The bill will likely pass the House, but face a Trump veto. Rep Massie Outed. 
The War Powers Act would force Trump to stop the war in Iran or ignore the law. But the vote is symbolic because it faces a certain veto.
Four Republicans Stand Up Against Trump’s Iran War
Please note 4 Republicans Side With Democrats, Stand Up Against Trump’s Iran War
Four Republicans defied Donald Trump Tuesday to vote with the Democrats and ensure the Senate took a step closer to ending the Iran war by shackling his authority under the War Powers Act.
The resolution passed 50-47, with three other Republicans missing the vote.
Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana voted against Trump, though Democrat Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania voted against the measure.
The cross-voting has been seen as a rare public rebuke of the president, who has largely been backed by his party and voter base over a war that has dragged on for 81 days with no clear off-ramp.
Fighting that began Feb. 28 has killed over 10,000 people across the Gulf so far and caused billions of dollars in damage to civilian and energy infrastructure, as well as a complete shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most critical oil shipping channel. It has also cost the US a reported $29 billion – the Pentagon’s last estimate – and fractured relations with allies.
Tuesday’s Senate vote does not mean Trump has been forced to withdraw US military forces from the conflict, but it is a victory for lawmakers arguing the president has overstepped his bounds.
Specifically, the Democrats have pointed to the War Powers Act – legislation that says a US president cannot deploy forces for more than 60 days at a time without approval.
According to the Democrats and critics of Trump’s war, that deadline passed May 1. However, the White House has insisted the War Powers clock stopped April 8 when the ceasefire was announced, giving Trump at least 40 more days of unilateral force deployment against Iran.
For the War Powers Act to be enforced, the Democrats need the main resolution to pass the 100-member Senate and the House of Representatives with a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Meanwhile, diplomatic efforts to end the war continued this week with the exchange of fresh proposals.
Iran submitted a 14-point plan that included demands for reparations, easing sanctions on its crude oil exports, and recognition of its authority over the Hormuz.
Washington’s counterproposal demanded stricter curbs on Tehran’s nuclear programme, including the surrender of most of a rumoured 440-kg stockpile of 60 per cent enriched uranium.
The ceasefire has largely held since it was announced, though each side has grumbled and complained about the other’s violations and alleged bad-faith actions. On Monday, Trump claimed he cancelled planned strikes at the request of Gulf allies who assured him “serious negotiations are now taking place”. In a Truth Social post, he said the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain had offered those assurances. But he also posted in capital letters: “NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR IRAN!”
Massie Outed
Representative Thomas Massie was outed in a primary Tuesday. And Trump endorsed Ken Paxton over Senator John Cornyn.
I will comment on those events later today.
American Politics and Policy for sale.
The billionaires own the US and it citizens. I hope you suckers like the cake we’re eating….
The more this type of BS happens, the more I realize what an absolute gem the Paul family (Ron, Rand) is.
Rand’s son is even more precious.
He should take the exit. It might be the least embarrassing one he has.
The man shits himself in meetings and acts like nothing happened. There is no embarrassment.
Trump is a thief, fraudster, liar, manipulator, war monger, pedofile child molester, steals from the POOR and gives it to the Rich, and the ultimate Constitution destroyer. Trump will cheat and steal the upcoming midterm election and we are witnessing it as it’s currently happening.
I despise these conservative christians as much as I do the democrats.
If you look at the Kentucky voting statistics, it’s not merely conservative Christians as much as it is 55+ Fox News watching evangelicals. Across the board, republican voters under 50 voted for Massie but the turnout for him with that voting block was not as strong.
It doesn’t help that Kentucky Team R primaries are closed.
Hopefully, others will grow a spine and backbone to combat the deranged tryrant before the destroys the fabric of this country.
Like has happened in oh, say Iran and North Korea and China and.,, 🤣
He has made this fabric into a diaper.
It’s over. The transformation is complete. The Republican Party is no longer a party of Conservatism. The Republican base has now affirmed that they are a Cult who will follow the demands of their corrupt, compromised, maniacal Fuhrer in purging what remains of the Conservatives who foolishly gambled and cast their support for a charlatan who sold them a bill of goods in what previously was a movement called MAGA.
In their defense they had little choice. We knew it was a risk. Few of us believed in Trump. We had no faith in Trump-just hope. After all, what choice did we have? Hillary? Biden? Harris and Walz? Thank you Democrats for giving us no choice but to vote for this fraud who now has convinced the GOP that genocide in Gaza or the murdering of 168 little girls at Minab were just necessary collateral damage, that war with Iran is a necessary evil that is now required, despite the calamitous risks to the American and Global economy, and that the Epstein files must be a Democrat hoax- after all the Fuhrer says it is so.
