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minus-squareRaoulDook@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40arrow-down2·24 days agoCongress is the branch of the government that can declare war, not the President.
minus-squareBonifratz@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up28·24 days agoExcept in MAGA world everything is made up and the rules don’t matter.
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·23 days agoMAGA = Republican. No difference.
minus-squareVoroxpete@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·24 days agoThat used to be true. Then the early 2000s happened and Congress effectively signed away that authority.
minus-squareBakerBagel@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·23 days agoThe US jas deployed a lot of troops for avtive combat across the world on the past 80 years despite Congress not declaring a single war since Pearl Harbor. This sort of naked power grab was inevitable.
minus-squareozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·24 days agotoo bad we can’t hold any elections while we’re at war
minus-squareparanoid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·23 days agoWhile this is true for other countries, such as Ukraine, it isn’t true for America
minus-squareozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·23 days agoi know, however trump was awfully interested in the concept when he learned about it
Congress is the branch of the government that can declare war, not the President.
Except in MAGA world everything is made up and the rules don’t matter.
MAGA = Republican. No difference.
That used to be true. Then the early 2000s happened and Congress effectively signed away that authority.
Never forget the Patriot Act
The US jas deployed a lot of troops for avtive combat across the world on the past 80 years despite Congress not declaring a single war since Pearl Harbor. This sort of naked power grab was inevitable.
too bad we can’t hold any elections while we’re at war
While this is true for other countries, such as Ukraine, it isn’t true for America
i know, however trump was awfully interested in the concept when he learned about it