So....Trump's in office, and his administration is horrifying so far. There's a lot to cover, even with him only being in control for a little more than 24 hours, but there's already lots of stuff to talk about. However, I mostly wanna focus on what I consider to be the worst.
So, let's discuss the worst of it.
5- Designating the cartel as terrorist organizations
One might wonder why I decided to go with this one, and here's why. It can be used as a pretext for the president to invade Mexico without congressional authorization. Ya know, like Bush did. Because terrorism bad. Like, it doesnt sound bad on paper, but it actually kind of is. It's more the implications of this one, rather than the actual nominal action itself.
4- Return to in person work
Being as pro labor as I am, I have to really crap on him over this one. Remote work is based. It's more convenient and beneficial to workers while not harming productivity. Sadly, for conservatives and business leaders, it's not about the productivity, it's about the control. These guys wanna be mini dictators over peoples' lives and don't want people to have any sense of independence from their work. The hate on remote work is irrational and really just about making things worse for workers.
3- The drill baby drill stuff (and other anti environmentalism)
So climate change is a national emergency linked to several actrual emergencies and disasters currently ongoing (LA wildfires, Helene still leaving Appalachia a hot mess), and this guy wants to drill for more oil and take us out of environmental agreements that help stem climate change. I've heard that he wants to take down windmills and stuff to. Nuts. Totally nuts.
2- Pulling out of the OECD global tax deal
For as protectionist trump likes to pretend he is, pulling us out of a global tax on corporations is actually REALLY BAD. Because part of neoliberalism is the fact that these corporations can just shift their assets to countries that dont tax them, hence the tax haven issue, and why corporate tax is a race to the bottom. By establishing a minimum tax, it makes the tax functionally unavoidable and ends the race to the bottom, forcing corporations to pay a fair share. Trump just got rid of that. Scary.
1- Pardoning January 6thers
So....we all knew it was coming, but he blanket pardoned ALL Jan 6thers to my knowledge. Like full blanket pardon. Even violent ones. Which is insane. I'm sorry, but January 6th is a blight on our country, and the huge reason why I went so "resist lib" against trump this time around. Like, I can tolerate normal BS, but things that violate the peaceful transfer of power are a hard no for me.
Oh, and before people go BUT BUT BIDEN PARDONED PEOPLE TOO. yeah, he did preemptive pardons for his family and people close to his administration because trump is a vindictive ###hole who would literally weaponize the justice system against these guys. So Biden is looking out for his team. That's all it is. The only one who actually committed any crimes was hunter, and even that conviction was politically motivated. Trump keeps trying to draw false equivalence and muddy the waters here, it's literally his MO. He blurs reality with his rhetoric and political tactics to get out of the crap he did while acting like some offense by someone else is just as bad. Which is why biden acted as he did anyway, since he literally would weaponize the justice department against him.
Heck, let's be honest, the dude also pulled secret service protection from John Bolton, basically opening him up to assassination attempts. And he removed general Milley's portrait from the pentagon, showing that basically the dude's fired for not being loyal to him. So yeah, the dude is a petty ##### who will stop at nothing to punish those disloyal to him.
Now, with all of that said, this isn't a comprehensive list.
However, let's face it, a lot of trump's actions so far are more virtue signalling than anything. Like saying that its the official policy of the US that there are only 2 genders, or decreeing that government maps call the gulf of mexico the gulf of america, or declaring a state of emergency at the border.
What about his birthright citizenship thing, you might ask? Well, I looked into the language of that and kind of agree with it, it only disqualifies it for people whose parents were both illegal. And this is a policy I've technically advocated for for a while, as birthright citizenship has a very obvious legal loophole there. Now, is this my top priority? No. And is the way he's doing it kind of bad? Yeah, we would need an amendment or a SCOTUS ruling to argue that. But Im not opposed to it in principle.
And some stuff just doesnt have its full implications known yet. Like other stuff might end up being bad as things evolve from here, like his deportation stuff, but we just don't know yet. All of this is happening so fast i dont think we can really understand the implications of everything here. It will be good to revisit this topic at the end of his term maybe, if I'm still doing this blog.
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