The man behind Project 2025, the rightwing policy manifesto that includes calls for a sharp increase in immigrant deportations if Donald Trump is elected, told university colleagues about two decades ago that he had killed a neighborhood dog with a shovel because it was barking and disturbing his family, according to** **former colleagues who spoke to the Guardian.

Kevin Roberts, now the president of the Heritage Foundation, is alleged to have told colleagues and dinner guests that he killed a neighbor’s pit bull around 2004 while he was working as a still relatively unknown history professor at New Mexico State University.

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    9 hours ago

    To quote a poet

    Why are we calling these guys masterminds? They’re not masterminds!

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      7 hours ago

      Mastermind can be a noun or a verb

      Noun: A person of outstanding intelect an eminent musical mastermind

      Verb: to plan a difficult activity, often a crime, in detail and mak certain that if happens successfully he is believed to be the mastermind of the attacks

      Another verb definition: plan and direct, an ingenious or complex scheme or enterprise he was accused of masterminding a vote stealing racket

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    23 hours ago

    Republicans: “Immigrants are eating pets!”

    Also republicans: “I killed a pet dog with a shovel because it was barking”

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      10 hours ago

      “Kill as many dogs as you like however you like… but eating them afterward? That goes beyond the pale!”

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    So? Killing Dogs is as Republican as School Shootings! I mean as Republican as Dead Women! I mean as American as Apple Pie that’s what I mean!

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      They want to take lives, and that was an outlet for them.

      This guy seems to be moving on to bigger kills…