1 minute ago, Yagoda said:

Your not so we dont care.

Did you understand the second sentence in my post?

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

This is intended for Americans, but I can't stop others from posting.

The rule is simple.

Enter ONE WORD to fill in the blank. 

 

For example, 

 

Being an American abroad since Trump took office again feels (one word fill in the blank)

 

ORGASMIC 

 

(Not my answer, but used as an example only

 Repetitive 

59 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

That reminds me of the time when George W was in charge and half the tourists were suddenly from Canada.

 

Right Eh?

Embarrassing is probably the best, safer, not so much because my money is still in the US and they are trying to steal it. It is an epic disaster that will not be better with Vance.

A troll post/baiting flame and replies has been removed @Harrisfan

Most people don't care if you are American or not. They really don't. Walk into any reataurant you will see most people are looking into their phones all the time. Very few people are living in the moment. Social media runs the world. Instagram, Youtube, Google and Meta control 90% of people these days. I see it everywhere.

 

If you don't have meta/instagram and read books instead you are smarter than 90% of people without even trying. If you walk 6 days week you are more fit than 90% of people. Think about that. 

38 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Most people don't care if you are American or not. They really don't. Walk into any reataurant you will see most people are looking into their phones all the time. Very few people are living in the moment. Social media runs the world. Instagram, Youtube, Google and Meta control 90% of people these days. I see it everywhere.

 

If you don't have meta/instagram and read books instead you are smarter than 90% of people without even trying. If you walk 6 days week you are more fit than 90% of people. Think about that. 

You mean I'm not supposed to yell out my nationality when I walk into a vendor.   Holy crap, I've been doing it all wrong.

 

If I don't will they all still clap and cheer.  I am very handsome.

22 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

You mean I'm not supposed to yell out my nationality when I walk into a vendor.   Holy crap, I've been doing it all wrong.

 

If I don't will they all still clap and cheer.  I am very handsome.

 

  That clapping and cheering you hear is when you are leaving the place. 

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

Your not so we dont care.

He is lucky

safe

1 hour ago, cjinchiangrai said:

Embarrassing is probably the best, safer, not so much because my money is still in the US and they are trying to steal it. It is an epic disaster that will not be better with Vance.

It would appear you can't count up to one

2 hours ago, nomad22 said:

Annoyed

 

Whether you like him or hate him, isn't everyone just sick and tired of hearing about this guy all the time?  

You wouldn't be sick of him if you boycotted the subject and didn't rub your nose in his excrement. 

15 minutes ago, Jonathan Swift said:

It would appear you can't count up to one

More MAGA projection?

Septic.

22 minutes ago, nomad22 said:

The whole country is just one big donald trump show these days.

Rightfully so.

Way too early to make a judgment. 

NEWS FLASH!

This topic is now OFFICIALLY open to any kind of reply.

The one word suggestion was an opening gambit.

That's been played out (predictably).

NOW ... do feel welcome to post anything you like related to the general topic of how

 

Being an American abroad since Trump took office again feels

 

From an American or non-American perspective.

Since the OP took "embarrassing", I will go with shameful.

 

But there is an answer. I'm in the process of relinquishing my US citizenship, as the nation of my birth and the land for which I served no longer exists. I will miss what it was, but not what it has become. And eff the "tax" on assets greater than $3 million. Come and get me, a-holes.

 

Back a decade ago I planned for this eventuality. I bought property in several countries where it is allowed, and have my refuges. I've moved funds to a series of international banks, some of whom don't worry about FATCA. The US offers me nothing now except embarrassment, so it's time to leave. I also suspect lots of social upheaval in the not too distant future. If the California secession movement succeeds, I might return there at some future date. There are similar movements beginning in Oregon, Washington, and New England. The PINO might need Greenland, Canada, Gaza and Panama if he wants to keep 50 stars on the flag.

 

The US won't miss me, but I have no interest in what it has become. I've lived in monarchies and totalitarian states before, and I do not want to do it again. I find it sad that only two Republicans had any balls, and one of those was a woman. The rest are cowards, afraid of a mean Tweet or getting primaried, so they ignore their oath to the Constitution and instead act as if they are North Koreans, clapping for the clownish autocrat like trained seals.

 

If there is an afterlife, I am quite sure Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton are outraged. As Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers:

 

"When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, despotic in his ordinary demeanor---known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty---when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity---to join in the cry of danger to liberty---to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government and bringing it under suspicion---to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day---it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind’”   

Ambivalent

13 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

Since the OP took "embarrassing", I will go with shameful.

 

But there is an answer. I'm in the process of relinquishing my US citizenship, as the nation of my birth and the land for which I served no longer exists. I will miss what it was, but not what it has become. And eff the "tax" on assets greater than $3 million. Come and get me, a-holes.

