Honestly, with the way Musk is tearing through departments and the cybersecurity threat his team poses, none of the US's allies (e.g. Australia) should be sharing intelligence with the US any more. If we're smart, we should be treating the US as having been compromised by hostile foreign powers.
Even some of us in Australia could see it coming. Back in 2023, one of our former PMs interviewed a member of a CIA taskforce that had created a predictive model for civil wars. Normally it's used on other countries, but they tried applying it to the US and you can guess what the results were.
I can't quite decide if this is just virtue signalling or not from the Democrats. I know some of them would genuinely support it, but this feels very much like it is too little, too late - if they were actually serious about saving democracy in the US, they could have done this when it actually stood a chance of being useful.
The US has had many warnings over the past century of issues with its system of government. Each time they've ignored that and failed to fix the underlying issues. For example, Nixon and Agnew was a warning that the system was ill-equipped to deal with a corrupt president and corrupt vice-president. The opportunity was there at the time to strengthen the system and prevent precisely what Trump has done over the past 8+ years, but nobody did anything about it.
The founding fathers may be responsible for not envisioning how a gentleman's agreement would be abused, but the greater responsibility lies with those who came afterwards, saw how the system could fail, and did nothing.
I don't live in the US, but I did want to just say that as an outsider I appreciate the effort you are putting in, especially given the hostile working environment.
Firstly, Trump's position as president violates the Constitution (the 14th Amendment Section 3 - the insurrection disqualification clause). Then there is the chaos he has unleashed since inauguration, with plenty of clear overstepping of authority. The other branches are either unwilling or unable to stop him, so yes.
Glad she is comfortable with the harness. Did she accept it easily, or did you have to introduce it slowly? One of our cats is quite happy with a harness, whilst the other absolutely freaks out if you try to put it on her.
Sadly true.