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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
JFC. Trump and Morality in the same sentence is incomprehensible.
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ICE activity/raids
I read yesterday that her child's father had passed away a year earlier. Seems like there is lots of conflicting (or at least confusing) information floating around about her.
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ICE activity/raids
I just unfriended a handful of long time acquaintances from facebook after posts or comments that they thought Ms. Good was the one at fault and her shooting was justified. Not worth engaging and I don't want anything to do with them anymore.
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ICE activity/raids
Which will play directly into Il Douche's plan of sending in the military/nat'l guard to protect federal officers. Which is what they want.
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ICE activity/raids
Full recoveries? From what? Hangnails?
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
Thanks Obama!
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ICE activity/raids
- Hegseth & the Boys
- Trump’s America
So, just like the UN Charter, right? Bill Barr says hold my beer. From yesterday on The Daily (NYT Podcast): "But just to add the final twist, there’s the question of, well, what about the fact that the UN Charter that makes it illegal as an international law matter is a ratified treaty in the United States? And the Constitution says ratified treaties are the supreme law of the land. As a matter of domestic constitutional law, was this unlawful because Trump had a constitutional duty to obey the UN charter?" "Young Bill Barr had a very expansive view of executive power, and he wrote a memo that said that the president had inherent power under the Constitution to dispatch the FBI, in that case, abroad to carry out its mission of arresting people who were fugitives from charges. And the Constitution empowered the president, essentially, to override international law. It was OK to violate international law, at least as a matter of domestic constitutional law."- Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
The NYT Daily podcast had a pretty good comparison and contrast between the legalities of the Noriega incident and Maduro. Basically under international law both incidents are pretty clearly illegal. Under domestic law, both were probably illegal too, but Bush had a slightly better argument. From the transcript: "The United Nations charter makes it illegal for a country to use force in another country’s sovereign territory without its consent, a self-defense rationale, or the permission of the UN Security Council. None of these are present here. This was an arrest operation. So probably illegal as a matter of international law. As a matter of pure domestic law, probably legal. The FBI, the DEA has the ability to go arrest people who are facing charges. It has affirmative authority from Congress to do that. Statutes don’t say that that authority stops at the edge of the United States. Military can provide support to law enforcement in carrying out its authority to arrest people. So maybe that’s OK on a domestic law level. But just to add the final twist, there’s the question of, well, what about the fact that the UN Charter that makes it illegal as an international law matter is a ratified treaty in the United States? And the Constitution says ratified treaties are the supreme law of the land. As a matter of domestic constitutional law, was this unlawful because Trump had a constitutional duty to obey the UN charter? And so this is the mess you have to sort through to make sense of this extraordinary operation. And here, a precedent in American law and geopolitical history is important as a guidepost to sorting through what just happened this weekend. And that precedent is the 1989 invasion of Panama by the George H.W. Bush administration for the purpose of arresting Manuel Noriega who, like Maduro, was a leader of that country facing drug trafficking charges back in the United States. I don’t think very many people think that the 1989 invasion of Panama was legal as a matter of international law. It was declared unlawful overwhelmingly by the United Nations General Assembly. A majority of the UN Security Council voted to condemn it, but the United States, of course, vetoed that resolution. So to the extent that the Panama invasion fairly clearly violated international law, President George H.W. Bush got away with it. There was no one to say you can’t do this in any effective way. So the trickier question for Bush back in the day was what about domestic law? And what happened back in 1989 was that the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel took a look at this issue. And it was then run by a young lawyer named Bill Barr, who would someday become attorney general for Bush and then reprise that role as attorney general for Trump. Young Bill Barr had a very expansive view of executive power, and he wrote a memo that said that the president had inherent power under the Constitution to dispatch the FBI, in that case, abroad to carry out its mission of arresting people who were fugitives from charges. And the Constitution empowered the president, essentially, to override international law. It was OK to violate international law, at least as a matter of domestic constitutional law. That memo by Barr was very controversial when it came out. It’s been criticized by many legal scholars who think Barr was wrong about his approach to analyzing whether or not a ratified treaty is the kind of law that the president has a duty to see is faithfully executed. But that was the reasoning in 1989, and I think it’s safe to assume that’s probably what the reasoning was for this weekend, as well." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/podcasts/the-daily/maduro-venezuela-trump-legality.html?- Your President is pedophile
- Trump’s America
- Things not going well in Venezuela
Perhaps you’ve not had a good arepa. When they’re good they’re wonderful.- Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
Rein, but correct.- Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
- Things not going well in Venezuela
Bad opinions thread —> You can take my arepa from my dead, hot, greasy hand.- Things not going well in Venezuela
Where are the ICE agents?- Trump’s America
- Slow Horses
I’ve been waiting on this for a while. I have low expectations though because I believe the first season was based on a book and was the end of the story. John LeCarre if I recall correctly.- Trump’s America
- Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
I’m definitely not googling that on @Brisketexan ’s browser.- Trump’s America
If it was unanimously approved won’t Congress just override the veto?- Trump’s America
- Trump’s America
Don't know her but I was at UVA undergrad. Didn't get in as a non-resident (and finished law school in 1990). She also apparently is spelling impaired. Weaponazation?- Surly’s list of Dallas top 25 restaurants
I keep meaning to go there. I sent a friend from my workout class and she said it was really good. SWMBO however probably wouldn’t like Misti’s more adventurous choices for foods though. - Hegseth & the Boys
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