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mwooldri

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6. I'm trying to think who would be in power in the UK...

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 15, 2019, 07:33 PM

Aug 2019

... who would have come close to doing anything like this. Jeremy Corbyn on steroids perhaps? Not even he would block a member of US Congress from visiting the UK unless there would be blood spilled somewhere across the scepterd isle....

Basically the world would have to be pretty fucked up if the alternative scenario of a President Obama suggesting XYZ be banned from country X and country X complying.... But IOKIYAR, right?

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Can / Should Pelosi sue Trump for barring two of her members from visiting Israel and Palestine? [View all] Stinky The Clown Aug 2019 OP

Israel did the barring. nt EX500rider Aug 2019 #1

Trump didn't/couldn't bar them SCantiGOP Aug 2019 #5

The OP is talking about Trump using Bibi to do his bidding. Stinky The Clown Aug 2019 #7

Didn't mean to sound hostile SCantiGOP Aug 2019 #10

But he DID do something. He used the power of his office to induce a foreign head of state to Stinky The Clown Aug 2019 #12

And how would that trigger any kind of lawsuit onenote Aug 2019 #14

I think there could be another charge in an impeachment inquiry, but sue? No I don't see any ground hlthe2b Aug 2019 #2

I have an idea, lets pretend President Obama told England to BAN Eliot Rosewater Aug 2019 #3

I'm trying to think who would be in power in the UK... mwooldri Aug 2019 #6

nothing to sue for really. We can't contest Bibi being a piece of shit in our courts Takket Aug 2019 #4

He didn't bar them. Israel did. StarfishSaver Aug 2019 #8

Every bad deed by Trump must be punished. Speaker Pelosi should use all tools that NCjack Aug 2019 #9

Trump doesn't control Israel.. tymorial Aug 2019 #11

Suing tRump is not a way to win this war MiniMe Aug 2019 #13