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The #House narrowly rejected a #WarPowers resolution Thursday to halt #Trump’s attacks on #Iran, a sign of unease in #Congress over the rapidly widening conflict that is reordering #US priorities at home & abroad.

It’s the second vote in as many days, after the #Senate defeated a similar measure along party lines.

#law #war
https://apnews.com/article/house-vote-iran-war-powers-resolution-trump-5d7d93c7793802881d9cde042220d7bc?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-03-05-War+powers+vote

House votes on Iran war powers resolution in test of Trump's strategy

The House narrowly rejected a war powers resolution that would halt President Donald Trump’s attack on Iran. Thursday's roll call offers a snapshot of the support and opposition in Congress for the widening conflict that's reordering U.S. priorities at home and abroad. It’s the second vote in as many days. The Senate defeated a similar measure along party lines Wednesday. Lawmakers are confronting the sudden reality of representing the nation in wartime and all that entails — with lives lost, dollars spent and alliances tested by a president’s decision to attack Iran. Republicans largely back the war, while Democrats oppose. But there are splinters in the parties.

AP News

Lawmakers are confronting the sudden reality of representing wary Americans in wartime & all that entails — with lives lost, dollars spent & alliances tested by a president’s unilateral decision to go to #war with #Iran.

#ForeverWars #war #Trump #warmonger #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast

Ramesh #NotGoingBack Mar 5

⬆️ @Nonilex

>> Lawmakers are confronting the sudden reality of representing wary Americans in wartime & all that entails — with lives lost… & alliances tested by a president’s unilateral decision to go to #war with #Iran.

It doesn't look like that at all.

4 #Democrats blithely voted NO to limit #Trump. Had they voted YES, the #WarPowers resolution would have passed.

Nothing that's currently happening in #US would be possible without the #complicity and #connivance of the #DemocraticParty 😡

Alan Lewis Mar 5

@rameshgupta @Nonilex : #democrats :

How, in your mind, do four Democrats equal the Democratic Party?

Ramesh #NotGoingBack Mar 5

⬆️ @tribeofjesse @Nonilex

>> How, in your mind, do four #Democrats equal the #DemocraticParty?

The same way ALL Americans are tarred and feathered for #Trump's actions regardless of whether they voted for him or not.

When you're in a political party you cannot choose individualism when the whole party is at stake, especially in matters of this gravity.

When you are a citizen of a country, you cannot escape responsibility for what your country does to others whether or not you voted for #Trump

Alan Lewis Mar 5

@rameshgupta @Nonilex

Four Democrats are not the Democratic Party.

@tribeofjesse @rameshgupta @Nonilex

so, in other words, "nuh uh" ? You can't just say "nuh uh" and expect to get anywhere.

Anyway, Congresscritters do get together and discuss how they are going to vote. Standard practice is the party says "we need x votes for this thing that'll make our donors happy but piss off our voters, who can afford to take a PR hit right now without getting voted off."

incidentally, this is in fact a "both sides" move. It is so commonly done that it is perfectly likely that these 4 Dems do, in fact, represent the party.

Until I see the rest of them up in arms about it and attacking those 4 instead of generic "aw shucks we tried" bullshit, I'm not going to be surprised either way

Ramesh #NotGoingBack Mar 6

⬆️ @TeflonTrout

>> Congresscritters do get together and discuss how they are going to vote

Bingo! #Pelosi was famous for her ability to "count votes"

The crucial part to understand is that these critters from both parties do not represent the people who elected them but the donors who line their pockets.

>> Until I see the rest of them up in arms… attacking those 4 [#Democrats who represent the #DemocraticParty] instead of generic "aw shucks we tried" bullshit…

💯👍

@tribeofjesse @Nonilex

@rameshgupta @TeflonTrout @tribeofjesse @Nonilex

I have no idea how much the GOP pays leftists to promote this nonsense. The Democrats passed Obamacare, free meals for hungry schoolkids, the infrastructure act, healthcare subsidies, etc...

