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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.
Remember when the president had to go to Congress and ask them for a declaration of war rather than it being Congress taking action to stop the president from declaring unilateral war by himself? You know, like after Pearl Harbor. Good times.
Trump is no business man but he is a genius at deflecting. It seems Epstein file related comments are almost non-existent lately. The files haven’t been released as ordered by law, and the deadline to release them has been passed. Crickets…
Give conservatives power and the next thing you know we’re submitting bills to prevent the conservative president from invading ally nations.
The fact that the Republican party will still exist after this is a testament to how sad this nation has become.
Jesus Christ our government is so fucking stupid. The headline on this article gave me an instant migraine 🙄 what a country
Dumbest thing I’ve heard of. Resolution to keep the idiot from doing something he’s not allowed to do anyway. Like making a law to make crime illegal.
Hey Ms. Lindsay, we could just help our long time friends and allies of Denmark and Canada while we reinforce Alaska if that’s actually a concern. We could gladly just offer the both of them whatever it is we’re going to use for defense and trust that as our long time friends and allies, if we quit treating them like shit, they’ll let us know if they need help. We already train with them. Both are in fucking NATO, that’s part of the point of it.
Fucking shit, we used to have soft power because we did exactly that.
He won’t invade. He will just declare Thule base and an arbitrary amount of land “around it” sovereign territory.
I don’t know. Gone are the days of his first term where his cabinet refused illegal instructions. He’s old, demented, mainlining russian propaganda meant to encourage self destructive behavior, and surrounded by bloodthirsty sycophants who all want to play caesar. Unfortunately everything from invasion, to what you proposed, to forgetting about it are all on the table
I’m just saying it the laziest, easiest way to create a “fait accompli” without technically attacking a NATO ally. From the point of view of NATO, it then becomes a territorial dispute similar to those between Greece and Turkey, or the Whisky war between Canada and Denmark. It’s the easiest way for Rubio to keep him happy without blowing up NATO.
Useless.
I hope EU actually fights back when it happens.
In a sane world this would never have to happen
In a sane world, this would be articles of impeachment met with unanimous shouts from the rest of the government. In a sane world, the people wouldn’t have forgotten how batshit insane his first presidency was. In a sane world, he wouldn’t have gotten any further than “grab em by the pussy.” Fuck, in a sane world, Trump would have died years ago from a stroke and/or heart disease from a combination of the McDonald’s he constantly eats and the syphilis he undoubtedly has and the best legacy he’d have left behind is “You’re fired.” That is, of course, until we found out just how involved he was with Epstein and any scant trace of him or his celebrity was wiped off the face of the earth in disgust.
We don’t live in a sane world.
In a sane world, Trump would have lost the 2016 Republican primary from prison.
Man, thank God we have the electoral college to save us from those smart ass city folks.
Yeah, I have a really horrible feeling that WW3 is going to start soon. This is why it’s bad to have such an insanely huge military. Not only does it deprive your own people of hundreds of billions in social services, it provides a piece of absolute shit like trump the ability to destroy global stability whenever they want.
We all fucking tried telling conservatives and third party voters for over a decade now that this was a life or death situation, to oppose trump at all costs. Every goddamned day we are proven more right than we ever knew. America is over at this point regardless, but even worse we may take down millions or billions of humans in the process. Never been a scarier time to be aware of world politics.
“Everybody wants us to have a bigger presence in Greenland to combat the Russian/Chinese Arctic influence,” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said.
If only we had some kind of alliance with Greenland/Denmark and perhaps other countries in the North Atlantic. Maybe we could, like, set up a military base in another country to protect those mutual interests? I know it sounds crazy because we don’t do any of that currently, but maybe that would be a better option.
But how would you steal all the wealth from Greenland for your corrupt corporate overlords/your insider trading?
Who, me? Oh, I wouldn’t. That’s probably why I’m not qualified to be POTUS.
POTUS
Paedophile Of The United States.Not qualified for that either
He already isn’t supposed to be able to do this without Congressional approval. But if he does it will be without consequences regardless.
Yeah I don’t get it, they are trying to stop him with laws after he ignored laws and there was no consequences.
How about you apply some of the existing laws and do those consequences
That’s not true. There have been numerous operations in other countries that were not given approval by Congress. Not saying it’s right but there is definitely precedent for it.
“Everybody wants us to have a bigger presence in Greenland to combat the Russian/Chinese Arctic influence,” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said.
For the kids in the audience, Lady G ran for President in 2015 (before trump rode the escalator to hell) and for his campaign announcement speech he basically filled a good half hour with flag-waving demands to attack Iran immediately. Like, that was the most important issue of his campaign. Which- Iran was not especially in the news for anything at the time, even.
Sort of like when the Sandwich Artist comes out from behind the counter to talk about the weather and then goes on a thirty minute rant about the little people living in his teeth.
A.k.a. Graham is a complete fucking tool who should never be acknowledged, much less quoted.
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?
It gets votes on record on who thinks it’s okay if Trump wants to invade Greenland.
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.
Let’s make a rule to control the guy known for not following any rules!
The secret is writing the rules on some bullets. Then find a way to let him keep the rules in his head, despite dementia
The “Or Anywhere Else FFS Act”
