Andy_Ross
Penultimate Amazing
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...Converted the once-independent Department of Justice into an instrument of personal retribution via the prosecution of cooked-up lawsuits against the president’s enemies. Threatened to seize the territory of a sovereign nation (a NATO ally no less).
And declared that legislators should be executed for reminding military personnel of their duty to disobey illegal orders. Tried to impose ruinous and unconstitutional sanctions on some of the country’s largest law firms simply because Trump doesn’t like them. Violated court orders on a massive scale. As the chief federal district judge of Minnesota recently wrote, “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
And shaken down some of the country’s largest universities by illegally threatening to withhold funding; and engaged in breathtaking corruption: as the conservative writer David Frum stated, “Trump’s scale of stealing and bribe-taking has never been remotely paralleled in any democratic country ever before.”
That this administration can reasonably be viewed as a criminal enterprise should not be cause for despair. The courts have rejected many of the administration’s power grabs and unconstitutional or illegal acts.
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I think the one bright spot, compared to anything that America tries to implement, is the Voter Authority Certificate. Five minutes online, a headshot and your NI number is all you need to get a Photo ID for most peopleNHS ID cards weren't accepted either, after all you could hardly make it easier for the people who could see day in day out what they were doing to the Health Service to vote...
They were being so fair that they said that retired people could use their travel passes (photos enclosed) but non retired people couldn't (photos similarly enclosed).Our last Tory government decided it was vital to crack down on election fraud in the UK because of the tsunami of convictions and allegations in regard to voter impersonation, in some years allegations of voter impersonation had reached 50 and in some years over zero but less than two people were convicted! They decided the only way to deal with such figures which were undermining our democracy was for everyone to have to provide certain photo ID. Of course they made it fair and balanced, so if you were a young person in education - and obviously there was a lot of voter fraud involving young people because they kept not voting for Tory candidates - you couldn't use your student ID card, the card that every single student in education needed, that is tied into every aspect of student life, but if you were an older retired person all you needed was the card that gave you reduced bus fares.... Totally fair.
PS I just realised (ok when I was on me throne an hour ago) that the new livery is the same as his failed airline, the Trump Shuttle.Isn't that like the third paint job he's ordered for the plane.
Make up your mind, TACO!