Dave Smith
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But like, we don't recognize that as actually being constitutionally binding.
That that is insane, an insane violation of the Constitution.
The president doesn't have a right to do that.
There are rights to just decide which laws he believes are really constitutional in their heart or not.
the idea again that anybody like look you may have different arguments about interpretations of of the constitution or interpretations of any old text but the idea that the constitution says that the president can just launch a war where there's clearly no imminent threat there's clearly been no attack that that the president can just launch a war at his own discretion like that's clearly not what the constitution very clearly says
which is that only Congress can declare wars.
There was a reason why they made it that way.
They didn't want to give war-making power to the king, because then you're a king.
It doesn't really matter what other constraints they have on you.
If you can just launch a war whenever you want to, you've got ultimate power in every situation.
Well, it's funny you should say that.
I know some of you, whatever you want to say, but this is not... You can take this off, honestly, because I already responded to this part.
But that's, yeah, essentially he's just saying what the part that I was getting ahead of there.
I can't remember which part I saw earlier and which part we played already on the show.
But anyway, it's just an absolutely ridiculous argument.