I bet the establishment are REALLY wishing the just let him win in 2020 as holy crap has it been a ride and not even been a week!
Seems not only has Trump got a team to target the areas needing addressing (which is the majority of the government) but also apply the tactic of just overwhelming the establishment with constant executive orders which means they just can't fight them all and every one of them is getting acted on at once.
And results speak for themselves, they're too busy fighting birthright citizenship they can't successfully impede deportations. They were so trying to push the 'Elon did a Nazi salute' that Trump already pardoned all the J6 hostages. He's moving too fast for a successful resistance and thanks to that I think it's why he got Hegseth confirmed.
This seems to be the best tactic against the left and globalists elites, just keep pushing relentlessly with all the power you can till they exhaust themselves.
I think it might be working, as it's already making America a less attractive target for illegal immigrants as opposed to pre-existing citizens. Though, I am worried he may not be aware enough of the rebranding of DEI. I should still be braced either way.
Yeah, that sentiment is one I've seen on occasion, and it might have gone either way. I think it may have led to Trump declaring BLM a terrorist organisation (and all the shit from the left that would have followed) and going even harder on them and other similar groups, but I can understand that they might have been glad at this point to let him take the fall for everything that happened during the Biden years.
If Trump continued from 2020, I think a lot of rats would have managed to stay hidden, the fact that under Biden they ALL revealed themselves to attack Trump.
Plus thanks to everything they did INCLUDING the assassination attempt, he has more support and a mandate for his actions than in 2020.
Miley, Fauci, Pompeo, Pence, and Barr were all in the Trump white house while Steve Bannon was basically forever banned. The best person outside of himself in his administration was basically Betsy DeVos.
Meanwhile, who's the worst we have right now? Speaker Johnson and Marco Rubio? While, on the other hand, we've got a lot of excellent cabinet picks right now.
They should have let him win and kept undermining his entire administration they way they already were. Hell, if they dragged it out long enough, they probably could have gotten him impeached and removed. As popular as he was on the right, truth is that he was constantly struggling to get any support from the center. His job approval rating I don't think ever crossed 50%.
Pushing him out in 2020 was probably as bad of a mistake as the Clinton campaign uplifting him in 2016.
even rubio seems to be rising to the occasion, and i'd put johnson just a little higher than Bitch McConnell...
Yeah, for the most part Rubio reminds of a lesser version of Cruz. Rubio is incidentally on side with us. He has different loyalties and objectives, but for the most part he's on-side with opposing Leftism, and doesn't have an undying loyalty to the establishment.
Johnson is basically vassalized by Trump, so although I'd prefer someone else who is willing to do good work of their own initiative, it looks like Trump can pressure him in the right direction.
McConnell on the other hand is just a straight up enemy.
It was satisfying seeing McConnell get embarrassed when Hegseth got confirmed.
I'll never forgive McConnell for purposefully losing the midterms
He is very aware of the rebranding and even set up a tip line to report it, and sent it to all federal employees
It's his first week so he deserves some slack, but ICE has been bragging about apprehending roughly 500 illegals a day since inauguration.
Unless they seriously ramp up those numbers into the thousands, the math doesn't work out.
500 x 365 is less than 200k a year. And that's assuming every single one actually gets deported and doesn't slip back in.
Operation Wetback got a couple million in the 1950's, they goddamn better get more than that these days.
The nice thing is that as long as ICE is working, it will have a multiplicative effect on self-deportations.
Also, any funding that he can cut for these free housing and replenishable debit cards will similarly lead to self-deportations.
Also also, having the border closed so that the problem isn't constantly getting worse will also help immensely,
Yeah, that's a good point. It's a start, but they can do much better.
That said, one of the big points is shifting the attitude. If we can get people to self-deport, and to stop coming, that's a huge difference. Now, that's still going to be done better by larger numbers of deportations, but even the very visible show of deporting people again should discourage more. But, yeah, get those numbers up, those are rookie numbers.
Though if you want an encouraging sign of his commitment to deportations, look what happened to Colombia just now, it was literally FAFO in under an hour..
Holman said he's not happy with the speed and wants to up it
He certainly threw them in a panic. And his executive orders, plus the pardons, are what he promissed he would do. Which sits well with people. Imagine that, a politician who kept his word to a significant extent, and didn't wait a month before the end of his term to think about doing that.
Will he actually follow-up and fire the DEI comissars who got their positions renamed, or who got ''promoted'' to a ''different position'' ( in contravention to the Executive order )?
Will Elon Musk clean the federal government like he cleaned Twitter ( imagine ther nuclear bomb REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and the budget surplus after that. ).
Will the Supreme Cout cuck, or end the farce of giving babies of illegal aliens, citizenship at birth.
Will RFK get rid of some, or most harmful childhood injections. He might be able to get fluoride banned from tapwater. At least fewer of your kids will develop dental fluorosis.
Aside from that, Trump nominated several swamp crookodiles in key positions, including a few WEF ones, and keeps shoveling billions of taxpayers money to Israel, which is bad enough that Americans should make sure Trump's replacement is better.
I have low hope for the federal government clean-up, ending illegal alien birthright citizenship, and am very concerned about the swamp creatures he nominated.
(And it's not even within pubic discourse to revise the immigration policy and family incentives to preserve the White population of the USA.)
USA policies have a massive influence on us too. Just your better energy policy will bring energy prices down in other countries. Your tax and regulation policies will also force the hand of the Canadian government, in the form of liberals/ndp losing power soon.
P.S. : Don't forget to practice to scream ''LA MIGRA LA MIGRA!'' with a convincing accent, for the Lulz.
