Indeed, and we might need to be ready to play some hardball 'tit for tat' if it comes to it. However we've always been 'the mouse' to their 'elephant' so that might not be feasible.
.. and even just economically, AFAIK we have treaties we would have difficulty getting out of; such as to provide them with water. We ship a lot of our raw resources (beef, lumber) down to them only to buy back finished goods, stuff like that. Canada will be in a real jam if we feel a need to distance ourselves properly from the USA.
And people wonder why Snowden went outside of "whistleblower protection" avenues.
We all know such protections are useless if those exposed are powerful enough. Best to get it out beyond their control before they even know they have been outed.
At this point, the best outcome would be for Biden to self-sacrifice, and go on the ultra-offensive:
"Oh, SCOTUS is supporting the fact a President can commit insurrection, and is absolutely immune, or at least can't be prosecuted while or after being President?
Fine. I have just signed Executive Order #XXX, dissolving the SCOTUS and unseating each of this handpicked list of State and Federal Judges, effective immediately, replacing them with this other (waves big sheet of papers) hand-picked list.
Also, I have just signed Executive Order #YYY, calling for the immediate arrest and indefinite detention of this handpicked list (waves the thid, EVEN LARGER pile in his other hand) of Enemies Of The Republic.
Furthermore, I am resigning as President of the United States immediately, please stand and sing Our National Anthem to welcome President Kamala Harris to the Oval Office as the new Executive In Chief. Thank You and Good Night."
(Just in case there's a way to veto these Executive Orders, he should send guards to discreetly lock Congress at nighttime so they can't hold a vote just before he goes on TV.)
I think you'd see either some VERY quick backtracking by the entire SCOTUS, plus the GOP asking for an emergency meeting and a chance to make things right, or a short Civil War. Which is coming anyhow, by the looks of it, so might as well get it over with now.
He's near the end of his life, so why not perform this selfless act for the good of the nation?
How can they NOT see, and not be frightened, that by not holding him accountable, they are literally opening up the possibility that he will dissolve the SCOTUS on his "day one" of being dictator? That would be ironic and I wouldn't put it past him.
Heh, 'garbage language' or 'garbage-collected language'? Until Go I considered the two to be the same :)
But yeah... the tooling is a strong point IMO.
(Package management went downhill once the whole GOPROXY thing was introduced. When 'go get' was the simplest way to fetch packages, things were great IMHO ... but I'm not doing big enterprise-y stuff so maybe my view is too narrow as to the issues of 'vendoring', version management etc.)
Concluding paragraphs are a thinly veiled bash at Golang and its creators. Whatever. I like Go. I like C. I like lots of other languages, for different reasons. Haven't learned Rust yet, but am already tired of the ivory-tower attitude of its proponents.
Oh, so Trudeau's interested in electoral reform again is he? Funny how just after he first got elected all those promises and commitees to look at alternatives to FPTP just faded... but now that he might lose it's suddenly back on the table?
Democrats really need to seize onto this -- start musing publically and loudly about who Biden should imprison first, without trial, once Trump hands him the power to do so!
Indeed, and we might need to be ready to play some hardball 'tit for tat' if it comes to it. However we've always been 'the mouse' to their 'elephant' so that might not be feasible.