Good day all. When Barack Obama was elected, I don’t recall anyone on the right saying “That’s it! I’m leaving the country!” even though many people expected the Anointed One to be an epic failure. They worked to shut him down as best as they could and worked to take control when he was out. Not so the Democrats and President Trump.
We saw this to some extent in 2016 when President Trump was running against Felonia von Pantsuit. When it started looking like Trump might won, the leftards, especially in Hollyweird, started saying they would leave the country. The general response to all this?
When President Trump ran again in 2020, people on the left went absolutely apeshit and once gains announced they would leave the country if he won a second term. Well he did, and this time, a number of people actually carried out their threat and moved to Europe. Once they arrived and started settling in, they found out that what they believed was not even close to reality. Here are the details from Fox News:
Liberal Americans who fled to Europe after President Donald Trump‘s re-election shared how the grass is not always greener on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Wired Magazine released an article Thursday headlined “They Fled Trump’s America. Now They Regret It,” speaking directly to those who sought “political refuge in the wake of Trump’s second term,” but have since voiced frustration with Europe’s lower quality of life, the rise of right-wing politics in those countries, and a newfound appreciation for the cultural norms and niceties of American life.
I can’t say I am at all surprised that Americans who moved to Europe, mostly to the formally Great Britain, were shocked at what they found. Most of these poor deluded moonbats heard things like “Free healthcare” and a nice progressive, boarding on socialist, society and thought things would be perfect. Then reality came up and kicked them, repeatedly, in the testicles.
One account, from a woman nicknamed “Annie,” said she was sold the idea of an idyllic U.K. life on social media, “But the reality of life in the U.K. was dramatically different to what she’d imagined.”
“There are huge misconceptions about access to quality healthcare, standard of living… the quality of life is significantly lower than in the U.S.,” she told the magazine, citing challenges ranging from their healthcare system to a significantly lower disposable income. “Things in the U.K. that are considered luxury items are very common” in America, like a dishwasher and dryer, she told Wired.
This also includes air conditioners, although Americans tend to be a bit better at handling the wide variations in temperature and weather conditions. Still, it’s very rare to find a home without a clothes dryer or a dishwasher. In some areas, air conditioning is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. As for healthcare? Yes, our system has it’s issues and we freely acknowledge them. We are constantly trying to find something better, but as these people discovered, the Socialist medical system that s use in Europe is generally good for one thing. Killing patients.
Annie told the outlet that despite believing she’d have free healthcare under the NHS, she now pays “huge amounts of taxes and an immigration surcharge” to access the national healthcare services.
“So no, the health care is not free here,” she said.
What made her think that as a United States citizen and not a British subject, that she had any right to their National Health Service? That is for the British, (And illegal aliens). Of course you’re paying through the nose for it. I believe there is also the availability of private health insurance, but I don’t know if you can use that and opt out of the taxes. I suspect no.
Annie was also surprised by the amount of anti-American hostility she experienced and cultural differences in the workplace.
Why does this surprise you? It goes back over 250 years. There was this little rebellion against the crown that we won and the British have never forgotten it. Even in World War Two, when the United States basically save Britain’s ass, the comments regarding American soldiers was “Overpaid, over sexed and over here.”
“I found it particularly surprising how people feel so comfortable mocking my accent and culture, even in a workplace environment,” she said. “The U.K. is very much a place of ‘it is what it is,’ but as Americans we are taught to always improve and strive for better things.”
“I thought that ‘British politeness’ existed as it does in movies,” Annie added, “but unfortunately, the reality is that present-day British culture is very individualistic, as well as without the sense of charity and helpfulness that many parts of American culture value.”
One of the things that surprised a lot of British and Europeans who came to the United States for the World Cup was just how different Americans are and how helpful and welcoming they generally were. Socialist media was loaded with comments from Europeans and response from Americans. When the Scots literally drank Boston dry, Americans weren’t upset, they thought it was funny.
We had Norwegian fans rowing up an escalator at Logan Airport and stories about tourists discovering all the different food people could get. They were generally shocked at the portions. Then there was the discovery of ranch dressing. People had to be warned by TSA to put the bottles of dressing in their checked bags and not in their carry on bags.
Sarah Wood González, a journalist and consultant, made similar comments about learning to appreciate the American mindset and work culture once she was in a different environment.
“Something I had taken for granted is the American outgoingness and default to action, where the question is ‘how can we collaborate?’” she said. “Generally speaking, I also found that the American work style, for better or for worse, moves much faster and can get to a yes or no in less time.”
