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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.).
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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.
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.
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.
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
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
Next fucking week. Imagine your house is being robbed but the cops are coming next week.
If only there was some way for our law makers to work remotely and swiftly like any other profession
But… I took an oath of non violence against my fellow man! I had to sit and do nothing! Damn these hard choices! Adulting is hard!
Ooo… Freedom fries!
When moments count, cops are minutes+ away.
They literally kidnapped the president and proceeded to threaten the replacement. They don’t care.
Trump: dissolves the US senate
US senate: “we’ll vote on it next month”
Trump: dissolves the US senate
More like: “I¹ Am the Senate!”
¹That’s actually his puppetmaster talking
Fear will keep the local systems in line
Betcha it fails due to some neo-lib defectors.
Someone should explain to Schumer how linear time works…
His imaginary family told him to wait
Something something flat circle.
Fucking lazy assholes. Time for a revolt. Put the people back in power, the way the founders intended.
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.
Why next week? They should maybe take a break for a while and give themselves a raise for all of the strategic “lack of work” they’ve been doing. Maybe things will settle down by then. /s
Chuck Schumer. Not just a name, but an entire sentence.
We going to just return Maduro like we picked up the wrong bag from the shared work fridge? Oopsie poopsie, sorry I ate all the tangerines before I realized they weren’t mine!
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.
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.
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.
… And impeach the belligerent invader who usurped senate power in order to commit war crimes ?
impeach, remove, and yeet into a volcano
Senate issues decree stating, “No retaliation until next week, and even then, only the absolute bare minimum.”
-FTFY
The democrats offer only token resistance, as usual.
