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 I live in Portugal, and the same people are arriving here in droves from the US. They think the important think is to scape the MAGA terrorists, have no idea what’s going on whatsoever. One of them asked my wife what “crypto” we thought she should buy. They live headline to headline, chickens with their heads cut off. It would be amusing, but now they’re bringing their politics and their busy-bodying here, and Europe already had plenty of its own problems. 
 "living headline to headline" - I'm definitely stealing that phrase sir 
 ha — feel free 
 That’s the sad part of it all: they vote for detrimental policies, they don’t like the results, and then they move abroad but without reflecting on their choices and opinions. They bring their nonsense everywhere they go. It’s frustrating. 
 Exactly — they’re escaping the consequences of their own idiotic preferences, scapegoating whoever the TV tells them to for it and then reprising the same pattern elsewhere. They’re like young children making one mess after another without even knowing other people are left to clean it up.