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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/533816

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CNN asked Miller whether the Trump Administration will abide by a district judge’s order blocking the Guard’s deployment in Oregon. “Well, the Administration filed an appeal this morning with the Ninth Circuit,” Miller began. “I would note the Administration won an identical case in the Ninth Circuit just a few months ago with respect to the federalizing of the California National Guard.”

Then, Miller said: “Under Title 10 of the U.S. Code, the President has plenary authority, has—” before making an abrupt stop. Miller blinked several times, with anchor Boris Sanchez calling out his name, though he still did not respond.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenary_power

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations.

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 100 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It took that for someone to become "suspicious" of the Trump Administration while Trump has been talking about dictatorship for years now ... what a joke.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

It didn't take it for us, but to his supporters, it apparently still isn't enough.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 182 points 2 days ago (4 children)

CNN edited their YouTube clip of the interview and removed the part in question. Someone on Reddit clipped it though: https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/1o0x5ib/miller_glitches_while_falsely_claiming_title_10/

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago (2 children)

CNN is state media. It cannot be trusted.

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 36 points 2 days ago

Yes. All corporate media is state media. None of it can be trusted.

It's a sad state of affairs when you'll get better information from Teen Vogue than any organization in the White House Press Pool.

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Apparently Reddit is working hard to try to scrub that off their site as well. The boot licking continues.

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[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago

Keep bending the knee and licking the boots, CNN.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For real, this is literally the moment that all trust in the media collapsed.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

After the last two years of genocide justification and lying for Israel I am surprised anyone had any trust left.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 204 points 2 days ago (20 children)

The executive is a co-equal branch of government. We don't do kings here. We kill kings.

We also kill Nazis. Per long tradition. We don't debate them. We don't platform them. Nazis are guilt free kills. Don't even count as human.

[–] Ging@anarchist.nexus 176 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We have never killed kings here. We also stayed out of Nazi affairs for many years. The sentiment is nice, but more than misleading. You got weird history books anon

[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 107 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Not only that, but we also support most dictatorships around the world, we fund genocide, overthrow democratically elected governments, and assassinate people like Lincoln, JFK, & MLK.

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[–] hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca 66 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Maybe he meant Martin Luther King?

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[–] Sideshow_B00b@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

But.. but.. ”zey vere just folloving orders”

Punch-a-nazi would be a great substitute for whack-a-mole BTW

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (20 children)

Don't even count as human.

... People can be evil (and even deserve execution) without dehumanizing them. You know, the exact thing we hate them for doing?

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[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We don't do kings here. We kill kings.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 65 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Literally never killed a king in their history. The closest they got was killing aboriginal chieftains. Muricans just got salty because the King of England refused to let them colonize the native tribes in the great lakes region (which the crown had declared a self-governing protectorate). Americans declared a revolution and cloaked it in jingoistic hoopla about liberty. They also tried (and failed) to enlist Quebec to join them.

[–] voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 days ago

Hey to be fair the US government has killed 1 king in their history, it was just MLK..

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[–] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 38 points 2 days ago

I know a lot of other social medias censor this idea, but throughout history, a lot of human rights only came about when people rose up to defend it.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 185 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Not a glitch, this is how they introduce these ideas and shift the Overton window more right.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This is nothing new, Miller has said himself the president has absolute power. We're just all transfixed now because Miller fell down a Khole or his amphetamines started to wear off in the middle of an interview.

If it takes this kind of spectacle to make people aware of how bad this administration is, we're so fucked.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago

If it takes this kind of spectacle to make people aware of how bad this administration is, we're so fucked.

They still won't be aware.

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[–] orclev@lemmy.world 151 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So I looked it up and title 10 is all the rules that govern the US armed forces. The president of the United States can trivially be shown to not have plenary authority by the simple fact that the constitution exists. That is in fact the entire point of the constitution, it ensures nobody in the United States has plenary authority. Even title 10 disproves that as it sets out the rules that US armed forces must operate under.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 56 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Didn't you get the news last week? Clarence Thomas issued a new ruling that declared the constitution unconstitutional. Apparently they didn't have the right to write it so he nullified it.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, Thomas stupidly just removed his own authority to declare things unconstitutional, automatically reinstating it

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[–] Juice@midwest.social 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The constitution is a social contract. Since such a contract can serve as the basis for all society, then the legitimacy of all contractual obligations are linked to the legitimacy of this one, that ensure we have rights and freedom in order to enter into contractual obligations.

Since the representatives of the state founded on the constitution have broken the social contract, then all contracts are null and void.

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[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ITT : Lots of very suspect defense of nazis.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Right?! Fuck these Nazis, and fuck you if you have any sympathy for them, you're fucking evil too

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Guy obviously can't deal with continuing a conversation while someone is chewing him out in his earpiece. Makes Dubya look like a master orator.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Chat, is this AI?

And by that I mean Miller himself. Is he a robit.

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[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 113 points 2 days ago

Suspicion? This has been the goal of right wing and conservative think tanks for decades now. The end goal of conservatism is monarchy. "Plenary Authority" is just a fancy way of saying "The King can do anything he wants".

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean is it not common knowledge at this point that Republicans are fascists and are planning to turn America into an authoritarian state and Americans are too weak and servile to do anything about it?

I thought it was pretty obvious by now.

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 17 points 2 days ago

No. Republicans are fascists who are planning to make America somewhat more universally authoritarian than it always has been. 30-40% of Americans are white supremacists who think this is great. The rest are split between people who don't know anything that's happening, those who think that 2008 was a reasonable level of fascism and we should try to stay somewhere near there, and those who don't want fascism at all. (This list is ordered from largest to smallest.)

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I hope someone is planning to spin up a new House Un-American Activities Committee to deal with these shit stains when this is all over.

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[–] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Of course it wasn't a glitch. CNN is no longer trustworthy, not even a little bit.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 58 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Maybe they meant Miller glitched out, because if you watch the video, he looks like a robot trying to process an infinite loop when he says it.

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[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

They don’t even mention it on their website lol. A major piece of news occurred live on their airwaves, and the bloodhounds at CNN didn’t smell a thing! Nothing to see here, folks! Just a slow day in the newsroom. It’s nauseating and ominous as hell.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago

He’s saying Trump is the Fuhrer

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