US Election & Presidency

(19-01-2025 15:36 )schvall Wrote:  There is said to be a risk of hypothermia in Washington tomorrow and even frostbite if you stay outside for a long time.

-4 with a moderate breeze, heading for -12 at night.

It's the wind chill that will be the killer, at that temperature. Bad enough working out in it, but standing about for hours is insanity.

So, as soon as he's got his feet back under the Resolute Desk he's going to issue a stay of execution for TikTok. That should keep the funds flowing from China until Elmo can find some mugs to finance his latest purchase.

20/1/25 The day satire died RIP

(19-01-2025 22:20 )Tumble_Drier Wrote:  So, as soon as he's got his feet back under the Resolute Desk he's going to issue a stay of execution for TikTok. That should keep the funds flowing from China until Elmo can find some mugs to finance his latest purchase.

So Congress, full of elected representatives commonly called 'lawmakers', passed a bill into law. It was challenged in the courts, as is the right, and ultimately, the Supreme Court ruled that this law was legit.
All fairly normal and common procedures in a modern democracy.

But then the orange man-baby comes in and just overturns that without any logical reasoning or justification. This in the supposed biggest democracy in the world!
An ultimate leader having ultimate power to overturn democratic decisions and to overturn the highest court in the land without having to go back to congress to make a new law overturning the old law, sounds more dictatorial than democratic to me.
Think this alone sums up the awful and confused state of america's 'democracy'.

Putin must be jealous of the power DT has

I think even Keir Starmer probably is more jealous than Putin.

And the BBC think the orange man baby deserves to hog the TV for a whole afternoon?

Given the state of US politics I'm beginning to think confused.com are the real lawmakers in the US that's why their politics is in a confused state I bet they would even vote one of those bloody meerkats as president next time!!

shame its inside now i know that 2 presidents have died shortly after it because of the cold weather

Tempting fate HP?

(20-01-2025 07:44 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  20/1/25 The day satire died RIP

I find that the Village People singing 'Young Man' to the oldest President elect very satirical.
Singing a gay anthem to Donald Trump may seem odd but he was born in Queens.

(20-01-2025 08:53 )munch1917 Wrote:  Snip

I don't think he can overturn it. Seems more likely it'll be a delay to give more time for Musk to raise the money Trump to find a way to cut himself in on the deal them to find a buyer.

Some officials from the EU have apparently said the block should buy it with the help of private investors, makes sense if they don't want it going all twitter.