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Where did a third of our government control go?
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Congress, Where are you? (Original Post)
NightWatcher
Jun 2020
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2naSalit
(86,371 posts)1. Busily working on
investigating the heap of crimes piling up in the WH.
maxsolomon
(33,252 posts)2. what do you want them to do?
they can make a lot of noise but we've already seen what power they actually have.
Trump is in control of the Military.
Alacritous Crier
(3,813 posts)3. Not if he loses the centrist GOP...
The corporations own the Senators for the most part. If they feel threatened, the can put pressure on the GOP to get him out of there.
maxsolomon
(33,252 posts)4. I mean simply that he controls the Military TODAY.
He is the Chief Executive.
I also have no clue if Posse Comitatus means anything in DC since it's not a state...
Alacritous Crier
(3,813 posts)5. Yeah, I know...
he's saying he's going to use it in any state where the Gov. doesn't call out the Natl. Guard.
Xolodno
(6,384 posts)6. ...
When your enemy is in the process of destroying itself, get out of the way.