Don’t be too hopeful.
The roll call Wednesday was 215-208, but next steps are uncertain. Trump would likely reject any measure from Congress to limit his commander-in-chief authority. Still, the tally, with four Republicans joining Democrats, was a rebuke of the president’s war strategy, and cheers erupted in the House chamber.
Exactly as written in the Constitution, right?
“The President can start wars unilaterally and Congress has to pass legislation to stop them.”
It doesn’t say the FUCKING OPPOSITE, does it?
Fucking clown shoes.
The republicans didnt grow a spine. The loser want out and needs a scapegoat to explain running away from a war he started.
“House”
They could say all Democrats and 4 Republicans. Hardly a big shift and those 4 will fall in line on anything that matters.
In all fairness, whenever any anti-progressive bill passes the house with 4 democrats, lemmy whines about how the democrats are traitors
Ummm. Can’t Trump just veto anything Congress passes, anyway? This is all performative, at best.
Yes but if Trump is forced to veto then Congress is left again to reconsider how badly they want this to stop. We need congress to grow a pair of balls and this is apparently how it will be done.
If anybody powerful enough was ever going to stop this with nonviolence, it would have happened already.
They expect this to happen. It’s part of the process. It’s just more guidance on who to purge and who to villify in the media. It’ll have the same effect as the children who begged Trump to stop raping them.
In this case, it ought to work exactly the opposite of how you think: a Congressional resolution is supposed to be the only thing that gives Trump authority to engage in war to begin with, so the only thing vetoing one ought to be able to accomplish is to remove that authority. There isn’t supposed to be such a thing as as resolution disapproving of the President’s unconstitutional unilateral action; if anything, what Congress just did should be treated like revoking its prior approval and thus not be vetoable.
The people he fucked over are getting revenge. It probably won’t turn into anything.
Somehow, i’m sure we will be told, this is the Democrats’ fault.
Now all we need is Fetterman, the mentally unwell, unfit to serve quasi-republican who supports action in Iran to sign off on it.
This is needed for all the 0 negotiation BS between reopening somewhere between any day in last 2 months and labour day, and just letting Israel supremacists derail any reopening of SoH.
Uh huh and I’m sure drumpf the child-rapist will certainly do what they say this time.
Fuck you, you already gave him all the power he wants to just do whatever the hell he pleases. He’ll just ignore this resolution and start calling the Guardians of Pedophiles who flipped a bunch of schoolyard bully names, browbeating their spineless asses back in line…
