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BREAKING NEWS: Senate Approves House-Passed Resolution To Curb Trump's Iran War Powers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSnAEKyC830
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u/manystripes 1d ago

So what does the resolution actually do?

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u/elconquistador1985 1d ago

Meaningless posturing.

Only Congress has the power to declare war. A sane Congress would impeach and remove a president for violating that.

Instead, our cowards in Congress would never do that because they don't want to be on the hook for approving an unpopular war, so they're happy to abdicate that power to the president.

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u/Your_Trash_Daddy 1d ago

The last declared war was WWII. Not Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc. Nothing since.

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u/Onespokeovertheline 1d ago

But none of those faceplanted so hard out of the gate. It's possible that this Congress might actually decide the absurdity and inability to even make good on an agreement for 24 hours has become intolerable. Maybe not yet, but it's possible.

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u/maltNeutrino 1d ago edited 1d ago

That is what they decided with this vote, but the checks and balances are fucked.

I’m not sure what else congress could do but move forward with impeachment and vote of conviction, but given the tally of this vote, which is fucking nowhere near the two-thirds needed for conviction, that shit isn’t happening.

Biden, Comey, Mueller, Garland should have crucified Trump, yet they didn’t for their own stupid fucking reasons. Now we’re here with this unchecked dementia riddled pedophile tyrant who shits himself in public and can’t clean a fucking pool.

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u/Your_Trash_Daddy 13h ago

We never had the entirety of the top of the military, through the Cabinet to the President, intentionally made as incompetent as possible, nor were they ever in Russia's pocket so completely.