badgerx16

1) It is not your place to pick and choose who governs another country, and how. Trump won and is now trying to do exactly what he promised, so exactly what he was elected to do. All you can do is hope that the Constitution and Supreme Court stand up to him, at least until the mid terms when a referendum on his first 2 years can be held. If not, the US is a politically deeply divided country, and it is entirely conceiveable that somewhere like California would try to secede from the Union rather than be forced to follow Project 2025. Remember, there is no way that Trump has the power to amend the Constitution as he lacks both the numbers in Congress or the control of State Legislatures. 2) In Israel's case, just trust that Netanyahu's desperate lurch to the right to cling onto power is writing his political obituary. 3) Bloody revolutions rarely result in the emergence of stable successor regimes. Can you imagine such a thing occurring in Russia or China, and the chaos and destruction that would ensue ? As you say, passive resistance can create change, but this is a gradual process. In the case of Russia, what should be considered is what comes after Putin. For China and NK things are much more difficult due to the central power structure - such regimes are more likely to be overthrown by coup d'etat rather than popular uprising.

Both the US and Israel have the Governments their democratic elections gave them. If the people there want change, the next elections will give them the opportunity; in the case of the US a handful of seats swinging to the Democrats in the mid-terms will make Trump a "lame duck" President, in the case of Israel the next GE is next year. As I have said previously, democracy is a bitch. As for the people in Russia, China, and North Korea, I don't think the people have much choice, short of bloody revolution.

Why, why are some people, who think they are amazingly clever, incapable of starting sentences with a capital letter ?

She wasn't appointed because of her high IQ.

Given their collective performances, I didn't realise we actually had a GK coach.

Donnie carries ouut another Oval Office ambush, this time of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

If you stopped relegation from the PL, what happens to the other 3 Football League divisions ? Do they remain a "competitive" league, but with less trickle down funding for m the PL ? US sports are set up differently, with the drafts and salary caps intended to give every team a chance of glory over a period of time.

It depends on whether there is a taint of corruption or greed behind their "success".

Mariner

Levelling the ground in preparation for Trump's construction workers to move in.

Why add the rest ?

They shouldn't have supported HAMAS.

NETFLIX have stepped in to help save Sesame Street after Trump cut funding to PBS. ( Apparently Elmo's LINKDIN account had posted that he had been "laid off". )

Reeves teasing a trade deal with the Gulf states is next. I wonder how Kemikaze, Nige, and the Heil might respond to that.

I started out thinking "whoever is playing Spurs", but then I had to add "whoever is playing Liverpool, Everton, or Newcastle", and so on. By extrapolation I end up with "none of them" and giving MOTD a miss for a year.

Overpriced

Earlier than that - they still yearn for the Empire.

Maybe they think there are still Japanese soldiers on Kiska and Attu in the Aleutians who don't know the war is over.

Given the local election results, there are probably plenty who would go for that.

Instead we have an hereditary inbred monarch, "chosen and anointed by God".

You both said the deal was a good thing, but look at it from different viewpoints; you from "fixing the mistakes of Brexit", Weston from the "finally delivering what the Tores failed to do". Either way is valid and sees this as a good thing.

There's always somebody having a moan, regardless of the subject. They are probably just bitter because they fell for Boris and Nigel's empty promises.

Fucking rich for Kemikazi to be criticising the fishing deal given the false promises made to that industry during the Brexit campaign, and subsequently ignored, ( because they were based on bollox and could never be delivered ).

Why get aggressive with Weston when he is broadly agreeing with you ?

At least we would get to choose a President.