Senate Advances Measure to Limit Trump’s Iran War Powers

The rabid dog urgently needs to be put on a short leash.

7 minutes ago, Caldera said:

The rabid dog urgently needs to be put on a short leash.

Rabid dogs are usually put down.

51 minutes ago, Deerculler said:

Rabid dogs are usually put down.

It would definitely be advisable to recommend such a resolution to the Senate. Then the disgusting barking would finally stop.

Don't have much hope that the War Powers Resolution will stop this demented mad wannabe King. After Iran, it will be Cuba and Greenland. We can only pray for providence. 🙏

1 hour ago, Caldera said:

The rabid dog urgently needs to be put on a short leash.

So short it hangs it.

Donald Trump would rave on totally submerged in water with a mouth full of marbles. I doubt his ears have ever been used.

Trump, and/or his advisers, or both, completely underestimated the power and control of the IRGC within Iran.

1 hour ago, Thingamabob said:

Trump, and/or his advisers, or both, completely underestimated the power and control of the IRGC within Iran.

If they had known the full extent of the power and control of the IRGC they would have been very jealous.

3 hours ago, Rams86 said:

Donald Trump would rave on totally submerged in water with a mouth full of marbles. I doubt his ears have ever been used.

Or his brain...

1 hour ago, animalmagic said:

If they had known the full extent of the power and control of the IRGC they would have been very jealous.

I'm sure both the US military high ranking officers and CIA were fully aware of Iran's military strength and backing from the IRGC. But I believe we have heard from POTUS, Secretary DoW, National Security, etc. who politicizes such information to their own dictator agendas.

There should be enough evidence by now to have him certified as suffering from severe mental illness.

And then committed to an institution as a danger to the public.

It's possible he may need to be restrained in a straight-jacket.

This has been tried SEVEN times. The close vote shows they will never reign him in.

5 hours ago, Rams86 said:

Donald Trump would rave on totally submerged in water with a mouth full of marbles. I doubt his ears have ever been used.

He's too frightened of what he might hear if he shuts his gob.

38 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

This has been tried SEVEN times. The close vote shows they will never reign him in.

It also shows that Trump is not the problem. He's merely a symptom.

This is an absolutely brilliant development, and it shows that Trump's influence continues to wane, even amongst his Republican lackeys. This ridiculous forever war is going nowhere, he's put Iran into a much stronger position than they were before the war, the world economy continues to get demolished by his policies and the American people are starting to say ENOUGH!

Nearly three months into the conflict, the Iranian regime has succeeded in confounding U.S. and Israeli expectations for a speedy victory.

The regime survived a wave of targeted killings early in the war. It then managed to turn the tables on its more powerful adversaries, introducing something of a stalemate.

Since mid-March, Iran has maintained control over the Strait of Hormuz, an international waterway crucial to the world’s oil and gas trade. It has been able to limit U.S. and Israeli attacks on its energy industry. It even got President Trump to rein in Israel’s war in Lebanon against Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militia.

“Iran definitely has the advantage here,” said Nicole Grajewski, who teaches at the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po in France and studies Iran’s foreign policy. “The U.S. is just kind of flailing at the moment.”

On May 3, Mr. Trump announced “Project Freedom,” a U.S. operation to guide ships stranded in the strait. He backed down a few days later, leaving over a thousand vessels still trapped. “That, I think, speaks volumes of Iran’s capacity to restrain and deter the United States,” Mr. Sobelman said.

Iran’s ability to shut down the strait again will serve as an “insurance policy” against future attacks, Ms. Grajewski said.

That scenario points to a broader and potentially more permanent weakness in Mr. Trump’s foreign policy: The United States, while powerful, may not be as insulated against retaliation as Mr. Trump’s team has often seemed to assume.

Not all countries will be willing or able to use triangular coercion against a hostile superpower in the same way. But after Iran’s example, more may try.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/world/middleeast/iran-strait-of-hormuz-triang.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

9 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

This is an absolutely brilliant development, and it shows that Trump's influence continues to wane, even amongst his Republican lackeys. This ridiculous forever war is going nowhere, he's put Iran into a much stronger position than they were before the war, the world economy continues to get demolished by his policies and the American people are starting to say ENOUGH!

Nearly three months into the conflict, the Iranian regime has succeeded in confounding U.S. and Israeli expectations for a speedy victory.

The regime survived a wave of targeted killings early in the war. It then managed to turn the tables on its more powerful adversaries, introducing something of a stalemate.

Since mid-March, Iran has maintained control over the Strait of Hormuz, an international waterway crucial to the world’s oil and gas trade. It has been able to limit U.S. and Israeli attacks on its energy industry. It even got President Trump to rein in Israel’s war in Lebanon against Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militia.

