• SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.ca
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    The articles of impeachment are available at:

    https://massie.house.gov/uploadedfiles/articles_of_impeachment_sec._hegseth.pdf

    The articles are:

    • ARTICLE I: WAGING WAR IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION OF 1973 SECTION 2(c)
    • ARTICLE II: WAGING WAR IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION OF 1973 SECTION 5(c)
    • ARTICLE III: WAGING WAR IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION OF 1973 SECTION 5(b)
    • ARTICLE IV: IGNORING LAWS THAT MINIMIZE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES
    • ARTICLE V: EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS
    • ARTICLE VI: SUPPRESSING FREE SPEECH
    • ARTICLE VII: KIDNAPPING OF A SOVERIGN FOREIGN LEADER
    • ARTICLE VIII: UNLAWFUL WAR IN YEMEN

    It’s going to be interesting which articles each representative votes for/against for the record.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    It’s about to get a lot worse now that the Houthis have Bab al-Mandab Strait too.

    And it’s not just them, all the Iranian backed militias have been cross training for the last decade.

    I’ve been thinking for a while it’s going to get really really bad right before midterms. Iran knows if Dems get control they’ll reign trump in. They’ll 100% manipulate gas prices to influence the election, especially since Trump burnt thru reserves already

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      And they’re not going to reopen the straits after the election. That’s desperate cope from the market. This is just the new normal. They’re not influencing an election like North Vietnam had to do, Iran is directly bringing the USA to it’s knees. And the democrats will not betray Israel by giving concessions (nukes) to Iran, so Iran has nothing to say to them either.

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        They go around pretending to be progressive and anti neo-liberal and just defends democrats on the genocide and sneaks in wild takes to pull people back into supporting the Democratic party.

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      He did more about it than the majority of other Congressmen, as his co-authored E.F.T.A passed and was signed by President Epstein himself. He also read a list of redacted names on the House floor to expose Epstein accomplices.

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      If I remember correctly Johnson called a recess which meant they couldn’t vote on it. He can’t do that with this apparently as it has a very short timeline as to when it has to be voted on as it’s considered high crimes and misdemeanors

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    The USA decided long ago that this was fine. See Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama, Biden, and Trump.

    Thousands upon thousands of drone strikes, missiles, bombs, et al, at will, without regard.

    The CIA is black budget. None of us are aware of what they are doing, we only know some of what they did long ago, and that was horrifying. Most of congress is as oblivious as we are.

    These boat strikes are the least of it. The question to me is, why are they making this public?

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      That’s the stupidest shit I’ve heard in a coons age.

      Only the Republicans on that list engaged targets outside a strike zone that Congress had already approved.

      Bin laden was already a pre-approved target, as was any AO he occupied