Mike Johnson Wants Trump to Have More War Powers, Says Law Requiring Congressional Approval is Unconstitutional

Our Constitution is unconstitutional!
- Its like they believe "constitutional" means "the way I want it"
  
  Why wouldn't it, they do that with everything else. Ask a conservative if they hate something and they say they don't hate because it's a sin. Ask them to describe how they feel, and they describe hate.
  
  They believe "constitutional" means that thing they do on the toilet each morning.
- By denying the Constitution of the United States in violation of his Oath of Office, House Speaker Mike Johnson is unironically committing treason right now.
  
  So he's next up to be president.
- It's more or less toilet paper now.

The constitution explicitly says what to do with this motherfucker. Stop being such pussies and do it.
- What are you waiting for?
  
  not my pig not my farm

Good job giving away your own powers dickhead.
- At least dicks can get hard. This fucker has as much spine as a bowl of spaghetti.
- Theil essentially got him in as VP That's the chucklefuck Vance. Johnson is a different chucklefuck from Congress.
  
  As someone pointed out. That's Vance, not Johnson. We are talking about Johnson.

Mike Johnson is fucking spooky. I've been saying this for a few years now, when his Covenant Eyes usage made news.
He is a true believer, he's on a mission from god. He's smart. He will not care about the people crushed by the machine, as that is the fruit of their depravity in his worldview.
Watch this motherfucker. Trump and Vance are motivated by greed and power. You need to look to fundamentalist Islamic leaders for a similar mindset to Johnson.
- Or Netanyahu
  
  I would think Netanyahu is closer to the greed and corruption model. He needs the war to keep his slimy ass out of jail.

How the hell can these people call themselves conservative. What kind of conservative calls for greater executive power?
- They're regressive and refuse to admit it.
  
  They're royalists but don't want to face reality, they want a king but saying that is about the least American thing you could possibly do.
- Conservative means "There must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out-groups for the law to bind but not protect." That's it. They are childish assholes that only care about power for their group, and keeping other people out of power. They are the worst sort of people.
  
  Funny, that's the same for fascists.

Hey everyone the Constitution is unconstitutional!
-MAGA Mike
- That tracks. They treat the Constitution the same way they treat the Bible. What is written there doesn’t matter. It’s not a thing that actually exists but a concept, and that concept “says” whatever they want it to say.
  
  I couldn't have said it any better.

Well, the War Powers Act is unconstitutional - but in the other direction. Deploying military force requires a declaration of war, which requires congressional approval, but the War Powers Act circumvents that by pretending that using euphemisms to describe military actions instead of calling it war makes it different, somehow.
- So like a special military operation
  
  Exactly.
  See also: Military Operations Other Than War, Low Intensity Conflicts, Police Action (e.g. Vietnam).
- And that’s kind of a problem. As far as I see, this use of the war powers act is entirely consistent with previous uses. Trumps not wrong for once.
  Maybe the part about not bothering to inform Congress because “they’ll see it in the news”.
  Our outrage seems to be mainly that he chose poorly, or maybe even that we haven’t been conditioned to agree with it. Iran has been pursuing nuclear weapons for years(decades?) and I certainly agree the world becomes a more dangerous, unstable place as more countries obtain nuclear weapons. Sanctions haven’t been working, but you combine this with Israel’s assassinations and it should be effective at stopping their program.
  Of course I don’t know that anyone tried negotiating from a point of respect for their sovereignty nor was this in response to hostilities against our Interests or any urgent threat (that we’re aware of). You can’t just bomb people you disagree with, but this really seems consistent with previous administrations and the only difference is the propaganda war to manipulate support
  
  Trumps not wrong for once.
  He's definitely wrong morally, constitutionally, and strategically just not legally, per how the courts have (mis)interpreted the constitution.
  Sanctions haven’t been working
  Well, in order to work, they'd have to have a coherent objective.
  They did work at bringing Iran to the negotiating table, which led to Obama's Iran deal. The only problem being that Obama made it, so Trump had to hate it. The only thing the US actually wants from Iran is for it to be an enemy the president can bomb to look tough.
  it should be effective at stopping their program.
  The program that we have no evidence actually existed, that is. Certainly, if they weren't actively persuing one before, they'd be mad not to now. How else could they stop the frequent, random unprovoked aggression from the US?

Do these people understand that once they give away these powers the next person who wrestles away power from trump may see them as an enemy? With the constitutional power to disappear homegrown terrorists nobody is safe.
- But they'll be rich for a moment and get to look down on the poor!
- What are the democrats gonna do to them? They've got nothing to be afraid of, look what happened to Bush.
- I see them as an enemy right now.
- The gaggle of idiots believe they're the thing that goes bump in the night.
- Maybe they don't expect that to be a possibility...

