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minus-squaregoferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up81arrow-down1·2 days agoThey’re too busy changing their pants after their wishes finally came true
minus-squareIndescribablySad@threads.net@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up41arrow-down1·2 days ago“So we still get paid and we don’t have to do anything? That’s amazing! Haha, but why do I have to face the wall for this part?”
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days agoNah, they’re all on the phone with their stockbrokers.
minus-squareTrainguyrom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 hours agoYou laugh but several members of Congress bought stocks in defense contractors shortly before this military operation
minus-squareselokichtli@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 days agoIt’s weird to laugh in a time like this. Thank you, I guess.
minus-squaregoferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoSometimes laughing is all we can do in times like this
minus-squareWalnutLum@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-22 days agoIn 2001 when The US authorized use of force on Al-Qaeda that, along with The 1973 war powers resolution gave the president (as in the position of president, not just Bush) unlimited ability to bomb anyone loosely associated with Al-Qaeda in perpetuity. It’s what allowed Bush, then Obama, then Trump, and then Biden, and now Trump again, to use the military as they see fit for performing military operations against basically any state and group in the middle east.
minus-squareDialectical Idealist@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoCongress has been increasingly abdicating more of its powers for several administrations now
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·2 days agohttps://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown 220 Republicans 212 Democrats
Congress?? Hello?
They’re too busy changing their pants after their wishes finally came true
“So we still get paid and we don’t have to do anything? That’s amazing! Haha, but why do I have to face the wall for this part?”
Nah, they’re all on the phone with their stockbrokers.
You laugh but several members of Congress bought stocks in defense contractors shortly before this military operation
I wasn’t joking.
It’s weird to laugh in a time like this. Thank you, I guess.
Sometimes laughing is all we can do in times like this
In 2001 when The US authorized use of force on Al-Qaeda that, along with The 1973 war powers resolution gave the president (as in the position of president, not just Bush) unlimited ability to bomb anyone loosely associated with Al-Qaeda in perpetuity.
It’s what allowed Bush, then Obama, then Trump, and then Biden, and now Trump again, to use the military as they see fit for performing military operations against basically any state and group in the middle east.
Congress has been increasingly abdicating more of its powers for several administrations now
https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown
220 Republicans
212 Democrats