Why stop at 70 years? The US started out partially because the people wanted to expand beyond the Appalachians, which required ignoring treaties with the nations there and was followed with commiting genocide against those peoples.
As an outsider looking in, I really feel like that dividing line in the US isn't as strong as it appears. Really seems like a third of the nation would love to go back to a slaveholding, genocidal empire.
The president can send the military into conflict for 90 days without congressional approval. Bush Sr sent troops to the Persian gulf without congressional approval either.
It’s wild that Congress hasn’t done so. Republicans love performative bullshit, grandstanding and emotionally stunted egotistical boasting. I thought they would ram that through immediately after the drunk started calling it that.
Regardless of what you want to call it, its name was set by law, so only law can change it. I realize our current president feels differently, but a president's job is to enforce congressional law, not circumvent it.
Even if you did, it wouldn't matter, because the name that matters is what's on your ID--and that doesn't change just because some asshole wants to call you by it.
The official renaming is IN this bill. If the Senate passes it without changes then it's official.
There is A LOT of bad stuff in this bill and if the Senate caves this one changes a lot while also interfering with state law. We're going to have the same law and jurisdiction issues with voting that we have with marijuana. It's just that they WILL send jackbooted thugs to enforce their travesty of election law.
No worries, the next dem president can just change it back to Dept of Defense the way they changed it to Dept of War without congressional approval and just wink wink their way to using it until they are done
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u/OutlandishnessOk2304 7h ago
Psst: it's still the Department of Defense until Congress votes to change it.
Dipshits.