Tuberville says we can’t let women in the military get abortions because the current policy might let them get abortions after the baby is born.
Trump says shit like that a lot. Hand the baby to the doctor and then kill it. I wonder if they actually believe it. I know they’re stupid, but I they can’t believe that, right?
Almost all anti abortionists I know believe that babies are killed after they are born and it is called live birth abortion.
Woke Deep State policies and illegal laws. Emperor Trump will put a stop to those right away.
“You have to follow those policies and laws!”
“Sure. But what if we … didn’t?”
Woke Liberal Judges like that would be taken into custody, along with their clerks.
Then they just need to skip to that part and not bother with the rest.
That’s what bothers me about the “what if we didn’t” when it comes to certain things. Trump decides, what if I didn’t leave the White House, even though I lost,” and keeps acting as president. Why should anyone do what he says? Why should the CIA share one bit of classified information with him? Yes, they could use force of arms, but then they wouldn’t need to do anything else; just shoot their way into power. Yes, there’s Project 2025, but it’s not implemented yet.
But only if 3 years prior Tommy Tuberville something something.
Looks like that was the final straw. To their eternal chagrin, non-fucked-in-the-head Republican Senators are actually going to make cause with their hated Democrat compatriots and get around “Coach”. Because their constituents are getting fed up with shit not getting done.
You guys in the USA are going to have to come up with something to prevent a very small (tiny) minority from destroying government for whatever reason pops into their heads. This includes both the House and the Senate. It’s not a very good system that allows this. Something’s got to change.
The GOp won a razor thin majority in congress (which is better than a big majority). Note that when the Dems get that thim majority, they hardly ever have the same issue.
The parliamentary system does the same thing. You often get a coalition by bringing in a few members from a fringe party, then you have to cater to them. Netanyahu got in with a coalition that included parties with only 7 members.
What system does your nation work under?
A system where an election is called if a party fails to pass a budget vote, and a few morons can’t hold the country hostage.
What nation is that? Because most other nations have a parliamentary system, which sounds like what you are talking about, and yes, a few moron can hold the nation hostage.
There’s no reason why they “should” do this, but there’s a lot of them who will do it. Trump Loyalty has little to do with rationality, after all. We’ve seen more than one person who is apparently willing to fall on their swords for Trump, so there’s no reason to think they wouldn’t back any play he made towards being an actual dictator.
The whole point of this discussion is that “the normal way” of doing things doesn’t really exist any more. We can’t just rely on “Well, that’s just how it’s always worked out” any more, specifically because a lot of people are actively trying to break that system that has been working so far. They don’t want it to work any more, because they weren’t winning the game as often as they thought they should.
If a few morons in a minority party in my country happen to hold the balance of power (which happens rarely)
And they screw around with a budget vote…
The government they are propping up falls. And there is an election
The idiocy we have recently seen with the right wing rump of the Republicans does not happen. Because it results in a new election
And the public does not reward the idiocy.
For most of my life, I’ve been fairly proud of the US Constitution. I still think it’s the bee’s knees. But it wasn’t designed to function when a significant portion of our elected officials want to tear everything down. But then I don’t think we can make significant changes until the whole thing blows up in our face, and I don’t think anyone wants that. I mean other than the Trump supporters.
Yeah, there are a lot of people that would love to re-write the US constitution, and re-design the entire US government. I’d kind of like to do that myself at times. But with the number of people out there who seem keen on just making everything worse, any attempt to re-design the US carries an unacceptable risk of the bomb-throwers hijacking the process and shitting all over the place.
What nation is that?
Okay in the UK-
https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/elections-and-voting/general/
Who decides when to call a general election?
The government of the day can decide when to call a general election.
Now sure, the Conservatives won the last election, but polls strongly show that they are indeed- now- the minority party- just as the GOP is. The GOP is the majority party in Congress because they won the most seats last election. Just like the Tory party won the most seats- but as of now have a minority of support.
They dont have to hold another election until early 2025. And yes, there have been times- recently- where no one UK party held a majority and they had to form a coalition with a small party.
So, the exact same thing can happen in a parliamentary form.
Maybe thats not what form your special government has.
A government can lose power on a confidence vote. Budget votes are votes of confidence.
Simply stated, the convention provides that if the government is defeated in the House on a confidence question, then the government is expected to resign or seek the dissolution of Parliament in order for a general election to be held. This relationship between the executive and the House of Commons can ultimately decide the duration of each Parliament and of each Ministry. The confidence convention applies whether a government is formed by the party or the coalition of parties holding the majority of the seats in the House of Commons, or by one or more parties holding a minority of seats. Naturally, it is more likely that the government will fail to retain the confidence of the House when the government party or parties are in a minority situation.
So if a minority government is in place (which is essentially the situation in the USA at the moment, with the “freedom moron caucus” in place), then if a budget vote fails, the government loses confidence of the house and an election is called.
Yes but I believe their point is that it does not result by itself in a system failsafe against the overpowered-fringe phenomenon. If the voters insist in continuing to deny a sensible faction a majority and to give seats to the radicals, you can end up in “3-elections-a-year-and-still-no-progress” mode.
Sure, but since the Tory party has a solid majority, that chance is small.