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For someone who has a history of complaining about electoral interference, offering what is effectively a $20Bn bribe to Argentine voters seems contradictory.

I am not dieputing the legalitiy. However, I am arguing my stance as to something that is very "wrong" with America.

The case law doesn't alter the wording of the Second Amendment, it establishes an interpretation of what it means. Americans, including SC Judges, seem to have a blind spot about the Amendment, and infer what the Founding Fathers actually meant when drafting the Constitution. There is little regard to how the World has moved on from the specific threats and issues that existed during and immediately after the Revolutionary War.

There are at least 5 different texts of the Second Amendment, it varies from State to State in terms of the exact punctuation ratified by that State's Legislature. None of them mention the protection of life and property, the text relates to the maintenance of a "well regulated militia" to ensure "the security of a free State." The bigger issue with the Amenment is that it is seen as inviolable, yet other Amendments have been varied, or even struck down. What is so special about the Second, given that all States maintain "well regulated" militias in the form of the National Guard ?

"I seen a horse fly, I seen a dragon fly, I seen a house fly, ................ But I've been, done, seen about everything When I see a elephant fly"

On the subject of Charlie Kirk, and how wonderful a person he was; On October 28th 2022, David De Pape broke into Nancy Pelosi's home armed with a hammer, intending to kidnap Mrs Pelosi. When he couldn't find her he assaulted her husband with the hammer and left him with a severely fractured skull. De Pape was remanded in custody. Kirk, on his podcast, said “Why has he not been bailed out? By the way, if some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out", before repeating a conspiracy theory that the attack was actually a gay lovers' tiff. Real Christian values there.

You know when you have made a valid point on the forum - Nic gives it a laughing emoji.

Charlie Kirk didn't make uneducated comments, he was very clever at promoting a particular point of view despite almost certainly knowing the facts often went against his standpoint. He was a propagandist for Project 2025, and like any other form of propaganda, there had to be a basis in fact, if only a fleeting relationship. EDIT: and anybody that lobbies against gun control is most definitely stupid.

He may have played a role in the Gaza peace plan, it may have been significant, or he may simply be a figurehead being used to front up work done by others and having his fragile ego massaged, but it does not erase the many instances that evidence his mental incapacity.

Claiming squatter's rights ?

Are Palestinian Jews not Jewish ?

Interestingly, she is Jewish; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ye19w98qxo

Meanwhile, in the "WAR ZONE" that is Portland, outside the ICE base.......

Serves me right for speed reading and not engaging my brain,I should have remembered that that figure is the aggregate of the coalition parties that formed the Government.

I thought you were fucking off to the United States of MAGA. Anyhow, what about the war he was going to fix "in 24 hours" ? https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-war

Few seats in Parliament are ever won 50% of the votes cast, and almost never with 50% of the Electoral Roll. Similarly, David Cameron's win in 2010 was the only GE since 1935 where the winning party gained 50% or more of the votes cast.

I do, it says Make America Go Away, but no way I would ever watch Strictly.

If it goes tits up will he deny having anything to do with it, as he did with the deal he signed with the Taliban.

Yes. Acceptance thst Israel is not going away and the Palestinians need a secure guaranteed home. Easy on paper, but politics will always get in the way.

Do you agree that the actions of Egypt, Syria, Iran, etc, at verious points since 1948, have caused Israel to act ? This is not a black and white picture.

More specifcally one branch of Israeli politics. But are not Israel's actions, at least in part, due to the attitudes and actions of some of it's neighbours, particularly Iran ? Cause and effect are buried deep in historical mire.

And their support of Saudi Arabia. All religions breed extremists, and they range from the bloke at Soap Box Corner in Hyde Park shouting "Jesus Saves" to bored dog walkers, through to people blowing themseves up in crowds to gain ready access to Paradise, with many and varied stages in between. The existence of Israel is a goad to those wishing to provoke violence to boost their own ego/ power, but ultimately neither side will win by force.

Is not the United States the "Great Satan" ?

Islamic extremism has existed as long as there has been Islam, and most of it's victims have been Muslim. The manner of the creation of the state of Israel merely gives it a convenient focus and excuse.

Unless HAMAS is Hospitals and Medical Aid Sites.