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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Actually, he just pissed and moaned for, like, 30 min and didn’t even hint at a war. Fantastic stuff.
Classic
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.
A dictator and tyran can
“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.
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.
Wow, that’s really fucking gross.
Doesn’t change the fact that he’s a felonious pedophile that should be rotting in a prison cell.
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
