• orclev@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Spoiler alert, it will last at least a few more years, possibly longer. Trump and his gestapo have made it clear that the US is closed for business as long as he’s in charge. The next great depression is just getting started.

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    8 months ago

    It’s appropriate that corporate barons in airlines, hotels and restaurant industries that have long funded Republicans for deregulation and union busting and poverty wages. They’re now getting the full side of the coin which includes:

    • their chosen party destroying perceptions of safety and desirability to popular tourist destinations by claiming they are warzones while he deploys precious military resources to create said zones,
    • their chosen party arresting, deporting and discouraging the employment base of hotels and restaurants. No one else is going to do the work.
    • their chosen party doing incalculable damage to the reputation of the US higher education system and it’s reputation by removing science and academic freedom norms by trying to politicize science, admission and revoke the first amendment.
    • their chosen party during travel into dystopian reality where social media accounts, your sexuality or your political beliefs determine how or whether you may be admitted to the US.

    Airlines will be devastated with reduction in local (poverty wages, can’t afford flights) and international travelers. Hotels will suffer as they should. I hope restaurant owners are decimated.

    Have the economy and society you voted for you greedy, selfish, disgusting fucks.

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      8 months ago

      the US higher education system and it’s reputation

      While I wholeheartedly agree with your comment, I cannot help but notice the irony in that particular bit.

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        8 months ago

        It’s similar to the irony of Google’s keyboard autocorrect inserting an error when the user knows better. I typed all that on mobile and even got bullets to format, I’m proud!

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The World Travel & Tourism Council projected ahead of Memorial Day that the U.S. would be the only country among the 184 it studied where foreign visitor spending would fall in 2025.

    I see… so this is what Makes America Great Again. Falling tourism spending.

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    8 months ago

    Well, if Trump and his insane ideas last past the summer, the effects will last, too.

    Insert Trump picture with subtitle “I did this”.

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    8 months ago

    Good. This needs to happen. So the clueless can finally accept that the US isn’t the best. We as a people think we are the best fighters. We are really the biggest losers. Except perhaps for one shining moment right after WWII. Then we decided to become the worlds peacekeeper and have consistently lost every conflict since then.

    Come on tell me those that disagree. Tell me one we won like we won in Germany and Japan. Where we ended up will allies instead of more enemies.

    We are gonna lose this fight. The tourist can go anywhere in the world why would they come here?

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I expect a sudden uptick once the bastard croaks. Lots of visitors straining to keep control of their overfilled bladders and bowels long enough to reach the front of the line at his grave. Looking forward to seeing you all there.