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Trump's Second Term

You appear to be Australian, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. But can the legislature of NSW declare fully automatic weapons legal, but only for white males, or would your federal government have something to say about it.
Sorry, totally off-topic.
 
Then why have state legislatures if the federal system overrides everything. Repetitive, expensive, wasteful, redundant institutions, times 50.
The federal system does not override everything, at last check, though it can and does overrule state when it comes to Constitutional matters. In this case, they likely invoked a interpretive perversion of the 2nd Amendment as part of the justification. Going past that, the Supremacy Clause means that if there's a conflict between federal and state laws, federal law wins.

Going beyond that, state legislatures are basically councils deciding rules for a very limited and specific portion of the country. Counties and cities also normally have legislative bodies that do much the same, too. It would be notably more inefficient and wasteful for a federal legislature to be debating whether to install parking meters on a particular road in a particular city, either way. I'd also be strongly against an HOA setting rules for the whole country, though.
 
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Watergate?
That's fine.

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

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Just goes to show how corrupt this regime is; don't ever let republics and maga gaslight you about law and order because they care nothing about it.
 
Then why have state legislatures if the federal system overrides everything. Repetitive, expensive, wasteful, redundant institutions, times 50.
I thought you knew the Australian constitution better than that. Section 51 spells out what the federal government can make laws on (*) but does not prevent states from making laws in the same areas. That is why the constitution has a section 109 that says, "When a law of a State is inconsistent with a law of the Commonwealth, the latter shall prevail, and the former shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be invalid".

I'm sure it works the same way in the USA.

* Note that the high court has extended the federal powers beyond section 51 many times.
 
Reflecting pool was cut with ‘sharp knife or razor’, National Park Service says
Senior official alleges in court filing that damage included about ‘70 fence post tops thrown’ into the pool.

A senior National Park Service (NPS) official has said a liner along the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool was “cut with a sharp knife or razor” earlier this month, repeating Donald Trump’s claims of vandalism.

Frank Lands, the deputy director for operations for NPS, made the allegation in a court filing on Wednesday, as part of a lawsuit brought by a non-profit group seeking to stop the US president’s renovation of the site.

And yet, they've provided zero evidence of any actual vandalism. Not that Trump and his cronies would lie.....
 
Right-wing major news outlets such as Newsweek and the New York Post have been posting blurry pics on their social medias of what seems to be a small child dipping their hand into the reflecting pool and posting that the US Parks Police wants any info they have about the individual. They are getting absolutely dragged in the comments for being pathetic mouthpieces for the administration. On FB the Newsweek posting had over 2000 laughing reactions and other reactions barely hitting double-digits.

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Right-wing major news outlets such as Newsweek and the New York Post have been posting blurry pics on their social medias of what seems to be a small child dipping their hand into the reflecting pool and posting that the US Parks Police wants any info they have about the individual. They are getting absolutely dragged in the comments for being pathetic mouthpieces for the administration. On FB the Newsweek posting had over 2000 laughing reactions and other reactions barely hitting double-digits.

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MAGA HEADLINE: Little child with 20-foot gorilla-strength arms slices and rips up impenetrable rubber pipe lining!
 
How does a federal court override a state law? Surely that is unconstitutional? Don't the states have supremacy??! He asked, incredulously...

I kid. This SCOTUS could not give a single ◊◊◊◊ about constitutionality.
Isn't the constitution above all ? I'm no expert but seems logical. And IMHO any state regulation of guns is in clear conflict with the second amendment. The fact that SCOTUS only says it now and only in Hawaii is IMHO only result of somebody calling it up. And other states might soon follow if they see this.
The right way to regulate guns is IMHO unfortunately on constitutional level, where the problem lies.
 
Taking some of Iran's money.

Trump to Farmers: We have a new market coming up, and that's called The Lovely Country of Iran. It's a beautiful place. Would anybody like to go there? They're having a hard time with food and we're going to be taking some of their money and we'll spend it and we're going to be buying wheat, soybeans, and corn, a lot of it, and that process is going to be starting soon. It’s going to be big.

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Another $11 billion for farmers

Trump: We also called on Congress to pass a supplemental funding bill that will provide $11 billion in relief to help our great agricultural producers rebound from the losses that they had due to the Biden administration.

So we're going to be getting an $11 billion payment in relief to our farmers, and Brooke, you'll distribute that money hopefully equitably

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And yet, they've provided zero evidence of any actual vandalism. Not that Trump and his cronies would lie.....
I'm sure it's incredibly easy to stealthily get a knife and cut tens of feet* of incredibly tough polyurethane under two and a half feet** of water and leave no evidence that can be shown except for Trump's claim.


*I CBA to check what Trump claimed


**Waay off topic but my kids in their 20s still talk about things like water depths in either inches or feet, which I find amusing. Like me, they do also use centimeters and metres as well.
 
Muslim

Watters: Trump talks a lot. So yeah, he’s going to mention Barack Hussein Obama. Part of that is he likes to say “Hussein.”

Jessica: Why?

Watters: Because it’s funny. The president’s middle name is Hussein. You don’t think that is hysterical?

Jessica: No. He says it so people think he is Muslim.

Watters: Well, he did say he was Muslim

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Muslim

Watters: Trump talks a lot. So yeah, he’s going to mention Barack Hussein Obama. Part of that is he likes to say “Hussein.”

Jessica: Why?

Watters: Because it’s funny. The president’s middle name is Hussein. You don’t think that is hysterical?

Jessica: No. He says it so people think he is Muslim.

Watters: Well, he did say he was Muslim

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Watters is a ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ arsehole.
 
Biden
Autopen
Rigged Election

Trump: We were a laughing stock all over the world. We had a man that couldn't walk down those two steps. We had a man that couldn't sign a document. He had to use an auto pen. You saw the auto pen over there. He was an autopen. We call him the autopen president and think of it like 96% of the things he signed, he couldn't sign his name. What happened was a rigged election

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