Meanwhile the leftists have passed what? Nothing.
Meanwhile the GOP has passed what? Tax cuts for the rich and corporations.
Pelosi is the GOAT! Don't get it twisted.

Ramesh #NotGoingBack 2d ago

⬆️ @HakeemG

>> Democrats passed #Obamacare, free meals for hungry schoolkids, the infrastructure act, healthcare subsidies, etc...Meanwhile the leftists have passed what? Nothing.

None of #Biden policy "wins" are durable because of his failure to punish #Trump. He protected Trump just as #GOP would have, and does:
— #Mueller evidence on #Russia
— #ElectionInterference in #GA
— #FakeElectors
— #Jan6
— #ClassifiedDocs
— #Epstein case, #TrumpEpstein Files

@TeflonTrout @tribeofjesse @Nonilex

@rameshgupta @TeflonTrout @tribeofjesse @Nonilex

Oh boy, here we go. Biden was not in charge of the DOJ, he's not a tinpot dictator. Garland did go after Trump but prosecuting an ex president takes more than four years, so even if he started on day one, it was never going to happen before the election, anyone who tells you otherwise is lying or ignorant.

That said it's not like the only two choices were the white house or the big house, the American people, dummies, put Trump back in office.

Ramesh #NotGoingBack 2d ago

⬆️ @HakeemG

>> #Biden was not in charge of #DOJ,… #Garland did go after Trump but prosecuting … takes more than 4 yrs

Sick and tired of #Trump, we voted for Biden, who BEFORE he even took office, declared his intention to protect Trump by spoiling the #Mueller evidence into oblivion.

He appointed #MerrickGarland, a non-Democrat, who then slow-walked EVERY SINGLE CASE — even the cut and dried #ClassifiedDocs case.

Look how #Brazil prosecuted an attempted #coup swiftly

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/president-elect-biden-wary-trump-focused-investigations-sources-say-n1247959

Biden hopes to avoid divisive Trump investigations, preferring unity

Joe Biden has privately told advisers he doesn't want his presidency consumed by investigations into Donald Trump, five people familiar with the discussions said.

NBC News

Your own article states:

Biden has told aides that he's concerned that investigations would divide the country but that he would leave decisions up to an independent Justice Department.

Now here's an article putting to rest all the BS about slow walking anything.

Voting for Biden doesn't excuse promoting right wing propaganda. I'm so sick of this BS excuse, I voted for Biden, but between elections I post absurd claims on social media.

https://newrepublic.com/article/190248/merrick-garland-trump-prosecution-delays

No, Merrick Garland Did Not Let Donald Trump Skate

Within days of becoming attorney general, he assembled his deputies and told them to turn over every Trump rock. Blame a lumbering system—and an electorate that didn’t care.

The New Republic

@HakeemG @rameshgupta

"The Democrats passed Obamacare, free meals for hungry schoolkids, the infrastructure act, healthcare subsidies, etc..."

Obamacare is an emaciated, mangy version of what leftists wanted. It was winnowed down into a shadow of its original plan by corporate Dems before it was even put up for a vote

free meals? leftist idea

infrastucture act? Universally good idea everyone sgould agree on

healthcare subsidies? A corpo bandaid to appease their owners, never would have needed it

lastly, who are you? You, in your own toots, celebrated the wealth of Nancy fucking Pelozi. Pelozi, the self-dealing, insider trading, picture perfect piece of owned opposition only outshone by what's that asshole's name who lives on the houseboat.... Schumer.

Dems are owned by the same Epstein class ghouls as the reds, they just pretend to care about us so we'll vote for them.

primary them out, but support anyone who wins those primaries cause its still better than a gross old pedo

Robert H 2d ago

@rameshgupta @HakeemG

The next successful #Democrat to run for #president will learn from #Biden and #Trump. He or she will point to the Sixth Amendment and demand swift justice for those who have sold out the country for personal gain.

