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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been all over the place from East to west coast. Everywhere seems depressed and dead. I keep asking everyone where the people are. Last week I was in New Orleans and there were barely any people out in the French quarter. I asked a waiter at cafe du monde what’s up (I know summers there are slow but not this slow) and he said he’s never seen it so bad. I tipped him a $20 on a $7 bill and he nearly cried. A month before I was in San Francisco and it was the same thing. Dead streets and the tourists that line up to watch the sea lions at the pier were non existent. I asked an uber driver what’s going on and he basically they said the foreign tourists didn’t come this year and everyone was hurting plus people who left during covid didn’t come back. Everyone seems depressed and hopeless. I am not pinning it squarely on Trump though. Things are not the same since Covid and this country feels like it’s never going to be the same again.

I mean.... what do you expect? The libs are out there telling foreign tourists its unsafe to come here. Of course they won't.

Wake up you twit. This isn't "the libs" making the US look bad. It's Trump and everyone who supports him.

The foreign tourists are seeing for themselves that the US is no longer a safe place to come to. Like this mom from New Zealand and her 6 year old son who were legally in the US but were snatched by ICE, sent to a detention camp in Texas and held for 3 weeks. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/new-zealand-woman-six-year-old-son-ice-detention-us-ntwnfb

This is not about "the libs" - it's about Trump's shitty policies. When you have to deflect with "the libs" your argument has failed.

Liberals evidently can't read. She was detained by ICE when she attempted to re-enter the U.S. when her combo-card visa wasn't fully approved. Her employment visa approved for renewal but not the I-360. The employment visa does not grant you the right to remain in the U.S. The DHS was actually being gracious by allowing her to work all this time while her I-360 was pending. She either callously ignored the laws or didn't educate herself adequately and put her and her son in jeopardy. As a matter of fact, all three of her children were fully approved for their visa renewals so she really had no excuse.

The United States is no longer tolerating illegal immigration or the flagrant disregard of the law. If foreign tourist or migrants cannot abide by them, don't come here. We don't care.

Idiot, they are arresting people that are showing up to court to go through the proper channels of becoming a citizen here

Oh. I guess its fine to enter a country illegally as long as you later use the proper channels. If I try a similar approach in Japan or France, what would happen? Why are we the only country not allowed to enforce our laws?

presenting yourself at the border to seek asylum is legal.

Wrong. Crossing the border in between ports of entry is illegal. That’s why illegal immigrants are put in removal proceedings.

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Anonymous wrote:I spent time travelling this summer around the good old US of A. And man, was it depressing. Everyone in their own world, jobless or working too many jobs because one job doesn’t pay great. People cutting way back. A general apathy and hopelessness for the future. People now talking about AI taking jobs which is interesting because the blame used to be immigrants. The feeling that God has failed them and that we are still heading in the wrong direction. It will never be the same I guess. The reality of everything is in front of us. The blinders are off. And when I spoke with people it seemed that most people were just giving up. Anyone else traveling around and seeing or hearing any of this?

Yeah, things were much better under Biden with massive inflation - people feeling like they can’t afford a house or health care or food. And don’t forget the open border with 11 million people pouring in illegally to join our welfare rolls.

Given the two choices we had in the November election, it’s great Trump win, otherwise we would have four more years of Biden’s awful policies.

All you MAGA morons have is lies. That is why you are such miserable jerks. Your poison is destroying our country. No matter what you say, no matter what lies you spin, we wouid be far better off right now with Harris. Absolutely positively. Trump is destroying all that was actually decent about this country.

What factual evidence to you have to assert that the country would be better off under Harris? All you have is your personal feeling that Trump is destroying decency. I think you’re wrong. The country was better off during the first Trump presidency than during the Biden presidency. The majority of voters agreed. That’s why we returned Trump to the Oval Office. But the far left can’t accept democracy. They can’t accept that their policies like open borders and transgender ideology are unpopular. The left is incapable of self-reflection and would rather demonize voters than change their radical policies.

