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Redditsux@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 days ago

Susie Wiles: Trump Needs Approval from Congress On Venezuela

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Susie Wiles: Trump Needs Approval from Congress On Venezuela

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Redditsux@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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After Trump's decision to launch a strike on Venezuela, a recently-published quote from Susie Wiles is getting renewed attention.
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  • Hayduke@lemmy.world
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    Needed. What’s done is done. It was illegal and he should be removed immediately.

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      it was illegal

      Not according to SCOTUS.

      Because the US is a dictatorship now.

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      “No no, now is not a time for division, we must hear what war criminal pedophile rapist has to say and meet in the middle.”

      That’s how US has always been and this won’t be any different.

      Despicable people all around.

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    Unless Congress does something about it, it does not matter what he needs.

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    $5 says congress increases military budget soon even with this happening and them saying it needs approval first

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    GW Bush, Obama, and Biden all used a specific interpretation of a law called “2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force” to commit strikes on other countries without congressional approval, which is exactly the precedent Trump is trying to use here. Congress in truth likes this so they can do things like this and pretend to be upset about war instead of having to defend their yes votes for it, as many of their donors would require of them. If they really wanted to do something about this it boggles my mind that in the 25 years since that law, they’ve never rallied specifically around repealing or re-interpreting it and have scarcely even called attention to it.

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      Congress in truth likes this so they can do things like this and pretend to be upset about war instead of having to defend their yes votes for it, as many of their donors would require of them.

      This seems to be the play here. Act coy and do nothing.

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      “Today, the full list of actors the U.S. military is fighting or believes itself authorized to fight under the 2001 AUMF is classified.”

      Multiple decades of absolutely clownshoes governance, love to be in the land of the free /s

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        The only notable challenge was a few republicans during the Biden administration and I’ll give everyone reading along at home one guess on how serious they were about repealing it. Haven’t heard a peep from them since their party won all three branches of government. Feels like it’s all just one big show.

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          🌎👨‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

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    What he needs is jail time.

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      What he deserves is worse

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    Remember the military was just there to defend the law enforcement personnel according to the White House so it wasn’t a military strike.

    It’s all BS but is defendable in the press, doubly so if no further action is taken.

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      Right. The US law enforcement personnel who’s authority ends at the US border.

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    WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT, SUSIE??

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    Ungrateful bastards. How dare they not even thank him for this attack.

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    She’s not wrong… But she’s also actively enabling him so she’s complicit in all this.

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    I just don’t get Susie Wiles: she seems to be the only person in the Trump team of evil henchmen with her head screwed on halfway right, and the demented orange utan still hasn’t fired her.

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      …is this a joke? She’s one of the more evil parts, figuratively greasing almost every gear and wheel that Trump wants moving.

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        I know, but weirdly she seems to know that the shit she enables is wrong, and even more weirdly, she seems to have no trouble admitting it candidly in public.

        Most of the other Trump Nazis are unhinged or incompetent, all of them are corrupt to the core, and none of them openly talk about the egregious fascist stuff they do, or the grifts they take part in.

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          That makes her even scarier

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    Hahahahaha. Dictator Suzie. Dictator.

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      Make commas matter again.

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        Make America Grammar Again

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    Who is going to arrest Donvict?

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    No idiot . An approval from the congress wouldn’t make it any more right

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    Isn’t that ironic. The last person to use the phrase “… will fix it” was this guy.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile

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    Why the fuck Wiles hasn’t been removed is way beyond me

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