Posted on 03/06/2024 7:01:21 PM PST by libh8er
…….. Every four years, as Americans gird themselves to choose a president, there's talk, mainly among Democrats, of leaving the country. I'm off for Canada if unacceptable candidate X wins! And every four years, the promised exodus fails to materialize. It's mostly just therapeutic venting.
This time is different.
The alarm over Trump's potential triumph in November is far starker than the fears stoked by past presidents. "A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable," a recent Washington Post headline warned. The Atlantic devoted an entire issue to the authoritarian horrors in store for America "If Trump Wins." Every four years or so, Gallup asks Americans ages 15 and up: "Ideally, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move PERMANENTLY to another country?" At the end of George W. Bush's presidency, the number responding "yes" was 11%. During Barack Obama's tenure, it was 10%. During Trump's presidency, it hit 16%. That's some 40 million Americans who wanted to leave their country behind, for good.
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In fairness, those who flee America to escape MAGA may find themselves confronted by a host of unpleasant surprises. The headaches start with the red tape. On any given day, my Expats in Italy Facebook group teems with the sort of questions that can drive a novice foreign-property owner batty. Why won't my Italian utility company let me pay my bill with a US credit card? (Answer: Because it won't.) Property bidders must have their offers officially registered with the local municipality and verified by the godlike person known as the "notaio," an official of ancient standing who drafts and authenticates the raft of documents for a fair-size fee.
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Ukraine, is a great destination I hear.
And take several million illegals with you!
IMHO that would be “MORE WINNING!”
Few greater white privileges exist than the ability to say, “If Orange Hitler wins, I’m going to abscond to my villa in the south of France for six months out of the year.”
..... Americans don't Flee ..... Traitors do .....
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Just words. Virtually none left the last time.
Let’s tell them we’re hiring Comanches to scalp them and eat their liver while they’re in the outhouse. The 50 IQ idiots at MSNBC and Washington Post would fall for it.
Gird up the Helocopters.
I thought they all left in 2016.
Americans? Or anti Americans?
PINOCHTE 2028!
$5 says less than 10 5 will actually do it.
Bye Felicia!
Cowardly statist seditionists, more accurately
PLEASE DO!
The left will choose a date, maybe around November 1, 2024, when the left will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court:
Trump cannot be elected to a third term!
They never actually make good on this.
It’s BS, they said it last time too and no one left. It seems like the anti Trump effort is much bigger this time. Probably because they didn’t think he had chance last time.
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