• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The best part is the next stage of the pattern where the opposition party gets elected and fails to change the ability for a president to launch regime change wars unilaterally. Or make it so ordinary folks have a decent life.

    And then we just repeat it every decade or so.

    • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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      So, when Democrat Presidents do this (as they do) they are just stealing Republican plays?

      That’s scary!

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          I’m not super sure what “it” refers to, but assuming “it” refers to newly bombing a foreign nation to enact regime change, and not just expanding on or continuing already existing bombing campaigns (which would expand the list to literally every dem president since Eisenhower):

          Obama: Libya

          Clinton: Yugoslavia

          Kennedy: Cuba

          Truman: Korea

          But some of these are quite far in the past, which other users have suggested makes them invalid examples somehow. Idk. Not sure what the other poster was referring to, but I think this may have been it.

            • arrow74@lemmy.zip
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              He’s just going to list cold war bullshit like I give a fuck what a Democrat did 60 years ago.

              Let’s talk about today

                • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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                  That’s okay, some day you will figure out how to look up things, IT’S NEAT

                  I like that you don’t know this, it amuses me

            • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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              I didn’t make any such claim regarding popularity, first we’d have to agree on what qualifies as “unpopular”.

              Re wars, again, first let’s establish do you mean “declared by congress war” like the official USA propaganda line, or do you believe military strikes are also war (or even acts of war)? What about assassination?

              With “acts of war” Democratic presidents routinely commit acts of war along with Republicans, how far can we go back?

              if “declared war” is your line, then we haven’t been in a “real war” since Korea, so we’ve been “war free” since 1950s. I think that’s silly personally.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    It’s a very obvious pattern. A US president decides to do regime change.

    That’s it. That’s the pattern.

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      Well is that a difference though? From what I see, the only difference is that a known pedophile can keep being president

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      known pedophile

      Or are we going to conveniently ignore that the rumor that Trump sucked Bill’s hog means that Bill was running in those circles too? The reason there’s barely any movement on releasing the files is because it implicates fucking everyone in that socio-economic strata.

      Trump’s openly horrid. That doesn’t mean the previous chucklefucks were spotless.

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    No wars until the average American isn’t struggling with basic needs like food, education, healthcare and a roof over their heads. You know, things every other normal country provides to their citizens.

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    That’s why only congress can declare war!

    So, they work around that by saying these wars are not wars, so now that this has been established, the president can do as they wish and nobody can stop them (as only congress restrains the President)

  • Stellar Bunny@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Assuming that he was doing this in order to boost his popularity due to war, how does he fuck this up and get bullied over the Epstein files for another year? Because he’s GOING to fuck this up.

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      Usually there’s a lot more build up for this kind of thing to get the public on their side, but they figured they could use the Trump magic to just shove it in dry. I don’t think it’s gonna fly. Share all the Epstein files!

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    I believe they’re setting this up so they can send Epsteiners to Venezuela to take high level government positions and “help run it” and give them a convenient way to leave the country and be beyond prosecution while maintaining a luxury lifestyle.

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    Pete Buttigieg is a liberal. He’s only saying this to save face.

    Listen to people like Graham Platner instead.