this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
212 points (97.7% liked)
news
816 readers
379 users here now
A lightweight news hub to help decentralize the fediverse load: mirror and discuss headlines here so the giant instance communities aren’t a single choke-point.
Rules:
- Recent news articles only (past 30 days)
- Title must match the headline or neutrally describe the content
- Avoid duplicates & spam (search before posting; batch minor updates).
- Be civil; no hate or personal attacks.
- No link shorteners
- No entire article in the post body
founded 7 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Sure but that was true 10, 20, and 30 years ago. Not sure what follows.
Impeachment
If we had a functional Congress, that's what would follow
Starting a unprovoked war without approval of Congress would certainly in normal situations be impeachable.
Not in this day and age. Congress and the house are useless nowadays.
Hence "normal".
You'll find that most congress critters are in favor of military action against Iran. The Democrats just wanted to be publicly asked about it first so that they can huff and puff before skipping the vote on it
So are the people. Anywhere else by now would have had National shutdowns until all of these Trump enablers were out of office or under the guillotine. But the people are not rising up Nationally.
Few dissenters here and there and some state protests but nationally the people are fine with how this administration is handling things otherwise it would of come to a complete halt a loooong time before this current shitshow.
It may be possible if americans acted during the vietnam war, or the afghanistan war or the iraq war
I feel protests during the Vietnam war bought about more change than what’s happening at the moment. Guess the body counts too low for that though.
This is just another ripple in the cesspool that is the United States of America. It’s going to take one hell of a conscience to sweep all this under the rug of history.
The "No Kings" protests so far have been somewhat larger per capita than the largest Vietnam war-era protests.
Now that I am surprised at. Must of had more morals back then on knowing when to step down.
Not kidding when they say “absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
Or maybe all converge on Washington monument.
So more people but spread out on smaller groups?
So many questions on why nothings being effective…
No Kings was nationwide, every city of any size and lots of small towns too
I’m heading down the rabbit hole of the ‘Moratorium’ Movement 🫡
In a rational and just world where the system functions as intended, yes. That's never been normal. The normal situation has been every President since Congress last tried to reclaim their authority with the War Powers Act in the 1970s has further expanded what the next one can get away with. Congress has never successfully responded to their abuses. The reality has been the President can and will start whatever wars they see fit and Congress normally doesn't do anything much about it besides cheer.
He's been impeached twice and still became president again.
Impeached twice and convicted 34 times. Americans knew who the were voting for (or not voting against).
But Harris was going to start WW3! Just like Biden and Obama did! She also wanted to eat Palestinian children.
Thank God we avoided that! Imagine how stupid would we look if Israel could do whatever they wanted, they would surely bomb Iran. Twice. And some pedophile threw a baby in a river and the AG would talk about the stock market instead. Phew!
Jail or even execusion
Before, it was just because he didn't care, like a normal politican. Now, his brain is too soupy, and he might not be able to stick to the talking points the strategists came up with.