they just show up and everyone’s gotta be pretend they’re welcome.
US here, do you? I mean I know your politicians might, but I figure the populace can do a good job showing how "welcome" they are... (seriously, if you somehow chuck them off the island without a boat I'll be cheering for you.)
Pretty much this. Like I said about my Focus, I've straight up driven with 2x4s that wouldn't fit in coworkers trucks because the 4 foot bed is useless for that and I could fold seats down.
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh if we were allowed to have the Toyota Hilux here I'd buy one immediately. Fucking closest to a truck I "like" is a Ford Maverick because it's a "smaller truck"...
But they ONLY come in crew cab. For fucks sake I want a standard cab full size small pickup truck about the size of a HIlux or a ranger from the 90s. And frankly if they made one a hybrid I'd have a dream car, but hell I'd take a 4 cylinder. But nope. Around here they're the shortest fucking bed for the biggest fucking motor that's effectively an SUV that is somehow MORE useless because the wall between the bed and the cab means I can't lay seats down. A fucking mini-van is a better truck in the US.
I apologize... this is an angry angry rant I have to do like once every other week...
Same from Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma...
Yet they think they understand how the world works better than anyone.
Modern pickups are bad. Old pickups were fantastic for "I need to pile a bunch of (insert thing here) in the back."
But now every pickup is a massive motor for a tiny truckbed that my ford focus wagon has better hauling capacity.
If you've read Orwell, then you know we have.
There's a weird moment where it's "Fuck, here we go aga... wait... it's not our fault this time?"
I mean... there's a good side. We don't have the manufacturing for heavy equipment and we're pissing off the world so it might take a couple years before we actually have the heavy equipment to strip mine our national parks.
I live in a red state. We have a method of voting individual bills into our constitution as a majority process.
We have voted in a reform to get big money out of our politics. The Republican majority in the state forced another vote with the most obfuscated language to get the state to overturn it. We have voted time and time again against Right to Work which is an anti-union bill. The Republicans have constantly tried to get it to happen. St Louis managed to get its police out from under State control, leaving Kansas City the only state in the nation with the state controlling the cities police... until the Republican ran state forced St. Louis back under its control.
We voted in a higher minimum wage and guarantees for sick leave. We also voted in protections for abortions overturning the harshest ban in the state. These were overwhelming majorities. We as a state also overwhelmingly voted Republicans in, who have just overturned the min wage and sick leave bill, and are trying to figure out how to overturn the abortion protections.
So if we had a COMPLETELY free and fair election. I guarantee you, at least the portion of the country I'm in, would still vote for anything with an (R) next to their name.
and you’re lucky to have the NPS to make all of it so accessible.
Give it a couple years...
I'm going to say doubt on there actually being an H-1B crackdown...
But if Trump were to decide to do one, monkeys and typewriters because that's something I'd actually support.
I'm waiting to see how he'd fuck it up and make it worse though.