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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?

Since March I’ve been to Paris, Dublin, Dallas, NYC, Chicago, OBX and Cape Cod. I saw none of what you describe above. Do you travel alone? I’ve never had the time or inclination to delve into the mental and financial health of complete strangers. I most definitely wouldn’t be able to discern the spending habits of the people that inhabit the places I’ve been. It sounds like you’re staying in homeless shelters.

I agree. It's a given that the perception of economic conditions among the majority of Americans leans negative 99% of the time. Other than the usual small talk conversation about energy and food costs, the American people aren't inclined to dwell on their problems outwardly and as a whole, we aren't any more hopeless or apathetic today than they've ever been.

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Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Having a demented, hateful, racist con artist in charge of your well-being and your future can do that. No, it’s not the same. But many of our fellow citizens apparently wanted it this way.

It's a mental disorder. Truly. I don't know the way out but maybe the states should separate if half of the country feels this is ok. Just divide it we are at that point. I have no interest in living in a white Christian nationalist country. Seems half the country wants that though.

Unfortunately it would be difficult to split in half. Maybe three or four different countries. There’s the west, northeast between Richmond, VA and ME. The northeast will probably have to absorb WV. Then you have the southeast and throw TX in with them. And then the rest can form their own country. Mi, WI, MN and ND might ask to become provinces of Canada. It wouldn’t be easy to simply dissolve the country.

A democrat isn’t president! America is so sad now! America can only be happy when a democrat is president and illegal aliens are streaming unchecked over the border!

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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.

Bro, do some research. Biden has beaten trump in everything, even crime was lower under Biden.

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Having a demented, hateful, racist con artist in charge of your well-being and your future can do that. No, it’s not the same. But many of our fellow citizens apparently wanted it this way.

It's a mental disorder. Truly. I don't know the way out but maybe the states should separate if half of the country feels this is ok. Just divide it we are at that point. I have no interest in living in a white Christian nationalist country. Seems half the country wants that though.

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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.

My dollar bought more under Biden about 25% more than under trump and every week my grocery bill goes up.

They just believe whatever their daddy tells them.

“Gas is cheap.”

Oh, ok, it must be the LIBERALS that are lying.

Those shady, sneaky liberals have gone around and hacked the gas pumps at every gas station in the DMV to make it look like gas costs more than it really does. /s

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?

Getting rid of migrants and imposing tariffs is only going to increase the push to replace workers with robots and AI, because the home-grown workforce won't be able to meet the need. And as the robots and AI get more and more mass produced and mainstreamed that will accelerate adoption even more, and workers will suffer even more.

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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.

My dollar bought more under Biden about 25% more than under trump and every week my grocery bill goes up.

They just believe whatever their daddy tells them.

“Gas is cheap.”

Oh, ok, it must be the LIBERALS that are lying.

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?

Since March I’ve been to Paris, Dublin, Dallas, NYC, Chicago, OBX and Cape Cod. I saw none of what you describe above. Do you travel alone? I’ve never had the time or inclination to delve into the mental and financial health of complete strangers. I most definitely wouldn’t be able to discern the spending habits of the people that inhabit the places I’ve been. It sounds like you’re staying in homeless shelters.

Yes. I see it. Jan 2029 can’t get here fast enough. I hold on to hope that something will happen sooner to end this. It’s going to get so much worse when the BBB takes effect.

Anonymous wrote:The game in the U.S. is to stir hate and discontent to the point where nothing gets done.

I can only give one piece of advice. Go to other countries, walk around and observe. Don't go with a tour group. Get out and see the people, take in their news and views.

+1

Stirring hate and discontent is absolutely the winning strategy for our major political parties. Well crafted political messaging schemes being spread through tainted media sources has conned 95% of the American electorate into thinking their fellow Americans on the other "side" of the political spectrum are their sworn enemies who no longer share a common bond. Hate and division trigger blind voter loyalty and bring in more cash to fund political campaign efforts than the simple political ideological differences that have been the backbone of our two-party political system for 225 years.

The influence of money in politics is the greatest long term threat to our democracy and our true enemies are the mega donors of our two parties. It's past time for us all to step out of our political bubbles long enough to see this big picture for what it is. We, the American people, aren't as divided as we've been brainwashed to believe.

Anonymous wrote:Trump supporters have just seemed to literally lose their minds and don't care if they drive the US into the ground. Seems like they are determined to turn us into a third world country with a non working democracy.

It is so sad, so preventable, but here we are .

Stocks are up. What are you talking about? Daddy's making it rain.

Anonymous wrote:Trump supporters have just seemed to literally lose their minds and don't care if they drive the US into the ground. Seems like they are determined to turn us into a third world country with a non working democracy.

It is so sad, so preventable, but here we are .

It’s an entire party made up of damaged people. However, they only represent about 30% of eligible voters. If we can keep Trump from cheating (and that’s a big if) we should easily turn this ship around.

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.

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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.

My dollar bought more under Biden about 25% more than under trump and every week my grocery bill goes up.