NBC News Speaker Pelosi called military chief about 'unhinged' Trump's access to nuclear launch codes

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Originally Posted by winn dixie

Hit close to home?

Baseless racism claims and fear mongering is what the libs have used for years!

Truth hurts!

Not at all. 🤣 you have a short attention span or bad reading comprehension if you think race hating political ads are the preview of only one party. That, or you like the Willie Horton style.

Dems definately have done them, certainly. But the Reps have had a great sence of racially disgusting fear ads for decades. Good Ol' Willie certainly was not unique. I am shocked you never noticed them!

Sure you didn't. 🤣🤣

[Chung Tran]

Originally Posted by gnadfly

You have to be 35 and a "US Citizen." I put "US Citizen" in quotes not because of Obama but because of disagreement as too what "US Citizen" consists of. McCain was not born in the US for example but his parents were US citizens. Ted Cruz was born in Canada but at least one of his parents was a US citizen.

There's no other qualification.

Spoken like a hardcore Trumpist.

There is another qualification. Garnering 270 electoral votes. You forgot that one, I know. You thought 232 was all.

[matchingmole]

[lustylad]

A Coup of Pelosi’s Own

The House Speaker publicizes her nuclear option to protect the world from Trump.

By The Editorial Board
Jan. 8, 2021 6:32 pm ET

We scoured the U.S. Constitution Friday afternoon and it’s definitely not there: the provision allowing the Speaker of the House of Representatives to intervene in the military chain of command to protect the world from President Trump.

Mrs. Pelosi told her Democratic colleagues that she spoke Friday morning to Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.” She posted the “Dear colleague” letter on her website to make sure the world got the message. A spokesman for Gen. Milley told reporters the chairman “answered her questions.”

The press and left-wing Twitter (we repeat ourselves) love the idea of the Speaker inserting herself into the chain of command as a rebuke to an erratic President. But it’s an abuse of her own power, which is limited to leading the legislative branch unless both the President and Vice President are incapacitated or removed from office. In that case she is third in line for the Presidency.

But in the meantime she has no business telling the Joint Chiefs not to follow the President’s orders. Gen. Milley hardly needs the lecture, as he has been dealing with Mr. Trump for 15 months and isn’t about to indulge an unlawful order, much less an effort to launch nuclear weapons.

Mrs. Pelosi’s call to Gen. Milley is itself a violation of the separation of powers by seeking to inject herself into an executive-branch military decision. She can offer advice all she wants, but this call at this time has the sound of an order. It might even be construed by some as its own little coup—conniving with the military to relieve of command the person who remains the elected President.

What if an adversary leaps on the news and decides this is the moment to stage some military action when the U.S. is consumed with internal conflict? Does Gen. Milley now have to consult with the Speaker before he acts in America’s defense? How anyone thinks her intervention would restore good constitutional order to government or some modicum of sanity to politics is a mystery.

Mr. Trump failed his constitutional test on Wednesday. But Mrs. Pelosi showed awful judgment with her grandstanding over the nuclear launch codes. Late Friday she announced that she’s also revving up the impeachment machinery. So much for calming political tempers.

[Yssup Rider]

For some odd reason, I can't find that story online, lustylad.

Did you intentionally forget to link to the journalistic outlet from which you cut and pasted this opinion piece?


What about Speaker Pelosi's action do you find objectionable? The fact that she asked, or that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs answered?


Bigger yet, do you think Trump is in command of his senses right now?

[lustylad]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

For some odd reason, I can't find that story online, lustylad.

Did you intentionally forget to link to the journalistic outlet from which you cut and paste this opinion piece?

No point in my posting the link since everyone knows you can't afford the Wall Street Journal and aren't smart enough to get around their paywall.

[Yssup Rider]

No need to be rude, man.



Having a day, are we?

[winn dixie]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

No need to be rude, man.



Having a day, are we?

No he did n 't

[Austin Ellen]

People - you really need to be more worried about this bitch boy. He's going to let China fuck America up the ass.

[Tsmokies]

Nancy is the most powerful person in the country right now!!! The idiot in chief in hiding can't make a move and is on virtual lockdown. All he can do is watch more fake news and be more humiliated by the minute. I bet Putin won't even take his biggest appointed losers calls

Nancy will help make America smart again

[Tsmokies]

Has China gave trumpy his balls back yet. They handed trumpy his ass years ago when they told him to fuck off and let your taxpayers support your farms dipshit

[matchingmole]

NBC News Speaker Pelosi is still kicking Trump in his fat ass

[winn dixie]

This is more fear mongering by the left! pelosi is unhinged and desperate to take power.

[Tsmokies]

Nancy put trumpy and McDonald in time out and told them losers to stfu

We be making America smart again

[winn dixie]

This is more fear mongering by the left! pelosi is unhinged and desperate to take power.