The Senate will vote next week on a bipartisan war powers resolution to block Trump from continuing military against Venezuela — a vote that takes on heightened importance after U.S. forces attacked the South American nation and arrested President Nicolás Maduro early Saturday.
The resolution to block the administration from engaging in further hostilities against Venezuela is privileged, which means Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) cannot stop it from coming to the floor.
The measure is sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
Seems a little late there Schumer
Fucking lazy assholes. Time for a revolt. Put the people back in power, the way the founders intended.
“The tree of Liberty must occasionally be watered…”
You misspelled ‘pruned’
That tree’s looking pretty dry these days…
I’m not so sure the founders intended for everyday folk to have power, regardless of the flowery language in the documents we know them for. Lately I’m questioning everything I was taught (or hoped) this country was. The more I look at our situation now and compare it to history, I feel like we’re on course with the ideals we’ve demonstrated since our inception.
I just feel incredibly disappointed, disgusted… Lots of things.
Fair enough. I don’t own land, so in their era I would not have a vote. I guess that is somewhat similar to an elitist oligarchy.
I am equally disappointed, disgusted, distressed, apathetic.
Stay strong friend. Take care of yourself and who else you can.
The three most populated cities in America are also in the most anti-gun states in the union. It’s illegal to even possess the kind of firepower that’d be required for something like that. This is by design, of course.
The only places where you can own that kind of hardware are the harmless rural areas, not near any critical infrastructure, but chock full of electoral votes and underfunded school systems.
Inconceivable that someone might do something that’s against the law in a situation like that.
Little late, no?
Why “hurry”? He won’t stop anyway.
Any war powers resolution passed by the Senate would need to be approved by the House and signed by Trump to have the force of law.
The president is expected to veto any resolution to restrict his power as commander in chief and there are not enough votes in either chamber to override such an action.
While they should be doing anything they can to stop this shit, this whole vote is purely symbolic. Unless they can get support from the house and a supermajority in the senate, no standalone bill will do anything.
The only real leverage they have is a potential government shut down at the end of the month. Given how unpopular a repeat of Iraq and Afghanistan would be, I want to say that it should be fairly easy to find bipartisan support for a deal that would pull any forces out of Venezuala and potentially put some road blocks in place to dissuade further military interventions. You’d just need some competent leadership and a little bit of backbone.
[Exasperated Sigh]
So sad that we only need a HANDFUL of decent, non-trash Republicans yet can never seem to find them.
If they were decent, what would make them Republicans?
Voter registration. I’ve got some friends that are “old guard” Republicans - we’d disagree on tax rates and small policy matters like that, but at the end of the day they believe in the Constitution. They’re voting straight Dem tickets now, but haven’t officially changed their affiliation with the election office (I think in the hope that somehow the R’s can return to sanity).
Maybe they just don’t wanted to be rounded up in internment camps. I’d say I was a registered republican right now too if I was in america
Is it required to register as a voter for a party? Why would anyone do that? Aren’t the elections supposed to be anonymous?
In some states you have to be registered as a member of a party to vote in their primaries. In states with open primaries you can vote in primaries without registering as a party member, but they still typically have party affiliation as an option on the form.
I see, I guess it makes sense for the primaries. Thanks!
To add on to that, I have other friends that are lifetime Dems that switched to registered Republicans specifically to vote for the least crazy option in the Republican primary - they always vote Dem in the general though.
Because there are no non-trash republicans.
Exactly. It’s why I say that We The People should never ever allow Republicans into office. Not one of them.
Maduro and Trump are friends
Maduro gets to escape his country and save face instead of being assassinated or executed.
Trump gets to manufacture a conflict so he can start martial law and become a dictator
Jesus I hate how plausible this sounds.
They literally kidnapped the president and proceeded to threaten the replacement. They don’t care.
Someone should explain to Schumer how linear time works…
Something something flat circle.
His imaginary family told him to wait
If the only choice you ever make is to fold than what meaning can time possibly have for you anyways? Every moment is every other moment, all one synchronous performance of cowardly capitulation to fascism.
He’ll have to ask his imaginary focus-group family of fascist morons.
Next fucking week? This isn’t warranting of an emergency session of congress?
The US is so fucking fucked. The Dems are gonna find a way to lose the primaries or surrender to Trump’s attempts to steal them.
We’ve seen nothing from these assholes in the times of greatest crisis.
The Democrats and DOJ have been doing a Sudetenland with Trump for since halfway through his first fucking term, through the Biden admin, and now. Just let him and his movement do and take what they want in hopes that they’ll calm down if they get what they want so everything can get back to business as usual. Just because it’s an ideological Sudetenland doesn’t make any less stupid
It’s the Republicans’ job to do fascism. It’s the Democrats’ job to lose elections and offer minimal resistance against the Republicans’ agenda. This is what they’ve been paid to do; the Republicans started with Reagan, the Democrats started with Clinton.
Since then, it’s become not only legal, but incentivized, for them to represent corporate interests over voters’ interests.
They’re not paid to represent voters.
Although … if voters crowdfunded a few billion for a bribe, Trump would probably throw them a bone!
So you’re saying they’re literally the same. /s
No. I’m saying regulatory and legal capture have turned each into separate entities with separate agendas, working toward the same overall goal.
Whoah there buddy, your criticism is BASICALLY a vote for Trump. /s
It’s nice to see this, the D and R routine gets tiresome.
They don’t even fucking hide it, and it still works on many, many people. Too many
It’s not an emergency, that’s why.
It’s business as usual in the USA. We’ve done this many times. It’s like our thing.
For example, does anyone remember that time Citibank asked the US to launch an invasion of Haiti, and got it?
A powerhouse for 200 years! Citibank is one of the “controlling interests” that occupy the Fed and banking boards, along with Rothschild, Deutsch, BoA, and so on (I haven’t kept up on the most recent list of FED participants and bank boards, corrections encouraged they do change names from time to time).
Americans, please take this seriously. It’s NOT FUCKING NORMAL for your representatives to take this so unseriously, and not doing the thing they’ve been literally elected to do. I mean being a politician, not against trump, this goes for both sides of the aisle. wtaf?
My tinfoil hat conspiracy is the establishment Dems are bring directed by Israel and billionaire
donorsbribers to not actually put up a fight
a week late.
My guess is they were told it’ll take a week or so to capture all the oil there.
They have to all travel instead of just using the Internet to do their job like the rest of the world. What good is a vote on something that already happened?
Chuck Schumer. Not just a name, but an entire sentence.
Weird. I thought only Congress could declare war. It seems that the way it really works is anyone can declare war without Congress by kidnapping foreign leaders and then the Senate has to vote to tell that person to stop.
then the Senate has to fail to vote to
tellask that person to stop.Yep, this is what happened. I cannot believe I exist in the same reality with people this corrupt and people stupid enough to follow them.
Interesting choice of photos.
