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markpkessinger

(8,868 posts) Tue Oct 28, 2025, 02:00 PM Tuesday

It's a very strange feeling I'm experiencing . . .

. . . I am all set to leave the country for a month on Friday (traveling with my sister to Australia to visit a dear family friend). It's a trip I've wanted to do for years. And yet it feels so very strange to be leaving the country for a month having no idea what I will be returning to!

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It's a very strange feeling I'm experiencing . . . (Original Post) markpkessinger Tuesday OP

Thats how you feel when you have .mandatory evacuation for impending disasters. BattleRow Tuesday #1

It's like what we feel before we go to bed, only yorkster Tuesday #2

I'm Nervous about leaving the country myself kimbutgar Tuesday #3

You'll have a good time in Australia Wild blueberry Tuesday #4

We emigrated to Germany in 2015 Old Crank Tuesday #5

Maybe check on the possibility of staying in Australia. 1WorldHope Tuesday #6

The Weight (w Ringo Starr and Robbie Robertson) struggle4progress Tuesday #7

Safe travels LittleGirl Tuesday #8

The missus, who has Canadian dual citizenship, just traveled to Europe... rubbersole Tuesday #9

BattleRow

(1,997 posts)

1. Thats how you feel when you have .mandatory evacuation for impending disasters.

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 04:05 PM

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I know..believe me.

yorkster

(3,505 posts)

2. It's like what we feel before we go to bed, only

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 04:05 PM

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x1000. What the hell will he pull next.?

Hope you have a good month in Australia.
I completely relate to your anxiety.

kimbutgar

(26,350 posts)

3. I'm Nervous about leaving the country myself

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 04:18 PM

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I’ve posted negative stuff here and on facebook about the orange turd for years and worried I could be on an enemies list. I got attacked recently viciously on facebook pointing out something about him and I ended up deleting the post.

Wild blueberry

(7,969 posts)

4. You'll have a good time in Australia

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 04:18 PM

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Enjoy the lessening of daily psychic stress while there. (Just returned from a trip abroad to visit family, so nice to be somewhere sane.) Have fun!

Old Crank

(6,360 posts)

5. We emigrated to Germany in 2015

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 04:20 PM

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Had no idea that Trump I would occur. thought normalcy had returned with Biden. However we got this mess with Trump II.

Not sure how I feel. The US was a country I emigrated to as a teenager, served in the military, and provided my retirement among many other things. No I'm wondering if I will even go back to visit.

1WorldHope

(1,745 posts)

6. Maybe check on the possibility of staying in Australia.

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 04:38 PM

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struggle4progress

(125,105 posts)

7. The Weight (w Ringo Starr and Robbie Robertson)

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 04:41 PM

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LittleGirl

(8,867 posts)

8. Safe travels

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 04:59 PM

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My spouse flies back to Europe tomorrow and won’t be back until mid-December. He’s not worried but I am.

rubbersole

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9. The missus, who has Canadian dual citizenship, just traveled to Europe...

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 05:01 PM

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...using her Canadian passport, was worried coming back to the US that Customs would check her phone for anti-tr*mp content. And it is filled with memes, emails to her reps in DC, forwarded DU posts from me, texts to her 5 Canadian cousins and general dislike for tsf. Just having to be concerned about speech and thought in America is beyond troubling. They didn't even look at her luggage or anything thank goodness.

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