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James Woodcock
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Posted: 29 August 2026 at 10:52am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

I work on a few international projects.
Not one person I work with, even Americans living abroad, thinks this man is
sane.
Not one wants to go to America. This includes conferences.

At some point, someone in government must have the guts to question this
man’s sanity.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 29 August 2026 at 11:10am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Remember the old saying: if you strike at the king, you better be sure you kill him.

People, even those who are themselves in power, are afraid of Trump. Of the monster they will unleash if they move against him unsuccessfully. (Yes, he can get worse.)

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Doug Centers
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Posted: 29 August 2026 at 11:36am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

"Not one wants to go to America. This includes conferences."

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What do they think will happen to them if they came to the U.S.?
It's not like everybody's running around with their hair on fire at the ground level.

Seems like there was a lot of positive feedback from the thousands of visitors during FIFA.
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Kevin Brown
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Posted: 29 August 2026 at 2:01pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Doug, it's probably more about giving America money than anything else.
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David Miller
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Posted: 29 August 2026 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

The Republican Party “moderates” I know collectively insist that while
they’re uncomfortable with the mean tweets, they gotta hand it to Trump for
fulfilling longtime GOP projects like overturning Roe and illegally attacking
Iran, while The Democrat Party is worse, having repeatedly nominated
radical socialists like Obama, Clinton and Biden. In short, they have no
principles or credibility.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Posted: 29 August 2026 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Although to Kevin's point, everyone who lives outside the US has heard stories about people getting detained at the border and in some cases shunted off to a prison facility somewhere. I doubt it has happened that often, but it happening at all is reason enough to give visitors pause. 
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Trevor Smith
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Posted: 29 August 2026 at 6:51pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

My wife's sister lives in the US, and several years ago had
an "oops" crossing the border when they looked at how long
she'd been there on a constantly renewed "temporary" visa
of some sort, and told her she'd have to get stuff changed
and sorted before she'd be allowed back.

Recently she came home for a visit, and I, remembering that
incident, told her she'd best make sure every "t" was
crossed and every "i" dotted, and that she'd best be
prepared to spend a longer time here than she'd intended,
and I don't think I was being alarmist in the slightest.
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