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Trump’s First Weeks In Office

Let’s take a look at the highlights of Trump’s first weeks. It has not all been bad, but it’s also not looking great if we take everything into perspective.

Starting with the good.

The Good

• Pardons and Legal Actions:
  • Pardoned approximately 1,500 individuals involved in the January 6 lie.
  • Granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road.

Getting our guys out of the DC Gulag is easily the best thing Trump has done.

Granted, he is the fool who caused it in the first place. And he is the one who sat around for four years letting them rot. But I am OK keeping this one in the good category, nonetheless.

Also, the pardon for the Silk Road founder was unexpected, but appreciated.

• Foreign Relations:
  • Withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization.
  • Assisted in brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

I am a little mixed about the withdrawal from the World Health Organization. The United States being the main funder, I think it would’ve been better to take the more hostile-takeover approach. But, it is simpler to just wash your hands of the entire ordeal. So not a bad move, especially after Covid.

The ceasefire in the Middle East is also a welcome reprieve. I hope it will hold, but I am not holding my breath. However, if it does, then this is definitely one of the top goods that Trump has done.*_{^{(see note below)}}

*EDIT: Hilariously, even by the time this article was going to post (two days delayed), the good from the Israel-Hamas ceasefire has completely flipped. Now, Trump is yapping on about how he wants to fully ethnically cleanse all Palestinians from Gaza and for the US or Israel to own that territory. So the cease-fire was just a sham to get the true motives out. This is now clearly a huge negative. This will most certainly lead to war in the Middle East when coupled with the new ‘max pressure on Iran’. Just like my worrisome prediction long before the election. One domino from “the good” of Trump’s first weeks has already fallen. We will see how the rest holds over time.

• Social Policies:
  • Issued executive orders recognizing only two genders and revoking diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

This is plainly a net positive. I do not think it is the most important topic of the day given our current struggles with demographics and all, but it doesn’t hurt either. This appeals to the base, and it doesn’t rock the boat of the people who actually hold power. Still, removing the DEI programs is a step in the right direction.

• Trade Policy:
  • Imposed 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, aiming to reduce trade deficits and address issues like fentanyl production.
  • Implemented a 10% tariff on Chinese goods and energy imports from Canada.

Trump‘s trade policy is one of my personal favorites of what he has done so far. I am strongly in favor of tariffs and a more nationalist approach to trade policy. So this is an ideal of mine.

Frankly, however, I doubt he will hold up to it long-term. The most likely situation is that he uses them as a bargaining chip to make a deal and then removes them.

Still, if that goal is to reduce our people dying of drugs, then it is a good deal. Even if that is not the true purpose, that will probably be one of the ramifications. Which is a solid good, nonetheless.

So either way, it is either a good or a better.

Plus, Libertarians hate it. So that makes it fun.

The Bad

• Federal Gov Centralization:
  • Signed a record number of executive orders about Schedule F, federal government workings, and “deep state” countermeasures.
  • Granted Elon Musk (a billionaire foreigner who magically decided he was “rightwing” a week ago) and granted other unvetted randoms with unfettered access to massive government databanks.

Many of Trump’s executive orders have been targeted at the federal government. I strongly believe these will have disastrous consequences.

I wrote about it more here: Government Employees Are Not The Enemy.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk has been granted access to incredibly important datasets within the federal government with absolutely zero clearance parameters or accountability. I wonder what the rightwing would say if Soros and his ilk were granted such access—But funny how they don’t care when they think it is “their guy” (even though he isn’t). This is an immensely problematic situation and one that will certainly, at a minimum, enrich Musk while leaving the American people in a worse-off position. Likely, this will end up far worse. I do not think most people realize the depth of the data that Musk now has access to.

Many conservatives seem to like these changes. But I think they are being naïve and shortsighted. The reality is that what Trump is doing to remove the deep state is solely to centralize it under him.

However, this condition won’t hold forever. Look at how quickly everything fell as soon as he left office the first time. Except this time, now we will have a federal government fully centralized and primed under an executive. Trump is requiring loyalty from all the federal workers or they risk losing their job. He is also angering them all and harming them directly. Now take that condition and realize that in the future there will be another Obama/Biden-type administration or a war. How do you think that will work for us?

This is the continual fools errand that conservatives run into. They centralize things in the process of trying to reform a system that is broken and can’t be fixed. But then their enemies use these centralized tools against them far harsher than they ever wielded them when they have power.

The only time this form of centralization could ever truly work is with a strong man that would wield it and not let go. That is not Trump. He will let go, and a leftist will be more than happy to pick it up and use it to destroy us.

In fact, I think Trump is doing this on purpose. Whatever plans the deep state has, he is coordinating and centralizing them. All with the support of the conservative suckers thinking it’s fixing something.

Harming federal workers, centralizing the deep state, and these similar acts may look “cool” now, but mark my words, they will hurt us in the [near] future.

