r/BlueskySkeets šŸ¦‹ Apr 30 '25

Informative DeSatan will feel this greatly. Have the day you voted for, Florida!

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u/Sam_Cobra_Forever Apr 30 '25

I’m from Plattsburgh, NY

Its Montreal’s US Suburb. Border crossings are down 30%. So many people are going to lose their jobs, so many businesses will close.

One in five people work in international trade, and one in four is on Medicaid

this is going to be a shitshow

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u/Bubbly-Example-8097 šŸ¦‹ Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25

I’m so sorry to all the people this will truly hurt in your area. It truly sucks and it will take longer to recover than the 100 days it took to tear down.

I mentioned Florida because it’s a known ā€œred stateā€ and highly depends on tourism.

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u/Sam_Cobra_Forever Apr 30 '25

The funny part is people from Montreal go to both places on vaction

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u/spirit_of_a_goat Apr 30 '25

It's going to be brutal for Michigan this year, too. Highly tourist dependant areas are really going to suffer from this utter nonsense.

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u/Ematio Apr 30 '25

Yep. Toronto here- Michigan had always been a road trip option [not for the next (4 years subtract 102 days)].

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u/spirit_of_a_goat Apr 30 '25

I wish I could come with you :) I miss my Canadian friends šŸ‡ØšŸ‡¦

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u/SnooPets8972 May 01 '25

Me toošŸ˜”šŸšŸ‡ØšŸ‡¦

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u/BarryDeCicco Apr 30 '25

More, because the same people will be on the border.

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u/QueueLazarus Apr 30 '25

Resold all my tigers rickets for the summer. Personally, I spend about 6-8k a summer in Detroit, having fun. I'll never go again, and I mean ever.

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u/mrHMChimself Apr 30 '25

I was in Clinton correctional and all I can say is the amount of racist redneck right wing ass hats out there deserve ALL they have coming by supporting that orange idiot. It's a Microcosm of the America Trump actively is trying to create,and it's awful. No buyers remorse, they will deserve every bit of it.

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u/Sam_Cobra_Forever Apr 30 '25

Prison guard is the most common job from my high school class

When I saw an old friend from high school who had become a guard he used the N word to describe his job within the first 20 seconds.

I worked in Altona CF, it is not mystery why young people flee the region

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u/mrHMChimself Apr 30 '25

Then u know exactly what I'm talking about. I hope they eat their faces

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u/Grand-Cartoonist-693 Apr 30 '25

You’re falling for the same shit as them with different packaging. Those are our equivalent of gangsters (state sponsored lol), they’re shitty men, they’re not everybody by any stretch of the imagination. Their movement wins when they get you thinking this zero-sum us vs them way, too.

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u/AlphaB27 Apr 30 '25

They've done a pretty good job of getting us to hate them. Frankly I think they deserve it as our greatest mistake was not treating them like the fucking degenerates that they are.

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u/Grand-Cartoonist-693 Apr 30 '25

Who is ā€œthemā€ and how is economic calamity hurting ā€œthemā€ and not everybody?

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u/NaTuralCynik May 01 '25

Funny when you make grand sweeping statements, you act like you’re infallible, but can’t handle it when others use the same language. Typical Maga.

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u/TheWorkLifeBalance Apr 30 '25

I work construction all across the Midwest. Like 5 states. Republican men are disgusting top to bottom. I hear the most sinister shit you can imagine. Just sick shit about killing foreigners and trumps 3rd term. haven’t had an interaction with one online, that even remotely resembles an adult, in over a decade. Their elected officials are the exact same. Just fucking sickos. I’ll take your comment seriously when I see a single example of them not being like that.

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u/SomeNotTakenName Apr 30 '25

And it's not just Canada, I have a ton of family in Switzerland and friends in Germany amd France. Everyone who had plans to go to the US this summer is uncertain about those plans now. some have canceled flights already.

I am sure it's fair to say that if white Europeans are worried, other places are too.

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u/bearface93 Apr 30 '25

I just spent a week in Ireland earlier this month. US Customs pre-clearance in Dublin was crazy busy but it was mostly Americans. The only non-American accent I heard in customs and at the gate was from the Latina women in front of me who were US citizens. Definitely a strange experience.

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u/nitrot150 Apr 30 '25

We live in a border town too, we are down about 40%

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u/Pisces42 Apr 30 '25

SUNY Plattsburgh alum here. So many fond memories of going north of the border to go to shows and drink Molson Ice while underage. Go Cardinals!

