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Filed under "Not the Onion":

France delays G7 to avoid clash with White House cage fighting on Trump’s birthday

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said the new schedule is “the result of our consultations with G7 partners.”

France will delay this year’s Group of 7 summit to avoid a conflict with the mixed martial arts event planned at the White House on June 14, two officials with direct knowledge of G7 planning told POLITICO.

Paris had previously announced that this year’s gathering of G7 leaders would take place from June 14 — which is both Flag Day in the U.S. and President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday — to June 16 in Evian-les-Bains on the shores of Lake Geneva.

But Trump in October announced that the White House would host a “big UFC fight” on June 14. Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White told CBS News Thursday that the logistics of the event have been finalized. White said the event will gather up to 5,000 people on the South Lawn of the White House.

The G7 will now run from June 15 to June 17. French President Emmanuel Macron’s office declined to confirm whether the change, which has now been made official on the G7’s website, is directly linked to the UFC event and said the new schedule is “the result of our consultations with G7 partners.”


www.politico.eu

France delays G7 to avoid clash with White House cage fighting on Trump’s birthday

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said the new schedule is “the result of our consultations with G7 partners.”
www.politico.eu www.politico.eu
 
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Full Metal Junkie said:
Add to that the fact that no country with a permanent seat on the UN security council will ever give that up. What, we can start any war we'd like and have a veto power to stop any/all UN intervention? Yes, please!
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UN interventions aren't really a thing anyway. Somebody has to put up the forces for that. And for the longest time, a lot of UN interventions had the US in the lead. And then there's the P5 happily voting against interventions or expansion of interventions to protect their allies. See the Balkans as an example. That's why UN interventions there became NATO interventions. But yeah, for the US, the UN is relatively cheap diplomacy. Especially if they are going to pay just as much as China and aren't doing the good guy thing of paying more.
 
kEiThZ said:
UN interventions aren't really a thing anyway. Somebody has to put up the forces for that. And for the longest time, a lot of UN interventions had the US in the lead. And then there's the P5 happily voting against interventions or expansion of interventions to protect their allies. See the Balkans as an example. That's why UN interventions there became NATO interventions. But yeah, for the US, the UN is relatively cheap diplomacy. Especially if they are going to pay just as much as China and aren't doing the good guy thing of paying more.
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Well, I wasn't really referring to faux UN intervention forces, like UN presence in Lebanon and the gazillion African conflicts, where they stand idly by and let the fighting happen. These interventions are authorized by the UN security council because none of the permanent members give the slightest of sh!ts about them. I was more talking about what UN interventions should have been like. The only proper UN intervention happened in the Korean war where there were 15 countries fighting on the South Korean side under the UN flag. And the only reason that intervention happened was because ROC (Taiwan) was holding the permanent security council seat instead of mainland China and USSR boycotted the security council meeting in protest of Taiwan being there. So yeah, after that all the major powers learned the lesson and make sure to run obstruction to any real UN intervention in any conflict they are remotely interested in.
 
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In his first “State of the World” address, Pope Leo condemns aggressors, warns that “war is back in vogue,” and defends diplomacy, multilateralism, and the United Nations. Speaking after U.S. strikes in Venezuela, he urges respect for humanitarian law and rejects peace enforced by weapons. Pope Leo delivered his first annual “State of the World” address to Vatican-accredited envoys from 184 countries, calling for global unity, peace, and social justice. The speech highlighted key issues facing humanity, including conflict, climate change, and inequality.
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“Peace Is No Longer Sought”: Pope Leo Defends UN, Slams War as Global Order Starts Cracking | AK1G​

This is the 12 minute video version...

For the 2 hour version, go to https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/pope-leo-xiv%E2%80%99s-pontificate.42060/post-2335341
 
kEiThZ said:
A good chunk of this forum spends more time on American politics than Canadian politics.
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Indeed. Probably too much. When I saw the below article:

www.thestar.com

I left Trump’s America last year to teach in Canada. I didn’t expect this from Canadians

During my short time here, I have encountered a shocking level of naïveté about what is happening in the United States.
www.thestar.com www.thestar.com
Paywall free: https://archive.is/rGGBD

.... I wanted to reply, why should Canadians give two Fs for your country. How about you focus on fitting in here rather than expecting us to care about where you came from?
 
