azimir

Land of the free! Small government!

Just small enough to fit into your pants...

Every vote for a Republican/Conservative is a vote against liberty.

So far my German immigration process has been hazy at every step. It's more like the information isn't clear and the process requires careful reading of shifting rules all the time. Not so much antagonism, more like underfunded infrastructure.

We're moving with as many of our adult children as we can convince and logistically manage out of this place. The US is losing two STEM PhD holders, multiple bachelors in engineering, and other bachelors degree holders. Yes, we're stupidly lucky to have the resources to make the move, but it's going to basically destroy my retirement resources. It's worth it if my children have a chance of a better life. We're racing the clock to get out before the borders are closed.

Fuck the Nazis in charge of this place and the people who voted them into power.

Danke!

I've been visiting Germany since 1995. I've been to many countries around the world, but there's something about how Germany feels that's just right to me. I'm very excited to really give it a try as a new home.

I've been dreaming about having a döner. It's time.

I'm either too early or too late... I've already got a slot to make the US -> EU move for a faculty position. Ever since Jan 6th's complete lack of response by the US government to arrest and prosecute the coup leaders I knew it was time to give another country a try and it's finally coming to fruition.

The faculty and students heading to grad school from my engineering school are asking about my documentation and guides to getting work, handling immigration, and getting to grad programs in Europe. The US is going to see record breaking brain drain.

When the various circuit courts allowed slower level judges like Canon to keep not enforcing good law on the people staging a coup, the judges allowed the Constitution to be destroyed. It's just a piece of paper unless it's upheld and defended.

The right wing has been undermining the federal courts for decades with unqualified ideologue appointments and this is the result. The rule of law is gone and the coup needs to remove any and all remaining opposition. It's classic dictatorship 101 to remove judges who oppose you, both through legal and violent means. The courts failed to act as a body of law for decades and now they are in serious trouble.

This doesn't include the horses, mules, and camels people are seeing the filming the Russians using to move around the front.

... so no contempt of court? Every person "just following orders" from the top on down needs to be arrested, charged, and detained until the courts decide on the punishment for refusing to follow the law. Unless that happens there's no law and no Constitutional Republic in play.

Have fun paying your taxes, fellow peasants.

The US administration did disband/downsize (who can tell anymore since they're being illegally secret about government doings) the agency who develops the annual GDP numbers. In the future it will all be made up numbers to suit their immediate goals.

1984 here we go.

According to the US Supreme Court, a US president cannot be prosecuted for crimes (if they're related to their official duties, but whatever goes, I guess). This means that Canada is faced with the fact that they're being attacked by a foreign power with a ruler not beholden to the rule of law. If they give in, they're going to be conquered by a king who is not bound by a national constitution, legislative body, nor courts. This is an existential threat to their freedom as individuals with rights.

She is the best representative Georgia chooses to send. They like being just this fucking dumb. Send her once, you got tricked. Send her twice? You're just stupid and obviously angry enough to hurt everyone else just because you're in pain.