We got him boys. Pack it up. For the first time in a life of unchecked blatant corruption he will experience consequences. Yup. This is the one that does it. All that other treason was foreplay. Yessir; good day’s work. We can all finally heal.
Burger republic.
“A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, where the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class. Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes, usually a large impoverished working class and a ruling class plutocracy, composed of the business, political, and military elites.”
“A borgor republic is a country with an economy of crony capitalism (not real capitalism, bro, really), where the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the job creators. Typically, a borgor republic has a 100% meritocratic society, usually a lot of lazy welfare queens looking for handouts and a ruling class of brilliant, innovative job creators and democratically elected politicians selflessly carrying out the will of the people.”
SURELY THERE IS A CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW PROCESS FOR THE EXPORT OF ARMS. SURELY A CHECK OR BALANCS EXISTS. REFUSING THE SALE OF F35S TO CHINA THROUGH SAUDI WILL HAVE BIPARTICIAN SUPPORT.
The AECA contains procedures for congressional joint resolutions of disapproval concerning notified FMS and DCS transactions. Section 36(b)(1) of the AECA prohibits the U.S. government from issuing an LOA if Congress “enacts a joint resolution prohibiting the proposed sale.”
GOOD GOOD WAIT
Congress has never successfully blocked a proposed arms sale via a joint resolution of disapproval.
WAIT
The President has the authority to waive the AECA statutory review periods
Clown government
source https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RL31675#_Toc193291696
Super solid post. References cited from the government itself. Depressing that it’s on this topic though. Damn.
The liberalist faith in law is a huge blind spot. The system is corrupt. It’s been corrupt for a while now, but it’s unmissable obvious now, and it disturbs me how many people are still saying strange things like how the constitution will stop this, the judges will stop this, the police will stop this. Corruption is systemic, not individualistic. The corrupt system isn’t coming to save people from the corrupt system!
If you aren’t already, organize locally with others to perform real political action through our worker power. Even if your local area has to build from scratch - the sooner we as citizens develop political power, the more lives are saved.
Everything Trump has done from day one has been treason. For some reason the self appointed patriots don’t mind.
America is in its Zuma era.
South Africa arms deal that landed Zuma in court
Spoiler warning: the country has still not recovered.
Blatant is the key word. They are so high on their own narrative that they don’t even try to hide their corruption anymore. After their downfall, we’ll have plenty of material to indict & ultimately lock them away with.
After their downfall, we’ll have plenty of material to indict & ultimately lock them away with.
Who’s this “we”? You can’t use a corrupt system to solve the corrupt system, the corruption involves the legal system (remember who is designing and passing the laws!) and the law enforcement officers. So if you want to have the power to lock them away, you’re going to have to organize with fellow citizens to develop worker power outside of the state.
I could be wrong and I admit that I don’t have as a firm grasp of US politics as I’d like, but I really cannot see a situation where anyone is going to be able to control Trump to the point that which they might be able to get him from front of a jury. I can’t see that happening without some level of conflict. He’s already talking about a third term, the only way that doesn’t happen is a rebellion, or him having a heart attack or something.
The current regime will collapse, one way or another, sooner or later. Then we’ll get them all in front of judge and/or jury and it’ll all be slam dunk thanks to the material they themselves provided.
Of course I’m hoping this all happens before any of them dies of old age.
Their goal is to make sure that when they go down there is no one left to hold them accountable. They’re making sure everyone else goes down before them. This regime will never be held accountable, Trump should be in jail right now and the government and the courts all decided that would be unfair to the poor orange billionaire who never emotionally matured beyond a whiny spoiled child who is bitter that the other kids don’t like him and is determined to make them pay instead of learning how to get along and share his toys.
I don’t have your faith.
Nothing in the last decade has given any indication that the US has the ability or inclination to deal with this.
Cowardly delayed until he got re-elected, but the USA came this close 🤏 to jailing Trump, and even so, he is a felon now. That’s not nothing.
But please don’t call my glass-not-completely-empty attitude “faith”
But didn’t we all say the same things the first time around? Dead to say, but nothing stuck then, and nothing will stick now.
How’s that independence working out
America has concentrated far too much power in the presidency if this is something trump can just decide to do
The Patriot Act of 2001 destroyed checks and balances.
I opposed the Patriot Act because of the lack of checks and balances built into the legislation. Congress was being asked to give the executive enormous authority and then to step back and trust the executive to implement it responsibly.
The Patriot Act, to me, represented unchecked executive power. Congress was giving authorities to law enforcement that they had long requested, even before 9/11, and was agreeing to do so with minimal oversight built into the system.
I recommend to read all they have to say about it.
That said, the whole thing was already prepared and waiting in a drawer for something like 9/11 to happen. The USA was very much Not OK even before that.
I barely know anything about the US presidency, but I could’ve sworn the presidency doesn’t have this power.
No?
Narrator: They Did
No Congress abdicated its duty and so did the Supreme Court. If they were doing their jobs Sit like this wouldn’t happen.
To be fair Supreme Court was taken over by Republicans because the constitution is shit and with partisan SP there was no one to make sure Congress or the President follow the law.
