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I think if he's the kind of person who can sleep at night while his country eats itself around him and then boast about surviving on a yacht, I don't care who your enemies are, we are not on the same side, and we never will be. I don't want my family to die alone in a bunker, I want my family surrounded by a community they can love and trust, and who loves and trusts them, because that is the only way they will ever have any kind of measure of real safety. I think every petty idiot with feudal aspirations is a threat to that so yes, I do think it's productive to make it very clear his kind isn't welcome on my side of the floor. We may be forced by circumstance to vote for the same candidate pool, but do not believe for one second we were ever allies. I do believe that in a world where your fellow Americans are literally dying around you of entirely preventable causes, if all you can think of to use your resources for is to buy an oversized bathtub toy, then you aren't the kind of person who should be deciding what use to put that money to. Gods only knows they didn't earn it. If anyone ever tells me they got rich through hard work, my first question is "whose?" These twits waking up on third base and thinking they hit a home run, calling themselves "self-made" because of the 15% of their success attributable to the hard work of making good on opportunity 99% of the country will never get, do not "deserve" their decadence. They didn't earn that. No, I don't think we should be worried about "Capital Flight", let them leave. There are other ways to get the job done, and if they care so little about their neighbours, we'll all be better off without them.