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  • Yep. That would literally be just the first step. Then we would - in no particular order - need to:

    • Pass an amendment specifically removing the presidential power to pardon, retroactive to January 20th, 2025 at noon Eastern time. All the criminals he released get locked back up again. The power to pardon would go to an independent commission from then on.
    • Throw all of these bastards breaking our government into prison. For life. These are traitors to the country.
    • Establish an independent task force to systematically uncover everything they’ve done, and reverse it or mitigate it.
    • Dedicate trillions of dollars to the cleanup. Raise taxes on billionaires to fund it.
    • Overturn Citizens United with another constitutional amendment.
    • Impeach and replace six Justices (you know which ones) of the Supreme Court with new Justices that will immediately make bribery illegal again.
    • Do away with the unconstitutional cap on representatives, and require one representative for every 580,000 people (the population of our least populous state).
    • Do away with the electoral college.

    And much more. None of this is likely to happen, of course. So… We’re kinda boned as far as international relations are concerned.










  • OK, that makes sense. Sadly, all of my family have been here for four generations or more. My wife has one slightly easier potential option: If her father claimed Irish citizenship and moved to Ireland, she could piggyback on his Irish citizenship and claim it for herself and our kids, and I’d be able to live there as her husband. But that’s really a non-starter, since her father has health issues that preclude a big move like that.

    Right now, we’re focusing on Vancouver, B.C., because my oldest wants to go to college there, and it’s not too far away from where we are now in the Pacific Northwest. If I can get my company to move me, that will make it a lot easier, as they have an office there and my job is 100% remote anyway. But until he finds out if he’s accepted or not, we’re in a frustrating hurry-up-and-wait mode.