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minus-squaregoferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up81arrow-down1·6 个月前They’re too busy changing their pants after their wishes finally came true
minus-squareF/15/[email protected]@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up41arrow-down1·6 个月前“So we still get paid and we don’t have to do anything? That’s amazing! Haha, but why do I have to face the wall for this part?”
minus-squareselokichtli@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10·6 个月前It’s weird to laugh in a time like this. Thank you, I guess.
minus-squaregoferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 个月前Sometimes laughing is all we can do in times like this
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·6 个月前Nah, they’re all on the phone with their stockbrokers.
minus-squareTrainguyrom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 个月前You laugh but several members of Congress bought stocks in defense contractors shortly before this military operation
minus-squareWalnutLum@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-26 个月前In 2001 when The US authorized use of force on Al-Qaeda that, along with The 1973 war powers resolution gave the president (as in the position of president, not just Bush) unlimited ability to bomb anyone loosely associated with Al-Qaeda in perpetuity. It’s what allowed Bush, then Obama, then Trump, and then Biden, and now Trump again, to use the military as they see fit for performing military operations against basically any state and group in the middle east.
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down3·6 个月前https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown 220 Republicans 212 Democrats
minus-squareDialectical Idealist@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 个月前Congress has been increasingly abdicating more of its powers for several administrations now
Congress?? Hello?
They’re too busy changing their pants after their wishes finally came true
“So we still get paid and we don’t have to do anything? That’s amazing! Haha, but why do I have to face the wall for this part?”
It’s weird to laugh in a time like this. Thank you, I guess.
Sometimes laughing is all we can do in times like this
Nah, they’re all on the phone with their stockbrokers.
You laugh but several members of Congress bought stocks in defense contractors shortly before this military operation
I wasn’t joking.
In 2001 when The US authorized use of force on Al-Qaeda that, along with The 1973 war powers resolution gave the president (as in the position of president, not just Bush) unlimited ability to bomb anyone loosely associated with Al-Qaeda in perpetuity.
It’s what allowed Bush, then Obama, then Trump, and then Biden, and now Trump again, to use the military as they see fit for performing military operations against basically any state and group in the middle east.
https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown
220 Republicans
212 Democrats
Congress has been increasingly abdicating more of its powers for several administrations now