[system7rocks]

This is deeply disturbing. The terrible, incoherent messaging and strategy around the Iran war (unapproved by Congress) is connected. This is an administration that is seeking less freedom, not more. What entity would sue on behalf of the ombudsman?

[Terr_]

> What entity would sue on behalf of the ombudsman?

What entity could? Most of the unprecedented madness of the last few years boils down to:

1. The President does something flagrantly illegal.

2. The remedy is Congress impeaching and removing the President from office.

3. Republicans legislators are completely complicit, and have enough votes that #2 doesn't even start to happen.

The crimes will continue until something about #3 changes or until #47 finally succumbs to dementia.

[tdeck]

Democratic leadership are also all Zionists who not-so-secretly approved of the war, which is why they stalled the war powers vote until after he attacked.

https://capitalandempire.com/p/top-democrats-try-to-stop-vot...

[benterix]

But if Republicans are Zionists, and Democrats are too, what hope is there for peace in the Middle East?

I can understand that Israel's long-time strategy is to keep all their neighborhood in a state of permanent mess so that nobody is strong enough to be an existential threat. But after almost a century, it's clear this is not working.

[tdeck]

The strategy is to do what the US did to native Americans.

[pjc50]

"Make a desert, and call it peace"?

[riffraff]

> until #47 finally succumbs to dementia

how would that look like? I mean, more than what it looks like now. The man is spouting nonsense every single day.

[deepsun]

It cannot be "unapproved by Congress".

A US president does not have authority to start a war, Congress has, according to Constitution. The president only serves as a Commander in Chief.

So at any point Congress can stop any military action issuing an immediate ruling preventing the president doing anything. If our congressmen don't do that it means they approve it.

It's our, USA, war, not Trump's war. Because we elected the congressmen.

[xnx]

> If our congressmen don't do that it means they approve it.

These needs to be repeated everywhere until people understand it. Same situation with tariffs.

[user3939382]

They passed a bill saying in 60 days stop without further approval. Admin said days we don’t attack dont count toward the 60…

[jauntywundrkind]

Congress voted to stop counting days to allow the tariffs to keep going without having to actually act on it! Congress overruled time passing. These people are fundamentally breakers of reality, aren't just unserious: they are anti serious. RFK and all of this is a perpetrated act to be grossly anti reality, to defy all reason. No reality supports any of what's happening, there's no reality where any of that GOP agenda can win, so they have declared war on reality. https://www.ntu.org/publications/detail/congress-should-not-...

This stopped being alternate realities a while ago, as it became a collective project to form anti-realities.

[jasomill]

“Reality has a well-known liberal bias.”

— Stephen Colbert, 2006

https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/user-clip-step...

[AlexCoventry]

Yes, if this turns into a mass famine/deindustrialization, Americans are going to own it the way Germans owned the holocaust.

[LNSY]

We've already taken 600,000 lives by being complicit with foreign national Elon Musk's genocide in Africa. Most of them children.

[logicchains]

It's not genocide to stop handouts to the third world. It's genocide to go around murdering white farmers in mass to take their land, as is happening now in South Africa and previously happened in Zimbabwe.

[actionfromafar]

Yes, I saw it too on Pravda Sozial.

[m00x]

what are you talking about

[boromisp]

They are probably talking about claims like this: https://www.doge-impact.org/

[voidfunc]

The Germans owned the holocaust because they lost WW2 and afterwards became a vassal state of the Allies and later just the US. History is written by the victors.

[rswail]

The Germans "owned" the holocaust because the Nazis (German) started, conducted, and maintained the systematic collection, extermination, and destruction of certain classes of the population under their control.

Who else should have "owned" it?

[pyrale]

I assume the point is that what make them acknowledge and repent from what they did is that they lost the war.

Many massacres and genocides are "owner-less" and obscured by history. To give a few exemple, you might find, but the trail of tears is not as front-and-center in US' history teaching as the holocaust is in German history teaching.

You'll find similar situations for all colonial powers who didn't get dismantled and forced to accept their wrongs after losing a war. You may even go as far as to say that Germany is the outlier here.