It wouldn’t even be possible if he did want to.

Given how government works at breakneck glacial speed and they would never be able to process everyone in time. Maybe they could handle some of the ones with cases, but not anywhere near everyone. They would have to make contact, start the process, process, and distribute paperwork on more than 11 million people. It would take them months just to make a broken website to gather information for submissions.

“He could just declare it and anyone who came here before a given date would be protected.” How do you establish when someone got here? Supporting documents? They will be able to process that over the next few years, which they would be deported long before they could be processed.

It would take an act of Congress to be able to do the legal maneuvers necessary to do what would be needed.

Or what you put in a storage unit that is inconveniently far away. I still need those 5mm magnets…

Backpacking. I have a big plastic bin filled with equipment that I decided to go another direction with.

But makers are the kings of hobby hoarding, just look at Adam Savage. He has parts for things he hasn’t even thought of building. He has a plethora of tools that overlap entirely just because the set of tools is closer to a given work aspect. Walls of bins with various degrees of filled because he bought 100 of something a decade ago that may have a future use.

The question isn’t about affording it, the questions is why China would give up such a valuable Intel gathering and propaganda tool? They wouldn’t sell it for all the tea in China.

Illegally crossing the border violates federal law, which Newsom can’t pardon. He could pardon those convicted under state law, but if they are not legal immigrants, he couldn’t pardon them for what will actually get them deported.

The other two demands, he could refuse the money and the feds can just eminent domain any lands they want to appropriate and California has more than enough federal land for the camps. So really all that is realistically on the table without drawn out lawsuits is refusing the cash.

New Underground Railroad is on pre-release for sure.

The next 4 years are going to be wilder than the first 4 under The Orange Man.

I don’t thing corpse borne explosive device(CBEDs) are a legal form of burial, but I am not one to stand in the way of someone’s dreams so long as nobody is physically harmed.

I don’t thing corpse borne explosive device(CBEDs) are a legal form of burial, but I am not one to stand in the way of someone’s dreams so long as nobody is physically harmed.

Especially since the damn nanny state outlawed laudanum.

Gold, as is tradition of countries we invade.

You have to qualify for asylum to function as if you were a lawful immigrant.

Not liking the direction the US is going doesn’t really qualify and your application will be expedited and likely denied because the US is considered safe. You do get the right to legal help and appeal, but you would still be an American without a legal basis for asylum and would be unlikely to find success on appeal.

Yeah, they probably won’t kick you out, but you would be an illegal immigrant and have to live that life, which would just be like working minimum wage in America, but with healthcare and a language barrier.

The reality is that most of the countries that fit what you describe don’t just let anyone in. You have to meet certain criteria to be able to lawfully emigrate.

If you have money, no problem. If you don’t have money, you will have to be an academic, have expertise(senior systems engineer, doctor, pilot, etc.), or go to college and try to become a citizen. The process can take years and can be costly.

Let’s look at Belgium.

Invest hundreds of thousands of Euro into their economy, obtain a work permit under contract with a Belgian employer, gain admittance to a college and prove you can afford school, get an internship with a Belgian company, get hired as a manager or director at a Belgian company, or have a business proposal to start a business in Belgium and submit it to the government. You could always marry a Belgian, but it better be a genuine relationship.

So you can’t just decide to move to Belgium.

That is pretty typical for EU nations, which are probably where you want to move to for what you described.

How about Thailand? Same deal as Belgium.

Canada? Same deal as Belgium.

And supposedly lower taxes to help offset that somehow, but all the same the costs will be passed on to us.

Who is the arbiter of death that decides when it is right on behalf of another?

They will.

Farms that grow crops that need manual harvesting will switch to corn, soy, etc. that can be harvested with a combine or shut down. The manual harvest crops will be bought from another country.

I think all you really need is a cabin, some ANFO, and determination.

Also a fun outcome.

I volunteer.

Best case, I get to see the beauty of existence and get a Wikipedia page.

Worst case, I finally snap and die after shooting myself in the back of the head twice.

Russia has previously unlocked pipeline technology and aren’t all that concerned with ecological impacts of their actions.

If they had to tap Lake Baikal to supply the population, it wouldn’t be unimaginable.

There definitely will be other areas with far greater issues.

Russia has a current population of around 143.8m people. One quarter of the Earth’s freshwater is in Russia. Lake Baikal has a total volume of 6 quadrillion, which is 20% of Earth’s freshwater.

The average Russian household uses 64 gallons of water per day. So Russia, with only Lake Baikal, has enough access to freshwater for over 10,000 years if no water is added to the lake and the population doesn’t change.

Republicans getting union support isnt much of an accomplishment.