Trump says there are ‘no limits’ to his power
3 days ago by Sunflier to c/politics
President Trump insisted there are “no limits” to his power when asked in a new interview about his takeaways from the Iran war.
The president was pressed by Axios’s Marc Caputo during an interview about whether he learned there are bounds to his power during the Middle East conflict.
“I haven’t learned that lesson yet,” he replied. “I know there are, but there are no limits. We defeated them totally militarily.”
Surely this time he will be held accountable!
It’s bad taste to make a former president accountable for their actions.
Remember Nixon and Ford?
We won't make him accountable. We'll fucking tear him apart, and his kids will be held accountable.
By that I mean we're going to throw them in a cia black site and use some highly enhanced techniques to get every bit of Intel they have, they stole, and they sold. At which point they would be too much of a security risk to ever release. Keep them in solitary until their execution for treason.
Then do the same for the billionaires that bought his power.
Better yet, strip their citizenship, declare them nation states because of their wealth, then declare war on them, place sanctions on them, etc.
They want to act like countries, treat them like one
I like the way you think.
Ford was Nixon’s VP and after it was clear that Nixon would be impeached he resigned and Ford became president and he completely pardoned Nixon.
Ford became VP after Nixon’s original VP Agnew resigned and since he was the speaker of the house Ford got the job.
So Ford was VP and president without being voted in for either role.
The most basic check on the pardon power would be it cannot be used for anyone who is part of or formerly part of the executive branch. These pardons would have to come from Congress.
At this point the Presidential pardon power should be removed, it has been used for so many corrupt acts it is not funny.
TL;DR: Gerald Ford is the only president who was not elected by the voters.
Except for the failure part. It should read there's no limits to his failure. I'm going to go eat my trump steak now and study for my trump university class. Oh wait, those things failed.
The rest of the article is correct, he hasn't learned his lesson yet. Malignant narcissists never do.
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Reminds me of when some dingbat on reddit sent me a longass list of companies ("businesses") allegedly started by Trump and I was like, oh, a handy little list of his grifts
Can’t open the Straight without begging and paying up
Powerful as a bitch beggin for bitch snacks
A legend in his own mind. 😱
You surrendered.
But the emails.
The limit will basically be if the right wing people turn on him because you guys aren't doing shit fuck all. The best that the left can hope for is for people on the right having a "come to Jesus" moment and wanting to stop him cause they will. Lemmy users can post about it when it happens
I love this part in Wuxia movies.
What's the meaning of probably unconditional surrender by Tehran ??
My native language isn't English. Kindly be patient with me and explain it to me in an eli5 style. Thank you.
"Unconditional surrender" is when there is an end to hostilities, and one side is so completely defeated that they agree to stop fighting without receiving anything in exchange. Then the winning side gets to make all sorts of demands on the loser and they must agree.
The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War One is an example of this. Germany got punished hard in that document, which is widely believed to have set the stage for World War Two some twenty years later.
In this case, though, the US agreed to also end hostilities in Lebanon (including and especially by Israel) and arrange for a whole lot of reparations to be paid. Those are concessions. The winning side in an unconditional surrender doesn't make concessions.
@MastKalandar @Sunflier nothing. it means nothing.
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Term limits are a pretty good limit.
His power ends in 2028, and then he's OURS.
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