Y'all ask yourself honestly: If you were not white or if you had views even a smidge to the left of Il Duce, would you want to visit the US right now? Would you feel safe doing so? I can see a hilarious outcome where we have very few international visitors and Trump cross-promotes the World Cup at WWE and nascar events, offering a drawing for Trump crypto to anyone who will attend.
Is this a real quote though? I did a quick googling and couldn't confirm. But it certainly sounds on point...minus the random ALL CAPS and butchered grammar.
It just seems so real and plausible in this time and day. No. Now shut the entire f*** up about something you know absolutely nothing about.
Giant new batch of rumored visa processing halts now includes Brazil, uruguay, Cote D'ivoire & other WC nations; brazil because they actually prosecuted their useless shitty coup-plotting dope of a dictator and he didn't have a judge to save him. How is this remotely plausible? You can't host international events and be the leader of the free world if you lead a murderous police state that kills and tortures foreigners and its own citizens.
The funniest thing about this dumbass @K9Texan is that he lives in Mexico married to an immigrant while talks bad about immigrants all day and preaches about nationalism. Textbook example of what a modern day MAGAT is. Dumber than a bag of rocks and a truly vile individual
I have always had the same assumption, but the stats (especially on random gun violence and robberies) don't support that. Just in terms of vibes, I always feel safe in SF, especially b/c I know the city so well, and safer than I ever did in Houston (though I love my hometown). But when I've traveled to Germany and Ireland, in particular, I felt much safer, no matter what neighborhood and time of day or night. That's just a vibe thing. When I come home from international travel, I always notice how angry most Americans are, and you see it of course on the roadways. That doesn't feel safer when people are on edge. More on topic, if you live in another country, you're seeing lots of coverage of the ICE crackdowns and brute force deporting of people. So I don't know if it feels like a safe destination. I know some young people (computer science students) who have left for Spain, which feels much safer to them (they are Latino citizens of the US), and my friends in Ireland really are hesitant to come here because of the new regime and what they're seeing and hearing. I still feel mostly safe, but ICE has not come to harass my city yet. I am dreading it and know it will come. My neighborhood is very nice, affluent, and liberal, so I know they will roll up here looking to start trouble.
Good post and I agree with a lot it. If FIFA does their job, the American cities should be fine. It shouldn't be much different than an NFL sunday at these venues. MN has been on the news a lot and they aren't hosting. DC isn't great and they aren't hosting. I am not familiar with the area near KCs stadium. Traveling to Mexico would give me pause but it always has. Canada does a pretty thorough job vetting visitors. I think it is neat that all 3 countries are co-hosting and I pray everyone is safe.
I do think it will have an effect on WC Ticket sales or people who bought tickets that won't come, if you're not white and you see what's happening on TV and the general attitude of this administration who is now just a big bully, do you want to take the chance you get here you've said something bad on X in the past that pisses little marco off that they won't come for you? I guess well see..........I wouldn't come to a country that has done a 180 in the past year, he doesn't care about tourism, hell we`ve **** on our brothers and sisters to the north and south, told the EU to pound sand and now we about to invade Greenland, nothing says welcome to the good ole USA like invading a sovereign country
Hopefully it will be a great event. I always enjoy the World Cup, even though FIFA is what it is. If there's an "aggressive" (to put it apolitically) ICE presence in LA, that could really make for some unfortunate Olympic ambiance, even with incidents with international athletes. You know, interesting story on safety. Of recent travels, London kinda felt the worst, which was a surprise. Two different friends there had warned us, separately, about people speeding by on bikes or scooters to snatch cell phones from clueless pedestrians. Wife and I thought "oh, this is the latest fad fear, not really worried," but then our first night in town, some guy comes into the lobby crying about his phone being swiped right out of his hand by some thug on a scooter, LOL. It was pretty real and pervasive. (Not that such things make you unsafe, at all, but it was an odd part of the trip.)
