[facetube]

We're planning on emigrating away from the US.

We're out of stocks entirely, and are doing as much as we can to avoid directing money to the US government while these serial liars have it in their grasp. We're not buying things unless we absolutely need them.

The United State has begun a long, downward spiral at the hands of the comically-unqualified Mr. Trump. Every day that America refuses to reckon with this problem – Mr. Trump's serial lying, his nepotism, his increasingly-eratic behavior, and the dangerous Lenninist "destroy everything" views of his surrogate Bannon – the harder it becomes to undo.

Donald Trump is a serial liar, a bully, a probable sex offender, and carries with him a following of christian dominionists who are (a) in possession of nuclear weapons and (b) desperately want a war with a billions-strong religion they've decided to wage was on, via the doctrine of collective punishment.

Labor is a type of capital. Trumpism, meet capital flight.

[tdkl]

If you think this spiral began with Trump, you're living in a fairy tale.

[facetube]

Never said it did.

However, Trump brings dangerous aspects with him that other leaders have lacked:

(i) he's willing to engage in direct personal attacks against the media, the judicial system, and electorate as a whole (i.e. "check out sex tape"), going as far as to tell the entire fourth estate to "be quiet for a while".

(ii) he has repeatedly cast nuclear weapons as a tool not just of mutual assured destruction, but as a potentially useful first-strike tool as well – "the power, the devastation, is very important to [him]". [1] The implications for this in Iran should be troubling – Tehran alone has 78 million civilian men, women, and children who don't want to die.

(iii) he had the gall to ask for Russia's support in securing opposition research against his political opponent, during a live news conference on July 17th, 2016. Russia remains under US sanction for its role in the MH17 disaster and the well-documented programs aimed at interfering with the 2016 US election [2]. "Russia, if you're listening..." [3]. The American public needs to know the extent of the preexisting relationship between Trump, his associates, and Putin's administration.

(iv) He has yet to eliminate basic conflicts of interest within his administration (e.g. Kushner, a son-in-law prohibited under 5 USC § 3110 in normal circumstances). He had yet to place his business holdings – which continue to fall afoul of the constitution's emoluments clause, e.g. in the GSA situation – into a true family-undirected blind trust.

(v) He has a long trend of loudly and publicly denigrating judges, jurists, the legislative bench as a whole, an entire department store, criminal suspects cleared of wrongdoing, and wounded prisoners of war who still serve the country today. He appears to have no civics-101 level set of knowledge with which to navigate the legislative or judicial process.

(vi) Trump openly used white supremacist imagery and symbolism ("88 generals, fourteen three-star or higher") throughout his campaign. [4][5][6] Noted white-supremacist website Stormfront celebrated the release of his September 6th, 2016 press release depicting multiple white-supermacist symbols.

(vii) Trump refuses to accept conclusions of scientific fact, especially those related to the impact of man on the climate of planet Earth.

(viii) Trump does not appear to have the technical competence for the job of president: he repeatedly fails to understand constitutional limits, and frequently does not seek out any substantive analysis of existing precedent and case law before issuing orders. This causes predictable chaos (as we witnessed during his immigration order).

(ix) Trump goes out of his way to harass and defame peaceful protests. When there is an isolated violent act at an existing peaceful protest, Trump follows the doctrine of collective punishment and holds the whole protest group responsible.

(x) We've never seen mass internet adoption at this level during a presidential campaign, and we've never also been the target of a state-sponsored disinformation campaign (see [2]). There are new forces at work here.

If you want to go further: Steve Bannon, sometimes-president but full-time National Security Council member, is a board member of Cambridge Analytica, the company that manipulated social graph relationship data to determine which clusters of people (sorry, "Influencers") to microtarget. [7]

1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSrP1KSR0H4

2: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/ODNI_Sta...

3: https://youtu.be/ZnY7D4M4k68?t=20s

4: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/88-retired-u.s.-...

5: http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/hate-on-display/c/88.html

6: http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/hate-on-display/c/14-words...

7: http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/12/the-british-data-cruncher...

[cancancan]

> (vi) Trump openly used white supremacist imagery and symbolism ("88 generals, fourteen three-star or higher") throughout his campaign. [4][5][6] Noted white-supremacist website Stormfront celebrated the release of his September 6th, 2016 press release depicting multiple white-supermacist symbols.

White supremacist with a Jewish son in law and adviser. I'm sorry, now you're just being ridiculous.

[facetube]

Recall: this is a populist campaign that sustained itself on a "deplorable" sad frog meme. Symbolism in politics is not irrelevant, especially when the symbols belong to groups that consider themselves to be marginalized (N.B. many white supremacists do, and will fully admit it if you hand around enough of them for long enough).

You can find the threads celebrating his announcement on Stormfront. They're real.

[facetube]

Nobody accused him of white supremacy. The accusation is that he used symbols of white supremacisy to rouse and inflame a base of real white supremacists into action (presumably in a way that supports trump). It's a cynical enemy-of-my-enemy play, not an announcement that Trump or his associates are themselves white supremacists. It's certainly realipolitik, but IMO it's also immoral and unethical.

[angry_napkin]

This is a lot of hyperbole given the revelations of the last administration.