Also, what is with judges blocking shit, other judges unblocking it, how does that work? No need for a detailed wall of text, just some short explanation will do.
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A good start, but is being sandbagged heavily by something no other Presidency before it has had to deal with; a mass rebellion of the judiciary caste.
The big 'what if' for me and a lot of others is if Trump had persevered with his original AG pick of Gaetz. For some reason, the party didn't approve and despite Trump endorsing the idea of having him as an "emergency" AG (those who know the relevant laws can elaborate) where they can function for half a year without having to be sworn in.
The AG we ended up with, Pam Bondi, has been hideously ineffective thus far and is holding the entire Presidency back. Those with brains on PDW have largely turned against her by this point, but there are a few who insist she's doing the right thing.
The women in this administration are a fucking shitshow
This administration is largely a fucking shitshow, but still somehow much, much less of a shitshow than the past admin. But, yeah, these women be crazy.
The more overt they are, the crazier they are, too. Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem are both insane narcissists, who can't help but try to make everything about them.
I swear, the vast majority of female politicians are demonic. They make me physically uneasy. Mostly the Dems - Whitmer and Hochul are, no hyperbole, demonic - but some of these Republican bitches are nearly as repulsive.
That's just women
Nooooo, that's not true, that's impossssible!
If you get to know elected politicians you’ll soon realize that each one of them is a raging narcissist, of both parties, both men and women. It’s an inherent trait necessary to want to run for elected office.
Hey man, she's very effective at getting onto fox news.
Gaetz showed a profound lack of judgment by thinking that it was ok for a sitting member of congress to organize and participate in hooker orgies. Not that I personally care, but it’s an excellent way for foreign intelligence services to blackmail him (a la Epstein).
Bondi on the other hand is either incompetent, or more likely, a DC swamp monster who is actively undermining Trump.
Better than I imagined it would be with Trump not giving a fuck and a 90% good pick rate at appointees with Pam being the weakest and Rubio, I shit you not, somehow being one of his strongest picks.
The thing is for as much as the obstruct him now, they've burned through ALL their goodwill. No one cares about what the media says and now judges are getting rightfully arrested, there's no huge protest for those judges. The system against Trump is either too blind or too dumb to realise that the public would support Trump ACTUALLY purging them than defend them because he forced them to do dumb moves like defending not auditing the government or not deporting gang members and rapists.
It definitely came as a surprise to me too, but a welcome one. My gut was always that I wanted to like him even if he engaged in cringe from time to time (like in the 2016 presidential debates). But, and I realize I may be in a minority here, I think he could be a strong contender for the crown come 2028 assuming nothing explodes catastrophically about the admin in the next 4 years.
As for my stance, I would say it is overall good. I think the tariffs have been handled poorly, I think he has handled international relations worse than I would have liked (pissing off the Euro's was fine, but did we really need to start picking fights in Asia when they actually appreciate and respect us?), and he has had an even worse habit this time around of needlessly sticking his foot in his mouth over things he really shouldnt.
Economy will still need more time to get a grip on what is happening and see what I think about that, but it better be in a better spot by the end of the year if we want to do well in the midterms.
But even with those said, I am still positive overall, I still dont regret my vote, other things that I think are important (like Immigration and defeating the Woke) are being handled well, and my gut is still that this will all shake out in the end after a chaotic 2025 as we fix things that really needed to be fixed.
It’s doing an excellent job at showcasing the rot across the entire government, how literally almost everyone in the Federal and many in state governments are globohomo first. By the end of his second term, there will be no doubt left for anyone even remotely on our side that you can work with institutions.
Honestly? Bad.
Israel first foreign policy.
Syria collapsed. War with Iran imminent.
Ukraine still ongoing.
Cost of goods still going up. Inflation is still nuts.
Protectionist tariffs? lol! Psych! Let’s toast the short term economy, not protect the long term reindustrialozation by walking back tariffs, then lose congress in the midterms with recession incoming and blame that for not getting jack done for the next 4 years.
Deportations not happening
Green cards for diplomas.
Fucking pajeets and women all over the administration.
No border wall talk.
No specific tax relief legislation being proposed.
No protectionist 2A legislation on the docket.
Life feels the same or worse economically as Biden.
What are we doing? What are we winning right now?
I don't hear about DOGE anymore either.
