Mike Johnson wants a king.
Good job giving away your own powers dickhead.
At least dicks can get hard. This fucker has as much spine as a bowl of spaghetti.
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As someone pointed out. That’s Vance, not Johnson. We are talking about Johnson.
Not sure why I read Vance, haha
Theil essentially got him in as VP That’s the chucklefuck Vance. Johnson is a different chucklefuck from Congress.
Do these people understand that once they give away these powers the next person who wrestles away power from trump may see them as an enemy? With the constitutional power to disappear homegrown terrorists nobody is safe.
What are the democrats gonna do to them? They’ve got nothing to be afraid of, look what happened to Bush.
But they’ll be rich for a moment and get to look down on the poor!
I see them as an enemy right now.
The gaggle of idiots believe they’re the thing that goes bump in the night.
Maybe they don’t expect that to be a possibility…
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So when are the people going to remove them both?
“Many respected constitutional experts argue that the War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional. I’m persuaded by that argument.”
I don’t think he was persuaded by the argument, I think he was hoping such an argument existed. Anything for daddy Trump.
Everybody’s saying it. And even if they weren’t, I believed it before they said it!
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Imagine being so cucked that you give away your already incredibly narrow and ever shrinking powers. What a fucking buffoon.
And I want Mike Johnson’s balls removed with a falling brick. Pretty please?
He does not use them - it would be a waste of time. Like removing the tires off a PT Cruiser.
scrolls lemmy
reads headline and moves on
A few posts down and scrolls up realizing it was posted to politics not theOnion
I don’t trust DOOFUS with the cognition to spell his own name, why the hell would I want to give him power to declare war?
No thank you, I am not privy to a war with Canada nor Denmark.
Our Constitution is unconstitutional!
It’s more or less toilet paper now.
Its like they believe “constitutional” means “the way I want it”
Why wouldn’t it, they do that with everything else. Ask a conservative if they hate something and they say they don’t hate because it’s a sin. Ask them to describe how they feel, and they describe hate.
They believe “constitutional” means that thing they do on the toilet each morning.
By denying the Constitution of the United States in violation of his Oath of Office, House Speaker Mike Johnson is unironically committing treason right now.
So he’s next up to be president.
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He’s christian so he probably has.
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Well, the War Powers Act is unconstitutional - but in the other direction. Deploying military force requires a declaration of war, which requires congressional approval, but the War Powers Act circumvents that by pretending that using euphemisms to describe military actions instead of calling it war makes it different, somehow.
So like a special military operation
Exactly.
See also: Military Operations Other Than War, Low Intensity Conflicts, Police Action (e.g. Vietnam).
And that’s kind of a problem. As far as I see, this use of the war powers act is entirely consistent with previous uses. Trumps not wrong for once.
Maybe the part about not bothering to inform Congress because “they’ll see it in the news”.
Our outrage seems to be mainly that he chose poorly, or maybe even that we haven’t been conditioned to agree with it. Iran has been pursuing nuclear weapons for years(decades?) and I certainly agree the world becomes a more dangerous, unstable place as more countries obtain nuclear weapons. Sanctions haven’t been working, but you combine this with Israel’s assassinations and it should be effective at stopping their program.
Of course I don’t know that anyone tried negotiating from a point of respect for their sovereignty nor was this in response to hostilities against our Interests or any urgent threat (that we’re aware of). You can’t just bomb people you disagree with, but this really seems consistent with previous administrations and the only difference is the propaganda war to manipulate support
Trumps not wrong for once.
He’s definitely wrong morally, constitutionally, and strategically just not legally, per how the courts have (mis)interpreted the constitution.
Sanctions haven’t been working
Well, in order to work, they’d have to have a coherent objective.
They did work at bringing Iran to the negotiating table, which led to Obama’s Iran deal. The only problem being that Obama made it, so Trump had to hate it. The only thing the US actually wants from Iran is for it to be an enemy the president can bomb to look tough.
it should be effective at stopping their program.
The program that we have no evidence actually existed, that is. Certainly, if they weren’t actively persuing one before, they’d be mad not to now. How else could they stop the frequent, random unprovoked aggression from the US?
I mean yeah, I didn’t claim this action was morally or even strategically acceptable, just that it seems consistent with the way past administrations have used the same power.
Your gonna be back in Wisconsin soon bitch. We’ll see if you survive the summer
“I don’t want to have to take a position on record about my support for disastrous forever wars.”
If Mike Johnson wants war, he should be first in line for registration and selective service. He should not be aiding and abetting propaganda outlets to dupe the youth into dying for that “apartheid state” again.
