{"id":45,"date":"2025-01-21T04:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T04:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2025-01-21T04:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T04:30:33","slug":"off-to-a-rough-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/off-to-a-rough-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to a rough start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump 2.0 has started, and he\u2019s rushing out of the gate to make a show of it. But his actions definitely are lacking.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He shut off legal immigration, but hasn\u2019t addressed illegal immigration. Biden may have done too little for too long, but this isn\u2019t addressing the right concerns. With no legal way to enter the country, won\u2019t illegal entry surge?<\/li>\n<li>His dubious DOGE agency lost half its leadership on day 1, an inauspicious beginning.<\/li>\n<li>He immediately went retrograde on clean energy,\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>He pardoned January 6 participants, reinforcing his own sentiment that he was and is in support of the riot and the violent overturn of the government.<\/li>\n<li>He\u2019s gone all in for Tik Tok, a clear tool for Chinese privacy invasion and national security threat.<\/li>\n<li>He\u2019s insisted all government workers return to the office. Wouldn\u2019t DOGE be able to save money by selling (or not renting) a ton of office space?\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>And he\u2019s wiped out any policy favoring equity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s too early to tell what impact these changes will have, but regardless he too quickly made sweeping changes for performative, rather than substantive, reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump 2.0 has started, and he\u2019s rushing out of the gate to make a show of it. But his actions definitely are lacking. He shut off legal immigration, but hasn\u2019t addressed illegal immigration. Biden may have done too little for too long, but this isn\u2019t addressing the right concerns. With no legal way to enter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/off-to-a-rough-start\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Off to a rough start<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}