• What's it like here? Distopian?

    February 22, 2025 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    Obviously not. I have covered a bit of ground now, met a few people, interacted with many more, passed many hundreds of cars. Almost without exception, they have been courteous and considerate. This is a Democrat state btw. No one seems bothered at all. I have only seen one small Trump bumper sticker. One single ute carrying a big flag and it was the Californian flag.
    Were I am, I won't ask for political opinions. What has been offered is that "the central continental redneck states do things their own way". I was asked what Australians thought of Trump. I said l, "the world thinks he's newsworthy". I knew from the look on his face (smile), that he knew what I meant. We talked about cars after that. There are many, many US flags here. Funnily enough the biggest flags by far I saw today, were at car dealers selling Toyota, Audi, Honda and Volvo!.

    The one negative was a redneck in a giant supercharged diesel ute. I was doing 75mph, he swerved past me on a 10 lane highway at much higher speed, then had to lock up brakes at high speed because two cars changing lanes blocked his path. They must have seen him flying up behind and were trying to get out of his way, inadvertently ending up in his path Because he swerved across me. So close.
    He took off in a cloud of smoke and noise crossing all lanes. Dickheads are a worldwide phenomenon.
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