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Sen. Ruben Gallego, an Arizona Democrat, said he will introduce a resolution to block Donald Trump from invading Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory.
Concerns about U.S. action against Greenland have grown on the heels of the attack on Venezuela, which led to the capture of leader Nicolas Maduro.
“Everybody wants us to have a bigger presence in Greenland to combat the Russian/Chinese Arctic influence,” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said.
Does something like this even make sense? He didn’t have the right to invade Venezuela, but he did anyway. What a bill going to do to stop him?
The war powers act gives the president the authority to invade any country on earth, he only needs congressional approval for operations lasting longer than 30 days. Congress also gave the president blanket authorization to invade any country he thinks might be harboring terrorists, following 9/11, with this absurd, fascist decision to grant the executive dictatatorial powers passing the Senate 98-0 and the House 420-1 (and with nearly 90% of Americans supporting Bush at this time). Trump’s actions in Venezuela therefore, while a brazen violation of international law, are fully within US law. It’s virtually impossible for a president to actually violate US law through military actions abroad.
Any attempts to rein in these ridiculous laws should be fully supported and are badly needed. Even if Trump ignores them, it can then be used to discredit him and prove that he is acting against the will of the people.
God damn. It’s worse than I thought. Plus with the Supreme Court declaring all actions taken as president to be legal, he can do anything he wants now, whether legal or not.
This is why I keep telling people that Trump is not an anomaly and is not new. I think a lot of people on here must be too young to remember the Bush era.
The line from the Star Wars prequels of, "So this is how liberty dies: with thunderous applause" captures how it felt and was clearly about Bush’s policies. If Trump is worse than Bush, it’s only because he’s standing on the shoulders of fascist giants. And tbh I still regard Bush as the more dangerous of the two because he was able to command such overwhelming support, there was zero opposition in government anywhere, at all. He could ride his bike with no handlebars.
I was yelling about it pretty loud but I was also 15 so like… no one really cared.
It gets votes on record on who thinks it’s okay if Trump wants to invade Greenland.
I feel there’s a nonzero chance that Trump might just go all out if a third impeachment looks like it will succeed.
Like, what if Trump decides to build up forces around Western Europe, and then launches bombs to flatten Copenhagen just before his removal? And then when he’s out, he tells the Dems that the fallout is their problem now.
I doubt an impeachment would ever result in his removal. If anything, I could see a “wartime president” do unconstitutional things, such as preventing elections and such.