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Trump's Second Term

In hindsight I should've probably put the text below the image. Would've probably been more intuitive then.
 
Blue Mountain said:
As of the close of the day on April 9, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -450.

9 April 2025

0: Executive Order: Zero-based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy
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I am neither a lawyer nor an owner of a white whig, but I won't let that stop me from posting my interpretation. As I read the EO, it appears to require a certain group of govt. agencies, most of which have a role in regulating environmental protection and safety (e.g., Environmental Protection Agency, US Fish and Wildlife Service), to include a "sunset" (aka expiration) date in all new regulations and inserts a default "sunset" date of 1 year in all existing regulations. If this interpretation is correct, it enables the removal of environmental regulations without the need to take affirmative action to remove the regulations. With an honest administration, I might agree with your '0' score, but I see the _____ Administration as using it as a way of removing environmental regulations without attracting public attention.
 
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Nobody knows geography like Trump. Nobody. Other than middle schoolers.
aaron.rupar

Trump on the Great Lakes: "I assume the lakes are all interconnected."(Note that Gretchen Whitmer is in the Oval Office with him 😬)
 
Musk’s Doge fired self-drive car safety experts at agency that regulates Tesla - https://on.ft.com/4cr6L7P via @FT

Job cuts at the US traffic safety regulator instigated by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency disproportionately hit staff assessing self-driving risks, hampering oversight of technology on which the world’s richest man has staked the future of Tesla.

Of roughly 30 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration workers dismissed in February as part of Musk’s campaign to shrink the federal workforce, many were in the “office of vehicle automation safety”, people familiar with the situation told the Financial Times.
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jeremyp said:
Well he's right. It seems like we are watching Tr*mp punch his population in their faces and our leaders are retaliating by punching our populations in their faces.
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No he is not right. You don't negotiate with a gun to your head.

Giving the bully your lunch in the hopes that you can talk him out of taking it tomorrow is a deeply flawed strategy.
 
Blue Mountain said:
As of the close of the day on April 9, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -450.

9 April 2025
+1: Executive Order: Reducing Anti-competitive Regulatory Barriers
+1: Executive Order: Restoring America’s Maritime Dominance
0: Executive Order: Reforming Foreign Defense Sales to Improve Speed and Accountability
0: Executive Order: Zero-based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy
0: Executive Order: Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base
-1: Executive Order: Addressing Risks from Susman Godfrey (Yet another law firm shakedown)
-1: Executive Order: Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads (-1 for attacking useful regulation)
-1: Trump asks Congress to pass a tax cut bill [138]
-1: Trump pauses tariffs for 90 days (-1 for bumbling inconsistency)
-1: Trump on X: "Up 2500 points. Nobody has ever heard of it. Gotta be a record." (But it has dropped 8,200 since February!)
-1: Trump claims "it’s proven" that the 2020 election was rigged, citing the fact that law firms are giving him money
-1: Trump on the Great Lakes: "I assume the lakes are all interconnected."
-1: Secretary of Transportation Duffy rambles about low-flow shower heads.

I scored two of these orders as positive because on a quick read-though I didn't see any red flags. Three of them are too complicated for me to want to spend the time analyzing them, so I gave them a neutral score. I'll adjust the scores if others are willing to read them carefully and point out problems.

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138. Trump: It is IMPERATIVE that Republicans in the House pass the Tax Cut Bill, NOW! Our Country Will Boom!!!
Republicans, it is more important now, than ever, that we pass THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL. The USA will Soar like never before!!!

139: Secretary of Transportation Duffy: "The president is talking about shower heads. You don't have enough water that can come through your shower heads because of Biden's regulations. So fixing small things like that -- hopefully he's gonna get the dishwashers. Wouldn't it be great if dishwashers worked again?"
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That's a lot of work you do every day and I admire that. I never read it, but keep it up for the people who do.
 
Blue Mountain said:
While I don't necessarily agree with the order, it correctly points out that two previous administrations (Barack Obama's and Joe Biden's; in this case Biden's) expended no small amount of effort into producing a 15,500 word document that concentrates on the definition of "showerhead." See Energy Conservation Program: Definition of Showerhead [PDF]. And that was only part of the effort to reduce water flow. This is an example of the type of inefficiency DOGE is supposed to eliminate, instead of taking a chainsaw to whole agencies.
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I took a look at the document you referred to.

Very little of the document seems to be about how to define 'showerhead' Instead, much of it was about things like history of the regulations (might be useful to know if this replaces older regulations, etc.), information about signing authority and approval process, etc. More or less standard boilerplate.

(Its not like the entire document was a description of what it means to be a showerhead.)
 
Trump revealed his Achilles Heal yesterday. China could decide to threaten to sell all their US Treasuries and stop buying more, if Trump doesn't kill all the recent tariffs. Not good to show all your cards like that. Master Negotiator, my ass.
 
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