Senate to vote next week to block Trump’s military action against Venezuela

Next week??

Finish your weekend in the Hamptons why don't you, you fucking slackers.

How about an emergency session in the House? Like RIGHT NOW? Trump just attacked another country: do your fucking job!

Next fucking week? This isn't warranting of an emergency session of congress?

The US is so fucking fucked. The Dems are gonna find a way to lose the primaries or surrender to Trump's attempts to steal them.

We've seen nothing from these assholes in the times of greatest crisis.

Fucking lazy assholes. Time for a revolt. Put the people back in power, the way the founders intended.

Someone should explain to Schumer how linear time works...

Next fucking week. Imagine your house is being robbed but the cops are coming next week.

Trump: dissolves the US senate

US senate: "we'll vote on it next month"

We going to just return Maduro like we picked up the wrong bag from the shared work fridge? Oopsie poopsie, sorry I ate all the tangerines before I realized they weren’t mine!

Any war powers resolution passed by the Senate would need to be approved by the House and signed by Trump to have the force of law.

The president is expected to veto any resolution to restrict his power as commander in chief and there are not enough votes in either chamber to override such an action.

While they should be doing anything they can to stop this shit, this whole vote is purely symbolic. Unless they can get support from the house and a supermajority in the senate, no standalone bill will do anything.

The only real leverage they have is a potential government shut down at the end of the month. Given how unpopular a repeat of Iraq and Afghanistan would be, I want to say that it should be fairly easy to find bipartisan support for a deal that would pull any forces out of Venezuala and potentially put some road blocks in place to dissuade further military interventions. You'd just need some competent leadership and a little bit of backbone.

[Exasperated Sigh]

Chuck Schumer. Not just a name, but an entire sentence.

... And impeach the belligerent invader who usurped senate power in order to commit war crimes ?

Why next week? They should maybe take a break for a while and give themselves a raise for all of the strategic "lack of work" they've been doing. Maybe things will settle down by then. /s

“My name is Treebeard.”

That's an Onion headline forb today if I ever saw one

That's not how that works. They need his permission first.

So they should vote to impeach for murder.

Senate Republicans: "Lol I'd say nice symbolic bullshit but my mouth is full of Trump's dick so I'll just click the Nay button."

My guess is they were told it’ll take a week or so to capture all the oil there.

Senate issues decree stating, "No retaliation until next week, and even then, only the absolute bare minimum."

-FTFY

The democrats offer only token resistance, as usual.

Lol, this country is a joke. I've lost all faith in the US.

Maduro and Trump are friends

Maduro gets to escape his country and save face instead of being assassinated or executed.

Trump gets to manufacture a conflict so he can start martial law and become a dictator

They literally kidnapped the president and proceeded to threaten the replacement. They don't care.

Why "hurry"? He won't stop anyway.

a week late.

Little late, no?

Fucking useless

Already happened, ineffectual shitbags.

Seems a little late there Schumer

Good luck dickheads.

Bit too late for that.

The US has been a nation no-one should treat as a serious entity since 2024-11-05, and will not be again until they can prove their ability to hold another legitimate election.

Right now it’s a coin flip as to whether I’ll see that within the remainder of my lifetime.

If they wait until it's over, then they don't have to look powerless when Trump ignores Congress.

Here’s the problem as I see it. Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio are deeply overconfident. Trump’s former ambassador was telling BBC that Venezuela is much easier than Iraq. Trump fell into the same mistake as Bush did of thinking the president is unpopular and that the outside opposition is all set to swoop in and replace the government and give Trump everything he wants in oil. This is too tantalizing. The problem is that the new government is not stable, patriots and nationalists and pro-Maduro pro-army forces will resist and fight a foreign occupation. Trump thought he could skirt the problems of Iraq by doing only airstrikes and wrapping up the whole conflict in less than 60 days (so that Congress can be cut out of the whole thing).

Rebels can sabotage the oil lines, that means the need for troops to protect the oil. That will go longer than the 60 day limit; so either Trump will have to find another military or ask Congress for authorization. Trump will likely force Congress to go along; Republicans are too scared to cross Trump and Democrats are afraid of being labeled unpatriotic for not going along with it. The fact is that Dem leaders are being silent on this. The only good take I’ve seen is Graham Platner issuing a statement about how illegal this whole thing is, not defending Maduro or sounding unpatriotic.

Long story short, Congress will meekly go along with Trump’s war as a fait accompli. Nobody wants to be painted as anti-troops or pro-drugs or whatever Republicans will smear them as.

Interesting choice of photos.

Weird. I thought only Congress could declare war. It seems that the way it really works is anyone can declare war without Congress by kidnapping foreign leaders and then the Senate has to vote to tell that person to stop.

Betcha it fails due to some neo-lib defectors.

So the democrats will do nothing because they’re owned by the same oligarchs and Israeli AIPAC money that the republicans are. The few honest ones will put up a fight but their wings are clipped by the corrupt majority. If they manage to even get close to a victory a few dirty democrats will magically vote with the republicans. Going back to Iraq and Afghanistan the democrats and republicans made a killing on insider trading and no bid contracts. It’s a big club and you and I ain’t in it, It’s all smoke and mirrors. Again it all boils down to shareholder profits.