Wait... Lemme (ha!) get this straight...
If they want to search your phone or any electronic device when entering the US and you refuse, you get fined 5000$ and get a 5 years prison sentence?????
They don't just deny you entry and send you back?
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US officials forced to share bald JD Vance meme by denying tourist’s claim he was denied entry over photo
(www.independent.co.uk)
They lied and no one cares apparently
The CBP is basically an unchained lunatic with a credit card and access to unthinkable networks of treachery. We are no longer living in a time when these rules matter. Judges order are explicitly being ignored, and the Supreme Court is batting away any attempt to even disarm the lunatic.
After the agents looked through his phone, he said he was denied entry to the United States and was sent back to Norway.
People keep acting like this is new, it's been like this since 9/11...
If they "suspect" someone, they don't want to just let them walk away if they're right.
So if you don't comply, they assume the worse and detain you and throw some trumped up charges about obstructing. But they don't even have to do that, they literally can (and likely have) ship you straight to Gitmo for life. Hell, cops even make these kinds of threats to US citizens during traffic stops. Law enforcement has been able to just make wild threats to get people to comply for like, forever
Silver lining at least, people are finally realizing this is an insane process and hopefully it's one of the things we get to fix.
Because we sure as shit can't just spend four years discussing if we need to limit all these govermental powers that have been racking up again. If we get the chance to fix shit we have to actually fix it.
People keep acting like this is new, it's been like this since 9/11...
Haha, man. People have already forgotten that these were temporary measures after 9/11
Don't bring your regular phone when traveling to countries like China or the US
When prisons are for-profit --
You're lucky if you don't get disappeared to a Central American gulag.
Moral of the story: Do not go anywhere near the states. It is a fascist country and they will deport you to el salvador lickety-split.
This is the sad part. My favorite uncle had a special connection to hanauma bay near Waikiki, but my mom can't go there and remember him smiling and laughing and teaching my cousin to swim. We are all afraid that even us whiteboy Canucks will get separated in customs and never be seen again. And we're wipepo from the most polite country on earth!
It's almost assured that, after this term, if Hawaii hasn't separated yet, that she'll be too old to travel $afely. She's getting a little fuddy now, in that she brings it up often, and tells me again for the first time about Uncle's love of Hawaii and h bay ... every time.
Trump's people are dicks
Yes. If there are friends or family there maybe they could do a video call and walk around her favourite areas?
At this point it does not matter if you are white, pink, orange, brown, aquamarine or Oakville 70’s fuchsia. These vile asshats are drunk with power and are deporting people faster than the up and down of a hookers knickers at a convention.
Not worth anyone’s safety at this point. Being wiped from existence is a fact now in the states. Be safe.
Time skip 10 years in the future
History Channel: Memes in American History
🫲Aliens🫱
"couches"
The fact that meme bothers them is hilarious though. Imagine a protest at the Capitol with a huge crowd all carrying big signs with nothing but that meme on it. 😂
People keep writing words on posters like fascist can't help but read something they see...
Their brains aren't even recognizing it's text.
But pictures of their leaders edited to exacerbate their worst physical features?
That hits them where it hurts.
This is why weird worked
Time to find some caricaturists to help prepare the next round of protests signs.
I don't suppose anyone here has a link to a high(ish) resolution version of it? Asking for a friend.
Just a reminder for anyone travelling to the US (or any other totalitarian regime that doesn’t respect right to privacy).
I can’t remember the combination of buttons you need to hold down on your iPhone to disable biometric unlocking and to force erase your phone.
Anyone else remember these, and know the equivalent combination for Android devices, please comment.
Keeping multiple devices is the easiest way to get by. Have a burner phone for everyday use when travelling and keep your main phone either at home, or locked and unpowered in your luggage.
To disable biometrics on your iPhone, simply press the power button five times, rapidly.
This also gives you a power off option and an SOS button.
If you want to fully encrypt the phone before confiscation, turn it off.
This can be paired with the “Erase all Data” option in “FaceID and Passcode” settings to add another level of security.
Just remember to play dumb when you “accidentally” incorrectly enter your passcode 10 times in a row and to make sure you have a recent backup that you are able to access.
Is there a correlation of what's going on here with a concept referred to as the Streisand Effect? Or does that not apply?
Edit: I guess not since they were likely not trying to spread this meme, but rather, make an example of someone who laughs at Couch Guyliner memes. Still, all the same, it would be hilarious if this incident causes people to follow this visitor's example.
Guess what my phone's wallpaper is now when I travel?
Ooh nice choice! I’m using a protest wallpaper too. Though mine’s that “accidental Renaissance” shot where someone graffitied “EAT THE RICH” on the Utah capitol building, with three cops standing around while a crowd protests behind them. It’s just too beautiful.
Come next election cycle, there needs to be a reckoning. Not only does Trump and many of his appointees go to prison, it also needs to be investigated how so many bureaucrats and officers are so willing to do Trump's bidding. Unless those people are removed too, Trump 2.0 is going to happen.
Preload some Joe Biden memes for express processing.
Anyone have the meme in question?
It is the thumbnail of the article.
I was wondering if it had text to it? How funny it was? Or if it was just the picture, like you shared...?...
That's why I pretend to be Canadian when I travel overseas. I put tiny Canadian flags on my luggage and phone. I tell people I am from Vancouver.
Lisa gets it. From “The Italian Bob,” an episode where the family visited Italy:
That’s about as cool as pretending to be any other culture.
But it’s ok for Americans somehow to fake being from a different culture to not be looked down on.
Yeah, I definitely understand if my fellow Americans pretending to be our Northern neighbours when travelling overseas.
We aren't not that popular. Only Russians like us.
I can't wait for people to start using this photo Rickroll-style.