The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Dwindling Hope and the Dying of the Light

Welcome once again, my dear readers, to the asylum. I am sorry I haven’t been very productive on this front lately. Things haven’t been great lately, and still aren’t. Maybe worse even, but one must endeavor to persevere. There is so much going on with so much wrong information, I owe it to you all to comment on it. This week, we will discuss Trump to date, examining the good, the bad, and the ugly.

The good. Right out of the gate, Trump was doing awesome, closing the borders, working to clean up the massive illegal alien problem left by the Biden administration, and forming the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to take a hatchet to government spending. Trump worked to protect actual women in their sports and private places, removed needless restrictions on energy production, and began dismantling the environmental industrial complex that had established itself in Washington, DC (here, here, here, and here). He took steps to restore our military readiness that had been eroded under Obama and Biden (he just let it ride his first term) (here). Trump also put a halt to the extreme amounts of “aid” being provided to Ukraine (here). It appeared to be amazing, and it was why he was elected. It looked like a dream come true, a president who was finally keeping his campaign promises.

All of this excellence was met with more lawsuits than any administration has faced in history (here, here, and here). Many of them are still working their way through the system, and for the most part, if the lower court Judge was a Republican, then Trump won, and if the lower court judge was a Democrat, Trump lost. In truth, none of that actually matters because all of these cases are going to the Supreme Court, and so far, I really like how they have ruled because this is the most constitutionally aligned court of my lifetime (here, here, and here). Trump hasn’t always won, and I have mentioned it before. While I like what he is attempting to do, I don’t think he actually has the authority to do all of it by executive order (because he isn’t a king). There are even groups that brag about the percentage of cases Trump has lost. It isn’t because he was wrong necessarily. He lost because these litigants are not dumb and make sure to file the cases where there is a politically sympathetic judge (here). While they do initially win once the cases move to higher courts, their win rate drops precipitously.

This is all excellent stuff because the more legal resistance offered to the mandate Trump was elected to carry out, the more it hurts the lunatic fringe that has taken over the opposition. The more elected officials publicly encourage gangs to fight Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and other violent acts (here, here, and here), the more the opposition and the propaganda mainstream media (MSM) openly and obviously lie about leftwing violence (here, here, and here). It is ugly and unpleasant, but in the end, the vast majority of the people are done with the crazy, they are done with reality-denying, and they are done with the manipulation. In the end, all of these ugly things mean we win.

The bad. Trump was off to an epic and awesome start, and he had significant support from congress with Senators Paul and Massie, Congresswoman Boebert and Greene, just to name some of the most well known, to get the things done that couldn’t be done by executive order like closing the department of education, and massively cutting spending. Unfortunately, Trump seems to have lost the plot and rather than shrink the government, he decides to hang his star of his “Big Beautiful Bill” that is just more bloat and swamp water (here and here). While there are good things in the bill, they do not at all make up for the massive loads of cancerous garbage. Rather than work with his support to build a bill that not only spent the money on what was important to Trump, like the military and border security, while taking a hatchet to all the things DOGE found, dismantling government agencies, pulling out of NATO,