That all sounds pretty good. That would be the type of vacation we would like, instead of going to the places that 'you have to have seen'. New York falls under that last category. It's a place you need to see to understand America better, if I would combine it with the other types of living in America. Vacation to me is not just relaxation, but also a time for learning.

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It's regrettable that this talk took a turn to politics again,
but I have to react to it:

I'm sure you even have good reasons to call taxes on people's vegetable garden 'liberal', but it's the exact opposite, even if politicians who call themselves 'liberal' introduced it. That's exactly what I call 'neo-liberal'; it fucks normal people, with the intent of helping corporations. 'Liberalism' is a 'philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality and equality before the law.'
'Liberalism' is freedom for people, 'neo-liberalism' is freedom for corporations. They have put in your brain that corporations ARE people, but that's bullshit, corporations eat people for breakfast.

What is more supportive of equality than allowing people to grow their own healthy food? Any science respecting liberal would understand that growing vegetables in your own garden is a great way for people to reduce their carbon footprint. They should have subsidized people's vegetable gardens, not taxed it. Progressives would tax the corporations, to support people having subsidized vegetable gardens; the complete opposite.
Taxing people growing their own food is further to the right, than what my prime minister Rutte would do. Do you understand a bit more now, why I say the Democratic party is right-wing too?
Democrats are just less extreme right-wing than Republicans.

You really should understand that 'big government', restricting people's rights is not 'liberalism', that's 'conservatism'. It's where 'big government' tells people what they are not allowed to do, most often based on religious ideology, which in your country is 'capitalism'. And fundamentalist Christianity of course.

You support big government cracking down on people's right to be transgender, taking women's rights over their own womb, what books children can chose to read and how teachers explain science and history in classrooms. That's really big government. It's restricting people's rights, just like taxing vegetable gardens.

Phart's right. The Carolinas have a lot to offer. I recommend the Outer Banks. Another area is the shores of the state of Maine. Lovely seaside towns but cold.

Yea he wanted to block travel into the country,to keep the virus out. I very much remember when the cruise ship folks were allowed to go home,you could literally look at the case number counts on the map going up I95 and every exit ramp where they would get gas the case rates started climbing. Travel should have been STOPPED from ships and planes

Then you remember wrong, because Trump banned flights on March 12th 2020 and the US had it first case on January 20th 2020.

Biden did support the restrictions of travel from China and even called out Trump for being too late.

Biden was not even a senator in 2020. But it's very possible he did not support flight restrictions on 26 European countries.
At that date, the US had over 1,300 confirmed cases and 38 deaths. Italy was surely having a bigger problem at that time, but it was way not as bad in all those 26 European countries.
Besides, a travel ban looks tough, but with Covid definitely present in the US,
it was mostly a distraction from not taking the necessary steps internally.

And it doesn't help much if the president calls the pandemic a hoax half the time
to convince people to be careful not to infect each other.

If something like Ebola ever breaks out in America, you are all done for.

Biden was not a senator when the Clown was president.

An interesting point I learned the other day. There's no official language at the US Federal level.
We have this blind obsession with the southern border. First, Most undocumented immigrants didn't enter this country through Tijuana, where news cameras have captured images of thousands of immigrants seeking refuge during recent months. And they didn't enter near the border town of McAllen, Texas, which the president visited Thursday during the 20th day of a partial government shutdown fought over constructing additional barriers on the Southern border. When it comes to people in the country without proper documentation, the majority of them didn't cross the Mexican border at all. Most of them came to the United States legally — but then don't leave. About 700,000 travelers to the United States overstayed their visas in fiscal 2017, the most recent year for which the Department of Homeland Security has published figures. DHS estimated that, as of Sept. 30, 2017, the end of that fiscal year, more than 600,000 of those travelers were still in the U.S.

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Second, due to the above facts, no, I don't believe illegals speak fluent Spanish, but, different languages. And, even in the southern border, there's Haitians, Brazilians, and a few Europeans.--------------------------------------- added after 10 minutes
What Trump thought is not revelant, or yours or mine, for that matter. It's what the Chinese thought about it that counts. Imagine the only supermarket in your town gets mad at you and tells you, "From now on you get to shop only on Wednesdays and we'll charge you 30% more for being an asshole. Oh, BTW, lay off on our UNDERAGED stock clerks. If you don't like it you come and stock the shelves.--------------------------------------- added after 19 minutes
Let me remind you, the Republican CEO's of large companies decided in the last 60 yrs it was more profitable moving operations to China and other Asian countries due to low labor costs (traditionally the biggest necessary cost of business). And, the mostly Republican administrations let them go nilly-willy. We, the left (not necessarily Democrats) are the ones who cried out about child labor in China and other places. Now, because it doesn't suit you, Repuckers, are squaking? Haha, come up with something else. 🤣🤣😈