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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.
Hey everyone the Constitution is unconstitutional!
-MAGA Mike
Don’t worry everyone, the democrats will do absolutely nothing to stop them. They are complicit in all of this.
They can’t even do anything. Everything in Federal is one sided until Midterms.. unless Donald gets rid of that too.
They could have voted to impeach recently, instead they chose to normalize the president not needing approval to do acts of war.
And before that there was the budget.
And before that they censured Al Green.
And before that they approved Trump's nominees.
But yeah, Democrats are totally powerless to do anything. I'm sure that will convince people they're worth their time.
He should, for a change, read and try to understand the Constitution he has sworn to uphold. Or, if he is to stupid for that, have someone slowly explain it to him.
It can't be "unconstitutional" when it is right in the Constitution.
The reason he's saying wrong things is not due to lack of understanding. It's because he's a power-mad liar.
He doesn’t know what the Constitution is, like he doesn’t know what the Declaration of Independence is as well. He even stated boycotting is illegal, and you shouldn’t protest against Israel.
Imagine being so sycophantic, so subservient, so blindly and absolutely loyal to any authority, that you have no shame about it, at all. When some "Man" shows up in a suit or uniform, you immediately drop to your knees.
And in Johnson's case, he drops to his knees for more reasons than one. No shame in that, but his party and constituents don't like that...
Don't worry, Mike's son monitors his porn consumption.
Imagine being so cucked that you give away your already incredibly narrow and ever shrinking powers. What a fucking buffoon.
Trump cock sucker sucks more of Trump's cock. Fucking cool man. Dems remain nonexistent. I used to think the 'we need a do over' crowd was a bit dramatic but more every day I'm finding it a hard point to argue. These fucking ignorant narcissists just soiling and eroding what our country stands for and the fact that none of our elected officials are doing anything infuriates the shit out of me. Yes I do see the benefit in Judicial actually standing up to a lot of this and celebrate their efforts, but it sdoing nothing to stop them from trying over and over and over.
Our Constitution is unconstitutional!
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.
So he's next up to be president.
Its like they believe "constitutional" means "the way I want it"
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.
It's more or less toilet paper now.
Well, the War Powers Act is unconstitutional - but in the other direction. Deploying military force requires a declaration of war, which requires congressional approval, but the War Powers Act circumvents that by pretending that using euphemisms to describe military actions instead of calling it war makes it different, somehow.
And that’s kind of a problem. As far as I see, this use of the war powers act is entirely consistent with previous uses. Trumps not wrong for once.
Maybe the part about not bothering to inform Congress because “they’ll see it in the news”.
Our outrage seems to be mainly that he chose poorly, or maybe even that we haven’t been conditioned to agree with it. Iran has been pursuing nuclear weapons for years(decades?) and I certainly agree the world becomes a more dangerous, unstable place as more countries obtain nuclear weapons. Sanctions haven’t been working, but you combine this with Israel’s assassinations and it should be effective at stopping their program.
Of course I don’t know that anyone tried negotiating from a point of respect for their sovereignty nor was this in response to hostilities against our Interests or any urgent threat (that we’re aware of). You can’t just bomb people you disagree with, but this really seems consistent with previous administrations and the only difference is the propaganda war to manipulate support
Trumps not wrong for once.
He's definitely wrong morally, constitutionally, and strategically just not legally, per how the courts have (mis)interpreted the constitution.
Sanctions haven’t been working
Well, in order to work, they'd have to have a coherent objective.
They did work at bringing Iran to the negotiating table, which led to Obama's Iran deal. The only problem being that Obama made it, so Trump had to hate it. The only thing the US actually wants from Iran is for it to be an enemy the president can bomb to look tough.
it should be effective at stopping their program.
The program that we have no evidence actually existed, that is. Certainly, if they weren't actively persuing one before, they'd be mad not to now. How else could they stop the frequent, random unprovoked aggression from the US?
I mean yeah, I didn’t claim this action was morally or even strategically acceptable, just that it seems consistent with the way past administrations have used the same power.
So like a special military operation
Exactly.
See also: Military Operations Other Than War, Low Intensity Conflicts, Police Action (e.g. Vietnam).
How the hell can these people call themselves conservative. What kind of conservative calls for greater executive power?
They're regressive and refuse to admit it.
They're royalists but don't want to face reality, they want a king but saying that is about the least American thing you could possibly do.
Conservative means "There must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out-groups for the law to bind but not protect." That's it. They are childish assholes that only care about power for their group, and keeping other people out of power. They are the worst sort of people.
Funny, that's the same for fascists.
The constitution explicitly says what to do with this motherfucker. Stop being such pussies and do it.
What are you waiting for?
not my pig not my farm
I wasn't asking you.
Good job giving away your own powers dickhead.
At least dicks can get hard. This fucker has as much spine as a bowl of spaghetti.
Do these people understand that once they give away these powers the next person who wrestles away power from trump may see them as an enemy? With the constitutional power to disappear homegrown terrorists nobody is safe.
Maybe they don't expect that to be a possibility...
But they'll be rich for a moment and get to look down on the poor!
What are the democrats gonna do to them? They've got nothing to be afraid of, look what happened to Bush.
"Many respected constitutional experts argue that the War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional. I'm persuaded by that argument."
I don't think he was persuaded by the argument, I think he was hoping such an argument existed. Anything for daddy Trump.
Journalists should have immediately asked him "which expert first won him over with their argument, and which of their arguments was most compelling". Make him squirm.
Everybody's saying it. And even if they weren't, I believed it before they said it!
scrolls lemmy
reads headline and moves on
A few posts down and scrolls up realizing it was posted to politics not theOnion
Mike Johnson wants a king.
Your gonna be back in Wisconsin soon bitch. We'll see if you survive the summer
If Mike Johnson wants war, he should be first in line for registration and selective service. He should not be aiding and abetting propaganda outlets to dupe the youth into dying for that "apartheid state" again.
So when are the people going to remove them both?
"I don't want to have to take a position on record about my support for disastrous forever wars."
Mike johnson sounds like he’s glazing