“Iran definitely has the advantage here,” said Nicole Grajewski, who teaches at the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po in France and studies Iran’s foreign policy. “The U.S. is just kind of flailing at the moment.”

On May 3, Mr. Trump announced “Project Freedom,” a U.S. operation to guide ships stranded in the strait. He backed down a few days later, leaving over a thousand vessels still trapped. “That, I think, speaks volumes of Iran’s capacity to restrain and deter the United States,” Mr. Sobelman said.

Iran’s ability to shut down the strait again will serve as an “insurance policy” against future attacks, Ms. Grajewski said.

That scenario points to a broader and potentially more permanent weakness in Mr. Trump’s foreign policy: The United States, while powerful, may not be as insulated against retaliation as Mr. Trump’s team has often seemed to assume.

Not all countries will be willing or able to use triangular coercion against a hostile superpower in the same way. But after Iran’s example, more may try.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/world/middleeast/iran-strait-of-hormuz-triang.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Agree even Cuba is Now threating the US that if they invade there will be a lot of Americans in body bags !!

23 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

Trump, and/or his advisers, or both, completely underestimated the power and control of the IRGC within Iran.

Trump and his advisors consistently underestimate everyone, and run around thumping their chests like 13 year old school bullies. They all need to be stopped, ASAP. Trump is running America into the ground and the majority of his supporters are completely unaware of it. Sleep dear ones, sleep.

18 hours ago, BusyB said:

It also shows that Trump is not the problem. He's merely a symptom.

He is a problematic sympton then. Only he has the authority to put an end to the unnecessary war with Iran and that is a problem.

1 hour ago, Eric Loh said:

He is a problematic sympton then. Only he has the authority to put an end to the unnecessary war with Iran and that is a problem.

No. Congress could get its thumb out of its bum and do its job. That it doesn't is part of the actual problem. Only a part but a key part.

10 minutes ago, BusyB said:

No. Congress could get its thumb out of its bum and do its job. That it doesn't is part of the actual problem. Only a part but a key part.

He has declared his position to ignore the War Power Act.

On 5/20/2026 at 5:59 AM, webfact said:

The vote only clears an initial procedural hurdle in the Senate. Even if the resolution eventually passes both chambers of Congress, Trump would be expected to veto it.

So all in all, rather a waste of time.

As an outsider, Congress seems to be a pretty toothless institution!

This is the second time I've posted an article commentating on the possibility of Trump using a nuclear bomb on Iran. I truly hope the predictions don't come true.

A psychiatrist who has long questioned Donald Trump’s mental fitness has issued a stark warning about the US president’s second term, claiming there may now be “no adults in the room” capable of restraining him from extreme military action.

Dr John Gartner, a former Johns Hopkins University professor, said during a podcast interview that Trump’s political dominance inside the Republican Party had reached a dangerous new stage after Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie reportedly lost political ground following criticism of the president.

‘No Backstop Left Around Him’

Speaking on The Daily Beast Podcast, Gartner claimed Trump had become increasingly “disinhibited” and argued that senior figures who once challenged him inside government are no longer present.

“We don’t have General Mattis, we don’t have John Kelly, we don’t have Rex Tillerson,” Gartner said. “There are no more adults in the room.”

He argued Trump is now surrounded by loyalists unwilling to resist presidential decisions, particularly on national security and military escalation.

Nuclear Strike Claim Raises Alarm

Gartner went further, predicting the US could eventually wake up to news that Trump had authorised a first nuclear strike.

“I believe that this is going to happen because he wants to do it,” he said during the interview, describing what he claimed was a pattern of deteriorating judgement and impulse control.

The psychiatrist has previously argued that Trump displays signs consistent with frontotemporal dementia, a neurological condition linked to behavioural changes and impaired decision-making. Gartner has never personally examined Trump, and no official diagnosis has been made public.

Political Climate Fuels Concern

The comments come as tensions remain high over US policy toward Iran and widening instability in the Middle East. Critics of the administration have increasingly raised concerns about decision-making inside the White House as Trump tightens his grip over the Republican Party.

Gartner argued recent political developments show dissent inside the party is rapidly disappearing.

“There are literally no men or women in elected political office as a Republican who isn’t blindly lockstep following him,” he said.

The White House has not responded to the remarks.

Psychiatrist makes frightening prediction about Trump's decline: 'He wants to do it'

1 hour ago, bannork said:

This is the second time I've posted an article commentating on the possibility of Trump using a nuclear bomb on Iran. I truly hope the predictions don't come true.

A psychiatrist who has long questioned Donald Trump’s mental fitness has issued a stark warning about the US president’s second term, claiming there may now be “no adults in the room” capable of restraining him from extreme military action.

Dr John Gartner, a former Johns Hopkins University professor, said during a podcast interview that Trump’s political dominance inside the Republican Party had reached a dangerous new stage after Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie reportedly lost political ground following criticism of the president.

