The Free Thinker

@MattWalshBlog It’s true. Even for you.

There are indeed a lot of grifters in the right wing influencer space. But the grifters aren’t the ones who take a position you don’t like. They’re the ones who take whatever position they think you will like.

@RepThomasMassie You can’t legislate away Constitutional authority granted to the CIC. No matter how bad you want that power, it’s not yours. That’s even if some presidents allowed you to think it’s yours.

Our War Powers Resolution has 57 cosponsors. Whether you like it or not Congress will be voting on U.S. hostilities in Iran. Under the War Powers Act, the President is required to withdraw from hostilities in Iran within 60 days (+30 day ext.) unless he gets a vote of Congress.

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@SeanCasten You’re right. All presidents do.

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

@RepThomasMassie Bc he didn’t have to.

Why didn’t you call us back from vacation to vote on military action if there was a serious threat to our country?

This.

My statement on Donald Trump’s unilateral military action in Iran.

Trump’s strikes against Iran are not only unconstitutional, but an escalation that risks bringing the U.S. into another endless and deadly war.

BREAKING: Iranian TV: No nuclear radiation is expected, and all enriched uranium has been removed from nuclear facilities in advance

@hodgetwins Celebrating? Meh. I think only a fool would celebrate it. Agree with it? Of those, the one thing we have in common is that we are not akin to the European peace jockeys of the 1930s.

Make a list of all the people celebrating this strike tonight and tell me what they have in common

@POTUS, any POTUS, does not need Congressional authority to take military action. Spouting that he does is waving a banner announcing you are intellectually, historically, politically, and Constututionally clueless to the point of absurdity.

@JoJoFromJerz Wait till you find out I just bought a new rifle WITHOUT HOA approval.

Mr. “Now new wars” just fucking bombed Iran WITHOUT congressional authority. Congrats MAGA.

If you are truly afraid of what Iran might do now — spoiler they can’t and won’t do anything — but if you are truly afraid, why weren’t you terrified of them getting nuclear weapons? Your logic doesn’t even add up.

@RepThomasMassie Read harder.

This is not Constitutional.

@ComicDaveSmith 🤡

Donald Trump has now launched an illegal war of aggression against Iran. The risk of an absolute catastrophe is very high and the benefits are non existent. Worst of all, he did it on behalf of a foreign government against a country who posed no threat to us.

What is one supposed to say? I’m confused. This is clearly insane, unless it is genius brinksmanship in the service of negotiation. Seems insane so far. But then again I’m not pretending to be a master negotiator. ————— Remember what I said about the uncertainty around this presidency before inauguration: Positive Mean High Variance *NEGATIVE* skew High Kurtosis This was entirely foreseeable. He told you what he was going to do. And he generally does what he says. He thinks he found a genius move again like a queen sacrifice. The Whitehouse is courting disaster in the third moment of this uncertain situation as per the skewness above. And it will do so repeatedly as a tool to get others, who are more risk averse, to capitulate. This isn’t a bug. It’s a style that I personally don’t love on a fragile planet. You usually go to movies to watch such climactic scenes. Some of Trump’s business moves fail. Some succeed. Think of earth now as a Trump Business. I don’t know if this is like some of Trump’s NY real estate deals or The Apprentice which worked out for him…or Trump University, Steaks and Airlines which were not successful. This looks more like the latter. I’m not privy to the strategy and nothing like this presidency has ever existed. For a reason. But to a high stakes negotiator, everything looks like a deal. I’m very concerned. Wish us luck. Given the negative skewness, I’m definitely rooting for a win that I so far see as unlikely. But it’s not impossible. Bon chance.

Running a test… 🔫 hahahaha