The very fact that Supreme Court justices are politically appointed, for life no less, is so beyond retarded I don’t see how it was ever intended to be a check or balance in the system. How was this ever a good idea?
…can a president appoint themselves as a Supreme Justice, eliminate all the other justices, and then just be the head of the judiciary for life?
It should be a stupid idea, but recent events have been of little comfort.
Appointees do have to be approved by the Senate, but we’ve already seen that the republicans are perfectly happy to rubber stamp anyone who will favor republican policies. I don’t know if the president could appoint himself, but I’d bet a republican-controlled senate would be happy to confirm him even if some law theoretically disallows it. The president cannot himself remove the justices through any mechanism of law (as if he cares about that), but justices can be removed by Congress via impeachment. I am not a lawyer, but I’m thinking a sufficiently corrupt congress/senate could make it happen.
It’s depressing how much of our government and legal system relied on the idea that at least most people would act in good faith.
That’s why I said that US constitution is shit. Modern constitutions solve this in a different way, actually separating the judicial branch. It’s normal that the first constitution didn’t get it right. What’s insane is that US system was never reformed. In other countries people celebrate constitutions that are just historical documents. In Poland for example “Constitution day” celebrates constitution from 1791 that was used only for couple of years. It would never occur to anyone to actually try to use this constitution today. Yet that’s exactly what US is doing. They can’t comprehend that some documents can be placed in a museum and still be respected.
The answer is relatively simple, the supreme court just kinda gave itself a shit tonne of power early on and nobody stopped them. Also the states were meant to work as a check on federal power as well, if this shit happened pre-1910s there’s a solid chance the president would’ve been shot or otherwise DC would be under siege from Maryland and/or Virginia.
Even if, the courts are there to punish, not prevent. The damage would already have been done.
No, constitutional tribunals decide if new laws are constitutional or not. They can throw away a law even before it’s enacted or applied anywhere. They very much do prevent things.
I mean they don’t physically keep you from committing illegal acts. It’s just words until you’ve done something.
I mean, yes, but if US had a truly independent judicial branch it would be a totally different country today. They only have politicians committing crimes on a daily basis because the system deteriorated over time. Real checks and balances are meant to prevent that.
this is treason
Add it to the pile…
Yeah, the meme assumes the US is a country of laws for those in power. Common mistake.
Good thing is, they’re doing it all out in the open. Everything is documented. They might have impunity on their side now, but not forever.
Yep. Now we’re totally going to pursue this, aren’t we. Right?
Who is “we”? The corrupt government? The corrupt legal framework? The only way to fight a corrupt system like this is to develop political power outside of the system - we must all organize with fellow citizens to wield collective worker power.
Of course you guys are.
They’ll get right on it after they’ve done the insurrection treason stuff…and then the traitory stolen top secret documents stuff that were kept in an unlocked ticket next to a fax machine!Ha, just kidding. It’ll all wait until he dies, and then maaaaybeee someone will look into it. And mayyybee a few of the lower echelon of his cronies miiiight get a slap on the wrist about it. Possibly a few fines.
By that time he’ll have sold off even more high tech secrets for more buildings in places where hardly anyone will visit.
Not the first time he acted traitorously and it certainly won’t be the last.
I think Saudi Arabia being, y’know, Saudi Arabia is bad enough without throwing in that “Chinese ally” thing lol.
Saudi Arabia isn’t going to reverse engineer an F35. China will reverse engineer an F35.
Kind of ironic too because as evil as they are, SA are absolutely an American ally as well.
But an ally ideologically (until trump). Previous governments just supported them because of oil.
It’s not just the oil, and this is kind of the key point. It’s also the defense contracts. SA is a huge buyer of American weapons. So the back door deal making has always been a thing. Selling them arms has always been a thing. There’s actually almost nothing that SA and the US agree on ideologically. Of course Trump inserted his own interests into the picture and found a way to enrich himself, and that is truly a new low, and utterly despicable. But let’s not knock him for giving arms to the Saudis as if that’s some new thing. Look, he’s arming a Chinese ally! I mean, come on.
Sorry for calling again but could you please paint “DEATH TO AMERICA” on the jets? We got those new hangars and don’t want to make them all smelly right away.
monarchist nation build on slave labor, that murders political dissidents, queer people and indigenous groups? yea, that’s probably bad or whatever idk,
i mean we did all that too and we’re the good guys yknowchinese ally??? now they’ve crossed a line!!! 😡😡😡
You seem to have repeated yourself a little bit there. Minus the monarchy.
Even that is getting close with trump basically acting as a king
You’d figure a bunch of racists that spent the last twenty years crying about shariah law would a few very specific problems with Saudi Arabia.
Could the OP not think of any reason this would be a bad thing other than China? Not the slave labor? Not the support for autocracies? Not the crimes against humanity? Fucking yanks man.
That said, I have no particular opinion on the China thing, let Trump destroy Western military supremacy; I’ll happily watch.
Needed to appeal to American supremacists by mentioning China at least once. It can’t be truly evil unless CHINA!!!
