I'm assuming that the army was at its best when you were serving? Honestly, I often really struggle to take you seriously. You come across as such a caricature of a standard issue Facebook boomer that this feels like a bit.
I think you underplay the part the electoral system and the checks and balances in the system are weighted against any sort of radical party of any hue. The. Uniparty jibe is unfair but there is some truth in the system that underpins it being created to serve the two main parties. It’s why Labour shy away from electoral reform. Purely financial and electoral gain. Having worked for first term Blair I can tell you that even at the heart of Govt with a very strong majority and a clear mandate it’s hard to get big things done. For a slim majority / coalition it’ll be virtually impossible as May found out. Also ignores the fact that Farage is all ego and falls out with everyone. That he has zero political experience of having to actually do things. As Johnson found out you quickly get found out. Fundamentally we get the politicians and politics that we deserve so just like many on the left who ignored the warnings about Starmer many on the right will ignore the warnings about Reform. If they do then that will be on them.
he's grooming his son Barron to succeed him. Don't put it past him to scrap the next Presidential elections
So Trump argues that the two term rule only applies to consecutive terms and announces he will go again. Appoints Barron as his VP running mate. Chief Justice John Roberts and his other Supreme Court chums wave him through. I could see that happening as easily as anything. The orange one steps aside two years in and Barron is POTUS. He then claims a further two terms. Outrageous and unconstitutional - for sure. But far-fetched? No.
I think it is, mate. I think his ego is too big for his lasting legacy to have been completely eradicating the US. I think he is grooming Barron, but as he will still be nowhere near the required age of 35 to run, it will be after they try and get Vance 2 terms, and then I'm sure some new sparkling far right puppet will spring it for 4 years until Barron takes the holy grail. It can all be stopped in 2 & 4 years though, if democrats finally sort themselves out. All time low for dem approval, doesn't surprise me one jot. On the plus side, in my eternal optimism though, it can only surely get better for them now.
Let's hope so. Meanwhile Chuck Todd on radio this morning gives other reassurance: "If Trump can stand a third time, then so can Obama!"
Except the rule they're trying to change is 2 consecutive terms, which would mean Trump is allowed to run and Obama is not. These moronic neo-lib centrists need to realise that Trump isn't playing by any regular rules. "He's not allowed to do that" or "The supreme court will stop that" aren't a thing anymore and the sooner people realise that the better.
He's a liar. Said it time and time again yet he'll still get plaudits on here simply cos he has a red rosette. He lied to get the Labour leadership and, most recently, he effectively lied in the manifesto to get into power. There was nothing in the manifesto about cutting disability social security. There WAS something about going after non-doms but he's renaged on that. No principles whatsoever except a) what gets you into power and b) who can be targeted who is a weak demographic without much influence. Nasty, nasty piece of work. And the latest sickening comments relate to his 'liking' for Donald Trump. Liking and respecting Donald Trump tells you something else about him....
Real life stories here. Countless thousands of these thanks to a 'caring' and 'moral' Labour Party. ‘I can’t sleep, I’m so scared’: disabled people face benefit cuts domino effect https://www.theguardian.com/society...enefit-cut-domino-effect-pip-carers-allowance
I like to think myself a socialist and I’m certainly no fan of cutting disability benefits. But that Guardian article is as poor a piece of propaganda as any you’d fine in a right wing rag. None of them are remotely likely to have anything cut at all. And I find it very problematic that the last example states that the nhs don’t offer any assistance for his ‘conditions’ - I know for a fact that there is a wealth of help on the nhs for persons living with cerebral palsy. Including aquatherapy, Physiotherapy, cognitive and development treatments, respite care to allow family carers a break. All of it. Experienced it. Could help be better? Of course. But to say there’s no help for his ‘conditions’ is completely false.
See they are floating means testing free school meals for kids to see how it lands. I mean why not? Attack pensioners. Attacking the disabled. Attack kids. Grim.
years 1-3. Also ending free sanitary products. Ending childcare subsidies. https://x.com/jonathanpienews/status/1904183774402806080?s=61&t=ZE1j6ndDucny8bLNCR9p9g https://x.com/thegreenparty/status/1904127978851774525?s=61&t=ZE1j6ndDucny8bLNCR9p9g
[QUOTE="troff, post: 3436473, member: 7397" None of them are remotely likely to have anything cut at all. .[/QUOTE] Are you a PIP assessor? Have you filled in a PIP form? Have you had a face-to-face PIP assessment knowing that the interviewer would be paid a £140 bonus if your claim was stopped? Thats on top of the tightening up of rules to make sure its even harder to claim - effectively a cost-cutting exercise at the expense of the people in the article and other needy people If the last person's 'help' and access to help was exaggerated, as you say, the article is no more propagandistic than Starmer's attempt to spin the cuts as 'moral'.