A mixed bag, but generally positive...and certainly better than the alternative.
On the positives; going after a bunch of bullshit and bloat, firing "public servants" (when the courts let him), as well as going after cultural cancer like DEI and tranny nonsense. Flirting with removing taxes altogether. Encouraging production in America. Almost overnight solving the border, if you believe the numbers. Not sure I believe the 99% figure myself, but it's clear the USA is now a much less inviting place for illegal migration. Being - mostly - antiwar...see my negatives, though.
Negatives; Bombing of Yemen. Gloating about blowing up a tribal gathering was disgusting too. Threatening Iran (again, see positives; this one is a mixed bag, as a bunch of his people want war, so he also gets credit for not already bombing Iran.) Not a fan of him going after Massie, either. And the whole War on Antisemitism stuff leaves a bad taste in my mouth and, even though it's mostly hitting leftists (which is at least funny), from a free speech perspective it's awful, and I hate the obsessive focus. Trumps chaotic style in general; it's got it's pros and cons, and often gets good results...but can also just sometimes breed chaos. He has been a bit scattergun in his approach, which can lead to some undeserving people or organizations getting flak, or at the very least confusion.
So, yeah, generally fairly positive, and in many fields vastly outperforming expectations. But also some rather worrying failures or missteps. But overall I'm pretty happy.
He has exposed just how thoroughly and fucked our entire system is, and how long and deep the various problems go.
So much so that I don't foresee his term "going well" for the full duration, or even being seen good historically. The levels that will be needed to undo it all will take far longer than 4 years, most of these 4 years will be consumed by the necessary "rip off the bandaid" or growing pains before the large chance that the Left wins again in 2028 and kills any chance of the improvement taking place.
That's something I think needs to be kept in mind a lot going forward. That it absolutely will have to get worse before getting better, and winning 2028 is probably more important to make that pain play out to a payoff.
Not that he isn't capable of fucking up on his own in a non-useful manner. But a lot of things regarding like the economy absolutely will need to suck to improve and the Left (and doomers) are banking on people giving up halfway through.
I'm not sure how I feel about the tariffs if I'm honest. I do think the intent behind them is good. It's hard to get a read on because there's so much panic and screaming for it, so I'm giving them time.
Love the deportations. Let's ramp it up. Everything else seems generally okay. I think the judges are just going to go back and forth until the Supreme Court rules. We have tons of activist judges who enforce the will of their party not the law.
I'm sure I could pick up some criticisms if I kept a really watchful eye on everything, I just don't care to nitpick. The alternative was not an option.
9/10 for me, where a 10/10 would have Terminator robots kicking in doors to throw Gawker writers in prison.
He's getting played by the quisling GOP in the house and senate. This time Mike Johnson is playing the Judas role that Paul Ryan perfected.
Again.
Chief Justice Roberts is engineering a judicial coup.
Again.
Second verse. Same as the first.
He's managed to greatly increase taxes (tariffs) without inducing a revolution while at the same time convincing people higher taxes and more regulations are good for business... evil genius.
That's one way to look at it. A view I don't share, personally. If it's a tax, it's a very specific one...it's a tax on companies using foreign labor, aka not hiring us Americans. Not saying everything about the implementation is good, but that's the type of tax I can get behind in theory...one of the few, at that.
Eh. Fuck "business." Business is good not as a universal rule or given, but because it benefits the people of the nation. If "business" is just paying foreign countries to use their slaves to produce cheap shit, miss me with that.
As for regulations, I view it more as balancing it out a bit. A bit part of the issue is that we in the US are burdened with a shit ton of regulations...but also don't have a balancing aspect to address that a bunch of other countries don't have those regulations...which actually encourages companies to not hire Americans.
I agree that deregulation would be better, but to act like it's "regulation" to try to combat the imbalance in regulation versus in some cases actual slavery is silly.
Not all regulation is inherently bad, and "regulations" to address the imbalance caused by other regulations is just sensible. Again, I think a rollback would be better, but if we are going to have regulations...we actually need these new regulations, and it's utterly fucking insane (and
borderlinetreason) that we didn't already have them. Americans shouldn't be getting outcompeted by foreign slavers, and the fact that we are comes down to bad law.The status quo was a system of regulations that punished people for hiring Americans. That's an abomination, and it needs to be addressed.