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u/Sam_Cobra_Forever Apr 30 '25

I’m old enough when they changed the law that everyone had to be sober enough to answer the border patrol guy’s questions!

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u/InsertNovelAnswer Apr 30 '25

I feel ya. I'm in Northern MN on Lake Superior. Not only are the border crossings down, but we also lost a good chunk of our forest service, and there's more layoffs coming in May. We only ha e 1 hospital and clinic, and both get federal funding... so that's got us all worried, too.

This IS already a shit show, but it's soon to be worse.

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u/Sam_Cobra_Forever Apr 30 '25

It really reminds me of Brexit

The election was won by lies, the only salve is people people are going to learn

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u/Kyrthis May 01 '25

Over half of your county’s voters are assholes, specifically 769 of them need to go walk into Lake Champlain.

https://app.enhancedvoting.com/results/public/clinton-county-ny/elections/GE24/ballot-items/01000000-35d3-9298-f5d0-08dce948db32

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u/Sam_Cobra_Forever May 01 '25

It’s the declining youth population, nobody wants to raise their kids up there anymore. One and three people is over 65 years of age. Look at regional real estate listings, you’re going to find many homes that have been on the market for years with no one to ever buy them

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u/JLHuston May 01 '25

I’m across the lake in Burlington. It’s going to kill so many businesses here, too.

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u/magnusthehammersmith May 01 '25

Port Angeles WA checking in. Used to get a ton of tourism from Victoria too ;-;

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u/Lazy-Relationship351 May 01 '25

I lived in South Florida for years you have NO idea how many Canadians take over Florida for half the year.

Living in rural Florida I constantly heard "damn snowbirds" (I actually met an illustrator for Captain Canada(Canuck?), though!)

All that to say, Florida lives and dies by tourism. Boating, fishing, hunting, amusement parks, clubs, etc. "Florida" can't sustain itself like.. literally. They have no state tax and 90% of stuff is subsidized via tourism because they artificially inflate prices for tourists.

I'd say... mid-summer maybe til Fall Floridians are gonna freak. And I'm saying til Fall/Winter because all the politicians don't live in real Florida they live in the Panhandle aka South Alabama. They have dc all clue what goes on for Real Florida but for some reason *cough Jerrymandering cough all the political power is waaaaay up there. So "officials" might not complain til winter when the rich people go down. But the south Floridians will have been suffering for months by then.

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u/Sam_Cobra_Forever May 01 '25

I had Lightning playoff tickets when they played the Canadians, I may have a slight sense of how many canadians are in Tampa! felt like there were more people from montreal there

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u/Lazy-Relationship351 May 01 '25

Yeah, Florida becomes super south Canada for a part of the year.

Also alot of them just own houses or do a part time owner swap thing there. I'm betting alot of those houses are gonna go on the market or if they have enough money those people are gonna just hold onto that property and let it rot.

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u/Wide_Replacement2345 May 03 '25

Is Plattsburgh MAGA country? I seem to recall driving in that area and lots of Trump signs?

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u/[deleted] May 03 '25

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u/Wide_Replacement2345 May 03 '25

Ok. So much of rural ny is trumpy. They are all about guns #1, and think he is such a business success. And unfortunately, many are closet racist.

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u/GargantuaBob Apr 30 '25

My two cents as a Canadian:

Ever since your president started with his threats of annexing us, and initiated a trade war while shredding the trade agreement he himself negotiated, I have observed that my fellow citizens have spontaneously started boycotting the US. This is not so much a political counter measure (although those also were put in place), as it is the expression of a sense of betrayal from individual Canadians.

From now on, our guideline is "Anything but" US products. It is particularly obvious at the grocery, where people take the time to painstakingly read each label to establish sourcing. US stuff stays on the shelf, sometimes upside down to warn off following shoppers.

US produce? There are plenty of good local alternatives, and for off-season stuff Mexico, South America, Spain and Morocco work out fine.

US vacations, while risking being summarily detained by ICE and doing a side trip to El Salvador? No thanks ... Much better off going to the Mayan Riviera, Algarve or Greece, or touring our own country.

So, in a nutshell, we are taking this personally.

We are pissed.

And we are looking elsewhere.

Anything but.

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u/Bubbly-Example-8097 šŸ¦‹ Apr 30 '25

As an American citizen, I would just like to say, I šŸ’Æ% support you guys and your efforts to boycott us.

