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Retired and loving it

[Phaedra @PhaedraXTeddy]

Parents film their "adorable" children hurting animals in #China🇨🇳.
This is unrelatable.
Also what is unrelatable is that there is no #ChinaAnimalProtectionLaw .
Smaller children than her would not even be safe in the same daycare as this girl.
https://t.co/tVPrv3JQkv

[🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 @apocalypseos]

Jeffrey Sachs: a president stood at the UN and claimed the right to annihilate a civilization. Congress said nothing. That is the constitutional order collapsing in public.

“I shuddered then, and I shudder now that a president of the United States can stand at the podium of the UN General Assembly speaking to world leaders in a language of annihilation of other countries and of sending them to hell. It was ghastly, unprecedented, totally disgusting, disgraceful for the United States. But I would also say a measure of how broken the constitutional order of the United States is.

Trump basically said, like a madman, which I think arguably he is, that he and he alone will decide the survival of Iran. He said that he has a big, big choice to make. Maybe Iran will be a great country. Maybe Iran will be annihilated. Maybe Trump will send it to hell. And not only was the language vulgar in a way that I certainly could never in my lifetime have imagined coming from a president of the United States or anybody standing at the UN podium—because what Trump said was odious and completely in violation of every religious, moral, ethical, and legal standard that we have in this world—it was also a measure of the brazen collapse of our Constitution.

Is there a political system where one man decides the fate of another civilization? Is that how the American system works? Of course the answer is no. The founding fathers who rebelled against a mad King George III were very explicit in the Declaration of Independence, celebrated this year 250 years after its issuance. We’re in the 250th anniversary, one that Trump says is about our freedom. It was explicitly that King George arrogated, took on the authority to put the military above civil rule. And when the founding fathers wrote the US Constitution, they assigned specifically the power to declare war not to the commander-in-chief, but solely and exclusively—and not by choice, not if they care about it or want to or want to delegate it or not, but solely—to the United States Congress.

And Trump said yesterday he doesn’t care what the public thinks. He doesn’t care what the vote is. He says it doesn’t even cross my mind. And he said earlier this year, when he was asked, well, are there any limits on your power? He thought about it. He said Yes, my morality, but it’s my will. It’s what I want to do. Otherwise, no, there are no other limits.

What did our Congress do on that occasion? I can tell you, as we know, that the majority party in both houses simply remained silent. That is a violation of their sacred oath of office, which is to uphold the Constitution. Trump yesterday said he’s going to have the difficult choice of whether to annihilate, by the way, one of the most ancient civilizations in the world, 5,000 years old, twenty times older than the United States of America. And what did our Speaker of the House say? Well, he said nothing, of course. What did our Senate majority leader say? He said, of course, nothing. What did all of the party of the president of the United States say, the members of Congress? They said, of course, nothing. This is worse than the Roman Empire. There was a Senate that actually still said something. Our Senate says nothing.

We are so broken that not only do we have a madman in power, but there is no respect for our constitutional order. And the president can make statements as he made yesterday, unprecedented in the chamber of the General Assembly in front of the world leaders, speaking like the worst tyrant or gangster imaginable, and not a murmur from the Republican Party which dominates the House and the Senate. You know, I am not partisan. And a Democratic president who dared to be as absolutely mad and deranged as this president would probably find subservience in that party too. So I’m not even making a partisan point. I’m making a point about the collapse of our constitutional order.

Have we come to a point where one man, who I happen to think is utterly incompetent, utterly sociopathic, actually—when people are killed under his order, not a moment of reflection or remorse when 150 schoolgirls are murdered, and he knows the truth. He says, yeah, the Iranians probably did it. We’ll find out. No, not any control at all in our system of government.

So for me, you asked how I feel. I shudder at the last 24 hours, both at what the president said. It made my skin crawl. I was sitting there in the chamber listening to this madness. I mean it really, psychopathic madness, speaking in this way, with a vulgarity that is unimaginable. But then I’ve shuddered since then at the lack of response by the leaders, the majority leader of the US Senate, the Speaker of the House, Supreme Court justices, anybody to say no. In our system of government, it’s not one person who decides on the fate of another civilization.

We are a country, we say, first of all, of representation, and the American people are aghast at this. They oppose it overwhelmingly. They do not support this war of Netanyahu and Trump, which is a two-person war of murder and destruction and assassination of leaders of another country. They do not support it. And the constitutional order is that we are a representative government, and our representatives have an oath of office that only they can declare war. So where are they standing up to say No, you don’t have a penny to spend on this? We control the power of the purse. The tens or hundreds of billions of dollars that Trump has wasted of American income in this flagrant war of whim. Where is Congress to say you have no authority whatsoever to spend that because only we can decide on the spending and only we can declare war.