Item costs more to buy in US than else where. Extra cost goes to US government. US consumer pays extra. It's a tax that people don't believe is a tax because they get emotionally stuck on some moral high horse believing they are patriots doing their duty stickin' it to the current enemies by paying more for everything. Meanwhile stuff costs more because of "not a tax" that goes to "not the govt". Next time you buy something, ask yourself did i just pay a tariff? "Made in china". Yes you did, but it's not a tax. No sir. It's a patriot fee.
Sort of the opposite. I don't give a single shit about Our Enemies™. In fact, I wish them the best, because I want everyone to do well and get along, although I also understand that's a pipe dream. But, yeah, I don't care about our Enemies, nor do I particularly want to stick it to them. I do want to protect my people, though. And I don't think selling out to our adversaries, or even just foreigners, serves that purpose. I want a system that benefits us first. I want enemies, adversaries, and foreigners to have policies in place to protect their interests foremost, and us to have policies to protect our own interests foremost.
Eh, we also make an absolute shit ton more. Not sure if and where it all balances out but, we have it pretty good. Not as good as our ancestors, and that definitely fucking needs to be called out, as it's the result of the aforementioned treason, but we still have a very high quality of life, on the global scale. Things cost more, but we also have better things. Doesn't make everything right, but also needs to be taken into account.
Fuck the US government. And most cost of the US government comes from the US government. That's not on our enemies or adversaries, that's on our own traitors.
BRUH. How can you whine about tariffs, when everyone else tariffs us at a much higher degree, we regulate more, etc.? It's a super weird hill to die on, or more precisely a weird interpretation of that hill. We're all paying tariffs...but most of those aren't tariffs put in place by the US.
A tariff is a weapon...one we're finally using to fight back.
Sit the fuck down.
And moreover, I would that it has once again shown that our real friends are in Asia, not in Europe. Because when Trump announced these tariffs, Asian countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, etc all went "There is clearly an issue here. Let's sit down and have a chat." and have been spending the last month actively negotiating trade deals or working on smoothing things over (like how Japan has announced a metric shit ton of investments in US manufacturing).
Meanwhile, at the same time, Europe has been screaming about how this is yet more proof that Orange Man is still bad, and they will go it alone, only to find that they actually cant and decide they would rather spin in the wind than work with The Orange One.
I can agree the tariffs were rolled out in a stupid way. I wish it had been more tactically applied to punish our enemies and reward our friends. I would have rather seen a lot more deregulation than tariffing. But even with the blunt approach, it has done a very good job of showing who our actual friends are, and that the sooner we leave behind that decaying continent that is Europe and embrace the future in Asia, the better it will be for America in the long run.
So "fuck the govt" but you'll gladly pay them more because they have enemies you don't care about but still want to punish with a cool new weapon because that gives you a little buzz on your fanny, and also you make more money so it's all good "bruh". Did I get that all? Sounds like a retarded faggot explanation of why you absolutely for sure are not the victim of theft.
Stop buying funkpops, dipshit. Problem solved.
I'll give it a year before I pass judgment. Trump is certainly trying to do a lot of stuff, and his opponents are trying really hard to keep them from doing it. for now, I believe he's on the right path.
If you think the ultimate end goal is to open up discussions as to a post liberal government and what it might entail, then it's doing a great job. I wish Trump would be a bit more overt about it though and point out what specifically the roadblocks are and highlight how far back in time those roadblocks go too.
For those that read the market ticker, you'll know the laws that Karl keeps yammering on about in terms of illegal immigration and medical pricing laws. (10 years jail for providing services to illegals and the same for charging different customers different prices for medical goods) I've heard someone in the Trump mention the first one but not much about the second.
I suspect they are being kept as a trump card. If you perp walk and jail a random landlord and small business owner for hiring illegals, you completely change the paradigm. But I think jailing American citizens for illegals being here is a bridge too far and an option of last resort. I think having the public clamouring for jailing and targeting of obstructionist judges is actually more favourable to public opinion.
Just not being actively treasonous and instead deporting foreign criminals is a huge step forwards, but he's also making a lot of unforced errors that are harmful to the right. If you're going to do something that reinvigorates the left it has to have concrete benefits - arresting leftist judges for helping foreign criminals evade justice and deporting leftists for being terrorist sympathisers is good, putting out Trump '28 merch is bad.