True. Maga hates the man. As soon as he’s no longer “under Trump’s guidance” he won’t be able to afford much.

The stock is only tangentially related to the actual business.

There already has been a significant drop in tourists just in the last months. If things escalate, I bet your prediction becomes entirely true.

Sounds like Russia is losing then? Or at least feels vulnerable for some reason.

US immigration was unreasonably harsh and unforgiving before, but paired with the possibility to send people to a concentration camp without due process makes this fact a lot more scary. Yeah, they could get you in serious trouble for minor mistakes, but they couldn’t ruin or even take your life that easily before.

You just call daddy and get another thousand on your account. This is not hard.

It was so silly when the immigration officer asked me (at the origin, not the destination because they want to avoid to fly you back): “And what if John won’t be there to pick you up at the airport?” Me: “I don’t know man, take an Uber?”

This was when I was backpacking in Europe. These days it would stress me out too.

At least they learnt to not sign some shit the immigration officer wrote down on a whim. I guess everyone needs to learn that immigration officers can be hostile.

Yeah wtf… I even traveled to countries where I had no place for the night, but knew I would get one spontaneously. Not great in certain countries, and you gotta know that, but 5 weeks?

I can really recommend the mini series Adolesence on Netflix (or wherever) to get a great, dramatized example of how this effect looks like.

And also educating themselves. The kids will learn stuff, including slang, memes and concepts that are unknown to parents that don’t spend as much time on these platforms. So they won’t even recognize problematic ideas.

Thanks for writing out your thoughts like this. I try to make this point again and again in different settings but it often does not illicit a thoughtful response.

You think they invited Trump into that Signal chat this time or did Steve Miller speak for him again?

Specifically the Valais is very conservative, so I would not be surprised if it were purely discriminatory. Also free camping above 2k is legal and a lot of Valais is above 2k.

Who says it isn’t at this point?

He’ll have to tariff the shit out of El Salvador to “balance the trade deficit”.

Oh no, for that you would need to honor some set of rules… like a bill of rights or a constitution. Sorry, not in Trump’s America.

Being against genocide in Gaza is “extremist” in Germany.

While restricting other pain medication.