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April 3, 2025
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April 2, 2025
April 1, 2025
The Greatest Strike in History
March 30, 2025
The Good:
1) Tariffs on China.
2) What he's done with Israel.
3) Dismantling DEI and understanding it's like opposing someone's religion.
The Neutral (or with holding judgement):
1) I'm not going to put paper straw in there because it's a nothing burger.
2) I'm also not going to include cozying up to Russia as a bad thing because it looks like that's going to blow up.
3) I'm also going to withhold judgement on damage to rule of law because that's yet to come to a head... but lots of potential on this one.
The Bad:
1) Various tariffs for the sake of tariffs.
2) Mistreating our various allies (this would be a long list btw)
3) Hiring anti-vac people to head up Health.
4) General lawlessness and basically being at war with the judicial system.
5) Hiring people who are incompetent and firing the competent people below them who are needed to carry out policy.
6) General chaos and unwillingness to use governmental tools in appropriate ways. Rather than Musk's group we should have a copy of what Gore did as VP.
7) Getting rid of large amounts of gov competency without any effort to do a cost/value eval on it first (note I would have included bureaucracy reform as a good thing last time)
8) Apparently taking Russian info war stuff as legit information.
9) Going serious Tax-Cut and Spend.
10) General lack of stability. I think he's suffering from some age related dementia.
Some of this is chaos of administration transfer, having very new people in their jobs, and a negative relationship with the press.
However the overall summation is really bad. He's ripping up decades of international good will, and doing a lot of damage to the gov, and the economy. Whether that also includes rule of law is a work in progress.
At the moment I'd say he's probably going to end up the 2nd worst President we've ever seen and he's got an outside shot at #1.