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'Shame': Bill Including Warrantless Spying Expansion Passes Senate, Becomes Law (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 7 months ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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"The Make Everyone A Spy provision will be abused, and history will know who to blame," one civil liberties advocate said.“

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[–] franklin@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The president and his cabinet aren't Congress.

[–] Melkath@kbin.social 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What are you even saying here?

I am responding to someone who listed 3 Republican Presidents, didn't list the Republican President during 9/11 who enacted all of the worst things that still exist in American politics, he listed a Republican Senator, but conveniently left out the Democrat that is behaving like all of them.

Quite a feat of mental gymnastics that tries to make the subject at hand Republicans fault and not the fault of current Democrats and the 2 party system as a whole.

[–] franklin@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

All I'm saying is that when a bill goes through Congress and is ratified into law it's not the president that does that.

I'm not sure if he opposes or supports this bill but for the purposes of ratifying the law that is on Congress. Just trying to be accurate.

There are lots of things to be upset with Joe Biden about this is not one of them. This is it write your congressman situation.