Babies and Bathwater
Kudos. But how many hundreds or even thousands of years have Ethiopians been perfecting this craft? It’s impressive. I couldn’t do it, short of lots of months of training and practice.
Simple question: what have predominately white western men accomplished in the same space of time?
That’s all. Answer the question.
What I’m aiming to hit today is this growing phenomenon of folks who call themselves conservative Republicans yet remain chronically unhappy. Psychologically, it’s because they’re daily, hourly, or minute-by-minute doom-scrollers. They do nothing but engage in that activity, overboiling with overblown emotion on the political scene. They used to be glued to cable news, and now they’re glued to social media. All of it amounts to throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Trump overcame all odds and got elected in 2024. He hired what I think was a 90% great team of folks into the federal government. They have gone out and done just amazing things in the last 18 months while actually holding office. Clearly, Trump used the prior four years to assemble a non-leaking, very quiet team and build a strategy for exactly how this would roll out—and roll out big. He has to get it done in four years. It’s the same tiny minority of hires who are very well adapted to succeed him.
My favorite picks are VP Vance, Secretary of State Rubio, and HHS Secretary RFK Jr. I’d be perfectly happy with any of the three as the next president of the United States. I’m not going to campaign for any one of them. I hope the contest for the Republican nomination stays gentlemanly. Let them lay out their plans and let people choose rather than descending into “he’s bad, he’s bad, he’s bad.” That’s childish. Enough said on that. I’m looking forward to the next presidential cycle, even though this one is not even halfway over.
What I really want to talk about is what has happened in the last year and a half. You see so much on social media about how the perfect is the enemy of the good, or the common refrain of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Someone just posted a laundry list of everything the Trump administration has accomplished in the last 18 months. It represents a complete change from everything that has been going on in America since about Reagan.
I was a big Reagan fan back in my youth. He was my commander-in-chief for most of the time I served as a Navy officer, and what he did then was pretty impressive. But it doesn’t really hold a candle to what Trump has managed to accomplish in these last 18 months.
So let’s just get to it. Via Florida “just a lawyer” Jeff Childers.
Trump 2.0 Accomplishments (as of mid-July 2026) 🔥
- USAID and the “Institute for Peace” closed
- Negative net migration for the first time in 50 years
- 2.6 million+ illegal aliens removed (including 650,000 arrests and 400,000 convicted criminals) + 2 million self-deportations induced by ending incentives
- Fentanyl trafficking crushed 56%+; overdose deaths down 21% monthly since inauguration
- Laken Riley Act signed and aggressively enforced
- Catch-and-release ended (99.9% drop); zero releases into the U.S. for eight straight months
- Record-low border encounters; Darién Gap migration cut 99%
- Largest one-year homicide drop in U.S. history; violent crime (rapes, robberies, assaults) down significantly
- Targeted crime operations in major blue cities delivering record-low murders in several metros
- Law enforcement officer deaths down 25%
- Tren de Aragua, MS-13, and other cartels dismantled; international drug cartels designated as foreign terrorist organizations
- Antifa designated a domestic terrorist organization
- Gas under $3/gallon in 43 states; record U.S. energy production and exports at all-time highs
- 654,000+ new private-sector jobs (all net gains to native-born Americans); 671,000+ jobs added since January 2025
- 4.3% GDP growth in Q3 2025; largest blue-collar wage growth in 60 years; real earnings up ~$1,100 annually
- Inflation tamed to ~2.4% core CPI (down ~70% from Biden peak)
- One Big Beautiful Bill passed (July 2025) — making 2017 tax cuts permanent, No Tax on Tips, Trump Accounts for newborns, senior deductions
- $5T+ in deregulation savings + $215 billion in government efficiency cuts ($1,335 per taxpayer)
- $10T+ in reshored/domestic investments secured
- Trade deficit at lowest level since 2009; $300 billion+ in tariff revenues collected; Predatory global tariffs shifted in the US’s favor for the first time in modern history
