Totally agree, but millions wouldn’t. It’s quite baffling.
Crikey, I wouldn’t normally dignify most of what @rocam says with a reply, but that’s one of the most bonkers bit of conspiracy theory I’ve heard in a while. The ‘Global Left’ , yes with CAPITALS for emphasis, runs the banking system ? 
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It’s entirely a construct of the Tufton Street nutcases. It’s the line that Liz Truss has been suggesting recently.
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Exactly - it’s always vague (whereas the right wing puppet masters are generally well known).
It will be the fault of the Illuminati next!
Well I only know it’s not my fault.
I think. 
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Not wanting to stir anything up though I wonder if that left wing jewish conspiracy George Soros thing was in mind… ?
Well, that’s sort of the way my thinking was going. Changing emphasis away from the usual anti semitic tropes to find a more ‘acceptable’ scapegoat.
I once had a Kafka-esque experience arriving at New York Newark from London.
It transpired that the border team had not taken the I-94 stub from my passport on my previous departure from the US.
Newark’s finest then detained me on the grounds that I could not have left after the previous visit as I still had the stub which their agent would definitely have removed. When I pointed out that the exit stamp in my passport dated two weeks earlier suggested that I had in fact left, they countered with the idea that I could have been hiding in the airport for two weeks.
Luckily at that stage a supervisor arrived, and he agreed with me that hiding in an airport in San Francisco for two weeks would not be compatible with my current appearance in Newark. I was allowed on my way after 6 hours with stern warnings to ‘not try that kind of thing again, sir’.
Still, 6 hours to clear security at Newark wasn’t much longer than the standard processing time.
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Typical of a jumped up ego driven prick in a uniform.
The two goons concerned spent most of their non-interrogation time discussing the likelihood of being able to successfully shoot some of the many pigeons flying around in the tall building with their service revolvers.
One was quite gung-ho while his colleague was doubtful, as he had failed to hit the designated target in any of his mandatory firearms tests. And yet he still had a gun…
Priceless, 
, don’t you just love petty officialdom? Except when you are kept hanging about for hours of course. 
There is a very funny film along those lines, about a visitor to the US being detained on arrival and not allowed to proceed because there had been a coup in his country while he was in the air and therefore his passport was invalidated. Tom Hanks, I think.
Anecdotally you got off lightly - I’ve heard tales of people not allowed to enter the US because of their previous exit not being processed correctly.
“The Terminal” 2004, directed by Spielberg. Based on a true story (ish).
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Indeed, Billy. Until the supervisor (who possessed the single government-issue brain cell allocated to the department) arrived, the pair had decided that the best response would be to return me to the country shown on my passport.
I once flew into SFO for work on the same flight as some colleagues on a and was waiting patiently in the vast arrivals hall (alway warm and smelling like an old school changing room) when I heard a commotion in the queue several isles over. I spotted a Sri Lankan colleague of mine who appeared to have enjoyed the Upper Class bar on our Virgin Atlantic rather more than he should have and was arguing the toss with a very angry Border Control officer. Oddly enough, he wasn’t detained and appeared at the baggage reclaim only a few minutes behind the rest of us.
He was still an Apple employee when I left in 2018, though nobody knew how he managed this as he had the Reverse Midas Touch and required “significant management supervision” as my old boss politely phrased it.
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You mean doing his job, not like the UK border farce.
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No I meant what I said, no issue with all these guys doing their jobs anywhere in the world but in this case, even having seen their colleague hadnt done their job properly in removing the ticket from tne passort and the very very unlikely idea dpending all that time in the airport, 20 hours wasnt it? Common sense still did not prevail. Do the job throughly and properly but after discovering from the date stamp in the passport that there was an error, should have wound his neck in and stopped being an arse.
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There’s definitely a book idea in there somewhere. The Compendium of Mindless Bureacratic Nightmares or something.