‘No Backstop Left Around Him’

Speaking on The Daily Beast Podcast, Gartner claimed Trump had become increasingly “disinhibited” and argued that senior figures who once challenged him inside government are no longer present.

“We don’t have General Mattis, we don’t have John Kelly, we don’t have Rex Tillerson,” Gartner said. “There are no more adults in the room.”

He argued Trump is now surrounded by loyalists unwilling to resist presidential decisions, particularly on national security and military escalation.

Nuclear Strike Claim Raises Alarm

Gartner went further, predicting the US could eventually wake up to news that Trump had authorised a first nuclear strike.

“I believe that this is going to happen because he wants to do it,” he said during the interview, describing what he claimed was a pattern of deteriorating judgement and impulse control.

The psychiatrist has previously argued that Trump displays signs consistent with frontotemporal dementia, a neurological condition linked to behavioural changes and impaired decision-making. Gartner has never personally examined Trump, and no official diagnosis has been made public.

Political Climate Fuels Concern

The comments come as tensions remain high over US policy toward Iran and widening instability in the Middle East. Critics of the administration have increasingly raised concerns about decision-making inside the White House as Trump tightens his grip over the Republican Party.

Gartner argued recent political developments show dissent inside the party is rapidly disappearing.

“There are literally no men or women in elected political office as a Republican who isn’t blindly lockstep following him,” he said.

The White House has not responded to the remarks.

Psychiatrist makes frightening prediction about Trump's decline: 'He wants to do it'

Trump has made the world much less safe. The regional conflicts that he generated and the intimidating hints by him to use nuclear against Iran will escalate countries to have nuclear as a deterrent just like in the late 1990s which saw India and pakistan developing nuclear weapons and North Korea withdrewing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Iran has every reason to have nuclear now. Then it likely to be Turkey and other GCC countries. Trump is a menace to the world and driving a significant escalation in the global nuclear race.

11 hours ago, BusyB said:

No. Congress could get its thumb out of its bum and do its job. That it doesn't is part of the actual problem. Only a part but a key part.

The problem with that is that any Congress person who defies Trump ends up losing the next election. The man has such low self-esteem, and such thin skin, he's such a victim and a snowflake, that he can't handle anything that even borders on dissent.

Hopefully all this will change after the midterms and Trump will become doubly impotent.

President Donald Trump only has the funds to keep the Iran war going for around three more months, a key Republican lawmaker said.

Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), chair of the House Appropriations Committee, "says the Pentagon will run out of money for Iran by 'probably August' and Congress is 'running out of time' to process an Iran supplemental," according to Punchbowl News congressional reporter Anthony Adragna.

"I'm very concerned," Cole told Punchbowl News.

Trump will run out of money for Iran within three months: GOP lawmaker

13 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

The problem with that is that any Congress person who defies Trump ends up losing the next election. The man has such low self-esteem, and such thin skin, he's such a victim and a snowflake, that he can't handle anything that even borders on dissent.

Hopefully all this will change after the midterms and Trump will become doubly impotent.

My point is that they are elected to take care of their constituents not grovel at the feet of a despicable ..... - fill in the blanks, they're well enough known. And they are epically failing in this task.

This is how Putin type dictatorships establish themselves. Bit by bit. And it is Trump's backers working in the background who are the real danger. He is just left there right now to draw the flack and create chaos as camouflage.

It's a deeply cowardly dereliction of duty to the country on behalf of all Congress. By both parties. The Dems offering no real alternative because they've also been bought with few exceptions.

A bunch of cowardly career pols all more worried about their mortgages than they are about mortgaging US democracy to the likes of Thiel, Miller, Kochs and tech tech 'bros' and innumerable millions of other helpers and enablers all out to profit. Spoiler: long term they won't. The Trump lot will visit their misery and hate on everyone in the end. Just like the Russians are now finding out with that nice Mr. Putin.

Brazil and S. Korea showed what to do with insurrectionists. US institutions had deteriorated and been undermined so much by 2021 that they were paralyzed and completely failed to do what was necessary. Now even those involved in the assault get rewarded, bloody well rewarded!, with a share of $1.7bn.

You couldn't even make it up. It would be rejected if it was pitched as a story line. Oh, yeah, and by the way, talking about pitches and story lines, the kowtowing media bros have just switched off The Late Show. Sad and sick, sick, sick. The still enlightened and free world has seen that too.

Sorry Spider for you and all those who have to deal with this. But YOU need to get a grip of YOUR elected representatives. And if they aren't up to standard then put up better ones. If your parties are garbage then form some new ones. If East Germans could do it, why not America? But for sure s o m e o n e there's gonna have to get their thumb out of their bum or the outlook is not good.