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But it’s their three legged system of government that allows a corrupt president to accumulate so much power. It would be very difficult if not impossible for a prime minister of this country to do what Trump is doing.

What else would you expect from an abusive, vicious President who has started fights with every single person on the planet who disagreed with him!

Wondered where that went. The perils of technology and senility.

Bit damp down here at the moment, over 140mm in last 3 days. Our little creek which is normally a gentle trickle.

Scomo gave it a try, how many ministries was he secretly running?

That's just your algorithm working for you.

The only time that will happen is after their next civil war. The senate already has the power to restrict Trump but they have become impotent with Trump quoting Emergencies when there are none and all the government appointees being sycophants. The only hope is republicans losing their house majority after the mid terms.

I'm noticing a new trend in short YouTube videos. There is a lot coming up which show Obama's behaviour towards people, or his sense of humour. They show a very positive image of a person.

Rather than rewriting the constitution, if they just follow it...... Founding fathers tried to separate state from all religion. The US really began it's slide when the christian lobby got control - about the same time their (&our) government implemented prayer sessions into government processes. The only thing needed to reclaim some semblance of respect is to get the whole lot to obey the rule of law, ditch religious fundamentalism, and drop the Electoral College.

I've got an idea for gun control in the USA! Invoke the spitir of teh Second Amendment which says "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The spirit of that amendment was to provide secutiry for the State. Therfore, make it a condition of gunownership that a person join a militia unit and attend training that leads to the unit being well regulated. If a person does not do that, then no firearm. People would find it too inconvenient to give up their time for that, and so would hand in their firearms.

He was on a spinner winner!

Worse than that. It was meant to be a text message.

Have they asked Gina or Clive?

I'd been wondering about that one. I thought it might have belonged to another thread.

If you had that flow all the time Marty you could set up a hydro system. A few years ago I saw a homebuilt one on youtube that a bloke had made from a Hitachi washing machine.

The Federal Labor party is asking for donations to help them fight One Nation: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/labor-asking-for-donations-to-help-fight-one-nation/106712618

There are 3 lows coming at us (in the south). Unusual, they are close together and bode for some active weather.

Hey Marty, I'm bringing by kayak for a bit of whitewater fun!

The person pictured is Dan Akroyd in his Ghostbusters costume, That makes the puzzle dan, knee, glove, R, or Danny Glover, actor director, producer.

That's not the fault of the constitution. Every system can be hijacked if a leader plants compliant assistants who only answer to their benefactor, and ignore ethically obeying the rules. In the US case, removing trump from the equation fixes nothing. I only permits the unethical rabble to run amok.

Trump has demonstrated how weak the US Constitution and their system of government is if you want to exploit or ignore it.

No. Just review it' - tidy it up by including the OK amendments as Sections. I think that what Trump has been doing is reason to reconsider the role of the Head of State and the House of Representatives in their roles in running the country. Trump has removed the ability to run the country from the Representatives. They could still keep their system for electing a President, but restrict a President's power to act as Trump has been acting.

PS, contrary to the current voices in Washington, the United States was NOT founded as a christian nation.

You want to RE-WRITE the American Constitution?? Wash your mouth out, and apologise to every flag-waving American patriot! This Constitution was written by God himself, looking over the shoulders of the Great American Founding Fathers! It is UNTOUCHABLE!!!!! No-one is ever allowed to re-write even one line of it!! 🙄 The world will end when that happens, and every American will retreat to their end-time bunkers with all their firearms, hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammo, and tons of dried food supplies, to take on the hordes that are coming to TAKE THEIR CONSTITUTION AND THEIR GUNS AWAY FROM THEM!!!! 🙄

I think that the only thing that can save the democracy of the USA as it moves into its second 250 years is a review of its Constitution. A review and rewriting would permit amendments which have had to be made to be presented in a more organised way, and some of the recinding amendments removed. I think that a new constitution should make the format of the government similar to ours and most other democracies. That is, the People's House should be the place where the people who run the country do their work. That's where the person responsible for the various ministries report back to the representatives of the People. There could be a House of Review to monitor laws proposed by the representatives. Finally, the Head of State should be as apolitical as possible, and have no power to make the sort of Orders that we have seen Trump do.

What the feck next from this raving lunatic? A giant UFC cage on the lawn of the White House to celebrate the 250th anniversary of US independence.

Now you might understand why Terrump is urgently needing a billion dollar bunker.