The purge continues but may have only just begun. Massie is out; Marjorie Taylor Greene is out. Rand Paul, Lauren Boebert, Tucker and Candace are most likely the next targets on Fuhrer’s hit list of enemies of the State. The new heroes of MAGA are Mark Levine, Ben Shapiro, Laura Loomer and other ghoulish figures who will pave the way for more wars, the H1-B invasion and the police and surveillance State being finalized with the construction of now more than 3,400 data centers.
Massie won the 50 and under voters by a very significant margin. Galrean won the over 65 boomer geriatric crowd by similar margins. While that shows a glimmer of hope for the future GOP, I doubt the young folks will be willing at any time in the future to wait for the corrupt GOP to come out of their cultish stupor. It will take the boomer crowd to move on to their eternal reward, a scenario likely to occur in a few years, especially as this crowd is much more likely to be standing in line to get their next Pfizer booster.
In the meantime, the boomers will continue their daily monitoring of stocks and 401ks, visiting their second vacation homes, going on their annual Caribbean cruises and vacation in Europe, all the while complaining of their unemployed or underemployed children living in their basements. Yes, they worry about the futures of their children and grandchildren, but their worries, occasional prayers and complaining are about the limit of their actions to secure their futures.
I had some hope in the Massie election that the MAGA crowd would wake up. Younger Americans had woken up to the Gaza genocide, the Zionist control of America (and especially the Republican Party) of the Zionist billionaire class of Adelson, Paulsen, Singer and Ackman, among others. Young republicans knew about Palantir and the ghoulish Alex Karp and the AI revolution and data centers that were stealing their futures. They knew this crowd funded the Massie loss and had bribed or blackmailed the President into fighting the most dangerous and foolish forever war. They recognized the betrayal of the MAGA movement by their compromised president. They knew that the Epstein Class had hijacked their country.
The Boomer crowd simply did not care. Glued to their TV’s watching 3 hours of Fox News every day, choosing to believe the propaganda and lies from the Ministry of Truth each night, they are oblivious to the reality of actually what is happening. It is their deliberate choice to remain ignorant.
I love my neighbors, some of whom still wear their MAGA hats and display their Trump flags in their front yards, but many are beyond hope and reasoning. They speak and reason only in propagandist slogans. They are like Pavlov’s dogs. They are in a cult—much like the Covid cult from just a few years ago that had many clamoring and demanding that those of us who refused to wear masks or take the Covid jabs should lose their jobs, our privileges and even our liberty.
They never learn. They are beyond hope. Both on the right and on the left. They are followers. They are sheeple. Maybe only 20-30% of people are capable of real objective analysis and critical thinking. A smaller percentage actually use their God given ability to actually exercise their free will to discern between good and evil in matters of critical importance to the State or the general public good. The rest are followers, doing as they are told with blind trust to the decisions made by their largely compromised, bought and sold leaders.
The stock market is up big again today. Seems the elites are in good spirits, celebrating their tremendous success in crushing one of the last bulwarks of the formerly, seeming formidable MAGA movement.
MAGA is dead. Many say it is now MIGA (Make Israel Great Again) I say it remains MAGA—I has simply been rebranded to “Make America Ghoulish Again”.
Now the new MAGA can go on to more war- Iran, then Cuba, eventually Russia and China. Crush the Epstein dissenters. Bring on more data centers and H1-B workers from India. There is money to be made. I say the S&P 500 can hit 10,000 by the end of 2027.
I believe one of the last of the Purge movie series was called “The Forever Purge”. How appropriate. Not sure this was fiction-seems more like predictive programming. Forever wars, forever purges- forever revolution. The founding fathers of the Neocons were always great admirers of Leon Trotsky. Irving Kristol would be proud that his legacy has lived on and has become the dominant ideology of the power elites who rule America.
My God did you nail it. Well said. Thank you.
You are very welcome. Thanks for reading this lengthy post.
There’s always hope for an extraterrestrial intervention. Seriously. Before all this goes up in flames. Would be a pity.
Giving you “no choice” is a bit rich. The GOP has had their own primaries. Hillary wouldn’t have been that bad. At least she had a pair of balls and was no friend of dictators. She wouldn’t have bought into Netanyahu’s bullshit either. I can’t believe anyone voted for an untested narcissist. Hillary got penalized for actually being in government and risking mistakes, Taco never did a damn thing for anyone but himself and complained when people said no to him.
