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For anyone curious enough. Power is vested via 22 USC § 2318. Fun fact. Since 1988 this power has been invoked 59 times. 25 of the times have been for the Ukraine-Russia war. And of course twice for Israel just this year alone. For those doing the napkin math here, out of ALL of the times this power has been cited by a President (or related officer), 47% of them have been under Biden. Just FYI.
That is a fun… No, interesting fact. Were the other 53% more evened out? I’m trying to think of where it would have mattered, but I the sense it’s probably most when there’s a hotly divided Congress, which I feel is more recent, like last decade or two.
I love that the other day someone tried to “educate” me about how the president can’t just do whatever he wants (like pardon everyone who is in prison for weed related offences in states where weed has since been legalised) because “that’s not how it works” when clearly it really fucking is when he fucking wants it to (and there is money to be made, whereas pardoning prisoners loses money for those with the influence)…
How anyone can still believe that the system is “broken”, rather than working exactly as intended (to serve the rich and powerful and make them even more rich and powerful) is beyond me…
I feel like if the president could do whatever he wanted, the Trump years would have been a lot worse.
Lol, that wasnt for lack of trying… Trump decreed a whole fuckton of stuff that various staffs and agencies had to low key backpedal on. Dude was publishing major policy on Twitter on a fucking whim every other day…
Lmfao, whataboutism all you got? The guy is literally on trial for trying to get his followers to overthrow the government, never mind the rest of it (like what he did to the supreme court, and what they went on to continue even after he was gone, as was intended)…
But even if we all bury our heads up our asses like you clearly have, I feel like even the GOP understand that the mask of “democracy” has to be preserved to a certain point, and that trump isn’t who they want to be their long term dictator, but when someone they do is back in charge they will finish the fucking job (which they will be able to do in part thanks to people like you who minimise the obvious groundwork they’ve been actively laying, and which Biden is more than happy to take advantage, since they both serve the same people, and it isn’t the people).
Well if that’s how you truly feel, what do you even need evidence for? Just pretend you understand logical fallacies and you’re all gravy, baby!
Sick, guess that means the Democrats don’t need my vote since Trump won’t have any power anyways. No threat to democracy if he can’t do anything!
They said it would’ve been worse. They didn’t say what you wrote.
If you’re being serious, you’re being intellectually dishonest with yourself. That’s a bad look, imo
I’m simply pointing out the hypocrisy behind liberals telling me Joe Biden can’t get more done, because Presidents don’t have any power, and that I need to vote for Joe Biden because Donald Trump will have the power to end democracy as we know it.
I understood what you wrote. Thanks for restating it though.
I replied, saying that is not what the person you responded to said. You’re not pointing out any hypocrisy because you simply didn’t understand their comment
Guessing this is where all the political news is now?
It’s where all of @mypizza@lemmy.world’s & @YoBuckStopsHere@kbin.social’s political news is now, all of a sudden 🤷
YoBuckStopsHere was removed as mod for abuse from the different politics and world politics communities of lemmy.world.
I see that ever since then he’s been spamming posts over in this community.
I only see mypizza’s posts.
Edit: Oh LW must be blocking accounts again. I guess I’ll make a account over here.
At first I didn’t even know I wasn’t in the other place. One lemmy is as good as the other! They all look the same on Sync. I unsubscribed and subscribed here.
We just need to get @MicroWave@lemmy.world over here and no one will be able to tell the difference.
I can’t say I’d be thrilled for lemmy.ml to get all
ed up. But this comm seems to have no formalized position—other than being for world politics—and I’m nobody’s dad.
Nobody was posting about the Republican primary three-ring circus until now, presumably because people here didn’t care.There are no more communities, users just use all and never subscribe.
LW admins must be actively trying to nazify if this is the kind of stuff they’re censoring…
And Biden clearly wants to bypass my vote then.
So they legalized Oliver North?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Biden administration for the second time this month has bypassed Congress to approve the transfer of nearly $150 million in military equipment to Israel amid the country’s war against Hamas.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken informed Congress that he has made an emergency determination to immediately approve the transfer of “155mm ancillary items including fuzes, charges, and primers that make 155mm shells functional,” a State Department spokesperson said Friday.
“Given the urgency of Israel’s defensive needs, the secretary notified Congress that he had exercised his delegated authority to determine an emergency existed necessitating the immediate approval of the transfer,” the spokesperson said.
The State Department sent an emergency declaration to the oversight committees that more than 13,000 tank shells would be delivered to Israel without any “further information, details or assurances.”
A State Department spokesperson said at the time, “We continue to be clear with the government of Israel that they must comply with [international humanitarian law] and must take every feasible step to avoid harm to civilians.”
The $106 million transaction was part of a larger request to sell a total of 45,000 tank shells to Israel.
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Biden loves genocide so much that he’s willing to to any length to keep it going.
So selling guns and ammo is a big priority for Dems as long as the customers aren’t American I guess…
This would be a sick burn if you weren’t comparing apples to guns, you moron.
Selling guns to militaries defending their countries, aka the “militia” as described by the 2nd amendment. Not randos who have no good reason for owning them.
israel is a terrorist state and it also has no right to defend itself under international law
More specifically, As an Occupier, Israel Has No Right to “Self-Defense”
Isreal isn’t defending Israel…
And assuming you aren’t military, WE are the militia… The gaggle of “randos”… We aren’t charged with defending the US from invaders, the military is (and I was, and did). We, the militia, are charged with keeping the free state intact and secure.
Our purpose, as “a well regulated militia”, is to show our asses up under arms if something like Jan 6th actually succeeds. All the “randos”… That’s the whole point :)
Dems should be buying a shitload of guns right now, specifically because trump… He’s already shown the capacity to threaten the free state, he’s the first in a damned long time, and we, the “randos”, should be as ready as we can… That, as far as I’m concerned, is a damned good reason for randos to have guns (especially Dem randos)
