Congress Restricts Trump's War Powers

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In Bipartisan Bid to Restrain Trump, Senate Passes Iran War Powers Resolution

U.S. Jet That Crashed In Afghanistan Was No Ordinary 'Spy Plane'

The Mysterious Michael D’Andrea: Was the C.I.A.’s Iran Mission Center Chief Shot Down? - American Herald Tribune


When President Donald J. Trump ordered a drone strike to assassinate Gen. Qassim Suleimani, he did so with the identical Trumpian shoot-from-the hip flamboyancy and over-confident myopia that led him to fail as an airline owner and casino magnet. He and his "yes-men" advisors have always suffered from the delusion that Iran's military capability can be grouped along with all the other camel drivers and rock throwers in the Middle East like Libya and Lebanon. Fortunately, wiser heads on both sides of the aisle have prevailed to temporarily avert what could have escalated into a catastrophe.

In the ensuing weeks since Trump acted like John Cleese at the conclusion of A Fish Called Wanda, taunting the Iranians that he kicked their ass real good, they retaliated far more effectively and with far more capability than our military analysts had thought possible. While the well-scrubbed, rosy-cheeked Fox News right-wing propagandists were busy characterizing Iranian missiles as crude, inaccurate and low-yield, they were busy obliterating Saudi refineries and striking US bases in Iraq to within a meter of their target. However nothing could have sent the brass at Central Command in Tampa or the CIA in Langley a more frightening or solemn message than what happened high over the skies of Afghanistan.

The Bombardier E-11A can be described as a communications aircraft, but in-reality it is a spy plane. Based on the corporate Global Express, it can loiter at altitudes over 50,000-feet-- far above that of passenger jets-- for 10-hours or more. It has astonishing classified capabilities; it's been said it can detect when a Taliban terrorist deep in a cave phones his wife when he's coming home. One fine day in Florida while The Donald was perfecting his 9-iron approach shots at one of his green and grassy golf courses near Mar-a-Lago, ten-miles high over an inhospitable and mountainous country, a reconnaissance aircraft flown by the world's greatest superpower was shot-down by a supposed bunch of primitive, illiterate tribal rock-throwers.

But the real damage was far more than the loss of an aircraft and flight crew. Soon after the wreckage was photographed and posted online worldwide, news from various (reliable) international sources reported that one of the dead was Michael D' Andrea, CIA's head of Iran Mission Center. His biography reads like an Ian Fleming, James Bond novel or a Hollywood movie script. D' Andrea was The Spy Who Came in from The Cold and The Dark Prince. His strategic importance makes General Suleimani look like one of Joe Biden and John Wayne's dog-faced pony soldiers. Maybe, just maybe, in the recesses of CIA headquarters in Langley or at the Pentagon, some military analysts with actual human intelligence have connected the dots from Iran to Afghanistan. And that's why Congress is putting a straight jacket on Donald Trump.
 

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It's nice to see, but ultimately meaningless. The Senate already told Trump he can do whatever he wants whenever and wherever. That has not changed. When he violates it, he will be defended by the same thugs who voted for it. Take that to the bank.
 

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It's nice to see, but ultimately meaningless. The Senate already told Trump he can do whatever he wants whenever and wherever. That has not changed. When he violates it, he will be defended by the same thugs who voted for it. Take that to the bank.

That's the point though. What better way to show the american public who trump, republicans and conservatives are then trying to stop them and failing? I mean it's not in any way the goal. The goal is not to fail. It's to uphold the rule of law.

If though. Trump, republicans and conservatives are ready willing and able to through the rule of law out the window in full view of every last able bodied american. Then that's a plus. Either we all burn together. Or people finally stand up in unison.

Either way, democrats, independents and liberals in general have and are doing their best to stop it.

It's kind of like that saying.

“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”

Trump, republicans and conservatives in general (not all) have already removed all doubt with both the impeachment hearings and trial. At this point they're just twisting their own knives.


