Trump administration
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Trump administration is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between February 29, 2024 and September 25, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “until halfway into the Trump administration”; “I was perfectly okay with the Trump administration in 2025”; “Trump administration restricting food stamps”. It most often appears alongside Curtis Yarvin, Ethiopia, India.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: February 29, 2024
- Last seen: September 25, 2025
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- Curtis Yarvin (2 shared issues)
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- Ethiopia (2 shared issues)
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- India (2 shared issues)
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- NYT (2 shared issues)
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- @BoyanSlat (1 shared issues)
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- @eigenrobot (1 shared issues)
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- @JackTindale (1 shared issues)
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- @literalbanana (1 shared issues)
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- @NiohBerg (1 shared issues)
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- @seanw_m (1 shared issues)
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- A16Z (1 shared issues)
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- Abolition Of Man (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
…I said it was pretty obvious, like it’s a law of nature, but maybe that’s not true? Republicans thought they were winning as recently as 2020; Democrats were very close to thinking it in 2016. So you could also make an argument that whichever side doesn’t have the President thinks they’re losing, up until the Biden administration, when Democrats decided they were losing even though they had Biden. But Republicans thought they were losing until halfway into the Trump administration, then changed their minds, even though the Dems won the House that year. Why?
Scott asks a perfectly fair question: why I used to pearl-clutch so hard about authoritarian populism in 2008, but am perfectly okay with the Trump administration in 2025–despite all its manifest errors, incompetences, and even cruelties? Surely the answer is that I’ve Sold Out. No, Scott, I pearl-clutched in 2008 for the same reasons you’re doing it now: I was a libtard and a coward. I still am. I’ve just recovered a bit more.
“Lots of people are tripped up by not condemning enough things. Imagine that you want to express discontent with the Trump administration restricting food stamps, but someone points out that it’s pretty suspicious that you condemn food insecurity for white people but you didn’t condemn the famine in Gaza equally hard. So you try condemning the famine in Gaza, and someone points out that it’s pretty suspicious that you condemn starvation when it makes Jews look like the bad guys, but you didn’t condemn the famine in Ethiopia equally hard. So you try condemning the famine in Ethiopia, but then people tell you that’s ‘telescopic altruism’, because you didn’t condemn a murder that happened in your own city. So you try condemning a murder in your own city, but it was a black-on-white murder, and people say that it’s pretty suspicious that you didn’t condemn the latest white-on-black murder equally hard. The only solution is to monitor the news 24-7, condemning each thing as soon as it happens, in exact proportion to how bad it is. But nobody has time for that. So you give us access to your Twitter account and we do it for you. We promise not only to condemn all bad things within one business day of them happening, but to use all the appropriate words. You know those politicians who get in trouble because they condemned “the recent massacre” in vague terms but didn’t use the words “terrorism” or “radical Islam”, or because they said “killed” instead of “murdered”? If they’d used Condemnr, we could have tweeted “We condemn the recent radical Islamic terrorist massacre in Fairtown that murdered nine people #terrorism #radicalislam #murder”, and their PR would be immaculate.”