@greggnunziata IMHO, the ? Is false "litmus test" by now.
Seems irrational to expect productive or meaningful answers out of such ?. Such already corrupted into faulty Us v They, with or against etc ... are traps not truths, what DJT thrives on, relishes seeing Ds reinforce as such too.
@greggnunziata In fairness, he was unfit for Senate at start & no humility or self improvement since! Still feel horror in gut when said 3 sep/equal powers were house, senate & WH!!!
Bigger problems..people don't seem to realise or perhaps care!?!
We need SERIOUS civics reengagement for all!
@IAPonomarenko 🙏🏻🙏🏻🥰🤩💙💙🫡🫡🇺🇦🇺🇦🕊️🕊️
#SlavaUkraïni
"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are."
Saint Augustine
One pilot marked the 15th anniversary of the final @NASA Space Shuttle mission this week with a special flight path in Florida. Rewind the flight for yourself at https://t.co/f1URyzTKre
NEW: Per court docket, the clerk has followed Judge Kathleen Williams's order to notify the state bar about today's ruling against the Trump slush fund and about Todd Blanche
https://t.co/W3ftgQbz2B
TRUMP: Putin said, "I'd love to meet in Moscow." I don’t know if Zelenskyy would go to Moscow. Maybe he would. Would you go to Moscow?
ZELENSKYY: It’s difficult. There are lot of Ukrainian drones there. (Audience laughs) It’s dangerous.
TRUMP: Yeah, it’s hard to go to Moscow.
From the Urban Cowboy soundtrack, the great Mickey Gilley. This is the song that's being sung as Bud and Sissy first see each other in Gilley's. "Here comes the hurt again .." is apropos, isn't it?
https://t.co/fUMRTmqIM7
Earlier this evening @NYC_Buildings Commissioner @AhmedTigani54 gave a press briefing on the ongoing stabilization efforts at the former Pfizer building in Midtown Manhattan, and related updates on the associated street closures and building evacuations.
Happy 80th birthday to my friend George W. Bush!
Your friendship—and that of your father and your entire family—has been one of the great gifts of my life. It has always reminded me that long before we’re politicians, we’re fellow Americans and, above all, human beings.
And for the next month, I’m especially grateful to finally have someone older than me! Wishing you many more years of good health, happiness, and friendship.
Our country is stronger when we remember that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
@BruceDuck2@weareoversight Agree!!!
Doesn't just help YOU ... (insure gets accepted/counted) ...
Also helps ELECTION ADMIN .. (better resource/time mgmt & planning) ...
Which also HELPS US ALL (less stress on election ops = more orderly + timely reporting & finalization.)
@kyledcheney If I read & understand correctly, petitioner filed a habeas petition AND motion for injunctive relief. Judge denies the latter saying already covered in former (habeas) motion.
So..if so & viable call, how is habeas going?
As a footnote regarding this occurrence, a TV station “fell victim to a prank” that listed the crew with names sounding like slang, which led to three journalists getting fired. ⬇️ 🧵 5/7
В Армении проходят обыски у лидера пророссийской партии «Процветающая Армения». Ранее на него завели уголовное дело и запретили выезд из страны
https://t.co/Z1m7zb4lFa
The average national constitution lasts about 19 years. The United States has used the same one since 1789, which makes it the oldest working national constitution on Earth.
That gap is the anomaly the original post is talking about. Since 1789 the world has produced close to 800 national constitutions, and only about half of them lasted past 19 years. France is the sharpest contrast. It started at the same line as America, and since then it has gone through five separate republics, two empires, a couple of monarchies, and at least fourteen constitutions. It is on version five right now, written back in 1958. The next-oldest national constitution still in use belongs to Norway, and it only dates to 1814, a full 25 years behind.
Most attempts at a lasting written government fall apart inside a single generation. America's has held through a civil war, two world wars, a depression that put about a quarter of workers out of a job, and 27 amendments, without ever being thrown out and started over.
About 4% of humanity lives inside US borders, and they produce close to a quarter of the world's economic output measured at market prices. The American economy is bigger than the next three put together, China and Germany and Japan combined. Eight of the ten biggest public companies on the planet, ranked by market value, are American. US stock markets alone hold a little over 40% of all the equity value on Earth.
None of that was ever the default setting for human societies. For most of recorded history the normal ending was collapse, conquest, coup, or a slow decline into something you would not recognize. Stable money, peaceful handovers of power, and courts that last longer than the people who built them are the rare exception, not the normal starting point.
When a system runs this smoothly for this long, the stability starts to feel like gravity, like the normal way things are. The historical record says the opposite. What looks completely ordinary from inside America is one of the least likely things a large group of people has ever built and kept going.