 
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In Bipartisan Bid to Restrain Trump, Senate Passes Iran War Powers Resolution

U.S. Jet That Crashed In Afghanistan Was No Ordinary 'Spy Plane'

The Mysterious Michael D’Andrea: Was the C.I.A.’s Iran Mission Center Chief Shot Down? - American Herald Tribune


When President Donald J. Trump ordered a drone strike to assassinate Gen. Qassim Suleimani, he did so with the identical Trumpian shoot-from-the hip flamboyancy and over-confident myopia that led him to fail as an airline owner and casino magnet. He and his "yes-men" advisors have always suffered from the delusion that Iran's military capability can be grouped along with all the other camel drivers and rock throwers in the Middle East like Libya and Lebanon. Fortunately, wiser heads on both sides of the aisle have prevailed to temporarily avert what could have escalated into a catastrophe.

In the ensuing weeks since Trump acted like John Cleese at the conclusion of A Fish Called Wanda, taunting the Iranians that he kicked their ass real good, they retaliated far more effectively and with far more capability than our military analysts had thought possible. While the well-scrubbed, rosy-cheeked Fox News right-wing propagandists were busy characterizing Iranian missiles as crude, inaccurate and low-yield, they were busy obliterating Saudi refineries and striking US bases in Iraq to within a meter of their target. However nothing could have sent the brass at Central Command in Tampa or the CIA in Langley a more frightening or solemn message than what happened high over the skies of Afghanistan.

The Bombardier E-11A can be described as a communications aircraft, but in-reality it is a spy plane. Based on the corporate Global Express, it can loiter at altitudes over 50,000-feet-- far above that of passenger jets-- for 10-hours or more. It has astonishing classified capabilities; it's been said it can detect when a Taliban terrorist deep in a cave phones his wife when he's coming home. One fine day in Florida while The Donald was perfecting his 9-iron approach shots at one of his green and grassy golf courses near Mar-a-Lago, ten-miles high over an inhospitable and mountainous country, a reconnaissance aircraft flown by the world's greatest superpower was shot-down by a supposed bunch of primitive, illiterate tribal rock-throwers.

But the real damage was far more than the loss of an aircraft and flight crew. Soon after the wreckage was photographed and posted online worldwide, news from various (reliable) international sources reported that one of the dead was Michael D' Andrea, CIA's head of Iran Mission Center. His biography reads like an Ian Fleming, James Bond novel or a Hollywood movie script. D' Andrea was The Spy Who Came in from The Cold and The Dark Prince. His strategic importance makes General Suleimani look like one of Joe Biden and John Wayne's dog-faced pony soldiers. Maybe, just maybe, in the recesses of CIA headquarters in Langley or at the Pentagon, some military analysts with actual human intelligence have connected the dots from Iran to Afghanistan. And that's why Congress is putting a straight jacket on Donald Trump.

That's not the only reason why they are trying to plug the GAPING HOLE they themselves created in the wall of the TRUMP DIKE with fkng CHEWING GUM.

They're trying to save their own ASS in a preemptive attempt to stop things from GOING SOUTH.

 
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It's nice to see, but ultimately meaningless. The Senate already told Trump he can do whatever he wants whenever and wherever. That has not changed. When he violates it, he will be defended by the same thugs who voted for it. Take that to the bank.

Yep. The public has hit the snooze button many are unconscious and unaware what just happened. Trump is completely unshackled from Congressional oversight. He is as close to a monarch the US has ever had and he wants more. Diverting money to his projects, withholding money for his own personal benefit, directing the Justice Department to go after his enemies and directing them to give light sentences to his convicted capos.
 

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Yep. The public has hit the snooze button many are unconscious and unaware what just happened. Trump is completely unshackled from Congressional oversight. He is as close to a monarch the US has ever had and he wants more. Diverting money to his projects, withholding money for his own personal benefit, directing the Justice Department to go after his enemies and directing them to give light sentences to his convicted capos.

I don't think the public at large is currently asleep at the wheel. Trump is completely unshackled and unhinged but i think people are currently trying to figure out what to do about it.

To me it's like a person realizing that the drinks/drugs they've been doing for years has done way more harm to them then they previously thought. That moment when a person begins to finally notice they need to get clean but has very little clue on how to do so.

Or to make a long story short. This is america's transitional period.