Originally published at: Senate Will Vote on War Powers Resolution as Conflict Expands Without an Objective - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Since President Donald Trump launched the U.S. into war over the weekend — without any consent from the legislative branch — Congress has been scrambling to respond to the situation. Republicans are struggling to defend Trump’s actions and Democrats are criticizing the president for entering the U.S. into a full-scale conflict without authorization from Congress.…
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The whole idea of this retroactive war powers resolution is absurd. You either have the powers before you go to war or you don’t - if you don’t, it’s illegal. The congress doesn’t have to retroactively affirm that it would’ve gone along with what illegal shit you’re doing - it needs to declare war FIRST.
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Unfortunately we’re getting the MAGA equivalent of Putin calling his war against Ukraine a special military operation. Mike Johnson called the war a “Defensive Operation”. Hilariously, though, Markwayne Mullin is incapable of not calling it a war, despite seemingly being one of the administration’s preferred spokesmen for the war.
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I guess we got our Orwellian war with Eurasia.
“Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia”
We got a “Crusade” led by these fascist, authoritarian, religious cult, wackadoodles against something actually very similar.
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I hope Democrats realize that the DHS goons have provided them a hill we expect them to climb or to die trying.
My wife told me last night that this November she intends to vote against every incumbent on her ballot regardless of party. I am not sure I blame her.
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And the vote begins…..
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This is a case where the decades of US overfunding of defense has come back to bite us. Trump is sort of a random number generator in a pig costume, and all these missiles and weapons were bound to eventually be the object of his wandering attention.
“Can these be used to wreck things?” asked the destructive toddler.
“Hell yeah!” answered his drunken babysitter Pete.
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First, the true narrative of what is plyaing out is that the Republican Party has made Congress irrelevant. Let’s get that fact straight, please.
Second, the Epstein War (I’m personally sticking with that moniker) is just that, a deflection from all the bad news the President, his Cabinet, and the Republican Party are facing with elections coming up shortly. It will only get worse as that time approaches. Yesterday’s results in Texas may be just the start of the next round, and that must be getting the Republican’s nervous. So let’s all prepare for efforts by them to control voting. We cannot let any Republican take a breath. This group of individuals is responsible for the unfortunate deaths of soldiers and civilians (US and foreign). They need to go - directly to jail if we’re honest.
Someone should use Kerry’s words and paraphrase them once again for those who intentionally forget them, “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” After the other day’s fiasco of a press conference, the President and his administration owe the public the answer to this question. And so does the entire Republican Party.
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If the Republicans HAVE to fund TRUMP’s war effort and his Gestapo, it should be on the back of his Billionaire backers. WEALTH TAX NOW.
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Susan Collins on why she voted against the war powers resolution: “At this juncture, providing unequivocal support to our service members is critically important, as is ongoing consultation by the Administration with Congress.
Someone should tell Susie C that if she actually believed that “ongoing consultation by the Administration with Congress” was “critically important” then she would have voted for the War Powers resolution.
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This is an effort from Republicans to try to bully the Democrats into funding the agencies under the DHS umbrella without any of the reforms they have been demanding. Republicans, hoping to use the Iran war as leverage, are claiming it is dangerous and irresponsible to leave DHS unfunded during a time of elevated threats at home.
Isn’t this a reworking of that old joke about the man who’s brought to trial for killing his mother and father who pleads for mercy on the grounds that he’s an orphan?
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As Republicans try to bully the Dems
Too funny. The cowards acting like bullies. Not funny, Dems being bullied by cowards.
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As delightful as that image is, I’m afraid it’s also too generous.
A true random number generator should come up with benign, or at least harmless, outputs just the same as malign ones. And not care at all about “what’s in it for me.”
This RNG has a very definite skew.
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So vote against a bunch of people who were doing what you want them to do because they didn’t ultimately have the votes to get it done. Brilliant reasoning.
Every so often you need to clean out your kitchen cabinet right down to the last can.