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[–] 43 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

He really just wants to kill the economy and tourism, huh?

It's not like there aren't millions of average white collar workers worldwide who have to travel to Big Blue Cities for conferences because that's where all the major businesses are.

Nobody is flying to fucking Jackson or Biloxi in Mississippi for fucking conferences and business deals.

It's going to be aimed at places like NYC, LA, Seattle, Boston, and Portland. It's going to cripple international business and tourism. And like always it won't do a damn thing to help red states.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Chudservatives will always cut off the noses to spite the face

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    None of the right wing's grievance politics are about helping anyone, including redcaps.

    I just saw some dipshit winger bitching about what California is doing for inmates - "they are giving them tablets!"

    Just what the fuck any of their California Derangement Syndrome is supposed to do for redcaps? Who the hell knows.

    All this nonsense is some kayfabe bullshit for dumbasses to think they "owned the libs". Meanwhile, the rich Epstein Class get even richer and the people cheering this nonsense on the hardest are probably still living in trailers, getting priced out of food and health care and any decent life.

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  • [–] 38 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    And predictably the “state’s rights, small government” people will be silent on this

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    You know, all the cities that people actually give a damn to visit from other countries.

    They aren't gonna see this and go "Guess I'm riding to Mobile Alabama International"

    They're just not gonna come to the US at all. No tourism dollars.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Imagine you get on a flight to New York and you end up in Texas. How fucked up is this how is this legal.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    People not from the US should KNOW BETTER than to travel to one of the shithole red states. The dumb bitch is trying to hurt blue states economies, even though we prop up the red shitholes...

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    So, um, what happened to the impeachment bill from early april? Still trickling down to the Judiciary comittee? I feel like it didn't take this long for Clinton's impeachment hearing...

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    [–] 129 points 5 months ago (14 children)

    Out of the top 10 busiest airports 6 are in democratic states and/or cities. Out of the top 5 international airports 3 of them are in democratic states and/or cities. If he did this it would literally grind our entire country to a halt.

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  • [–] 149 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    He literally started a war over nothing. At best it was to distract us from the fact he's a pedophile rapist. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I don't think he really cares about our country.

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    I'm aware. I'm just saying that it'd be catastrophic for all of us.

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  • [–] 51 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Never stopped him before. A million of us died during Covid because he absolutely does not give a single shit about anybody else.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    And nearly a million have died from the gutting of USAID and additional domestically after cuts to food and medical assistance…and the stupidity at HHS.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago*

    The cuts to medicaid/medicare and the slashing of general policy around a lot of medicines, and treatments not within those policies alone, will result in 10-12 million excess deaths in the net 10 years.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    So maybe it is finally the time to organize a general strike? close accounts in all big tech companies, refuse to buy anything in any corporate outlet, etc? maybe?

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    We are already being shut out of the economy, and the few people who actually have a middle class job and lifestyle are in complete denial about what is going on in this country. The most we can do right now is support the growing calls for unions as a prerequisite for union leaders to organize a real general strike. Individuals are not just going to wake up one day and sacrifice their current comfort for our collective future.

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  • [–] 72 points 5 months ago
    [–] 63 points 5 months ago

    I remember when everyone laughed at Ron Paul saying that the border wall will be used to "keep us in".

    Seems right on target now.

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    [–] 49 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Remember, he needs a civil war to try to extend his term and avoid prison

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  • [–] 49 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Everyone looks at me funny when I tell them that I’m not traveling to other countries anymore because I don’t know if the president is going to do some stupid shit while I’m away and I won’t be able to get home and this is like the third stupid thing he’s done that would cause people to be stranded in another country in the 1.3 years of this term. (Not that I want to come back anyway, but I’d like to be able to move my dogs if I’m going to be living in another country.)

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    This is my dream. Get stranded somewhere in the UK. Contribute to a society that isn’t completely soul sucking.

    I know it ain’t perfect, but what is🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Isn't UK like the second worst option in the so-called western world?

    I mean better than the US, but try and get stuck anywhere else in western Europe and you'll probably be better off

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  • [–] 73 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    They're gonna do something last minute before the World Cup because they think that will punish blue states...

    All it's going to do is make the internationally wealthy who are flying in pissed off at trump.

    Like, even for the World Cup, most people wouldn't come to America even if they could afford tickets. The only ones coming are trumpets or people so wealthy they didn't think Trump's bullshit would effect them.

    But they don't realize in this context even millionaires are "the poors".

    This whole thing is gonna blow up in everyone's face. And since only the wealthy and stupid are going to the games, I'm fine with just letting that happen. No rational person is going within miles of any of the games.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    They sort of tried this once already, by threatening to suspend TSA Precheck during the shutdown, even though Precheck does legitimately save time all around for everyone. They backed off of that pretty quickly.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    What’s up with billionaires and getting inside shit that is bound to implode? Do they know something we don’t, about implosion?

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    What’s up with billionaires and getting inside shit that is bound to implode?

    Survivorship bias, and it's fucking our society up in a lot of ways.

    We're built to ignore negative consequences if we never see them happen to anyone. So when society (for better or worse) prevents consequences, people think there's no consequences and start acting like it.

    Lots of people who are very wealthy in their home countries think they are insulated by their wealth from the consequences of what's happening here. So they're gonna show up expecting to be part of the in-group cuz they're wealthy.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago

    “They won’t let me do whatever I want so waaah! WAAAH!!! I’m not going to do anything I’m supposed to do until I get my way! WAAAH!!!”

    -A diaper-wearing child

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  • [–] 34 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    This is some bullshit. Airport infrastructure can't just absorb the shutdown of several major international airports. That is to say that Trump can't hurt some airports without hurting all of them.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    No, it allows them to ratchet up the prices. Say there are 100 rich travellers & 900 poor travellers distributed among 10 airports, and each airport can support 100 people. The remaining airport can raise its prices to price out the poors until only the rich travellers can afford it, allowing it to operate at capacity while securing a higher profit. Obviously this is awful for us, but it's not a problem for the airport.

    Of course, this assumes that they would be willing to fly normal seats, I guess they might not? Presumably there are luxury planes you could use or something.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    I hope they do Houston, our mayor insists that cooperation with ICE keeps us safe from Trump's wrath but he's wrong.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Its as stupid as it will be ineffective. I don't think NYC is going to suffer as much as everyone else if people have to take connecting domestic flights from some red backwater. Its just stacking stupid on cost at this point.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    It’s The New Low of the moment!

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    The plans could potentially impact

    Double maybe 😐

    And “drawing up” in quotes, so they're not really drawing up anything; some MAGA dickhead (not excluding the ladies here) just blurted something out.

    Don't get me wrong, shit's fucked up, but reporting their bragging & triggering as actual news leaves me unimpressed.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    Hah, they think they can make flying through Newark shittier than it already is?

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    Just in time for the World Cup!

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    what in the actual fuck

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Trump wants to provoke people so he can declare civil war and make himself el presidente` for life.

    So he'll continue to ruin everything until he provokes the response he needs.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Wth! I guess America doesn’t care !!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    lol, good riddins with that

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    These assholes

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    [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Okay, so what will they have left? What international flight ports are located in predominantly red areas?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Lmao I sincerely hope he does this amerikkka qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

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