Would you visit USA in the current climate?

What has that got to do with anything? I have been to the states many times and in the last few years there is just a different feel about the place. Why would I spend my hard earned money going to somewhere like the states now when I can go somewhere else. It's a personal choice.

Ha, try telling that to the poor Irish grandmother who was locked up by ICE recently when trying to go back to the US after a short trip abroad, despite her being resident in the US since she was 11 or something!?

The Yanks want to make the US less accessible, by voting in the Orange Orangutan & his ICE cronies, etc, etc, so wtf would any rational person want to access the place in that climate!?

I have never been to the US. I've always found the gun-culture, and the Religious Right intimidating and in the latter case quite hostile to LGBT people, including all of the components of LGBT. I certainly won't go there under Trump, and if Vance is president, I won't go there either if he continues down the present course as his boss.

Before they were giving out about trans people (which seems fairly recent actually), they were complaining about gay people. Before that they were complaining about Black people. Its the same region of the USA as previously, i.e. the South. But its also the place where the Republican party is strongest and that has dominated the party since 1992, with the infamous "Culture Wars" speech of Pat Buchanan. Buchananism is an early form of Trumpism except it actually believed in religion. I'm sceptical Trump is really that religious, though I think he is in the tradition of authoritarian leaders that tries to co-opt it.

I was in Vegas last year because I wanted to visit a national park and Vegas just happened to be the closest city to fly to and rent a car. I only spent two half-days there at the start and end of the trip. It is probably the most bizarre place I've been to, but I don't necessary mean that in a bad way. I can totally understand why someone would dislike it, and unless you are an avid gambler, I wouldn't recommend it as a destination. But if you are in the area for the parks and hiking, I'd recommend just checking it out at least once. At the very least, you have a decent selection of high quality restaurants, albeit quite pricy.

One sort of culture shock that I couldn't get over when I was there were the number of morbidly obese American tourists just rolling around the Vegas strip on mobility scooters. A saw loads of them on the strip and in casinos; and in my hotel, loads of the mobility scooters were left in the hall outside rooms. I'd say the only time those people actually walked was to get from their bed to the mobility scooter in the morning, and vice versa in the evening.

Just got back from California

Had a wonderful time.

The less lefty visitors, the better.

Guinness was $7 for a 16oz pint in Tommy's Joynt in SF.

Yes...on draught...was surprised.

WWas only the 16 oz pint though, but still cheaper than Malahide