The Senate on Tuesday voted to block U.S. military action in Iran for the first time as the war approaches its fourth month.

The war powers resolution passed by a vote of 50–48. Sen. John Fetterman, again, was the lone Democrat to vote in the negative.

Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Dave McCormick, who was in his home state for a visit by President Trump to a Mack truck plant in the Lehigh Valley, was absent.

Four Republicans — Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana — supported the measure.

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    Lisa Murkowski and Rand ‘Satan’s Little Helper’ Paul, voting for a war powers resolution??

    What the what? I wanna meet their shoulder angels and give them a big old smooch on the lips for that.

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    There needs to be legal action that can take place when a candidate actively works against all the principles he campaigned for. He is deliberatly doing the exact opposite of everything voters thought he stood for. This to me is no different than false advertising. It’s disenfranchisement of voters.

    However, with that all being said, I don’t see anyone in Pennsylvania out in the streets protesting this jackass either. So they must either agree with his votes or simply not give a shit.

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    Fetterman ran on a platform that “He’s not Dr Oz!” and he’s done amazingly well at that!

    Unfortunately the root of the problem with Democrat vs Republican is that while the GOP seems to have rock solid blackmail on its representatives, the DNC is a circus.

    We’ve got AOC and Bernie who have nothing in common with Chuckles or the Democrats that voted for more money for ICE’s monthly subscription of keep people in cages and randomly terrorize people. Fetterman is indeed an asshole but again it was him or the Dr addicted to being on television so much that he tanked his career Oz (I believe that is his middle name).

    The only way out of this chaos is if we the people of the USA can pay attention long enough to get ranked choice voting implemented in enough states. Otherwise even if you can get the circus to all agree on anything, Jill Stein will come out of her crypt and siphon enough votes over to the Green party.

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      Dr addicted to being on television so much that he tanked his career Oz (I believe that is his middle name).

      You’re right about the middle name, but wrong about the first one. He hasn’t been a doctor since years before the Senate election, so it’s just Mehmet.

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        Not to be pedantic, but even if he hasn’t kept up with the licenses to practice medicine he still has a MD or Doctorate of Medicine. Dr. is still an applicable title

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        There’s one recurring theme and unifying driver for everything the right does, and everything that’s wrong with society. Empathetic impairment.

        All of these criminal con artists fall somewhere on the spectrum of malignant selfishness/greed to straight narcissism/psychopathy/sadism (cluster B mental disorders = mental illness).

        Engaging in psychological warfare and disinformation campaigns; pedophilia; rampant fraud and corruption; genocide and crimes against humanity; psychotic conspiracy theories; attacking the weak and vulnerable; the destruction of facts, science, and evidence.

        All of these are symptoms of a mental illness epidemic and logical corruption, amplified and transmitted through propaganda.

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        Stuff like this makes him seem compromised. Republicans get the excuse of party loyalty. There is literally no legal or moral justification for voting against this and Fetterman isn’t technically in the Republican party to be loyal to.

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      Seriously. Why are we still calling him a Democrat?

      Just because he hasn’t formalized switching parties, I guess.

      If he still caucuses with Democrats, that shit has to be super awkward.

      Schiff: “We’d better capitulate even more to the Republicans. It’s always worked out so well for us in the pa-”

      Fetterman: “WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE!!! <mocking voice>‘I wanna steal your 3-year-old son’s testosterone.’</mocking voice> That’s what you sound like right now.”

      Everyone else: “…”

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        Because as long as he calls himself a Democrat, it’s one seat closer to a majority. It’s small comfort, but Dems have gotten used to it, after people like Manchin, Sinema, Lieberman, etc. It’s better than nothing, or better than Oz.

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      This is such weak ass Elizabeth Warren language, despite how correct it technically is.

      I prefer the term fucking Nazi traitor.

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      I don’t believe there is a method to recall a representative in the United Stated at the federal level. They have to be impeached and convicted to be removed.

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    They should make him move to an office in the basement, next to the equipment room. Like make it just as obvious as his Israeli stoogery.

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      Nah the mkultra plus just makes you stroke out if the conditioning is extremely against your core values. It’s also why he can’t process audio in public anymore, it’s basically inducing PTSD with really specific outcomes.

      They did a reverse of this to mtg which was basically just someone asking the exact right questions at the right time and being supportive. Basically helping her heal from the trauma of internalized misogyny that being a woman Republican is.

      I don’t actually have anything to back up these beliefs but if that’s what happened then what’s happening in public view to each of them is how it would present. Although I suspect MTG is still just there for the money. But I mean aside from AOC and a few others who isn’t?

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    Look at you, Suzie, all rebellious n shit. Have you learned your lesson?

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    Fetterman is a Hasidic term and a common Jewish surname. And now he’s fucking over his constituents, your American brothers and sisters, to benefit Israel.

    Fettermann ; Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a fat man a variant of Fetter.

    Just an observation.

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      Your comment suggests, intentionally judging by your comment history, that “Jewish” is opposed to “American”, and that we should suspect all Jews of putting Israel first. You also posted in a previous comment that you wished a man who attacked a synagogue had been more successful. And you suggested that Jewish entertainers tend to be pedophiles. I hope people can see where you’re coming from. This is real antisemitism.

      And before anyone accuses me of being an Israel supporter, I find Zionism repellent, I abhor Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and its invasion of Lebanon, and I’m in full sympathy with the Palestinian people. Israel is a sick country right now. But a Jew is not the same thing as a Zionist, and many American Jews feel just as I do about these things.

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        Israel is the enemy of America. Not people of the Jewish faith.

        I fully understand that. But fettermann is compromised… By Israel

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          But they didn’t give him his fucking name for fucks sake. You really sound crazy posting shit like this.

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      The -man suffix is common in non-Jewish families in PA thanks to multiple waves of German immigration. Zimmerman (or Zimmermann) is a common name among the Amish, for instance.

      It has nothing to do with being Jewish.