"Not my king!"

[mikbone]

I thought Charles was a figurehead?  He making life or death decisions for your country?

Like our dear dementia leader?

[Jamie123]

2 minutes ago, mikbone said:

I thought Charles was a figurehead?  He making life or death decisions for your country?

Like our dear dementia leader?

That's a scary thought!

[mikbone]

dementia-dazed decision making dummy.

[Carborendum]

1 hour ago, mikbone said:

dementia-dazed decision making dummy.

Libs are trying to say that all the videos of him wandering off and speaking unintelligibly are fakes. 

It would be funny if they actually believed it.

[Vort]

21 hours ago, Jamie123 said:

https://eji.org/issues/qualified-immunity/#:~:text=As one federal judge summarized,one has answered them before.

For what it's worth (warning: not much), my understanding is that the above is basically the fallout of how laws are adjudicated rather than the prescribed legal process itself. Most justices are unwilling to lay out new application of federal law, unless those justices are activist and the matter is something they want to influence. Judges generally don't like to have their findings overturned, and striking out into new territory of federal law is a pretty good way to get your decision overturned. So they will bend over backward to find any sort of precedent to base their decision on. I welcome correction or clarification from JAG or any other lawyerly person out there.

EDIT: Oops, wrong link. Sorry about that.

Edited June 19, 2024 by Vort

[Ironhold]

4 hours ago, mikbone said:

I thought Charles was a figurehead?  He making life or death decisions for your country?

Like our dear dementia leader?

The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy. This means that the Prime Minister handles the day-to-day affairs of running the country, but the monarch has a variety of official duties and responsibilities such as being the de facto head of the military (in fact, it's "heavily encouraged" that anyone wishing to assume the throne spend at least a few years in the service somehow, such as how the late queen was an ambulance driver with a women's auxiliary). 

The monarch also has a number of diplomatic objectives and so forth.

[Ironhold]

4 hours ago, Jamie123 said:

Ummm...the Prime Minister of Canada?

We have one too...

The problem with Trudeau is that over the last several years he and various members of his government have been engaged in a great deal of morally and even legally questionable actions, such as their brutal response to the Freedom Convoy protests wherein, among other things, known protestors had their bank accounts frozen and law enforcement physically confiscated their petrol supplies; there was even an incident where a group of mounted police officers charged their horses into a group of protestors, knocking down an elderly woman who was using a mobility assistance device. 

It's to the point now where even a number of Canadians are wishing for international legal experts to weigh in on what Trudeau has been doing.