Does Trump's tariff aks isolationism stuff impact your desire and/or ability to travel in 2025 and beyond?

Travel for me is totally out already due to affordability and I haven't had a passport for nearly 20 years.

But if I was in a position to go I'd like to go see friends in the USA. However the new regime re tariffs and the instructions to Homeland Security to treat all foreigners as alien terrorist threats to the sovereignty of Trump are huge turn-off's so I'd be very hesitant to try going there unless I had to go there for work (my job as a freight train driver is kinda not really up there in elite/executive business circles lol).

I've never been to anywhere in the Europe or Asia. My ex and my 7 y/o daughter are going on a OS holiday in June (to Asia) which I could never afford to do.

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twiigss · M

In the US we need to have a, Real ID, if we want to fly on an airplane or to have access to federal buildings. It's so dumb, like your driver's license isn't good enough suddenly. They been trying to do it but then COVID hit and threw off the whole schedule.

And this isn't like a, just go and fill out paperwork, no, they want a birth certificate, like 3 forms of ID it's crazy. I don't plan on flying anytime soon so not something I need.

zonavar68 · 56-60, M

@twiigss So the Real ID is like a full digital ID? You can't use something like a physical drivers license or other things to prove identity any more?

twiigss · M

@zonavar68 the real id is legit a driver's license, with a gold star on it. THAT'S IT.

zonavar68 · 56-60, M

@twiigss omfg. Our government (fed election next month) is already trying to push everyone to get a fully digital ID. I haven't had a passport for over 20 years so I have no idea about security measures linked with them. I never go to any federal gov department facility and we have no nuclear power plants (currently).

twiigss · M

@zonavar68 I never had a passport before, just a driver's license. Like I don't understand this big push for all this id crap. It's fine the way it is leave it alone 🙄