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Originally Posted by Lune
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Your vote and opinion do actually matter. From his inception as a politician, Trump was actually not ordained by the power brokers, and they did everything they could to bury him. Though the Trump movement has been a catastrophe for different reasons, his election was a singular victory for populist representation in the face of the corrupting influence of concentrated money.
Unfortunately, his second term is going nearly exactly how his first term went. He is leveraging every means available to him to prove he has POWER and INFLUENCE, which is exactly what he doesn't have, because he doesn't control Congress-- he's very close to a lame duck. Political theatrics, banging pots and pans while locked out of the kitchen.
Notice he hasn't actually done anything that would leave him open to being humiliated by congress like he was in his first term, and most of what he has done has been held up in the courts or walked back.
So yea, enjoy your entertainment while it lasts. Governing by executive order only goes so far.
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Getting Mexico to agree to send thousands of their troops to the border to me screamed complete political posturing by Mexico to avoid a tariff. I pictured the Mexican President laughing as she cheers a wine glass with her team about easily playing Trump
But then again, I did hear illegal border crossings are now down 90%
https://nypost.com/2025/02/06/us-new...border-patrol/
The rest of the executive orders I hadn’t followed, but I do doubt that the protect women’s sports one will be overturned legally. That concept is one where supposedly like 78% of the American people surveyed said they supported, which is I believe the largest amount of Dems willing to side with Repubs on any issue, even higher than immigration or the economy
But the trimming the fat like firing 10,000+ USAA staff isn’t posturing, and although Trump didn’t do it directly he is taking all the credit
I, however, personally have some issues with the reach and power of Doge, and I have a personal dislike of micromanagement when I have experienced it in my job. I also dislike this idea that anyone who dislikes micromanagement by Big Brother must be cheating or cutting corners. It’s like I like the idea of having some semblance of privacy, and the respect to assume I’m doing what I’m supposed to. But I understand that some micromanagement is necessary