Mostly it was moving from the Midwest to a sub-tropical beach paradise. Which I thought (but definitely didn't say) was kinda funny, because her reason for saying she'd never move was family. But pretty much all the reasons she's been glad we did move are related to trump and what the US has become.

Was more refering to the "burst into flames if she ever admits to being wrong about anything"

Xtianity

You know, it's hilarious how the rabid xtians often get up in arms over that on some more "normie" moderated platforms I am on/have been on.

They would repeatedly say I violated the TOS and would try to get comments taken down and/or me banned. They would claim this is "offensive" to xtians.

When this is THEIR abbreviation for Christ, and has been for centuries, FFS. Of course, these are the very same dipshits that get "offended" about things like someone telling them in a secular setting like a shopping mall or big box store or printed on something like a coffee cup: "happy holidays". These people have zero historical context for fucking anything. For decade upon decade, primarily xtians would tell each other "happy holidays" to cover xmas and New Years.

And no one got butthurt about it (except for maybe a few fringe anecdotal crazies that I knew, but these people also believed in crazy shit like Marilyn Manson removed a rib to blow himself, or that the profit from arcade games went to the Satanic church. I wish I was kidding. In other words, people fixated on trivial nonsense and conspiracy theories.).

Then, introduce Faux "News", and they blow up shorthand like "happy holidays" into a "war on xmas". Of course, you have the attendant bullshit to go with it where again, their own abbreviation for Christ, X, being used in places like xmas, xtians, and xtianity drives them fucking crazy and they run around trying to cancel (irony) anyone that uses these abbreviations and short hands. I guess everyone now needs to tell these fucking snowflakes "Merry CHRISTmas and Happy New Years" and really emphasize the CHRIST part of that phrase, instead of just "happy holidays", or else they'll melt into a puddle, the poor dears. Gosh, if ONLY our secular government and our national culture would cater to xtians just a little fucking more....

Exactly, Trump is a perfect mirror of America 2025

I agree and that rise saddens me, but in Europe, I still generally have confidence that the majority of countries' populations respect general decency, human rights and lack of corruption enough to keep the hate and greed mostly at bay. In the US, it's now long past hope - the corruption runs so deep, so broadly that it's taken over, and that means the country is doomed to be somewhere I never wanna live.

Capitalism produces fascism as its end result, period. The merger of state and corporate power is just the logical expansion of the selection of maximized profitablity over ethical behavior.

He represents the morons who voted for him and refused to vote against him.

TBH, I lost a fair bit of respect for America when they nearly elected the clearly-none-too-well-informed George W Bush and then pushed him over the line with clearly broken legal shenanigans.

But Trump makes Bush Jr look clever, knowledgeable, statesmanlike and wise. I didn't think that was even possible, but it's not even a narrow thing.

Trump's a complete moron, has the emotional maturity of a toddler, the charm of a slug and the kindness and bonhomie of General Hux.