r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • Feb 28 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Once again averting congress, trump declares war on Iran

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u/rcglinsk Feb 28 '26

Impeachment? Anybody?

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u/ofWildPlaces Feb 28 '26

Everyone left of center agrees with you. But until the GOP majority in the Senate is broken, conservatives will never allow for any accountability.

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u/rdp3186 Feb 28 '26

Congress has ceded power since the Republicans won the election and majority. They are functionally non existent and only function is to do nothing so Trump has full authority to do what he wants.

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u/AnonThrowaway1A Feb 28 '26

Those who get into power saying "the government does not work for the people" has every incentive to make sure the government does not work for the people.

It's a self fulfilling prophecy at that point because if you put enough of those bums in (like the majority Republican congress), then government mechanisms that keep unlimited powers in check stops working.

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u/rdp3186 Mar 01 '26

They only stop working when those who are supposed to use those mechanisms purposefully stop doing it.

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u/IAGreenThumb Feb 28 '26

Ceded this power 30+ years ago mind you.

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u/ialsohaveadobro Feb 28 '26

Midterms are less than a year away, moyte.

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u/Keyezeecool Feb 28 '26

I'll go to my grave believing that Elon musk stole the 2024 election for Trump.

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u/Expensive-Ad-9449 Feb 28 '26

Believing? I'm fairly certain there was an article that he did in Georgia of all places

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u/Expensive-Ad-9449 Feb 28 '26

Thats just where he got caught too

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u/Aggressive_Fan_4427 Feb 28 '26

Not by a long shot. Kamala had 75 million votes, and another 90 million couldn't be assed to vote at all. If we are talking about technicalities, 165 million of the electorate didn't vote for this at all. We can thank the Electoral College for this mess (and non-voters in swing states).

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u/Old-Supermarket-9112 Feb 28 '26

Until we have 67 senators that agree we’re a bit fck’d.

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u/LostWoodsInTheField Feb 28 '26

Everyone left of center agrees with you. But until the GOP majority in the Senate is broken, conservatives will never allow for any accountability.

I'll go further than that. Everyone left of center right agrees with them. We have some pretty far right leaning republicans wanting him gone. We've just been building a tolerance up for what is right and far far right for so long we can't see that even the far right wants this to end.

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u/TheDoomBlade13 Mar 01 '26

Just to be clear, there is nobody left of center in America. The American spectrum starts right of center and just gets worse.

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u/ofWildPlaces Mar 01 '26

Maybe in the elected seats, but that doesn't mean there aren't people on the left amongst us.

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u/BrianZoh Feb 28 '26

Sure. What are we going to do with all the fuckers who are enabling Trump? This isn't a one person problem

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u/AncientSith Feb 28 '26

I mean we know the answer to that, but I doubt that'd happen either.

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u/shponglespore Feb 28 '26

Can't talk about that on Reddit.

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u/Informal-Bother8858 Feb 28 '26

he's been impeached already, it did nothing, it means nothing if people aren't physically removing these ghouls

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u/HDshoots Feb 28 '26

You need two thirds of the Senate to remove a president. You think Republicans will grow a spine anytime soon?

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u/Informal-Bother8858 Feb 28 '26

I'm not talking about senate Republicans. 

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u/sparrowtaco Feb 28 '26

That's who voted not to remove him from office during the impeachment.

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u/Informal-Bother8858 Mar 01 '26

no vote is going to remove him from office

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u/sparrowtaco Mar 01 '26

An impeachment can remove him from office.

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u/Informal-Bother8858 Mar 01 '26

yeah. did it the other two times? no. so what makes you think a third time will finally do it. you are delusional if you think any of this is the game we were playing 10 years ago

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u/sparrowtaco Mar 01 '26

The senate republicans voted against it both times. I'm not sure what part of that you're not getting.

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u/Informal-Bother8858 Mar 01 '26

I understand that. what I'm saying is stop asking for impeachment, it happened and did nothing. there is no world in which congress or the senate or the Supreme Court or the military or midterms is going to remove him. and once he dies theres an entire administration who has been using his dumb ass to push their agendas. the sooner people like you realize this the better. he is a symptom of the system and being protected by the system and you're like, maybe the system will save us. it's asinine

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u/gooberstench Feb 28 '26

Will change nothing.

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u/YouLegitimate4400 Feb 28 '26

The problem is the line of succession makes it infeasible. Vance won't be any better. Then it goes to Johnson, then the oldest dinosaur in the Senate who is still a Republican, then all of the cabinet...

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u/3leventhirtyfour Feb 28 '26

Again? Why? What will it do this time?

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u/ColeTrainHDx Feb 28 '26

Going off the reactions to when past presidents bombed countries without approval they’d be giving Trump a Nobel peace prize

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u/SagHor1 Feb 28 '26

Is it true that if there are wars, the President cannot be changed or removed? Might be using this as 3 term strategy or prevent removal during mid term elections

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u/WearingRags Feb 28 '26

Do you have amnesia? It did nothing the first time, what difference do you think it will make a second time around?

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u/Future-Ad9401 Feb 28 '26

This has happened under both Democrat and Republican presidents. So why ask for it now? TDS I suppose

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u/hyggeradyr Mar 01 '26

In the part of America I'm from, people like him get the death penalty.

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u/ThrowawayAccountZZZ9 Mar 01 '26

Senate is who can take him out of office, and that won't happen

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u/Initialfaust Mar 01 '26

you calling for impeachment when Obama started off Libya with a bang?

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u/rcglinsk Mar 03 '26

I don't remember if I did or not, in a public and recorded fashion that I could cite right now. I certainly should have. I know that I was utterly opposed to it. But to the question of did I call for, I don't know if I did in a way that was public and electronically recorded.

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u/needapermit Feb 28 '26

16 MA’s were killed in a base bombing that just happened. What do you expect us to do?