"Many respected constitutional experts argue that the War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional. I'm persuaded by that argument."
I don't think he was persuaded by the argument, I think he was hoping such an argument existed. Anything for daddy Trump.
- Everybody's saying it. And even if they weren't, I believed it before they said it!
- Journalists should have immediately asked him "which expert first won him over with their argument, and which of their arguments was most compelling". Make him squirm.

Party of small government everybody. If they didn't have double standards and lies, they wouldn't have any standards or things to talk about.
- Getting rid of congress would make the government smaller
  
  yeah! just one guy - can’t get smaller than that! /s

Imagine being so cucked that you give away your already incredibly narrow and ever shrinking powers. What a fucking buffoon.

And I want Mike Johnson's balls removed with a falling brick. Pretty please?
- He does not use them - it would be a waste of time. Like removing the tires off a PT Cruiser.

He should, for a change, read and try to understand the Constitution he has sworn to uphold. Or, if he is to stupid for that, have someone slowly explain it to him.
It can't be "unconstitutional" when it is right in the Constitution.
- He doesn’t know what the Constitution is, like he doesn’t know what the Declaration of Independence is as well. He even stated boycotting is illegal, and you shouldn’t protest against Israel.
  
  he views the constitution as something akin to dunny paper. Something to be discarded after he's wiped his arse with it. or more accurately, when someoen else wipes his arse.
- The reason he's saying wrong things is not due to lack of understanding. It's because he's a power-mad liar.

- They can’t even do anything. Everything in Federal is one sided until Midterms.. unless Donald gets rid of that too.
  
  They could have voted to impeach recently, instead they chose to normalize the president not needing approval to do acts of war.
  And before that there was the budget.
  And before that they censured Al Green.
  And before that they approved Trump's nominees.
  But yeah, Democrats are totally powerless to do anything. I'm sure that will convince people they're worth their time.
- Not all of them, and being a defeatist crybaby helps no one but the nazi scumbags.
  Do better, unless of course you’re a nazi scumbag; if that’s the case help yourself to a giant refreshing glass of bleach.
  Note: looks like at least 1 Nazi saw it, don’t be shy? Try the bleach, you’ll love it.

scrolls lemmy
reads headline and moves on
A few posts down and scrolls up realizing it was posted to politics not theOnion

Mike Johnson wants a king.

So you want a king, yes? You people sure took a roundabout way to get back to where you started.

So when are the people going to remove them both?

If Mike Johnson wants war, he should be first in line for registration and selective service. He should not be aiding and abetting propaganda outlets to dupe the youth into dying for that "apartheid state" again.

- Don't worry, Mike's son monitors his porn consumption.

Mike Johnson believes he can force Jesus to return by nuking the Middle East, and reporters should be demanding he answer questions about it.
- What an arrogant prick. God should smite his sorry ass.
  
  Jesus should return and removed slap him with the power of Christ.

lol. a REPUBLICAN saying what's unconstitutional??

Trump removed sucks more of Trump's cock. Fucking cool man. Dems remain nonexistent. I used to think the 'we need a do over' crowd was a bit dramatic but more every day I'm finding it a hard point to argue. These fucking ignorant narcissists just soiling and eroding what our country stands for and the fact that none of our elected officials are doing anything infuriates the shit out of me. Yes I do see the benefit in Judicial actually standing up to a lot of this and celebrate their efforts, but it sdoing nothing to stop them from trying over and over and over.

"Calling things unconstitutional" is the new "calling things woke".
- That's such an unconstitutional thing to say!

That shithead shouldn't use words he doesn't have any hope of understanding.

Mike johnson sounds like he’s glazing

Fuck that.

Any member of the media or foreign power representative must allow Trump to rape them in broad daylight with his world famous big ....ohhh, thar won't be necessary thank you...$10,000,000.0! That's right, if you need to speak with the guy you give him 10 million in small bills... Fives, tens and twenties please.

"I don't want to have to take a position on record about my support for disastrous forever wars."

So today we care about the constitution? I get the days mixed up....

I don’t trust DOOFUS with the cognition to spell his own name, why the hell would I want to give him power to declare war?
No thank you, I am not privy to a war with Canada nor Denmark.

Things aren't going sideways fast enough for little Moses Mikey.

Why is every word in the title beginning with a capital letter? This is an eyesore and annoying to read. Only the first word of a sentence, names, months and days, some abbreviations and "I" should be written with a capital letter. As explained here.
- It's common to capitalize words in a title (other than exception words like "of"). It actually says this in your link.
  
  I hate it
- Because it is a title. Duh.
- It’s the American standard for titles I think.
- You mean like in this post that you yourself submitted?
  
  Lol, touché
- Of all the things even vaguely related to this post to be upset with, you chose to comment on title casing?
  
  Yeah, and it feels kinda nice. After months of doomscrolling, being upset with basically everything that is happening in the world while being forced to helplessly watch how everything goes to shit, I can finally complain about something as stupid as this.
- https://www.techopedia.com/definition/pascal-case