It’s the second military zone the Trump administration has created at the border, following one on the New Mexico-Mexico border, where a group of migrants were arrested on Monday.
  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    “The president gets expanded powers during an emergency”

    “The president gets to declare what is an emergency”

    Thanks Supreme Court and Congress. Who could have ever guessed that this system would be abused by an authoritarian. 🤷‍♂️

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      … This is unironically what all the rightwing conspiricists have been afraid of for two+ decades now.

      This is what they thought Clinton, or Obama or somehow the UN or ‘ZOG’ would be able to use as the mechanism to instate tyranny.

      … And now they are doing it themselves, so utterly deluded that they would short cicruit if you tried to explain this to them.

      I grew up in a right wing nutjob household. This is what I was told my whole life, growing up. I was indoctrinated into it, and had to deconvert myself out of it similar how I had to deconvert out of christian extremism.

      These people are perfect hypocrites.

      • Thunderbird4@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Remember Jade Helm? They thought Obama was going to use military exercises to take control of Texas back in 2015 or so. Gov. Shitstain even made some comment lending credence to the theories. Now there’s a president using the military to control parts of Texas and they’re cool with it.