Let’s not forget that the reason Taco is even the prez is because of the antiquated electoral college. We desperately need a rank choice voting system which any state can institute for themselves. But Rs & Ds will never do it. It has to be a grassroots campaign to educate people and get it to a ballot referendum.
“Hillary got penalized for actually being in government and risking mistakes,”
Let’s be fair, HRC didn’t exactly stick her neck out when she was in government, unless you are counting for her rooting for The War On Libya.
Hillary and Obama invaded or bombed at least 7 countries. Destroyed Libya which since has lost 5 million refugees to Europe, has open slave markets and ongoing civil war and conflict, sponsored the 2014 Ukrainian coup which lead to the current disastrous conflict, promoted CIA sponsored Color revolutions which destroyed Syria and other countries- along with their CIA buddies Al Quada and ISIS. Hillary was beyond evil. Best friend Netanyahu ever had–until Trump came along. Don’t ignore real history. Biden and Harris weren’t much better. And that’s just foreign policy.
Her handle was Killary for a reason.
Whew! Summarized by chatGPT:
Of course you had a choice.
The annoying brown woman with that annoying laugh. Kamala Harris in no way would have led the US down this path.
Don’t blame the bogey man as the Rs always do. Own your crap decision. Americans got the president and politics they wanted and deserve.
Trump is a symptom of the country- self obsessed and greedy. You don’t have health care because you call it socialism but how often have banks and farmers been bailed out. What is that if it’s not socialism. Why does a bank CEO make millions of $$ post GFC? They are explicitly backed by the govt. They should all be capped on wages. What other govt department gets million $$ bonuses.
Banks have been deemed too large to fail – systemically important. They operate with the full backing of the govt and Fed. They make money as a result of the safety net of a backstop.
Yet Kamala is to blame for the mess you’re in. You guys can’t see the forest for the trees.
I voted for Kanye in 2020. Trump in 2016–reluctantly, but the lesser of two evils. Trump in 2024 but only after RFK Jr., Tulsi gabbard and a slew of prominent democrats and independents who were freaked out from Biden/Harris allied with Trump late in the election cycle and who were somehow convinced (or hoped) that Trump had changed his evil ways. I’m sure most, if not all, deeply regret it after Trump’s betrayals.
No it is not Kamala’s fault, except to the extent that the Democrats scared the crap out of everyone with a brain and offered only a worse choice with Harris/Walz. I would guess they will blow it again by nominating a pair of stupid, corrupt Marxist radicals and we’ll get stuck with the republicans again. The Marxist/Bolshevik billionaires select the Democrat nominees and the Zionist fascist billionaires select the Republicans. It’s all a game to these Oligarchs. They win regardless of who gets elected POTUS. Americans will never learn- if they ever do, it will likely be too late.
I sympathize, but you’re being much too emotional. Massie has apparently been there a long time, and presumably isn’t broke. He should still have options.
I’m 75 years old, and I’ve been giving out how-to-vote cards (do you have them in America?) since I was a teenager, and the way people voted by habit used to really depress me when I was younger. But there are occasions when they break out of their conditioning and defy the professional liars in charge of us all.
The danger, as I see it, is not that libertarianism won’t survive, but that Trump will narrow his base down to fairly unthinking supporters and allow the Democrats to get a majority. That means goodbye to sanity in year 2028.
If Trump or Vance could win in 2028, it would be possible that the Democratic Party would collapse into itself for a while and emerge with a better type of person in charge. We have had that in Australia. Our “bad” party is called the Labor Party, and a few years ago it was led by two Prime Ministers, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, who were just as disgusting as your Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Now we have the Labor Party back in power again after a period in opposition, and the leader is Anthony Albanese, a shifty Italian-Australian son of a single mother who knows which side his bread is buttered on, and does his best to keep his party from doing anything really stupid. We haven’t eradicated the perverts (people who want to be known as being of the opposite sex etc.) to the extent that you have in America under Trump, but they are not advancing any more either. We had same-sex marriage voted in by referendum a few years ago, and a lot of my friends thought the sky had fallen, but of course, nothing much has changed. We have just had a judicial decision that men-pretending-to-be-women must be allowed to join women’s social groups, and our lesbians have come out against it (you can’t blame them for that). The fun is going out of the insanity. You need to keep the Democrats out of power in America long enough for the same thing to happen there. That may mean standing for Trump doing some bad things. That’s politics.
