Australia, Italy and the UK are not socialist or dictatorships and are free countries by any commonly accepted definition.
[https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index-new](The Human Freedom Index - 2019)
• Rule of Law
• Security and Safety
• Movement
• Religion
• Association, Assembly, and Civil Society
• Expression and Information
• Identity and Relationships
• Size of Government
• Legal System and Property Rights
• Access to Sound Money
• Freedom to Trade Internationally
• Regulation of Credit, Labor, and Business
The jurisdictions that took the top 10 places in 2019, in order, were
#1 New Zealand,
#2 Switzerland,
#3 Hong Kong,
#4 Canada,
#5 Australia,
#6 Denmark and Luxembourg (tied in 6th place),
#8 Finland and Germany (tied in 8th place),
#10 Ireland
United Kingdom (14)
United States (15)
Give you merkins credit, your ranking is up from the mid 20s just a couple of years ago.
But it would seem apparent that you wouldn’t recognise what actually constitutes freedom if you were literally living amongst it.
Australia, UK and Italy are more socialist than here. I didn’t call them dictatorships , just KSA and Qatar where there is no freedom of Speech, assembly, press, religion. And as a woman living there I know what it was like being discriminated against and suppressed.
Right I lived in a bubble in those places. I was so unaware…
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No, think it’s more the case you are living in delusion where you are now.
You misunderstood , my bad and I’m out…
Good point. Does Donny Two-scoops not embody any of the seven? Gluttony might be one if you consider Two-scoops just Greed. How many hamberders does he eat at a time?
Was reading the thread again and wanted to go back to this because it’s important, especially now.
Yeah, well, Kelly was an enabler. What Kelly and all of Trump’s enablers don’t seem to understand is that Trump and the GOP are effectively creating a parallel government, a parallel system of justice, a parallel constitution, a parallel political reality. This is a real, clear, and present danger to the principle of self-government.
Everyone of Trump’s fired stooges have come to regret their role in creating this monster, but it’s too late now - they have no credibility once they’re fired.
Anyone who occupies a position of power has to understand this and they have to understand it right now: they cannot be the “adult in the room.” There’s no picking battles. Mass resignation, mass protest is the only way to save this country. Otherwise, Trump and the corrupt GOP will simply use attrition to drain the last drop of blood out of democracy’s dead corpse, and replace it with the embalming fluid of kleptocracy.
The firings continue…
– Washington Post
– Washington Post
And Joseph Maguire has now been removed as acting Director of National Intelligence. Remember him? He testified before Congress about the whistleblower report way back when this whole thing was starting to blow up. Replaced by yet another acting director who’s a whole lot more MAGA and a whole lot less qualified. (Seems he let intelligence officials brief the House Intelligence Committee about Russia’s renewed efforts to help Trump win in 2020, which is, of course, a lie and a hoax and Deep State, and aaarreggg!) Trump didn’t like that one bit. So out he went.
One of Trump’s many rape victims has been fired from her job at Elle. She just came forward last year:
Trump is supposed to provide a DNA sample which he of course will not do. Isn’t there a trail of slime that he leaves behind him everywhere he goes? I guess I can understand why no one would want to touch that.
Repeating for emphasis: if you are a powerful person and you rape someone who works at Elle, they will fire that employee if she comes forward. I know America hankers for a return to the 1950’s… well, there you go.
Scoop: New White House personnel chief tells Cabinet liaisons to target Never Trumpers
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*Question: What’s a “body man”? Bodyguard? Valet? Personal slave? [del]Gal[/del] Guy Friday? Is that an actual staff position with a job description (that any of us could stomach to read)?
Basically he’s an administrative assistant to the president who follows him around, makes sure that he gets where he’s supposed to go and has everything he needs when he gets there.
In the case of Trump though it might be the person who cleans up after him when he takes a jaunt down 5th Avenue.