In doing my daily preparation for SR I have seen over a dozen articles about Americans choosing to leave the United States, and two readers wrote me to say they were leaving, one to Canada, the other to France. I’ve never seen anything like this before.
Michelle Garabito and Paul Nelson are cofounders of The Lux Nomads, which advises Americans on how to move out of the US. Here, they are pictured in Spain—one of the best places for Americans to move to. Credit: Lux Nomads
Interest in how to move out of the U.S. has been growing in recent years—but following the results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, it has reached a fever pitch. With news that Donald Trump is returning to the White House, searches for popular moving abroad terms—“the best countries for Americans to move to,” “best country to move to from USA,” “leaving America,” “where to move out of the US,” “where to move abroad”—have spiked dramatically. According to Google Trends, queries for “how to move to Canada” increased by 400% by 8 p.m. on election night.
Marco Permunian, a founder of the Italy-based Italian Real Estate Lawyers—an agency with offices in New York, Houston, Memphis and Los Angeles that specializes in Italian citizenship law and immigration matters—says he has been inundated with requests. “As of today—the […]
As I said yesterday, the big take away for me was that this was a cultural election not a political one. What is happening and that is going to happen is the choice of a majority of American voters. They don’t seem to understand the damage that is going to be done to their lives. Their resentment, rage, racism, male-dominant genderism was more emotionally powerful than their capacity to think through what Trump and the MAGAts really represent. For instance, Robert Kennedy is talking about taking fluoride out of the water. I am old enough to remember the crisis of childhood dental cavities that was why fluoride was introduced. Elon Musk is now acting like a co-President and I think is setting a reality for the oligarchs who bought the election for Trump. I think the Hispanic community whose men particularly voted for Trump are about to experience a racial rape, unlike anything ever seen since the Japanese were rounded up and put in internment camps. But this will be worse. My only hope is that these people who voted for Trump will experience such pain that they will wake up in time for the mid-term election; if there is a genuine mid-term election.
Republican Donald Trump walks off the stage after speaking during a campaign rally on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, in Lititz, Pennsylvania. Credit: Michael M. Santiago / Getty
This is some bullshit — but not surprising in the least.
America shows us time and time again who and what it is. Sometimes it subtly whispers what it thinks of people like me (and probably you). But the 290-plus electoral votes and more than 70,000,000 popular votes that have secured Republican Donald Trump’s presidential victory over his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, are loud and clear.
Trump’s win — the first time he’s ever won the popular vote, mind you — is a “fuck you, we don’t care about your rights as people of color, women, immigrants, the working class, etc.” It’s a reminder that sometimes, even when you’re twice as good, you get a fraction as much. It’s a message about whose livelihoods matter and whose don’t. It’s not just a look into what we’re anticipating for the next four years, but a reminder of the haunting past this country […]
As I told you, I canceled my subscription to The Washington Post, as Thom Hartmann did when Bezos would not let the post editorial team come out in support of Harris. But that is just a little piece of what is going on. Local newspapers are withering and dying all over the country because advertising has shifted to electronic media. At the same time Big Media has been bought and is now controlled by oligarchs. Elon Musk owns the largest social media platform. Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. Patrick Soon-Shiong owns The Los Angeles Times. Sinclair Broadcast Group owns or operates 185 Stations in 86 Markets. The oligarchs realize that feeding fascist supportive information to the peasants will help them take control of the United States, and shape the government.
Amazon chief executive and new Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos Credit: AFP
I cancelled my Washington Post subscription Friday evening. Jeff Bezos, Mister “Democracy Dies In Darkness” (the Post’s slogan on their masthead), by blocking his editorial staff from endorsing Harris chose darkness over his nation’s future, and I can’t support that.
The big mistake John D. Rockefeller made back in the day — that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk appear committed to not repeating — was not buying a media outlet like a newspaper. Had John D. had that sort of a vehicle to mold public opinion, American history may be very different.
By 1880, Rockefeller’s Ohio-based company controlled over 90 percent of the nation’s oil, owned 4000 miles of pipelines, and employed over 100,000 people. As Rockefeller’s oil empire got larger and larger, eating alive hundreds of smaller operations, ruthlessly driving up prices, destroying his competitors, and throwing workers out of a job, public outrage grew.
