“Gen Z put Biden in office with our voices and with our platforms,” said Hassan Khadair, a content creator in Birmingham, Ala., with 6.3M followers on TikTok and 2.8M subscribers on YouTube.

This time around, Khadair said, “He has to earn that vote. We’re not just going to give it to him because we don’t want Trump to win. We did that once. We’re not doing it twice.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/13/influencers-biden-tiktok-ban/

Gen Z influencers who supported Biden in 2020 turn against him

The Gaza war, lack of progress on climate change and a potential TikTok ban are spawning anti-Biden content — even among former supporters.

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Gen Z influencers who supported Biden in 2020 turn against him

The Gaza war, lack of progress on climate change and a potential TikTok ban are spawning anti-Biden content — even among former supporters.

The Washington Post
@taylorlorenz someone needs to explain what a lame duck president is and how that could be very good with Biden and catastrophic with Trump- and the whole memorize your buybull for the oncoming plutocratic theocracy -
@taylorlorenz If people don’t vote for Biden, Trump will win. Are people ok with that?
@taylorlorenz I'm old enough to remember (and to have flirted with) the youthful nihilism that gave us GWB over Gore in 2000. I bet it felt good to vote Nader and stick it to the Man, but the counterfactual world in which Pres. Gore was responding to 9/11, starting to grapple with climate a generation earlier, appointing 2 supreme court justices, that's a world I wish I got to live in.

@pwramsey @taylorlorenz

Gore would not have been responding to 9/11 because he would've already put in place the airport security measures he had recommended so 9/11 would never have happened.

@darwinwoodka Now that's the kind of hard core Gore-topia I dream about nightly.
@pwramsey I mean the Bush admin was fucking WARNED and did absolutely nothing. Asinine.
@pwramsey @taylorlorenz I have this thought too often what if Gore had won…

@taylorlorenz

So the users of the banned app disapprove of the app banner despite the app banner joining the banned app.

When will these irrational young people ever start making sense?

@taylorlorenz Hassan needs to realize that Gen Z will be the most affected by the aftermath of a second Trump term.
@taylorlorenz He has. Open your eyes. And, harm reduction.
@taylorlorenz Oh, grow up.
@taylorlorenz
That was kind of a flippant answer and disrespectful to Hassan's voice. It is easy to be one-issue voter when you're young. But as a more "experienced" voter I'd just like to point out:
1. Presidents are for 4 years, no matter what happens at home and in the world: wars, pandemics, climate change, civil rights...and perhaps things we haven't forseen.
2. In the 2024 contest, there is only ONE candidate who hears you, and gives a crap about what you have to say.
#Vote
@taylorlorenz Which Trump policies do they prefer over Biden's?
@gooba42 @taylorlorenz None of them Fucking know because they have their faces in Shit Tok all day!!!
@taylorlorenz
They'll live with the consequences of their decision a lot longer than I will.
@taylorlorenz And what do you--Taylor--get, or what cause are you supporting by writing articles like this? Are you, quietly or not quietly, supporting the "burn it down" movement? If so, you should be ashamed of yourself. If you are doing it just for clicks; even more ashamed.
@taylorlorenz self important idiots. Progressive GenXer checking in - you guys gonna ruin it. GTFVO, give Biden a majority (a good one) and see what he can do.
@taylorlorenz so they think that this time around Trump is somehow more acceptable? Sorry, but this is madness.
@taylorlorenz instead of "more acceptable", I should have written "less unacceptable".

@taylorlorenz I get that as a voter you want the candidates to win your vote.

Biden is not perfect (no President will be). But opting out of a tight election is an effective Trump vote.

While Biden may not be your favorite we have a two party majority system and one party will absolutely raze your entire world to the ground. So yea, it makes total sense to not vote and give the party that wants to end your world a leg up.

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Project 2025, a comprehensive transition plan organized by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to guide the next GOP presidential administration, is the conservative movement’s most robust policy and staffing proposal for a potential second Trump White House — and its extreme agenda represents a threat to democracy, civil rights, the climate, and more.  Project 2025 focuses on packing the next GOP administration with extreme loyalists to former President Donald Trump.  The plan aims to reinstate Schedule F, a Trump-era executive order that makes federal employees fireable at-will, stripping tens of thousands of employees of civil service protections. Both Trump and others in the conservative movement have said they will clear out the federal government if he is reelected. The project has even set up online trainings and loyalty tests to narrow down potential hires to those who will commit to follow Trump without question. As Project 2025 senior adviser John McEntee has said, “The number one thing you're looking for is people that are aligned with the agenda.” The Heritage Foundation’s nearly 900-page policy book, titled Mandate for Leadership: A Conservative Promise, describes Project 2025’s priorities and how they would be implemented, broken down by departments in the federal bureaucracy and organized around “four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative administration: a policy agenda, personnel, training, and a 180-day playbook.” Written primarily by former Trump officials and conservative commentators connected to The Heritage Foundation, these proposals would severely inhibit the federal government’s protections around reproductive rights, LGBTQ and civil rights, and immigration, as well as its climate change efforts. The initiative is backed by a coalition of over 100 organizations and individuals, at least two-thirds of which receive funding from the Koch network or conservative philanthropist Leonard Leo. The project is also heavily promoted by MAGA-connected media figures such as Steve Bannon, who has called it the “blueprint” for Trump's second term on his War Room podcast.  The Trump campaign has attempted to distance itself from efforts to promote or speculate about “future presidential staffing or policy announcements.” However, Project 2025 is significantly more developed than the Trump campaign’s analog initiative, called Agenda47. And given that the Heritage plan has the backing of virtually the entire conservative movement and links to numerous former Trump officials and advisers, it appears all but inevitable that Trump and his allies will rely on the policies and personnel assembled by Project 2025 if he is reelected in November.  This resource outlines the specific policy and personnel priorities of Project 2025 for the next Republican administration. For more of Media Matters' research on Project 2025, click here. Update (7/1/24): This piece has been updated with another policy priority and related examples.   

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