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It can be changed but it is difficult. It should be. At least they, France, India, etc. have a written constitution to change,
UK has a few phataahua documents like magna carta, historical precedence, powedered wigs, hereditary house of lords and head of state. If some bozos say there is a constitution crisis, everybody runs around screaming c crisis c crisis. They want Charles III to intervene. Politicos, “constipation” egg spurts and politicos get lot of TV FaceTime. Finally they declare it has been avoided. Then everybody goes back to their clubs and to their town houses in London to have a go at their mistresses. Mohammedan grooming gangs continue to rape poor white brutishiter.
Vayutuvanji, I wonder and personally I think it will be interesting to see how things play out. When constitutions of India or US were written or not as in case of UK, the implicit assumption was that the people in various pillars of power would be a so called landed gentry or upper class or basically gentlemen. So only the very minimal checks and balances were put in (inspite of US tomtoming its much vaunted safeguards inherent in their system of government) . There was never a consideration where a Orange man types would come in, subvert the judiciary and legislature try to become above all. He hasn’t succeeded yet of course (despite what Dems say) but he is on that path. He could do that because of another peculiar aspect of US polity: essentially two party system. So people are forced to go with one or the other even if they don’t agree with both…
The UK hasn’t faced an orange man type scenario yet: Farage is the cheap temu version of Trump, and polls show he may become the PM if polls were held now, but polls are 3 years away. Plus judicial subversion is not really a thing in UK like in US where one can stack judges. Still, absent a constitution and a huge reliance on precedents in case law : does it means in theory an Orange man scenario is easier? I don’t know. Plus UK has more parties…
In India, the sheer amount of parties and their street power means orange man scenarios are difficult to pull off. Yes Indira did it for 2 years but really, it wasn’t sustainable and I doubt if it is possible now with the huge population. It worked for Indira as cops to police ratio was high and GoI was the only game in town for everything…
Both parties want to stack the judges across the spectrum. But the US does have a lengthy and gruelling open to public hearings for all appointments.
When GOPers appoint judges, Dems cirb and vice versa. But at least everything is transparent. Some judges get denied appointments like in the case of Bork. IDK whether any of the Dem nominees were every denied the appointment.
To quote: In an era before professional standing armies were common, state-organized militias, made up of armed citizens, were the primary force for national defense. The Second Amendment aimed to secure the effectiveness of these militias by protecting citizens' rights to own firearms, which they supplied themselves.
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The ownership of machine guns has been strongly regulated for decades, and there has been no serious Second Amendment challenge to those laws, as far as I know. The application of the Second Amendment is selective.
@Tanaji, the Federalist Papers do consider the possibility of an Orange Man. But the point of view they had is that the various institutions would be jealous of their powers and not easily cede them to another branch of government.
The American founders did not anticipate the two party system, as far as I know, one of their big failures. Also the two parties have sown up the market - made it very difficult for any new party to enter, by all kinds of rules and regulations.
As long as both parties were fighting each other for the center which was a huge majority, from their positions on the right or the left, the situation was stable. But when the American electorate polarized, “ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”.
As for the multiparty system, take India itself. Other than BJP, all other parties are dynast parties. I would take two parties - slightly liberal and slightly conservative but capitalist nationalistic, over the multiparty INO of India.
In India, if the budget doesn't pass, the govt falls. In the US, the govt merely shuts down till all constituencies do some give and take and reopen the govt. I will take a system of imposing short time pain to avoid chaos than coalition horse trading with unreliable politicos of CBN-Nitish Kumar ilk. Or the Dravidian or SS BSers.
State and federal law enforcement officials have arrested 125 illegal immigrants during a targeted enforcement action along Interstate 40 in western Oklahoma, Gov. Kevin Stitt announced today.
Under Operation Guardian, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP), in partnership with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), encountered numerous commercial truck drivers operating with licenses issued by sanctuary states, including one individual whose New York commercial driver’s license (CDL) identified the individual as “No Name Given.”
“If New York wants to hand out CDLs to illegal immigrants with ‘No Name Given,’ that’s on them. The moment they cross into Oklahoma, they answer to our laws,” Stitt said. “I want to thank our troopers and ICE officials for their hard work. This is about keeping Oklahomans safe.”
