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minus-squaregoferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 days agoThey’re too busy changing their pants after their wishes finally came true
minus-squareselokichtli@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 days agoIt’s weird to laugh in a time like this. Thank you, I guess.
minus-squaregoferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 days agoSometimes laughing is all we can do in times like this
minus-squareIndescribablySad@threads.net@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 days ago“So we still get paid and we don’t have to do anything? That’s amazing! Haha, but why do I have to face the wall for this part?”
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoNah, they’re all on the phone with their stockbrokers.
minus-squareTrainguyrom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoYou laugh but several members of Congress bought stocks in defense contractors shortly before this military operation
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 days agohttps://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown 220 Republicans 212 Democrats
minus-squareWalnutLum@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-29 days agoIn 2001 when The US authorized use of force on Al-Qaeda that, along with The 1973 war powers resolution gave the president (as in the position of president, not just Bush) unlimited ability to bomb anyone loosely associated with Al-Qaeda in perpetuity. It’s what allowed Bush, then Obama, then Trump, and then Biden, and now Trump again, to use the military as they see fit for performing military operations against basically any state and group in the middle east.
Congress?? Hello?
They’re too busy changing their pants after their wishes finally came true
It’s weird to laugh in a time like this. Thank you, I guess.
Sometimes laughing is all we can do in times like this
“So we still get paid and we don’t have to do anything? That’s amazing! Haha, but why do I have to face the wall for this part?”
Nah, they’re all on the phone with their stockbrokers.
You laugh but several members of Congress bought stocks in defense contractors shortly before this military operation
https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown
220 Republicans
212 Democrats
In 2001 when The US authorized use of force on Al-Qaeda that, along with The 1973 war powers resolution gave the president (as in the position of president, not just Bush) unlimited ability to bomb anyone loosely associated with Al-Qaeda in perpetuity.
It’s what allowed Bush, then Obama, then Trump, and then Biden, and now Trump again, to use the military as they see fit for performing military operations against basically any state and group in the middle east.