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RTH10260 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:20 pm As the traditional forum, the House is not mentioned ...

How about the State Of The Union being presented from the Oval Office

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:52 pm

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:20 pm As the traditional forum, the House is not mentioned ...

How about the State Of The Union being presented from the Oval Office

Better yet the floor of the Senate, with the majority inviting Dem congrescritters from the House

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:52 pm Well seems like we have yet ANOTHER QOPer who's never read the constitution they so claim to love and cherish....here's my shocked face...

Suranis wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:42 pm Ya. The present speaker could just not invite him, and the President could find some other way to deliver the State of the Union. I'msure they are already looking at alternatives.

Alternatively, after the Speaker pulled this stunt, the President could decide to decline the invitation and tell the dingbat to spend the time doing some work.

Congress ‘gradually destroying’ US relations with Pacific ally, Marshall Islands president warns
Hilda Heine says US funding delays damage relationship with the Pacific nation as lawmakers say hold-up delivers a ‘gift’ to China

Jon Letman in Hawaii
Wed 28 Feb 2024 02.28 CET

Hilda Heine, the president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, has warned relations with the US are “gradually being destroyed by party politics” as Congress delays approval of crucial funding for the Pacific nation.

US lawmakers have not yet passed funding packages agreed in 2023 with the Marshall Islands, Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), in a move some argue is opening the door to China to build its influence in the Pacific region.

“Members of the Congress have to understand that the funds that the US has agreed to provide … did not come because of the generosity of the US government and its citizens, but rather because of hard negotiations between the parties,” Heine told the Guardian in emailed comments.

The support is part of the Compacts of Free Association (Cofa) agreements which the US has in place with the three nations in the north Pacific. Under Cofa, Washington provides visa-free residential and employment rights, economic assistance and other support to the nations, in return for exclusive military access to large and strategic areas of the Pacific.

Asked about the impact of the Cofa funding delay, Heine said: “At the moment [the US-Marshall Islands relationship] is gradually being destroyed by party politics in the US Congress.”

Despite widespread bipartisan support, Cofa is struggling to achieve passage in a deeply divided Congress that is mired in gridlock over funding for Israel, Ukraine, border legislation and the US government’s own operations.

Cofa is seen by some in the Pacific as a test of Washington’s commitment to the region. In the Marshall Islands, the delay has affected funding for health, education and other services, while also inflaming concerns that the US doesn’t support it – something Pacific politicians are sensitive to.



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... -palau-fsm

The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow wrote: Speaker Mike Johnson: “The fall of Rome” happened because they “condoned” gay people, not due to invasions, poor central governance, non-stop civil wars, or the growing importance of Byzantium.

No, none of that. To Johnson, it’s because of gay people.

Dr. Ken wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:20 pm

p0rtia wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:29 pm Actually, he was trying to shame her--but not for being a victim or rape.

Rolodex wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:12 pm His simple question should be "why are you endorsing a rapist?"

[July 19, 2023]

The filing from Judge Lewis A. Kaplan came as Trump’s attorneys have sought a new trial and have argued that the jury’s $5 million verdict against Trump in the civil suit was excessive. The reason, they argue, is that sexual abuse could be as limited as the “groping” of a victim’s breasts.

Kaplan roundly rejected Trump’s motion Tuesday, calling that argument “entirely unpersuasive.”

“The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’ ” Kaplan wrote.

He added: “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”

Kaplan said New York’s legal definition of “rape” is “far narrower” than the word is understood in “common modern parlance.”