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American politics

DubSpur said:
Some commentators reckon this is a trial run to see how far he can push it with getting the military to enforce a clamp down. If it succeeds they say he could do the same around elections in order to stay in power. Seems far fetched now, but 4 years of eroding the norms little by little...
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I heard the same, as a dress rehearsal for the mid terms.
The Capitol riots were the test to see how far he could push against the office itself. This whole tenure has been seeing how far he get with changing and controlling the instruments of Gov.

It doesn't seem far fetched at all.
Politicising the army on a small scale is one thing - doing it en masse is where I expect the army to push back; it's such an intrinsic part of the American identity, I don't think they'll tolerate being ordered to do things they disrupt elections and that involves attacking US citizens on a large scale.
The small occurrences like LA, Universities in the 70s etc are small and over in a flash. I think that'll be the line.
If it's not.....then it just proves the Constitution wasn't worth the parchment it was written on.
 
Mexico does not allow foreigners to participate in political protests. According to Article 33 of the Mexican Constitution, foreigners are prohibited from engaging in political activities, including demonstrations, as this is considered interference in national affairs. Participation can lead to detention and deportation. For example, in 2002, American students were deported for joining a peaceful protest in Mexico City.


The Mexican president has called on Mexicans in America to protest. Does not seem equality works both ways.
 
DubSpur said:
Some commentators reckon this is a trial run to see how far he can push it with getting the military to enforce a clamp down. If it succeeds they say he could do the same around elections in order to stay in power. Seems far fetched now, but 4 years of eroding the norms little by little...
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As Jon Stewart notes....the short term win of engineering such a major blow up for Trump is the re-burying of his kryptonite...the Epstein files.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
As Jon Stewart notes....the short term win of engineering such a major blow up for Trump is the re-burying of his kryptonite...the Epstein files.
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Even if the files documents beyond any doubt that Trump had frequent orgies with six year old boys, the republican party will just ignore it all and put forward a new, manifactured conspiracy theory involving democrats/liberals instead.
 
Danishfurniturelover said:
Mexico does not allow foreigners to participate in political protests. According to Article 33 of the Mexican Constitution, foreigners are prohibited from engaging in political activities, including demonstrations, as this is considered interference in national affairs. Participation can lead to detention and deportation. For example, in 2002, American students were deported for joining a peaceful protest in Mexico City.


The Mexican president has called on Mexicans in America to protest. Does not seem equality works both ways.
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I take your point - but, equally, I'm not sure that Mexico has ever been seen as the world's greatest democracy and The Land of the Free.
 
Mikey10 said:
I take your point - but, equally, I'm not sure that Mexico has ever been seen as the world's greatest democracy and The Land of the Free.
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Mexico's reason for having it the constitution is an understandable one (in the same way the US Right to Bare Arms is understandable).

Funnily, it's actually a principle that you fully understand if it was in the US constitution too.
 
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johnola said:
If Boeing were any nationality bar American they would have been closed down years ago.
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You think?

25m people fly per day, given the fact that less complex things break in everyday life I think the airline industry does fairly well

There was a stat thrown out by BBC that in the history of boeing there have been around 5000 fatalities, given the earlier stat, I was shocked it wasn't more
 
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