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Ive seen people genuinely amazed when Ive pulled up with the cap on the opposite side and they realise the filler hose extends.

Yeah but he was in the process of getting divorced. Brexit was probably his German wife's idea!

you're much hotter than I expected.

Fair enough. I would have thought they'd want friends and family or even elderly parents to come and work or live easily.

Ha. I think its probably for security reasons. They have division of labour so one person doesnt do all the jobs - ie record the names, hand out the ballots and look after the boxes.

Not doubting you, but seems really odd to vote for Brexit if it makes your other half's life more difficult.

Saw an analysis which estimated the Russians are losing (dead and seriously injured) 300 soldiers for every sq km captured. So they'd lose 186 million soldiers to grab the whole of Ukraine...

This is probably his only chance to vote Reform tbf.

I'd always choose to share a cell with a notorious serial killer over a shoplifter I'd never heard of.

Are you suggesting Liverpool residents are especially civic duty minded citizens willing to get involved in preventing crime?

I worked in a polling station once. Incredibly boring after first few hours. Would have loved a bogus voter and a fight to liven things up

Farage trying to get elected as an MP https://x.com/i/status/1808402831428239809

Tell that to Charles 1st

I get the facepalm but he also has a point. In the UK we have a genuinely impartial court system and a Supreme Court that seems to have pretty universal support. Judges are appointed solely on their merit by the monarch. Its really difficult for us to conceive of judges as political jobs appointed because they match the view of the world of whoever is the sitting President. I had the 'they only interpret what the lawmakers intended in draughting the law' argument for years with various educated US colleagues of both shades. No-one there buys that. They are as politicised as if they were a Senator and probably with more power. Over 300 Supreme court cases have been over turned by subsequent Supreme courts without the law changing. So yep, it is possible for Supreme Courts to act unlawfully

I saw this different take on twitter.... America, I'm very happy for you. Supreme Court just ruled that Biden can pass Executive Orders to forgive student loans, abandon the Electoral College, ban convicted fraudsters and liable rapists from running for the Presidency, and make himself or VP Harris President for life.

I used to watch Saturday Morning Swapshop but was ruled ineligible when I went out one weekend and bought some sweets.

But it's in place in most countries in the world for a reason and those reasons remain valid whether or not Trump is challenging it. The dangers of someone being in power for unlimited periods and using that time to accumulate more power and abolish checks and balances far outweigh the benefits of keeping someone for extra terms just because they seem nice and quite competent. There are always new nice and quite competent people you can elect.

It's a sensible amendment imo. It's really hard to maintain touch with reality when you're responsible for big decisions, live in a grace and favour house with servants, your MPs tell you what you want to hear in exchange for a ministers job and you dont have to spend hours waiting on a call centre to get the utility company to stop overcharging you or the mail order company to credit your return. People seem to lose it after about 8-10 years, either cease being effective because they've burned out and run out of fresh ideas or they develop a King complex and think they are solely right. As Thames says above it also stops you becoming a fixture and people dont develop loyalty to you personally rather than the job you're doing.

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He gave himself the power to do it in October 2020. He was just too slow and when Biden won he rescinded them. My first post wasnt well written, amended now

Yep thanks. I wrote my first post from memory but just read a bit more and updated it.

Im not sure it is is drivel. Trump assumed he was going to win re-election in 2020 and just before the election he brought in section F powers which enabled him to make almost any Government employee directly accountable to the President simply by changing the definition of what is a political appointment. Currently when the Presidency changes around 4,000 jobs change - Anthony Blinken', Ambassador to Bahrein etc. Trump wants to expand that to include about 50,000 employees to make currently non political branches of government accountable to him also. That means, in theory he can tell the Director of NOAAA which way he wants the path of a Hurricane to be reported or the Director of the FDA to declare that injecting with bleach to cure covid is safe, that NASA have landed men on Pluto or the people responsible for ballot counting that indeed he won the election. Essentially, at max, you wouldn't be able to trust any of the information you are currently given and only hear what the President wants you to hear - exactly like China and Russia. Trump said what he wants to do and gave himself the powers in October 2020 to carry it out. He just never got the chance to implement it because Biden won in 2020 and rescinded them. If he'd done it a few months earlier Biden wouldnt have won - we know that from his reaction to the count. https://protectdemocracy.org/work/trumps-schedule-f-plan-explained/#:~:text=In October 2020%2C the Trump,to the president when hiring. https://www.globalgovernmentforum.com/republicans-could-politicise-50000-civil-service-jobs-us-academic-warns/ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-retribution-agenda-government-workers-schedule-f-rcna78785

Would have thought the Trump Foundation would be your go to? https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2019/donald-j-trump-pays-court-ordered-2-million-illegally-using-trump-foundation

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