President Trump is expected to announce plans to launch a war with Venezuela this evening when he addresses the nation at 9:00 pm EST, a high-placed source on Capitol Hill has told Antiwar.com. Also, earlier in the day, Tucker Carlson told Judge Andrew Napolitano that he has heard from a member of Congress that Trump […]

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  • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Damn… Where them Epstein files?

    Oh that’s right, congress has placed a deadline for their release the day after trump will allegedly declare this war

  • pentastarm@piefed.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m fairly sure the US president can’t just unilaterally declare war…

    But then what the fuck even matters any more. Say the L in salmon.

    • dev_null@lemmy.ml
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      21 hours ago

      Thank you for your comment, I now know I have been pronouncing salmon wrong my entire life.

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      “Police action”. Bush bypassed Congress to invade Iraq under emergency powers, and since we’ve called fentanyl a WMD, all Trump has to do is EXACTLY THE SAME FUCKING THING: “it’s a matter of national security for us to take military action against Venezuela immediately”.

      This only gets him a limited window to deploy troops before Congress has to weigh in, but that gives him time to manufacture more consent or get SCOTUS to tell him it’s totally OK to declare war via executive order.

      • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        Yeah there’s literally already precedent now that the president can unilaterally legally declare an action which may embroil the country in a 22 year long war which they ultimately, let’s be generous and say “back out of”

        We can criticize almost all of Trump’s actions at this point to be unconstitutional but not this.

        “There’s WMDs in Venezuela that are an immediate threat to the United States” legalizes that action

        According to what the US allowed to become true by not holding their public servants to account, and rather being effectively subservient to and less than their politician “leaders” they elect infrequently, often based on dynasties and business arrangements.

        I mean this is how history should speak of whatever this age comes to be called.

        • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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          5 hours ago

          The only problem is that fentanyl isn’t actually a WMD. No one in their right mind would believe this. It does not pass the sniff test.

          What is worse is this is not where the fentanyl is even coming from. This is War On Drugs theatre.

          I thought the whole Bush invasion was beyond stupid, this is next level brain damage stuff.

          This little blue pill is a weapon!? Lol I can’t even.

        • duncan_bayne@lemmy.world
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          21 hours ago

          I’m still hoping that, if the Democrats win the next election (and, if there is a next election!) that the US is able to do some serious soul-searching and reject things like …

          • Military action without a declaration of war by Congress.
          • Executive orders to push through legislation that’s otherwise unconstitutional.
          • Court-stacking.

          Administrations on both sides have done this since FDR and the New Deal (and possibly before; I don’t know). They’ve been setting the scene for someone like Trump to come along and continue the tradition with some astoundingly vile abuses of power.