I was just getting pissed off about this again myself after seeing CNN's latest on it at the moment:
Actual passenger numbers from EU countries have dipped by 30% already! As you say, give it another 6 months for non-refundable fares to flush out of the system.
If the US's percentage of some infectious diseases crosses a threshold, you may start to be asked for a sanitary passport (negative tests and proof of vaccination) to travel to Europe.
I told my wife point-blank the next obvious step is exactly to make it harder for Americans to leave. It's most certainly added a lot of tension to both our upcoming trip and our efforts to move entirely.
I would recommend anyone planning on traveling out of the US to get your vaccine passport (aka the Yellow Card) ready now and start booking with your local clinic some of the extra vaccines you might need to travel. On top of what we used to call the "normal" vaccine regimen in the US, I have hepatitis, yellow fever, and Tdap vaccines for example. We literally do not know if something is going to happen to these supply chains, or if the CDC is going to stop issuing yellow cards, or what.
I said the same thing a while back but got poo pooed by someone in return. Was never going to happen.
I said voting for Donald Trump was a vote for fascism and got disowned by 1/3 my family.
Feels like a bargain to me - one comment and 1/3rd less Christmas and birthday cards and presents !
Someone's going to do the math, decide that ($6m/300 =$20k/person) is way too much to house 'bad guys' and they should just... dispose of them. Remember Trump looking wistfully at Duterte's extrajudicial executions in the Philippines? Hey presto, now we've got death camps in the interest of "saving taxpayer dollars."
And claim that Work will Set Them Free?
I can't actually think of any liberal women I personally know who have married and kept their own last name. I think you're right that this decision would be biased towards liberals, but I don't think the numbers are very large. And most of the women I know, liberal or otherwise, have in fact married by the time they leave their late 20s or so. Anecdotal, but it's still the dominant culture in the US for straight women to marry and take their husband's last name.
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Pew has some stats on it. It does trend with liberalism and degree of education, but still dramatically is tilted toward "take your husband's name"
Hence the ‘effectively’ disappear part of my statement. PBS? That’s a tall ask, I think. But NPR? I can see a dwindling number of member stations as they Move away from any government funding.
A 2:1 ratio of dem:rep women choosing to keep their last name is way more than I expected, thanks for the data to disprove my anecdotal evidence!
That is a filthy Euro-solution. The proper thing is to pull from US history--permanent slavery for them and any offspring they have.
Yes, under the benevolent watch of their superiors. They would be better off that way.
It's The Eye of Sauron as political theory. If it settles on you, sure, you're in big trouble Right Now. Otherwise, you get to breathe until he conquers everything, then you're just in as much trouble.
Which news organizations are keeping silent? We're learning about all this stuff through the news media.
Good, wholesome, Family-Friendly programming TO PROMOTE American Values?
Leadership officers, in Nazi Germany it was "leadership officers". Though, in English, the typical term would probably be "political officer".
Is now a bad time to tell you that Warner Brothers Discovery killed Sesame Street last year?
We're on the path. First, you deport and exclude the undesirables, do some round-ups, jail the ones you have excuses to and turn a blind eye to the ones you don't. Next up, well just imprisoning them both (a) drains the labor pool and (b) means paying for them to just stand there, so better to make them work. Good for the soul*, and all that. When you find that slave labor is really unsuited to things like, IDK, installing teeny components into smartphones? Gotta find some solution, preferably once and for all. Intersperse with violent cruelty throughout.
I wish I could agree that this is "in open view" but, realistically that fascist reality is only written between the lines. To anyone who doesn't already think that their fascist agenda exists and is fascist, this will read much differently.
No they didn't, they don't own the rights, so they can't actually kill it. They effectively put it on life support, hopefully someone else will decide to air new episodes, but it isn't dead yet.
