• fartographer@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      What’s this “2/3 of Congress” punchline that I keep hearing? Seems like you can put anything on the books and then do whatever you want as long as you have enough silent enablers.

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        3 days ago

        No but he can run a limited special operation for 150 days without congressional approval. Putting troops on the ground would put it legally questionable but scale hasn’t been tested yet.

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          2 days ago

          scale hasn’t been tested yet.

          Hasn’t been tested? Wow! The cognitive dissonance never disappoints.

          It sometimes feels like you deserve the pedo in chief.

          The land of checks of balances but checks note with in-built excuses for every diversion to do whatever the fuck you want.

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            1 day ago

            And sometimes it feels like European countries denizens forget they had in large part monarchies with routinely horrible leaders and I dunno serfdom.

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      Unfortunately while technically correct this has been shown time and time again he doesn’t care.