So, now that Iran has been bombed the question for we living here in the U.S. is does POTUS invoke his extreme wartime authority/powers or not?
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Oh please, do you think Trump will hear about some means of exerting even more unmitigated control over the American people and NOT do it?
jun 22, 2025, 1:02 am • 12 0 • view
Iran's response could be his Reichstag moment....
jun 22, 2025, 1:00 am • 5 0 • view
I'm surprised you need to ask that question, Sir. I'd be more inclined to ask: what, given the current circumstances, would POTUS see as a rationale for not NOT doing so?
jun 22, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
-1 not
jun 22, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
Oh god. I hadn’t even considered that. Now we get to have hair-splitting arguments about whether we’re “really” at war, with everything simultaneously arguing both sides.
jun 22, 2025, 1:00 am • 2 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/prop... The guy who gets to protect us from the response wasn't even alive on 9/11
jun 22, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
I think we are going to end up with camps that make what we did to the Japanese in ww2 look tame.
jun 22, 2025, 1:03 am • 0 0 • view
Run by private prison corporations. Making folks lots of money.
jun 22, 2025, 1:04 am • 3 0 • view
Well thanks for adding to my sense of impending dread.
jun 22, 2025, 1:06 am • 1 0 • view
oh absolutely. there is no question.
jun 22, 2025, 1:02 am • 0 0 • view
We should all assume Dictator actions from Trump by this point. Expect Iranian Americans to be detained in camps, Democratic leaders to be detained as well.
jun 22, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
😩
jun 22, 2025, 12:59 am • 2 0 • view
Of course he is, what does this 80yo SOB have to lose, he's a miserable loser and he wants to take as many down with him as he can
jun 22, 2025, 1:39 am • 2 0 • view
Why? We're already in the realm of Calvinball. Invoking wartime powers would mean admitting he doesn't have those powers currently.
jun 22, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
It's like Looney Tunes; the danger for Trump isn't walking over a cliff, it's acknowledging that he did so.
jun 22, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
And the MAGA majority in congress will continue to watch the Constitution burn while trading pats on the back for abdicating their responsibilities.
jun 22, 2025, 12:25 pm • 1 0 • view
The law, the Constitution it doesn't matter when republicans are in power. And I learn this just by observing from outside. As long they can manipulate with disinformation and misinformation and have evangelicals' backing - nothing will change.
jun 22, 2025, 1:09 am • 3 0 • view
It doesn't matter. SCOTUS will defer to presidential power regardless of his rationale.
jun 22, 2025, 1:11 am • 6 0 • view
You already know the answer to this question.
jun 22, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
god help us
jun 22, 2025, 6:05 am • 0 0 • view
Please no.
jun 22, 2025, 12:59 am • 1 0 • view
not when if and to what degree
jun 22, 2025, 3:57 am • 1 0 • view
Since when was he concerned with following any law?
jun 22, 2025, 2:36 am • 1 0 • view
We all know Congress would have overwhelmingly approved of this action anyway.
jun 22, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
You called it in your last common sense
jun 22, 2025, 1:25 am • 4 0 • view
I remember as a kid watching the movie Wag the Dog and thinking how insane it would be for an administration to even think about such an orchestration yet alone have the means to pull it off. Now, I realize how easy it is and an administration really doesn't need to pretend to put much effort in it.
jun 22, 2025, 1:30 am • 2 0 • view
The sword of Damocles is on a very weak and fraying rope. Trump just bombed Iran’s nuclear sites. Now what? I always loved the image you presented in Blueprint of “putting the pin back in the grenade”. I sure hope we can do just that. Stay safe everyone.
jun 22, 2025, 1:48 am • 3 0 • view
It’s all just a question of what excuse is convenient. “War” presents all kinds of opportunities, including those you make yourself. Gonna be real easy for a Proud Boy to leave a bomb somewhere, and then just blame it on Iran.
jun 22, 2025, 1:21 am • 2 0 • view
Crap, hadn't even arrived there yet.
jun 22, 2025, 1:00 am • 0 0 • view
Count on it. And god help us all after that.
jun 22, 2025, 1:02 am • 4 0 • view