Id love for the US to transition to having less influence globally without totally collapsing, but if this is how we do it, so be it.

It’s kinda the devil we know situation, if the US steps down, who steps up? Are they going to be better or worse, who knows. I never really bought into the notion that we had to be the world police or that all the evil stuff we did, we did because we had to.

As an American I think I’m going insane? The last 3 weeks have been some of the most anxious and stressed I’ve ever been.

Trump’s first term was nothing like this, there’s a feeling of apathy in the air among people and coworkers (I live in a very liberal city in the deep south). Folks around here just seem to be on edge at all times, whether you’re pro or anti in a much more divisive way.

There’s a strange feeling knowing there’s a solid chance we won’t make it out of this one. There have been plenty of times in the past where we’ve had doom and gloom (Trump v1, conservatives and Obama), etc. Nothing ever happens, but this time I’m fairly confident the country I was born into will be dead and gone given the shear destruction being waged against our institutions.

This admin does not care about rules, laws, preexisting norms, etc. Congress has decided they don’t care and have turned a blind eye.

At this point I just want there to be more transparency because some of what is being done needs to be done to some capacity, but we need to know what is being investigated, that they’re respecting our privacy laws, and the final decisions about funding and the future of departments need to be decided in part by Congress or a grandjury of some sort.

I’m all for simplifying and cutting cold war budget bloat, but this is not the way to do it and I guarantee this will blow up in our faces as Elon is way out of touch with what services the average American needs.

It’s hard to take their claims of balancing the budget seriously when at the same time there are even more proposals for tax cuts. You’d think if they are serious about cutting into the deficit they’d maintain taxes or increase them and reduce spending.