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Anonymous wrote:I spent time travelling this summer around the good old US of A. And man, was it depressing. Everyone in their own world, jobless or working too many jobs because one job doesn’t pay great. People cutting way back. A general apathy and hopelessness for the future. People now talking about AI taking jobs which is interesting because the blame used to be immigrants. The feeling that God has failed them and that we are still heading in the wrong direction. It will never be the same I guess. The reality of everything is in front of us. The blinders are off. And when I spoke with people it seemed that most people were just giving up. Anyone else traveling around and seeing or hearing any of this?

Yeah, things were much better under Biden with massive inflation - people feeling like they can’t afford a house or health care or food. And don’t forget the open border with 11 million people pouring in illegally to join our welfare rolls.

Given the two choices we had in the November election, it’s great Trump win, otherwise we would have four more years of Biden’s awful policies.

It's true we had inflation under Biden. . . due to the disastrous policies of the trump dumpster fire round 1. Trump round 2 has done NOTHING to make the average persons life better. Except himself of course.

“Sorry kids that learned to code like we said to. The market is full and we’re still bringing in the same # of “temporary” foreign tech workers. They’re really stacking up and using master’s programs to prolong their stay here and outcompete you. Have you looked into the trades?”

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Anonymous wrote:I spent time travelling this summer around the good old US of A. And man, was it depressing. Everyone in their own world, jobless or working too many jobs because one job doesn’t pay great. People cutting way back. A general apathy and hopelessness for the future. People now talking about AI taking jobs which is interesting because the blame used to be immigrants. The feeling that God has failed them and that we are still heading in the wrong direction. It will never be the same I guess. The reality of everything is in front of us. The blinders are off. And when I spoke with people it seemed that most people were just giving up. Anyone else traveling around and seeing or hearing any of this?

Yeah, things were much better under Biden with massive inflation - people feeling like they can’t afford a house or health care or food. And don’t forget the open border with 11 million people pouring in illegally to join our welfare rolls.

Given the two choices we had in the November election, it’s great Trump win, otherwise we would have four more years of Biden’s awful policies.

It's true we had inflation under Biden. . . due to the disastrous policies of the trump dumpster fire round 1. Trump round 2 has done NOTHING to make the average persons life better. Except himself of course.

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Anonymous wrote:I spent time travelling this summer around the good old US of A. And man, was it depressing. Everyone in their own world, jobless or working too many jobs because one job doesn’t pay great. People cutting way back. A general apathy and hopelessness for the future. People now talking about AI taking jobs which is interesting because the blame used to be immigrants. The feeling that God has failed them and that we are still heading in the wrong direction. It will never be the same I guess. The reality of everything is in front of us. The blinders are off. And when I spoke with people it seemed that most people were just giving up. Anyone else traveling around and seeing or hearing any of this?

Yeah, things were much better under Biden with massive inflation - people feeling like they can’t afford a house or health care or food. And don’t forget the open border with 11 million people pouring in illegally to join our welfare rolls.

Given the two choices we had in the November election, it’s great Trump win, otherwise we would have four more years of Biden’s awful policies.

All you MAGA morons have is lies. That is why you are such miserable jerks. Your poison is destroying our country. No matter what you say, no matter what lies you spin, we wouid be far better off right now with Harris. Absolutely positively. Trump is destroying all that was actually decent about this country.

Biden expanded immigration thru out his entire term. Biden, and Harris the Border Czar, created the disaster that lost the election to an idiot like Trump.

In his first 100 days in office, Biden signed more than 60 executive actions, 24 of which are direct reversals of Trump’s policies.
Biden has defended the number as necessary to undo what he considers “bad policy” inherited from Trump, especially on immigration.
To date, 10 of his 12 actions on immigration are reversals of Trump’s policies.

