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Last year we cancelled a planned US vacation, this year we didn't even think about it. Going back to Europe two years in a row. I don't give a fuck about tariff
by TwoNineA 7mo ago
Last year we cancelled a planned US vacation, this year we didn't even think about it. Going back to Europe two years in a row. I don't give a fuck about tariff policy of our supposed "friends" but when our "friend" repeatedly threatens our independence and sovereignty, no thanks. Not going to step into the USA for a long time.
- iso1631 7mo agoIt's not the government that's the problem per-se, it's the fact half the US supports that government
- Retric 7mo agoThis administration has terrible approval ratings. https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump...
- loloquwowndueo 7mo agoTotally a case of “gee, who’d have thunk”
- pupppet 7mo agoApproval ratings should be far lower than this.
- epistasis 7mo agoYes, and a major reason they aren't lower is because of tech executives that control the media and mass communication in the US.
- mrbombastic 7mo agoAgreed but we also have to stop saying "the majority support this" or "half the country supports this" it ain't true and leads people to feel hopeless.
- ryandrake 7mo agoYet, if we re-did the election today, we'd have the same outcome. People might not support what is happening but they will never "vote for the other guy." I personally know people who disagree with everything that's going on, but they'll still vote (R) next time "because I'm a (R)," as if it's their intrinsic physical trait like hair color.
- cfloyd 7mo agoThis is a good analysis but I’ll say at least for me, it has been a lesser of two evils scenario. Both parties have some really crazy ideas and platforms. I loathe the two party system for this reason.
- dmoy 7mo agoYea that's a fair take Like you will go to an election, and your choices will be Republican candidate: "I support deporting your family, I will not only not support cleaner energy but will actively work to increase coal usage, and I think your trans cousin should be forced to transition back even if it makes them commit suicide." Democratic candidate: "I think all of that stuff the Republican candidate said is crazy and wrong. If elected, I will strive to make all your guns illegal, so that eventually Republican-supporting institutions like the police and military, and Republican states, are the only ones with guns."
- ModernMech 7mo ago“I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence. “Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376097-trump-take-the-guns-first-go-through-due-process-second/ https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376097-trump-tak...
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- sandworm101 7mo agoThere are hard and soft approval ratings. The soft number is the count of how many people will vote for/against in the next election. The hard number is how many want a change today, how many will support recalling thier representatives in order to force change today. In that number, the current administration has widespread support.
- greedo 7mo agoThere is no mechanism for recall of Congressional officers.
- sandworm101 7mo agoPlenty of state-level reps can be recalled today. That noone is even trying sends the message that the population is generally OK with waiting until the next election ... an election that will be run/managed/counted by those representatives.
- greedo 7mo agoI specifically said Congressional representatives.
- jacquesm 7mo agoNo legal ones anyway.
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- jacquesm 7mo agoI'm not advocating for it, merely observing that that seems to be the way in which the USA prematurely gets rid of politicians that it does not like. It's revolting, the amount of violence in politics and >> what even banana republics get away with and that's on both sides of the aisle so I don't give a rats ass about which side you or anybody else is on. FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_American_politicians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_American_... Fix your systems, get rid of corruption and try - for once - to act like you mean it with all that talk of democracy because I'm not seeing it. Meanwhile, on HN it is customary to try to not read the worst into a comment. Thank you. Edit: oh, I see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270814 Pot, kettle, and so on, you seem to have no trouble with the USA murdering people.
- lordgroff 7mo agoThese are shockingly high.
- raw_anon_1111 7mo agoI love the copium. If I have 10 friends and ask all of them where they want to go for dinner and 6 say let’s have Chinese and the other 4 say let’s kill Bob and eat him, I still have a shitty friend group.
- jacquesm 7mo agoThose are MUCH higher than they should be by now. It makes me wonder what the approval rating of a ham sandwich would be, and I would not be surprised if it was higher.
- actsasbuffoon 7mo agoA ham sandwich has some strong qualities. I’m not kidding. The president would do basically nothing for four years, which would cause some things to move slowly. But it would be a very stable environment. No random tariffs via executive order, no random wars or invasions, no governing via tweet. Ham sandwich would maybe be one of our better presidents. Top 50%, probably.
- TwoNineA 7mo agoControversial opinion, it's way more than half: 1/3 voted for the orange man, 1/3 didn't bother go to vote because "BoTh SideS ARe thE SamE!" and 1/3 tried to do the right thing.
- JohnMakin 7mo agoIt may surprise you, but it’s generally accepted that 1/3rd is less than 1/2.
- TwoNineA 7mo ago1/3 explicitly approve and 1/3 implicity approve. If my math is mathing, that's 2/3 and it's larger than 1/2.
- dahart 7mo agoIt’s a large and incorrect assumption, and not mathing, to lump non-voters into supporters, especially when the administration is purging eligible voters.
- Larrikin 7mo agoEligible voters should absolutely be lumped in as implicit supporters. Disenfranchised voters have been made ineligible so should not have been in the statistic.
