I say we’re victims of bad press it’s all exaggerated.
We’d never stab you in the back, we’d never lie or cheat;
we’re just about the nicest guys you’d ever want to meet.”
The U.S. stopped paying attention long ago to the Constitution’s statement that Congress, not the President, is authorized to start wars.
The U.S. doesn’t actually operate by the actual text of the Constitution.
It hasn’t for a long time; arguably it never really has.
Interestingly, the same clause says Congress also controls legalized piracy, giving Congress the authority to:
“declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water”
So either way, the military’s blatantly illegal actions around Venezuela have been a direct takeover of Congressional authority by the President; regardless of whether they’re acts of war or simply murder and now piracy.
(They’re certainly acts of war from Venezuela’s perspective; crimes committed by a State or Head of State are special that way.)
Assuming that they’re actually operating on Trump, damn his name‘s orders.
He seems happy to crow about the results, though, so we should for the moment assume that he gave the orders.
This sort of thing is what you get when you want a “business President”.
The culture of U.S. business has always been that it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission, and better still to ask for neither.
And with this corrupt Supreme Court backing him, Trump, damn his name has no reason to think he’ll ever face any official consequences for anything he does.
Anything at all.
So, the United States (to the extent that this is still the United States) is now a pirate nation.
At least the dress code is better:
But when your a professional pirate
You don’t have to wear a suit.What?
So there’s that to look forward to.
