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Redditsux@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 8 days ago

Mike Johnson Wants Trump to Have More War Powers, Says Law Requiring Congressional Approval is Unconstitutional

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Mike Johnson Wants Trump to Have More War Powers, Says Law Requiring Congressional Approval is Unconstitutional

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"Many respected constitutional experts argue that the War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional. I'm persuaded by that argument."
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    Party of small government everybody. If they didn’t have double standards and lies, they wouldn’t have any standards or things to talk about.

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      Getting rid of congress would make the government smaller

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        yeah! just one guy - can’t get smaller than that! /s

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    Mike Johnson believes he can force Jesus to return by nuking the Middle East, and reporters should be demanding he answer questions about it.

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      What an arrogant prick. God should smite his sorry ass.

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        Jesus should return and bitch slap him with the power of Christ.

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    lol. a REPUBLICAN saying what’s unconstitutional??

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    So you want a king, yes? You people sure took a roundabout way to get back to where you started.

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    “Calling things unconstitutional” is the new “calling things woke”.

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      That’s such an unconstitutional thing to say!

  • MiyamotoKnows@lemmy.world
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    Fuck that.

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
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    Any member of the media or foreign power representative must allow Trump to rape them in broad daylight with his world famous big …ohhh, thar won’t be necessary thank you…$10,000,000.0! That’s right, if you need to speak with the guy you give him 10 million in small bills… Fives, tens and twenties please.

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    That shithead shouldn’t use words he doesn’t have any hope of understanding.

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    So today we care about the constitution? I get the days mixed up…

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    Things aren’t going sideways fast enough for little Moses Mikey.

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    Why is every word in the title beginning with a capital letter? This is an eyesore and annoying to read. Only the first word of a sentence, names, months and days, some abbreviations and “I” should be written with a capital letter. As explained here.

    • reminiscensdeus@lemm.ee
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      It’s common to capitalize words in a title (other than exception words like “of”). It actually says this in your link.

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        I hate it

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      Because it is a title. Duh.

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      It’s the American standard for titles I think.

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      Of all the things even vaguely related to this post to be upset with, you chose to comment on title casing?

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        Yeah, and it feels kinda nice. After months of doomscrolling, being upset with basically everything that is happening in the world while being forced to helplessly watch how everything goes to shit, I can finally complain about something as stupid as this.

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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      You mean like in this post that you yourself submitted?

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        Lol, touché

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      https://www.techopedia.com/definition/pascal-case

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    Our Constitution is unconstitutional!

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      Its like they believe “constitutional” means “the way I want it”

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        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.

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        They believe “constitutional” means that thing they do on the toilet each morning.

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      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.

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        So he’s next up to be president.

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          not unless he rapes someone. Then he’s on track!

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            He’s christian so he probably has.

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            …mossad gonna mossad and FSB gonna FSB…

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      It’s more or less toilet paper now.

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    The constitution explicitly says what to do with this motherfucker. Stop being such pussies and do it.

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      What are you waiting for?

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        not my pig not my farm

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          I wasn’t asking you.

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    Good job giving away your own powers dickhead.

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      At least dicks can get hard. This fucker has as much spine as a bowl of spaghetti.

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        Theil essentially got him in as VP That’s the chucklefuck Vance. Johnson is a different chucklefuck from Congress.

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        As someone pointed out. That’s Vance, not Johnson. We are talking about Johnson.

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          Not sure why I read Vance, haha

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    Mike Johnson is fucking spooky. I’ve been saying this for a few years now, when his Covenant Eyes usage made news.

    He is a true believer, he’s on a mission from god. He’s smart. He will not care about the people crushed by the machine, as that is the fruit of their depravity in his worldview.

    Watch this motherfucker. Trump and Vance are motivated by greed and power. You need to look to fundamentalist Islamic leaders for a similar mindset to Johnson.

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      Or Netanyahu

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        I would think Netanyahu is closer to the greed and corruption model. He needs the war to keep his slimy ass out of jail.

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          Netanyahu is a Zionist. The circumstances that he’s brought upon himself don’t negate that fact.

          The US was Zion for almost all of the Jews until the end of WWII. This isn’t a coincidence.

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            okay, that’s immaterial to the current discussion.

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              How is Netanyahu being a cultist immaterial to a discussion about true believers that are causing evil with their positions of power?

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                Because, at the end of the day, Netanyahu will do or say anything to save his neck. He’s not a fanatic like Johnson. He’s like Trump and Vance.

                I.E. Johnson would die for his beliefs and will kill or allow the deaths of those that he considers to be evil/subhuman like: queer people, immigrants, any religion other than Christianity or Judaism, etc.

                Netanyahu will kill or do anything to protect or enrich himself. His Zionism is just a useful tool, and if it didn’t serve him, he’d drop it. (Not that that would ever be the case) Netanyahu would load jewish babies into a wood chipper while sucking off an Imam if it would keep him alive.

                Look at what these people do, not what they say.

                You’re so wound up on the whole Israel thing that you’re missing the point. Also, quit doing this purity test crap. It leaves you unable to understand the nuance in these things.

                Johnson is more of a true Zionist than Netanyahu if you need to frame it that way. He is similar to Ali Khamenei in the fervency of his beliefs. I don’t have a good example of a Jewish politician as I’m weak on Israeli internal politics.

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