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Good thing international tourism counts for only about half of a percent of U.S. GDP: https://wttc.org/news/us-economy-set-to-lose-12-5bn-in-international-trave

• soco 11mo ago
  Right on, who needs those puny half percents or the jobs related to them, when we have megacorps covering for the rest of the gdp (and exporting it to Cayman).
  • DaSHacka 11mo ago
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• DFHippie 11mo ago
  A lot of things will be harder for the US to do if everyone in the world hates us. Letting people come here and see that most Americans aren't monsters pays dividends beyond the dollars they spend. The Trump Administrations actions read like a checklist of things you'd do if you wanted to destroy the US's power to protect itself and its allies and promote the well-being of its people.
  • raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
    > Letting people come here and see that most Americans aren't monsters pays dividends beyond the dollars they spend. 40% of the population still support Trump. If you have 10 friends and ask them where they want to meet for dinner and 6 say let’s go to a Mexican restaurant and the other 4 say “let’s kill Bob and eat him”, you still need to be concerned about your friend group.
    • rayiner 11mo ago
      Most of his major policies have approval ratings above 50% https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HHP_Dec2025_KeyFindings.pdf https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HHP... (page 23) 53% think he’s doing a better job than Biden (page 18) His approval rating in his second term is tracking about the same or a bit higher than Obama’s at the same time: https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/trump-obama-bush-second-term https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/trump-obama-...
      • raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
        Are you looking at the article you linked to? The Harvard survey says: - 39% say the country is on the right track - 36% say the economy is good - 53% say the economy is weak - 33% say their personal outlook is improving. In the survey the only one that reaches 50% are about “values” A senile old man during better than another senile old man is not exactly a raving endorsement.
        • rayiner 11mo ago
          Did you look at page 23, which I cited? “Use the National Guard and active-duty military to police American cities and stop crime and disorder” is at 51% and it goes up from there. “Using the U.S. military to target cartel drug smugglers in Latin America” is at 58%. “ Closing the border with added security and policies that discourage illegal crossings” is at 70%. Yes, people are upset the economy. But I assume the people complaining about “fascism” on here are upset about Trump’s “values,” which, as you note is at 50%, not his failure to meet his stupid promise to turn back the last few years of inflation.
          • raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
            Of course, because Trump is being very careful to target just enough cities with the national guard that didn’t vote for him and most of his voters in red states don’t travel especially to those cities. What do you think the percentage of people would be in favor of using the national guard would be if they were deployed to rural America to stop the meth problem or they were deployed to Memphis, Houston, anywhere in Mississippi and Alabama? Don’t you find it surprising that you don’t have the same type of ICE raids targeting the red border states but you have them targeting blue cities? Why is Trump going to war with Venezuela instead of Mexico and Colombia where the drugs actually are? It’s all optics and meant not to upset his base. Right now, for instance he is trying to pay off his “socialism bad” base of farmers - who he never targets with ICE raids - who are hurting because of his tarriffs.
            • greenie_beans 11mo ago
• vinni2 11mo ago
  Who said I visit US for tourism?