… have sold their winter homes here in FL and are NOT coming back.

The guy who’s bankrupted virtually everything he’s owned has now fucked our economy and world relations completely. Didn’t see that coming, did we? *eyeroll*

It goes to show how many Americans have tuned out of the news and are oblivious to DeSatan.

Soooooo glad he can’t run again. I was hoping that sinkhole outside the governor’s mansion would have swallowed him up before now but alas, the pestilence continues…

hadn't missed!

golden ballroom bunker while its supporters and promoters were inside.

Some people might think of it as a Biblical type of response to blasphemy.

…wouldn’t want to come here right now.

I feel the same way. Exactly the same way.

We wind up with a pretty mellowed-out life, all told. Kids are grown up and making their own way. We’re in three different states, and TOTALLY okay with it. And we do stay connected, most of the time.

And I’m happy to report that this arrangement seems to be working out well for everybody!

Our local college recruited students from Asian countries. They paid out of state tuition which allowed the school to add classes and instructors. The Asian students have not come back and there are layoffs and classes dropped.
We have a ferry that crosses to Victoria, Canada. The ridership from Canada is down affecting small tourist businesses.
Trump's trickle down economy.

trump and his minions have hollowed out what once was world class education, especially in science and research. Now, it's all one philosophy... conservative... and everything, even conservatism, from a white nationalist christian perspective. IOW, education dumbed down to the lowest level. It's no wonder trump pushes a philosophy that says college isn't necessary... at the levels they're sinking to, it won't teach anything that has applicability to anything in the world. These RWNJ may not like "globalism" but they live in a global society, whether they like it or not. Constraining their children by teaching that "god does everything" does nothing FOR the kids, here or anywhere else. And it'll be a life left unrealized when they finally face up to the fact they really only had one life to live, and they blew it off for a pie in the sky fantasy of golden paved streets and harps.

All this emphasis on white christian nationalism has done a great job of turning me off of religion of any kind, I'm afraid. If I had to define a religion for myself right now, it'd be "Cats." There's my comfort!

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Can't blame 'em one bit.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/17/americans-are-leaving-the-united-states-in-record-numbers-spending-hundreds-to-learn-how.html

Right now, we deserve it. Whatever gets the sleeping giant to wake up works for me.

Fewer people on the beach is also a net positive where I live.

I'm trying to look at the bright side.

They don't care how many people ICE kills. They don't care about people losing jobs until they lose theirs. They don't care what Trump does until their personal finances are affected.

Even then they'll try to blame Biden. Or Obama.

Those who can't make a difference only make excuses anyway. Let them whine, we don't have to listen.

That 30% that is stuck... we don't want them anyway.

They might be psychopaths.

Psychopathy is a very common
mental disorder. It is twice as
common as schizophrenia,
anorexia, and bipolar disorder.
It is equally common as bulimia,
panic disorder, and autism.
The only mental disorders
significantly more common than
psychopathy are substance abuse
or dependence, depression, and
post-traumatic stress disorder.

Psychopathy affects all
ethnic, cultural, racial,
and socioeconomic groups.

...psychopathy
is a spectrum disorder,

Prevalence in the United States
Approximately 70% of the
population is estimated to
have no psychopathic traits
whatsoever.

Key Point
👇👇👇👇👇👇
The remaining
30% have low, medium, or
high levels of psychopathy.

Source:
https://psychopathyis.org/stats/

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

Learn how to spot one. If for no other reason than to save humanity and you might save democracy along the way.

❤️

Seeing as the majority of this country fits that definition in varying degrees.

How do you weed out the 'good' psychopaths?

are also leaving. I didn’t leave because of Trump, but he sure didn’t make me want to stay. I’m living on my Social Security in Colombia now. The US just became too expensive, and the political atmosphere didn’t make staying appealing.

Does is it feel safe? I hope it works out for you!

orange hellbeast wasn't the only reason but a big big part of it.

If I stayed I was looking at likely working until 70 before I could retire comfortably and that wasn't what I wanted.

I ran the numbers and decided I could retire EARLY, sell my house take my SSA (even though it is less than waiting until 67 or 70!) and my retirement nest egg....move to Spain and live a very comfortable retirement. Hell, just the reduced SSA covers all my living expenses.

My advice to all...if you can work it out EMIGRATE....Lots of great and cheaper countries to live in. The USA is quickly turning into that "shit-hole" country a certain orange asshole talked about.

I won't post here now but later I will about the experience of living in Valencia so far.

is not reporting how drastic the reduction is, and all of the industries effected.......Tourist Industry, Travel Industry, Hospitality Industry, the list is endless of downstream consequences of the Repulican's Tariffs, and out of control inflation on everything....
Airlines, are really getting creamed and having to take planes out of service due to the cut in ridership..........

Not surprising that we’re hearing less about this subject than we should.

WHATEVER we do toward and for the next several election cycles is to HAMMER HOME what Republican policies have done to our country and what they keep on doing to our country.

NOTHING the GOP has done or tried to do has benefited ANYBODY other than the super rich. That’s all you ever need to know, unless or until THEY wake up and start realizing (AND accepting) their own responsibility for what we all have to deal with, now.

And America is rapidly becoming an unpredictable, chaotic war zone.

Trump and the ineffective efforts to curtail him by the 'system' has been duly noted by the rest of the world.

But if you must roam:
Coast of Spain is nice this time of the year, I hear.
And so are about another 100 places around the world.

Get rid of Fat Donnie Psychopath. Get rid of Hillbilly Vanilli. Then show me you're capable of acting like a modern functional democracy. By that I mean no more "Let's just look forward" shit. I mean proper criminal trials and rich people in prison, not just low-hanging working class J6 fruit. None of that will ever happen, so I suppose I've made my last Vegas trip.

I am working on getting the info needed together to apply for citizenship. My sister is also. They, Canada, have greatly eased up their qualifications to apply. I will be doing so in the next few weeks, if only as an option should the shit really hit the fan. This fall’s election should be telling in many respects. Will it happen, be fair, and get the results that I/we are hoping for.

to do something about this...