Ramesh #NotGoingBack 2d ago

⬆️ @Stinson_108

>> The next successful #Democrat to run for #president will learn from #Biden and #Trump.

I would temper that with "hopefully" … The next Dem prez will hopefully learn.

I'm committed to vote #Democratic no matter what, but the lack of alacrity in prosecuting national security threats by the #Biden presidency has shaken me to the core.

#Trump's connections with #Russia and #Epstein were known to #Obama AND Biden, but neither of them released the #TrumpEpstein Files

@rameshgupta @Stinson_108

The president doesn't prosecute people in a Democracy, that's called a tin cup dictatorship.

Robert H 2d ago

@HakeemG @rameshgupta

The president should have nothing to do with the prosecution of wrongdoers. The #Congress, defined in Article 1, makes the laws. The #DOJ enforces them when the facts are clear.

Congress makes the law and funds the agency. The president is responsible to see that the DOJ has leadership. That's all. Not direction.

@Stinson_108 @rameshgupta

Correct and no reasonable person with any knowledge of the legal system would suggest Biden failed to appoint leadership.

Again, this is all some nonsense to blame Biden for the stupidity of the American electorate. Biden didn't fail to do his job, the voters failed to do theirs, let's not pretend otherwise. If you guys want to defend the American people electing Trump that's your perogative, but personally I wouldn't put Trump in charge of a hot dog stand.

Ramesh #NotGoingBack 2d ago

⬆️ @Stinson_108 @HakeemG

>> The president is responsible to see that the DOJ has leadership.

It is the president's choice to begin with.

The responsibility and the power to make the right choice is why the buck stops at the top.

And a president announcing that he is not interested in investigating even BEFORE he has even taken office when the former president's own DOJ refused to exonerate the former one and specifically laid the responsibility on the next one, #Biden's failure is SO tragic.

Ramesh #NotGoingBack 2d ago

⬆️ @Stinson_108 @HakeemG

>> a president announcing that he is not interested in investigating even before he has even taken office when the former president's own DOJ refused to exonerate the former one and specifically laid the responsibility on the next one, #Biden's failure is SO tragic.

There is no evidence that #MerrickGarland even pursued #Trump's money trail to #Russia that #Mueller had painstakingly put together.

Mueller hid behind DOJ policy to not prosecute a president in office.

⬇️

Ramesh #NotGoingBack 2d ago

⬆️ @Stinson_108 @HakeemG

>> #Mueller hid behind #DOJ policy to not prosecute a president in office.

#MerrickGarland was appointed by #Biden, who had declared even before taking office his aversion to continuing investigations of #Trump, which Mueller had explicitly shifted to Biden's DOJ.

Biden's premature declaration set the tone and direction for DOJ under #Garland, who let Mueller evidence spoil and become time-barred instead of acting on it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/president-elect-biden-wary-trump-focused-investigations-sources-say-n1247959

Biden hopes to avoid divisive Trump investigations, preferring unity

Joe Biden has privately told advisers he doesn't want his presidency consumed by investigations into Donald Trump, five people familiar with the discussions said.

NBC News

@rameshgupta @Stinson_108

Dude have you read your own article? It's literally the byline.

Biden has told aides that he's concerned that investigations would divide the country but that he would leave decisions up to an independent Justice Department.

Ramesh #NotGoingBack 2d ago

⬆️ @Stinson_108 @HakeemG

#Biden could have changed the direction of the DOJ by replacing the AG after #Garland dragged his feet, but did not do so. The buck definitely stops at Biden.

Whatever we now know about the #Jan6 coup attempt is largely because of the work of the #Jan6Committee, which "jolted" the DOJ into action.

Without the methodical detailing of evidence by the committee in public televised hearings, there is no doubt the Biden DOJ would have memory holed it.