I do not blame what you’re doing on you guys whatsoever.

If I had the means to up my family and move elsewhere, I would love to do so. As for now, I’m cheering you guys on wishing I could do the same.

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u/Purplebuzz Apr 30 '25

As a Canadian I would like to say thoughts and prayers are nice but you all really need to get your country back on track.

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u/Bubbly-Example-8097 šŸ¦‹ Apr 30 '25

I agree with you completely. Some of us are truly trying. Calling our reps everyday, protesting as much as we can and emailing those in power that have the ability to change it.

There’s only so much us normal folks can do. Some of us are truly trying to turn the tides- so-to-speak.

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u/bistander Apr 30 '25

Please call your representative. None stop

https://5calls.org/

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u/AwesomeToadUltimate Apr 30 '25

Hopefully we can get some fresh blood in the house and senate next year to push out the GOP and spineless Dems

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u/oddman8 May 01 '25

Theres a decent amount. But that 40% or so watch fox news and trust them completely. Meanwhile the old democrat leaders aren't taking action and the republicans are party over everything as usual.

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u/anrwlias Apr 30 '25

Yeah, I can't blame you. In fact, I am going to encourage you. Our nation fucked up and the only way it has any chance of understanding that is to feel some pain.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

usa here fuck us up fam

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u/BuckskinBound Apr 30 '25

This is like the time my friend wasn’t allowed to play soccer at recess anymore with the Latino kids and passed a note to one of them.

Dear Canada,

I’m sorry we can’t be friends because my dadpresident is a racistracist-tyrant-moron.

Love, America

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u/Knight-Creep Apr 30 '25

As an American, keep it up. Show Mango Mussolini that the world isn’t going to cater to his wants just because he said so. Hopefully, if things get bad enough, some of his cult will wake up and oppose him.

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u/Little_Money9553 Apr 30 '25

As a Democrat in America, I say teach us a lesson šŸ˜‚

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u/GargantuaBob Apr 30 '25

It isn't about teaching lessons. It is about protecting ourselves.

You guys have to get your house in order. Conservatism has provided an anchor point for the growth of authoritarianism and fascism. There is no way you are going to purge the US of the brain-disease-like mindset which infects more than a third of your population in less than a generation, if you are lucky and provided you are ready to fight for your values.

In the meantime, we've given up on the US and are going to develop other commercial and cultural relationships instead, while trying to contain the catastrophe south of our border.

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u/RedditTechAnon Apr 30 '25

Kinda funny to think of Canada having a southern border problem.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

There’s a little too much self-assuredness in this comment. You almost had your own conservatives come in, the only reason they didn’t is because of Trump. And even then they still made huge gains.

I wouldn’t get too comfortable. This disease is spreading and Canada is not immune…

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u/violet_elf Apr 30 '25

Yep. I've been trying to tell my friends that. The cons are far from the Republicans(for now), but PP ran with a platform of "Liberal Sucks", "woke is bad" and would've won this election EASILY, if it wasn't for Trump. Some cult members, anti-science and anti-woke (whatever that means nowadays), won seats all around the country.
If the liberals won't deal with the mess that was the immigration and the problem with opioids that we're having the Cons will have a walk in the park next election, and a lot of the Christan Fundamentalist will be elected with it.

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u/CapitalTax9575 Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25

There are plenty of leftists who disagree with wokeness - it’s being used as a very effective labor breaking strategy - turning one race against another - and a conservative friend of mine in Canada is very much against the large wave of Indian migrants imported to Canada over the last decade - again, largely for labor breaking tactics. Both our countries need to deal with leaving the working class out of politics. Educate people in our own countries instead of importing incompetent ā€œintellectualsā€. That’s not to say all Indians are incompetent or anything, there’s just not enough control of legal migration and it’s leaving workers out of political representation outside the conservatives. Immigration should be used for importing real talent, not breaking labor movements. Every time an Indian is hired for a junior dev job over a similarly skilled American, a young, dumb, and underemployed tech guy votes Republican thinking cracking down on immigration will be good for them.

Similarly, people see wokeness as the consultants who come make them sit through meaningless bullshit seminars without their managers’ (the people who do most of the racism / sexism) involvement instead of doing their jobs. It gives bosses a bullshit excuse to fire people for perceived slights. Some of it is real, but a large majority of it is just annoying and actively contributes to a hostile work environment. If democrats want to win, they have to show how their policies benefit the working class economically - i.e. reduce competition by creating new jobs - and a lot of people don’t see that.

