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markpkessinger

(8,870 posts) Tue Oct 28, 2025, 01:00 PM Oct 28

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 Oct 28 OP

Thats how you feel when you have .mandatory evacuation for impending disasters. BattleRow Oct 28 #1

It's like what we feel before we go to bed, only yorkster Oct 28 #2

I'm Nervous about leaving the country myself kimbutgar Oct 28 #3

You'll have a good time in Australia Wild blueberry Oct 28 #4

We emigrated to Germany in 2015 Old Crank Oct 28 #5

Maybe check on the possibility of staying in Australia. 1WorldHope Oct 28 #6

The Weight (w Ringo Starr and Robbie Robertson) struggle4progress Oct 28 #7

Safe travels LittleGirl Oct 28 #8

The missus, who has Canadian dual citizenship, just traveled to Europe... rubbersole Oct 28 #9

BattleRow

(2,035 posts)

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

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 03:05 PM

Oct 28

I know..believe me.

yorkster

(3,572 posts)

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

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 03:05 PM

Oct 28

x1000. What the hell will he pull next.?

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

kimbutgar

(26,498 posts)

3. I'm Nervous about leaving the country myself

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 03:18 PM

Oct 28

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

(8,009 posts)

4. You'll have a good time in Australia

Reply to markpkessinger (Original post)

Tue Oct 28, 2025, 03:18 PM

Oct 28

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

(6,424 posts)

5. We emigrated to Germany in 2015

Reply to markpkessinger (Original post)

Tue Oct 28, 2025, 03:20 PM

Oct 28

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

(1,789 posts)

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

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 03:38 PM

Oct 28

struggle4progress

(125,144 posts)

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

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 03:41 PM

Oct 28

LittleGirl

(8,908 posts)

8. Safe travels

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Tue Oct 28, 2025, 03:59 PM

Oct 28

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

rubbersole

(10,895 posts)

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

Reply to markpkessinger (Original post)

Tue Oct 28, 2025, 04:01 PM

Oct 28

...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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