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the armed forces don't belong to POTUS as much as the current occupant of the office would like them to have loyalty to him personally, they don't still, Cong

• CamperBob2 6y ago
  the armed forces don't belong to POTUS * blinks * Yes, they do. He's their commander in chief, authorized by Congress to attack anyone or anything in the name of "fighting terrorism" with zero immediate accountability to anyone. (And yes, as you suggest, this is a problem Congress created for itself.) POTUS also has the ability to invoke something called the "Insurrection Act," which effectively deploys the military on domestic soil for law-enforcement purposes. Oh, and speaking of Federal law enforcement, that's an executive branch function as well. as much as the current occupant of the office would like them to have loyalty to him personally, they don't An idealistic perspective that isn't always borne out by reality. [1] still, Congress has given up too much control and needs to take it back That's for darned sure. Of course, a complicit Congress is arguably worse than an impotent one, because it opens the door to a captive judicial branch as well. [1]: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/dod-report-reveals-details-seals-punished-flying-trump-flag/ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/dod-report-reveals-details-s... : “[The convoy commander] was also aware of the rules precluding Department of Defense (DoD) endorsement of political candidates during an election,” the documents stated. “However, he believed that flying the flag was not inappropriate since the election was over and since the candidate was now the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.”