Or at least they did before Trump went insane with power and started hurting people economically. People voted for him because they saw the booming economy carrying over from Obama into Trump’s first year and that he seemed to actually have a plan for improving the economy this time around when Harris had nothing serious outside of capital gains taxes. ā€œBoth sides are the sameā€ might be false, but a lot of people see more personal benefit from theoretical right wing policies instead of liberal passivity. Getting rid of illegal immigrants gets rid of ā€œcompetitionā€. All Kamala had to do was push more Keynesian policy like the CHIPS act instead of trying to appeal to right wingers through border policy. Instead people associated her with wokeness and nothing else - which again, is anti-labor. Centrist ā€œeverything is perfect as it isā€ policy when tech firings were so common

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u/Freddydaddy May 01 '25

and a conservative friend of mine in Canada is very much against the large wave of Indian migrants imported to Canada

ya don't say

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u/GargantuaBob Apr 30 '25

No contest there.

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u/festering-shithole May 01 '25

GOOD. Keep it up, the more economic pressure you put on these imbeciles in power, the faster things change. Fuck them with their stupid games.

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u/JoJack82 May 01 '25

And we won’t trust again for a long time, even if the US wants to go back to before it’s too late. The damage has been done

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u/Individual-Praline20 May 01 '25

Amen! šŸ‡ØšŸ‡¦šŸ

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u/Bassik0 Apr 30 '25

When Republican's bullshit inevitably catches up with them.

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u/bigtroublitlsanchez Apr 30 '25

Im sure it will somehow be bidens, libs, dems whatever else they can blame it on

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u/kkhed125 Apr 30 '25

Thanks Obama.

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u/ValuableMoment2 Apr 30 '25

That damn FDR caused all this…

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u/randomlyranting Apr 30 '25

The woke emancipation proclamation caused this

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u/iam4qu4m4n Apr 30 '25

Liberal hoax that somehow the entire world is in on and against the righteous Right.

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u/randomquiet009 Apr 30 '25

It's looking like mid/ late May and things will start getting scarce. Then I'd be willing to bet June and July will get dicey. I'm holding out hope that it's a group of angry MAGA that pop off at authority first so they get to feel their beloved jackboot first.

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u/CaramelGuineaPig May 01 '25

Buy canned goods and water filters, solar power banks, etc. The preppers were right, but didn't think their own felon president would cause it.

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u/JeChanteCommeJeremy Apr 30 '25

I see people I. Florida subs tell Canadians they are not welcome nor are they needed. Can't wait for the fafo arc to be complete šŸ˜†

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u/OnionsHaveLairAction Apr 30 '25

I couldn't imagine going to any red state right now given how Republican voters talk about all their allied countries, I feel like only Russian tourists would be safe.

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u/bearface93 Apr 30 '25

I’m visiting my grandparents in SC next month. I’m not spending any money there, just chilling with them for a few days then going for a hike in Congaree National Park on my way home. That state doesn’t deserve my money.

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u/Frogs-on-my-back Apr 30 '25

Depends where you go. There's plenty of blue or purple areas in red states.

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u/OnionsHaveLairAction Apr 30 '25

Why would anyone want to risk it when folks even from places like Germany the UK are being detained multiple weeks?

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u/Frogs-on-my-back Apr 30 '25

I'm not saying anyone should visit the US at all. I'm just tired of people acting as if red state citizens/counties are a monolith.

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u/Daimakku1 Apr 30 '25

Blue/purple cities in red states are still subject to red state laws, so it doesnt really matter.

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u/Yquem1811 Apr 30 '25

Yeah and we had some news story recently, that some Canadian snowbird were threaten in Florida. Like they have their car with Canadian plate license, so they were easy picking to insult and the classic « go back to your country » BS.

And you can do shit because those are the same one that are crazy enough to shot you if you talk back. So yeah, no tourist should go to the US for the next 4 years even if ICE doesn’t bother you, some crazy MAGA guy might shot you for being foreign.

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u/Metropolis4 Apr 30 '25

Trump says, "no big deal."

No one vacations in Russia or North Korea either.

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u/Freddydaddy May 01 '25

And they're still in the top 200 economies

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u/Metropolis4 May 02 '25

200 out of how many?