In 1887, Ohio sued him, arguing that he was operating in ways that were detrimental to the state and its citizens and businesses; […]
It is my view that we are on a track to become another Hungary and I think when historian look back and write about what has happened they will blame Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell, the Supreme Court, and Biden. Recognizing his growing mental failure Biden should have announced a year ago that he would not run again so that roper primaries were conducted to allow a new Democratic leader to emerge and a proper conference to be held. Instead, he unilaterally put forward his decent and honorable but virtually unknown Vice President — how many ranchers in Idaho, or farmers in Mississippi do you think could have even named her? She in turn did not pick a well-known VP like Gavin Newsom, but another virtually unknown politician Tim Walz — did you know his name before it was announced for VP? But before that, Mitch McConnell blocked Trump’s impeachment, and for the past three years Merrick Garland, whom Biden should have been replaced, has let all the legal actions against Trump to just wind their sleepy way through various courts and leaving Jack Smith un-supported.
Merrick Garland’s legacy will be the he was the worst Attorney General in U.S. history. Credit: Mark Schiefelbein / AP
We have just witnessed the greatest failure of federal law enforcement in American history.
The reasons for Donald Trump’s reelection are numerous and will be hotly debated in the weeks ahead. But the story of his comeback cannot be told without seriously grappling with how he managed to outrun four criminal cases, including — most notably — the Justice Department’s prosecution over Trump’s alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election.
At the root of it all are the considerable and truly historic legal missteps by the Biden administration and Attorney General Merrick Garland, as well as a series of decisions by Republicans throughout the political and legal systems in recent years that effectively bailed Trump out when the risks for him were greatest.
The two federal criminal cases against him are now dead as a practical matter. Already there is reporting suggesting that special counsel Jack Smith will leave his post and dismiss the pending cases, […]
Dan Milmo , Global Technology Editor - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan:
Because of Citizens United, which legalized bribing politicians, as well as the way Republicans rigged the tax system, we have become an oligarchy as this election has just demonstrated. This is all part of the country becoming the United States of Fascism. Americans overwhelmingly voted for it — did you know that 53% of White women ,voted for Trump? By the time of the mid-term election, if there is one, I think we will have become a nation few of us who seek to foster wellbeing will even recognize. What to do? Read The 8 Laws of Change.
The wealth of the 10 richest people in the world – a list dominated by US tech billionaires – increased by a record amount after Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, according to a widely cited index.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated that the world’s 10 wealthiest people gained nearly $64bn (about £49.5bn) on Wednesday, the largest daily increase since the index began in 2012.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, registered the largest increase with a $26.5bn addition to his fortune, which now stands at $290bn. The prominent backer of Trump’s campaign, benefited from a surge in the share price of Tesla, the electric carmaker where he is chief executive and in which he owns a 13% stake.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated that the world’s 10 wealthiest people gained nearly $64bn (about £49.5bn) on Wednesday, the largest daily increase since the index began in 2012.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, registered the largest increase with a $26.5bn addition to his fortune, which now stands at $290bn. The prominent backer of Trump’s campaign, benefited from a surge in the share price of Tesla, […]
I don’t know if Kennedy will get this post, but I picked this article because this I think is the issue we must now face. Trump is old, not that smart, and lazy. I don’t see him putting in long hours, and I don’t think he is going to follow through on a number of his promises. For instance, I don’t think 11 million people are going to be deported. The cost and social disruption of attempting something like that would tear the country apart and devastate the economy. What I think should concern all of us, is who is appointed to various posts in government, and what the Senate does in their confirmation. Look at what Dejoy has done to the Post Office, or what Elisabeth DeVos did to public education. These are the posts manned by men and women who will put the hours in, and that could fundamentally change American society. So pay close attention to is appointed and to what position.
Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks ahead of Donald Trump at a campaign rally Nov. 1 at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee. Credit: Kamil Krzaczynski / Getty
Onetime presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now vying for a spot in President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet, said Wednesday the nutrition departments of the Food and Drug Administration “have to go” because the departments are “not doing their job, not protecting our kids.”
“Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients and you go to Canada and it’s got two or three,” the former presidential candidate said in an interview on MSNBC, one day after Trump was elected the 47th president.
Kellogg’s website lists more than 20 ingredients in its Canadian product. The main difference between the two seems to be the kind of dyes used in the colorful fruit-flavored cereal. In March, Kellogg investor Jason Karp, founder of holding company HumanCo, sent a letter to Kellogg alleging that Froot Loops in America had “harmful artificial dyes,” while […]
