Step 1: taking the kids to London and Paris next week for the their first time,
Step 2: encouraging them to do overseas full semester study as soon as they can (2nd soph semester or 1st jr semester),
Step 3: maybe with enough time in other countries they'll find a way to stay, particularly if things here keep going downhill.
Mrs. Bullneck and I can survive here until we retire then we're likely headed for the Caribbean somewhere.
I stumbled across this episode on TV one day a few months ago. Didn't have any idea who these people were. Cliff Notes: Mom and Dad are uptight southern Christians who can't believe their beautiful girl got a SHORT HAIRCUT!!! Short, as in lesbian or trans short!!! Scandal.
(FWIW I think she's cute as hell).
Sure, that makes sense and all until a family member is picked up off the street and taken to a gulag. That will steal your joy and happiness.
It's not a problem yet, as they have only kidnapped citizens who are brown ("When they came for the Latinos, I wasn't Latino").
They're just testing the waters. They'll get around to anyone who disobeys, eventually.
I can't find it at the moment (admittedly, I'm not trying very hard) but in the 1800s aigy tried to shut us down completely. Wiki kinda glosses over that, but here it is:
You'd have to be insane to come to a World Cup in a country that might just throw you in jail for no reason, especially if you've been visiting our newest adversaries (Canada and Mexico).
Also, what C-Man said about FIFA. At least hundreds of people didn't die building the stadiums.
How'd you like to know you're going into a battle you know isn't necessary for this guy?
Bullneck, Jr. knows at least three guys at the Naval Academy right now. No way I was going to support that for him.
We traded a fairly stable set of laws and code of conduct (slowly, over the last couple of decades) for a monarchy. Monarchies are good when the leader is good and bad when he's bad. We literally picked the worst monarch we could find.
So we can only go "up," right? We got that going for us, which is nice.