The Senate will vote next week on a bipartisan war powers resolution to block Trump from continuing military against Venezuela — a vote that takes on heightened importance after U.S. forces attacked the South American nation and arrested President Nicolás Maduro early Saturday.

The resolution to block the administration from engaging in further hostilities against Venezuela is privileged, which means Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) cannot stop it from coming to the floor.

The measure is sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).

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    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.

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      Americans, please take this seriously. It’s NOT FUCKING NORMAL for your representatives to take this so unseriously, and not doing the thing they’ve been literally elected to do. I mean being a politician, not against trump, this goes for both sides of the aisle. wtaf?

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        My tinfoil hat conspiracy is the establishment Dems are bring directed by Israel and billionaire donors bribers to not actually put up a fight

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      It’s not an emergency, that’s why.

      It’s business as usual in the USA. We’ve done this many times. It’s like our thing.

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        For example, does anyone remember that time Citibank asked the US to launch an invasion of Haiti, and got it?

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          A powerhouse for 200 years! Citibank is one of the “controlling interests” that occupy the Fed and banking boards, along with Rothschild, Deutsch, BoA, and so on (I haven’t kept up on the most recent list of FED participants and bank boards, corrections encouraged they do change names from time to time).

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      The Democrats and DOJ have been doing a Sudetenland with Trump for since halfway through his first fucking term, through the Biden admin, and now. Just let him and his movement do and take what they want in hopes that they’ll calm down if they get what they want so everything can get back to business as usual. Just because it’s an ideological Sudetenland doesn’t make any less stupid

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      It’s the Republicans’ job to do fascism. It’s the Democrats’ job to lose elections and offer minimal resistance against the Republicans’ agenda. This is what they’ve been paid to do; the Republicans started with Reagan, the Democrats started with Clinton.

      Since then, it’s become not only legal, but incentivized, for them to represent corporate interests over voters’ interests.

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        It’s nice to see this, the D and R routine gets tiresome.

        They don’t even fucking hide it, and it still works on many, many people. Too many

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        They’re not paid to represent voters.

        Although … if voters crowdfunded a few billion for a bribe, Trump would probably throw them a bone!