DC is getting empty.

What a surprise that people do not want to visit a country while it is in a speed run to the bottom. You never know when shit hits the fan with full force. You just know you do not want to be there when it happens.
- Those cases where they put tourists into jail for no reason at all for several weeks were headline news here in Germany and I assume also in other parts of the world. That will harm your tourist industry.
- I fucking live here but I’m not a doctor so nobody wants to take me. I’m exploring options from my Eastern European heritage now to try and apply for asylum in the same country that my grandfather fled almost 80 years ago.
  If my grandfather were still alive to see me attempting to flee what he fought against as a 17 year old soldier, it would absolutely make him sick to his stomach.
  
  I hope you manage to get out. I might be wrong, maybe the USA get their shit back together, but it sure does not seem likely from outside. I will tell you this, when my fellow countryman give fascism the majority (50% for the AfD in Germany) i will get the fuck out because as far as i am concerned at that point its already the enemies territory.

With all the news of ICE arresting and abusing tourists in my countries news recently I would also think twice before traveling to the US if I don't have to. Not like there aren't other just as interesting/beautiful, cheaper and by now tbh safer countries to travel to.
Besides all the moral questions wrt the slowish slide into fascism ofc.
- UK and Germany made warnings not to go to the US. The US is like North Korea now, lol.
  
  I'm in the UK, my friends are well read but hadn't heard of the detention of tourists. One of them still plans to go on holiday next month... mad
  
  I can tweet at my president to show me his balls.
  Can’t do that in North Korea.
- As a citizen of the US, I'm nervous about leaving and getting back in.
  
  If it reaches that point, just be glad you made it out in time.

I feel so sorry for US Americans. I honestly do.
- Yeah, but they could have stopped this by marking a piece of paper, so…
- Will write code for visa
  
  Same boat man! Will design you a satellite constellation for a visa.

Wonder if this is a nationwide thing or if DC is hit particularly hard since it's the heart of the evil empire.

Oh so sad.
/s
Guess America should not have elected an orange fascist fuckwhit gameshow host to their highest office.
- If the rest of the world thinks their immune to fascism they'll find out quickly they are not. Fascism doesn't come about by votes alone. Fascism is a defense response of capitalism when it is in decline. Those votes are manufactured by media, xenophobia, and a decline to the material conditions of the working class. I'm sure it won't be so as entertaining as American politics is. But it will be just as dangerous nonetheless.

no foreigners in mai country yeeha!
Why is tourism down?
- From: Fuck all of you!.
  To: Brother. Can you spare some eggs?.

America, fuck no!
\ There's plenty of other better motherfucking countries!

I’m glad I got to visit DC in October. My company had a meetup there and it was genuinely a cool city with lots of neat bars.
Like fuck I’m visiting it or the USA again any time again soon though
- Glad you had a good time. I understand. :(
  
  Are you from DC? If so, I hope to get to visit your city again in more stable times. I’m from Ottawa, CAN so we’re capital bros 🤜🤛.
  We're not as big of a city but worth visiting imo

The more working class people leave DC, the happier I will be when the asteroid hits.

The zoo in DC is pretty dope, most of it is free as it is part of a park.
Idk though, the central parts of DC where lots of successful people are is suffocating to me. You go out to lunch and everyone has shoes on that cost more than your car and they sound like two LinkedIn chatbots conversing when this is supposedly a break from work?
Ewww
I know there are MANY other facets to DC I haven't seen though!
- Countless gorgeous museums, art galleries, music venues, etc. Seriously, the museums alone are days worth of entertainment and some of the nicest in the country.
  
  Oh yeah definitely, but museums kinda hang out in the worst places don't they lol.
  Not the poorest/roughest places, just the worst places lol

It’s so wild that they named after one of the Dulles brothers. Truly two of the most evil people who ever lived. And we’re still living in a world grappling with the fallout of their crimes, and those who wish to continue their legacy.
- Never trust countries with the following:
  
  3. Airports named after people. 2. Streets named after dates. 1. Background music on news reports.
  If you do somehow find yourself in a country with one or more those things, back away slowly and quietly until you are over the border.
  
  I kind of get the others, but not 2. I feel like that includes most countries (there's this Wikipedia page which I know is incomplete. What's wrong with remembering things like the end of the war that wrecked the city?
  
  There's a lot of countries with airports named after people. Weird thing to be triggered over.
  