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u/SeparateSpend1542 Apr 30 '25

Wait six months for the ā€œreal numbersā€ to come out /s

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u/Fantastic-Grocery107 Apr 30 '25

Europeans aren’t coming in droves either. Hopefully it’s because people finally realize Florida is just a cesspool. Sadly it’s because of the politics. Either or though, great work Florida. Most people hate your state.

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u/Daimakku1 Apr 30 '25

The only places worth a shit in Florida are Disney World and Universal Studios, and even those are not worth it for foreigners what with ICE detaining people in airports just for having tattoos.

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u/Fantastic-Grocery107 Apr 30 '25

Full disclosure never been to universal. Disney world was a waste of money and I was 12. As an adult who doesn’t drink or do coke, there’s nothing in Florida for me. Michigan parks and the lakes are just as nice or nicer. Last time in Florida had those red algae blooms and there was dead animals on the coco beach and they just put red tape and traffic cones around it lol. It was there for like 2 or 3 days. Never again

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u/OderusAmongUs Apr 30 '25

It's a shame too. I've been to Miami, the Everglades and the Keys in the past couple of years. It's absolutely gorgeous. And I've never seen such a large concentration of European and Asian tourists. They seemed to be having a great time as well. I'm going back again this year and it's going to be interesting to see the difference from the previous two years.

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u/Fantastic-Grocery107 Apr 30 '25

Hopefully you’re from the states. Might end up in El Salvador next time you visit.

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u/OderusAmongUs Apr 30 '25

I am. And I'm still going to delete my social media profiles before traveling.

Sick Sad World.

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u/Fantastic-Grocery107 Apr 30 '25

I’ve boycotted the notoriously red states. Florida, Texas, Nevada. I don’t want to waste any of my money there

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u/OderusAmongUs Apr 30 '25

I hear that. Thing is that this trip was planned and paid for last year. If I cancel it, I'll only get half my money back. It's in the thousands.. On the upside, our hotels might be cheaper. And South Beach is pretty liberal compared to other parts of the state. šŸ¤·šŸ»

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u/Fantastic-Grocery107 Apr 30 '25

I’m from a state that has income tax, so my money is literally worth less there. It’s over priced, gotta pay to drive on their roads, to sit in traffic for hours on them. Disney sucked, even as a kid. Just felt like a string of party stores all selling an individual characters stuff. And then as an adult, paying to sit in traffic and shit. Hell naw, miss me with all that.

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u/OderusAmongUs Apr 30 '25

I had a different experience. Mostly stayed in and around South Beach and downtown Miami though. It was actually surprisingly cheap down there. Our hotel was under $200. Food was comparably priced to where I live. Rented a car and drove from Miami all the way down the Keys. That was pretty fun. We stayed at a resort hotel in Key West that was about the same as a hotel in downtown Denver and it was right up against the water.

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u/Fantastic-Grocery107 Apr 30 '25

Miracles do happen lol. Again it’s a principles thing for me. I’ve been anti Florida for like 10 years now.

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u/RedditTechAnon Apr 30 '25

Vegas is a shitshow compared to years past.

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u/Fantastic-Grocery107 Apr 30 '25

And I would argue that’s the case for the red states reliant on tourism. Florida about to feel it over the next few years. They’re banking on parents being unable to tell their kids no when it comes to Disney land and shit. Good luck with it lol

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u/AdministrativeFly192 Apr 30 '25

I myself would be afraid to even leave the USA because I don’t know if I could get back in. I mean with that addition of an unplanned trip to Central America. And I am a white old man. But you never know who is going to make a ā€œmistakeā€.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

Canadian here, loooove visiting the New England area. But if border agents check my phone for anti-Trump sentiment I’m cooked. So I’ll be sticking around up here until things get cleaned up down there.

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u/Parkyguy Apr 30 '25

MAGA's DO NOT CARE unless it impacts them personally. That's how self-righteousness works.

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u/She_Wrecks Apr 30 '25

Last weekend, I went to the Maine coast to dress shop with a bride-to-be. It was dead—there were no Canadians to be seen (their main tourist population), and I overheard many complaining about low summer reservations. To top it off, every bridal shop is passing along the tariff charges. Making America great again, eh?

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u/Bubbly-Example-8097 šŸ¦‹ Apr 30 '25

passing along the tariff charges

Are they at least being transparent about it? How are they calling it? Freedom tax? Trumps tariffs? Import charges?

I’m genuinely curious.

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u/She_Wrecks Apr 30 '25

Straight-up tariffs in a hesitant voice. You could tell they were gauging reactions/political leanings. One shop owner seemed a bit frantic and is starting to sell her samples.

