Somebody Throw a Tire Tool in the Crank Drive
Madam Speaker, the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, has announced that this crapola is damn well over.
Trump has tripled down on blowing up cultural spots in Iran if they retaliate for killing their general. Not only will he do it, but he will laugh gleefully watching them burn.
Pelosi is doing what she can to stop this stuff.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday sent a letter to Democratic members of Congress announcing the House will introduce and vote on a “War Powers Resolution to limit the President’s military actions regarding Iran” amid rising tension.
The resolution, Pelosi writes, “reasserts Congress’s long-established oversight responsibilities by mandating that if no further Congressional action is taken, the Administration’s military hostilities with regard to Iran cease within 30 days.”
Look, I realize that Trump can do lotsa damage in 30 days, but at the very least this will limit the amount of time that John Bolton and Stephen Miller can prance around with a bulge in their pants.
After threatening bombs and sanctions and golf courses and whatnot, Trump said something so weird that even I said duh.
“If there’s any hostility, that they do anything we think is inappropriate, we are going to put sanctions on Iraq, very big sanctions on Iraq,” Mr. Trump added.
In making his warning, the president was threatening sanctions on a country for forcing out American troops whom he himself had pledged to bring home during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Dude, they are just trying to help you keep your campaign promises. I mean, no Obamacare gone, no wall, you ought to have at least one you can claim to have kept.
One more thing. This idea that he told Russia what he was going to do but not congress because “he wanted to keep it a secret,” is not how America works.
Can the House add articles of impeachment before turning over what they have to the Senate?
1This is a preposterous man. This is the sentence where I list all his atrocities chronologically… but for now I won’t. Everyone knows what they are, by rote. I don’t care about his rabid base or their collective thrall. I see a lot of cynicism and hand wringing but we should keep lasered in on the demise of this fool, the fools enabling him in and out of the bicameral government. We’ve had too many miscreants sneak into positions of power to give up our rights. These are stinging slaps on the face for us now but it is life and death for us and the planet in the future.
2fran seyer @1, iirc, new articles can be originated in the House and sent over to the Senate at any time and without limit.
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Had to study that picture a bit, didn’t have a clue, then I connected the context. It must be DJTchingahuahua at his military prep school with good ol’ dad and mom.
Wow, that’s about the frappiest preppiest uniform I’ve ever seen, it gots lots of brass buttons, stripes, cummerbund, rapier [wouldn’t call it a real sword], and absolutely the fanciest f’in phallic symbol on his cover seen anywhere. This dude is ready for combat [200 years ago]!
Those Chickenhawks sure do get their boners on when Iran comes up.
Meanwhile, look for a very ‘dirty bomb’ to go off upwind of Mar-A-Pendejo and other choice targets if they actually do some more stupid shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhawk_%28politics%29
[this Wiki used to have, and link to, a long list of named chickenhawks, somebody has removed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_bomb
3[the Wiki describes them rather poorly, they can be made extremely dangerous and longterm toxic]
Thank you, Sandridge
I thought that was the case…..maybe they can just keep sending articles of impeachment from now until November….so many articles and so little time.
4Ahhh the mention of Andy Jacobs…..he was my neighbor and congressman…..he would repair horrid pot holes around here…..a lovely man. We need a great many more like him. His son, by the way, is running for the almost vacant House seat.
5“You’re Not a Dictator”: Trump Informed He Can’t Launch War By Tweet
Edit: Democratic lawmakers, anti-war advocates, and legal experts rebuked President Donald Trump after he announced on Twitter that he would be using the social media platform as the medium by which he would inform Congress of hypothetical, future military strikes against Iran.
“The Constitution doesn’t allow presidents to declare war over social media,” tweeted Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Caif.)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/06/youre-not-dictator-trump-informed-he-cant-launch-war-tweet
6Did someone say, Names of Chickenhawks?
7https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Category:Chickenhawks
Sternly worded letters and resolutions are not going to stop trump. At this point I don’t think anything or anyone can. Our system fundamentally requires good faith among our leaders in government. The gop has destroyed that and there are no institutional restraints on trump. He’s gonna do what he wants.
8Reynolds@7
Saving Private Liars – didn’t know Joe Walsh made the list, but then of course, he sang his valiant ode.
My Maserati does one-eighty-five
9I lost my liense, now I don’t drive
I have a limo, ride in the back
I lock the doors in case I’m attacked
lumpkin @ 8,
Perhaps agencies who names will not be mentioned, have deemed Trump a dangerous man and a traitor to the US. If they didn’t drink the Kool aid, they might aid in his restraint/removal from office. That may be the only way he is stopped. But they keep their intentions secret and we’ll never know.
10What turned Nixon was a visit from three leading Capitol Hill Republicans – Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, Barry Goldwater of Arizona and House Minority Leader John Rhodes of Arizona. There’s not a wager board in Nevada that would give odds on IQ4.5 being visited by Moscow Mitch, Leningrad Lindsey and Grassley. As for Donnie taking sound advice, even the real Old Scratch himself wouldn’t lay odds on that.
But a woman? It’s incumbent upon Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic members the House to bury IQ4.5 in articles of impeachment. They need to get on our once upon a time free air waves to turn the tide of public opinion. Below 50% isn’t working for Donnie. Yet. Turn that tide. 40% 30% … 10% and do it before the upcoming election.
Who we need to hear from most are the women in the House and Senate. It is evident how much Sec/Sen Clinton, Senator Warren and Speaker Pelosi penetrate the thin skinned individual1’s skull. Go and get him, ladies!
11Attacking cultural sites:
After 9/11, I remember talking heads who discussed the possibility of Bin Laden blowing up the Statue of Liberty, the Golden Gate Bridge, I believe even Mt. Rushmore. On TV they asked us, shouldn’t we go to war against those who stoop so low as to engage in barbaric, almost inhuman acts of cultural defilement? Who would destroy symbols of America and American freedom?
Now, pretty much those same Republican cheerleaders are back on the talk shows, defending and supporting Trump who threatens he’ll bomb cultural sites in Iran. Why? Because when their subhuman barbarian does it, war crimes become magically all right?
12this is where I keep telling myself that he can’t do a damn thing cuz the House controls appropriations. Wars cost money and if the House doesn’t give, then he doesn’t receive. Unless he wants to use his personal credit card and lord knows he never makes a payment o that!
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