@antoniogm Presidents always end up being former politicians so it doesn't work. Pre WW1 new nations would ask the prince of an established royal family to rule their nation, we should bring that back.
One of the advantages of monarchy is having figures which unambiguously embody the nation, and live above politics.
Some parliamentary systems mimic this by having a president alongside a prime minister, separating the head of government (boo!) from head of state (yay!).
“See that there is not one left in Khorasan whose tongue is the tongue of the Arabian.”
Despite being Arabs themselves, the Abbasids asked their Iranian ally Abu Muslim Khorasani to kill every Arab in Khorasan during the Abbasid Revolution (8th century AD) against the Umayyad.
The Conservative and unionist party - the most successful electoral vehicle in history, the party of Disraeli, Churchill, and Wellington, is publishing statements saying ‘bro’.
It’s over.
There’s a tacit conspiracy to never discuss this.
The Tories don’t want to admit they presided over redistribution from high earners to low earners.
And Labour doesn’t want to credit the Tories with it.
Right? Wrong? You decide. But it happened.
The U.S. sends $2 billion to the Kingdom of Jordan each year. Their King spent $100 million on luxury properties in Malibu, DC, & London. I offered an amendment to end the welfare. Thank the 5 who voted w/me. @RepChipRoy@RepNancyMace@RepBrecheen@RepEricBurlison@Rep_Davidson
@ArainGang@sharghzadeh “Saaaar am shakib khan frum Pakistan. Am descended ottoman emperor Abdul hamid. Plz trump give visa and Turkish girl for marriage.”
@ArainGang@sharghzadeh Everyone taken back at the brazenness of this should realise that @ArainGang is a Muslim, and Islam is perhaps the only mainstream religion to selectively legitimise deception and treachery