He was responsible.

@rameshgupta @Stinson_108

You're not prosecuting people that I want prosecuted quick enough is straight up fascism. Biden was one of the best presidents in modern history, probably ever, deal with it. The American people failed this nation, not Biden.

Ramesh #NotGoingBack 2d ago

⬆️ @HakeemG

>> You're not prosecuting people that I want prosecuted quick enough is straight up fascism

Dude.

I'm not talking about prosecution.

I'm talking about INVESTIGATION.

#Biden laid down the gauntlet saying he did NOT want to INVESTIGATE.

#Garland let #Mueller evidence expire.

#Biden could have seen inaction and appointed a new AG. He didn't.

I look for action, in this case lack of it.

Trump even on the ballot in 2024 was directly because of Biden admin failure.

Ramesh #NotGoingBack 2d ago

⬆️ @HakeemG @Stinson_108

>> You're not prosecuting people that I want prosecuted quick enough is straight up fascism

As mentioned above, I was not talking about prosecution but about INVESTIGATION.

But I want to add that prosecuting a former president for wrongdoing that even the former's administration would not exonerate of is NOT fascism.

Sweeping #Mueller evidence under the rug just to exude an appearance of impartiality is what ultimately gave us the current fascist regime.

@rameshgupta @Stinson_108

Dude you can spin it however you want, investigation, prosecution, it's all tinpot dictatorship bullshit.

Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"2d ago

@rameshgupta @Stinson_108 @HakeemG
It shoulda been Kamala, not Merrick as AG.

Ramesh #NotGoingBack 2d ago

⬆️ @markmetz

>> It shoulda been #Kamala, not Merrick as AG.

#Biden could have picked his AG from any number of excellent #Democrats, including #KamalaHarris, #AdamSchiff, and #JamieRaskin, but he decided to rule out ALL Democrats for that very important position.

And people are telling me Biden is not responsible for the failures (plural) of his DOJ headed by a non-Democrat?

We didn't vote for Biden to install a non-Democrat for AG. That's ignoring people's mandate.

@Stinson_108 @HakeemG

Robert H 2d ago

@rameshgupta @HakeemG

After the congressional elections of 2026, watch for a #Democrat orator who makes the case for restoration of federal policy where appropriate and most important addresses the big items:

* income inequality and tax policy
* Citizens United and campaign finance
* immigration and long term policy

Not just any Democrat. A firebrand who lays the issue out.

@Stinson_108 @rameshgupta

The next Democrat will not be in charge of the DOJ, they will appoint someone to run it and then move on, as any legitimate Democracy would demand. The next attorney general will be stifled by pro Trump judges and infrastructure the same way Garland was, but hopefully the American people, dummies, learned their lesson this time with Trump.

Ramesh #NotGoingBack 1d ago

⬆️ >> another reason to keep trying to vote out the #republican party is so there's a better chance of one day investigating these horrifying allegations [ against #Trump ]

No chance.

That chance came in 2020 and went away in 2024 with unmitigated failures (thread above).

#Biden could have picked his AG from any number of excellent #Democrats, including #KamalaHarris, #AdamSchiff, and #JamieRaskin, but he ruled out ALL Democrats and installed a non-Democrat for his AG.

https://mastodon.social/@mister_shade02X2/116242036897204529

Mister Shade 1d ago

@rameshgupta We have to keep trying. Keep pushing.

If you’ve given up already then at least have the decency to stay out of the way while other people try. Don’t tell people there’s nothing we can do.

And while you’re at it, get out of my feed.

Ramesh #NotGoingBack 1d ago

⬆️ #HitAndRun by @mister_shade02X2 who needs to chill because I did not comment in "his" feed but on my own thread. Sheesh!

elverkonge 2d ago

@HakeemG @rameshgupta @TeflonTrout @tribeofjesse @Nonilex This smells like one of those fake accounts where a Republican pretends to be a person.