US halts cooperation with UN investigators on potential human rights violations - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jan/04/trump-administration-un-human-rights-violations The Trump administration has stopped cooperating with UN investigators over potential human rights violations occurring inside America, in a move that delivers a major blow to vulnerable US communities and sends a dangerous signal to authoritarian regimes around the world. Quietly and unnoticed, the state department has ceased to respond to official complaints from UN special rapporteurs, the network of independent experts who act as global watchdogs on fundamental issues such as poverty, migration, freedom of expression and justice. There has been no response to any such formal query since 7 May 2018, with at least 13 requests going unanswered. Nor has the Trump administration extended any invitation to a UN monitor to visit the US to investigate human rights inside the country since the start of Donald Trump’s term two years ago in January 2017. Two UN experts have made official fact-finding visits under his watch – the special rapporteurs on extreme poverty and privacy – but both were invited initially by Barack Obama, who hosted 16 such visits during his presidency. Among the formal approaches that have failed to receive a response from the US over the past several months are queries about family separation of Central Americans at the US border with Mexico, death threats against a transgender activist in Seattle and allegations of anti-gay bias in the sentencing to death of a prisoner in South Dakota. Paradoxically, the Trump administration’s decision to shun the UN’s independent watchdogs places the US among a tiny minority of uncooperative states. There are very few countries that resist international oversight from UN special rapporteurs – one of them is North Korea.

Because of course they did. Trump's made it pretty explicitly clear he's a big fan of human rights violations after all.

He doesn't see them as human rights violations because he doesn't see the rights of those he's violating as human.

Well at least they had the decency to make official the fact that the US is apparently a 3rd world country now.

I can't believe I get to be a witness to the collapse of the American empire.

Sanctions on us. Now.

Trump is in such a poor mental state I wouldn't put it past him to retaliate against any country that sanctions him

Let him. Let him go berserk and have everyone else hit back like they would if an enemy were to do what he does, because that's what we are at the moment to the rest of the free world. Let it play out, let him have his tantrum, let him show how bad he can get so we have as much justification as we can get to drag him out of the White House and string him up like Mussolini. And before you go "oh, don't be so edgy" about that last bit, he forfeits any shred of decency we would otherwise afford him when he starts doing stuff like blocking human rights investigations. String the pustule up and let him burst all over his brainwashed supporters.

I've been thinking for a while about how his base would probably dissolve if he were removed from society through imprisonment or death. With no central figure to rally around, what would the Trumpists do? There are plenty of newer, low-influence politicians that will probably fizzle when he's gone, and all of the garbage talking points that he champions will be safely ejected from national rhetoric when the GOP no longer has to entertain him to keep their own voters happy. And considering that he is all too happy to keep the shutdown going, I'm actually realistically expecting him to get offed by a furloughed worker going postal if it lasts for a month or more. He's not once considered consequences of his actions, so it would be entirely appropriate for him to be done in by his own tantrums. It's just mind-boggling how the simplest solution to getting our country back to normalcy is to just get rid of the guy, but the GOP are too narrow-minded to see that they'd save themselves by impeaching him. They could make it even better for themselves by replacing McConnell as their Senate leader, so that way they'd actually get to govern rather than continue to make more people despise them by the day.

american exceptionalism at its finest.

I actually think this would probably be a bad idea. It affecting more moderate people who don't support Trump would end up turning them against other nations thus pushing them towards Trump and his trash brand of nationalism.

None of those others carry the same weight. Keep in mind Trump is an old name in the American consciousness and has been a star of conservatives for ages for ostensibly being the ideal of their beliefs. There are others who appeal to their beliefs but carry nowhere near the presence he does. He is not the head of a hydra. If your cut him from the body, it will not regenerate, it will either. New ones will have to be born and grow, and they too can be cut off.