a resolution meant to prevent Mr. Trump from starting a war without congressional approval
Uhhh. I have news for ya, cuckgress
The man is proving to be untouchable. If you have enough money, power and legal advice you can get away with just about anything.
He’s grabbed the country by the pussy, and we let him do it, just like he said.
I think that’s incorrect.
Donald became inevitable when the Democratic Party opted to rule in a manner that didn’t distinguish them from the Republicans in any meaningful way. “We” didn’t let him do anything. “We” exist in a country where absent a billion dollar fortune or membership in the Epstein Class, you have no power whatsoever to effect change outside of your local municipality.
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.
Yeah he’s not supposed to do a lot of stuff. He farting all over the founding father’s faces.
That’s very generous of you to limit it to “farts”
They just forgot to add “spray” before “farts”.
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?”
Dictators are always untouchable until they’re not. Sometimes they die before justice is done, sometimes they end up on a meat hook.
If they couldn’t stop any prior president from starting a war, then why would Trump be any different.
This will never be declared a ‘war’ legally by the US government, because those require congressional approval. It will instead be a ‘military operation’, just like the Iraq War, Desert Storm 2, Afghanistan, Libya and pretty much all major military engagements since WW2.
Wild how the small innovation of just changing terminology completely allowed presidents to get around the law.
Under Obama, civilians became: “Enemy or Unarmed Combatants”. Under Bush, torture became “enhanced interrogation” and kidnapping became “extraordinary rendition”. Under Clinton war became “peacekeeping operation”. They all loved using the term “air strike” instead of “bombing” or “settlers” instead of “murderers and rapists”.
I hate that it works, but it works.
We really ought to be calling those ‘illegal military operations’
the Department of War does not do war, only military operations! that would be a good joke if people wouldn’t be dying
Yeah it’s Monty python level worplay shit, but sadly that’s what passes for skirting the law successfully in the USA.
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They literally posted an article supporting the war earlier today, too.
The NYT is part of the US’s consent manufacturing machine.
They just also coincidentally post some decent recipes and host some fun word games.
Edit: Serious Eats posts far better recipes, though.
Got a link to the article where they support the war? Can’t find it
Here ya go. It’s another opinion piece by, if you’re familiar with the NYT, you guessed it!
Edit: whoops its older than just today, that mighta thrown off your search.
Fucking Bret Stephens 🤦🤬
Him and Ross DoubtThat
Link didn’t work for me but I found it through the Bret comment below. I don’t know the guy – but now I read the article I remember reading something from him before, and looking him up on wiki because I thought “WTF NYT?!”. I guess he is the voice of conservatism / MAGA in the NYT. So yeah, it’s rather strange that they would allow a voice like that in their newspaper, but I guess that’s the journalists’ compulsion to show both sides of a story even if one side of that story smells rotten AF.
That being said: the Irani regime is horrible and they have been killing their citizens for weeks now and have been suppressing them for much longer. Thousands of innocents are dead. Something clearly had to be done to stop the bloodshed.
If it were anyone other than these two old war criminals attacking the Irani regime, I would support it as well. But of course the issue is that these old farts are using it as an excuse to increase their power in the Middle East.
Europe should have stepped up their game, but as always, they were as slow as a constipated turd moving through a rectum. And now it’s too late.
This article, like Schumer’s statement after the attack reads like, “come on man, I’m horny to get bombing in Iran, but you didn’t apply the customary lube first.”
I like the NYT journalism but their opinion pieces are all over the place, they always seem to go for the two sides, or even more sides so there’ll always be at least one you agree with and one that you absolutely hate
How about we discuss the article and not its source?
An understandable question, but this opinion article is by the editorial board; the source and the author in this case are functionally identical, so it’s entirely valid, in my opinion, to point out contradictions like this.
I don’t think you should be downvoted for what would otherwise be a reasonable, level-headed response.
Edit: by the way, @SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone, maybe a source besides a screenshot of a ChatGPT log is appropriate here.
Edit 2: In part because I think some of that is even hallucinated. E.g. point 3, the real headline is: “Trump’s Remarks on Migrants Illustrate His Obsession With Genes” Did you check any of this before you posted it here?
Even if this is the editorial board, these are all unrelated topics where, yes, they could have done better, but perhaps it was the naivety of the time. And it’s definitely not as if they’re a pro-Trump news outlet.
However, they do have that weird legacy-media combination of pomposity and serrvility.
Of course. They think very highly of themselves
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He started this war for two reasons: Israel told him to, and if he failed to act, they were going to expose the extent of his crimes against children as recorded in the Epstein files.
I doubt if extortion was needed. He wants people to die because of him. It makes him feel important.
Because he raped and murdered kids with the Israeli’s, politicians and oligarchs and they don’t want to go to jail so they’re going to blow up some schools and hospitals and hope we forget
Mr. President
When’s NYT compost event?
The President is merely acting according to his nature - the ultimate explanation of why he is doing this is that the American public chose to trust the sort of man that he is. Challenging the fox’s motives after he has been voted back into the henhouse is a waste of words.
the correct term of address is not “Mr President,” but “you fucking pedo pig.”
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