“And I want to make it clear — there’s a lot of talk, with good reason, about the number of executive orders that I have signed — I’m not making new law; I’m eliminating bad policy,” Biden said as he signed a series of actions on immigration from the Oval Office on February 2. “What I’m doing is taking on the issues that — 99% of them — that the president, the last president of the United States, issued executive orders I felt were very counterproductive to our security, counterproductive to who we are as a country, particularly in the area of immigration.”

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/politics/biden-executive-orders/

papa Biden 1 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/06/06/biden-immigration-asylum-policy-migrant-family/

papa Biden 2 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2024/immigration-journey-venezuela-trump-harris-election/

Anonymous wrote:I spent time travelling this summer around the good old US of A. And man, was it depressing. Everyone in their own world, jobless or working too many jobs because one job doesn’t pay great. People cutting way back. A general apathy and hopelessness for the future. People now talking about AI taking jobs which is interesting because the blame used to be immigrants. The feeling that God has failed them and that we are still heading in the wrong direction. It will never be the same I guess. The reality of everything is in front of us. The blinders are off. And when I spoke with people it seemed that most people were just giving up. Anyone else traveling around and seeing or hearing any of this?

I am unhappy. Got replaced with H1Bs. Always a good feeling to lose your job and know that cheaper foreign workers got it. Courtesy of your own federal government.

Another troll "everything sucks" post. Boring.

If you are really upset with your government: move to a rural location, become sustainable fully off grid, load your cellar with weapons, learn to 3d print dark web unregistered drones, and be really good at farming. That is what really upsets the power structure. Otherwise, you are just a coward typing words on the internet.

Middle class wages stagnated even as they became more productive and profitable in the work they do; meanwhile the richest got far richer off of their backs. A massive amount of wealth redistribution has been happening - from the poor and middle class to the wealthiest, via undercut wages and benefits, being gouged for housing, goods and services, and so on.

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Anonymous wrote:I seriously do not understand the doom and gloom. We are literally at the apex of human civilization going back to the dawn of time Every day is better than the last.

Inflation-adjusted incomes are at an all time for every percentile of income - low, median, and high.

The stock market at at or near all time highs.

Technology is more advanced than it's ever been.

Medical advances have been amazing to date and keep coming.

The USA is not at war!

We have infinite entertainment.

GLPs are helping so many obese people get healthier.

What the heck are you people hoping for?

For plastic to not be in my body while having to pay for my own cancer treatment rather than the people who put that plastic in my food, water and air. For my middle class salary to pay for a safe home that is 30 minutes to my workplace. I would also like our president to not be a corrupt self enriching jerk who has no empathy.

You forgot about our president’s multiple felonies, rape and pedophile proclivities. And it’s THiS vile creature pretending he cares about law and order. We are a joke country now.

Sorry, if you have a middle class salary, don’t expect to be able to afford a home in a high cost area where you are competing with millions of other people. Move to a part of the country you can afford. There are many options.

What can possibly go wrong with pricing the middle class out of entire metro areas ?

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Anonymous wrote:I seriously do not understand the doom and gloom. We are literally at the apex of human civilization going back to the dawn of time Every day is better than the last.

Inflation-adjusted incomes are at an all time for every percentile of income - low, median, and high.

The stock market at at or near all time highs.

Technology is more advanced than it's ever been.

Medical advances have been amazing to date and keep coming.

The USA is not at war!

We have infinite entertainment.

GLPs are helping so many obese people get healthier.

What the heck are you people hoping for?

For plastic to not be in my body while having to pay for my own cancer treatment rather than the people who put that plastic in my food, water and air. For my middle class salary to pay for a safe home that is 30 minutes to my workplace. I would also like our president to not be a corrupt self enriching jerk who has no empathy.

You forgot about our president’s multiple felonies, rape and pedophile proclivities. And it’s THiS vile creature pretending he cares about law and order. We are a joke country now.

