. (Bookmark this video and send it to people. The setup for the part about Johnny starts around 13 minutes in.)
McEntee was literally the dumb pretty face — right out of central casting! You know how Trump always says that when he’s trying to say a guy is hot — who carried Trump’s bags. Until one fateful day when Trump was bitching about the White House Presidential Personnel Office (PPO), looked at McEntee and said “Hey could you be the boss of that?” and this Dunning-Kruger-infected nutsack was like “DURRRRRR OK!”
McEntee was the guy toward the end of the Trump regime — you know, after he was idiot-walked off the White House grounds with clearance issues because of an investigation into gambling debts, and then eventually allowed to come back — administering loyalty tests to federal employees and purging appointees who didn’t become sufficiently aroused when they saw pictures of Trump. He was 29 at the time.
The Atlantic called McEntee “The Man Who Made January 6 Possible,” for his loyalty purging efforts at the end of the Trump presidency.
In the clip above, Oliver explains “Schedule F,” which Trump instituted in October 2020, which reclassified some 50,000 federal employees as political appointees, subject to Trump’s whims and needy demands for loyalty. You know, instead of these people getting to keep their jobs because they’re, like, good at them. Joe Biden immediately executive ordered Schedule F out of existence upon his inauguration, but Trump would bring it right back.
Guess which part of Project 2025 Johnny is advising on? Ding ding ding, personnel. He’s the loyalty enforcer! Big tough guy!
He’s really stupid, by the way. He’s a former college football player. He’s a white guy who was clearly repeatedly lied to as a child and told he’s special. Probably most likely he was told too many times that he could do all things through Christ who strengthens him, and he took it lil’ bit too literally.
Know what else Johnny is?
Johnny Is The Weenus Behind ‘The Right Stuff,’ The Dating App For MAGA Choads Who Are Mad Nobody Will Fuck Them Because They’re MAGA Choads
So that tracks.
The John Oliver episode spends a bunch of time on The Right Stuff, the dating app for MAGA losers who are fed up that nobody ever wants to date them, because they’re MAGA losers. They are graciously willing to date liberal women! So why won’t liberal women submit? Why do their Tinder and Bumble profiles say “Trump supporters swipe left?” UNFAIR! RIGGED! STOLLEN!
This sniveling resentment has been building for a while, especially since the Trump administration rolled into Washington in 2017 and the district was immediately classified as an orgasm desert.
Former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s dipshit sister Ryann (yes with two “N”s, why do you ask?) did commercials for the launch of The Right Stuff, explaining that — thank goodness! — you don’t need pronouns on this app. She showed how it has prompts for people to fill out on their profiles like “Favorite Liberal Lie” and “January 6 was [FILL IN THE BLANK].”
The one thing this straights-only app for randy young conservatives — which was funded by very gay billionaire weirdo Peter Thiel! — really didn’t seem to have when it started was, ahem, women. Doesn’t sound like that’s changed much. (Here is a more current review of what the app is like these days, from a woman who went on there to fuck with conservative guys for an entire year, for giggles.)
We mentioned that Johnny is handsome until he opens his mouth. That really shines through in his Right Stuff TikToks, which we guess depict what it’s like to be on a date with him (presumably up until your best friend calls with a pre-planned emergency). Some of them are his oh-so-clever impressions of what he thinks it must be like to be on dates with liberals.
Oliver’s segment shows Johnny asking imaginary dates why commercials are full of Black and gay people, bitching that people call him racist just for wanting a white homeland, and this:
“Do you really think handing over your gun stops gun violence? That’s like chopping off your own dick to stop rape.”
John Oliver takes care of the commentary on that one, don’t want to spoiler it all for you, so we’ll move on.
Of course, McEntee was the one who went viral for his TikTok about how he likes to give homeless people counterfeit money, so that they’ll get arrested when they try to use it.
He’s literal actual human dogshit.
Here’s an appearance by Johnny on some wingnut podcast called “She Thnks” from the Independent Women’s Forum, should you be in the mood to subject yourself to 16 minutes of the most pathetic thing in the fucking world.
It’s Not A Surprise That The Guy Doing That Thing Is The Guy Doing This Thing
Again, in so many ways, Project 2025 is just a Nazi Jizz Manifesto written by MAGA guys who are so mad GRRRR. Who better to spearhead that project than people who are extremely upset and resentful that nobody will fuck them because they’re MAGA, or those guys’ patron saints, like Johnny McEntee?
At the Moral High Ground, we talk about how just about everything in our politics at least somehow intersects with this sadass white conservative Christian dude tantrum over loss of cultural control and relevance that’s holding us all hostage right now. If this isn’t an illustration of that, we don’t know what is.
These people think God gave them a special pedestal in society, to control the lives and bodies of people who are not straight (at least publicly) white, conservative Christian men. And women, LGBTQ+ people, people of color — they think they can withhold their bodies and their submission from these dudes? They’ll show you! They’ll design an entire masturbatory hate fantasy called Project 2025 to bring you under their official authority!
Then you’ll regret not being nicer before! If only you had been nice.
Amanda Marcotte wrote this week at Salon about McEntee and The Right Stuff, noting how hard the app, and McEntee’s MAGA-splaining TikToks, are grifting white conservative man losers who aren’t in his position of power, the guys really bathing in the resentment of the societal rejection that comes from being, well, who they are:
[T[his appears to be a fantasy for MAGA men. The dream is a woman who will do that for you. And if you can't have that in reality, you can watch these videos and pretend to be the guy on a date, bleating nonsense while a woman listens.
McEntee appears to be yet another one of the seemingly endless stream of masculinity "influencers" who have created a perfect grift cycle for themselves. First, identify alienated men and promise them a path out of loneliness and into the heterosexual relationship of their dreams. Second, encourage those men to adopt even more repugnant behaviors that make it even harder for them to attract women. Then, when those men become even more frustrated, push them further to the right, blaming all their problems on feminists, liberals and LGBTQ people.
It's a schtick we've seen from Jordan Peterson to Andrew Tate to the Proud Boys. I call it the male insecurity-to-fascism pipeline and, from a purely sociopathic viewpoint, it's evil genius.
Reckon Project 2025 sounds pretty cool to those deplorables.
Warn everyone you’ve ever met about it.
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I'ts funny that conservative men only blame LIBERAL women For the fact that NO women want to fuck them. I don't see any conservative ladies lining up to get any of that hot conservative dick either. If conservative men want pussy so bad, why aren't they slumming for it From within their own ranks? And Aren't conservative women supposed to be totally down with submitting to second-class citizen status? If your own people don't even want to fuck you, You might want to look into why That might be. But like all conservatives, they would rather complain about it than fix it.
I get that guy could be considered conventionally attractive, but his face also so drips with smug and dim that I can’t help wondering: if you stuck a pin in one of his cheeks, would his head just pop like a balloon?