S.E. Cupp

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America during wartime.

GOP Senator John Kennedy on why he felt it was important to apologize and acknowledge the truth about the bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, which multiple reports indicate was caused by a U.S. military targeting error. “Because I think it's the truth…we're investigating, but I'm not gonna hide behind that…I think it was a terrible, terrible mistake. I wish it hadn't happened. I'm sorry it happened. I can assure you it wasn't intentional. And when you make a mistake, you ought to admit it.”

This story has legs and it seems the timing of her firing is not a coincidence.

Marco Rubio on Tuesday: "Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics." The White House Thursday:

When we announced that @ConanOBrien would be one of our first podcast guests, the response was pretty uniform: How in the world do you know Conan? (Truth is, I didn’t —but when you’re dying from cancer, it’s awkward for people to say no.) More seriously, Conan is a funny man, a rooted dad, and now — weirdly — a movie star. Check out our latest #NotDeadYet podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not…

my latest for CNN: Trump and his top officials warned for **years** war with Iran would waste American lives, be destabilizing, costly, and not in our interest. One example: Trump: "He’ll start a war, you know, lives will be wasted for no reason.” Hannity: "That would be the most chilling abuse of powers, what you're describing in American history." Trump: "It will be in a mess."

one of my favorite markwayne mullin tidbits is right before the January 6th riot he dismissed on local radio people saying there'd be violence because, "We're not the Democratic Party. We're not antifa." Still have my notes from it.

From my cold dead hands.

“.. another glitzy fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago Saturday night as the Middle East was lit up by Iranian missiles ..” @thedailybeast thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-bi…

It’s cool that Salman Rushdie has outlived 2 Ayatollahs.

This stuff needs to be banned

Trump/Hegseth operational security: at a restaurant a 2-minute walk from the White House, someone was having a conversation about the attacks on Iran that were going to start in 6 hours. Loud enough for the founder of @TMZ to talk about it in real time with his podcast cohost.

Three Americans dead and Trump’s UN Ambassador waves it off with some bullshit jingoism. From the people who wailed about Benghazi for a decade. Absolute soulless ghouls.

How many countries does a guy gotta bomb to win a Nobel Peace Prize around here?

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The paid grifters, partisan hacks, and bots are out in force—misleading people about the Constitution and the law—to defend Trump’s unconstitutional war. Here’s an important Iran war PSA: Contrary to what you may have heard about the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. §§ 1541–1550), it does not allow the president to take military action for any reason for 60–90 days without congressional approval so long as the president notifies Congress within 48 hours. Section 1541(c) of the War Powers Resolution states clearly: “The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.” Of the three cited authorities, not one indicates a presidential power to take unilateral (without Congress’s approval) offensive military action. The first two authorities allow the president to take offensive military action but only with Congress’s express approval (Article I of the Constitution grants Congress the exclusive power to declare war). The third authority allows the president to take defensive military action without Congress’s approval in the event of a specific type of national emergency, a sudden unforeseen attack on the United States (happening too quickly for Congress to meet) necessitating immediate action to protect Americans. It’s for this last situation (or for situations in which the president introduces forces into hostilities unlawfully) that the War Powers Resolution provides for the oft-mentioned 48-hour report to Congress (§ 1543) and 60-day (up to 90-day) timeline (§ 1544). If there’s an attack in progress on the United States (i.e., currently happening), we expect the president to respond swiftly to neutralize the attack and protect Americans—and then we will hold the president to account. The Framers of the Constitution agreed at the debates in the federal convention of 1787 that the president should have the “power to repel sudden attacks” but not the power to otherwise introduce forces into hostilities without congressional approval. The War Powers Resolution does not confer any new authority on the president to take offensive military action without congressional approval—nor could it under our Constitution. It instead checks the president when, as the Framers contemplated, the president introduces our Armed Forces into hostilities to repel a sudden attack. The fact that previous presidents have violated both the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution does not—and cannot—change the law or make any present military action lawful.

Charlie Kirk, in June of 2025, explaining why a massive US war against Iran, and an attempt to facilitate regime change, as pushed by people like Lindsey Graham, is "pathologically insane":

Good thing Congress isn't alive to see this.

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