US Presidental Election

[Athanasius]

His recent, insane attack on victims of "autism," per se, is deplorable.

And now Big Government is messing deciding what we can and can't eat. Definitely not what I voted for.

I can't even visit the place without risking my phone being confiscated, being held, and being lifetime banned for having "falsified" documents. Did anybody vote for that, really?

umm, yeah, plenty of people totally did just that.

Better get ready to salute

[IMINXTC]

I'm talking about not wanting to take the risk of having my phone confiscent, being detained, or being lifetime banned from visiting the US for having "falsified" documents.  It's not a risk I want to take, and it's a risk I've been advised not to take.

Why do you think this would happen?

1. I'm Canadian
2. I'm Canadian and live in the UK
3. I'm Canadian and live in the UK and would be traveling to the US
4. I've been hassled plenty of times entering the US pre-Trump
5. None of my documentation matches my "sex at a birth"
6. If I'm put in the position of being asked to answer questions I'd consider answering with lies, I don't want to be put into that position
7. There are plenty of accounts of people being hassled entering the US; I know people who have been hassled since Donald's installation
8. I belong to a minority population Donald's admin has explicitly gone after

And on, and on, and on.

Yep! Caution advised.

[Oscar_Kipling]

His recent, insane attack on victims of "autism," per se, is deplorable.

And now Big Government is messing deciding what we can and can't eat. Definitely not what I voted for.

I can't even visit the place without risking my phone being confiscated, being held, and being lifetime banned for having "falsified" documents. Did anybody vote for that, really?

umm, yeah, plenty of people totally did just that.

Better get ready to salute

Ha, you think they'd have me? black, atheist, queer, autistic, socialist sympathizing weirdo...I don't think I'm wanted as a 'patriot'.

[Athanasius]

His recent, insane attack on victims of "autism," per se, is deplorable.

And now Big Government is messing deciding what we can and can't eat. Definitely not what I voted for.

I can't even visit the place without risking my phone being confiscated, being held, and being lifetime banned for having "falsified" documents. Did anybody vote for that, really?

umm, yeah, plenty of people totally did just that.

Better get ready to salute

Ha, you think they'd have me? black, atheist, queer, autistic, socialist sympathizing weirdo...I don't think I'm wanted as a 'patriot'.

Still gotta salute

[Athanasius]

I'm talking about not wanting to take the risk of having my phone confiscent, being detained, or being lifetime banned from visiting the US for having "falsified" documents.  It's not a risk I want to take, and it's a risk I've been advised not to take.

Why do you think this would happen?

1. I'm Canadian
2. I'm Canadian and live in the UK
3. I'm Canadian and live in the UK and would be traveling to the US
4. I've been hassled plenty of times entering the US pre-Trump
5. None of my documentation matches my "sex at a birth"
6. If I'm put in the position of being asked to answer questions I'd consider answering with lies, I don't want to be put into that position
7. There are plenty of accounts of people being hassled entering the US; I know people who have been hassled since Donald's installation
8. I belong to a minority population Donald's admin has explicitly gone after

And on, and on, and on.

Yep! Caution advised.

Don't I know it, because now I'm playing segregation over here too.

[Oscar_Kipling]

His recent, insane attack on victims of "autism," per se, is deplorable.

And now Big Government is messing deciding what we can and can't eat. Definitely not what I voted for.

I can't even visit the place without risking my phone being confiscated, being held, and being lifetime banned for having "falsified" documents. Did anybody vote for that, really?

umm, yeah, plenty of people totally did just that.

Better get ready to salute

Ha, you think they'd have me? black, atheist, queer, autistic, socialist sympathizing weirdo...I don't think I'm wanted as a 'patriot'.

Still gotta salute

well, yeah, I suppose you have a point...but again I can only take solace in how safe the children are now.

[IMINXTC]

And the real purpose of DOGE is to amass personal data on every American.

Talking serious authoritarianism here and who knows (?)  if the constitution will even survive this administration.
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[teddyv]

1. I'm Canadian
2. I'm Canadian and live in the UK
3. I'm Canadian and live in the UK and would be traveling to the US
4. I've been hassled plenty of times entering the US pre-Trump
5. None of my documentation matches my "sex at a birth"
6. If I'm put in the position of being asked to answer questions I'd consider answering with lies, I don't want to be put into that position
7. There are plenty of accounts of people being hassled entering the US; I know people who have been hassled since Donald's installation
8. I belong to a minority population Donald's admin has explicitly gone after

And on, and on, and on.

My wife's alma mater, Calvin University in Grand Rapids, MI was asking about interest in our son attending there as he is getting closer to graduation. My wife essentially replied "Hell, no".

As of right now, we refuse to travel to the US for the foreseeable future.

[Athanasius]

His recent, insane attack on victims of "autism," per se, is deplorable.

And now Big Government is messing deciding what we can and can't eat. Definitely not what I voted for.

I can't even visit the place without risking my phone being confiscated, being held, and being lifetime banned for having "falsified" documents. Did anybody vote for that, really?

umm, yeah, plenty of people totally did just that.

Better get ready to salute

Ha, you think they'd have me? black, atheist, queer, autistic, socialist sympathizing weirdo...I don't think I'm wanted as a 'patriot'.

Still gotta salute

well, yeah, I suppose you have a point...but again I can only take solace in how safe the children are now.

They are just li,e so safe now, aren't they!?

[Athanasius]

1. I'm Canadian
2. I'm Canadian and live in the UK
3. I'm Canadian and live in the UK and would be traveling to the US
4. I've been hassled plenty of times entering the US pre-Trump
5. None of my documentation matches my "sex at a birth"
6. If I'm put in the position of being asked to answer questions I'd consider answering with lies, I don't want to be put into that position
7. There are plenty of accounts of people being hassled entering the US; I know people who have been hassled since Donald's installation
8. I belong to a minority population Donald's admin has explicitly gone after

And on, and on, and on.

My wife's alma mater, Calvin University in Grand Rapids, MI was asking about interest in our son attending there as he is getting closer to graduation. My wife essentially replied "Hell, no".

As of right now, we refuse to travel to the US for the foreseeable future.

We have a friend from Calgary who travelled down to sell some horses. She has a small Canadian flag decal on the back of her truck, and so all her windows + mirrors got smashed in while she was there.

For myself, when people tell me "Oh you don't have anything to worry about, no one would notice" that's when my eyebrows go up and I think, "Yeah that's not something you should ever have to say to me to assure me how safe it is to travel to the US".

[RabbiKnife]

Never trust any government any where for any purpose.

[Fenris]

no, that would be pointless and kind of silly (not that I don't indulge in both pointlessness and silliness often enough). I'm talking about the future...will it change anything? When you say that you didn't vote for this, it is-I assume, because you didn't expect this outcome..so do you believe this subversion of expectation will change anything about how you evaluate your expectations in the future?

I have no idea what you're trying to say here.

[Fenris]

And the real purpose of DOGE is to amass personal data on every American.

The government already has all that information.

[IMINXTC]

And the real purpose of DOGE is to amass personal data on every American.

The government already has all that information.

That info cannot be accessable to DOGE or any social media site - like Musk's "X," which had been discussed.

[IMINXTC]

Embarrassing watching the President get  handlled by China