So this is the grim fact. It wasn’t just the awful statements. That was my first reaction. But then I thought, what have we come to when one person can make a statement like this and then remain essentially unchallenged in the United States system of government?”

Annihilation is not diplomacy. Congressional silence is not restraint. A constitutional republic cannot survive if one man claims the power to decide whether another civilization lives or dies.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

TRUMP SAYS HE'S TRANSFERRING 10 BILLION DOLLARS FROM THE GOVERNMENT TO HIS BOARD OF PEACE 🙄 WHERE IS THE 13 BILLION DOLLARS HE TOOK FROM VENEZUELA 🤔 THIS AIN'T A PRESIDENCY, IT'S AN OUT OF CONTROL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION 🙄

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Someone wrote a Trump poem in the style of Dr. Seuss. One word: BRILLIANT
Especially that last line
Pinocchio had nothing on you, But the Epstein files most certainly do

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

The people violating the court order should be arrested. It doesn't matter who it is - Trump, Miller - put them in jail. This is getting beyond fucking stupid. If they can break the law, then NO ONE should follow the law.

[Brown Eyed Susan @smc429]

This question is for Maga:
If Trump is innocent, why is his lawyer in court begging to keep the Epstein files sealed? Enough with the denial and distraction—it’s time to face the facts:
Trump raped children.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

I found watching Trump’s UN speech today deeply depressing. It is a matter of national shame and humiliation that he is our president. Every country in the world, friend and foe alike, sees we are governed by a vainglorious fool.

[PETA UK @PETAUK]

You can see the fear in his eyes 💔

RT if you are against all experiments on animals.

[HJN @HJNRose1]

@factpostnews

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

Republicans believe government should stay out of your life…

unless your life involves voting, marriage, healthcare, books, bathrooms, or having a uterus.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

It has been confirmed that communist China’s state-run Media was able to attend this event, but American journalists from CNN, MS now and Politico were banned despite the judges orders.

This is as anti-American as it gets.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

She would not have grimaced the moment a bomber flew overhead.

She would not have bombed Iran.

She would not have illegally attacked Venezuela.

She would not have destroyed the economy.

She would not have pardoned criminals, drug traffickers, and traitors.

She would not have supported Putin's Russia.

She would not have slept in the Oval Office.

She would not have an affected hand.

She would not have cut the SNAP program.

She would not have used the DOJ to attack her political enemies.

She would not have given money to foreign countries.

She would not have abandoned American farmers.

She would not have prevented the release of the Epstein files.

She would not have destroyed American democracy.

She would not have trampled on the Constitution.

She would not have abandoned the fundamental rights of citizens.

She would not have deployed American soldiers against the American people.

She would not have destroyed the White House.

She would not have enriched her family through government influence.

She would not have lied about her health records.

She would not have played golf.

She wouldn't have asked people to cheat in future elections.

She wouldn't have said "Quiet piggy" to a female journalist.

She wouldn't have invited Putin to Alaska.

She wouldn't have appointed an administration of incompetents.

She wouldn't have done everything Trump did.

[LeGoat @stakslk]

Yall gotta watch this shit…….

😭 I think we are days away from a government overthrow. Never in my days I seen blood like this 😭

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🚨 Holy Hell.... this angle shows that the Butler Assassination attempt was 100% FAKED in order to get Trump his triumphant propaganda FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT moment and photo... watch how it was coordinated.

Secret Service would never wait for photographers to get into position, and slow play getting Trump to safety.

Nope, Trump murdered 2 people to get this photo op.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨SADISTIC: Trump just said he’d deny FEMA funding for storm-ravaged North Carolina if the Republican lost.

“If Michael loses, I’m not sending it, okay?”

Threatening disaster aid is fucking sick.

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

Age. Limits. Now. The only thing more pathetic than seeing this happen is knowing that we as Americans LET this happen. Politicians shouldn’t sit in office until the ripe old age of dead.

Cap it at 70. Everyone else, RETIRE.

[🌊Zero Dark Twenty-Nine 🌊🖋️ @herotimeszero]

There was a time when we didn't discuss the Kennedy Center, the ballroom, the arch, the pool, the helipad, the Lake America, the Gulf of America, and the effin memes.

We used to have real presidents who dealt with real issues. Not a senile child flinging poop.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Melanie D’Arrigo blasted Mitch McConnell after his return to the Senate following his medical leave. McConnell received paid sick leave for over 3 months & Cadillac health care paid for by taxpayers while he supported policies limiting paid sick leave & healthcare for Americans.

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

This is not acceptable. This is humiliating for the country. I don’t know what needs to be done, but we have to stop this.

The senate is not hospice.