• Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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    Mike Johnson believes he can force Jesus to return by nuking the Middle East, and reporters should be demanding he answer questions about it.

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    Mike Johnson is fucking spooky. I’ve been saying this for a few years now, when his Covenant Eyes usage made news.

    He is a true believer, he’s on a mission from god. He’s smart. He will not care about the people crushed by the machine, as that is the fruit of their depravity in his worldview.

    Watch this motherfucker. Trump and Vance are motivated by greed and power. You need to look to fundamentalist Islamic leaders for a similar mindset to Johnson.

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        I would think Netanyahu is closer to the greed and corruption model. He needs the war to keep his slimy ass out of jail.

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          Netanyahu is a Zionist. The circumstances that he’s brought upon himself don’t negate that fact.

          The US was Zion for almost all of the Jews until the end of WWII. This isn’t a coincidence.

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              How is Netanyahu being a cultist immaterial to a discussion about true believers that are causing evil with their positions of power?

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                Because, at the end of the day, Netanyahu will do or say anything to save his neck. He’s not a fanatic like Johnson. He’s like Trump and Vance.

                I.E. Johnson would die for his beliefs and will kill or allow the deaths of those that he considers to be evil/subhuman like: queer people, immigrants, any religion other than Christianity or Judaism, etc.

                Netanyahu will kill or do anything to protect or enrich himself. His Zionism is just a useful tool, and if it didn’t serve him, he’d drop it. (Not that that would ever be the case) Netanyahu would load jewish babies into a wood chipper while sucking off an Imam if it would keep him alive.

                Look at what these people do, not what they say.

                You’re so wound up on the whole Israel thing that you’re missing the point. Also, quit doing this purity test crap. It leaves you unable to understand the nuance in these things.

                Johnson is more of a true Zionist than Netanyahu if you need to frame it that way. He is similar to Ali Khamenei in the fervency of his beliefs. I don’t have a good example of a Jewish politician as I’m weak on Israeli internal politics.

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      That tracks. They treat the Constitution the same way they treat the Bible. What is written there doesn’t matter. It’s not a thing that actually exists but a concept, and that concept “says” whatever they want it to say.

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        Why wouldn’t it, they do that with everything else. Ask a conservative if they hate something and they say they don’t hate because it’s a sin. Ask them to describe how they feel, and they describe hate.

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        They believe “constitutional” means that thing they do on the toilet each morning.

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    He should, for a change, read and try to understand the Constitution he has sworn to uphold. Or, if he is to stupid for that, have someone slowly explain it to him.

    It can’t be “unconstitutional” when it is right in the Constitution.

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      He doesn’t know what the Constitution is, like he doesn’t know what the Declaration of Independence is as well. He even stated boycotting is illegal, and you shouldn’t protest against Israel.

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    Don’t worry everyone, the democrats will do absolutely nothing to stop them. They are complicit in all of this.

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      They can’t even do anything. Everything in Federal is one sided until Midterms… unless Donald gets rid of that too.

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      Not all of them, and being a defeatist crybaby helps no one but the nazi scumbags.

      Do better, unless of course you’re a nazi scumbag; if that’s the case help yourself to a giant refreshing glass of bleach.

      Note: looks like at least 1 Nazi saw it, don’t be shy? Try the bleach, you’ll love it.

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    How the hell can these people call themselves conservative. What kind of conservative calls for greater executive power?

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    Imagine being so cucked that you give away your already incredibly narrow and ever shrinking powers. What a fucking buffoon.

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    Well, the War Powers Act is unconstitutional - but in the other direction. Deploying military force requires a declaration of war, which requires congressional approval, but the War Powers Act circumvents that by pretending that using euphemisms to describe military actions instead of calling it war makes it different, somehow.

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        Exactly.

        See also: Military Operations Other Than War, Low Intensity Conflicts, Police Action (e.g. Vietnam).

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      And that’s kind of a problem. As far as I see, this use of the war powers act is entirely consistent with previous uses. Trumps not wrong for once.

      Maybe the part about not bothering to inform Congress because “they’ll see it in the news”.

      Our outrage seems to be mainly that he chose poorly, or maybe even that we haven’t been conditioned to agree with it. Iran has been pursuing nuclear weapons for years(decades?) and I certainly agree the world becomes a more dangerous, unstable place as more countries obtain nuclear weapons. Sanctions haven’t been working, but you combine this with Israel’s assassinations and it should be effective at stopping their program.

      Of course I don’t know that anyone tried negotiating from a point of respect for their sovereignty nor was this in response to hostilities against our Interests or any urgent threat (that we’re aware of). You can’t just bomb people you disagree with, but this really seems consistent with previous administrations and the only difference is the propaganda war to manipulate support

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        Trumps not wrong for once.

        He’s definitely wrong morally, constitutionally, and strategically just not legally, per how the courts have (mis)interpreted the constitution.

        Sanctions haven’t been working

        Well, in order to work, they’d have to have a coherent objective.

        They did work at bringing Iran to the negotiating table, which led to Obama’s Iran deal. The only problem being that Obama made it, so Trump had to hate it. The only thing the US actually wants from Iran is for it to be an enemy the president can bomb to look tough.

        it should be effective at stopping their program.

        The program that we have no evidence actually existed, that is. Certainly, if they weren’t actively persuing one before, they’d be mad not to now. How else could they stop the frequent, random unprovoked aggression from the US?

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          I mean yeah, I didn’t claim this action was morally or even strategically acceptable, just that it seems consistent with the way past administrations have used the same power.