Re: 2016 Presidential Candidates
Well, I was gone for two years and I come back to my thread being super long. That's nice. I like that people are actually caring about this absolute chaos called the Trump Administration. Here's a post I wrote on Facebook:
"Yesterday, several news media outlets were barred from a White House press briefing, including New York Times and CNN. Let that sink in for a second. Just two months ago, Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that media would not be banned from the WH because "that is what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship."These media outlets were banned because they frequently criticize the president, or report things he's doing that are not positive. They have also started stating that Trump is "lying," no longer using words or excuses that beat around the bush. Lying, and frequently.
We found out that Russia hacked our system in order to get Trump into the White House during the election process. The election should have been halted immediately until further investigation into the matter was made.
Trump lost the popular vote by 2,864,974. That's the largest in history by far. The second closest was George W. Bush, when he lost the popular vote by 543,816. Even though almost 3 million more Americans voted against Trump, he won anyway. Then, he said that 3 million votes for Hillary were made by illegal immigrants.
Multiple phone conversations that Trump had with Russia were not recorded.
Trump refused to release his tax returns, something which no president has done in decades.
One of the first things Trump did was gag major government departments from speaking with the media.
The government is currently leaking like crazy. The government, itself, is protesting against the administration. People have resigned from their positions.
Trump has fired people for disagreeing with him. He has threatened senators' jobs.
The White House reached out to the FBI to publicly dispute Russia findings, which the FBI refused to do (bravo).
Even Republicans are speaking out against him... even McCain!
Most of the world, despite Trump's Twitter claims to the contrary, is extremely worried about his administration.
The administration silenced a Democratic Senator from providing evidence and speaking in Congress (Elizabeth Warren).
Trump installed an Evangelical Executive Advisory Council, a breach on Separation of Church and State.
Trump has pretty much only made executive orders, orders which cannot really be overthrown until another president steps into office. Almost nothing goes through Congress anymore. He signs everything into law without pushing the paperwork through congressional approval first. Something as huge as banning 7 different countries from US entry was thrust upon us with a stroke of a pen and nothing more.
I could go on and on and on. There is a trend going on. We are seeing things that either have never happened before, or have but very rarely. We are seeing key elements of dictatorships: silencing contradiction and criticisms, continuous laws without democratic group approval, overreach of authority, secrecy in government, etc.
This is not about liberals being angry with a new conservative president. This administration is going entirely outside the bounds of what is normal, as well as what is constitutional. Every single person should be terrified."