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- hamdingers 7mo agoAn eligible voter who chooses not to vote makes one unambiguous statement: "I'm fine with either outcome"
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- univacky 7mo agoAmerican here. I have to agree with this sentiment (without getting into the math of our deeply flawed election system). The administration could not do any of this without the support of Congress, which has not wavered. That support is unwavering because those elected officials are not getting negative feedback from their voters and donors, so they have every expectation that staying this course will work out just great for them. This administration's actions only continue with the approval of their party who put them and keep them in power.
- tzs 7mo agoCongress has received plenty of negative feedback from their voters. The intensity and frequency of Republican voters confronting their representatives over many administration policies (e.g., Medicaid cuts, ACA subsidy cuts, tariffs, Epstein, influence of unelected officials) when those representatives hold in-person town halls has led to representatives greatly reducing in-person town halls, replacing them with tele-town halls so they can cut off people.
- Sabinus 7mo agoIf that isn't reflected in the midterms then it's just theatre. Time will tell.
- ulfw 7mo agoIt won't be. Even if the house swings to the democrat side it will be a marginal swing only, not a massive change. Who knows if the Senate will even flip at all. Half of America loves what's happening and the other half doesn't believe the first half loves it.
- gaoshan 7mo agoCan't blame you. Coming from the US I have been making a point to vacation in Canada, fwiw. Short of voting, protesting and getting into arguments with MAGA people I don't know what else I can effectively do.
- sandworm101 7mo agoLook into your state's recall procedures. Waiting for the next election is effectively acquiescence to the current situation.
- derektank 7mo agoNo sitting member of Congress has ever been recalled and it’s almost certainly unconstitutional. Article I only outlines one way to remove a sitting representative or senator, and that’s expulsion by a vote of the chamber in which they sit
- sandworm101 7mo agoCongress is one power structure. States and cities are others. 19 states have recall procedures. The fed is much less powerful domestically without state-level support. And pulling down even a couple state reps would send a chilling message to the fed. https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/recall-of-state-officials https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/recall-of-state...
- galangalalgol 7mo agoVery few red states in those 19...
- astura 7mo agoMy State has no recall procedures, that doesn't exist, the same is true for the majority of states. https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/recall-of-state-officials https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/recall-of-state... Beyond that, my state is not the problem.
- cgh 7mo agoSame. We had two month-long trips planned and canceled them both. I realize California is not exactly “enemy territory” or whatever but we’ll spend our money elsewhere.
- XorNot 7mo agoI mean you say that, but as someone with family in California the issue isn't the general citizenry it's that ICE and border people aren't general citizenry. If the system decides to screw you over, that your average Cali resident disapproves doesn't stop you being in a holding cell for weeks.
- mothballed 7mo agoGoing through CBP is such a nightmare, even as a US citizen, I also think twice about going on international vacation. I hate entering my own country, every other country is so much easier, a deep sense of dread enters every time I have to go back to the USA because I know I will be fucked with by the border police. I try not to let them influence my behavior too much, but at the end of the day, getting thrown in immigration jail on false accusations (yes happened to me despite presenting US passport) or detained for 12+ hours (also happened several times) puts constraints on vacation plans.
- dawnerd 7mo agoReally depends where your entry point is. They’ve moved to digital gates which have made actual cbp interactions basically a thing of the past. Last couple times I didn’t even have to take my passport out.
- fragmede 7mo agoAs you said, depends on your gate of entry. At some of them, they took the digital gates out after installing them.
- raw_anon_1111 7mo agoMost of my flying back into the US has been through ATL and once through LAX. It wasn’t bad. We just had to wait 3 hours in line to get into Costa Rica.
- expedition32 7mo agoAmericans don't understand that words have meaning. Canadians are supposed to just shrug and laugh.
- blks 7mo agoIt’s not even just about threats, you as an individual are in potential danger of being detained without due process by ICE
- jhickok 7mo agoWe had a great candidate for a job decline to relocate to the US for precisely this reason. I really do not blame anyone for making that decision
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- bluecalm 7mo agoFor me it's not about politics at all. Just the thought of going through TSA and immigration is enough to discourage me, especially when I can hop on a plane to Spain, Italy or Cyprus and face 0 inconveniences along the way.
- iamtheworstdev 7mo agoyou don't want to give up your DNS to visit the USA? /s
- jacquesm 7mo agoCyprus is probably best avoided right now.
- bluecalm 7mo agoYeah I mentioned it because I have semi-permanent home there. Luckily we left before the war started. I am just getting government SMS with warnings now.
- jacquesm 7mo agoGah that must suck. I hope you all ride this out without mishap. It's got to be so frustrating, it's like a bunch of gangsters having it out in the street where you live.
- morkalork 7mo agoThe whole social media history and phone searching thing makes me nervous, you're one bad-taste meme about Charlie Kirk and a butt-hurt CBP agent away from a very long and painful detention process.
- dragonwriter 7mo ago> For me it's not about politics at all. Just the thought of going through TSA and immigration is enough to discourage me The conditions of TSA and the immigration system are...not independent of politics (or even independent of the top tier of most divisive partisan political issues in the current American context.)