Go home and campaign for your leftist party to protect yourselves from the disease.

Somehow, Nazis have returned.

A few weeks ago, I told my Canadian coworker that if she leaves to see her Dad, as she does at least once a year, she might not be able to come back. She just laughed like I was joking.

Note this means tourist areas should see prices drop on food in grocery stores because the supply was being created pre-decreased population. The decreased cash flow will hurt businesses and the suppliers will decrease production as to not have to sell at slim to no margins which will bring the prices back up soon enough (or the farmers/distributers will go out of business themselves).

It will give people in those areas a false narrative for the time being though because they will be happy about lower prices and less car traffic… But all the resteraunts will have less patrons, and less money going to servers, less jobs to be had eventually.

The nature and scenery in the US is honestly stunning, and you’re lucky to have the NPS to make all of it so accessible.

In saying that though; there is natural beauty everywhere you look in the world and it’s very easy, and often cheaper to go elsewhere.

bring a dozen eggs and give one to each ICE agent you encounter along the way

As long as you “give” them somewhat percussively. If ICE is gonna detain you no matter what, make it count!

I’m pretty sure we all know how everyone would vote if given the chance to do it again. I only wish those that didn’t would have the humility it takes to admit they made a huge mistake.

It wouldn’t matter how people vote. Trump and Musk will be controlling the results.

Just wait a bit more. The real pain has not yet set in. Wait until they have to decide whether to keep their mom alive or feed their children. It won’t take long.

That’s looking increasingly like a big “if”, unless you mean a Russian style election.

I live in a red state. We have a method of voting individual bills into our constitution as a majority process.

We have voted in a reform to get big money out of our politics. The Republican majority in the state forced another vote with the most obfuscated language to get the state to overturn it. We have voted time and time again against Right to Work which is an anti-union bill. The Republicans have constantly tried to get it to happen. St Louis managed to get its police out from under State control, leaving Kansas City the only state in the nation with the state controlling the cities police… until the Republican ran state forced St. Louis back under its control.

We voted in a higher minimum wage and guarantees for sick leave. We also voted in protections for abortions overturning the harshest ban in the state. These were overwhelming majorities. We as a state also overwhelmingly voted Republicans in, who have just overturned the min wage and sick leave bill, and are trying to figure out how to overturn the abortion protections.

So if we had a COMPLETELY free and fair election. I guarantee you, at least the portion of the country I’m in, would still vote for anything with an ® next to their name.

Trump supporters continue to vote red despite decisions effecting their lives in profound ways.

Look at the anti-vax response after their own child dies of a preventable disease. It’s moronic.

Glad you’re avoiding our shithole country. Wish I could say the same.

Welcome! Hope you have a lovely time!

Canada is very similar to the US except not insane and colder.

Looking forward to seeing you round here, eh!

Just a warning: both nations are huge, and depending on where you go you’ll have a very different experience.

Generally in Canada, the colder the climate, the warmer the people, so you have to decide how much you value both.

Come visit Canada instead (: pretty much the same, but you won’t be detained at the border.

The one thing that really came home to me traveling in the US was how unbelievably different different parts of it are. If you were an alien or otherwise didn’t know where the borders of countries were you would not believe that Florida and DC could possibly belong to the same country they’re so completely different in culture.

I honestly think that’s part of the problem the US has, they only have two parties and that’s nowhere near enough diversity to cover all of the different kinds of cultures the US has. I have to imagine people in North Dakota have completely different priorities to people in California. Yet there’s absolutely no political recognition of that.

good food / people

The rich, you mean?

I was reading somewhere online someone’s observation at Dulles airport near DC, and they said the place was like a ghost town, and they asked a worker about it and they said it’s been like that for weeks.

People book vacations like that well in advance. So there’s a time delay between the bookings and drop. Yesterday I read an article about Dutch travel agencies seeing far less bookings for US holidays. In january they saw a 20 percent drop, but they didn’t have February figures yet.

So by the end of this year, the tourism decrease will likely be much higher.

I mean, it’s only been 2 months. 9% drop vs 5% gain is a 14% shift from expected. That’s impressive, and Trump administration is just getting started.

What I’m interested in is what this does to the international conference scene. I can’t imagine many of them will be hosted in the US this year, even if the event was already booked.

Man, I was going to go to a wedding there that was super important to me but now I’m SO torn.

Sometimes they detain people as they are trying to leave the US.

*Central American prison.

Initially some American prison then deported to some random country based on what he appeared to be to the racist in command in charge of making this decision

I think that’s an okay use - https://grammarist.com/usage/forecast-forecasted/

But grammar is not my strong suit.