Now that the election dust has settled, we get to see where Trump is taking us for the next four years.
This is assuming that we will have four years ahead for planet Earth, because the Biden handlers seem determined to spark a nuclear war with Russia. COVID lockdowns and shots weren’t enough. They are stepping it up this time with the chaos-making and endangering human life. What else could be their “reasoning” for greenlighting missile strikes inside of Russia?
It’s not that the deep state can’t cause massive chaos when Trump officially becomes president. In fact, we should count on it. But it seems important right now to fast forward two months and get the psychos out of the White House before a larger and more massive war breaks out.
The Most Controversial Appointment
There is a lot of discussion about Trump’s appointments. The names that are being smeared by the establishment are typically the decent ones.
Matt Gaetz was a bit of a wildcard. I don’t believe anything the FBI says about him because I don’t believe anything the FBI says with regard to anything of any significance. Gaetz has withdrawn his name for Attorney General. But he already resigned from his House seat.
There is speculation that he resigned his House seat because of an investigation and a House ethics report that was going to be released. If you ever wondered what an oxymoron is, the term “House ethics report” fits nicely.
Even though the FBI and the establishment media make up stories, it is not to say that there couldn’t have been something embarrassing in the report about Gaetz.
Perhaps Trump nominated Gaetz as a middle finger to the criminals who have been going after Trump and Trump supporters. Maybe Trump knew he wouldn’t get confirmed but used him to start the bidding. Now the establishment people are more likely to accept another nominee that could be strong but a little less controversial.
Personally, I had my doubts about Gaetz because I saw him interviewed on Dave Smith’s podcast. I thought Gaetz was slippery in many of his answers. I already knew he was not a libertarian, but his appearance on the podcast lowered my opinion of him.
The Establishment Indicator
The biggest creeps in the establishment are making a fuss over two other Trump appointments: Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence and Robert Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
There is almost a perfect correlation between how much the establishment and its shills in the media smear appointment candidates and how decent the people are.
They call Tulsi Gabbard a stooge for Russia and Putin. They say she cozies up to dictators like Assad. This is because she has sought truth and peace. These allegations are childish lies, but unfortunately some people will believe them. It is similar to when people opposed the Iraq War and we got comments like, “What, you love Saddam Hussein?”
For RFK Jr., they call him a kook or a conspiracy theorist. This is because he has dared to question vaccine safety and has pointed out that big pharma and big agriculture have embedded themselves with big government to make us less healthy. He has drawn attention to the chronic disease in the United States and has tied it to our food and the drugs that are prescribed.
As Dave Smith pointed out when he was on Joe Rogan’s podcast right after the election, RFK Jr. is the only presidential candidate who has brought up this issue. If you think he is wrong on the reasons for why Americans are so unhealthy, then let’s debate the topic. Offer your own reasoning or advocate for more research to get to the bottom of it. Instead, the RFK critics just like to smear him and continue to pretend that there isn’t a health crisis in America.
If RFK Jr. gets confirmed, it will be quite interesting what happens. Even if he doesn’t get much done in terms of cleaning out the rot in the system, he can have a substantial influence just by speaking up. He can call attention to the unhealthy processed foods out there. He can call attention to the plethora of drugs that are prescribed to cover up symptoms instead of addressing root causes of the diseases. Even if he can just get the fluoride out of our tap water, this would be a big win.
Foreign Policy
Of course, there are a lot of bad and ugly picks from Trump, especially on the foreign policy front. He has appointed several war hawks like Marco Rubio and Elise Stefanik.
Although Rubio is a war hawk, I do see him as someone who can be molded. He isn’t much of a leader, which in this case might be good. He isn’t like John Bolton or Nikki Haley. Rubio will support the war machine, but he may not be smart and conniving enough to completely undermine Trump.
Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense is an interesting pick. He now has assault allegations against him. They don’t seem too credible given the timing, but it’s not to say they won’t hurt him.
He is certainly too pro war for my tastes, and he seems to be an Isreali firster like some of the other Trump picks. I am familiar with Hegseth from Fox News.
He has something like 7 children. He has been married and divorced twice and is married again. He comes across as a decent family man now, but so did Mike Johnson, who is a creep.
It is very hard to say how Hegseth would be in this position. One of his cohosts on Fox is Rachel Campos-Duffy. Her husband, Sean Duffy, has been nominated as Transportation Secretary. Rachel Campos-Duffy has been somewhat critical of the U.S. war machine. The despicable war hawk Brian Kilmeade snapped at Campos-Duffy on an episode of Fox & Friends when Campos-Duffy was placing blame on the Biden administration for what happened in Ukraine. For someone on Fox News, she has oftentimes been a reasonable voice on foreign policy. We’ll see if that can spill over to Hegseth.
Trump Loyalists
I believe that Trump is trying, to some degree, to not make the same mistakes he made in his first term. Most people Trump placed in powerful positions hated his guts and did everything to undermine him.
Trump is trying to surround himself with people who will be loyal without a lot of regard on where they stand on the issues. While this is so far an improvement from 8 years ago, I still think his judgment is lacking.
If Trump wants people who are loyal, he needs to get over his ego and accept people who sometimes disagree with him and are even critical of him.
I’ll cite two examples. First, there is Candace Owens. She was somewhat critical of Trump regarding the COVID vaccines. She said that Trump comes from an old school of thought that just automatically assumes that vaccines are always good. She was actually saying this in defense of Trump. She disagreed with his stance on the vaccines, but she was defending him in the sense that she thought it was coming from a good place. She was basically saying he was ignorant on the issue, which is better than evil.
Trump immediately made an enemy out of her, and she said that the next time she saw him in person that he was quite rude to her.
Another example is Thomas Massie in 2020. When he wanted a real vote in Congress for the trillions of dollars in COVID spending, Trump had a fit against Massie for daring to oppose the massive spending. Trump suggested that he should be tossed out of the Republican Party. According to Massie, it seems that Trump has gotten over that.
Candace Owens and Thomas Massie are both libertarian leaning. They have disagreements with Trump. But they defend Trump when it counts. They won’t stab him in the back. They defend Trump on all of the bogus allegations about January 6th, Russian collusion, prosecutions, and even the smaller lies. They may have disagreements with Trump, but they state it openly and honestly. It is because they want more liberty. It isn’t because they are trying to hurt Trump.
If Trump wants real loyalists, he would find people like Candace Owens and Thomas Massie. This is why Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. are good picks. They have disagreements too. But they aren’t going to purposely undermine Trump.
The people who are open and honest and have real disagreements with Trump are the Trump loyalists. They aren’t loyal in blindly following whatever he says, but they are loyal in the sense that they will not turn on him when it is convenient. They will defend him against the deep state and the lies.
Conclusion
The Trump presidency will be filled with many good moments and bad moments for libertarians. There aren’t going to be any miracles, and Trump may face a bad recession. The best we can probably hope for in the short run is less war and maybe a tiny bit of fiscal sanity.
The tariffs will be bad, but we can only hope that there might actually be some real cuts in some agency budgets. If Trump can somehow eliminate the Department of Education, that will be an impressive accomplishment.