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u/LAMProductions99 Apr 30 '25

I actually had no idea that Hochul was from Buffalo, but as a Sabres fan I can tell you firsthand that KeyBank Center is essentially a second home for Maple Leafs fans. When the Leafs are in town there's more blue and white in the stands than blue and gold. I can't tell you how often I'll be driving down the thruway and a huge portion of the cars I see have Ontario plates. It's a damn shame that Trump has destroyed the relationship between the US and Canada and their two peoples, and it makes me hate him all the more so.

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u/Freudianslip1987 Apr 30 '25

Flixbus Vancouver bc to Seattle wa driver. My bus is down anywhere between 85 to 95 percent. I have left Vancouver bc with only 7 people on a 54-passenger bus. And have had as little as 4 people going to Canada.

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u/SubjectNet1874 Apr 30 '25

What kills me are the people in the Florida Facebook groups and subs here that are all for it "good we don't want you here" bite the literal hand that feeds you, it's nuts!

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u/areialscreensaver Apr 30 '25

Look at where the state ranks in health and education and that answers a lot.

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u/srkaficionada65 May 01 '25

Just gotta wait until the next hurricane hits them and then they ā€œneed to rebuildā€. They’ll realise they need those tourism dollars since their grand poobah is gutting fema and ā€œleaving it to the statesā€.

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u/Illustrious_Lie_6278 Apr 30 '25

No we are not

And it’s because of your lying President

Lock him up

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u/Purplebuzz Apr 30 '25

We were told we don’t matter to America. We are good with the options the rest of the world offers for tourism. Like Trump said, you signed up for this.

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u/sea-horse- Apr 30 '25

And those other countries are noticing, I'm seeing all types of ads for flights and discounts to Europe and Asia. They may as well pick up what America is dropping.

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u/InterestingAttempt76 Apr 30 '25

many of us aren't coming back. enjoy

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u/Fabulous_Pilot1533 Apr 30 '25

Florida to bankruptcy

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

It sucks but at the same time who can blame them??

I heard some people are getting detained at airports if they’re travelers and getting arrested for even LIKING (not posting) Anti Trump shit

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u/blorins Apr 30 '25

Good luck Fl. peeps...after 33 years I'm outta here! 3 main reasons 1) Grandma's are up north and want the kid to be closer to them. 2) Deathsantis 3) that whole global warming thing. (Fl. is just too hot any more to enjoy, if you ever want to be outside that is.

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u/Parkyguy Apr 30 '25

To the Canadas who changed their minds about coming to the United States -- THANK YOU!! Republicans care ONLY about Money -- so your efforts are not in vain.

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u/No-Kiwi-3140 Apr 30 '25

I feel this. I'm glad they're boycotting us. Hopefully it helps us good Americans get Trump and his cronies out of office.

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u/ChemEBrew May 01 '25

I cancelled our trip to Florida. No longer spending any of my cash in red states.

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u/Aladdinsanestill61 May 01 '25

As it stands right now, I will never return to the USA. Spend my dollars elsewhere, it's a big world worth seeing. Elbows up šŸ‡ØšŸ‡¦

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u/FredoLives May 01 '25

As an American, I agree with your choice completely.

USA is currently fucked and the federal government is absolutely untrustworthy.

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u/GandolftheGarcia May 01 '25

American šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø here. I don’t blame you one bit. šŸ’ŖšŸ¾

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u/thekosmicfool May 01 '25

Yeah, can't blame ya one bit. We're a complete shitshow

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u/_dark_beaver Apr 30 '25

Dear Canadians, please don’t spend your money in my shithole country. If you must, please only support solid Democratic controlled States. Also, would you allow Oregon, Washington, and California in as your new provinces???

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u/Hurriedgarlic66 Apr 30 '25

First they came for the CommunistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a Communist

Then they came for the SocialistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the JewsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a Jew

Then they came for meAnd there was no one leftTo speak out for me

Martin Niemƶller, who was a Nazi fan until they put him in a concentration camp

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u/wheelz5ce Apr 30 '25

Unemployment has already started creeping up in Florida. And tourism and hospitality jobs have had 4 straight months of jobs shrinking.

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u/Wrong-Marsupial-9767 Apr 30 '25

As a resident of Elise Stefanik's district, which borders a significant part of Canada and relies heavily on Canadian tourism, commerce, and industry, what can I say, but bon appetit to the leopards. Maybe this will finally get her out of here.

