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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell this is straight out the horse's mouth, killing 2 birds with one stone by letting the cat out of the bag.

mahatmakanejeeves
(70,080 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(23,372 posts)Registration is current law, but selection and induction, including funds for the staff for draft boards , etc, is not.
Reactivating the draft is as lethal a third rail as eliminating social security, maybe more lethal, because it affects young voters.
LearnedHand
(5,518 posts)I dont think so. They just ignore laws they dont like.
Fiendish Thingy
(23,372 posts)This isnt the TSA, they arent going to work for free- they havent even been hired yet.
Reactivating the draft would mean the end of the Trump administration.
If they need troops for their war, they will just stop-loss them, just like Bush did in Iraq and Afghanistan.
LearnedHand
(5,518 posts)Theyve already rolled over on everything else.
Fiendish Thingy
(23,372 posts)Despite acting with lawless impunity, this administration faces the limitations of the real world.
If they didnt need money to do anything, and could just will it into existence without congress allocating funds, they wouldnt be asking billions for this war.
There will be no draft.
LearnedHand
(5,518 posts)No need to be insulting.
Fiendish Thingy
(23,372 posts)And how programs are funded.
Claiming Trump will successfully skirt the law to create and fund the selective service system and that He will just do it is a lazy, flippant quip that ignores all the times in the past year that he has been stopped from just doing it.
paleotn
(22,327 posts)Even in these bizarre times. Federal courts say.....nah.
blue blues
(68 posts)It would fall under the U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
Why wouldn't it census takers and voter ballots are proposed
Fiendish Thingy
(23,372 posts)ProfessorGAC
(76,895 posts)In fact, the USPS has been an independent, self-funded organization since 1970.
They don't rely on Congress for budgets.
There is no comparison to be made between selective service & USPS.
Captain Zero
(8,925 posts)But Self-Registration for the draft?
Not so much??
soldierant
(9,359 posts)and the part that he is doesn't include the mouth.
Swede
(39,625 posts)AverageOldGuy
(3,955 posts). . . TO VOTE?????????????????
czarjak
(13,649 posts)Puppyjive
(997 posts)overweight, gamer incels out there?
IronLionZion
(51,353 posts)I was hoping that I'm too old to be drafted, but now I'm not so sure.
pansypoo53219
(23,073 posts)IronLionZion
(51,353 posts)Cha
(319,341 posts)Fucking Homicidal Maniacal, Traitor Shit CRAZY, WAR Criminals
VIRALIT