I don’t know why that surprises her. The American work ethic is probably surpassed only by the Asian work ethic. This is reflected in America’s productivity numbers verses the Europeans productivity levels. Most of the European countries mandate upwards of a month off each year. Americans rarely expect more than two weeks off a year. Then there are all the work rules that European companies have to deal with that American companies don’t. It makes getting a job hard.
“Finding work was so hard, and the endless bureaucracy had grown worse since I’d left,” Josh, who moved to Germany, told Wired. “I missed the friendlier people, freedom of speech, and ease of daily life” in the United States, he said. He added of German daily life, “If you aren’t born and raised there, and don’t look German, you’ll never be fully accepted.”
Freedom of speech is something Americans take for granted. Many forget that we are unique in the word in this regard. We have it written into our constitution and the courts will enforce it. In places like Britain, they are jailing people over memes and posts on Socialist media that Americans put out daily. There was a point where the head of the London Metro police threatened to arrest Americans over things we said online. That went over real well here.
Josh told the magazine he moved back to the U.S. recently and is much happier. He admitted he may have “overreacted” by fleeing to Europe.
No kidding. One thing that is happening is the reaction from all the leftards who didn’t leave and don’t have any idea what things are like in Eurostan. When they are told from people who were there, they call them liars.
Many Americans who shared their regrets on social media were berated by fellow liberals for wanting to move back to “evil” America, the article also said.
“These posts are usually met with a huge amount of backlash. Commenters are quick to imply that the poster must be right-wing and privileged, in for a nasty shock if they did return home,” Wired Magazine summarized. “Ironically, many times, they parrot the right-wing notion that they probably aren’t trying hard enough to assimilate into their new country. When one person recently said they badly missed their community of friends in a ‘blue city in a blue state’ and were considering moving back, the majority of top comments agreed the user was ‘insane.'”
When all of these liberals announced they were leaving, most people had a simply didn’t care. Those who were more knowledgeable about the actual conditions in Europe knew that these smooth brain idiots were entering into an actual FAFO moment. Now we’re just sitting here and laughing at them.
Daniel Di Martino, a Manhattan Institute fellow and economist who was born in Venezuela, spoke to Fox News Digital about how some misguided Americans tend to have unrealistic notions about European life.
Misguided? Is that a polite way of saying absolutely batshit delusional?
“Things aren’t always great in Europe, but Europe is not one thing. Living in Greece, making the average salary of a Greek person, would be considered near poverty level in America. Living in Denmark, like an average Dane, is definitely fine, but they still earn much less than the average American,” he said. “Some aspects of quality of life in European countries are definitely better: Lower crime, better food. But on the basic reality of how much someone earns, Americans would be worse off moving to Europe.”
One thing I would argue about is the idea that the Europeans have better food. We saw how all the European tourists here for the world cup reacted when they hit all the restaurants, especially when they discovered BBQ. As to the difference in earning power between Americans and Europeans, this is accurate. The tax rates in Europe are at levels that would have Americans breaking out the guns and getting a large supply or rope.
He concluded, “The reason for this is simple: It is very hard to fire workers, so getting a job in the first place is difficult. And in most European countries other than Switzerland and the Baltics, taxes are very high for low and middle-income workers to pay for so-called universal healthcare and pensions for a larger elderly population.”
The low and middle class being taxed into oblivion is not at all surprising. This is the mentality of the European ruling elites. They have always been a class society and they see those on the low end of the class spectrum as nothing more than serfs who only exist to support their rulers.
As to their older population, those very same elites have a simple solution. They kill them. They usually just make it all but impossible to survive, usually in the summer when there are heat waves. The elderly, who should be in climate controlled buildings, are left in building to basically cook. Last summer they cooked over 24K people.
Theo Wold, a former White House deputy assistant for domestic policy in Trump’s first term, also spoke about how American liberals fail to understand that the very European socialism they romanticize would undo the qualities that make America great.
“American liberals want to import European socialist ideas and wave after wave of third world immigrants into the U.S., but it turns out that in real life, socialism and mass immigration produce countries that are poorer, less productive, and less enjoyable to call home,” he said. “American liberals who moved to Europe are experiencing that firsthand. Every American voter who thinks they want single-payer healthcare should have to spend a few months on an NHS waitlist or look for housing in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin: the European malaise is a real wake-up call.”
You will never convince the American Libtards that socialism doesn’t work or that things are actually a lot worse in Europe than they are here. Yes, we have our problems, but most of us are looking for ways to fix the problems. Liberals aren’t trying to fix anything. All they care about is being seen as “Doing something” and feeling good about themselves.
When people come back and tell them what things are really like, they refuse to believe them and attack them instead. To these smooth brained morons I say, if you want socialism, go someplace that already has it and leave the rest of us alone.
Thatisall
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