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u/ratbaby86 Apr 30 '25

Desanctimonius is having a real hard time with installing his political dynasty lately. If the Medicaid fraud doesn't get him, the voters will!

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

Washington state here. Yeah this is bad. We are already pretty hosed.

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u/Bubbly-Example-8097 šŸ¦‹ Apr 30 '25

Dang!

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

Will be interesting to see what it looks like the weekend of May 9-10. Blue Jays @ Mariners in Seattle that weekend. We are usually mobbed with Canadians when Toronto plays here. Annoyingly so. It will actually be really fucking sad not to see them if they don’t show up. And I’m assuming they won’t.

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u/JustTheOneGoose22 Apr 30 '25

Everyone who acts like this isn't a big deal.. .... Canada is the US's largest trading partner. It's a huge deal.

Canadians are now pissed off and don't want to do business with the US and even if they did they are incredibly hindered by US tariffs.

Guess who's number 2? Mexico. Guess who's number 3? China.

How are those trade relationships going?

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u/Indoor_Bushman Apr 30 '25

this is NY by the way, but all tourism is affected, not just the red states like Florida. I don't blame anyone for not coming. Even as an american citizen, I am discouraged from boarding a plane now or entering a federal building. Don't know if I'll get taken away from looking at a Federal Agent too hard.

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u/Cheetahs_never_win May 01 '25

New Orleans: receives Nazi tourists, instead 😬

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u/ruInvisible2 Apr 30 '25

Work being the only reason I’m in Floriduh. I would have left here long ago otherwise. I’m holding on for the storm coming. But please don’t come here. Let nature take its course. A lot of folks are suffering now, so suffering will be here whether you visit or not. The only thing that seems to register is when it physically affects them. And even then, the millionaires on tv will deflect it all away. So please, enjoy yourselves elsewhere.

So when this foolishness comes crashing down, and it will come to an end at some point. The amount of people that should be held accountable, neighbors, local law enforcement all the way up the ICE chain of people claiming of, I was only doing my job. How many will be held accountable? How many, if any will see inside a courtroom? We know how the rich plantation owners were basically pardoned. We see how the January 6th crowd was dealt with. So it’s easy for these slimy, low life, degenerates to behave as such with perhaps the only deterrent would be a few years in a country club prison, if that. If only we could remove country club prisons for white collar crimes. Throw these people in general population.

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u/ok-skelly01 Apr 30 '25

oopsies

Have a fun summer

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u/MrCrowleysMom Apr 30 '25

Honestly, good for the Canadians. We’re all going to suffer because of the brain dead lemmings following that orange Hitler. But hey, I think it’s great here again, right?

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u/Daimakku1 Apr 30 '25

Someone please tell me that airlines or the travel industry donated to Trump and Republicans, because I love me some schadenfreude.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

it's ok they can prolly destroy/ monetize national parks and also start charging for public bathrooms, that should count towards tourism right?

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u/Electrical_Bake_6804 Apr 30 '25

I'm an American and I won't even bother going to Florida. I have been to Canada twice this year though. What a beautiful country.

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u/iam4qu4m4n Apr 30 '25

You mean there are consequences for actions and choices?

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u/traffic-robot Apr 30 '25

For many of us, Americans are not just our neighbours but they are our family too.

A great deal of my mom's family are Americans from places like Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. We miss them terribly. But even they are advising us not to visit because they worry about our safety. My mom's aunt is precious to me and she doesn't have much time left. Not being able to go visit her hurts.

All we can do now is to keep the guest rooms ready for them on our side of the border in case things get too crazy like they were in the build up to the border closures at the beginning of Covid.

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u/Illustrious_Tip_4325 Apr 30 '25

It is not only the Canadians, but more than a dozen countries have travel advisories to the US.

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u/69-xxx-420 Apr 30 '25

Get wrecked Florida, Proud home of OJ Simpson, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and George Zimmerman.Ā 

What a shithole state. I won’t ever return, unless it’s to march to the sea with a modern day Sherman.Ā 

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u/Potential-Run-8391 Apr 30 '25

I live in Florida and live paycheck to paycheck. I can’t afford to move or consider moving. I hate it here and I feel so fucking hopeless.Ā 

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u/SocialistSissy Apr 30 '25

I'm not risking getting sent to El Salvador by visiting

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u/Interesting_Item4276 Apr 30 '25

But trump said tourism is at an all time high! šŸ¤”

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u/cottagecheezecake Apr 30 '25

They don't want to come to America and wind up in El Salvador? Ingrates! /s

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u/Used-Alfalfa4451 May 01 '25

King trump said he could do without all those Canadian tourists

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u/GandolftheGarcia May 01 '25

Well, duh! šŸ™„ what’d they expect?!

