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    Anecdotal: traveling to the smoky mountains and rented some bicycles. Owner said rentals are down 30% compared to this time last year.

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    Even if I wanted to visit the states. Can I risk having my holiday ruined and the money I’d lose if I was randomly turned away at the border?

    It’s not even safe to transit the states at the moment.

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      If you got into the country, what’s to stop ICE from picking you up and sending you to a prison in another country?

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    More so for people with families. Individuals might be prepared to risk it but no one with kids is likely to.

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    Why the fuck anyone want to come here right now? Dick-tator Dipstick running the show with his mushroom-fellating moron brigade cheering him on as if he wasn’t shitting his pants and reading at a third grade level…

    Selling off our public lands-- you know, the shit people want to see when they come here…

    Getting arrested for coming here AS A TOURIST and potentially being thrown in a fucking concentration camp…

    Everything is way too expensive and untrustworthy

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    Hoping my flight to visit the US this fall has empty seats.

    (I’m a US citizen who has not been back to the states for over 5 years. Going to visit family and meet 2 of my sister’s children.)

    P.S. it feels like I need this disclaimer to explain why I would go there.

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      By then, ypud better delete all your social media post just to make sure you dont lose your citizenship over some random like of a trump meme

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      P.S. it feels like I need this disclaimer to explain why I would go there.

      Believe me, I understand. And I’m sure a lot of other people do, too.

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      P.S. it feels like I need this disclaimer to explain why I would go there.

      You did. I live here and my reaction to your post was l, “Why the fuck would you willingly come here?”

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    Meanwhile, Taco is literally attacking the 4th largest economy in the world and yammering on about tariffs again.

    I just don’t know how the market is still (relatively) up. I think when the crash does come, it’s going to be so rough.

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    pretty sure a majority of small (and large tbh) business owners who rely on tourism voted for exactly all the bullshit going on right now. they can go fuck themselves

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        I don’t know about 100%. I doubt the companies that do a lot of manufacturing in China were big on Trump… even if they tried to buy him off by donating to his inauguration.

        His trade policies were always going to be bad for business.

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          Bad for business, but perhaps not as bad for the rich business owners that can capitalize on the market chaos a bit without even pretending to contribute to actual productivity.

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            I guess. But the people who benefitted the most on that were loyalists who supported the grift.

            I bet a lot of the rich voted for him, but you’re always going to have the Mark Cubans and Tim Cooks of the country. People that are pretty clearly giving more money to democratic side of the aisle.

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              True enough, there are some rich people that aren’t onboard with it, but there’s just room for some other rich people to suceed even as their business suffers.

              And then double dip on a recovery.

              But certainly, there’s room for both, so that’s why it’s not quite as mind numbingly stupid that some of the billionaires are on board.

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    They arbitrarily imprison tourists and then are surprised nobody wants to risk being imprisoned

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    Well, who wants to do holidays is a fascist country, with the constant fear not to see Yellowstone or Niagara Falls, but Guantanamo instead.

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    The Trump Regime has made it widely known that absolutely no one is safe visiting the United States. They’ve made travel by Americans, to American destinations questionable, based on ICE antics.

    Does America want a healthy tourism industry? Then they’d better get busy smashing fascism.

    As it stands, it is simply not advisable to travel to the United States.

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      The Trump Regime has made it widely known that absolutely no one is safe visiting in the United States.

      FTFY

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      “They’ve made travel by Americans, to American destinations questionable, based on ICE antics.” I think the appropriate word instead of antics is atrocities.

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    American here. I wouldn’t want to visit here either. I do Nazi this as a good destination spot.