• PattyMcB@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    My point being that he isn’t CURRENTLY supposed to be able to declare war. The Marines are the only branch of the military he should be able to send without a congressional declaration.

    But, since even TWO impeachments wouldn’t stick, who will have the balls to stop him? I see your point.

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      17 hours ago

      Yeah he’s not supposed to do a lot of stuff. He farting all over the founding father’s faces.

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        5 hours ago

        And since I don’t doubt that he has limited control of his sphincter, he’s probably sharting all over George Washington. “do ya like that George?”

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      17 hours ago

      Democrats could file a TRO in federal court immediately asking to pause operations & that his actions violate Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution. But they almost certainly won’t, and they want you believing exactly what you do now, which is “our hand are tied, nothing we can do, send money & vote for us, etc.” The reality is a vast majority of them are funded by AIPAC & support this.

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        14 hours ago

        What is this LLM slop?

        Half the stuff Trump wouldn’t care about, the other half would not really affect any current military operation. Plus most of it he’d just ignore like he did most other things, e.g. tarifs are illegal, welp, let me just use some other law to justify tarifs

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          8 hours ago

          You’ve just demonstrated my favorite excuse from Dems.

          “It’s okay that they don’t do anything because opposition is hard, and it might not work anyway, so why do anything?”

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        17 hours ago

        I didn’t say their hands were tied, but he shouldn’t be committing acts of war unilaterally. That was my point

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          17 hours ago

          Agreed… I just don’t want people acting like there is nothing that Democrats can do right now, including cutting off funding, drafting resolutions, etc. Maybe they will do something for once, but I don’t have my hopes up. Seeing how they literally enabled the genocide in Palestine, it seems like most of them are bought & paid for.

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            8 hours ago

            They’re not going to do anything, not because they’re powerless, but because they’re bought off by AIPAC and support the war too, and not only that, they have a maniacal leader in charge willing to take all of the heat off of them by acting without Congress and giving them plausible deniability. It’s a dream scenario if you’re an AIPAC-bribed legislator.