One thing Democrats have always done well, and that is stick together, in agreement or not. Not a great character stamp, but gets the job done. Republicans suck at it, and are too good and fair…
Oh god, think I’m going to throw up… Taco is the greatest cult leader in our history. No R has dared cross him. But it’s easier to yell a pack of big lies than it is to whisper a few.
AIPAC is not to blame, although it should have been compelled to register under FARA (a measure the US decries in all other jurisdictions), just as JFK wanted.
The American voter is to blame, who knowingly allow themselves to be gaslighted by well-advertised money-fueled campaigns, all while complaining about deceitful politicians and the role of money in politics, lured by false promises and superficial posturing and image.
AIPAC 100% to blame….most Americans are retarded. You think it’s OK to take advantage of retards?
They probably shouldn’t vote.
Yes, retards and Democrats should not be allowed to vote!
We deserve the government we get. After Massie’s loss, I am really dumbfounded. The American electorate has completely lost it.
Are we really this gullible? Looks like a majority indeed is. The republic is in deep peril. This is absolutely beyond Dems vs Repubs at this point.
Why not consider exiting with MPO45v2? You could both hold hands and sail off into the sunset together.
I would think that most people are holding their noses and waiting for the November mid-terms but if “somehow” the GOP does hold on to power I would expect a civil war.
Oh boy, another head fake for the markets.
Not buying it…
Another day, another lie. It’s amazing how stupid this market is, but I can’t complain, fading these fake news pumps is paying off.
As an aside from money buying our government and our news companies being owned by Israel, my tractor dealer has no motor oil for doing oil changes. The delivery is over a week late.
Serious shortages coming to a vehicle near you!
Who does Trump work for?
This has been my concern from the beginning, not motor oil, but some tiny sub-component inside the vast machinery that goes missing that cripples operations. You can prepay for diesel but if you have no motor oil, what good is it?
I understand that most power transformers come from China, no diesel for ships means no power transformers so if we have a bunch fail from a hurricane, there will be no power for anyone.
During COVID I worked at a company that couldn’t get a small piece of specialized plastic from China so they couldn’t sell any product whatsoever because that tiny piece was critical. Nowhere else to source it from either.
All the more reason that powers like China should be leaning on the Iranian Regime to stop pounding their proverbial chests and capitulate to Trump’s demands.
We KNOW that he is not representing Yours Truly. ALL scumbag politicians work for INDUSTRY RIGHT AFTER THEY FIRST GET BRIBED (Also known as Being LOBBIED).
Congressional approved:
Their Raises.Their Benefits and Pensions.Lobby Money.Insider Trading has been approved for THEM, not US.However, they work “FOR US.”
It won’t seem like such a big deal when the diesel runs out.
Gas prices by me jumped 20 cents overnight for regular ….is that a lot?
Trump works for Trump. Israel has the pathetic little cuck by the nuts.
I assume this is a rhetorical question. He sure doesn’t work for the US or it’s people. Yet 40-50% of overall population and around 90% of Republicans are die hard supporters of Trump. I believe the republic is truly cooked.
Maybe everyone else sees something you don’t, knows something you don’t know? Maybe you and your like are the ones who are wrong?
I assume this is a rhetorical question. He sure doesn’t work for the US or it’s people. Yet 40-50% of overall population and around 90% of Republicans are die hard supporters of Trump. I believe the republic is truly cooked.
The People that paid him!
Adelson got her war on Iran.
Elon got to run Doge.
Lutnick got Commerce Treasury.
and on and on.
and this is what people like Massie wanted with his support for Citizens United.
the government you get is the government that is paid for.
You should have anticipated this possibility and stocked up. Perhaps if you spent more time on your business and less time ranting against here you wouldn’t be in the position you now seem to be in.
Republicans are embracing traitors and pedophiles and genocide.
Yes, that is the platform of the Republican Party today
Trump getting some of his own party kicked out _early in the year_ with slim majorities means he either assumes he no longer needs congress or that he has other ways to strongarm them. These people will be in office for the rest of the year and they are already moving against him.
Or he feels like this is his last gasp of power as lame duck status comes as the primary filing deadlines pass and he’s resigned to playing defense anyway for the foreseeable future.
Half the GOP is saying Israel rigged the vote against Massie and the other half is celebrating the fact that the guy who wants to hold pedophiles accountable lost.
AIPAC needs to register as a foreign agency. This needs to stop ASAP or we will not have an independent country anymore. We can’t be controlled and owned by a foreign power like this.