 

Back a decade ago I planned for this eventuality. I bought property in several countries where it is allowed, and have my refuges. I've moved funds to a series of international banks, some of whom don't worry about FATCA. The US offers me nothing now except embarrassment, so it's time to leave. I also suspect lots of social upheaval in the not too distant future. If the California secession movement succeeds, I might return there at some future date. There are similar movements beginning in Oregon, Washington, and New England. The PINO might need Greenland, Canada, Gaza and Panama if he wants to keep 50 stars on the flag.

 

The US won't miss me, but I have no interest in what it has become. I've lived in monarchies and totalitarian states before, and I do not want to do it again. I find it sad that only two Republicans had any balls, and one of those was a woman. The rest are cowards, afraid of a mean Tweet or getting primaried, so they ignore their oath to the Constitution and instead act as if they are North Koreans, clapping for the clownish autocrat like trained seals.

 

If there is an afterlife, I am quite sure Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton are outraged. As Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers:

 

"When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, despotic in his ordinary demeanor---known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty---when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity---to join in the cry of danger to liberty---to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government and bringing it under suspicion---to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day---it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind’”   

Yeah the USA is quickly becoming a PARIAH nation on par with Russia, North Korea, Iran, and Israel. A definite own goal. This will surely impact the dynamics of Americans abroad whether they're in the maga cult or not. 

 

My understanding which is limited is that renouncing U.S. citizenship can be a massive tax issue plus of course you need a new citizenship, so not many people will be doing that.

Pumping!

1 minute ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Pumping!

Z Russians here after they stole Crimea were pumping too. Now they're keeping a low profile.

Flatulent.

 

 

 

 

 

How some Americans back home are feeling.

 

It's Been Almost 3 Weeks Since Donald Trump Has Taken Office. Here's The Harsh Reality Of How Americans Are Feeling.

7 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Z Russians here after they stole Crimea were pumping too. Now they're keeping a low profile.

Really have no idea how Obama & Bidens weakness & foreign policy failures have relevance to this topic.

4 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Your not so we dont care.

Please share with us how many accounts do you post under?

Six words this time but four correct.  You're improving!

1 hour ago, Walker88 said:

Since the OP took "embarrassing", I will go with shameful.

 

But there is an answer. I'm in the process of relinquishing my US citizenship, as the nation of my birth and the land for which I served no longer exists. I will miss what it was, but not what it has become. And eff the "tax" on assets greater than $3 million. Come and get me, a-holes.

 

Back a decade ago I planned for this eventuality. I bought property in several countries where it is allowed, and have my refuges. I've moved funds to a series of international banks, some of whom don't worry about FATCA. The US offers me nothing now except embarrassment, so it's time to leave. I also suspect lots of social upheaval in the not too distant future. If the California secession movement succeeds, I might return there at some future date. There are similar movements beginning in Oregon, Washington, and New England. The PINO might need Greenland, Canada, Gaza and Panama if he wants to keep 50 stars on the flag.

 

The US won't miss me, but I have no interest in what it has become. I've lived in monarchies and totalitarian states before, and I do not want to do it again. I find it sad that only two Republicans had any balls, and one of those was a woman. The rest are cowards, afraid of a mean Tweet or getting primaried, so they ignore their oath to the Constitution and instead act as if they are North Koreans, clapping for the clownish autocrat like trained seals.

 

If there is an afterlife, I am quite sure Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton are outraged. As Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers:

 

"When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, despotic in his ordinary demeanor---known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty---when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity---to join in the cry of danger to liberty---to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government and bringing it under suspicion---to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day---it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind’”   

 

I don't think anyone would miss you.

I think it's very apt now to resurrect this topic given the historic AMBUSH of Zelinsky by Vance and Trump at the white house.

 

I had thought I had come to a reasonable conclusion. Say I'm from California suggesting at least some ambiguity about Trump (now also Putin) support when talking to new people about our American nationality.

 

I don't think that's adequate now.

 

I feel although probably all Americans have at least some (tiny or large) culpability for how things have come to this, I also feel that it's the ethical thing to do to clearly communicate our shame. horror, and opposition about Trump.

 

Imagine you were a German abroad during you know when, and you were anti-Nazi. Do you think it would have been OK to just let people assume you're pro NazI?

 

For those maga heads out there, do what you will. Not my concern. I'm talking about DECENT Americans.  

"Proud"  ...  again  ...  after exposing all the money corruption, and then the Z interview (?), and nice to have a few guys in the WH with a set.

 

Damn embarrassing this century, so far, with Cheney/Bush, Obama & Biden.  No need to tell people I'm Canadian