During the Operation Guardian enforcement action, Stitt announced that law-enforcement officials apprehended more than 125 illegal immigrants from multiple countries, including India, Uzbekistan, China, Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Mauritania.
In some self-proclaimed “sanctuary” states, local and state officials have actively taken steps to protect illegal immigrants from immigration enforcement, including through the issuance of driver’s licenses to people who entered the nation illegally.
That practice has come under fire since some of those drivers reportedly cannot read English and do not know U.S. traffic laws.
... Citing an ongoing national audit, federal officials said that in California alone, more than 25 percent of non-domiciled CDLs reviewed were improperly issued.
“What our team has discovered should disturb and anger every American,” Duffy said. “Licenses to operate a massive, 80,000-pound truck are being issued to dangerous foreign drivers—oftentimes illegally. This is a direct threat to the safety of every family on the road, and I won’t stand for it. Today’s actions will prevent unsafe foreign drivers from renewing their license and hold states accountable to immediately invalidate improperly issued licenses.”
The federal review found that California had issued a commercial driver’s license to one driver from Brazil that included endorsements to drive a passenger bus and a school bus. The individual’s license was valid for months after the driver’s legal presence expired.
Federal officials said there have been at least five fatal crashes occurring since January involving non-domiciled CDL holders.Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington were also identified as states with licensing patterns not consistent with federal regulations.
“Trump HUMILIATES Dems Over DEMANDING Funding of ILLEGALS Healthcare & A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN”
0:00- Intro
2:10- speaker, Mike Johnson Slams Democrats on CNN
3:33-Trump post Satire-post about Dems Are MAD
6:06- DEMOCRATS ON CNN FUND ILLEGALS
9:16- DEM Melissa Hortman Voted NO For ILLEGALS
10:37- SHUT IT DOWN AMERICANS SAY ONLINE
13:08- DEMS said no To ILLEGALS IN 2000 Against BUSH
16:11- DEMS ARE DIRTY “Final Thoughts “
First two minutes is great. Hillary Clinton in 1993-94 time frame talking about Healthcare for illegal immigrants. Looks like Medicare has become better now so much so that Dems want to shut down the govt if illegals - 11 millions - do not receive healthcare. At 6:06 mark.
(Added later): 13:08 mark. That is very very very interesting.
There is an inherent tension in MAGA between the obsession with “warriors,” and “war fighting,” and “lethality,” and the “Department of War” on one hand, and the “no more wars,” “we ain’t the world’s policeman,” America First isolationism on the other.
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The America First foreign policy doctrine is one of malign isolationism: It courts strategic adversaries, so as not to antagonize them. And it antagonizes our allies in order to make sure they know they cannot count on our assistance.
The goal of America First is to never deploy the military in combat any closer or more protracted than remotely blowing up a couple Venezuelan boats or dropping bunker busters on Iranian mountains.
> The goal of America First is to never deploy the military in combat any closer or more protracted than remotely blowing up a couple Venezuelan boats or dropping bunker busters on Iranian mountains.
Fine with me. I don't want my kids to shed blood for Pukraine or Kuwait (as in Desert storm) or support Qatari narrative in their colleges.
Major Arya also touches on West Asia. From him I learned that the Hamas office in Qatar was set up by the request of the US. Major Arya says that whatever you think about Netanyahu, he does what he says. It is Trump that bombed Iran in the middle of negotiations; gave the green light to Israel to bomb Qatar and then feigned outrage. He says now that there are two versions of Trump's 20 point plan out there, depending on the audience.
Trump TRIGGERS The Left With Viral Sombrero Meme A meme meant to satirize the absurd lengths Democrats would go to for votes caused the left to hyperventilate as they repeatedly got trolled by the President and the internet at large.
In this 2013 interview with Piers Morgan, Bill Clinton described Vladimir Putin as highly intelligent and someone who keeps his word.....
and these
Unfortunately we Amrus were misled by Kiltons, Ombaba, and Chucky "doll" Schumer that Putin is another Yeltsin. Too late that Biden found out that he is ambitious and made of sterner stuff.
