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If Trump is reelected, Americans are planning to flee in droves
MSN ^ | 3.6.2024 | Paul Starobin

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: byebye; exodus; lyingsos; ohnoes; promise; solong; tds; tdsbs; trump; wellbye
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To: libh8er
Oh, I hope he does, and this time they carry through with their, so far, hollow, threat. Can someone get them to promise that this time they really will go? Let them become someone else's headache.

Try Ukraine.

41 posted on 03/06/2024 7:19:21 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: libh8er

There are probably some openings in Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador, Somalia, etc. for them.

You know, I have to put up the with the governments they have vomited up the past several decades, including the all-time low of the current regime, and I have never once considered leaving. I am an American. America is home.


42 posted on 03/06/2024 7:20:36 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: libh8er

How I hope they do.


43 posted on 03/06/2024 7:21:10 PM PST by Flint
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To: libh8er

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please!!


44 posted on 03/06/2024 7:21:30 PM PST by stevio (Fight until you die.)
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To: libh8er

I think we should reconsider our election laws. If you choose to not live here, you don’t get to vote here. Of course exceptions for people serving our nation.


45 posted on 03/06/2024 7:22:28 PM PST by gunnut
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To: Flint

Yes, please. Just leave and take their comrades with them.


46 posted on 03/06/2024 7:22:46 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: libh8er

They always promise this, never deliver...


47 posted on 03/06/2024 7:22:47 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: libh8er

If Noe Sh@tbag is reselected the wife and I leave the US. One daughter is in the UK, one in Singapore and one in Shanghai. We’ll choose one


48 posted on 03/06/2024 7:22:59 PM PST by Fai Mao (Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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please do- the nation will be much much better off if you do!


49 posted on 03/06/2024 7:23:17 PM PST by Bob434
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Actually, some do. They are leaving California and “gentrifying” Mexico City and Portugal. Pissing off the natives there because the ugly Americans are buying up all of the expensive property and kicking out the natives.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/28/mexico-city-residents-angered-by-influx-of-americans-speaking-english-gentrifying-area-report/

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-05-12/california-expats-portugal-relocation-lisbon


50 posted on 03/06/2024 7:23:39 PM PST by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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To: libh8er

yawn...


51 posted on 03/06/2024 7:23:42 PM PST by Hildy
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To: libh8er
They'll protest. Wear pink hats. Trump will be a lame duck immediately unless he decides to become Pinochet. Otherwise, they'll not let him do a single thing in the White House.

Which is why he said he'll be dictator on day one.

52 posted on 03/06/2024 7:24:03 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: libh8er

It’s all talk - they never leave.


53 posted on 03/06/2024 7:24:16 PM PST by GOPJ (Question: What are the two things Biden finds at ice cream shops? A. Ice cream and young children.)
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To: libh8er
Yeah, fleeing? I dare you! I double dog dare you!

54 posted on 03/06/2024 7:24:23 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: desertsolitaire
I’ve read expat life in the Phillipines can be lovely and very reasonable.

Until China comes knocking on the door.

55 posted on 03/06/2024 7:24:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: libh8er

They can follow the trailer of illegals to the south. And good riddance to them. Too bad they won’t actually leave and nobody really wants them anyways


56 posted on 03/06/2024 7:26:26 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: stevio

You read my mind!


57 posted on 03/06/2024 7:27:23 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: libh8er

Yes. The lying sacks of crap say this every time and never follow through.


58 posted on 03/06/2024 7:28:04 PM PST by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: libh8er

Drama queens. It’s all about feelings these days.


59 posted on 03/06/2024 7:28:07 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
#52: “Trump will be a lame duck immediately unless he decides to become Pinochet.”

Hope springs eternal!

I hope President Trump gets Hugo Boss to craft his uniform.


60 posted on 03/06/2024 7:28:37 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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