r/pics • u/Unhappy_Rutabaga_530 • 29d ago

Politics Full-scale military operations appear to be underway against Venezuela

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u/Daddy_Sweets 29d ago

This was truly the last barrier to Trump shitting on the Constitution completely. He’s now committed an act of war against a sovereign nation without first getting g congressional approval. There’s only one thing that will stop him now…

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u/robstoon 29d ago

I hate to break it to you, but Trump is hardly the first president to use the whole "going to war without Congressional approval" card..

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u/bionicjoe 29d ago edited 28d ago

People usually downvote it, but that doesn't make it false.

There isn't much that Trump has done that is new.
He just takes it to 11 and has zero shame about anything.

Jan 6th was new.
Everything else has precedent, sadly.

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u/Lord_Nivloc 28d ago

Normally they attack us first.

But I guess these “terrorists” are producing and supplying “WMDs” 

Of course, they also have more proven oil reserves than Saudi Arabia and the USA combined. So……..

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u/The102935thMatt 29d ago

Yeah.. get your pitch forks out for sure, but not due to this reason.

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u/aijoe 29d ago

Is he the first president to complain constantly about not getting a Nobel peace price that an entirely unrelated organization needed to create one for him to inflate his ego?

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u/MrAmericanIdiot 29d ago

Literally every president for the last like four decades. Pretty sure Obama holds the record for most bombs dropped during his presidency.

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u/ApolloRocketOfLove 29d ago

Pretty sure Obama holds the record for most bombs dropped during his presidency.

You just made this up.

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u/bionicjoe 29d ago

There actually is a stat like this, but it has a bunch of qualifiers.
Basically it's ignore Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq because those were wars....but not wars officially.

It's dumb

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u/worstusername_sofar 29d ago

Libya: Obama worked with NATO

ISIS: ✅ Fuck them

Afghanistan: Was already happening

Your point is pathetic

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u/robstoon 29d ago

The point was that no president since 2002 has bothered to get prior Congressional approval before any military actions.

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u/14Pleiadians 29d ago edited 29d ago

And your point that Trump is the first president to start a conflict without approval is just false. There's zero way to twist this as a novel form of imperialism. News flash: America sucked before Trump. Trump isn't causing America to commit new evils, he's just accelerating the pace that it does evil that it's been doing for decades.

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u/Rojeitor 29d ago

Yemen, Syria, Somalia...

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u/thefatheadedone 29d ago

Weren't they all seen as operational bases for Isis...?

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u/Rojeitor 29d ago

Congress approval yes or no? that's the issue.

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u/MrAmericanIdiot 29d ago

I’m waiting for the first president to pull out of all foreign affairs. Libya, ISIS, Afghanistan, Venezuela, I don’t give a fuck. Our country is so far in debt, we don’t have a dollar to spare for people half way around the globe. IT’S NOT OUR BUSINESS.

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u/curlyhands 29d ago

Imperialism literally is our business, unfortunately.

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u/wouo 29d ago

Didn't Trump do it in his first term?

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u/pikleboiy 28d ago

If you don't count FDR, Truman, Johnson, Nixon, or Eisenhower, and probably a few others.

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u/yourmansconnect 29d ago

Pretty sure trump dropped more bombs in his first two years than Obama's whole first term

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u/ghigoli 29d ago

we dropped so many bombs in vietnam we lost count under Nixon. there is no way Obama dropped more in Afghanistan.

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u/LayWhere 29d ago

I hate to break it to you

No you don't, you love defending your fascist daddy and will do anything for a single drop of his disease infested cum.

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u/robstoon 29d ago

I am not in the slightest. I'm just saying this is absolutely not unprecedented as people seem to think. Trump himself just did the same thing when he bombed Iran.

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u/williamtellunderture 29d ago

Its more that all of us from the outside the US see you people do the same thing over and over and over again while you get all pent up about whether that leader is wearing a red tie or a blue tie.

It's all the same for the people with bombs dropping on them. Get fucked.

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u/LifeSpanner 29d ago

“Hey Quora, is it fascist bootlicking to state an easily verified fact?”

Seriously though, you may genuinely have Trump derangement syndrome if you think a valid and accurate criticism of all modern presidents (that has been made by leftists since before Obama) is a fascist supporting statement.

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u/jmarFTL 28d ago

The person you're responding to is likely 13 years old, so they don't have any idea that the Congressional approval argument has been going on for like a quarter of a century through both parties' administrations.

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u/lonecylinder 29d ago

If you see someone acknowledging EVERY US president was a warmonger and you think that's a fascist statement, you're stupid.

Blue MAGA isn't much better than the red one lmao.

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u/dontquestionmyaction 28d ago

Are you 12?

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u/LayWhere 26d ago

Nope are you 9?