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(54,770 posts)Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Who would take them... especially now with covid-19?
samnsara
(18,338 posts)..Vancouver BC is the closet to me and houses are nearly Seattle prices. New Brunswick is the cheapest..
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)emigrating for years. Since all of us draft dodgers ran up there and went on their dole. (Or so it looked to them)
Bev54
(11,951 posts)"draft dodgers". People were welcomed with open arms, because we too, disagreed with the war. I worked with several people in the Bank who had emigrated. When they could go back to the states, they chose to stay in Canada. That has never been a problem to Canadians.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)eruptions?
Be that as it may, I have had Canadian friends and US politics has never been much of an issue with them, nor have memories of the 70s caused problems. The worst memories I have of those days were of some of the sorrier evaders who didn't do so well up there. Often to do with drug deals.
One with a problem used to go to Florida for an annual vacation, but after 9-11 it turned out that her having been born in Sweden and becoming a verified Canuck at the age of 4 meant she was forbidden crossing the border without vast amounts of time and paperwork. All on our side. She ended up going to Cuba for sun and seawater and it costs less and she still has a great time.
Bev54
(11,951 posts)Try going into the interior, like Penticton, Kelowna, Vernon, Salmon Arm. If you live in Vancouver that is where you will spend your summers anyway. It is a beautiful Okanagan Valley with warm weather and beautiful lakes. More laid back but great!
lame54
(37,275 posts)There is no place to go
Although I wish we could find some island for them to colonize. Let them go all 'Lord of the Flies'. If that was live streamed on pay for view, we could take a big chunk out of the national debt.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)Few countries would want them. Not a lot of them speak a foreign language. It would be nice if they went away though.
Wicked Blue
(6,871 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,512 posts)with the English language.
AZ_Latina
(20 posts)Funtatlaguy
(11,814 posts)Blasphemer
(3,291 posts)BKDem
(1,733 posts)What country has as many RW assholes as we do?
Miguelito Loveless
(4,738 posts)peacebuzzard
(5,306 posts)we are stuck with them.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)That does cost money AND other countries tend to have rather high criteria and stipulations to meet, both to apply for a visa and apply for citizenship.
Most countries don't want our riffraff. They want professionals and people who can prove they will be able to support themselves while they apply. Some countries also require a sponsor or family member to vouch for you.
I think some people talk about things before they actually know how they work.
Plus...Ooops! COVID-19! Sorry, Charlie Travel restrictions.
Aristus
(68,789 posts)I'd be surprised if they leave their tarpaper shacks.
Astonished if they left the county...
I'm pretty sure they're all fixin' ta squat on the homestead fer a spell...
Ferrets are Cool
(22,060 posts)Most of them live in homes that are much better than mine. And while I live in Alabama, I do not live in a squatters shack.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Never mind all these assholes in the north, west, and Midwest. His deal is to seem superior to southern folks.
I live in NC, quite well off, dont talk the way he thinks people here talk, nice house, land, and I traveled quite frequently until the virus.
Ferrets are Cool
(22,060 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Prejudice is prejudice.
42bambi
(1,753 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(22,060 posts)Because even if President Biden enacts nationwide standards, they will not follow them.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,869 posts)Cartaphelius
(868 posts)I am willing to hand draw exit maps through Canada for groups of 30 or more.
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doc03
(37,115 posts)some do.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)You think MAGAts have passports?
ananda
(31,050 posts)???
agingdem
(8,541 posts)I want them mask-less on their fucking hands and knees scrubbing down covid ICUs and then I want them moved to ICE detention centers and housed in cages where they'll rot until their dying days......I don't forgive..ever
Frances
(8,579 posts)Then they can see what its like to live under a dictator which is what Trump would have become
Gothmog
(156,446 posts)trump is killing off his supporters https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/6/1993375/-As-COVID-19-surges-conservatives-are-paying-a-deadly-price-for-listening-to-Trump-and-Fox-News
But even though the flood of new cases is sweeping across the whole nation, driving up hospitalizations and bringing more than 1,000 deaths a day, its not sinking everyone equally. Because even a cursory review of the information shows that both the counties where the coronavirus is spreading most rapidly and the counties where there are more cases by population are counties that voted for Donald Trump. And a new study makes it clear that this isnt coincidental. Its also not a matter of some factor that lies outside of human control. The reason that red states and Trump-supporting counties are getting COVID-19 at a higher rate is specifically because they are populated by Trump supporters. And its killing them.
As the Associated Press reports, the data available from Johns Hopkins, WorldOMeters, and other tracking sites makes it clear that the highest level of COVID-19 is not where a casual observer might expect. The worst locations arent in high-density cities, or in areas where theres a high level of travel. They are small, rural counties. In fact, most of them are rural counties in rural states like Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
And 93% of the counties with the worst rates of coronavirus infection voted for Donald Trump. In fact, they voted overwhelmingly for Trump. And the worse the infection, the more dire the local situation, the more likely they were to vote for Trump.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Initech
(102,838 posts)They can rule out most of Europe - except for maybe Poland and Hungary, both countries creeping very hard to super far right wing fascists. Saudi Arabia maybe, but the Saudis aren't exactly what one would call "welcome" to outside cultures. Somalia might be where the gun humpers could go. And there's always Russia, since Putin was the catalyst for getting Trump elected.
The countrys official language is English, he could promise everyone their own little Mar-a-Lago if they moved there.
Initech
(102,838 posts)They worship a brutal billionaire dictator in that country, which would be perfect for the MAGAs. Though I think Trump wouldn't like playing second fiddle to the Sultan Of Brunei. Just saying.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Rstrstx
(1,578 posts)Most of them will stay with the Republicans but they wont go crawling over broken glass to vote for them like they did for Trump.
* now if Trump were to move to some banana republic and become dictator some of the hardest core cultists may follow him. Where I have no idea. Heres a map where English is an official language (in green):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territorial_entities_where_English_is_an_official_language#/media/File:Countries_with_English_as_Official_Language.png
Belize and Guyana are the only ones close by.
Hmmm, maybe Denmark would sell Greenland to him? Theyd be doing the world a huge favor. Problems is only 15% of it is inhabitable, itd need to be able to handle 30 million or more people, preferably more.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)I forgot about Greenland, plus too many magats are racists I dont see Belize or Guyana
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyes-a-new-real-estate-purchase-greenland-11565904223
Vivienne235729
(3,738 posts)Russia might be appealing enough for them to leave. No really. All white. Homogenous. Socially conservative. Dictatorship.
lpbk2713
(43,201 posts)If they could keep their frikkin mouth shut.
NotASurfer
(2,331 posts)They're kind of strict about guns - licenses, permits, no automatic weapons or high-capacity magazines. I'm pretty sure that for a large segment of MAGAnation, if they go, their armory goes with them.