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NBC<\/a>: Fewer international tourists are visiting the United States; economic losses estimated to be \u2018staggering\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n Like the subject says, this is one of those things that most Americans probably wouldn\u2019t like to see or know of, but at the same time, it\u2019s not like it isn\u2019t deserved, and I can only hope that there are more businesses whose owners and managers that voted for the dumbass orange turd in Washington are being affected by this over those who didn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n Like, America was no saint of a destination before dumbass orange turd took office again, but now that he is, I can\u2019t imagine why anyone outside of the United States would have any real inkling of desire to visit it, save for experiences like, Disney World or Las Vegas.\u00a0 But frankly, even those probably have better alternate options, like the numerous other Disney properties in Europe or Japan, and casinos in Macau or Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n I always go back to this particular story of how I came back from an international trip, and had a layover in JFK, and had to clear customs there before catching my next flight back to Atlanta.\u00a0 I remember seeing these foreign tourists struggling immensely to get through customs because they spoke little-to-no English, and the customs agents were all salty New Yorkers who spoke nothing other than English and basically the faces of these tourists were miserable and scared, and I felt bad that this was basically how their trip was starting in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, mythical then-gf and I had gotten back from Germany or Korea or wherever we were, and the customs agents in all these places spoke English, weren\u2019t miserable New Yorkers, and were by and not entirely unpleasant experiences getting past them to our destinations.\u00a0 I remember when we got out of the airport in Munich, and there were already holiday booths and vendors and it was airy and pleasant, and compare that to walking out the door of JFK or any American airport, which is usually just a lot of unhinged drivers trying to pick people up, power-tripping security blowing whistles and screaming at people, and just a whole lot of ugliness, and I always wonder why anyone with a brain would actually want to visit the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, like the above photo shows, there\u2019s a meme out there of all sorts of countries around the world, where people say they\u2019re going to visit, when they\u2019re really referring to small sections of each respective country; like all the weebs who say they\u2019re going to Japan are really referring to Tokyo or Osaka, all Koreebs are really visiting Seoul when they say Korea, Paris to France, London to England, and frankly most Americans aren\u2019t aware that Amsterdam is but a city in Holland and not the country itself.\u00a0 The same applies to the United States, where most anyone from outside of it, when they say they\u2019re coming to visit America, really is saying they\u2019re visiting places like New York City, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Washington DC, or Disney World (obviously not Orlando).\u00a0 Everywhere else is pretty much not America as far as the eyes of the average tourist goes.<\/span><\/p>\n All the same, as much as I hope nobody I know is affected by the financial windfall of dwindling tourism, it\u2019s one of those scenarios where it\u2019s smirk-worthy with that I told you so kind of vibe, that this was inevitable to happen with the current political regime that basically has told everyone else outside the country to fuck off, and them being surprised that nobody wants to come visit anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s like if people are getting hurt by this development on account of shitty leadership, a lot of people have nobody to blame but themselves for voting for a leader who\u2019s so racist and xenophobic and is the chief reason why tourism dollars are evaporating and that nobody wants to come visit America.\u00a0 But at the same time, it\u2019s not like this should be anything of a surprise, once our glorious leader kept flapping his gums about America\u2019s so-called superiority, so I guess all I can really say at this point is, owned.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NBC: Fewer international tourists are visiting the United States; economic losses estimated to be \u2018staggering\u2019 Like the subject says, this is one of those things that most Americans probably wouldn\u2019t like to see or know of, but at the same time, it\u2019s not like it isn\u2019t deserved, and I can only hope that there are … Continue reading Hate to see it, but it\u2019s not like it isn\u2019t deserved<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,117,79,45,83,52,165,65,190,49],"class_list":["post-50721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-airports","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-politics","tag-travel","tag-white-people","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50723,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50721\/revisions\/50723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}