The Biden Presidency

[stacker1]

The last country the United States declared war against was Italy in 1941.

Only after Italy declared war on the USA

And apparently the yanks did it again a year later

Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania (on June 4, 1942)

When Congress last used its powers to declare war - National Constitution Center

 

[gaijin]

Biden seems to think they need 17 republicans to agree so it looks like they do need 2/3rd

Biden tells CNN Trump's impeachment trial 'has to happen' - CNNPolitics

It looks like "unity" was just a buzzword.

Seems that I may have been partially, but not entirely, wrong

Neither a second House impeachment nor even a Senate vote to convict Trump and remove him from office would prevent him from running again, in 2024 or beyond.
Rather, after two-thirds of senators present voted to remove Trump, a simple majority of senators present would have to approve an additional vote to bar him from the presidency in the future.
The Senate could not skip the conviction-and-removal vote that requires two-thirds of senators and go straight to the simple-majority vote for future disqualification, Ross Garber, an impeachment and political investigations lawyer who teaches at Tulane Law School, told CNN.
There is at least some uncertainty about the disqualification issue, since no president has ever been removed from office by the Senate and only judges have been disqualified from future office. The disqualification language in the Constitution is "disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States"; Garber noted that no court or Congress has ever settled the question of whether the presidency counts as an "Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States" from which the Senate is able to ban an impeached and convicted person. (Garber said he personally thinks the presidency does count.)

Fact check: No, impeachment itself would not ban Trump from a 2024 run

A viral tweet claims that impeaching President Donald Trump for a second time would mean he would lose the ability to run for president in 2024.

edition.cnn.com

 

[Goldbricker]

It worked well in Korea in 1950-53 and then again in Vietnam from 1965-73.

Vietnam wasnt called a police action by the US congress or POTUS
, Korea was by Truman

 

[Spanks]

The Left's idea of unity is everyone doing exactly what they're told do and believing everything they're told to believe.

One only needs to read Steamboats (and other posters) blinkered views to see that statement works for the righties too.

 

[Tedsson]

Wasn't Johnson allowed to use force because of the Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution passed by Congress.

I would think that made it more of a war than a "police action", "hot pursuit" etc.

All a bit academic really, but if a B52 was dropping bombs on me I would consider it a war.

 

[AsterixTG]

One only needs to read Steamboats (and other posters) blinkered views to see that statement works for the righties too.

You think?

I've always seen (c)onservatism as small government and a country operating more on Classic Liberalism lines (which is pretty much what the founding fathers laid down) - pay your dues, operate within the law but otherwise do as you please providing you don't affect anyone else.

Very much the opposite of the lefties which want to micro-control every aspect of the country, life, culture etc...

Maybe the US idea of conservatism is more restrictive then - they've hugely corrupted 'liberal' beyond any meaningful position now.

 

[Steamboat]

One only needs to read Steamboats (and other posters) blinkered views to see that statement works for the righties too.

Actually to be perfectly honest, you would be allowed to have your weirdo views. Live, let live ,but stay the feck off of my lawn, my old lefty buddy. If you don't respect boundaries don't be shocked when you learn very quickly that they are in existence for a reason.

 

[dingerr]

The alliance is barely a military one anymore and Trump again, had every right to demand the 2%. He treated the alliance as an underperforming arm of his business and wanted to fix it and stamped on the toes of people, unused to having democratic pressure applied to them and especially in public.

As for Russia, its now a strategic threat again. Because we've basically expanded so far eastwards and into their backyard, without any real thought and it never ceases to amaze me, the intellectual brains desire to broadcast virtue, seems to matter more than rational thought.

If we had applied rational thought, then NATO should have been reorganised and it made mandatory the 2%, before expansion.

That‘s a very simplistic way of looking at. It’s been widely accepted that Icelands strategic value far outweighs the fact it doesn’t have any armed forces.

 

[Spanks]

Actually to be perfectly honest, you would be allowed to have your weirdo views. Live, let live ,but stay the feck off of my lawn, my old lefty buddy. If you don't respect boundaries don't be shocked when you learn very quickly that they are in existence for a reason.

How did that work out for ya?

 

[Steamboat]

How did that work out for ya?
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So far so good.

 

[Arse_Bandit]

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So far so good.

*FEWER* spams and their inability to use the Queen's English SMH

 

[Steamboat]

*FEWER* spams and their inability to use the Queen's English SMH

Well the old world dialect is a bit dated, but it should be preserved for future generations!

 

[Steamboat]

Kyrsten Sinema will not vote to eliminate filibuster and is 'not open' to changing her mind

www.msn.com

Wonderful news!!

 

[smartascarrots]

If you don't respect boundaries don't be shocked when you learn very quickly that they are in existence for a reason.

Your boundaries stretch deep into the pockets of everyone else, yet you show little respect and absolutely no gratitude towards them.

Is it always to be a one way street with you?

 

[Emcon Ecomcon]

That‘s a very simplistic way of looking at. It’s been widely accepted that Icelands strategic value far outweighs the fact it doesn’t have any armed forces.

Iceland is the key to the Atlantic, just as Gib is for the western Med and you are using an intentionally simplistic example to deftly ignore the wider point.. Congrats ! who is following simplistic logic now.

 

[Steamboat]

Your boundaries stretch deep into the pockets of everyone else, yet you show little respect and absolutely no gratitude towards them.

Is it always to be a one way street with you?

You need more cash in your wallet you cheap F*cker. I have standards and you are failing to maintain them.

 

[dingerr]

Iceland is the key to the Atlantic, just as Gib is for the western Med and you are using an intentionally simplistic example to deftly ignore the wider point.. Congrats ! who is following simplistic logic now.

You, especially if you value allies in cash only.

 

[dingerr]

I have standards

Where? When? And How?

 

[Steamboat]

Where? When? And How?

In the areas of whisky procurement, I would say this happened about 8 years ago when I got tired of always drinking the cheap stuff.

 

[FORMER_FYRDMAN]

The alliance is barely a military one anymore and Trump again, had every right to demand the 2%. He treated the alliance as an underperforming arm of his business and wanted to fix it and stamped on the toes of people, unused to having democratic pressure applied to them and especially in public.

As for Russia, its now a strategic threat again. Because we've basically expanded so far eastwards and into their backyard, without any real thought and it never ceases to amaze me, the intellectual brains desire to broadcast virtue, seems to matter more than rational thought.

If we had applied rational thought, then NATO should have been reorganised and it made mandatory the 2%, before expansion.

If we'd applied rational thought, we'd have worked to pull Russia into Europe after the end of the Cold War.