That may not be sufficient. As is documented in Rise Up and Kill First by Ronen Bergman, Mossad has assassinated reams more civilians than any other Western power–nobody comes close. Going back as far as US Secretary of Defense James Forestal back in 1949.
Adds up to 100% shitbirds
whose bread is being buttered?
Bezos on Trump: “I think he’s a more mature, more disciplined of himself than he was in his first term. Trump has lots of good ideas. He’s been right about a lot of things. You have to give him credit where credit is due.”
Bezos approves of genocide and pedophilia as good ideas. Par for the course for the Epstein class.
Side note: stay away from buttered bread, it’ll wreak havoc on your LDL levels
Never before seen photo of Trump and one of his advisers
https://imgur.com/a/9eFqJbd
Watch season 28 of SouthPark.
I’ll bet that on any votes important to Israel, AIPAC gives permission for potentially vulnerable senators and representatives to vote against AIPAC as long as there are enough votes to pass the measure. First use up the ones that are retiring. No sense wasting a bought off member.
The United States is nothing more than an Israeli run casino
Hat tip to Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky
(smash the Early Life for all you need to know)
I was thinking the same thing since this is a low-risk vote since it won’t pass the House and surely would get vetoed if it does. The at-risk Rep senators can tell their voting constituents “See? I stood up to Trump.”
“Representative Thomas Massie was outed …”
Do you mean ousted?
Lol, he was outed as a sane person with a functioning brain replaced by someone without one.
On Massie, it’s sad to lose one of the very few Congress people who has a spine plus brain. But it was fitting it happened at a time when Trump announced he is going to divert tax payer money to corruptly enrich himself and all those MAGA people who have demonstrated they have neither spine nor brain.
Rather, MAGA has demonstrated to have a spine to defend pedophiles and the brain to support genocide. That is, MAGA is evil.
There’s the irony: when it comes to making AMERICA great again, Massie is more MAGA than Trump.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HIqTsRIb0AA3Jml.jpg
lolz…maybe after he’s done driving the US into the ground
Build The Wall !!! USA! USA!…..ugh
Very true!
Excellent!
“Put it country simple,/Earth has a lot of things other folks might want,/like the whole planet./And maybe these folks would like a few changes made,/Like more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,/and room for their way of life./We’ve seen this happen before,/right in these United States.
Your way of life destroyed the Indian’s way of life,/The Indian Reservation is extinction./But I offer this distinction/I’m with the invaders,/no use trying to hide that./And at the same time I disagree
with some of the things they are doing.
Oh, we’re not united any more than you are./Oh, we’re not united any more than you are./Conservative faction is set on nuclear war
as a solution to the [Iranian] personality.
Others disagree/Others disagree
I don’t claim my motives are 100% humane,/but I do say if we can’t think up anything quieter,/and tidier, than that, we aren’t all that much/better than you new earth aches.
There is no place else to go,/The theater is closed./There is no place else to go,/The theater is closed.
Cut word lines, cut music lines,/smash the control images,/smash the control machine.”
Quick Fix by Ministry
https://youtu.be/OZ9x1pq-HWk
Wait, what?
https://x.com/MattMorseTV/status/2056907248681865442
If you want to know who rules you, look at who you’re not allowed to criticize. Massie lost his seat but kept his principles. It’s one or the other. He chose wisely.
At his concession speech, the crowd chanted for Massie to run in 2028. I would vote for him in a heartbeat, but what we’ve seen since last night is there is a tsunami of cash and negative press ready for anyone who bucks the Israel lobby. All AIPAC has to do is control the Rep and Dem nominees – easy with several million dollars. Reason #577 why the US needs a viable third party.
The cult is not going to change
but they are still setting themselves up for a drubbing in November
cant come soon enough
they are literally changing the voter maps to make sure this doesn’t happen.
and i never put it past Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
You may be disappointed in November. Full scale manipulation is in the plans including extreme gerrymandering blessed and approved by the supreme court on expedited basis. There will be “monitors” and federal agents at the polling stations this November. They are playing by the book perfectly for authoritarians. Some day the Republicans in congress will have to answer of why they let this happen under their watch but it will likely be too late. Looking pretty bleak for the survival of the republic, unfortunately.
You need to see how evil these people are and how well they coordinate to completely subjugate the American people. The speed at which they moved to make all the pieces come together before November should give goose bumps to Americans but it seems 40% (and 90% of Republican voters) have completely lost their minds.
Historians will study this for a long time.
The republic has long been a dead letter.