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It’s not that they hate America and love its enemies, you see. Really, really, it’s not. It’s just that Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez love the U.S. Constitution so much that they’re worried that President Donald Trump’s strikes on the nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran might have exceeded the powers of the president as delineated in the nation’s founding document. That’s all. They just love America, you see. It’s not that they wanted the Islamic Republic to get nukes and destroy the state of Israel, oh, no. What gave you that idea?
The new strict constructionists were out in force after the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) wrote: “The strikes on Iran, ordered by President Trump and executed without congressional authorization, mark a dangerous and reckless escalation of an already volatile conflict in the Middle East.”
It’s easy to see why that could worry her, as a widening conflict in the Middle East could all too easily spread to the country Omar really cares about: Somalia. In June 2024, former Somali Prime Minister Hassan Khaire, while standing next to a beaming Omar, said: “The interest of Ilhan are not Ilhan’s, it’s not the interest of Minnesota, nor is it the interest of the American people, the interest of Ilhan is that of the Somali people and Somalia. The success of Ilhan is the success of Somalia.” Omar herself has said: “I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system.”
Nonetheless, now she is worried that Trump struck Iran without congressional authorization. So is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Would You Like An Olive?), who wrote: “The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.” Another ardent originalist, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah), agreed: “President Trump sending U.S. troops to bomb Iran without the consent of Congress is a blatant violation of our Constitution.”
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Victimhood) added: “This is a violation of the Constitution that is risking innocent lives. We do not need another deadly, endless war. Congress must act immediately to rein in Trump.” The chorus continued with this from Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Orange Man Bad): “The authority to declare war belongs solely to Congress. Trump’s unconstitutional and escalatory strikes risk drawing US troops and the American people—who are overwhelmingly opposed—into another forever war. Congress must immediately exercise our duty to restrain this President.”
Yet another newly-minted Constitutionalist, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Race Hate) said: “Here is yet another reminder that the Constitution is not optional… Congress must authorize military force before any president—including Trump—launches a strike.”
All these august solons are decrying the fact that the strikes were “executed without congressional authorization,” but there are plenty of precedents for that from Obama and Biden, and authorization in the War Powers Resolution:
The War Powers Resolution of 1973 requires that the president notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying American troops if a formal declaration of war has not already been declared. The resolution also requires that the president withdraw any forces deployed in a conflict within 60 days if Congress has not formally declared war.
The law was intended as a constriction of presidents’ authority to start a war. Yet, in practice it has done the opposite. Rather than using military action simply to respond to an imminent attack, presidents have read the statute as a license to act for 60 days without congressional approval.
If Obama or Biden had carried out the strikes against Iran, which, of course, they would never, ever have done, Omar, Tlaib, AOC, Pressley and the rest would be lining up to applaud him. The real problem here is that it was Trump who acted, and so of course all these furiously partisan socialists will oppose whatever he does. Secondarily, they really aren’t pleased that Trump has acted decisively to remove a nuclear threat to the United States. In their world view, it is Amerikkka that is responsible for the evils of the world. The fact that they are Amerikka’s elected representatives is of little moment. They’ve made it abundantly clear that they would still like to see the whole country engulfed in flames. Trump has set that project back. Thus they hate him all the more.
I hate “The Squat” as much as anybody but Pressley has a nice ass. A flat chest, yeah, but I can work with that.
Yeh Jeff, but that face! Yuk…. Now the egregious AOC I could go along with. Putrid on the inside but very attractive on the outside.
Yes, the Squat are all skanks except for inbred Omar. She’s oddly hot for such a dumb bitch.
But Pressley’s ass is hot. If she ever got lucky enough, I’d tool it up.
Exactly right. Very strange that Barak Obama is the all time leader in using the war powers act to engage in warfare:
“The numbers tell a stark story. Obama authorized 542 drone strikes during his presidency, killing an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians. A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen during Obama’s two terms, compared to 57 strikes under Bush. This represented a tenfold increase in targeted killing operations from his predecessor.”
Trump has a long way to go to match that record. Also Barak Obama ousted 3 times the number of illegal alien from the US as Trump so far this year. – 3 million. Not a single judge objected and neither did any Dem Marxist.
“WHEN, NOT IF, the Com-Left controls SCOTUS, they will rule that the Constitution itself is Unconstitutional!” sc
“Using the Freedoms in the Constitution to overthrow the Constitution!” sc
The reason the Com-Left is angry at Trump is because they had a mutual goal with Iran: “WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE MAP! FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA!”
Like everything Trump does, the Left’s issue isn’t Iran, it’s Trump. He could be feeding starving children, and they’d be having a collective hissy fit over it. These are people not to be taken seriously.
The Leftists Gutter Dwellers ignored the Constitution while under Democrats
The Squids still hate the Constitution because it was written by white guys. And of course Trump loves the document so they will get back to hating America as soon as the war is off the front pages. The squids are dim stupid liars and traitors. Their party also hates the Constitution but they hide behind the whole ‘Our Democracy’ lie because that is all they really have. That and their pathetic lawfare neurosis.
But Trump just keeps winning and winning and winning while all of the Lilliputian Obama/Clinton/Biden judges and bitter politicians keep yelling at the sky.
Yep, these narcissistic sociopaths have, indeed, re-discovered our Constitution — even though they do so selectively and for purely political reasons — however, as with all Americans, their challenge is to [re-] discover our supreme American Covenant.
MAGA & MAHA!
Nothing new here. Mr Horowitz gave the game away decades ago. The Left will use a society’s foundations to destroy it.
Re: Debate with Dave Smith about the history of Netanyahu warnings about the imminent danger of Iranian nukes.
There is another factor why Iranian nukes had been delayed.
Netanyahu warned that Iranians are close to producing a nuke. Iranians decided to delay until they can start with 15 nukes at the same time. It took them many years, but now they were ready.