You’re right, I got mixed up with this thread and another – this is about opening fire.
I also disagree with your entire second paragraph. Something is clearly stopping him from bombing us right now, and you seem to be suggesting that it’s not the courts, it’s… his own goodwill? What?
That’s a false premise. Just because he isn’t doing something doesn’t mean he’s prevented from doing it.
You could have said exactly the same thing about deploying the national guard to those states before he did it, and we can see that you would have been wrong.
Except, America has always fucked around with foreign leaders, so I wouldn’t have said that. We’ve done a number of coups without congressional approval in my lifetime, the only remarkable thing about Maduro is that we took him alive.
In the same lifetime, we have never deployed troops to local neighborhoods.
Edit: you ninja edited me.
I also wouldn’t have said the same thing about deploying national guard to those states, because that’s also happened multiple times before Trump.
You’re right, I got mixed up with this thread and another – this is about opening fire.
That’s a false premise. Just because he isn’t doing something doesn’t mean he’s prevented from doing it.
You could have said exactly the same thing about deploying the national guard to those states before he did it, and we can see that you would have been wrong.
Except, America has always fucked around with foreign leaders, so I wouldn’t have said that. We’ve done a number of coups without congressional approval in my lifetime, the only remarkable thing about Maduro is that we took him alive.
In the same lifetime, we have never deployed troops to local neighborhoods.
Edit: you ninja edited me.
I also wouldn’t have said the same thing about deploying national guard to those states, because that’s also happened multiple times before Trump.
See my edit, I deliberately changed my example the moment I posted it because I knew you’d say that.
I envy your comfort in the guardrails and ability to rationalize Trump as behaving more-or-less within the bounds of precedence.