Travelling to the USA right now sounds absolutely insane. Like who would even consider it?

You get to the airport. Then you have to unlock your phone and let a random moron sift through its contents.

It’s literally a recipe for disaster/arrest. The cops over there are fucking deranged. Sorry for any good ones. But you’re like the 1%. Police brutality in the USA is shocking to Europeans. I would be scared to be pulled over. Am I getting a ticket or a headshot/arrested for years?

Also I could imagine that if you refuse to unlock the phone, you’ll also be arrested. And by „I could imagine“ I mean 100% sure.

They could plant anything in there or claim they found terroristic messages. No thanks.

The USA are like Russia and Iran now.

And to think that, as a teen, I actually dreamed of moving there. Good lord thanks mom and dad for telling me it’s a fucking stupid idea. I would regret it now.

Note this means tourist areas should see prices drop on food in grocery stores because the supply was being created pre-decreased population. The decreased cash flow will hurt businesses and the suppliers will decrease production as to not have to sell at slim to no margins which will bring the prices back up soon enough (or the farmers/distributers will go out of business themselves).

It will give people in those areas a false narrative for the time being though because they will be happy about lower prices and less car traffic... But all the resteraunts will have less patrons, and less money going to servers, less jobs to be had eventually.

The nature and scenery in the US is honestly stunning, and you're lucky to have the NPS to make all of it so accessible.

In saying that though; there is natural beauty everywhere you look in the world and it's very easy, and often cheaper to go elsewhere.

Go home and campaign for your leftist party to protect yourselves from the disease.

Somehow, Nazis have returned.

A few weeks ago, I told my Canadian coworker that if she leaves to see her Dad, as she does at least once a year, she might not be able to come back. She just laughed like I was joking.

I will not be going back there until shit calms down.

Don't expect it for a long time. You talk about the Erasmus to teach people they're just like everyone else to prevent an internal war.

Here in the states, I honest to god cannot see how our two sides can come to a peaceful resolution and that terrifies me.

Nah, couldn't be the illegal imprisonment and torture random citizens and tourists have been experiencing.

Canada is very similar to the US except not insane and colder.

Just a warning: both nations are huge, and depending on where you go you’ll have a very different experience.

Generally in Canada, the colder the climate, the warmer the people, so you have to decide how much you value both.

Glad you're avoiding our shithole country. Wish I could say the same.

Welcome! Hope you have a lovely time!

Looking forward to seeing you round here, eh!

Initially some American prison then deported to some random country based on what he appeared to be to the racist in command in charge of making this decision

*Central American prison.

People book vacations like that well in advance. So there’s a time delay between the bookings and drop. Yesterday I read an article about Dutch travel agencies seeing far less bookings for US holidays. In january they saw a 20 percent drop, but they didn’t have February figures yet.

So by the end of this year, the tourism decrease will likely be much higher.

I was reading somewhere online someone's observation at Dulles airport near DC, and they said the place was like a ghost town, and they asked a worker about it and they said it's been like that for weeks.

I mean, it's only been 2 months. 9% drop vs 5% gain is a 14% shift from expected. That's impressive, and Trump administration is just getting started.

What I’m interested in is what this does to the international conference scene. I can’t imagine many of them will be hosted in the US this year, even if the event was already booked.

Sometimes they detain people as they are trying to leave the US.

Man, I was going to go to a wedding there that was super important to me but now I'm SO torn.

bring a dozen eggs and give one to each ICE agent you encounter along the way

As long as you "give" them somewhat percussively. If ICE is gonna detain you no matter what, make it count!

Kill them while you’re at it.

Most of the trips that have happened in February and March were planned and often paid for before that time and couldn't easily be changed or cancelled so many went ahead. There will be a continuing drop off. Airlines are reassigning their planes because so few Canadians are booking trips to the USA, even as a stopover to anther country. Some border businesses have already lost 50% or more of their business.

it's only been 2 months

Come visit Canada instead (: pretty much the same, but you won't be detained at the border.

Trump supporters continue to vote red despite decisions effecting their lives in profound ways.

Look at the anti-vax response after their own child dies of a preventable disease. It's moronic.

Just wait a bit more. The real pain has not yet set in. Wait until they have to decide whether to keep their mom alive or feed their children. It won't take long.

It wouldn't matter how people vote. Trump and Musk will be controlling the results.

That's looking increasingly like a big "if", unless you mean a Russian style election.

I live in a red state. We have a method of voting individual bills into our constitution as a majority process.

We have voted in a reform to get big money out of our politics. The Republican majority in the state forced another vote with the most obfuscated language to get the state to overturn it. We have voted time and time again against Right to Work which is an anti-union bill. The Republicans have constantly tried to get it to happen. St Louis managed to get its police out from under State control, leaving Kansas City the only state in the nation with the state controlling the cities police... until the Republican ran state forced St. Louis back under its control.

We voted in a higher minimum wage and guarantees for sick leave. We also voted in protections for abortions overturning the harshest ban in the state. These were overwhelming majorities. We as a state also overwhelmingly voted Republicans in, who have just overturned the min wage and sick leave bill, and are trying to figure out how to overturn the abortion protections.

So if we had a COMPLETELY free and fair election. I guarantee you, at least the portion of the country I'm in, would still vote for anything with an (R) next to their name.

Not anymore, Canada has its elbows up.

The one thing that really came home to me traveling in the US was how unbelievably different different parts of it are. If you were an alien or otherwise didn't know where the borders of countries were you would not believe that Florida and DC could possibly belong to the same country they're so completely different in culture.

I honestly think that's part of the problem the US has, they only have two parties and that's nowhere near enough diversity to cover all of the different kinds of cultures the US has. I have to imagine people in North Dakota have completely different priorities to people in California. Yet there's absolutely no political recognition of that.

good food / people

The rich, you mean?

I think that's an okay use - https://grammarist.com/usage/forecast-forecasted/

But grammar is not my strong suit.

Make sure: you have the correct visa, know the address you are staying at, have an exit flight and can prove you have enough money to fund your trip, you can explain the purpose of your trip, prepare to surrender social media passwords and have nothing remotely critical of Trump or the US on it and you have no suspicious contacts. Prepare to have your privacy invaded.

Encrypt your laptop, turn off face unlock and don't let them unlock your devices.