  Yeah, who names an airport terminal after someone as awful as...."Harvey Milk?"
  /s
- well yeah, but, see, they also did...
  reads like 20 books on them, including one of the mildler ones called "the devil's chessboard"
  some moderately evil or plausibly disastrous-but-inept stuff too. so, you know, maybe don't talk that way about them.

Ya get what ya vote for.
- DC voted 90%+ for Harris. There’s almost no chance he voted for this.
  
  Sorry, it's been ten years of this. I'm kinda done with giving nuance to Americans.
  Harsh? Maybe, but when even the Democrats are caving in to Trump's demands for fuck all reason, I'm just done caring about what the thoughts of people down South are.
  Literally been told by "left-wing" Americans that my thoughts and opinions on their politics don't matter even with the bullshit going on, and all I can think of is how I as someone over the border wouldn't have to fucking care if they treated this guy like the fucking threat they supposedly see him as rather than do nothing more than tell people to vote as if that's some big fucking accomplishment.
  If getting out to vote is supposedly all that people could have done against this and nothing else (their words and actions, not mine), then yeah, ya get what ya vote for.
  
  Around half of Americans don't even vote too, further reducing the chance.
  23% of America voted for this.
  
  DC is in the US however.
- If only that were true, my friend. But it's not, as you must know. Remember 2000? Disenfranchisement? Redistricting? The electoral college? ... But go on, blame the victims. Meh.
- I haven't gotten what I voted for in twenty years.
- How can you hate a whole country full of people many of whom didn't vote for any of this shit. Wild
  
  I can be just as upset at the ones that didn't care enough to vote as I can at the ones who voted for this.

As a Canadian, I couldn’t be happier.
Maybe we can annex some of these poor should to a country that cares.
Mostly.

I was there two weeks ago. Expected a huge pain in the ass getting in and out.
It was a ghost town.
- I'm glad to see this wasn't a fake post to drum up support
  
  My brother was going to attend a huge scientific conference there next month. It was updated to be zoom only this week.

Want to say good serves them right! But no. America becoming more authoritarian and insolationist is not a good thing for anyone. This situation very scary

i'm terrified of what the government will do when world pride comes to dc in a few months </3
- Likely they will try and make it illegal on as many levels as they can.

Music to my ears.

They should bring back Transatlantic ferries and cruises where people can bring their cars, trailers, and pallets of personal belongings across the ocean at affordable rates. I guarantee it would be popular at the moment, at least in one direction.
I think currently Freighter travel isn't allowed for such purposes but it used to be in the USA?
- Keep your fucking cars to yourself. We don’t want them here.
  
  They could always send the cars back or leave them behind, I guess, but I was just thinking as a method to make moving to Europe easier for the average american, to load all of their things onto the boat.
  
  found the fuckcars lemming!

*Dulles airport is in Virginia, not DC
- That's like saying the New York Giants play in NJ
  
  It's about 8 miles from the stadium to midtown.
  It's about 26 miles from Dulles to DC.
- It may be located in Virginia, but it's the closest international airport and is on the DC metro system. If things are slow at Dulles, it means people aren't flying to DC.
- Does DC have an airport?
  
  No, Reagan National is just across the Potomac from DC and also in Virginia.
  
  There's Ronald Regan Washington National (DCA) but it's not an international airport, so only has domestic flights, and isn't as big.

Who want to go in hell?
- Why not go to HEL instead? Springtime is about to get pretty in Finland. Any ~~day~~ ~~week~~ month now.
- I have it on authority of the vatican that's where all the gamblers and prostitutes go, so it sounds fun to me.
  
  Don't forget us queers! It's gonna be a rager.
  
  I'mma build my own Vatican! With hookers and blackjack! In fact, forget the Vatican!
  
  No way. There are far too many priest and preachers there.

“I see a bad moon rising”

Got nothing to offer

Did anyone in DC vote Trump?
- Small point of clarification but Dulles is in Northern Virginia not DC because there's no room for an airport that size in the District.
  Now, the Cabbie from OP could easily live in DC, Virginia or Maryland, all of which were won by Harris.
- DC gets three electoral votes for presidential elections; it's Congress in which they're not represented.
  
  Incorrect. DC, while not having senators or representatives, still has 3 electoral votes for president, due to the 23rd amendment.
  
  That's not true since the 23rd amendment was passed in 1961