*Other than China being able to reverse-engineer our military tech? I mean, they probably have our building schematics through other means, but isn’t that the main faux pas?
Other than China being able to reverse-engineer our military tech?
I mean, that’s good, isn’t it? Or are you in favour of world dominance of the American military industrial complex? American weapons are primarily used to bomb brown children, the more they’re reverse-engineered the better
Didn’t China already hack the DoD, or some other contractor, and steal the F-22 or F-35 plans? I swear I read this a few years ago.
but isn’t that the main faux pas?
No, that’s the main faux pas if you’re a US liberal with no care for human life that doesn’t meet a property minimum or resides outside your borders, and not being that I don’t give a shit about China getting access to US military tech. Arming Saudi Arabia is bad because Saudi Arabia is an autocratic imperialist slaver state.
I don’t think anyone is arguing that governments are good, only that he should be in prison.
West != USA
Yeah but F-35 is a NATO-wide program if I understand this stuff right. The F-35 and F-22 are also the only fifth-gen fighters the West has, so the effects of this, if there are any, wouldn’t only be felt by America.
Can’t the Pentagon just NOT do it? Just fucking defy him, or sell them shit fake ones
Most of the career Defence personnel in the Pentagon with spines have already been forced out through purges.
The remaining staff are loyal to Trump, or likely have made clear they’ll not risk their jobs raising any concerns or objections.
I don’t think most of the US realises how fucked they are under Trump 2. This is barely 10 months in of a four year term.
I don’t think most of the US realises how fucked they are under Trump 2. This is barely 10 months in of a four year term.
Indeed… they are still thinking the military will save them because they marched poorly on the parade the Pedo President wanted… oh no, they said, they can march clockwork but did it poorly to show they are not loyal to trump… as the saying goes “the one requisite for people to believe a lie, is that they WANT to believe it”
He’ll fire everyone and SCOTUS will let him do it
Okay, so let’s get fired! Time to standup to this fuck. Or is it better to commit treason in the name of the baby billionaire? What would happen if he fired all the top brass? He would probably lose control of the army.
What would happen? hes already basically doing it. The answer is stooges are put in their place.
There aren’t easy solutions, and the solutions most people throw up are like “What if the people I think don’t care suddenly started caring”.
fr, “but the bad guy told me to do it!” is really getting old
Probably but the GOP would call it a coup and fox news would cry.
So I guess it’s time for a coup? Or do Americans need to be fucked even harder by daddy Trump?
Could care less because of trump and what they let him get away with except a military coup isn’t exactly progress.
Taking a bribe to let China reverse engineer our next generation fighter jet should be the kind of thing that has consequences. That’s going to cost a lot of lives down the road if things go sideways.
It echoes of China before their ~2011 anti-corruption campaign, they had a serious issue in previous decades where the CIA would basically pay-to-win, bribing officers to give promotions to their confederates. The point being, a corrupt system is easy to exploit, for any country that has some spare change to use.
It could cost a lot of American lives. Could also save a bunch of Chinese ones.
It could also cost our lives as a US “ally”. Since they are the only fighter jet my country (Holland) is buying. Since China is a strong supporter of Russia it’s sure that they will get access to any countermeasures as well.
IMO we should sell those things and buy something else like the much cheaper alternatives from Europe.
But my country is also becoming pretty fascist and idealises America so they probably will just cave.
At least there’s still countries like Spain who have already cancelled their F-35 order 👏
If you look at the history of military operations performed by both countries, it’s pretty clear which one is the more likely option
Maybe because the other didn’t have the capacity.
China nowadays has the capacity to steamroll half of asia into compliance. Instead they build alliances/partnerships via trade, even with countries they ideologically disagree with. It’s less profitable in the short-term but leads to more predictable and stable development in the region, which benefits them massively in the long-term. Crazy what you can do if you think in centuries and not quarters.
China isn’t building trade alliances, they are trapping developing nations in debt traps
¿Por qué no los dos? I mean, if you actually go to developing nations you will see that they are investing into real infrastructure that improves the standards of living dramatically. They also intend to turn some profit off of it. Most likely much of that profit will be in building long-term economic relations, rather than immediate rent-seeking, which can be viewed as “trapping nations in debt traps”, or as “investing into development”. They also invest with much fewer strings attached compared to IMF, which is a win comparatively speaking.
remember KUSHNER got 2bn investment funds from the saudis? for giving nuclear secrets.
And also handing over information from US spies on dissidents, even if they were family that just opposed him, so Mohammed Bin Salman could trap them in a hotel and have them all tortured and murdered till there was enough alignment to him.
"The Intercept also reported that Kushner’s information on Saudi royals not loyal to MBS was contained in the President’s Daily Brief, a document presented to the President every morning. Kushner lost his access to the document earlier this year when new security clearance rules were instituted.
Eager to consolidate power and rein in the sprawling orbit of the Saudi royal family and aristocratic class, Prince bin Salman listened intently and a week later cracked down on corruption in the country by imprisoning more than 200 members of the country’s ruling class inside the confines of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh, charging each with corruption"
He’s committed treason daily for the last ten years. When are we going to do something about it?