• Israeli Idolatry:
  • “Anti-Semitism” Executive Order.
  • Worshipping Netanyahu at the White House.

Self-explanatory.

• National Security:
  • Ordered airstrikes targeting senior ISIS planners in Somalia.
  • Redesignated the Houthis as a terrorist organization, aiming to disrupt their operations.

These actions are priming us for further conflict and war. They do not have the backing of the citizens or Congress. these are obviously a net negative.

• Russian-Ukraine War
  • No progress has been made. The initial ideas developed by Team Trump have been rejected.

So much for solving the war in the first week. 

The Unsure

• Energy:
  • Declared a national energy emergency, suspending certain environmental regulations to expedite energy projects.

These kind of things can go both ways. Yes, we should be utilizing the natural energy resources of the United States. But no, we should not be doing it at the expense of our environment or our people’s access to land.

Very often, a reduction of regulations does not actually help the average person. It helps millionaires and billionaires make more money, and centralizes more of the market. It also often takes away the beauty of our land and exploits our communities.

Still, it could be done in a good way. I doubt it will in this case, but I can’t put this inside of the good or bad right at the onset.

• Immigration and Border Security:
  • Declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border to enhance security measures.

Yeah, yeah. I know. There are fewer illegals and ICE is (slowly) departing a few of them. That is great.

But what I care about is the overall demographic situation. If you look at the total numbers, nothing has changed. Nothing likely will change, either.

The ICE deportations are too slow. Additionally, the Trump administration has explicitly endorsed increasing legal immigration. Even if they reduce illegal immigration and deport many of them, the net effect on our demographic situation will be unchanged due to the increase in legal immigration.

None of you would like to hear it, but illegal immigration is better than legal immigration in the long term for us. Legal implies a pathway for citizenship and continued residency. Most illegals are just parasites here for a short while. The illegals take unimportant jobs, where the legal immigrant, like H1-B types, take high-paying jobs from our own people. Both increase costs, but legal immigrants increase things like housing costs more because they can legally buy a house themselves and don’t have 30-people living in one basement rental like the illegals.

Ideally, we have no immigration, and we stabilize our demographics. But that is simply not our reality right now.

If I had to choose, I would rather have the illegal Mexican selling tacos on the corner versus the Indian CEO not hiring any white men at a Fortune 500 tech company. Sorry, but it is the pragmatic position to take.

Trump is encouraging the latter while deporting the former. This is not a benefit to us. This will actually hurt us even more in the long run. Illegals are easier to get rid of at any point in time compared to legal or naturalized citizens. Legals are not.

At the end of the day, what difference does it make if demographic replacement occurs through high-skilled legal immigrants versus occurring through low-skilled illegal immigrants? Both options suck.

Still, I put this in the unsure. Maybe God will have mercy on us and the actions against the illegals will encourage less legal immigration as well. Hopefully, the end result is less demographic change than what otherwise would have occurred. But there is no guarantee about that.

Trump’s First Weeks: A Conclusion

I am not wallowing in blackpills over here. There definitely have been a few wins. But I do believe the majority are negatives.

I know everybody wants to “take the wins”, but if they are not actually wins, you aren’t being an optimist—You are just being willfully blind. Some of these are clearly not long-term wins. They are setups for future checkmates. You knocked out their pawn, but they now have your king in an untenable position. Your victory lap will be short-lived once you realize this.

Overall, I think there are clear warning signs and problem indicators so far. Especially with Trump‘s aggressive foreign policy, with him wanting to take over areas around the globe, his desire to fight in the Middle East, and his centralizing of the federal government.

At the same time as he is making this somewhat obscure moves, Trump is also making appeals to the conservative base on things that don’t really matter (DEI, Musk’s DOGE, etc.), to inspire patriotism in the base. But for us, we must see that at the same time he is also centralizing power and provoking conflict. This is never a good recipe for the white Christians.

Frankly, it seems very clear to me that he is gearing up for a major confrontation somewhere. I don’t know if he has Napoleon syndrome or if his handlers do, but most of these actions sure seem like he’s working in the direction of leading us into a conflict. Every single one of these things is gearing us for a wartime economy: from a centralized government, to the rally around Israel situation, to a resurgence of “patriotic America exposing and removing the corruption”…even down to the removal of DEI to give a token victory to whites to encourage more military signups. It all seems geared toward creating a wartime America.

I may be wrong, and as God as my witness, I hope I am. But I see what I see. I discern what I discern.

Times have changed, and it seems like Trump may have changed as well.

Keep your eyes open. When in a life or death struggle for the survival of your civilization, always view things in the context of the long-term. Do not be so quick to claim victory, but at the same time do not always wallow in expected defeat. Stay in reality, watch the signs of the times, and always be looking for true motives behind what is occurring. There is always more than meets the eye.

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