All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[CaptainEurope]

This race is clearly going to Nikki Haley. The Republicans are now gonna vote a woman into office after years of wishing they'd stay in the kitchen ! lol

She could get Josh Hawley as her running mate. I hear that he loves running, and Haley /Hawley has a nice ring to tit.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

She could get Josh Hawley as her running mate. I hear that he loves running, and Haley /Hawley has a nice ring to tit.

Well played, Captain! HA!

[CaptainEurope]

After Netanyahu fired his defense minister for disagreeing on the gutting of the separation of powers in Israel, the architect of the plan, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, now says he'll be fine with just pretending they never came up with the idea.

Looks like the protesters have won.

[Tendrin]

After Netanyahu fired his defense minister for disagreeing on the gutting of the separation of powers in Israel, the architect of the plan, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, now says he'll be fine with just pretending they never came up with the idea.

Looks like the protesters have won.

Got a source for this one? I don't think it's made its way here yet.

[hyped78]

Got a source for this one? I don't think it's made its way here yet.

I don't think it's exactly what the Justice Minister said (on the links below, both ~30 mins ago):

Israeli justice minister would 'respect' any decision PM makes about reforms

Yariv Levin, the Israeli justice minister, has said he would respect any decision Benjamin Netanyahu makes about the future of his judicial reform proposals.

He added that a lack of unity in the government could bring the plans down.

"A situation in which everyone does as they wish is liable to bring about the instant fall of the government and collapse of the [ruling party] Likud," Mr Levin said.

"We must all strive to stabilise the government and coalition."

https://news.sky.com/story/israel-pr...ement-12843368
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-march-27-2023-2/

[hyped78]

But nothing beats the ongoing riots in France:

https://www.politico.eu/article/pari...manuel-macron/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ontinue-france

[Ragged Maw]

But nothing beats the ongoing riots in France:

Why do I smell corpo stank on this whole “raising the retirement age” business?

[hyped78]

Why do I smell corpo stank on this whole “raising the retirement age” business?

It's a tricky one. Part of the issue is that Macron has pushed through this agenda by overriding the FR Parliament by using Article 49.3 of the French Constitution. This is because Macron's coalition doesn't have majority in Parliament.

[CaptainEurope]

Got a source for this one? I don't think it's made its way here yet.

This Israeli journalist's timeline.
https://twitter.com/AnshelPfeffer

[hyped78]

This Israeli journalist's timeline.
https://twitter.com/AnshelPfeffer

Where does it say this - "Justice Minister Yariv Levin, now says he'll be fine with just pretending they never came up with the idea" ?

[SquirrelMan]

But nothing beats the ongoing riots in France:

https://www.politico.eu/article/pari...manuel-macron/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ontinue-france

If the protesters in Israel did, indeed, make the government give up on its core piece of legislation (possibly damaging Netanyahu so much he might have to call new elections AGAIN), then they totally beat the French riots.

[hyped78]

If the protesters in Israel did, indeed, make the government give up on its core piece of legislation (possibly damaging Netanyahu so much he might have to call new elections AGAIN), then they totally beat the French riots.

Hold my beer - things in France aren't finished yet

Interestingly, from what I've seen the protests in Israel have been far more peaceful than the ones in France, so if the former get what they want and the latter do not, that's an interesting takeaway on violent protesting.

[hyped78]

Scotland has a new Prime Minister, just elected the new head of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Humza Yousaf:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-scotland-65086830

It's quite interesting that a left-wing party in power have decided to elect a man that decided to skip a key vote on gay marriage because of "religious pressure", as he's a devout muslim:

https://news.sky.com/story/snp-leade...lmond-12823551

[CaptainEurope]

So Smotrich whose people briefed just a few hours ago that they understood the legislation would be suspended has now said that it must go ahead and is calling for supporters to come to a rally in Jerusalem outside the Supreme Court. Netanyahu and the far-right want a showdown

Right-wing front groups now starting to fill Twitter with promoted tweets calling for an “Emergency Situation - We’re going to Jerusalem! We won’t allow the election to be stolen from us”. Netanyahu’s looking for a showdown on the street

https://twitter.com/AnshelPfeffer

He cannot win this, but he is willing to see some blood spilt as he is losing.

[JackDaw]

Scotland has a new Prime Minister, just elected the new head of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Humza Yousaf:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-scotland-65086830

It's quite interesting that a left-wing party in power have decided to elect a man that decided to skip a key vote on gay marriage because of "religious pressure", as he's a devout muslim:

https://news.sky.com/story/snp-leade...lmond-12823551

Especially surprising (or not, depending on if you’re a cynic) given that his main rival got industrial level of challenges on how her Christian beliefs influenced her political stances.