- Stock market record highs
- Gaza ceasefire + hostage release secured; 12-Day War (Israel-Iran) ended; multiple additional peace deals/accords (Armenia-Azerbaijan, India-Pakistan, DRC-Rwanda, Cambodia-Thailand, Kosovo-Serbia, Egypt-Ethiopia)
- Iran’s nuclear capability destroyed + maximum pressure campaign (450+ sanctions designations)
- NATO allies leaping toward 5% GDP defense spending
- OPEC dismantling
- 85+ detained Americans released; Abraham Accords expanded
- Strikes on Houthis, Iranian assets, and narcoterrorist vessels; Nicolás Maduro captured
- South America shifts rightwards; Europe shifts rightwards
- Record military recruitment goals met; largest military investment in decades with AI integration; F-47 sixth-generation fighter unveiled
- VA backlog reduced 60%; 3 million disability claims processed; 51,936 homeless veterans housed; benefits restored for vaccine-mandate discharges
- Transgender enlistment barred; DEI eliminated across military and federal agencies
- Over 269 executive orders signed in the term (230 in first year alone — highest first-year total since FDR); 81 memoranda + 158 proclamations
- DOGE-driven bureaucracy cuts; IRS IT budget savings of $2B; wasteful contracts eliminated; federal retirement system automated and brought out of a literal coal mine
- DEI discrimination banned in federal contracting and agencies; race-based hiring ended
- DEI outlawed for college admissions; colleges’ patent revenue shared with taxpayers who funded it
- Federal ‘boards’ and ‘commissions’ fired and replaced with conservatives
- Washington, DC beautified; reflecting pool refinished
- Gender ideology extremism curbed in schools, medicine, and government (minors protected from chemical/surgical procedures); girls’ sports protected from creeps
- MAHA reforms launched: Presidential Commission established; Most Favored Nation drug pricing with 16+ major pharma companies; 8 artificial food dyes phased out (40%+ industry compliance); Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act; marijuana reclassified to Schedule III; childhood vaccine schedule revised from 72 to 11 consensus shots; expanded IVF access; $50M autism initiative; new whole-foods dietary guidelines
- Massive firings at CDC, FDA, NIH of sold-out scientists; Ralph Baric and EcoHealth debarred; even some arrests
- Withdrew from WHO
- Crypto regulatory framework via GENIUS Act; Strategic Bitcoin Reserve created; Operation Choke Point 2.0 ended
- Sanctuary city funding cuts implemented
- Election integrity and citizenship verification measures expanded nationwide; USPS program pending; SAVE Act drafted and run at Congress several times now
- Energy dominance unleashed: National Energy Emergency declared; 6,000+ drilling permits approved (55% increase); 13.1 million acres opened for coal leasing; record LNG exports (>100 million tons); nuclear projects advancing toward online status; major energy export deals ($100B South Korea, $200B Japan); Paris Agreement withdrawal
- US becomes a net oil exporter for the first time in history.
- Trump Accounts launched for newborns with federal seed funding + corporate matching
- Farmer aid secured; skilled trades and domestic manufacturing (semiconductors, autos, heavy equipment) expanded
- Over 100,000 fraudulent visas revoked; 275,000 illegal aliens removed from Social Security rolls; benefits terminated for 1.4 million illegal aliens; H1-B crackdowns and $100,000 application fees
- 62,000+ missing migrant children rescued; Alien Enemies Act invoked against gangs
- Vice-president-led welfare fraud task force recovering billions and making mass arrests
- $2B sent to rebuild Western North Carolina
- Massive AI, space, and nuclear investment projects
- John Bolton convicted. James Comey arrested. John Brennan under investigation (probably facing a grand jury).
- RussiaGate grand jury set up and running in Florida.
- DOJ/ODNI seized Fulton County 2020 ballots. Trump is still working on Plans B, C, D, etc, with a ‘new’ integrity announcement scheduled as soon as tomorrow night.
Trump didn’t, couldn’t do this all on his own. It required very effective people and very careful timing.
So just fucking shut up if you’re unhappy. Go eat a pizza, a six-pack of tacos, get drunk, whatever. But shut your fucktarded faces.
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Agreed 100%. But I am a happy conservative Republican.