They were murdered. No need to sanitize it with euphemisms and military-speak.
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" native born workers "… sad and infuriating that we’ve come to this point. Is the Statue of Liberty still standing or has it been declared as " woke ", dismantled and sold for scrap ?
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Hassett: "… and it was all native-born workers that were getting the jobs. "
So it is now the official policy of the Trump administration that only native-born citizens deserve to get jobs? Good to know. Tough shit if you’re a naturalized citizen, or a non-citizen here on a legit work visa. We don’t want you.
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“I think it’s a point of friction, but I’m not prepared to articulate any red lines to you.”
Oh, praise Allah. No sand.
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Sorry to burst your bubble, Mr. Kevin, but the “natives” are getting restless. I don’t think you’ll be smirking for much longer considering you have no sensible economic plan in mind.
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I dunno man. And let’s face it. It’s not immigrants per sé, it’s a certain “shade” of immigrant.
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Certainly not if Merrick Garland were AG.
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If the President doesn’t have to abide by spending approved by Congress, then the President doesn’t have to abide by Court rulings.
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Marco Rubio has stated that Trump authorized the military strike. But there have been no details on who actually gave the military order to fire on the vessel. Any ship captain in our Navy would know full well that the order was illegal and should have refused it. And the same all the way down the chain of command to whoever pushed the " fire " button or whatever was used. Congressional Democrats should be all over this demanding Congressional hearings with sworn testimony from all involved. Because, as you say, this was intentional murder plain and simple
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, that’s cute. It should be very apparent by now that the last remaining fiction—that the military will save us because they are full of stalwart people who will refuse an illegal order, i.e., one we don’t personally like—has long evaporated like water levels in Lake Mead.
Shooting a boat full of people, shooting at American citizens in the streets? It’s all the same and will be carried out, as we have seen in the former, with nary a thought and probably barely concealed gusto.
Happy weekend, TPMers!
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Seriously? Do you really believe Chucky Schumer would bestir himself over this?
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And today, anyone who lives in a New York studio apartment with another person and FIFTEEN cats has issues.
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I said " should " be all over it. Didn’t say I thought that they actually would. we all know better. Actually I’m mainly surprised that there hasn’t been more international outrage, do other countries think they will get a pass when Little Donnie decides to start murdering their citizens as well ?
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Exactly. And it’s all based on the fantasies of a criminal and utterly delusional idiot who’s been told he has unlimited powers and is acting on that notion, while most of those who could stop or at least slow him cower and say not a word. Hoping, I assume that they’ll somehow be among the “winners” in this debacle, which I seriously doubt will have any actual winners in this country.
He wants to be Putin…Except that Putin actually does have the (wrongheaded and evil but nevertheless authentic) excuse that Tsarist Russia (and later the U.S.S.R., w/slightly different geography) did control a whole helluva lot of the lands around today’s Russian state. And Pootie just wants to reassemble that, by force, since very few of those places have any interest in joining Putin’s Russia today.
Don John, meanwhile, looks up to his big crush Pootie, drooling, and is just itching to assemble an empire of the same kind, surrounding the U.S. In our case, no such empire ever existed, but Delusional Deception-Addicted Donny keeps slipping in little totally false comments about how all his targets were meant to be ours and were kind of ours at some point.
And of course, he also plans to take it by force, partly because he has military-parade envy and fantasizes about being a great war hero (who also will strong-arm the Nobel committee to give him the Peace Prize), but also because, like most of the areas ringing Putin, none of Donny’s targets wants to join his repressive empire.
And I still can’t get my mind around why the Republican party, the Supreme Court, and tons of the wealthiest big-businessmen in the country don’t share my alarm at this terrifying spectacle, which is starting to make Caligula look like a sane and rational guy.
But no. They refuse to exercise their own powers to siow and stop the relentless march of this delusional idiot and super-narcissist, who, if he continues unchecked, will bring this country to ruin – along with his enablers who could have acted – possibly sooner rather than later.
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It’s possible that he’s repositioned his reading glasses.
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I agree with the apparent illegality with the disclaimer that I’m not a Constitutional lawyer (or any other kind). But a Navy ship captain isn’t a lawyer either, and neither is the sailor who pushes the button to launch a hellfire missile from a drone.
This happened in a context where the U.S. military has followed Presidential orders to assassinate “terrorists” outside our borders, which has been done under previous Presidents including recent Democrats.
The question here is whether the people on the boat were officially recognized as a terrorist group, which as far as I know requires Congressional action which didn’t happen in this case. Because that hasn’t been adjudicated yet, or objected to by Congress, it’s probably enough of a gray area that any commanding officer will follow a similar kill order without objection. In international waters anyway.
I’m not trying to excuse the action, just pointing out that it’s not as clear-cut an illegal order as say, opening fire on unarmed protesters on U.S. soil.
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Maduro is a pariah. He has little or no outside support at this point. That may change if his entire country is attacked.
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The law is very clear in that if it is possible to interdict and not use lethal force then lethal force is not justified. And Marco Rubio has stated publicly that they could have used interdiction but chose lethal force as first choice. That over rules every other argument
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The answer is in your block quote. It’s an issue of separation of powers between the Executive and Legislative branches. The parties must resolve the dispute themselves without interference or guidance from the Court.
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