{"id":82,"date":"2025-01-21T17:49:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T04:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/?p=82"},"modified":"2025-11-14T02:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:30:53","slug":"this-is-only-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/this-is-only-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"This is only the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Donald Trump was sworn in as 47<sup>th<\/sup> President of the United States today. A key ally of his, Elon Musk, delivered a speech in which he performed the Nazi salute twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has pardoned the January 6<sup>th<\/sup> insurrectionists. He has issued executive orders to outlaw gender-affirming references in the US government. He has declared an intention to impose a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada. He is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord. And so many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/01\/20\/g-s1-43698\/trump-inauguration-executive-orders-2025-day-1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/01\/20\/g-s1-43698\/trump-inauguration-executive-orders-2025-day-1\">other disruptive things.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can\u2019t spend the next four years in a permanent state of outrage, and as a New Zealander I am shielded by some degree of distance. But this kind of shit spreads far and wide and with our right wing government we\u2019ll see it percolate through more and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot change or influence events in the US, except in terms of where I spend my money. Dialing back from Amazon would be a good start, I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best way for New Zealanders to reject Trump is to reject those here who share his views. I won\u2019t play my part as the triggered woke lib whining behind a keyboard as right wingers bait and troll the left. I\u2019ve got more substantive mahi to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump was sworn in as 47th President of the United States today. A key ally of his, Elon Musk, delivered a speech in which he performed the Nazi salute twice. Trump has pardoned the January 6th insurrectionists. He has issued executive orders to outlaw gender-affirming references in the US government. He has declared an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/this-is-only-the-beginning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is only the beginning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}