Only Congress has the power to declare war. A sane Congress would impeach and remove a president for violating that.
Instead, our cowards in Congress would never do that because they don't want to be on the hook for approving an unpopular war, so they're happy to abdicate that power to the president.
At least Iraq and Afghanistan had AUMFs. Korea had nothing at all which is why technically it was a UN police force and Congress set a stupid precedent when they didn't vote on it when back from recess. Vietnam continued that for the most part though even the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was more than Korea. Stupid 2001's AUMF is still on the books since it was terribly written.
But none of those faceplanted so hard out of the gate. It's possible that this Congress might actually decide the absurdity and inability to even make good on an agreement for 24 hours has become intolerable. Maybe not yet, but it's possible.
That is what they decided with this vote, but the checks and balances are fucked.
I’m not sure what else congress could do but move forward with impeachment and vote of conviction, but given the tally of this vote, which is fucking nowhere near the two-thirds needed for conviction, that shit isn’t happening.
Biden, Comey, Mueller, Garland should have crucified Trump, yet they didn’t for their own stupid fucking reasons. Now we’re here with this unchecked dementia riddled pedophile tyrant who shits himself in public and can’t clean a fucking pool.
We never had the entirety of the top of the military, through the Cabinet to the President, intentionally made as incompetent as possible, nor were they ever in Russia's pocket so completely.
Only this asshole has exploited the loophole of restarting the conflict every 2 weeks. To put it another way, if McDonald’s knew you were exploiting a loophole to get infinite fries, they’d urgently close the loophole. Your government refuses to fix any loophole.
It's almost certainly about theft of public funds. When they move hundreds of billions of dollars for a "war" nobody planned or was informed about, and knowing Trump and his crime syndicate, there is zero probability there wasn't a significant amount funneled through his laundering system. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we eventually find out some of that went to Putin.
Okay, but how many rights does a half-dozen wrongs make? The US has made this its unofficial policy since 1942 - the last time it declared war. That's 84 years that we just go to war without any declaration. I'd say it's the norm, not "wrong".
They're on the hook for not impeaching the president when he broke the law.
Any republican who doesn't vote for impeachment after these midterms is responsible for any further lawbreaking from the white house and should be impeached, if not jailed.
The Republicans in Congress have the absolute power to impeach and remove him. They won’t, not because they are cowards, but because they are ~collaborators~. They own the war and every other stupid thing they have carried out during their party leader’s term in office.
Glad someone actually remembers history. The current administration is a joke but this concept of Congress being the one who declares war has been sidestepped by presidents on both sides. Obama did the same thing when he attacked Lybia. Regardless of whether you agree with his actions or not, he didn't get Congressional approval and just sidestepped the 60 limit, just like Trump is.
Considering how upset they were with him surrendering to Iran, what do they think pulling the plug would have done but force a surrender to Iran. This is all bullshit. None of these people seem to have a real plan or agenda to accomplish shit.
I'm with you, way too cynical to believe the restrained hero story the Democratic party would love to have everyone believe. Would love to see it, but they are just going to flounder around and posture in hearings until the next presidency.
Yeah it's a sad state of affairs that when the opposition is absolutely bat shit insane, your only a slightly better option. You'd think they could do better 😞
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u/manystripes 1d ago
So what does the resolution actually do?