Sorry, if you have a middle class salary, don’t expect to be able to afford a home in a high cost area where you are competing with millions of other people. Move to a part of the country you can afford. There are many options.

That was a very bot answer.

Anyway, the much better alternative is that we correct deficiencies created by this deficient president. First correction, new president.

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Anonymous wrote:I seriously do not understand the doom and gloom. We are literally at the apex of human civilization going back to the dawn of time Every day is better than the last.

Inflation-adjusted incomes are at an all time for every percentile of income - low, median, and high.

The stock market at at or near all time highs.

Technology is more advanced than it's ever been.

Medical advances have been amazing to date and keep coming.

The USA is not at war!

We have infinite entertainment.

GLPs are helping so many obese people get healthier.

What the heck are you people hoping for?

For plastic to not be in my body while having to pay for my own cancer treatment rather than the people who put that plastic in my food, water and air. For my middle class salary to pay for a safe home that is 30 minutes to my workplace. I would also like our president to not be a corrupt self enriching jerk who has no empathy.

You forgot about our president’s multiple felonies, rape and pedophile proclivities. And it’s THiS vile creature pretending he cares about law and order. We are a joke country now.

Sorry, if you have a middle class salary, don’t expect to be able to afford a home in a high cost area where you are competing with millions of other people. Move to a part of the country you can afford. There are many options.

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Anonymous wrote:I seriously do not understand the doom and gloom. We are literally at the apex of human civilization going back to the dawn of time Every day is better than the last.

Inflation-adjusted incomes are at an all time for every percentile of income - low, median, and high.

The stock market at at or near all time highs.

Technology is more advanced than it's ever been.

Medical advances have been amazing to date and keep coming.

The USA is not at war!

We have infinite entertainment.

GLPs are helping so many obese people get healthier.

What the heck are you people hoping for?

We were hoping to remain a global superpower with an unrivaled currency, an ability to project hard and soft power globally to run the world to our economic advantage and to be an ideal that every person and nation strives to emulate in terms of justice, opportunity for all and good health.

Trump has pissed on all of that and ripped up as much as he can because he’s a demented narcissist who can’t get over his daddy issues.

Seriously - that's what you think people across america care about?

Actually, yes.
That might not be how “people across America” would articulate it, but it provides the things that Americans regularly talk about wanting.

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Anonymous wrote:I spent time travelling this summer around the good old US of A. And man, was it depressing. Everyone in their own world, jobless or working too many jobs because one job doesn’t pay great. People cutting way back. A general apathy and hopelessness for the future. People now talking about AI taking jobs which is interesting because the blame used to be immigrants. The feeling that God has failed them and that we are still heading in the wrong direction. It will never be the same I guess. The reality of everything is in front of us. The blinders are off. And when I spoke with people it seemed that most people were just giving up. Anyone else traveling around and seeing or hearing any of this?

So you left your Democrat-run blue city, went on a listening tour around middle America, sat down with random people, and heard the platitudes you describe here?

I’ll take things that didn’t happen for $200, Alex.

It's like that West Wing episode where the presidential advisor is in a bar, and someone unleashes all his troubles on him, and says "I just want the government to make things a little easier."

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Anonymous wrote:I spent time travelling this summer around the good old US of A. And man, was it depressing. Everyone in their own world, jobless or working too many jobs because one job doesn’t pay great. People cutting way back. A general apathy and hopelessness for the future. People now talking about AI taking jobs which is interesting because the blame used to be immigrants. The feeling that God has failed them and that we are still heading in the wrong direction. It will never be the same I guess. The reality of everything is in front of us. The blinders are off. And when I spoke with people it seemed that most people were just giving up. Anyone else traveling around and seeing or hearing any of this?

I hope you realize the problem is not people and their pay. It's the systematic devaluation of the dollar.

Things are not becoming more expensive. Your dollars are becoming worth less and less.

That is the same thing.