We already have the MSM complaining about getting exhausted from covering just a few days of Trump’s presidency. And Trump isn’t showing signs of slowing down either. He went to NC, then LA to smack down Newsom and Bass, and rallied in Vegas.
Also, the current environment is vastly different from his first term when the MSM was still the go-to source of “news” for normies.
I'm one of the only people I know that was suggesting this possibility in 2021.
So far, I've been proven right. He keeps kicking them in the face, and I'm having a good old time.
I think Carl Benjamin also made a good point that you can see how 2020 changed him into someone actually capable of doing the things he wanted (following the classical "Heroes Journey" archetype). With his specific example being to compare his inauguration photos, where in 2016 he is grinning ear to ear like a Golden Retriever, thinking it will be smooth sailing and he can easily get his agenda done. Then in 2024, he is just missing the eyepatch in order to be Punished Trump, The Man Denied His Nation. And he is acting with a fury of someone who has seen what evil can actually exist.
I think Carl may have been over-egging it a bit, because I think what you're actually seeing is Trump portraying a laughing confidence in 2017 of "how do you like me now?", while in 2025 he is portraying Nick Fury: Make S.H.I.E.L.D. Great Again.
Trump did take the heroes' journey, and he clearly learned, but he also is using optics to push it up to 11.
Depends on what you mean by “a success.” Is this a final victory? No, things will get challenged in court, even if everything goes great we’ll still have to work to protect—and continue—our gains in four years, etc. But in the sense that Trump has managed real and impressive gains even in this short time? Absolutely. It’s incredible. I certainly can’t imagine that going slowly would somehow be better.
His Executive order ending the birth from illegal aliens loophole to citizenship, got an emergency ruling to suspend it.
This will go to the Supreme Court, who will likely ignore the word of the amendment, intent of the author, and cuck, keeping the loophole.
Plenty of important executive orders on oil / natural ressources, border control, etc, weren't blocked and are in effect. He will need to X20 or X50 the pace of deportations ASAP though. He has 4 years. Maby only 2 years. To get rid of as many illegal aliens as possible.
Few politicians have the balls to repeat ''no, they still have to get out and we're sending them back'' after the media shows videos of crying wimminz and a dead invader. Don't assume the next Republican candidate for president will have such balls.
Ideally your next leader won't be one who says ''as long as the demographic replacement comes here legally! we love legal immigrants and will import hundreds of thousands per year!''. You'd have to put race-mixing Vance aside.
The outcome of the fight over birthright citizenship is what will determine my level of investment in the future of this country. If scotus decides we aren’t a real country - that anyone in the world can sneak over a border, shit out a kid, and magically become entitled to the prosperity of this nation - then I will check out completely.
Nominating ACB instead of the based Cuban might end up being the biggest mistake Trump ever makes.
While the right talks about it a lot, I feel like I've never noted birthright citizenship getting national spotlight. So I'm not even sure what percentage of the population has been gaslit to support it. Maybe it's a cope but I feel like it'd be something even a solid chunk of democrat voters understand is bad.
Point being if SCOTUS decides to really fuck over the country I feel like it could be possible to gain momentum to get enough states to pass an ammendment about it. Anyone refusing to play ball could be put on blast over it nonstop.
Realistically SCOTUS is our best chance though, but a man can dream.
I expect Amy Coney Barrett to help fuck the country and vote to continue the absurd Birthright Citizenship for the kids of illegal aliens.
She adopted 2 Haitian kids ( and also has 5 White biological children ).
It was crazy how much of a wolf in sheep's clothing ACB turned out to be. Not even Giorgia Meloni did such a dramatic heel-face turn after rising to power.
Together with Kavanaugh, Trump made some horrific choices when it came to doing something very few Presidents are given the ability to do, to load the SC with a new candidate, let alone twice. If he'd made a based selection, the SC would have basically been impenetrable for the next 5 election cycles easy.
It was just one of many, many mistakes that castrated Trump's power during his first term.
it's a long road, but it looks good so far.
If he actually does something more than deporting 0.000001% of illegals then yes.
I think it's working mostly because the establishment is so fat and lazy. Never mind their goals being bad for America, they were incompetent in the first place. They're going to have a hell of a time mounting any kind of resistance.
Yes it's working because "competency" is one area the "right" has a natural advantage in. While the left may be more organised and able and willing to get 1,000 people to work towards a common goal. If you just have the will, 50 people can do the same work far more efficiently on the right.
The best outcome from this is that it's not simply the speed of events, it's the fact that instead of constantly playing defence, which is an inherently losing strategy, you are advancing territory and going on attack.
i continue to be flabbergasted how you guys believe that someone who loves Christ-killers and "immigrants as long as they're legal" can be on the side of Americans.
Elon doing the nazi salute also made the right forget about H1B visas and UK pakistani muslim grooming gangs
Nobody who cared about those, forgot about those because of his akward chest and hand gesture. And nobody in the media, called it a Nazi or fascist salute when Tim Waltz did it.
It was discussed on this very forum Elon's sudden jumping onto the pakistani rape gangs as he shut-up about his love of mass-importing foreing workers on H1B visas was an obvious ''quick, how do I make people talk about something else''.
It might also be bait to the lefties to ignore Trump’s EO Blitz. Loads of individual cells of lefty cities are fighting different battles and not one can support the other.
Elon salutes, Leftists ban twitter links on one of their major propaganda outlets, now they have to go an extra step to report on what's happening with Trump & crew. It might not stop the majority, but these are exceptionally lazy people.