Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF.
This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy.
Every member of Congress must vote NO.
@RepFine@realDonaldTrump No, sir. You are the one who is bat-shit crazy. The vast majority of the American voters do not want this war as it does nothing and will do nothing to improve our lives or the lives of our children. Unfortunately, the mid terms will prove this to be true.
As always I only support military action anywhere, in any context, if it directly serves the interests of American citizens. It’s troubling that the arguments we’re hearing for this war in Iran, including from Trump himself, seem to revolve primarily around “bringing freedom to the Iranian people.” As Americans, the freedom of Iranians is not our responsibility. If a single American life is lost in the service of that goal, it will be a travesty.
What nobody has even come close to sufficiently explaining is how this war will first and foremost directly benefit American citizens. That is a case that needed to have been made clearly and convincingly before this move, and it wasn’t. We’re also told how this will benefit Israel, and I’m sure it will. But Israel is not America. What does it do for America? How does it help us? That needs to be explained to us. And it isn’t “panicking” or demonstrating “disloyalty” to demand those very basic answers about how American tax money, and potentially American lives, are being spent.
We hear about the danger of a nuclear Iran, but that’s odd because we were told that Iran’s nuclear capabilities had already been set back decades. We hear that this war will be over quickly and easily because Iran is powerless, which I hope and pray is the case, and maybe it will be. But that’s odd, too, because if Iran is such a paper tiger then how were they a danger to us in the first place? It seems hard to argue both that Iran is an existential threat to the United States and that we can topple them in 20 minutes with no casualties or negative downstream effects.
Also the political calculation really matters here. A huge majority of American oppose this. That’s just a fact. If it costs Republicans in 26 and 28, then, no matter how things work out in Iran, it will not have been worth it. A free Iran at the cost of Democrat rule here at home is a bad deal. A free Iran for an unfree America would be just about the worst trade of the century.
I’m praying for our great country today.
@DanPatrick “Americans have been punished for standing up for their faith. So what we’re gonna do is- we’re gonna punish Carrie Prejean Boller for standing up for her faith.” The hypocrisy here is unbelievable.
Cowardly response, clearly don’t want her there. No one cares about your guys’ words and propaganda without someone there to call you out and challenge you. What is even the point? This is just going to be another masterbatory PR stunt. You guys are REALLY not doing yourselves any favors.
This is a drive killing miss from Arch Manning. This is game seven. This shit cannot keep happening. He's shown signs of improvement the past few weeks, but this is horrendous.
It’s a long road to redemption and a shorter one to damnation.
I know which one is my destination but the journey doesn’t come without frustrations. It doesn’t come without temptations.
And failure can lead to an elevation, cause sometimes you gotta see what’s waiting on the other side to know your soul’s worth saving.