Consider the result of being a citizen of a shit hole country - other countries won’t accept immigrants from the USA/Shithole. Therefore we are stuck here.
It’s too late, kiddo. After barely 5 months, Trump has turned the USA into said “shit hole country“. There’s only one solution, that is to continually protest, stand up for your country and your constitution and then hopefully turn the house blue and effectively hamstring, the orange son of a bitch.
Why would anybody in their right mind come here. I can't leave home anymore to buy groceries without worry. One week ago an unmarked van followed me for 10 miles in Joplin. I left home to go to a medical appt. No 7/4/25 here. Nothing. No celebration.
Created. We cannot travel to the USA. Not as long as there is a fascist government in place. My husband and I planned a trip down the west coast for retirement. That plan is gone.
I live in a very touristy area. Small town that gets tens of millions of dollars from tourism. Deep red trump country. This year, it's a ghost town. No tourists walking the streets at all. It's weird. I don't blame them for staying away.
2 ways to stop immigration. Lift people up where they are from so they don’t want to leave or turn your country into a shithole so nobody wants to come there. MAGA will run the country into the ground before helping anyone.
I often wish and hope that at least some maga are taking foreign vacations. I know the sort of comments and reception they'll receive and they're not ready for that.
They're not winning, Jess. The People aren't having it. MAGAts are unable to create & maintain anything. What they didn't mean to create is the huge unification of The People against them, yet that's what happening. We came back from the Civil War & the Depression; we'll come back from this too.
I hope you’re right but while ever a large chunk of the electorate chooses to just squeal but never vote and primaries serve up ever more extreme and unhinged or subservient choices to vote for ‘We the People’ will remain noisy spectators and ‘We the World’ will steer clear.
And those ever more extreme and unhinged or subservient choices are losing every special election in very red places by large margins. In so many ways, The People aren't spectating any more.
I see that and cheer but I also see gerrymandered maps, the dark money, the decades long gaslighting and undermining of trust in and support for institutions. My hope is for a massive wipeout for the undemocratic forces followed by generations long resolve to reform and rebuild.
Just so. And it will be a process to heal. Hope you're good with a massive beginning of transformation (not here for reform and rebuild the same old corrupt institutions), and continuing the work for the duration. This is the pivot point.
Absolutely. Bandaids won’t work. I’m in 🇦🇺 and supporting the community independents movement here because business as usual with the same old political duopoly just entrenches the left-right mutually assured destruction tribalism that just tears down and divides. On to the mid terms 🇺🇸
I've been on I-95 in Maine many times this past week. Not a single Canadian plate any of those times. We are typically drowning in tourists by this time of year. Not this year. Maine is screwed as it relies heavily on tourism. FTD and the GOP
A memory came back -
Susan Collins voting against impeaching Trump.
She said she thought he “learned his lesson”.
Many of us tried to warn anyone who would listen at the time that he was unfit and dangerous, including her but…
I was in Maine and Massachusetts in May visiting family and noticed the same thing. The only other Canadian license plate was a transport truck from Ontario in Houlton Maine.
Who would want to visit the US now? It seems to be collapsing now, being overtaken by a fascist cult. Somewhere to stay away from! That is what Trumpism has done!
We're not coming back from this. We're not.
Our Democracy & reputation are dead. GARLAND didn't convict him & ROBERTS made an ass out of America by making him above the law.
The Supreme Court made it possible that the Oligarchs who have the most money take control of the government to funnel more Wealth-Fare to themselves. It is not possible to change this system with the current DEMs leadership. In my view, DEMs need new leaders.
It does feel like this. The American people are slow moving, hard to turn around; but “core democratic values” are deeply ingrained; and will hopefully resurface.
We have proven, over time, that we CAN turn around our mistakes. We have to keep trying to get truth into the national conversation!
The betrayal feels like a lingering existential trauma that just keeps bouncing around the generations. It exposes ‘lacks’ in humanity.
(I was so distracted/distraught, that I had a kitchen accident; causing burns over 10 percent of my skin!)
It’s this feeling that’s causing accidents everywhere! ☠️
As a professional turismólogo (find the equivalent in english and please tell me)
I can say that should trump continue the impact will be far greater than the 4.4bi tourists spend and 135bi students spend in the USA as of lately.
This impact will be felt and the Hollywood propaganda won’t save us
Trump wants to be hated all around the world, it's his way of emulating #Hitler. He knows he can't just go out & indiscriminately unilaterally attack other countries, so he does the next best thing- he enacts tariffs against other countries who in effect, end up hating him which is what he wants.
you dont get it yet , magaland is a billionaires playground, they dont want visitors, they dont want people to seek prosperity, they want a kingdom with stupid unhealthy slaves /serfs serving them, make a lot of babies so there's always more slaves in the works,
Yes, the far-right see children as extensions of their Alpha Soldier Fathers & Abused Mothers. Machinery for the regime, not humans with independent thought & rights. That might be what I hate the most: MAGA teaching kids that they have no purpose outside of hurting others or getting hurt.
I keep asking myself if we were always a shithole, but I think we should remember that the people who hate their fellow Americans are a minority. They won because a lot of people voted 3rd party or didn't vote. Most of the US didn't vote for this. The only minority hurting us are the NAZIS.
Yes back to when white guys ran everything. And kept slaves, except this time the slaves are illegally detained immigrants forced to work in for profit prisons.
We are living in a failed state… all the consequences aren’t felt immediately; but the consequences will be felt by all of us “non-billionaires,” for sure.
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But this time I exchanged the cash at my bank for Canadian money bc I won't be back to the US for years, if ever. Staying on this side of the border.
Now $21b and 140,000 job loss this year o_O
Susan Collins voting against impeaching Trump.
She said she thought he “learned his lesson”.
Many of us tried to warn anyone who would listen at the time that he was unfit and dangerous, including her but…
🇮🇪🇪🇺
Our Democracy & reputation are dead. GARLAND didn't convict him & ROBERTS made an ass out of America by making him above the law.
Trust in America has been irrevocably destroyed.
We have proven, over time, that we CAN turn around our mistakes. We have to keep trying to get truth into the national conversation!
(I was so distracted/distraught, that I had a kitchen accident; causing burns over 10 percent of my skin!)
It’s this feeling that’s causing accidents everywhere! ☠️
I can say that should trump continue the impact will be far greater than the 4.4bi tourists spend and 135bi students spend in the USA as of lately.
This impact will be felt and the Hollywood propaganda won’t save us
I even want to move.
I was thinking Australia might also be a decent place to grow old?
America is becoming Russia without the culture. A hell of a place!
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