The Senate on Tuesday voted to block U.S. military action in Iran for the first time as the war approaches its fourth month.

The war powers resolution passed by a vote of 50–48. Sen. John Fetterman, again, was the lone Democrat to vote in the negative.

Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Dave McCormick, who was in his home state for a visit by President Trump to a Mack truck plant in the Lehigh Valley, was absent.

Four Republicans — Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana — supported the measure.

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        There’s one recurring theme and unifying driver for everything the right does, and everything that’s wrong with society. Empathetic impairment.

        All of these criminal con artists fall somewhere on the spectrum of malignant selfishness/greed to straight narcissism/psychopathy/sadism (cluster B mental disorders = mental illness).

        Engaging in psychological warfare and disinformation campaigns; pedophilia; rampant fraud and corruption; genocide and crimes against humanity; psychotic conspiracy theories; attacking the weak and vulnerable; the destruction of facts, science, and evidence.

        All of these are symptoms of a mental illness epidemic and logical corruption, amplified and transmitted through propaganda.

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      No he’s mentally ill, which is why he gravitates towards Trump and his Israeli handlers

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        Stuff like this makes him seem compromised. Republicans get the excuse of party loyalty. There is literally no legal or moral justification for voting against this and Fetterman isn’t technically in the Republican party to be loyal to.

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      Seriously. Why are we still calling him a Democrat?

      Just because he hasn’t formalized switching parties, I guess.

      If he still caucuses with Democrats, that shit has to be super awkward.

      Schiff: “We’d better capitulate even more to the Republicans. It’s always worked out so well for us in the pa-”

      Fetterman: “WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE!!! <mocking voice>‘I wanna steal your 3-year-old son’s testosterone.’</mocking voice> That’s what you sound like right now.”

      Everyone else: “…”