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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    Fetterman is a cloaked MAGA fucknut. Vote that liar and sack of shit out of office. Shame one cannot cut his socialized health benefits too.

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    Man I may loathe that corporate bastard Erik Sorensen but at least he’s not this fuckin’ guy

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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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      Rand Paul is an unrepentant piece of shit, but he has always been pretty consistent about opposing the US’s military adventurism.

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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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      we have this it’s called elections

      sorry

      “oh what if there was an on paper rule that cancelled out the bad decisions the south keeps making” is not an opinion anyone should take seriously in 2026. “surely the institutions will save us” shit who do you think elects the people that run the overgovernment, it’s the same fucking confederate filth that elect the regular government, “oh we should have a layer 2 overgovernment that protects us from fuckery by the layer 1 overgovernment” man do i have some bad news for you

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      In theory it should be the party the politician belongs to chastising those who don’t toe the line. But alas, the Democratic party is just as corrupt.

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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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    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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          As someone descended from old money and southern aristocrats there is a perfectly valid solution to this, disrespect the fuckwad and call em just by his last name no honorifics allowed he lost the privilege. I’d also say that he should wake up in a ditch with a gaping hole in his gut but as I’ve been informed in the past that’s illegal and may constitute a hate crime depending on how many slurs I call him while taking said action.

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            I’m not fan of the guy, but taking the stance of “I’m descended from slave owners and think we should lynch the guy” is definitely a way to say you really do not like him

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              Hey it’s the only good being descended from those bastards does for me, at least my Northern ancestors mostly fucked over WASPs. But seriously I would enjoy watching him bleed out in a ditch preferably in agonizing pain, it’s the least he should suffer given the damage he has inflicted with his bullshit over the years, same goes for Oprah and the rest of her little woo shillers especially Phil McGraw skin that fucker alive.

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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.