Admiral Beez said:
Indeed. Probably too much. When I saw the below article:

www.thestar.com

I left Trump’s America last year to teach in Canada. I didn’t expect this from Canadians

During my short time here, I have encountered a shocking level of naïveté about what is happening in the United States.
www.thestar.com www.thestar.com
Paywall free: https://archive.is/rGGBD

.... I wanted to reply, why should Canadians give two Fs for your country. How about you focus on fitting in here rather than expecting us to care about where you came from?
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Americans who move here often have the religious zeal of converts. Failed to save their country. Now intent on making sure we're signed up for their culture wars too. I will add too that they often ignore the English-French dynamic in this country. And their culture wars could make all that worse.
 
Admiral Beez said:
Indeed. Probably too much. When I saw the below article:

www.thestar.com

I left Trump’s America last year to teach in Canada. I didn’t expect this from Canadians

During my short time here, I have encountered a shocking level of naïveté about what is happening in the United States.
www.thestar.com www.thestar.com
Paywall free: https://archive.is/rGGBD

.... I wanted to reply, why should Canadians give two Fs for your country. How about you focus on fitting in here rather than expecting us to care about where you came from?
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And by the terms he uses, has an identity problem.

Lennox970 said:
Trump is effectively calling Canada (and Greenland) out about holding sovereignty over a land mass without being able to defend it.
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Trumps only legitimate concern about any other nation's ability to defend itself should be limited to how it impacts US national security.
 
Mihairokov said:
There's been a number of policy attempts by the current administration to disenfranchise voters, either through gerrymandered redistricting, lack of polling stations, or other means.
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All of these things are decided at the State level, not by the Federal government. Sure, they can attempt to coerce the process but they don't control it.
I seem to recall Bannon floating around a loophole in an amendment that would allow for Trump to run again. If not, it's possible they find some patsy to run as President with a Trump VP ticket and then have that be the de facto setup. I doubt Trump's health lasts for another three years - at this point it would be surprising if he has three months left.
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To run for VP, you need to be eligible to be President. Reference the 12th amendment:
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
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And since the 22nd amendment excludes anyone who has been elected twice from being President, Trump remains ineligible to be a VP candidate.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
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thettctransitfanatic said:
Filed under "Not the Onion":

France delays G7 to avoid clash with White House cage fighting on Trump’s birthday

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said the new schedule is “the result of our consultations with G7 partners.”

France will delay this year’s Group of 7 summit to avoid a conflict with the mixed martial arts event planned at the White House on June 14, two officials with direct knowledge of G7 planning told POLITICO.

Paris had previously announced that this year’s gathering of G7 leaders would take place from June 14 — which is both Flag Day in the U.S. and President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday — to June 16 in Evian-les-Bains on the shores of Lake Geneva.

But Trump in October announced that the White House would host a “big UFC fight” on June 14. Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White told CBS News Thursday that the logistics of the event have been finalized. White said the event will gather up to 5,000 people on the South Lawn of the White House.

The G7 will now run from June 15 to June 17. French President Emmanuel Macron’s office declined to confirm whether the change, which has now been made official on the G7’s website, is directly linked to the UFC event and said the new schedule is “the result of our consultations with G7 partners.”


www.politico.eu

France delays G7 to avoid clash with White House cage fighting on Trump’s birthday

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said the new schedule is “the result of our consultations with G7 partners.”
www.politico.eu www.politico.eu
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In terms of metaphors, a cage match at the White House is just so on the nose. If both of the combatants are foreign born, so much the better.
 
wopchop said:
And since the 22nd amendment excludes anyone who has been elected twice from being President, Trump remains ineligible to be a VP candidate.
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Let me muse over how SCOTUS will justify that Trump is actually eligible.

1. This is what the 22nd amendment says: No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.
2. What the 22nd amendment doesn't say is this: No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice consecutively.
3. As per 2024 SCOTUS decision, former US presidents have full immunity from criminal prosecution because it doesn't say anywhere in the constitution that they don't have immunity, therefore they must have immunity.
4. Therefore, because it doesn't say anywhere in the constitution whether or not term limits only apply to consecutive terms, it must mean that term limits don't apply to non-consecutive terms.

Case closed, Trump eligible.
 
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