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Vote is almost legit....Guess who wins?
If Trump declassified them by thinking about it, I'm sure Biden has been keeping up to speed with the case, and has thought about re-classifying them all already.
So they are all classified again now. Prove me wrong.
Ah but there's a counter for that. Trump simply wills it to be classified the moment anyone does a foia request. And immediately after wills it back to be unclassified.Two problems with that. One: Trump lost that magic power the instant Biden was sworn in. Two: some of the charges being investigated don't depend on those documents being classified.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/21/trump-i-could-declassify-documents-by-thinking-about-it-00058212He doesn't need to let anyone know that he thought about declassifying documents either. After all, what business is it of anyone else if he thinks about declassifying a document?
Ah. Some clarity on the matter. Trump can declassify documents just by thinking about it and this ability transcends space and time.
I wonder if he can also classify documents just by thinking about them...
So... Trump declassified EVERYTHING.
So fire up those freedom of information requests! We got us some national secrets to read!
Disney needs to fucking stop the live action remakes. They all suck. Also, who gives a fuck what the cartoon Ariel looked like? It still exists. Just watch that one instead because it'll be better anyway. The constant whining about remakes not looking 100% like the original is so dumb.
So instead of me asking when Prince Charles wins an election, let me know when the UK has a head of the monarchy which was elected by the people.Referring to the same individual with different words is not a fundamentally different response.
Bro, I own a dictionary.Then use it to look up "elective monarchy".
Bro, I own a dictionary. Let me know when Prince Charles wins the elections.Once again, you are focusing on the monarch (an individual) and not the monarchy (a system of government). You are not listening to what I am saying, and instead replacing the subject of my posts with something else.
I was perfectly content to discuss England's dragon problem but you had to take a far more farcical turn, that a monarchy is more democratic than a democracy, which I was happy to oblige for a time.You continue to use those words as though they are contradictory. They are not. We are not comparing a monarchy to a democracy, but two different forms of democracy, and until you acknowledge that it makes perfect sense that you would not understand what I am saying.
I thought this was obvious from the subtext but I was mocking the monarchy not because of any problem with that form of a government. I was mocking it because it makes me think that England is a land besot with wizards and knights who say "ni" and all manner of arthurian legend.And why is that a problem?
We've been like that for a millennium. It's going fine, thanks.
I mean...it isn't going fine, our government is a car crash and things are going to shit. But that's not because of the monarchy, it's actually because of the people we have elected, not because of the people we don't.
Seems to me that it's democracy causing the problems.
you seem to be making the claim that constitutional monarchies are very democratic because they always have impotent executivesThat is not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that, all else being equal, a constitutional monarchy with a democratic culture tends to be more stable and more democratic than a system with an elected president and a democratic culture. I have also made the point that this is far less important than many other factors.
Remember, this conversation got started when I replied to someone who implied that a monarchy is necessarily undemocratic. I am only asserting that that position is absurd, nothing more.