Sumner also opposed giving Lincoln this power because privateering had been against international law since 1856. Giving Trump the power to authorize corsairs is unconstitutional, illegal, and bad all around.
It is also an absurd proposal. The whole idea of privateering is to seize a valuable cargo and sell it to make money. Who does Senator Lee want American privateers to sell the seized fentanyl to? American drug dealers?
I just saw a television commercial featuring Trump as host of the next Kennedy Center Honors show. The clips featured suggest that the show has already been filmed.
Should be a good show. A good shitshow.
I think I have the campaign song for Republicans in general and this administration in particular: “If I had a Heart” by Fever Ray – it was used as the title music for the Vikings series.
If I had a voice I would sing
Dangling feet from window frame
Will They ever ever reach the floor?
More, give me more, give me more
Crushed and filled with all I found
Underneath and inside
Just to come around
More, give me more, give me more
Googling some more, I see a George Mason University economics professor answering my questions. He suggests that our corsairs wouldn’t seize the drugs going out, but the cash on the way back:
If I now understand the GOP proposal correctly, stealing recreational drug proceeds, something today done by warring criminal gangs, would be legalized — where and when and by whom Trump says.
Maybe Trump can rehabilitate some of the drug kings he has pardoned by giving them letters of marque to move into piracy.
Looking at the law text, I see no limitation of the privateers to naval seizures:
When are you going to do something about the traitor in the White House?
Now this man that clearly has dementia is planning on shutting down NCAR? The man who thinks he’s a genius because he can recognize a giraffe. He’s a disgrace.
This is clearly an attempt to punish Colorado for rightfully jailing Tina Peters.
Don’t say your hands are tied. You should be yelling from every mountain top.
The main “problem” was plainly stated by Trump’s stooge at the Office of Management and Budget: “the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) … is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.”
They are one of the important institutions doing research on climate change, which must be stopped because the information upsets redneck rubes with coal-rolling diesel pickup trucks. It’s part and parcel of the Orange Buffoon’s attempt to completely dismantle science and medicine in the US.
If I had a voice I would sing