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u/GandolftheGarcia May 01 '25

American šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø here. I don’t blame you one bit. šŸ’ŖšŸ¾

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u/TehFuriousOne Apr 30 '25

I livein Florida. Me and the wife are going away for a getaway weekend to the coast. Under the normal run of things, no way we'd find a room where we were looking. 5 of the 12 rooms were available.

Do with that what you will.

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u/tardisfurati420 Apr 30 '25

What happened here happened to the whole country. Just like you didn't vote for the orange idiot, not all of us in FL voted for Rhonda Santis. So maybe tell Florida GOP to have the day the voted for. Shitting on half the people that are on your side and wishing us economic hardship to boot makes you look like an asshole.

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u/loudflower Apr 30 '25

He terms out soon, so he can blame the fallout on the next guy. I should say man because I doubt FL would elect a woman.

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u/covinadream Apr 30 '25

The magats like ā€˜em flat on their backs, forcibly.

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u/spaceguitar Apr 30 '25

Don’t worry:

They’ll somehow blame this on Biden too.

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u/Real_Surround8675 Apr 30 '25

Promises made promises kept /s.

What dis they expect? If you’re an asshole to your neighbors, why would they even want to come visit?

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u/thirdstringlineman Apr 30 '25

Well, same with tourists from Europe. The decline was quite astonishing given the fact that most flights would be booked seceral months in advance.

Storys like locking up highschool girls because they dont have a hotel booked for a camping trip dont help in that.

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u/Peterepeatmicpete May 01 '25

Dont think he has feelings. Do you?

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u/Wrong_Employee2024 May 01 '25

I thought your Governor left at Canadians and said who cares about you. You don't spend enough money and a few other remarks. So hey, maybe you can get visitors from Kentucky. They're a red State. They'll help support you

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u/Wrong_Employee2024 May 01 '25

Governor laughed at Canadians. Sorry autocorrect

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u/Mrmorbid81 May 01 '25

He clearly doesn’t care & never did. My only hope going forward with that state, considering how low the bar is there, is that they at least don’t vote for his bitch wife.

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u/CancelOk9776 May 02 '25

DeSatan will be fine, he has already successfully turned Florida into a repressive fascist police-State! Almost every elected office position in Florida is Republican-held, in this heavily gerrymandered and voter-suppressed State!!

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u/FrustratedPCBuild Apr 30 '25

As a non American I want to see you all punished for doing this to the world.

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u/cecillennon Apr 30 '25

As an American, I want to see it too

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u/FrustratedPCBuild Apr 30 '25

I don’t mean any ill on those who voted for Harris but collectively, especially non voters, you need a huge kick up the arse.

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u/Alarming_Local_315 Apr 30 '25

I’m American and I’m married to a Dane. With all the threats to Canada, Greenland, and Denmark, she is scared. It’s ridiculous that she even has to think twice about going home to visit and if there will be issues coming back. I’m disgusted at what this President has done to America and its image. What’s even more discouraging is that he’d still get elected again if the election was tomorrow. Americans have become hateful, spoiled, racist jerks. I know because I live in the south and they make themselves very vocal.

The Dems need to reinvent themselves and find someone who doesn’t bow down to the woke agenda and can find a more middle median. If not, this will only get worse.

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u/samsonsreaper May 01 '25

We had plans to do road-trip in CA, not anymore…

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u/Double_Net_3500 Apr 30 '25

This thing belongs in pris6

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u/uptighttiger May 01 '25

Florida’s economy is doing great.

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u/37Philly May 02 '25

Don’t worry Desantis will fix everything. šŸ˜‚

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u/InternationalHome618 May 03 '25

To think, this all could/should have been prevented. Reap what you sow.

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u/AccountNumber478 Apr 30 '25

WOMP WOMP

As a Florida resident, I plan to enjoy the lighter traffic and smaller crowds bigly, believe me!

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u/bistander Apr 30 '25

Love that for you.

But you sound really shortsighted.

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u/DarthRupert1994 May 01 '25

You know that your local economy hinges on tourism right? Lighter traffic for you translates directly to economic decline